General:
We only accept publishers from certain industries. If your profile does not make clear the way in which you will advertise our properties then we may ask you to do so before accepting you on to our programme.
We do not work with ANY voucher code, cashback or loyalty websites. If we suspect that advertising has taken place through any of these methods then we reserve the right to decline commissions or suspend publishers.
Proof of Advertising:
From time to time we may ask publishers to evidence where they are getting their traffic and transactions from. Failure to be able to do so may lead to declined payments or suspension from our programme.
Tracking:
We require all affiliate traffic to be trackable through Affiliate Window. The use of re-directing traffic is not permitted.
Property Names:
Affiliates are NOT permitted to list our accommodation by property name or property code throughout their site or index our property names or codes in natural search.
Affiliates found to be listing our property names may be suspended from our programme.
Offers & Promotions:
Affiliates are not permitted to list offers and promotions that are unavailable on our site, or list our properties at a lower price in any instance without prior permission from us.
Creative:
Affiliates are not permitted to use creative that has not been approved by holidaycottages.co.uk and is not available in the Affiliate interface.
From time to time we may ask affiliates to update their creative, failure to do so may result in declined transactions or suspension from our programme.
Email Marketing:
While we do permit email marketing for our affiliates, any email database that has been created through 'spam' tactics will not be permitted and will result in the immediate suspension of the publisher.
Reviews:
We do not provide nor permit the use of Reviews collected by our websites for use on 3rd Affiliate Websites.
PPC / Search Engine Marketing:
Brand terms – Affiliates are NOT permitted to bid on any brand terms, including misspells and other variants.
This includes, but is not limited to: "holiday cottages", "holidaycottages.co.uk" - “Farm & Cottage Holidays” - “Farm and Cottage Holidays” - “Farm Cottage”
Affiliates are NOT permitted to bid on any registered domain names including, but not limited to: -“holidaycottages”, “Holidaycottages.co.uk”, “Holidaycottages.com”
Cottage Terms - Affiliates are NOT permitted to bid on holiday property or development names marketed by holidaycottages.co.uk.
Use of site content:
We provide descriptions, images and other details via our Feed. This may be manually copied from our site, but not automatically scraped from our site in any way.
