Program Restrictions
Unless explicitly authorised otherwise by V1M, the following Program restrictions apply:
• Affiliates are not permitted to purchase, own or bid on any domain names with the word ‘V1M’ or misspellings of ‘V1M life’ in the URL. For example, us.V1Mlifes.com.
• Affiliates must not include V1M Brand Terms, or misspelt variations of the same, in the sub-domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://V1Mlife.affiliate.com.
• Affiliates may use correctly spelt V1M Brand Terms after the domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://www.affiliate.com/V1Mlife or http://www.affiliate.com/V1M .
• Affiliates are not allowed to register the brand V1M 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 V1M social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. V1M social media platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, Pinterest, and the V1M Community/Forum.
• Direct linking to V1M 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:
V1M
V1M life
V1Mlife.com
www.V1Mlife.com
V1M vouchers
V1M coupons
V1Mlife.com Vouchers
V1Mlife.com coupons
V1M codes
V1M Voucher Codes
V1M coupon codes
V1M discount codes
V1Mlife.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
V1M encourages affiliates to contact us for exclusive coupon/discount codes and additional incentives.
Affiliates may only promote codes that are provided through the V1M affiliate program (either through our account or directly from V1M’s Affiliate Manager).
V1M 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 V1M referral codes to provide first time customers with 5% off their first order.
Cash Back Affiliates
Cash Back affiliates are on an different commission structure, earning higher commissions for new customers than those received for existing customer sales. When a coupon code is used through a cashback site then the affiliate will rewarded a smaller commission. Refer to campaign details.
Social Media Advertising
Affiliates must not post on any V1M social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. V1M social media platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, Pinterest, and the V1M 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 V1M 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.
Cookieless Vouchercode Tracking
Advertiser uses cookie-less voucher tracking for some of our influencer partners. This means that the transaction is always attributed to the publisher who is given the exclusive voucher. When the voucher is used, transactions will be tracked regardless of whether a click has happened or not. Please speak to your account contact for more information.
Validation Policy
V1M validate in-line with their returns policy which is 28 days with a look back window 31 days.
Transactions
Bulk orders for resale are not permitted.
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Any queries may be addressed to the network or the specific program contact.
