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The company HANSA HOTELS WORLDWIDE® (registered offices: Bismarckstrabe 103, 10625 Berlin; hereinafter referred to as “HANSA”) has established an Affiliation program to enable selected hotels to be part of the hansaworldwide.com website currently hosted at www.hansaworldwide.com (hereinafter referred to as “the hansaworldwide.com website”). This website will enable visitors to book rooms directly through hansaworldwide.com website or redirect them to the Affiliate website via promotional tools such as banners, buttons and Hansaworldwide.com search engines that point to a page on the Hansaworldwide.com website, and subsequently to make a Reservation for one or more hotel rooms for one or more nights.
Where they are used in this document, the terms and expressions below shall have the following meanings:
– “Affiliation” means the system that enables the Web merchant to disseminate its products services or offers to a network of Affiliates and involves acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Hansaworldwide.com Affiliation program by an Affiliate.
– “Affiliate” means any person, legal or natural, who promotes the Web merchant’s products or services through a website and agrees to accept the terms and conditions of the Affiliation program as well as to redirect all or some of its visitors to the Web merchant’s website via hyperlinks.
– “Web merchant” means any person, legal or natural, who, through the Affiliation program, proposes that Affiliate sites promote its products, services or offers and redirect all or some of their Visitors to the Web merchant’s website via hyperlinks. In exchange, the Web merchant offers the Affiliate remuneration in HANSA with the terms and conditions of the Web merchant’s Affiliation program. In this case, the Web merchant is HANSA.
– “Affiliation platform” means the trusted third party or parties between the Affiliates and the Web merchant. The Affiliation platform(s) is/are chosen by the Web merchant and a contract is signed between the Affiliation platform and the Web merchant.
– “Affiliation program” (or “Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program”) means all of the means made available to Affiliates by the Web merchant, such as hyperlinks, promotional tools etc., as well as the terms and conditions of the Affiliation program, including remuneration, accepted by the Affiliates.
– “Reservation” means the action of reserving one or more hotel rooms for one or more nights in one of the hotels in the HANSA Group on the Hansaworldwide.com website, validated by HANSA on the Affiliation platform within a maximum of fifteen (15) days from the date the Reservation was made.
– “Tracking system” means all of the technologies that enable the Affiliation platform to trace, measure and calculate the different activity indicators for the Web merchant and the Affiliate, including print-outs, clicks, total nights reserved, payment etc.
– “Visitor” means any person connected to the Internet who is likely to perform operations such as consulting a website, purchasing or selling products or services online on an Affiliate website.
For the Affiliate, Affiliation to the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program will include two (2) stages:
– Application and acceptance of the Affiliate on HANSA’s partner Affiliation platforms (search engine provider)
– Application and acceptance by HANSA of the Affiliate into the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program.
HANSA works in partnership Affiliation platforms and search engines selected based on their expertise in the markets concerned.
To join the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program, the Affiliate must register in advance on the Affiliation platforms.
Only Affiliates registered and accepted by HANSA’s partner Affiliation platform may apply to join the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program. Affiliates can connect to the appropriate Affiliation platform using the username and password received. They can locate the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program in the list of affiliation programs, select it, read the terms and conditions of the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program and submit their application for the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program. To validate their application, Affiliates must accept the terms and conditions of the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program.
Affiliates will receive email notification from the Affiliation platform indicating whether or not they have been accepted into the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program.
HANSA reserves the right to refuse any application, at its own discretion, without having to provide any justification of any kind for such a refusal. In particular, although the following list is not exhaustive,
HANSA will refuse sites that directly or indirectly:
– Are used by a company holding an IATA code, such as travel agencies,
– Contain images or texts that are violent, racist, libelous or an incitement to any form of extremism or discrimination,
– Contain content that is pornographic, erotic, religious, political or similar,
– Do not comply with the legislation in force or with the rights of third parties,
– Or which in any other way are liable to cause harm to the brand image of HANSA or its sales policy.
Once they have been accepted into the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program, Affiliates can connect to the chosen Affiliation platform to integrate Hansaworldwide.com offers and promotional tools into their sites via the selection of hyperlinks, banners, buttons, search engines etc. offered by HANSA as part of the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program. Affiliates can use as many hyperlinks, banners, buttons, search engines etc. as they wish. And in return, HANSA will be promoting the hotel as part of the affiliation program and generate more booking for them without any fee or commission. This affiliation is completely free of charges and aim to promote all HANSA affiliates on hansaworldwide.com website.
Taking into account all partner Affiliation platforms, the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program is available in the following eight (9) languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish.
Taking into account all partner Affiliation platforms, the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program is available in the following markets: France, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Poland, North America, Brazil, USA, KSA, UAE, Russia, Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Austria, Greece, China, Lebanon.
– Special case no. 1 for Affiliates with a single Affiliate website available in several languages
For Affiliates with a single Affiliate website available in several languages.
– Special case no. 2 for Affiliates operating in a market that is not included in the list available for the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program
For Affiliates using at least one of the languages listed above but operating in a market that is not included in the list available for the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program, as shown above, it is possible to submit an application to join the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program in one of the eight (8) languages used by Hansaworldwide.com available on one of the three partner Affiliation platforms.
For example, an Affiliate in the Austrian market with a site in German can apply to join the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program in German on the Germany Affiliation platform.
– Special case no. 3 for Affiliates operating in a language that is not included in the list available for the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program
For Affiliates whose website is in a language that is not among those available for the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program, as shown above, it is not possible to apply to join the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program.
