Summary

As the in-house web store for the John Cotton Group, a leading manufacturer of pillows, duvets and mattress protectors, we are experts in what it takes to bring a good nights’ sleep to our online customers.

Payments

Attribution Period (Cookie Length)

30 Days

Links

Discounts & Vouchers

Discounts and vouchers may only be used if they have been communicated via this affiliate programme / agreed with the account manager. Commission on tracked orders will not be earned on any other discount vouchers.

Voucher codes with expiry dates should clearly display these.

Any expired voucher codes should be removed on the day of expiry and cease to be communicated to the consumers.

Discounts and Vouchers may not be promoted as being eligible to be combined with another form of discount, voucher or cashback unless explicitly stated by Sleepseeker.

Sleepseeker reserve the right to withhold payment of commission (and /or suspend publishers) if non-authorised voucher codes are used in an affiliate sale.

Restrictions

Domain

Direct linking

Affiliates are not permitted to use any domains owned by Sleepseeker as their display URL.

Affiliate-owned domains

Affiliates are permitted to use brand terms as a directory, e.g. www.affiliate.com/sleepseeker

Affiliates are not permitted to create domains containing brand terms as a domain or sub-domain, e.g. www.affiliate-sleepseeker.co.uk.

Landing pages

Landing page creation specific to Sleepseeker on an affiliate website should be discussed with the affiliate manager khabinakova@johncotton.co.uk prior to the page creation.

Affiliates are asked not to register domains which are similar or misspells of our brand, any activity of this kind on the campaign will result in commissions being declined.

Promotion

Email Marketing

Prior to any email marketing activity, this needs to be agreed with the Sleepseeker affiliate manager at khabinakova@johncotton.co.uk.

Offline Public Relations Activities & Press

Offline PR activity is not permitted. Any press where Sleepseeker is referenced must have full sign off and pre-approval from the Sleepseeker account manager at khabinakova@johncotton.co.uk.

Cancelled Orders

Commission cannot be earned on orders that are cancelled in part or full.

Keyword Policy

Affiliates must not bid on any terms including the keyword ‘Sleepseeker’, ‘Slumberdown’, ‘Snuggledown’ or any other version of the ‘Sleepseeker’ brand including misspells. All attempts must be made to apply relevant negative keywords to ensure your own PPC Ads do not appear when the Sleepseeker, Slumberdown and Snuggledown brands are searched for.

Organic Search

Our affiliate partners are welcome to optimise their sites for the Sleepseeker brand terms. We kindly request that misspells are not used.

Frequent updates of the affiliates’ websites in-line with the Sleepseeker campaigns, products and offers (including vouchers) are required.

Creative

The creative provided by Sleepseeker is the only creative to be used in affiliate ads. No alterations are permitted without prior written permission. Creative must be updated in-line with the seasonal changes and any outdated creative and links including the brand name or domains using ‘Sleepseeker’ or similar derivatives is forbidden.

Affiliates are requested not to hard code banners into their sites.

As a rule of thumb, we provide standard sizes of creative to all our affiliates and this should not be altered. If you require any extra sizes, creatives or links please reach out to khabinakova@johncotton.co.uk.

Wholesale Orders

Sleepseeker reserve the right to refuse commission on wholesale orders.

Notice and Action

Please note – this programme operates with a 7 day closure notice period

Affiliates agree to action and remedy any request that brings them back in accordance with the Sleepseeker programme terms in no less than 7 UK working days.

Breach of terms

Sleepseeker reserve the right to withhold commission payments to any affiliate found to be in breach of these terms