Program Restrictions
Unless explicitly authorised otherwise by Myprotein, the following Programme restrictions apply:
• 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, ca.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.
PPC Policy
Brand bidding, along with permutatuions, is not permitted on any search engine, (no problem with generic).
Restrictions include, but are not limited to the following:
Myprotein
My Protein
Myprotein.com
www.myprotein.com
Myprotein vouchers
Myprotein coupons
Myprotein.com Vouchers
Myprotein.com coupons
Myprotein codes
Myprotein Voucher Codes
Myprotein coupon codes
Myprotein discount codes
Myprotein.com 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 are at risk of having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.
Discount codes
Myprotein encourages affiliates to contact us for exclusive coupon/discount codes and additional incentives.
Affiliates may only promote codes that are provided through the Myprotein affiliate program (either through our account or directly from Myprotein’s Affiliate Manager).
Myprotein reserves the right to withhold payment of commission if unauthorized coupon codes are used in an affiliate sale. We appreciate that consumers may use coupon 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 coupon codes are issued with an expiration 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 program. 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: MP427353. Any transactions using other referral codes will not be approved.
Cash Back Affiliates
Cash Back affiliates are on an different commission structure, earning higher commissions for new customers (8%) than those received for existing customer sales (5%). When a coupon code is used through a cashback site then the affiliate will only be rewarded 2% commission.
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.
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
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 program contact.
