Radisson Hotels Affiliate Program Terms & Conditions
The agreement below governs the relationship between “You” (the affiliate) and “We” or “Us” (the Radisson Hotels campaign).
By agreeing to the below, you agree that you will comply to all conditions outlined and understand that any breach of these Terms & Conditions may result in your removal from the campaign and commissions being declined.
PPC Policy
Unless specifically agreed in writing with The Radisson Hotels Group or Accenture Interactive Affiliation Channel, affiliates must not:
i) purchase, license or operate any domain name which is confusingly
similar to “radissonhotels.com/en-us” or “radissonhotels.com”
ii) bid on the “radissonhotels.com/en-us” or “radissonhotels.com” keyword, or any of its misspellings or Radisson Hotels or Radisson Hotels brands on any of the search engines that currently operate web services; a non-exhaustive list of possible derivatives of the brand term are:
- Radisson
- Park inn
- radissonHotels.com
- radissonHotels.com
- Radisson Hotels.com
- Www. radissonHotels.com
- radissonHotelscom
- wwwradissonHotelscom
- wwwradissonHotels
- wwwwradissonHotels
- radissonHotelsdotcom
- radissonHotels.comuk
- radissonHotelss.c
- Radisson Hotels
- radissonHotelse.com
- www.radissonotels.com
- radissonHotels
- radissonHotelscouk
- Radisson Hotels.com
- www.radissonHotels.com
- radissonHotels.com
iii) use the keyword “radissonhotels.com/en-us” to perform paid search activity across any search engines that operates web services and to that effect.
Affiliates must add the “radissonhotels.com/en-us” keyword and its derivatives as above as negative matches to their PPC campaigns.
iv) use the term “radissonhotels.com/en-us” or its derivatives in the affiliate's ad text for driving traffic from either Radisson Hotels’s competitors' brand terms to Radisson Hotels site or the affiliate's sites.
v) drive paid or unpaid traffic from search engines directly to Radisson Hotels’s pages or the “radissonhotels.com/en-us” site overall. The affiliate has to use their own sites for traffic from search engines.
For the avoidance of doubt, the above restrictions or the specific terms of agreement regarding authorised PPC activity shall supersede any conflicting provision that may be found in any section of this Agreement.
These rules are effective immediately (29th August 2013) and should the affiliate not
comply they will be suspended from the Radisson Hotels affiliate program with immediate effect.
Purchase of Domains
Affiliates are not permitted to register domain names that include variations of Radisson Hotels own URL unless agreed directly with Radisson Hotels or Accenture Interactive Affiliation Channel.
Email policy
Affiliates are not permitted to send any unsolicited email ("spam") under this affiliate program. If you wish to send out an email on behalf of Radisson Hotels to your database you must seek prior approval from Accenture Interactive Affiliation Channel/Radisson Hotels.
In addition, all creative must be signed-off by Accenture Interactive Affiliation Channel/Radisson Hotels prior to final send.
Please email RadissonAffiliation@accenture.com to obtain prior approval before send.
Copy & Creative
Affiliates should only use creative supplied directly from the AWIN interface.
Affiliates must only use the copy provided to them by Radisson Hotels through the AWIN system or by Accenture Interactive Affiliation Channel. Affiliates are also requested not to hardcode banners into their site, so updates made to those available through AWIN may take immediate effect.
Discount Code Policy
Affiliates are only permitted to use any discount code or voucher code provided directly by AWIN / Accenture Interactive Affiliate Channel / Radisson Hotels for their use in the affiliate channel.
Affiliates are not permitted to promote any discount code or voucher codes that are being utilized exclusively by other marketing channels. The use of 'illegal' discount codes may result in sales being declined and ultimately suspension from the affiliate program.
Affiliates are also expected to adhere to the IAB Voucher code, code of conduct. More information on the voucher code guidelines can be found here (http://www.iabuk.net/resources/standards-and-guidelines/affiliate-marketing-council-code-of-conduct-vouchers). Affiliates found to be in breach of the code of conduct will be removed from the Radisson Hotels campaign and sales may be declined.
Display Activity
Any affiliates that promote Radisson Hotels via display are responsible for their activity, regardless of whether they own the websites on which they are promoting Radisson Hotels. Radisson Hotels reserves the rights to withhold commissions if the affiliate breaches Radisson Hotels terms and conditions.
Social Media & Mobile
Affiliates are not permitted to pose as Radisson Hotels on any social media or mobile platforms.
Breach of Network Terms & Conditions
Any action taken by the affiliate network (AWIN) to remove an affiliate site from the network may result in an affiliate being removed from the Radisson Hotels affiliate campaign.
Affiliate Approvals
Affiliates applying to the Radisson Hotels program will be reviewed by Accenture Interactive Affiliate Channel Account Managers who will make a decision on if the site is appropriate to the Radisson Hotels brand. Affiliates who will not be accepted onto the Radisson Hotels affiliate program are; tool bars, rebate catchers, browser plugins. Accenture Interactive Affiliation Channel will also not accept any affiliate onto the program who promotes adult, gambling, illegal or defamatory content.
Toolbars and Browser Plugins
Affiliates are not permitted to promote Radisson Hotels through any toolbar or plugin unless they have direct authorisation from the Radisson Hotels marketing team, in addition to being accepted onto Radisson Hotels affiliate program. The unauthorised use of this type of software/script may result in sales being declined and ultimately programme suspension.
Affiliate Commission
The default commission structure of the Radisson Hotels program is 6% for all affiliates in the following brands:
- Radisson Blu
- Park Inn
- Radisson RED
- Radisson Collection
The default commission structure of the Radisson Hotels program is 4% for all affiliates in the following brands:
Commissions will only be paid on stays which are located within EMEA.
Cookie Period
Cookie period is 30 days
Sales Validation
Sales are validated based on stay date on the Radisson Hotels affiliate program, with commissions being paid on valid stays only. Commission will be declined if an order has been cancelled.
Contact
If you have any questions or queries please contact us at RadissonAffiliation@accenture.com
