CPS
Platform where tracking is available
Categories
Travel
Cookie Duration
1day
Deeplink
Yes
Incentive / cashback
No
Social media
No
Your cookie duration basically
is how long a website will remember
this information.
is how long a website will remember
this information.
This term is used when you
want to redirect user to a
specific merchant page
instead of the home page.
want to redirect user to a
specific merchant page
instead of the home page.
Your cookie duration basically is how long
a website will remember this information.
a website will remember this information.
This refers to whether you can
give incent / rewards / cashback
to your users for completing an
action.
give incent / rewards / cashback
to your users for completing an
action.
This refer to promoting campaign
on your Social media channel.
Note: the campaign should be
promoted organically and not via
any kind of social media ads.
on your Social media channel.
Note: the campaign should be
promoted organically and not via
any kind of social media ads.
Hotels.com Affiliate Payout Categories
Category
Payout
Payout on Consumed booking
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Voucher Rate
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Media Allowed/Disallowed
Allowed Media
Text Link
Banner
Coupons
Cashback, Reward Points, Incentives, Charity
Disallowed Media
Deals
Email (Text)
Custom Email (Text)
Email (HTML)
Custom Email (HTML)
POP Traffic
Native Ads
Social Media
Facebook Ads
SEM - Brand Keyword(s)
SEM - Generic Keyword(s)
SEM - Brand + Generic Keyword(s)
Countries Allowed
India
Important Information for Hotels.com Affiliate Program
Tracking - Online
the Approved Bidding Terms; or>Users make all necessary disclosures for and obtain all necessary consents to:
>promoting, distributing or otherwise publishing any content that includes content on the Site, which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, fraudulent or violates any law.
PROHIBITED CONDUCT :
>use any link(s) that sends Users indirectly to the Expedia Sites via an intermediate site or webpage;
>use any other method that impedes Users from determining which site or application they click within any Travel Content;
>take any action that could reasonably confuse Users regarding: (i) our relationship with you; or (ii) the website on which any searching or booking of Travel Products is occurring (e.g., through the use of iFrames);
>display any Travel Content or Expedia Marks within any pop-up or pop under windows, transitional page ads, or layer ads around or in conjunction with the display of any site
that is not the Partner Site;
>mislead or misrepresent to Users as to the origin, affiliation or nature of the Partner Site(s), products or services;
>use any Travel Content or any Expedia Mark in a manner (by proximity or otherwise) that implies endorsement or commercial association by Expedia with any product, service, party, or cause;
>take any action to register as a trademark or domain name any Expedia Mark or any mark or domain name that contains, is confusingly similar to, or otherwise seeks to copy, benefit from, or interfere with our interests in Expedia Marks as either a trademark, domain name, or meta tag;
>display or otherwise use any trade name, trademark, service mark, logo or other similar indicia of identity or source of any third party Travel Supplier in connection with the display of any Travel Content except in the form and manner provided by Expedia or in accordance with any trademark usage guidelines provided by such third parties;
>attempt to artificially increase your Commission in any way (e.g., by causing any page of an Expedia Sites to open in a browser other than as a result of the User clicking on Travel Content on your Site or by artificially generating clicks, impressions, or bookings, whether by way of a robot, spider, scraper or software program or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose (e.g., other method designed to emulate a click by a real person);
>violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on the Affiliate and/or any Expedia Site, or bypass, circumvent, or avoid any measure employed to prevent or limit access to the Affiliate Hub and/or such Expedia Site;
>take any action that Expedia deems imposes or may is likely to impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the technology or infrastructure of Expedia (e.g., using scraping/caching or crawler type requests on Expedia’s servers);
>equest, obtain, store, cache, or otherwise use any account information used by our customers in connection with any Expedia Sites (including any usernames or passwords of Expedia customers);
>engage in any deeplink to any portion of the EG Affiliate Hub for any purpose;
display Travel Content without linking to the Expedia Site;
>use iFrames or similar functionality to display Travel Content or incorporate any part of the EG Affiliate Hub;
>use any functionality that places a cookie on User’s device, e.g., “frontdoors” and toolbars with such functionality;
