For full Tems & Conditions please see our website: https://www.stormforcegaming.co.uk/terms-conditions/
General Terms and Conditions, July 2021
"VIP Computer Centre Ltd" owns the Stormforce brand and operates the website https://www.stormforcegaming.co.uk/ and is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02552402. Registered office is at Vip House, 4 Hardwick Grange, Woolston, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 4RF.
Governance
The Terms and Conditions outlined henceforth govern the contractual relationship between VIP Computer Centre Ltd. (“Stormforce Gaming”) affiliate program and affiliate partners (“Affiliate”) promoting the website, https://www.stormforcegaming.co.uk.
All activity is tracked on the AWIN network (“AWIN”). Stormforce Gaming expects each publisher to adhere to the Standard Terms for Publishers in the first instance, as well as the specific Terms and Conditions below.
The Standard Terms for Publishers on the AWIN network can be viewed here: https://www.awin.com/gb/terms-and-conditions/publisher-terms-and-conditions-2017
Parties' Obligations
- Stormforce Gaming shall perform its obligations under these Terms with reasonable skill and care.
- Stormforce Gaming shall supply Advertising Material that complies with English law.
- Stormforce Gaming shall operate the stormforcegaming.co.uk website and any content or functionality on that website within the technical abilities available. Affiliate partners will be informed about downtime to the stormforcegaming.co.uk site that lasts longer than one hour. Every effort will be made to ensure there are no loss of earnings for affiliate partners.
- Affiliate shall not promote any illegal, unlawful or any material that would be considered as distasteful. E.g. Sexually explicit.
- Affiliate shall not use any Malware, Spyware or Adware services which may attack the brand name Stormforce Gaming or its website.
- Affiliate shall not use a product or service which collects personal information of users unknowingly for commercial gain. Stormforce Gaming operates within the GDPR framework and any affiliate knowingly operating in such a way will be immediately suspended from the program without any commissions owed.
- Affiliate shall not own or operate a website which may cause confusion with any website owned or operated by Stormforce Gaming. Any site that uses the term ‘stormforce’, ‘stormforce gaming’, or its permutations, within the URL is not permitted on the affiliate program.
- Affiliate shall use marketing materials contained with the AWIN network only. If you require any specific creative, please get in touch with a named contact at Stormforce Gaming to get these created for you.
- Affiliate shall not use Stormforce Gaming or any other brand terms, or variants of the brand term unless prior approval from either Stormforce Gaming.
- Affiliate shall remove all advertising material from the website immediately following a request from either Stormforce Gaming for any reason.
- Affiliate shall uphold any perimeters provided by Stormforce Gaming in relation to the promotion of partner brands in line with campaign compliance guidelines.
Commissions and remuneration
The program operates on a last click basis and full remuneration will be provided through the AWIN platform. Commission may be declined in the case of cancelled, returned, fraudulent or duplicate orders.
Default commissions for affiliates are:
- 2% for all Affiliate traffic on sales generated through the Stormforce Gaming website.
- 0% on specific products which are classified as ‘no margin’ products. Stormforce Gaming reserve the right to not remunerate Affiliates on certain products.
Stormforce Gaming reserve the right to change the commission structure at any time.
Overview
- No cashback will be paid on pre-orders.
- Commission is not paid on 'Ex-Display' or clearance products unless agreed prior to go live directly with Stormforce Gaming.
- Commission is not payable to managed Stormforce Business accounts (B2B accounts).
- Commission is not payable on orders processed by the sales team.
- Commission may only be paid on the net value excluding VAT, all other taxes, surcharges and any additional costs such as delivery.
- Categories and their corresponding commission group or band are subject to change at any time at the discretion of the manufacturer
Additional Incentives
Stormforce Gaming are open to discussing commission rates with Affiliate in exchange for additional promotion on the Affiliate website. Agreement will be made between the two parties and full written confirmation will be outlined within an email.
Stormforce Gaming reserve the right to change the Additional Incentives at any time.
PPC Policy - Paid Search Activity
- Affiliates shall not bid on Stormforce Gaming or any other brand terms, or variants of the brand term unless prior approval from Stormforce Gaming.
- Affiliates shall not use https://www.stormforcegaming.co.uk/ in the display URL of their PPC campaign.
- Affiliates also must not use Stormforce Gaming in any paid search activity, whether this is in ad text, title or display URLs, unless sign off has been given to the Affiliate.
- Affiliates found to be bidding on brand terms will have pending transactions cancelled and shall face suspension from the programme.
Voucher codes and incentives
Affiliates will be able to promote a voucher or promotion if agreed directly with a named partner at Stormforce Gaming, communicated through the AWIN platform, or communicated through the affiliate newsletter.
Affiliates are not allowed to promote codes that are given to other voucher code sites.
Affiliates will have all commissions declined, if a code has been taken and promoted on site without prior consent.
UTM Parameters
Stormforce Gaming will manage the setup of your affiliate tracking link. Click appends that automatically populates Google Analytics tags will be used. More information on click append can be found here: https://wiki.awin.com/index.php/Click_Append_Guide
The source will be AWIN, medium will be the affiliate name as displayed within AWin, and the campaign will be the affiliate ID.
Suspension
The Stormforce Gaming affiliate programme is closely monitored and whilst we appreciate that mistakes happen, consistent breaches of Terms and Conditions will result in commissions being denied and affiliates being suspended from the programme indefinitely.
