Updated Agreements and Terms & Conditions

Affiliate marketing can be a great way to promote an e-commerce website and to boost sales. Under such an arrangement, a business pays affiliates a commission on sales of their goods or services generated from click-throughs from the affiliate’s website.

This so-called “online performance marketing” as a whole is highly popular and, as a category of marketing, includes such well-known names as Quidco, Nectar, CompareTheMarket, and Groupon. Affiliate marketing specifically is a popular choice for businesses of all sizes and can be largely automated, making it quick and easy to track sales and calculate commission.

Updated Affiliate Templates

Simply-Docs has long offered a range of template documents for affiliate relationships and these documents have now been given a comprehensive refresh to reflect current best practice. Each document has been completely re-written, with provisions simplified and streamlined where possible. A new commission structure has also been introduced, focusing now on sales which can be tracked only within a single browser session, rather than relying on more privacy-intrusive forms of tracking.

Privacy and data protection are now also included in these templates. Although not all affiliate marketing arrangements will involve the use of personal data (or at least the transfer of it from one party to another), it is nevertheless helpful to emphasise each party’s data protection obligations on a contractual basis.

New data protection provisions have therefore been added to the agreements and the terms and conditions. We have also endeavoured to make these provisions “Brexit-proof” or at least “Brexit compatible”. The GDPR will continue to apply in the UK following our departure from the EU on 31 January for the duration of the transition period. After that, the current expectation is that the GDPR will be replaced with an almost identical “UK GDPR”. The wording of the new data protection provisions therefore refers to as yet unnamed successor legislation which will impose the same obligations upon businesses after the Brexit transition.