>engage in any marketing activities on behalf of us, any Related Company or our partners in connection with the Program, that are not expressly permitted by these Terms. For example, you will not use any Expedia Mark or Travel Content in any offline promotion or in any other offline manner (e.g., in any facsimile, direct mailing, text messaging, email or attachment to email, or other document, or on television, radio, or other offline media);
>scrape, crawl or monitor the Expedia Sites, any other websites operated by Expedia, by any Related Company or by other partners through which Travel Content is available;
>allow (and will take reasonable steps to prevent) any direct or indirect extraction, repurposing and/or aggregation of any Travel Content (including the use of Travel Suppliers’ information and photos), Confidential Information, or any other data or information made available under these Terms;
>use “Expedia” or any related logos from any Related Company in any tool bar activities/placements (for example by promoting discounts available on cashback sites);
>allow any Travel Content, the names or trademarks of Expedia or a Related Company to be placed, displayed and/or used on any Partner Site that you do not own and operate under your own brands and for your own benefit (i.e. you cannot use any part of the Travel Content on sites that you operate for third parties/third party brands even if you own such sites, and on third party sites);
>misuse or otherwise infringe any trademarks of any Travel Supplier or any misspelling, variant, transliteration, script or substantially similar or confusingly similar version thereof by using or registering it as a domain name or sub-domain name.
>You may not display Travel Content that includes coupon, voucher, or discount codes (“Coupon Codes”)
>you will comply with all applicable laws, including marketing and advertising laws;
>promoting, distributing or otherwise publishing any content that includes content on the Site, which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, fraudulent or violates any law.
PROHIBITED CONDUCT :
>use any link(s) that sends Users indirectly to the Expedia Sites via an intermediate site or webpage;
>use any other method that impedes Users from determining which site or application they click within any Travel Content;
>take any action that could reasonably confuse Users regarding: (i) our relationship with you; or (ii) the website on which any searching or booking of Travel Products is occurring (e.g., through the use of iFrames);
>display any Travel Content or Expedia Marks within any pop-up or pop under windows, transitional page ads, or layer ads around or in conjunction with the display of any site
that is not the Partner Site;
>mislead or misrepresent to Users as to the origin, affiliation or nature of the Partner Site(s), products or services;
>use any Travel Content or any Expedia Mark in a manner (by proximity or otherwise) that implies endorsement or commercial association by Expedia with any product, service, party, or cause;
>take any action to register as a trademark or domain name any Expedia Mark or any mark or domain name that contains, is confusingly similar to, or otherwise seeks to copy, benefit from, or interfere with our interests in Expedia Marks as either a trademark, domain name, or meta tag;
>display or otherwise use any trade name, trademark, service mark, logo or other similar indicia of identity or source of any third party Travel Supplier in connection with the display of any Travel Content except in the form and manner provided by Expedia or in accordance with any trademark usage guidelines provided by such third parties;
>attempt to artificially increase your Commission in any way (e.g., by causing any page of an Expedia Sites to open in a browser other than as a result of the User clicking on Travel Content on your Site or by artificially generating clicks, impressions, or bookings, whether by way of a robot, spider, scraper or software program or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose (e.g., other method designed to emulate a click by a real person);
>violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on the Affiliate and/or any Expedia Site, or bypass, circumvent, or avoid any measure employed to prevent or limit access to the Affiliate Hub and/or such Expedia Site;
>take any action that Expedia deems imposes or may is likely to impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the technology or infrastructure of Expedia (e.g., using scraping/caching or crawler type requests on Expedia’s servers);
>equest, obtain, store, cache, or otherwise use any account information used by our customers in connection with any Expedia Sites (including any usernames or passwords of Expedia customers);
>engage in any deeplink to any portion of the EG Affiliate Hub for any purpose;
display Travel Content without linking to the Expedia Site;
>use iFrames or similar functionality to display Travel Content or incorporate any part of the EG Affiliate Hub;
