Programme Terms & Conditions
To participate in the Hilton Worldwide affiliate programme, the below terms and conditions apply. Hilton Worldwide has the right to terminate participation from any affiliate if these terms are not adhered to by the affiliate; by participating, you are agreeing and bound to these terms.
Website requirements
Web site must be live and fully operational
An acceptable Privacy policy must be published/displayed on your website.
Inappropriate content cannot be displayed on the web site, the following is deemed inappropriate; this is not an exhaustive list, Hilton worldwide has the right to terminate any site which is found to be inappropriate at any time:
- Hate/offensive/violent content
- rude/pornographic content
- Extreme religious or political content
- Aesthetically unpleasing content
- Abusive or irresponsible promotion of Alcohol, Tobacco or Drugs
- Use of the word "sex" gratuitously or excessively
- Content aimed at children
- Gambling, firearms, games of chance, and lotteries
Hilton Worldwide does not pay cashback to consumers, unless specific agreement has been made. Any affiliate found to be operating on a cashback basis under the Hilton Worldwide affiliate program will be terminated unless prior consent has been given
Paid search advertising: affiliates are not permitted to bid on any keyword that contains the name or misspelt name, of any of the Hilton Worldwide portfolio of brands.
Validation
The following rate types are not commissionable under any circumstances:
- Negotiated rates such as group tour, corporate rates
- Hilton Honors (Hilton Worldwide loyalty program) redemption bookings
- Bookings that are made in conjunction with another offer
- Team member and family and friends rates made through go hilton.
- Completed stay: only stays that have been checked out will be paid commission for
Commission calculation: All commission is calculated on completed stays and based on the value of the room booking excluding additional amenities and charges such as breakfast.
Bookings for Small Luxury Hotels (SLH), hotels in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine will not be paid a commission and will track at 0%. For a full list of hotels that are not eligible for commission, please see the Hotel Exclusion List in the Documents section.
Paid search
Keywords: you are not permitted to bid on any keyword in any search engine, any language, which contains the name, variation of name, misspells of names, of any of the brand that belongs to the Hilton worldwide portfolio
Destination URL selection: you are permitted to send traffic directly to the Hilton own web site in any language
Ad text, display URL: you are not permitted to use the Hilton trademark anywhere in the ad that you manage
Match type: you must negative match the name of the Hilton Worldwide portfolio of brands in order to meet the term set out in 3.1
Email advertising
You are required to have consent from Hilton worldwide before any email marketing can be done; this applies to emails where entire email content, or substantial part of the email content, is related to any of the portfolio of Hilton Worldwide brands.
Cookie stuffing and forced clicks
Practices that Hilton doesn't deem to be user friendly, or that result in cookie stuffing or forced clicks are strictly forbidden and will result in suspension.
These practices include but are not limited to pop-ups, pop-unders, exit traffic, toolbars or couponwares.
Approvals can be granted in exceptional circumstances.
Domain and subdomain name
You are not permitted to use misspells of Hilton Worldwide portfolio of brands to create a false impression that the misspelt domain is a Hilton official web site
For a list of participating brands you can start earning commission on today please visit the Documents tab/Participating brands