– Special case no. 4 for Affiliates not operating in a market or a language included in the list available for the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program
For Affiliates not operating in a market or a language included in the list available for the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program, it is not possible to apply to join the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program.
HANSA undertakes to make available to Affiliates, on the partner Affiliation platforms, as part of the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program, the offers and promotional tools to enable Affiliates to promote its products, services and offers, including hyperlinks, banners, buttons on Hansaworldwide.com search engines.
The offers and promotional tools made available may differ from one Platform to another or from one market to another.
A Reservation of one or more hotel rooms for one or more nights is made directly between the Visitors to an Affiliate and HANSA, which is responsible for ensuring the Reservation is made correctly and associated services are effectively provided, HANSA retaining ownership of customers.
HANSA assumes full responsibility for the receipt and processing of the Reservation and for associated services once a Reservation is made by a Visitor to an Affiliate website (Reservation, confirmation with bank card, cancellation).
Throughout the duration of its participation in the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program, the Affiliate undertakes to:
– Ensure that its site does not contain, or have any direct or indirect links with sites that contain, images or texts that are violent, racist, libelous or an incitement to any form of extremism or discrimination,
– Ensure that its site does not contain content that is pornographic, erotic, religious, political or similar,
– Ensure that its site complies with the legislation in force and with the rights of third parties,
– Ensure that its site does not in any way cause harm to the brand image of HANSA or its sales policy,
– Respect the graphic elements of HANSA logos and brands and under no circumstances to modify them,
– Not modify the HTML codes that are required to create the hyperlinks to the Hansaworldwide.com website,
– Use only the hyperlinks provided by HANSA or through the partner Affiliation platforms to enable Visitors to the Affiliate website to access the Hansaworldwide.com website,
– Ensure that its site is completely devoid of all forms of virus or Trojan Horse and any other form of contamination, particularly any code or instruction that could be used to access, modify, delete or damage any data, file or other software program used by HANSA or by a third party,
– Remove all links to the Hansaworldwide.com website in the event that HANSA or the Affiliate rescinds these general terms and conditions, and to end all use and/or reproduction whatsoever of HANSA logos and brands,
– Compensate HANSA in full for any loss whatsoever that HANSA may suffer as a result of a claim made by a third party subsequent to a failure on the part of the Affiliate to fulfill its obligations under these general terms and conditions.
Generally speaking, the Affiliate guarantees that it shall not do, nor shall it allow to be done, anything that may infringe in any way upon any of the rights belonging to HANSA (including HANSA’s intellectual property rights), or those belonging to any third party of any kind, irrespective of the legal system considered.
Throughout the duration of its participation in the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program, the Affiliate undertakes to:
– Not purchase keywords belonging to HANSA domain names or brands, or any variants of these, from any search engine or referencing service provider (e.g. Google, Yahoo etc.). The Affiliate must comply with the advertising referencing policy for the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program. This advertising referencing policy (or “keyword policy”) is available within the terms and conditions of the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program on the partner Affiliation platforms.
– Not register domain names containing one or more HANSA brands, whether spelled correctly or incorrectly,
– Not create a sub-domain that contains one or more HANSA brands, whether spelled correctly or incorrectly,
– Not use any HANSA brands in the HTML code of pages on its site in order to increase its ranking with search engines without the specific, prior written consent of HANSA,
– Not undertake any advertising operations that mention one or more HANSA brands without the prior written consent of HANSA,
– Return immediately and without charge to HANSA any domain name that contains one or more HANSA brands and which may have been registered by the Affiliate prior to its joining the Hansaworldwide.com program,
HANSA does not guarantee that use of the www.Hansaworldwide.com website shall be free of disruption or faults. HANSA cannot be held liable for the consequences of any disruption or faults.
HANSA shall only be liable for direct losses resulting from implementation of the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program.
For the duration of its involvement in the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program, and as soon as it gains access to Confidential Information, the Affiliate undertakes to:
– Maintain its confidentiality,
– Take the same measures as those it would take with respect to its own confidential information in order to prevent publication thereof or disclosure thereof to third parties,
– Only divulge it to members of its staff who require the information for implementation of the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program,
– Use it for HANSA purposes only,
– Return to HANSA and/or delete any media received from HANSA that contains Confidential Information
Any disclosure by the Affiliate to any third party shall incur liability and HANSA shall be entitled to terminate the Affiliate’s involvement in the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program immediately without notice or compensation and without prejudice of all claims for damages made by HANSA.
This obligation will end one (1) year after the Affiliate’s participation in the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program expires or is terminated.
The Affiliate’s membership of the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program is valid for an indefinite period of time from the date on which the Affiliate is notified that its membership of the Hansaworldwide.com affiliation program has been approved. It is hereby specified that either of the parties may terminate membership, immediately and at any time, by notifying the other party via registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt.
HANSA may terminate the Affiliate’s participation immediately, subject to a simple notice addressed to the Affiliate, in the event that the Affiliate does not comply with one or more of the provisions of these general terms and conditions.
HANSA may interrupt the provision of online services and/or its Affiliation program, temporarily or permanently and at any time, without warning. In this case, no compensation will be payable by HANSA to the Affiliate.
The Affiliate hereby acknowledges that it has read and understood these general terms and conditions and that it accepts all of the terms and conditions contained herein. It is the Affiliate’s independently held view that there is a benefit to be had in joining this Affiliation program and the Affiliate shall not invoke any declaration, guarantee or undertaking, other than those expressly set forth in these general terms and condition
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