>use any functionality that places a cookie on User’s device, e.g., “frontdoors” and toolbars with such functionality;
>engage in any marketing activities on behalf of us, any Related Company or our partners in connection with the Program, that are not expressly permitted by these Terms. For example, you will not use any Expedia Mark or Travel Content in any offline promotion or in any other offline manner (e.g., in any facsimile, direct mailing, text messaging, email or attachment to email, or other document, or on television, radio, or other offline media);
>scrape, crawl or monitor the Expedia Sites, any other websites operated by Expedia, by any Related Company or by other partners through which Travel Content is available;
>allow (and will take reasonable steps to prevent) any direct or indirect extraction, repurposing and/or aggregation of any Travel Content (including the use of Travel Suppliers’ information and photos), Confidential Information, or any other data or information made available under these Terms;
>use “Expedia” or any related logos from any Related Company in any tool bar activities/placements (for example by promoting discounts available on cashback sites);
>allow any Travel Content, the names or trademarks of Expedia or a Related Company to be placed, displayed and/or used on any Partner Site that you do not own and operate under your own brands and for your own benefit (i.e. you cannot use any part of the Travel Content on sites that you operate for third parties/third party brands even if you own such sites, and on third party sites);
>misuse or otherwise infringe any trademarks of any Travel Supplier or any misspelling, variant, transliteration, script or substantially similar or confusingly similar version thereof by using or registering it as a domain name or sub-domain name.
>You may not display Travel Content that includes coupon, voucher, or discount codes (“Coupon Codes”)
>you will comply with all applicable laws, including marketing and advertising laws;
>Coupons Policy - Coupons shared by the Cuelinks team and coupons mentioned on the website (generic) are only payable.
Please note, Coupon code not provided by Cuelinks and are not available on advertiser website will not be paid.
>advertising must be clear and accurate, not mislead, exaggerate, offend or cause harm;
>any messaging provided by Expedia for sales, Deals, promotions and Coupon advertisements must be used as provided without any edits or alterations;
an offer like “Save up to $X” off should read as such and should not be expressed:
as a flat dollar amount off; or
without stating any limitations applicable to the offer (e.g., “Save up to $500 when you book flight+hotel on Expedia” should not read “$500 off on Expedia packages”);
price guarantees offered by any brand must not be presented as a Coupon code or a site-wide Deal and is prohibited from being advertised in ad copy;
Deals and/or Coupons advertised in SEO copy or SEM copy must match a relevant landing page on Expedia; and
You agree that you shall not undertake or engage in any of the following (each hereinafter referred to as “Prohibited Search Marketing Activities”):10.7.1 Partner shall not promote unauthorized Coupons in its page title text or refer to illegitimate promotions that do not exist on Expedia Site;10.7.2 Partner shall not promote unauthorised Coupons in its meta description or refer to illegitimate promotions that do not exist on Expedia Site; and10.7.3 Partner shall not use Coupon and Deal related keywords in its Page Title Text and / or meta descriptions. These keywords can only be used in conjunction with a numerical keyword (25%, 10%, etc.) if it is: a) a legitimate offer on Expedia Site or, b) the Partner has explicit written approval from Expedia to promote an authorised Coupon campaign.
Keyword Bidding.
Without Expedia’s prior written approval you may not bid on, including for preferential placement in any search engine or other paid advertising, or otherwise use to drive consumers to your websites or businesses any Expedia Marks or any misspellings or variants of, or substantially similar names and marks to, any Expedia Brand. In addition, upon our request you will cause any search engine designated by us to exclude Expedia Marks from keywords used to display your advertising content in association with search results (e.g., request exclusion by negative keyword bidding).
You must not develop or use any browser extensions to:
display any unauthorised alerts, advertisements or other content to consumers including via toolbars, pop-ups, pop-unders or ad-injections on the Expedia Sites;
redirect a User’s browser to another website via affiliate links; or
display advertisements or other content containing any trademarks (other than Expedia Marks where authorized) on the Expedia Sites.
You must not develop or use any browser extensions to engage in any activity that results in any names, brands or links unconnected to Expedia appearing in connection with Expedia Marks, including through the use of advertising supported software.
