The Clean Beauty Edit - Affiliate Programme
Main FAQs
- When and how you do we pay affiliates?
- Scheduling - Please note that affiliates will need to wait 30 days after a conversion has taken place before their commission can be scheduled for payment, and that there must be a minimum of €10 commission credits earned in order for a payment to be made. Other than that valid commission payments are paid on the 1st of every month by PayPal or directly into your bank account.
- Thresholds - Commission will be paid when you have reached a minimum of €10 commission credits via sales.
- Method - Payments will be made via PayPal or account transfer. If you would like us to make a payment directly to your bank account please email us those details - [email protected]
2. Promotion Methods and Placement:
- Trademarks - affiliates are allowed to use our logo on their social media feeds and on their websites, provided that the content on their social pages and websites is in alignment with our brand image and values and does not contain any negative or offensive content. Please see full terms and conditions below.
- Offer Placement - affiliates may not post coupon codes on coupon or discount websites, or on any paid advertising platforms such as Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads etc. Affiliate links and coupon codes may be posted to the affiliate's own social media accounts, blog or website, or sent by email to their contacts.
3. Self-Dealing:
- Friends and Family - affiliates may offer their coupon codes and affiliate link offers to their own family and friends.
- Affiliate Using Their Own Offer - Affiliate may not use their own affiliate link or coupon code to purchase products from thecleanbeautyedit.com. If you wish to make a purchase from thecleanbeautyedit.com as one of our affiliates, please let us know and we will issue you with an individual discount code that may be used on thecleanbeautyedit.com
4. Any products/product categories that are excluded from your program,:
- Discounted Items - Products on sale/clearance are not eligible for commission
- Low Priced Items - All SKUs on thecleanbeautyedit.com are eligible for commission
- Product Types - no product types are currently excluded from the affiliate programme.
5. The following will result in disqualification from the programme and void all past, current and future commission:
- Negative Commentary - affiliates are not allowed to negatively promote The Clean Beauty Edit and are expected to be respectful and positive when mentioning the brand. Please keep all content relating to The Clean Beauty Edit in line with our brand ethos and values.
- Offensive Content - affiliates are forbidden from placing any mentions, affiliate links or coupon codes for The Clean Beauty Edit on adult themed websites, any websites inciting hatred or violence, or any websites containing content that Golden Sky Retail Ltd., the parent company of The Clean Beauty Edit, deems to be offensive in any way.
Full Terms & Conditions for our Affiliate Programme
Effective Date: From May 2019
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions upon which we offer you participation in our The Clean Beauty Edit Affiliates Programme (the "Programme"). Acceptance of this Agreement by participation in the Programme creates a binding legal agreement that you will use our websites, links and other property of Golden Sky Retail Ltd. or its partners only in a manner that is consistent with this Agreement. As used in this Agreement, "we" means Golden Sky Retail Ltd. t/a The Clean Beauty Edit, "you" means the applicant, and "our website" means
www.thecleanbeautyedit.com and any The Clean Beauty Edit website operated by us, Golden Sky Retail Ltd.
1. Enrolment In The Programme
The purpose of this Programme is to promote the sale of products offered on our Website (the “Purpose”). To begin the enrolment process, you will submit a complete Program application through our website or an invitational link. We will evaluate your application and notify you of your acceptance or rejection. We may reject your application for any reason at our sole discretion. We generally reject applications related to websites that:
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
• Promote illegal activities or are intended to harass or defame anyone, or include content that we deem to be offensive.
• Include "The Clean Beauty Edit" or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names; or
• Otherwise violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others.
If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Programme at any time. If we accept your application, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the Programme for any reason in our sole discretion immediately without prior notice.
