Comvita UK
Affiliate Program Terms and Conditions
Regulation restrictions
By joining the Comvita UK affiliate program that publishers agree to comply with Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods. Food products in commercial communications are controlled by the EC Food Information to Consumers Regulation (Regulation 1169/2011) and by the EC Regulation on Nutrition and Health Claims (Regulation 1924/2006). The EU FIC prohibits claims direct or implied claims that a food has the property to treat, prevent or cure any adverse condition.
Any publisher found to be in breach of this term will be removed from the Comvita UK programme and all outstanding commissions will be declined.
Programme Restrictions
Unless explicitly authorised otherwise by Comvita UK the following Programme restrictions apply:
• Affiliates are not permitted to purchase, own or bid on any domain names with the word ‘Comvita’ or misspellings of ‘Comvita’ in the URL.
• Affiliates must not include Comvita Brand Terms, or misspelt variations of the same, in the sub-domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://comvita.affiliate.co.uk
• Affiliates are not allowed to register the brand Comvita or any variation of it on any social media platform. This includes and does not limit to brand + generic word or sentence as well generic word or sentence + brand. Any attempt to register such social media accounts will be a direct breach of the Awin terms and conditions, in particular section 7. Intellectual Property Rights of the Awin code of conduct.
• Affiliates must not post on any official Comvita social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage.
• Direct linking to Comvita websites from paid social media is prohibited.
• Sites that use the following practices are not allowed on the Comvita UK affiliate program. Any publishers found to be deploying these practices on the program will be immediately removed from the program and all outstanding commission will be declined.
- Re-directs (all traffic must link directly from your site)
-Gambling sites
-Websites that appear to be operating under false claims
-Sites that promote or contain adult content and/or links to adult websites
-Adware and/or Spyware
-Spamming activities
-Websites that adopt practices that may bring Comvita UK into disrepute.
• Paid Search affiliates are not currently allowed on the program.
Any affiliates who do not abide by these rules risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.
Comvita UK reserve the right to amend or adjust the commission structure at any time.
PPC Policy
Commissions will not be paid where there is evidence of any paid search activity on brand terms without prior authorisation. This includes permutations, misspellings and broad matches containing brand terms (generic is fine).
PPC bidding restrictions also apply on Google Shopping/CSS (Comparison Shopping Service). We request the brand keywords stated below to be excluded from all CSS activity.
Restrictions include, but are not limited to the following:
Advertiser
Ad vertiser
Advertiser.com
www.Advertiser.com
Advertiser vouchers
Advertiser.com Vouchers
Advertiser codes
Advertiser Voucher Codes
Advertiser discount codes
Advertiser.com codes
Please do not use the word ‘official’ in your advertisements.
We are happy for affiliates to bid on generic terms, however direct linking is prohibited. Any affiliates who do not abide by these rules do risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.
Creative & Content
Affiliates are not permitted to hard code Comvita UK assets onto their site.
Should an affiliate create any bespoke creative or copy, this must be reviewed and signed off by Comvita UK before going live.
Offers & Promotions
Affiliates are only permitted to promote offers that have been directly provided by Comvita UK or their agency team. For publishers that are keen to discuss bespoke opportunities, please contact Comvita UK’s agency team who will be able to support on this.
We reserve the right to withhold payment of commission if unauthorised voucher codes are used in an affiliate sale. Any affiliate found to be displaying unauthorised codes may also have their commission set to zero until the code(s) are removed.
Where voucher codes are issued with an expiry date this should be clearly displayed, and codes should be removed or explicitly marked as expired after this date unless you are advised otherwise. Any affiliates displaying expired codes without marking them as being expired may be suspended from the programme. Please also ensure that you observe the IAB voucher code best practice guidelines.
De-duplication Policy
All affiliate sales are de-duplicated against other online advertising channels using a local cookie on the merchant platform. De-duplication channels include :
PPC Brand
PPC Generic
Email Advertising
Direct Partnerships
Social Content Creators
Please note if you wish to use affiliate links within your Instagram Stories and other social channels, you will need to use #ad as the only valid identifier to be ASA compliant. Awin has a one-page website - Paid for Advertising - which explains how free content can have a commercial relationship attached to it. This can be linked to by any affiliate in order to make your readers aware of how affiliate links work. If you have any questions on this please speak to your account contact. More information here: https://www.awin.com/gb/news-and-events/industry-news/affiliate-links-on-instagram-stories
Miscellaneous
Nothing in these terms is intended to or shall be deemed to establish any partnership or joint venture between the parties, constitute any party the agent of another party or authorise any party to enter into any commitments for or on behalf of any other party.
Nothing in these terms is intended to or shall be deemed to convey any title or ownership in any intellectual property rights including (but without limitation) intellectual property rights in relation to trade marks, services marks, logos or designs that are licensed to or the property of Comvita UK.
In joining the Comvita UK affiliate program you agree to indemnify Comvita UK in respect of any claim, damages, costs or expenses incurred as a result of or in connection with any breach by you of these terms.
Comvita UK reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time without prior notice. In the event that any changes are made, the revised terms and conditions shall be posted on this website immediately. Please check the latest information posted herein to inform yourself of any changes.
Referral Programme
All referral sales will be de-duped against affiliate sales and there will be a slight change to the usual last-click method of tracking in certain circumstances:
- If a new customer uses a referral code or link then clicks an affiliate link (within 30 minutes of the first click), this sale will be attributed to the referral scheme
- If an affiliate link is used 30 minutes or more after the referral link is clicked and no referrer code is redeemed then the affiliate will still be awarded the last click and receive commission for this sale
Note: Whenever a referrer code is used, the sale will not track via affiliates.