LIMITED LICENSE TO TRAVEL CONTENT, EXPEDIA MARKS AND RESERVATION OF RIGHTS
Subject at all times to the limitations set-out in these Terms and your compliance with these Terms, we hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, royalty-free license to reproduce and display on the Partner Site:
Travel Content; and
Expedia Marks,
for the sole purpose of referring Users to the Expedia Site(s). You agree that any use of the Expedia Marks will comply with the relevant Trademark Usage Guidelines.
BIDDING :
You must not bid on:
the Expedia Marks;
>any messaging provided by Expedia for sales, Deals, promotions and Coupon advertisements must be used as provided without any edits or alterations;
an offer like “Save up to $X” off should read as such and should not be expressed:
as a flat dollar amount off; or
without stating any limitations applicable to the offer (e.g., “Save up to $500 when you book flight+hotel on Expedia” should not read “$500 off on Expedia packages”);
price guarantees offered by any brand must not be presented as a Coupon code or a site-wide Deal and is prohibited from being advertised in ad copy;
Deals and/or Coupons advertised in SEO copy or SEM copy must match a relevant landing page on Expedia; and
You agree that you shall not undertake or engage in any of the following (each hereinafter referred to as “Prohibited Search Marketing Activities”):10.7.1 Partner shall not promote unauthorized Coupons in its page title text or refer to illegitimate promotions that do not exist on Expedia Site;10.7.2 Partner shall not promote unauthorised Coupons in its meta description or refer to illegitimate promotions that do not exist on Expedia Site; and10.7.3 Partner shall not use Coupon and Deal related keywords in its Page Title Text and / or meta descriptions. These keywords can only be used in conjunction with a numerical keyword (25%, 10%, etc.) if it is: a) a legitimate offer on Expedia Site or, b) the Partner has explicit written approval from Expedia to promote an authorised Coupon campaign.
Keyword Bidding.
Without Expedia’s prior written approval you may not bid on, including for preferential placement in any search engine or other paid advertising, or otherwise use to drive consumers to your websites or businesses any Expedia Marks or any misspellings or variants of, or substantially similar names and marks to, any Expedia Brand. In addition, upon our request you will cause any search engine designated by us to exclude Expedia Marks from keywords used to display your advertising content in association with search results (e.g., request exclusion by negative keyword bidding).
You must not develop or use any browser extensions to:
display any unauthorised alerts, advertisements or other content to consumers including via toolbars, pop-ups, pop-unders or ad-injections on the Expedia Sites;
redirect a User’s browser to another website via affiliate links; or
display advertisements or other content containing any trademarks (other than Expedia Marks where authorized) on the Expedia Sites.
You must not develop or use any browser extensions to engage in any activity that results in any names, brands or links unconnected to Expedia appearing in connection with Expedia Marks, including through the use of advertising supported software.
LIMITED LICENSE TO TRAVEL CONTENT, EXPEDIA MARKS AND RESERVATION OF RIGHTS
Subject at all times to the limitations set-out in these Terms and your compliance with these Terms, we hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, royalty-free license to reproduce and display on the Partner Site:
Travel Content; and
Expedia Marks,
for the sole purpose of referring Users to the Expedia Site(s). You agree that any use of the Expedia Marks will comply with the relevant Trademark Usage Guidelines.
BIDDING :
You must not bid on:
the Expedia Marks;
the Expedia Marks in conjunction with any other words. In exceptional cases, Expedia might initiate contact with you to grant consent to bid on the Approved Bidding Terms in writing.
NEGATIVE KEYWORD MATCHING :
Upon our request you will cause any search engine designated by us to exclude Expedia Marks from keywords used to display your advertising content in association with search results (e.g., request exclusion by negative keyword matching).
