PC World Business

PC World Business is a highly attractive B2B proposition with market leading prices from a well known and respected brand. They now offer over 15,000 products with market beating prices. You don’t have to be a business to order from PCWB and consumers can also benefit from fantastic offers and deals.

Online transactions commission structure

30 day cookie period

5% default commission

Collect @ Store commission structure

Collection at store is not available via PCWB

Commissions:-

PC World Business Online transaction

Offered on UK transactions only (excluding Channel Islands)

Transaction value including VAT at 17.5%

Excluding delivery, service and/or extended warranty charges

Transactions are validated once orders have been dispatched and the seven working day returns period has passed

Commission for online orders is paid on final transaction amount after all discounts have been applied including any post transactional discounts

Voucher Code Use:-

You may only promote codes that are provided through the PC World Business Affiliate Programme. There may be codes that are not in the public domain and these should not be used by affiliates unless express written permission is given by DSGI. There may be codes that are in the public domain that are restricted to specific referrers and will not work for public use, any affiliate found using these codes run the risk of having their commissions cancelled.

We reserve the right to withhold payment of commission if non-authorised voucher codes are used in an affiliate sale.

Where voucher codes are issued with an expiry date this should be clearly displayed, and codes should be removed or explicitly marked as expired after this date unless you are advised otherwise. Any affiliates who are displaying expired codes without marking them as being expired may be suspended from the programme.

Intellectual Property Rights:-

Affiliates must respect the intellectual property rights of PC World Business and its sister companies. These rights include trademarks and service marks, copyright and related rights, trade names and domain names, rights to goodwill or to use in passing off and rights in confidential information. If an affiliate infringes these rights, we may remove them from the programme and may retain any commission that would otherwise be due to the affiliate. PC World request draft proofs of any copy that is to appear in any offline communication including and not limited to press campaigns.

Paid Search Activity:-

PC World Business operates a strict policy on PPC Activity. The following types of keywords are restricted for use in any paid search activity of affiliates on the campaign:- Brand: PC World Business, PCWB

Extended brand: e.g. PCWorldBusiness.co.uk, PC World Business Computers, PC World Business Stores, PC World Business Vouchers, PC World Business voucher codes, PC World Business discount codes, PC World Business codes etc.

Misspellings: e.g. PCWorldbussiness, OCWorldBusiness, PCWirldBusiness, etc.

All other DSGi brands and their mispellings, including but not limited to Dixons, Currys, Pixmania, MicroWarehouse, MacWarehouse and The Link

Affiliates are required not to appear on any search results for these keywords on any ad platform, including search engines, content networks, social networking ad placements, etc. For clarification on whether your activity would contravene this term, please contact daniel@ro-eye.co.uk.

In order to avoid any broadmatching issues, affiliates must add PC World Business and PCWB.co.uk as negative keywords in all paid search activity. Affiliates are not permitted to drive traffic direct using the www.PCWB.co.uk URL.

Affiliates also must not use the PC World Business trademark in any paid search activity, whether this is in ad text or display URLs. If you feel this would be beneficial to your promotion of PC World, please get in touch with the account management team to discuss this further. PC World also require that you do not use any display URL that may suggest a connection with PC World, for example: www.affiliatexyz.com/pcworldoffer

Keyword Restrictions:-

Affiliates are not permitted to bid on the following terms, however this is not restricted to but does include:-

PCWB

www.pcwb.co.uk

PCWorldBusiness

PCWorldBusiness

Domain Name Restrictions:-

Affiliates are asked not to register domain names which are similar or confusingly similar to the PC World brand including any miss-spellings of PC World Business. Affiliates may not use any domain name owned by PC World Business for PPC linking without express written permission. Affiliates may not put the PC World Business website into frames or use masked URLs.

Creative:-

Affiliates may not alter any of the creative or text links available through the Affiliate Window interface. In order to prevent out of date content, affiliates may not hardcode the creative into their sites.

If affiliates require bespoke creative then please email Daniel Austin

Product Feed:-

PC World Business will provide a daily datafeed with the most accurate pricing available everyday through the Affiliate Window interface and this will be uploaded by early afternoon.

Affiliates are requested to make every effort to maintain PC Worlds Business’ most current pricing information in their promotions. If you’d like to discuss your specific requirements, such as constructing a URL from which you can automatically receive the feed, please contact the account management team.

Deeplinking:-

Please use the deeplink builder to create your links.

If you have any question about deep linking or this account please fell free to get in touch.

Daniel Austindaniel@ro-eye.co.uk or Louisa Harvey-Account Manager at dgm on 0207 943 4260 or via email atLouisa.harvey@dgm-uk.com

Kind regards

The PC World Business Affiliate Team