Myprotein (Canada)

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.

 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 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 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.

Validation Policy

Myprotein validate in-line with their returns policy which is 28 days with a look back window 31 days.

Trasactions

Bulk orders for resale are not permitted. 

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Any queries may be addressed to the network or the specific program 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.