Unless explicitly authorized otherwise by SamKan LLC, the following program restrictions apply:

Affiliates are not permitted to purchase, own, or bid on any domain names with the word ‘SamKan’ or misspellings of ‘SamKan’ in the URL. For example,
Affiliates must not include SamKan brand terms, or misspelled variations of the same, in the sub-domain of their website’s URL. For example,
Affiliates may use correctly spelled SamKan brand terms after the domain of their website’s URL. For example,
Affiliates are not allowed to register the brand SamKan or any variation of it on any social media platform. This includes, and is not limited to, brand + generic word or sentence as well as generic word or sentence + brand.
Affiliates must not post on any official SamKan social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. SamKan social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Direct linking to SamKan websites from paid social media is prohibited.

Any affiliates, subnetworks, and/or affiliates of subnetworks who do not abide by these rules risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.

PPC Policy

Commissions will not be paid where there is evidence of any paid search activity on brand terms without prior authorization. This includes permutations, misspellings, and broad matches containing brand terms (generic is fine).

PPC bidding restrictions also apply on Google Shopping/CSS (Comparison Shopping Service). We request the brand keywords stated below to be excluded from all CSS activity.

Restrictions include, but are not limited to, the following:

SamKan
Sam Kan
SamKan vouchers
vouchers
SamKan codes
SamKan voucher codes
SamKan discount codes
codes

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 risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.

CSS

Standard shopping to be used by CSS partners only for all SamKan programs and ensure brand terms are negatived as per SamKan LLC agreement.

Performance Max should not be booked at all for any SamKan programs and could result in zero commission and suspension from the program if found to be used for SamKan.

Discount Codes

Affiliates may only promote codes that are provided through the Advertiser’s affiliate marketing program (either through the Advertiser’s account or directly from Advertiser’s Affiliate Manager) (“Authorized Code(s)”).

Advertiser reserves the right to withhold payment of commission if unauthorized voucher, coupon, channel, or other applicable types of codes are used in an affiliate sale. We appreciate that consumers may use codes that they have found via a site other than that which is awarded the sale; however, sales made using any unauthorized codes will be fully investigated by the Advertiser. Any decision made by the Advertiser in respect of the payment of commission to an affiliate will be final. If an affiliate is in any doubt as to whether a code is an Authorized Code, they should contact the Advertiser before promoting such code. Any affiliate found to be displaying unauthorized codes may have their commission set to zero until such code(s) are removed.

Where voucher/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 FTC guidelines.

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
In-house referrer scheme (further details on this can be found below)

The In-House Referrer Scheme

Existing customers who have already purchased from SamKan 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 SamKan and goes to the referral section.
Existing customer creates a link to SamKan to share on social media.
New customer clicks on that link and makes their 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 SamKan as a reward.

All referral sales will be de-duplicated 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.

Social Content Creators

All affiliate content on social media must be FTC compliant. If you wish to use affiliate links within your Instagram Stories and other social channels, use #ad as a valid identifier to be FTC compliant.

SamKan uses 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.

Cookieless Vouchercode Tracking

SamKan 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

SamKan validates in line with their returns policy which is 30 days. Only real sales are considered for commission payment. A real sale is a sale that is made and not returned. Only after the return window has passed, will the sale be considered a true sale, and the commission will be released.

CSS

Only standard shopping activity to be used by CSS partners with brand terms negatively matched in adherence to program terms. Performance Max activity should not be set up and could result in 0 commission and suspension from the program if this activity is found in place.

Any queries may be addressed to info@samkanstore.com.