2. Links On Your Website/ Social Media Account(s)
Once you have been notified that you have been accepted into the Programme, you may provide on your approved Website and/ or social media account(s) one or more of the following types of links to our Website:
• General link to our website via your generated referral link
• Coupon codes that have been approved and assigned to you
To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and accrual of commission credits, we will provide you with a special "tagged" link. You must ensure that each link between your website and our Website is a special link. You will only earn commission on sales that originate through Special Links and Personalised Coupon Codes. We are not responsible for any failure by you to use Special Links or Coupon Codes. You may also use Special Links on social media sites (e.g. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) (“Social Media Site”), provided that such use is consistent with the Purpose and terms of this Agreement.
Use of Images: The product images provided to members of the Programme are the property of Golden Sky Retail Ltd., its corporate affiliates or its content suppliers and are protected by international copyright laws. You may not use any product image in any way that exceeds the limited license granted to you by this Agreement. This limited license allows you to use product images solely for the purpose of promoting our products for sale, in line with this agreement, by creating Links connecting to our Website. This means, among other things, that you may not: (a) alter, modify or manipulate any product image; (b) use a product image in any form other than the form provided by us; (c) remove any code or identifying information from any product image; (d) inactivate the link associated with any product image or cause the image to ultimately link to a destination other than our Website; or (e) link to or display images after they have been discontinued from the The Clean Beauty Edit product catalogue.
3. Additional Restrictions and Prohibited Activity
You may not, directly or indirectly: (a) Purchase or register domains or search engine keywords, AdWords, search terms or other identifying terms that include the word "The Clean Beauty Edit", or any variations thereof. Variations include foreign country or other top-level domain extensions. In addition to the foregoing, you must register or establish the following negative keywords with each search engine from which you purchase or register keywords: "The Clean Beauty Edit" and "Golden Sky Retail Ltd.". Specifically, this policy prohibits you from purchasing or registering domains or search terms such as, but not limited to, "The Clean Beauty Edit" and "Golden Sky Retail Ltd", and also prohibits you from the following:
(a) Use or display "The Clean Beauty Edit" or "Golden Sky Retail Ltd.," or any misspellings or variations thereof, in either the copy/advertisement or the display URL for paid search listings. Variations include foreign country or other top-level domain extensions;
(b) You must follow common search engine guidelines, such as: (a) your display URL must match the ultimate actual destination URL;
(c) you may not frame our website as a landing page; or (c) you may not create "redirects" or "jump pages" that immediately direct to our website;
(d) Dilute, blur or tarnish the value of our trademarks, and/or highlight any of our products and services in a negative light. (For example, you are not allowed to say that you offer better and/or more promotions, products and services than The Clean Beauty Edit.). You may not misrepresent Golden Sky Retail Ltd.'s brands including our URL, logos, trademarks and tradenames, or misrepresent that either you or your website are The Clean Beauty Edit or operated by Golden Sky Retail Ltd.
(e) Engage in any conduct that violates GDPR, or any similar privacy or data protection law of any jurisdiction;
(f) Enable any sales to be made that are not in good faith, including, but not limited to, by means of any device, public discount or coupon site, program, robot, Iframe, hidden frame or redirect;
(g) Use any device or technology that will replace, intercept, interfere, hinder, disrupt or otherwise alter in any manner a Web user's access, view or usage of, the website of any affiliate of ours in a manner that causes or otherwise results in a different experience from what was otherwise intended by our affiliate; or
(h) Use any device or technology that will block, alter, direct, redirect, substitute, insert, append itself to, or otherwise intercept or interfere in any manner with any click through or other traffic-based transaction that originated from the website of any affiliate of ours with the result of reducing any compensation or other payment earned by or owing to such affiliate.
(i) Issue or post any press release or other broad-based communication regarding your participation in the Programme without our consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may promote your website via mailings to recipients who are already customers or subscribers to your website's services, provided that the recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings and that you otherwise comply with all applicable laws of your jurisdiction. Further, you may promote your website via newsgroup postings to newsgroups that specifically welcome commercial messages (when in doubt, consult the newsgroup FAQ or moderators to be sure that such a message is acceptable in that newsgroup). We reserve the right to modify these rules at any time. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have violated any of the foregoing restrictions, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold any commission otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement. If we are required to enforce any of the foregoing restrictions, you will be obligated to reimburse us for any attorneys' fees incurred in connection therewith.
