Aida DE Affiliate Program

Basics

In order to be connected to the program you are required to have a working website with good performance and a decent amount of traffic, or a proven community on social media. Otherwise, the application will be declined.
 If you were declined but think you are eligible to work with the program and can showcase your business model, please contact support or your personal manager.

The partners must be 18 years old and have full legal capacity. You are fully responsible for the creation, operation and maintenance of your website and are liable to third parties for any damage that may arise directly or indirectly through the creation, operation or maintenance of your website. To this extent you release AIDA Cruises from any liability. You guarantee that your website or your activity on this website complies with all relevant legal regulations and in particular free of pornographic content, depictions of violence, discriminatory depictions of people, insults, extremist, radical political or youth-endangering content, trivialization or glorification of drugs and weapons and an unusual use of language and does not create a link to other websites with such content. Travel agencies are not allowed to participate in the AIDA Affiliate Program with their websites. We offer a separate program for this. You are asked to apply to become a partner via the AIDA EXPInet. Here, too, there is an examination before approval or the award of an agency contract. You are asked to apply to become a partner via the AIDA EXPInet. Here, too, there is an examination before approval or the award of an agency contract. You are asked to apply to become a partner via the AIDA EXPInet. Here, too, there is an examination before approval or the award of an agency contract.
It is also important to ensure that your website does not give the impression that it is from AIDA Cruises, but rather that it clearly distinguishes itself from it. A reference to the travel / tourism industry must also be evident. Exceptions are possible in justified cases. Websites that support cashback models are generally not permitted! This also includes loyalty programs and recommendation marketing.

2. Integration of advertising material

The generation of cookies is only permitted if an AIDA advertising medium is used, it is visible and cookies are only generated when the user consciously clicks them. The current requirements and regulations of the GDPR must be observed and implemented. In general, publishers are prohibited from using iFrames, pop-ups, pop-unders and layered advertising materials that load an AIDA advertising material or the AIDA website and set a cookie on the user without his or her participation.
Advertising remuneration only takes place if a trip is booked on the AIDA website ( www.aida.de ) and this has been paid in advance by the guest. No commission is paid for canceled bookings. The booking must be substantiated, demonstrable and within the Cookie duration of 30 days resulting from a regular marketing measure on your website. Postview tracking is prohibited unless AIDA Cruises has given express written consent to the use of this method.
The use of so-called "forced clicks", in which the user is forced to click, is also not permitted.
The advertising material may only be integrated on the website whose address (URL) you specified when registering for the AIDA affiliate program. The connection to our website may only be established through advertising material or text links.
It is not permitted to imitate the appearance of AIDA Cruises or to lean against it!

3. Calculation of the advertising fee

For the calculation of the advertising fee, only AIDA's income from travel bookings via the website www.aida.de, which clicked on our website via one of the links on your website immediately before making the purchase, counts (last cookie wins). These bookings are taken into account for the calculation of your advertising fee, provided that the down payment has been made and, in individual cases, the trip has been carried out, minus sales tax and any cancellations. In addition, bookings made by customers entitled to commission (e.g. AIDA customer club) and AIDA Cruises employees are not used to calculate your advertising fee.

4. Your obligations

You may only place the advertising material on the website whose address (URL) you have given in the course of this registration.
You are not allowed to use AIDA in the domain (2nd, 3rd, etc. level). The creation of a directory in the structure is permitted.

PERMITTED:
a) www.publisher.de/aida.html
b) www.publisher.de/seereisen/aida.html
NOT PERMITTED:
a) 2nd level: www.aida-publisher.de
b) 3rd level: www.aida. publisher.de
c) 4th level: www.aida.kreuzfahrt.publisher.de In
short: The term AIDA must not appear in the name of your website (domain) that you have saved.

If the domain changes, please inform us. You operate your website independently and are responsible for its content within the meaning of § 5 TMG. Integrate an up-to-date and detailed data protection declaration on your website.  
SEM (Search Engine Marketing), i.e. the use of Google Adwords (search network, display network & remarketing), Yahoo! Search marketing (Bing Ads) or similar is only permitted to a limited extent. Booking of AIDA-relevant and AIDA-protected word marks (e.g. AIDA, AIDAcara, AIDA cara, cara etc.) is not permitted. Please note the list of protected keywords below.

Variants with hyphens between the individual letters are also prohibited.                         
Just like replacing the capital "I" (e.g. hedgehog) with a small "l" (e.g. quietly).

The non-use of the words applies to both the keywords and the copy text of the corresponding ad. Postings of generic keywords, e.g. B. "Mediterranean", are of course permitted, provided that the copy text has no literal reference to AIDA and the keywords mentioned are booked as excluded keywords. This prevents advertisements with AIDA relevance. In the event that someone bids on the keyword “cruise”, for example, the keyword “AIDA” must be booked negatively. It must always be ensured that the partner's advertisements do not appear in consumer searches that contain AIDA Cruises' intellectual property, variants that can be confused or typographical errors in combination with the generic search terms.
PERMITTED:
Take the Mediterranean as an example: We offer sea voyages through the western and eastern Mediterranean. Example cruise: We offer you various cruises.
NOT ALLOWED:
Example Mediterranean: Book a week on AIDAcara and discover the Eastern Mediterranean Example cruise: Discover the modern cruise with AIDA.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization), i.e. adapting your own website to the search engine's search criteria, is also only permitted to a limited extent. The use of the AIDA-relevant and AIDA protected word marks (AIDA, AIDAcara, AIDA cara, cara etc.), e.g. in the meta tags, is not permitted. Search engine marketing is allowed as long as the terms are generic and clearly lead to your own website and from there to aida.de.

It is forbidden to display AIDA Cruises landing pages to which affiliate links refer in a frameset or to use any other technical means to create them as if they were pages on the affiliate's server. This also includes the design of the website based on the AIDA Cruises model.
E-mail marketing may only be carried out to addresses obtained by means of double opt-in. It is forbidden to send spam emails.

5. German law applies to these conditions.

As far as legally permissible, Rostock is agreed as the exclusive place of jurisdiction. Should individual provisions of this agreement be or become invalid or not enforceable in whole or in part, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of the agreement. AIDA Cruises reserves the right to change, add or terminate this affiliate program at any time without observing any deadlines and without prior notice.

Last changes were recorded on 10.11.2022