Outdoor Exclusive affiliate program

New at WebGains: Outdoor Exclusive!
Outdoor Exclusive offers its members access to exclusive and high value outdoor branded products with alternate, exclusive and unbeatable promotions. Flash sales will be live for an average of 7 days and are only available to members of the Outdoor Exclusive platform.
One can easily become member by setting up an account. Therefore, only name, e-mail address and password are needed.
Through WebGains you can now promote Outdoor Exclusive for £1,25/CPL.
Commission Model
If you start promoting Outdoor Exclusive right away, you stand to benefit from an extra interesting competition*!
In order to give the Outdoor Exclusive program a rolling start we’re organizing a publisher competition! If you manage to become one of the top 3 publishers between August and October you will be rewarded with €100,- commission as a bonus! One more reason to start promoting Outdoor Exclusive right away.
Sign-Up: £1,25,- CPL
Sold product: 5% CPA (excl. VAT & shipping)
Cookie Period: 7 days (leads), 30 days (sales)
Consumers, who have registered themselves, will receive a weekly newsletter of Outdoor Exclusive including the best offers/the highest discounts of high value outdoor branded products. Through this newsletter, the consumer will regularly be convinced to buy a product. This conviction in combination with a cookie time of 30 days for all sales and an average order value above £55,- makes the whole concept highly interesting. The cookie time for all leads will be 7 days.
Generic advantages for Outdoor Exclusive publishers
1. Competition: Stand the chance to win one of the three gift certificates of
£100,- of Outdoor Exclusive!
2. Outdoor Exclusive is open for any kind of feedback, you can signal
improvements via e-mail;
3. Recent material is always available;
4. Exclusive, alternate and unbeatable promotions.
Generic advantages for Outdoor Exclusive members:
1. Register for free and without any obligation;
2. Exclusive, alternate and unbeatable promotions incl. discounts up to 70%;
3. Weekly newsletters; you will always be the first that knows about the most
competitive deals.
Validation of leads/sales and de-duplication
Orders and leads will be validated on a monthly basis.
A lead is only accepted if the customers has logged in at least once after their sign-up during one month period.
Orders/leads can be disapproved if:
• the order/lead has not been established within the terms and conditions of
the affiliate program;
• the application form has not been completed;
• the application form has been completed by using incorrect data;
• the application has been sent several times with the same data;
• a cancellation takes place within the first week after the sign-up.
Affiliate orders/leads will be de-duplicated against other channels with the exception of the following channels:
Google search branded, Bing search branded, referral, direct, organic. Moreover, de-duplication will take place for multiple submissions of the same lead.
Please feel free to contact us for any questions or requests via [removed]
If you are planning to collect a great amount of leads, please let us know in advance.
Terms and conditions
Specific ‘rules’ will apply to the affiliate program of Outdoor Exclusive. You can find all information on how Outdoor Exclusive may be promoted below.
1. Keyword buying
Advertising on keywords in networks and search engines is only allowed if:
a. the ad links to the affiliate’s own website/webpage (no interstitials or automatic redirects to the advertiser’s website);
b. the necessary keywords are excluded from the campaigns in order to prevent any of the situations that are listed below.
Not allowed::
a. Bidding on advertiser’s brand name(s) or related/misspellings thereof (e.g. ‘Outdoor Exclusive, Autdoor Exklusiv, OutdoorExclusive, outdoor-exlcuisve, outdoar-excl.co.uk’ etc.).
b. If keyword buying is part of the affiliate’s campaign, the necessary keyword exclusions have to be made. It is not allowed for affiliate’s advertisements to be shown on keywords which contain the advertiser’s trademarks;
c. This encompasses the exact brand name (e.g. ‘outdoor exclusive / outdoorexclusive.com), misspellings of the brand name(s) and brand name(s) combined with other keywords (e.g. ‘Outdoor exclusive deals’);
d.Usage of advertiser’s brand name(s), combinations with other keywords or misspellings of the brand name(s) in advertisements and/or visible URLs in domains or subdomains (outdoorexclusive.MyDomain.co.uk is not allowed; MyDomain.co.uk/ outdoorexclusive is allowed).
2. Email-marketing
Email-marketing is only allowed within the affiliate program of Outdoor Exclusive if permission is given by Fresh Fruit Digital and certain conditions are met:
a. The affiliate has to be compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Act, the Communications Act (in particular Article 11.7), and other relevant laws and regulations;
b. Only email addresses that have been obtained via a double opt-in and that have been obtained in accordance with (among others) Competition and Markets Authority regulations may be used;
c. The affiliate adheres to the UK Advertising Code and the applicable DMA (Direct Marketing Association) codes, including the Advertising Code via Email, irrespectively if the affiliate is a member of the DMA;
d. The affiliate has taken note of the Code of Conduct for E-mailing affiliates dates January 2015, and acts according this code;
e. The Outdoor Exclusive name may not be used as the sender in e-mails ;
f. It is affiliates also not permitted to occur as an official representative of Outdoor Exclsuive in their e-mails;
g. The affiliate is solely responsible for any consequences imposed if one is guilty of sending spam or e-mails that are not compliant with the above mentioned legislation, codes of conduct and/or guidelines;
h. It is necessary to submit all e-mails/newsletters for approval to Fresh Fruit Digital via [removed] so that the permission can be given by Fresh Fruit Digital before sending out any e-mail. This includes all e-mail communications, newsletters, self-developed texts, graphics, logos, trademark material etc.;
i. Sending out e-mail batches is only allowed after consulting (see above) Fresh Fruit Digital. In this way Fresh Fruit Digital can contact Outdoor Exclusive so that they can take them into account (capacity, stock etc. It has to be specified on what dates they intend to send the e-mail incl. details like expected number of clicks and the number of e-mail addresses for each batch.
