Program Restrictions
Unless explicitly authorised otherwise by Sweed Beauty, the following Programme restrictions apply:
- Affiliates are not permitted to purchase, own or bid on any domain names with the word ‘SWEED BEAUTY’ or misspellings of ‘SWEED BEAUTY’ in the URL.
- Affiliates must not include SWEED BEAUTY Brand Terms, or misspelled variations of the same, in the sub-domain of their website’s URL.
- Affiliates may use correctly spelled SWEED BEAUTY Brand Terms after the domain of their website’s URL.
- Affiliates are not allowed to register the brand SWEED BEAUTY 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 SWEED BEAUTY social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. SWEED BEAUTY social media platforms include Facebook and Twitter.
- Direct linking to SWEED BEAUTY websites from paid social media is prohibited.
- Any affiliates, subnetworks and/or affiliates of subnetworks who do not abide by these rules risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.
PPC Policy
Commissions will not be paid where there is evidence of any paid search activity on brand terms without prior authorization. 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:
- SWEED
- SWEED BEAUTY
- SWEED LASHES
- sweedbeauty.com
- SWEED Beauty vouchers
- sweedbeauty.com Vouchers
- SWEED Beauty codes
- SWEED Beauty Voucher Codes
- SWEED Beauty discount codes
- sweedbeauty.com codes
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.
Social Content Creators
SWEED does not work with influencers via the Awin affiliate channel while they are in an active in-house collaboration with the brand. Paid collaborations are prohibited from using an affiliate channel during the collaboration time period. Once this time period is over, SWEED allows the influencer to promote affiliate links.
Please make sure you declare the correct legal advertising rules in your published content.
B2B Sales:
SWEED reserves the right to cancel any orders which fit the definition of a B2B sale and commission on these orders will be denied. A B2B sale is a sale to a customer who does not have the intention to use the products for their own personal use. Indicators of a B2B sale are:
1. Recency – how recently has a customer made an order, and/or
2. Frequency – how often a customer makes a purchase from the same click IP address (normally measured in days between orders; often more than one order in any 48 hour period, for example), and/or
3. Monetary Value – orders can often be exactly the same or similar values; orders can be large total value; and/or
4. Customers – customers are identified directly as being resellers (often via social media channels)
5. Order contents – Multiples of Units – often multiple units of the same sku (often at CB’s max of 5-6 units per sku), and/or
6. Order contents – Exclusive or Limited Edition Products – often purchased, and/or
7. Orders Not Shipped to residential addresses – shipped to businesses, Suites, PO Boxes, re-shipping agents, freight forwarders, or similar, and/or
8. Post-Sale Re-sale – orders, products, customers, website content/imagery are found to be resold or republished on resale websites such as Ebay, social media channels, etc.e click here to add your program terms.