4. Use of Our Logo and Branding
You may use our logo solely for the purposes authorized by this Agreement. You may not alter graphics containing our logo in any manner. For example, you may not change the proportion, color, or font of our logo. You may not display our logo in any manner that implies sponsorship, endorsement by us other than of your involvement in the Programme. You may not use the logo to disparage our company, our products or services, or in a manner which, in our reasonable judgment, may diminish or otherwise damage our goodwill in the brand. You acknowledge that all rights to our logo are our exclusive property, and all goodwill generated through your use of our logo will inure to our benefit. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have violated any of the foregoing restrictions, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold any commission otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement. If we are required to enforce any of the foregoing restrictions, you will be obligated to reimburse us for any legal fees incurred in connection therewith.
5. Order Processing
We will process product orders placed by customers who follow a Special Link from your website/social page to our Website. We reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any requirements that we periodically may establish. We will be responsible for all aspects of order processing and fulfilment. Among other things, we will prepare order forms, process payments, cancellations, and returns, and handle customer service. We will track sales made to customers who purchase products using Special Links from your website/ social page to our Website and will make available to you reports summarizing this sales activity via your Refersion account. The form, content, and frequency of the reports may vary from time to time at our discretion.
6. Commission
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you will be eligible to earn commission on certain product sales in accordance with Sections 7 and 8 below. For a product sale to be eligible for commission credits, the customer must follow a Special Link from your website to our Website, select and purchase the product using our automated ordering system, accept delivery of the product at the shipping destination, and remit full payment to us. Should an order be returned/cancelled/refunded, commission will not be paid on that order, or if it has already been paid a negative credit will be applied to your affiliate account.
7. Earning Commission Credits
Standard Commission Credit Rate
You will accrue commission credits based on Qualifying Revenues according to commission credit rates established by us from time to time. "Qualifying Revenues" are revenues derived by us from our sales of products, after reduction for discounts, coupons and/or gift card redemptions, as a result of purchases made by visitors to our Website that come directly through a Special Link on your website. "Qualifying Revenues" do not include gift card purchases, shipping & handling, gift-wrapping or taxes. The standard commission rate is 8% of Qualifying Revenues.
Commission is on a tiered basis and based on the revenue that you generate. Affiliates will start on 8% standard commission and can earn 10% based on proven sales and marketing efforts. If you would like us to review your affiliate commission rate reach out to us at
[email protected] and we will get back to you.
8. Commission Payment
No commission will be earned or payable unless and until you have in any given Programme Year (defined below) accrued commission credits of at least €10.00. “Programme Year” refers to any 12-month period beginning June 1 and ending May 31. If you do not accrue such minimum commission credit amount by the end of such Programme Year, any commission credits in your account will be cancelled and permanently deleted from your account. Any accrued but unpaid commission existing in your account as of the effective date of this agreement will be converted to commission credits as of the effective date of this agreement. Your acceptance of this agreement or continued participation in the Programme shall constitute your assent to these terms. Subject to the foregoing minimum annual commission credits rule, we pay commission on a monthly basis. 30 days following the end of each calendar month, for those affiliates that satisfy the minimum annual commission credit rule we will pay the commission by PayPal or directly to you bank account.
If a product that generated commission credits is returned by the customer, we will deduct the corresponding commission from your next commission payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we may send you a bill for the commission. If you accrue the minimum commission credit amount during a Programme Year but less than €10.00 remains in your account as of the end of such Programme Year, such credits will be carried over to the following Programme Year as if they were earned on the first day of such following Programme Year. As such, if you do not accrue the minimum commission credit amount during such following Programme Year (including such carried over credits), such carried over credits will be cancelled and permanently deleted from your account at the end of such following Programme Year. Except as set forth in this Agreement, commission credits shall have no value and are not redeemable in any way for cash or merchandise.