3. Typo / misspelling domain names
Not allowed:
a. Registering domain names that are similar to, related to or a misspelling of the advertiser’s brand name(s), products or services (e.g. ‘www.outdoorexcl.co.uk, www.outdorexklusiv.co.uk’);
b. Registering subdomains that are similar to, related to or a misspelling of the advertiser’s brand name(s), products or services (e.g. ‘outdoorexclusive.MyDomain.co.uk, outdorexklusiv.MyDomain.co.uk’).
Allowed::
Using directories (MyDomain.co.uk/directory) that contain the advertiser’s brand name(s), products or services, so long as the correct spelling is used. For example: MyDomain.co.uk/ outdoorexclusive.
4. Social Media and PR
Required:
Explicitly mention that Outdoor Exclusive is not the owner of the account and therefor is not responsible for any information on the pages or profiles concerned.
Not allowed:
a. In promotions on social media, it is not allowed for the affiliate to impersonate as Outdoor Exclusive or an official representative of Outdoor Exclusive;
b. Affiliates who promote through social media channels such as Twitter; YouTube; Facebook or LinkedIn may not register usernames which contain the trademarks of Outdoor Exclusive without prior written permission;
c. It is not allowed to engage in offline marketing activities and/or create/spread press releases in the name of Outdoor Exclusive, without prior written permission;
d. Usage of logos or trademarked materials in accounts/profiles on social media is not allowed;
e. Outdoor Exclusive’s website may not be loaded in an iframe within social media apps, pages or profiles.
Allowed:
a. Act as intermediary (on one’s own account, not as Outdoor Exclusive) in accordance with the rules that have been created for this measure by regular legislation. Offering the proposition of Outdoor Exclusive can therefore only be allowed within existing legal frameworks that apply to the concerned affiliate. Possible consequences of violations of legislation are for the account of the affiliate. When in doubt; contact Outdoor Exclusive (mail to: [removed]
b. Use social media to generate traffic to your own website;
c. Refer to Outdoor Exclusive’s official (social media) accounts in order to improve relevance for customers.
5. Discount code / coupon websites
Coupon or discount code websites are allowed within the affiliate program of Outdoor Exclusive. Discount codes and promotions that are available through the WebGains network may be included. However, permission has to be given by Fresh Fruit Digital.
6. Prohibited websites
Advertising on the type of websites listed below is explicitly prohibited:
• Sites that contain either pornographic or violent content;
• Sites that contain or stimulate illegal activities;
• Sites that contain discriminating or offensive content;
• Sites that violate copyrights;
• Sites that may do harm to the name and reputation of Outdoor Exclusive.
7.Direct linking, popups, popunders, cloaking
Direct linking using popups, popunders etc. is not allowed. Other ways of “cookiedropping” are also not allowed. Using applications or toolbars in order to influence the last cookie is not allowed. It is explicitly prohibited to cloak links or fake the referrer; it should always be clear what the source of the traffic is.
8. Cashback websites / loyalty programs
Cashback websites and loyalty programs are allowed in the Outdoor Exclusive affiliate program; provided that they meet strict conditions:
1. It has to be clear that the reward is NOT provided by Outdoor Exclusive;
2. It has to be clear that the reward is provided by the affiliate;
3. It has to be clear that Outdoor Exclusive has no influence on the level of the reward;
4. Rewards have to be provided in points, pearls, diamonds etc. but not in real currency (EURO, GBPs);
5. In accordance with section 2 in these guidelines and conditions; cashback websites and loyalty programs may not send emails to promote Outdoor Exclusive.
9. Data protection / legal
Any national and European legislation concerning user privacy, data collection, cookies and general protection of Internet users must be respected. Affiliates that participate in the Outdoor Exclusive affiliate program are expected to take cognizance of all relevant (for their activities) legislation in the country or countries where they are active with the Outdoor Exclusive affiliate program.
Affiliates may only use Outdoor Exclusive’s data (including possible personal user data and surfing behaviour) for the purpose of Outdoor Exclusive’s affiliate program. After the campaign or the affiliate program has ended, the participating affiliates are obliged to destroy any Outdoor Exclusive-related (user)data they may have received or collected.
10. Other conditions
In the affiliate program of Outdoor Exclusive, post-view campaigns will not be allowed; all sales have to be post-click.
There is always the possibility to disapprove affiliate sales or remove affiliates from the program without specifying the reason if:
• there is a lack of clarity about the source of the traffic;
• sales are generated with no known affiliate ID or transaction ID;
• mentioned conditions are not met.
Affiliates are responsible for keeping promotion materials on their medium up to date. Materials which contain ended promotions must be removed or replaced (with new/other available material) by the affiliate.
In the case of unexpected bankruptcy of the advertiser, the program will be stopped right away, regardless to the usual cool down period & cookie time.