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On completion of an affiliate application form, HotelStayUK Limited will
process your application. Acceptance of your company to the HotelHippo.com or
HotelStayUK Limited affiliate scheme is at our sole discretion and confirmation
whether positive or negative will be confirmed by e-mail. If you are not
accepted to the affiliate programme you are welcome to reapply at any time. We
are not required to give any explanation of their non-acceptance of any
affiliate should they so wish.
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Only on acceptance of your application will you will be provided with and be
permitted to establish a link to the HotelHippo.com or HotelStayUK Limited
website and necessary paperwork forwarded to you to ensure you are set up on
our system.
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Any HotelHippo.com or HotelStayUK links will make it clearly identifiable as an
affiliate link from our website and must be branded in accordance with
HotelHippo.com guidelines. The affiliate may include as many links throughout
their site as they wish once an application has been accepted. However any
related websites that are not the accepted affiliate partner website address
must be re-applied for.
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You will be paid the agreed percentage commission of total sales inclusive of
VAT for each booking that is made via the affiliate link, confirmed in full and
paid for by the customer. Should a booking cancel you will not receive any
commission for the sale. On reaching an achieved target of £50 commission per
month HotelStayUK will pay commission at the end of that month. Should the
target not be achieved within the month then the commission will be held and
carried over to successive months until £50 is reached and payment is made.
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The affiliate must not in any circumstances compete with HotelHippo.com and
HotelStayUK or competitively market the affiliate link and HotelHippo.com
product in competition either via website links or via non web marketing as
deemed competitive by HotelHippo.com. In the event of this form of activity
HotelHippo.com may terminate the affiliate link immediately and may seek to
take further legal action.
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There must be no misrepresentation of the relationship between HotelHippo.com
and the affiliate; the affiliate must in no way suggest that the relationship
is any more than a link to HotelHippo.com or HotelStayUK unless otherwise
agreed by us formally in writing. Under no circumstances must the affiliate
pass itself off or in any way pretend to trade as HotelHippo.com or
HotelStayUK.
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Customers booking via the affiliate partner's link will be customers of
HotelHippo.com and HotelStayUK without affecting any status that they have with
the affiliate.
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All bookings made via the affiliate link are subject to the current
HotelHippo.com and HotelStayUK website terms and conditions and HotelHippo.com
reserve the right to alter its terms and conditions at any time.
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The term of this affiliate agreement shall be for a period of 2 years from the
date this agreement is accepted and signed by both parties. The initial term
will be renewed for successive years unless either party terminates it in
writing. Either party may terminate with or without cause the agreement by
giving 30 days notice in writing. In the event of termination of this agreement
the affiliate must cease using all links, logos and HotelHippo.com intellectual
property immediately. Commissions will be paid for bookings made only prior to
the end of the termination period and commission repatriated for confirmed
bookings only.
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The affiliate will be solely responsible for its own website content and any
HotelHippo.com or HotelStayUK links within it. HotelHippo.com and HotelStayUK
will not be responsible for any maintenance of content on the affiliate's
website. HotelHippo.com will be responsible for the maintenance of any link
pages on its website and ensuring the booking system operates to the best of
its ability.
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HotelHippo.com and HotelStayUK grants the affiliate a royalty free, revocable
right to use the links and any logos and text supplied to promote the link.
Unless agreed otherwise in writing the affiliate is not granted the rights to
alter the links, logos or information provided on any HotelHippo.com or
HotelStayUK intellectual property rights or to use any of the information
presented for any other reason than the agreed link. This licence may be
revoked at any time with written notice.
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HotelHippo.com and HotelStayUK will not be held liable either financially or
legally for any problems or financial losses occurred with technical issues
involving interruptions related to the link, HotelHippo.com website,
HotelStayUK website, booking system or any such related issues. We make no
guarantee that the link will be error free and accept no liability or
consequences in relation to this. HotelHippo.com and HotelStayUK's liability
will only be for direct costs and damages and will not under any circumstances
exceed the total of the commission paid for the calendar year arising towards
the event. W are not responsible or liable for loss of data or usage or for any
damage that is of secondary consequence for its actions.
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This agreement does not create any joint venture, partnership or agency between
the affiliate and us. HotelHippo.com and HotelStayUK reserve the right to enter
into similar agreements with any other parties of its choice including websites
that may compete with the affiliate's website offering.
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If there is breach of any term, provision, warranty or section of this
agreement or there is wilful misconduct or negligence on behalf of the
affiliate organisations employees, directors, airs and successors then the
affiliate is solely responsible and will indemnify HotelStayUK and all
associated directors and employees against the following: claims, demands,
actions, losses, liabilities, settlements, damage, fines, expenses and costs
and reasonable legal fees.
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The details of this agreement will be governed by and complied with in
accordance with English Law and both parties agree to submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the English Courts as regards any claim or matter relating to
this agreement regardless of conflict of law and any other mandatory legal
provisions.
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