Skintique Limited trading as Skintique.co.uk / Skintique Retail
Affiliate Programme Terms and Conditions
Programme Restrictions
Unless explicitly authorised otherwise by Skintique Limited, the following Programme restrictions apply:
Affiliates are not permitted to purchase, own or bid on any domain names with the word ‘Skintique’ or misspellings of ‘Skintique’ in the URL. For example, www.skinteque.co.uk
Affiliates must not include Advertiser Brand Terms, or misspelt variations of the same, in the sub-domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://skintique.affiliate.com
Affiliates may use correctly spelt Advertiser Brand Terms after the domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://www.affiliate.com/skintique
Affiliates are not allowed to register the brand Advertiser 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 Skintique/Skintique Retail social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. Advertiser social media platforms include Facebook, X (formerly Twiiter), TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
Direct linking to Advertiser 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 authorisation and may result in the termination of an affiliates agreement with Skintique Limited. This includes permutations, misspellings and broad matches containing brand terms (generic is fine). For authorisation please email hello@skintique.co.uk.
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/PPC activity.
Skintique.co.uk
Skintique
Skintique offers
Skintique vouchers
Skintique voucher codes
Skintique discount codes
Skintique codes
CSS Partners
Any new CSS partners who join the programme need to have the approval from Skintique before beginning bidding otherwise commission may be declined and you may be suspended from the programme.
Please ensure you are using our Awin feeds only & not scraping the Skintique.co.uk website.
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 without permission from Skintique Limited. Please contact the management team via hello@skintique.co.uk.
Subnetworks
Skintique will only work with subnetworks who are transparent about their traffic sources.
Discount Codes
As standard all voucher code use needs to comply with the official IAB guidelines which can be found here:
http://www.iabuk.net/resources/standards-and-guidelines/online-voucher-codes
Skintique encourages affiliates to contact us for exclusive voucher/discount codes and additional incentives via email to hello@skintique.co.uk
Affiliates may only promote codes that are provided through the Skintique affiliate programme (either through our account or directly from Skintique’s Affiliate Manager).
Skintique reserves the right to withhold payment of commission if unauthorised voucher codes are used by an affiliate. 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.
Toolbar Affiliates
Skintique will consider working with toolbar publishers who can track the performance of the toolbar separately to other activities and allow Skintique control of any promotions featured on toolbars if required.
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.
Email Marketing
All email marketing must be signed off by the Skintique management team. Please email hello@skintique.co.uk.
Linking
Publishers are allowed to deeplink to a chosen offer or category on the Skintique.co.uk site.
I-frames
Affiliates may not put the Skintique website into frames or use masked URLs.
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
Skintique In-house loyalty and referral scheme.
Skintique Loyalty & Referral Scheme
Existing customers who have already purchased from Skintique.co.uk 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 Advertiser and goes to referral section.
Existing customer creates link to Advertiser to share on social media.
New customer clicks on that link and makes first purchase on Advertiser 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 Advertiser as a reward.
All referral sales will be de-duped against affiliate sales.
If a new customer uses a referral code or link then clicks an affiliate link (within 1 day of the first click), this sale will be attributed to the referral scheme.
If an affiliate link is used 1 day or more after the referral link is clicked and no referrer code is redeemed then the affiliate will be awarded the last click and receive commission for this sale
Affiliate Approvals
All affiliate sites are audited on sign-up to ensure any brand compliance issues that may exist are met. Any affiliates without a working URL will be rejected.
Validations
All commissions will be validated on a 29-day period and Skintique reserves the right to claim back commission on all returned goods.
Creative
Affiliates may not alter any of the creative or text links available through the Affiliate program interface without prior written permission. Out of date/redundant creative, links or using domains including the term ‘Skintique’ or Skintique Retail’ or similar derivatives is expressly forbidden.
To allow for automatic updates to uploaded banners to take place, affiliates are requested not to hardcode banners.
If different creatives or links are needed please contact the management team via hello@skintique.co.uk
We look forward to working with new partners who can contribute to the success of Skintique Retail along with its 3rd party brand and new brands owed by Skintique Limited
Best wishes
Kate and Tony and the rest of the team at Skintique Retail