Booked Transaction :
means the booking of a Travel Service booked through an Expedia Site:
(i) that originates from a Click;
(ii) that is so booked within the Validity Period of a cookie being placed on the User’s devices; and
(iii) for which the Click was the last action by the User before the User completed the transaction via the Expedia Site(s);
Click - means a User completing a click on Travel Content displayed on a Partner Site linking to the Expedia Sites and which is not a Void Click;
Consumed Transaction :
means a Booked Transaction that has been paid in full and consumed, and which shall be deemed to have immediately occurred where:(i) for any standalone property booking, the check-out day of such stay has passed and the stay actually occurred;(ii) for any standalone flight booking, means a standalone air booking of a flight reservation service in respect of both domestic and international flights offered through the Expedia Site(s) where the last leg of a one-way or return flight has been completed(iii) for any standalone car rental booking, when the car rental is returned;(iv) for any activities or services booking, where the relevant activity has occurred or the service has been fulfilled (as applicable);(v) for any package booking, when all travel components of the package have been completed in accordance with subsections (i) to (vi) of this definition; and(vi) for any cruise booking, where the cruise booking has completed,In respect of subsections (i) – (vi) of this definition, the date on which a transaction is deemed to a Consumed Transaction shall be the “Consumed Date”;
Consumed Verified Transaction - means a Consumed Transaction that has been verified by a relevant Expedia Related Company, excluding Void Transaction(s);
Consumed Verification Period - means a period of up to 90 days following the relevant Consumed Date;
Gross Booking Value - means the total price paid for a Travel Service to an Expedia Related Company by Users effecting a Qualifying Transaction, including any Taxes and fees paid by such Users at the time of travel;
Net Transaction Value - means the total price paid for a Travel Service by Users effecting a Qualifying Transaction; excluding Taxes and fees paid by the User at the time of booking and Taxes or fees paid by the User at the time of travel;
Net Rental Amount - means the rental amount handled by Vrbo/Stayz/Bookabach/Abritel/Fewo-Direkt payments from an User for a Qualifying Transaction (after any discount applied by the User), excluding:(i) taxes, tax-recovery charges, and other similar charges;(ii) damage and security deposits;(iii) any fees or charges; and(iv) any payment for ancillary bookings, incidentals, add-ons, or extras paid to the property which are paid by the User;
Net Revenue - means the sum of only those fees and commissions actually paid to Vrbo/Stayz/Bookabach/Abritel/Fewo-direkt by the User and/or the Travel Supplier, respectively less the deductions stated below. These two amounts are the only amounts that will be used as the baseline from which the Commission (if based on Net Revenue) is calculated and all other payments, fees, and transactions regardless of their amount or the parties involved in them are excluded from the computation of Commission (if based on Net Revenue) earned by Partner, including but not limited to: Taxes, tax-recovery charges, and other similar charges; indirect revenues (such as subscription fees and other revenues generated from ancillary services);
Qualifying Transaction(s) :means:(i) in the case of “Cost-per-Click” placements (“CPC Placements”), a Qualifying Transaction is a Click from a link within the Travel Content to the Expedia Site(s) that is not a Void Transaction, and(ii) in the case of “Cost-per-Acquisition” placements (“CPA Placements”), a Qualifying Transaction is a Consumed Verified Transaction;
Void Click(s) - means a Click that is or is suspected to be, as determined by Expedia acting reasonably and in good faith, the result of fraud, by a third party or otherwise, including but not limited to clicks which are generated by automated processes, web crawlers, robots, or any other mechanism or method other than a bona fide click by an User, or which results from fraudulent or other unlawful activity; and
Void Transaction - means:(i) a Click or transaction that is not correctly tracked or reported because the links from the Partner Site to the Expedia Sites are not properly formatted;(ii) a Click or transaction that violates these Terms;(iii) any Void Click; andin the case of CPA Placements, any transaction:(i) that is subsequently cancelled, refunded, charged back, disputed by the User, that resulted from fraudulent or other unlawful activity, or for which Expedia does not receive payment;(ii) for which the User clicked a link on an online Channel after the User left the Partner Site but before the User completed the transaction via the Expedia Site; or(iii) that was booked after termination of your participation in the Program.
RESTRICTIONS ON ENROLMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM :
Who May Not Enrol / Join.
Without our prior written approval, Ineligible Parties may not enrol or join in the Program or submit Program Applications.
