Terms & Conditions
Responsibilities: It is the affiliate's responsibility to ensure they are compliant with all regulations relating to their site and marketing activities, at all times. This includes regulations, guidelines or best practice policies relating to: data, cookie and privacy matters, email marketing, retargeting & behavioural marketing, the ASA, CAP and the IAB.
Content and the ASA:
From March 1st 2011 a new ASA digital remits came into effect. It is the affiliate's responsibility to understand how this affects them and to ensure they comply with the relevant codes at all times. For details of this recent extension to the ASA’s remit, please visit the Affiliate Window blog for more information: http://blog.affiliatewindow.com/?p=2693
Affiliates may only feature promotional content that has been provided to the affiliate channel by GB Posters, or communicated to affiliates by AWIN on GB Posters's behalf.
Affiliates do not have permission to rely on or republish content about GB Posters that comes from unauthorised third parties, and are strongly advised to avoid using third party providers due to the fact the accuracy of the content may not be able to be guaranteed. Affiliates may only use information provided to them directly by the GB Posters affiliate manager, through News Manager or via the Affiliate Window account executive for the programme.
If affiliates are communicating messages about GB Posters in social spaces such as forums, Facebook, Twitter etc, they must be careful to ensure that any affiliate link can easily be recognised as being part of an affiliate relationship, and cannot be confused with non-sponsored user generated content. Affiliates working in these social environments should consult with the ASA website to determine the most appropriate ways for them to tweet or re-tweet materials, and / or how to post on forums.
PPC
Please note: that gbposters.com program does not allow any PPC bidding on their brand name, trademarks, nor variations or misspells of these.
Affiliates are advised to negative match the brand terms, trademarks, and variations and misspellings of all, to avoid any accidental bidding and penalties. Appearing for these prohibited terms plus generics, is also not permitted at any time. Please take care that your ads are not appearing due to broad matching by negatively matching all of the below terms. Be aware that this is not an exhaustive list, and other variations are also not permitted.
Prohibited examples of brand terms include, but are not exclusive to: GB Posters, GBPosters, GB-Posters, GB_Posters, GB - Posters, GBPosters.co.uk, Posters GB, GB Postres, etc. Examples prohibited terms plus generics which are not permitted include, but is not exclusive to: 'GB PostersVouchers', ‘Gb Poster Offers, ‘GB Poster Codes’ ‘GB Poster Sales'. This is not an exhaustive list, and you should work to the spirit of our terms at all times.
These terms apply to all PPC search engines, content networks (for example the Google Content Network, and similar for additional search engines) and PPC channels (ie Facebook PPC etc).
Further PPC details/restrictions can be found in our Darwin profile.
Voucher Code Policy
Affiliates do not have permission to leak or publish any promotion or code prior to it's start date under any circumstances. Affiliates should be aware that GB Posters will upload codes for affiliate use to the Affiliate Window Discount Vouchers feed. At no point should any of these codes be promoted on affiliates sites prior to their start date. If any sales using these codes are generated before the code start date, these commissions will be declined.
Investigation & Penalties
Any unauthorised activity will be investigated, during which time your commissions may be suspended or set to zero. A warning will be sent notifying you of the area(s) of concern and you will be given no more than 7 days to make the necessary changes and notify us in writing once this action has been taken. Failure to comply or respond within the time frame may result in you remaining on 0% commission until such action has been taken, or you may be removed from the program. Serious or repeated breaches may also result in you suffering further commission penalties and/or being immediately removed from the program.
Voucher Codes
Affiliates may only promote codes that are provided through the GB POSTERS affiliate programme (either through our account or directly from GB POSTERS Affiliate Manager).
GB POSTERS reserve the right to withhold payment of commission if unauthorized voucher codes are used in an affiliate sale. We appreciate that consumers may use voucher codes that they have found via a site other than that which is awarded the sale and this will be investigated before decisions on commission payment are made. Any affiliate found to be displaying unauthorized 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.
Product Exclusions
Commissions will not be paid on any order that has qualified for bulk discounts/other current offers on site, such as poster and frame multibuy offers.
Please contact Dario Perez at dario@gbposters.com
