Programme Restrictions
网盟项目限制条款
Unless explicitly authorised otherwise by Myprotein, the following Programme restrictions apply:
如Myprotein未明确授权，请确保遵循网盟项目的以下限制条款：
• Affiliates are not permitted to purchase, own or bid on any domain names with the word ‘Myprotein’ or misspellings of ‘My protein’ in the URL. For example, www.Myprotein.com.
• Affiliates must not include Myprotein Brand Terms, or misspelt variations of the same, in the sub-domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://myprotein.affiliate.com.
• Affiliates may use correctly spelt Myprotein Brand Terms after the domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://www.affiliate.com/Myprotein.
• Affiliates are not allowed to register the brand Myprotein or any variation of it on any social media platform. This includes and does not limit to brand + generic word or sentence as well generic word or sentence + brand. Any attempt to register such social media accounts will be a direct breach of the Awin terms and conditions, in particular section 7. Intellectual Property Rights of the Awin code of conduct.
• Affiliates must not post on any official Myprotein social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. Myprotein social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter and the MP Community/Forum.
• Direct linking to Myprotein websites from paid social media is prohibited.
Any affiliates who do not abide by these rules risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.
- 网盟伙伴不得有在搜索引擎当中购买、拥有、出价包含Myprotein域名或者拥有Myprotein拼写问题的域名的广告投放行为。例如, www.MyProtein.cn.
- 网盟伙伴不得有在搜索引擎当中使用包含Myprotein品牌名作为子域名的广告投放行为。例如,http://myprotein.affiliate.com.
- 网盟伙伴可以在搜索引擎当中在其域名之后使用Myprotein作为子页面名称。例如, http://www.affiliate.com/Myprotein.
- 网盟伙伴不得在其他社交媒体平台（比如微信、微博）等注册Myprotein商标词的账户名。商标词的范围包括品牌词+通用词，或者包含品牌词的短语等任何涉及品牌词的可能账户名称。
- 网盟伙伴不得在Myprotein的官方社交媒体平台当中发布自己的站点网址或者页面，以试图导流到自身网站。Myprotein官方社交平台包括Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Weibo, Wechat以及其他的官方论坛。
- 禁止在任何社交媒体进行付费广告。
任何违反上述条例的网盟伙伴将遭到佣金减少或者至降低0的处罚。
PPC Policy
Commissions will not be paid where there is evidence of any paid search activity on brand terms without prior authorisation. This includes permutations, misspellings and broad matches containing brand terms (generic is fine).
PPC bidding restrictions also apply on Google Shopping/CSS (Comparison Shopping Service). We request the brand keywords stated below to be excluded from all CSS activity.
Restrictions include, but are not limited to the following:
- Myprotein
- My Protein
- Myprotein.cn
- www.myprotein.cn
- Myprotein vouchers
- Myprotein.com Vouchers
- Myprotein codes
- Myprotein Voucher Codes
- Myprotein discount codes
- Myprotein.cn codes
PPC affiliates are NOT allowed to bid on any of the following Google banned terms or misspellings, or derivatives including but not isolated to:
- NO2 Extreme
- Anabolic
- Cycle
- Ephedrine
- Hormone
- Nitric
- Oxide
- Stack
- Steroid
- Testosterone
- Ecdysterone
- Tribulus
- Growth
Please do not use the word ‘official’ in your advertisements.
We are happy for affiliates to bid on generic terms, however direct linking is prohibited. Any affiliates who do not abide by these rules do risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.
CSS
Standard shopping to be used by CSS partners only for all THG programmes and ensure brand terms are negatived as per THG Group agreement
Performance Max should not be booked at all for any THG programmes and could result in zero commission and suspension from the programme if found to be used for THG
Discount codes
Myprotein encourages affiliates to contact us for exclusive voucher/discount codes and additional incentives.
Affiliates may only promote codes that are provided through the Myprotein affiliate programme (either through our account or directly from Myprotein’s Affiliate Manager).
Myprotein reserves the right to withhold payment of commission if unauthorised 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 unauthorised 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 due 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 IAB voucher code best practice guidelines.
Affiliates cannot use their personal or any other MP referral codes to provide first time customers with 5% off their first order. Affiliates may only promote the following referral code on their sites: MPREFERRAL. Any transactions using other referral codes will not be approved.
Social Media Advertising
Affiliates must not post on any Myprotein social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. Myprotein social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter and the MP Community/Forum.
Direct linking to Myprotein websites from paid social media is prohibited. Any affiliates who do not abide by these rules do risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.
De-duplication Policy
All affiliate sales are de-duplicated against other online advertising channels using a local cookie on the merchant platform. De-duplication channels include :
- PPC Brand
- PPC Generic
- Email Advertising
- Direct Partnerships
- Price Comparison
- Display & retargeting advertising
- Other Affiliate Networks
- In house referrer scheme (further details on this can be found below)
The In House Referrer Scheme
Existing customers who have already purchased from The Hut Group will be sent an email explaining the referral scheme and how they can earn credit from driving new customers to the site.
For example:
- Existing customer logs into their account on Myprotein and goes to referral section.
- Existing customer creates link to Myprotein to share on social media.
- New customer clicks on that link and makes first purchase on Myprotein either by entering referral code at checkout or after an automatic discount has been applied after clicking on a referral link.
- Existing customer receives credit to spend on Myprotein as a reward.
All referral sales will be de-duped against affiliate sales and there will be a slight change to the usual last-click method of tracking in certain circumstances:
- If a new customer uses a referral code or link then clicks an affiliate link (within 30 minutes of the first click), this sale will be attributed to the referral scheme
- If an affiliate link is used 30 minutes or more after the referral link is clicked and no referrer code is redeemed then the affiliate will still be awarded the last click and receive commission for this sale
Note: Whenever a referrer code is used, the sale will not track via affiliates.
Social Content Creators
All affiliate content on social media must be ASA compliant, read the ASA Guide here. If you wish to use affiliate links within your Instagram Stories and other social channels, use #ad as a valid identifier to be ASA compliant.
Awin has a one-page website - Paid for Advertising - which explains how free content can have a commercial relationship attached to it. This can be linked to by any affiliate in order to make your readers aware of how affiliate links work. If you have any questions on this please speak to your account contact. More information here: https://www.awin.com/gb/news-and-events/industry-news/affiliate-links-on-instagram-stories.
Validation Policy
Myprotein validate in-line with their returns policy which is 28 days with a look back window 31 days.
Any queries may be addressed to the network or the specific programme contact.
CSS
Only standard shopping activity to be used by CSS partners with brand terms negatively matched in adherence to program terms. Performance Max activity should not be set up and could result in 0 commission and suspension from the programme if this activity is found in place.
Any queries may be addressed to the network or the specific programme contact.