If you become an Ineligible Party after you enrol in the Program, you agree to:
1.terminate your participation in the Program immediately; and
2.following such termination, keep confidential any Confidential Information provided to you during your enrolment in the Program.
INELIGIBLE SITES :
At all times during your participation in the Program, you will ensure that your Partner Site(s) do not:
1.depict or promote: violence or sexually explicit material; material that is fraudulent, defamatory or obscene; or any material that contains misinformation/fake news;
2.reproduce content from other websites without express license or permission or without proper accreditation or reference where required;
3.use any method to falsely/illegally boost your social media engagement (e.g., in relation to number of likes, followers, comments);
4.appear incomplete – e.g., still under construction;
5.promote illegal activities or unlawful discrimination of any kind;
6.promote or contain any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of others;
7.contain any images or content that is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing or racially, ethically or otherwise objectionable;
8.otherwise violate any applicable federal, state, local and international laws and regulation;
9.use any services or practices to mask or hide your IP address and/or your referring URLs;
10.contain any spyware, malware, adware, virus, worm, trojan horse, or other subversive, malicious, or harmful code, or any application not expressly and knowingly authorized by Users prior to being downloaded or installed on their computer or other device;
11.operate as a sub-affiliate network (i.e., operates a product or service that provides digital marketing services to one or more businesses), including influencers network (unless exceptional written approval has been granted by Expedia, at the discretion of Expedia);
12.operate as a travel agent;
13.copy or resemble the look and feel of Expedia / any Related Company of Expedia, or create an impression that your Site(s) are part of Expedia / any Related Company of Expedia; or
14.otherwise operate in a manner which Expedia deems unsuitable for the Program (as determined at Expedia’s discretion) which Expedia communicates to the Partner.
15.If a sub-affiliate network is granted approval by Expedia to participate in the Program, then the approved sub-affiliate network must ensure that its partners comply with these Terms.
FORFEITURE OF COMMISSION FOR INELIGIBLE PARTIES AND INELIGIBLE SITES :
In the event that you or your Corporate Affiliates are or ever become an Ineligible Party and/or where you fail to comply with any other terms or conditions of these Terms, you acknowledge and agree that you shall not be eligible for Commission and that we may, without limiting any other right or remedy at law or in equity to which we may be entitled:
1.remove your Partner Site(s) from the Program and/or require the Administrator to do so;
2.require that you repay any payments made to you while the Partner Site was non-compliant and you agree to promptly make such repayment in accordance with our instructions; and/or
3.require the Administrator to withhold sums and/or require such repayments from you and you authorize the Administrator to take such actions in accordance with our instructions.
RESPONSIBILITIES REGARDING YOUR SITE :
You are solely responsible for the Partner Site(s) including all content and other material that appears on the Site(s). For example, you are solely responsible for:
1.any use of the Travel Content, regardless of whether it is permitted by these Terms;
2.maintaining a privacy policy that adequately discloses to Users how you and third parties (including Expedia and other advertisers) track, collect, use, store, share, and disclose User data, serve advertisements, and use cookies, pixels, and other tracking technologies;
3.ensuring that all content on your Site does not violate or infringe any rights (including privacy, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights) of Expedia and/or a third party; and
4.ensuring that your display of the Travel Content and all Expedia Marks and any other information content or materials do not violate the Program Documentation or any agreement between you and any other person or entity.
In creating or publishing any content under these Terms, you shall:
1.exercise reasonable skill and care;
comply with:
1.reasonable requests and instructions by Expedia;
2.the social media guidelines and any other guidelines in respect of the use of social media that Expedia set out in Schedule 5 (Content Creation Guidelines), as updated by Expedia from time to time, and any other guidelines in respect of the use of social media that Expedia may stipulate from time to time; and
3.all applicable laws, regulations and codes of practice in relation to marketing, advertising and content creation, including but not limited to the FTC Guidelines;
4.refrain from doing or saying anything which may reasonably be interpreted by Expedia being prejudicial or detrimental to Expedia.
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About Hotels.com Affiliate Campaign
Hotels.com is a leading provider of hotel accommodation worldwide, offering booking services through its own network of localised websites and telephone call centres