9. Policies And Pricing
Customers who buy products through the Programme will be deemed to be customers of The Clean Beauty Edit. Accordingly, all of our rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and product sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time and without warning. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for products sold under this Programme in accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.
10. Special Rules For Endorsements
If your website offers an endorsement of the Website and/or its products or services, you must clearly disclose your relationship as an affiliate to The Clean Beauty Edit Such disclosure must be in clear proximity to the endorsement itself. An “Endorsement” means any message that consumers are likely to believe reflects your opinions, beliefs, findings, or experiences regarding The Clean Beauty Edit and/or our products or services.
11. Limited License
We grant you a nonexclusive, non-sublicensable, revocable right to use the product images, graphics, logos and other content made available through the Program me("Content") solely for purposes of your participation in the Programme to assist in generating product sales. Product images must be served by our Website and cannot be used in any form other than the form provided by us. You may not modify any Content in any way. We reserve all of our rights in the Content.
12. Responsibility For Your Website
You will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of your website and for all materials or content that appear on your website. Failure to remove from your website items that have been discontinued from our product catalog may result in an infringement of a third party’s intellectual property rights, for which you will be solely responsible.
13. Representations and Warranties
You hereby represent and warrant to us as follows:
a. This Agreement constitutes your legal, valid, and binding obligation, enforceable against you in accordance with its terms.
b. Any information you provide to us in connection with your participation in the Program will be true and correct.
c. The execution, delivery, and performance by you of this Agreement and the consummation by you of the transactions contemplated hereby shall not, with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, conflict with or violate (i) any provision of law, rule, or regulation to which you are subject, (ii) any order, judgment, or decree applicable to you or binding upon your assets or properties, (iii) any provision of your by-laws or certificate of incorporation, or (iv) any agreement or other instrument applicable to you or binding upon your assets or properties.
d. No consent, approval, or authorization of, or exemption by, or filing with, any governmental authority or any third party is required to be obtained or made by you in connection with the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement or the taking by you of any other action contemplated hereby.
14. Term of the Agreement
The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Programme Application and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your website, all links to our Website, product images from our database, and any of our trademarks, trade dress or logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Programme. You are only eligible to earn commission on Qualifying Revenues occurring during the term of this Agreement, and commission earned through the date of termination will remain payable subject to Section 8 above, only if the related orders are not cancelled or returned. We may withhold your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid.
15. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion by posting a change notice or a new agreement on our Website. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope of available commission credits, commission credit rates, payment procedures, and Programme rules. We typically announce substantive changes to the terms of this agreement by email. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this Agreement. Your continued participation in the programme following our posting of a change notice or new agreement on our Website will constitute your binding acceptance of the change.
16. Relationship Of Parties
You and we are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on your website or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Agreement.
17. Limitation Of Liability; Indemnification
We will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Programme, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Programme will not exceed the total commission fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement within the last six (6) months. Unless you notify us of an asserted discrepancy in your commission payments within six (6) months from the date of the applicable payment, such payment shall be deemed accepted and no protest shall be allowed. You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Golden Sky Retail Ltd. and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members, and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) (any or all of the foregoing hereinafter referred to as "Losses") insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (a) any claim that your use of any trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of any third party, (b) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement made by you herein, or (c) any claim related to your Website, including, without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.
18. Disclaimers
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Programme or any products sold through the Programme (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, noninfringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade usage). In addition, we make no representation that the operation of our Website and Affiliate Programme will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.
19. Independent Investigation
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY TIME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEBSITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR WEBSITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAMME AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.
20. Miscellaneous
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the Republic or Ireland, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement. If any term, clause or provision of this Agreement shall be deemed invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable in accordance with its terms. The Clean Beauty Edit is owned and operated by Golden Sky Retail Ltd.
