Affiliate Program Policies, Terms & Conditions

For 50 years Apple Vacations has provided the most value in vacations to millions of people. Apple Vacation’s mission statement is to provide the ultimate beginning to end vacation experience for its customers. We’re one of the largest international travel providers in the U.S.

A few details about our affiliate program:

• Earn Commission on Vacation Packages (minimum air + hotel combined)
• 30 Day Referral Period / Cookie Duration
• Commissions Paid Upon Completion of Travel Dates (not when it’s booked)

For more details, terms, and conditions, please review the information below as well as our Terms & Conditions on CJ Affiliate.

Sign-up and join the Apple Vacations Affiliate Program today!

We look forward to a successful partnership.

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Protected SEM Bidding

Protected Terms & Phrases: Branded keywords (terms and phrases) are off limits to Affiliates and include, but are not limited to: Apple, Apple Vacation, Apple Vacations, Apple Vacation Packages, Apple Vacations Deals, Apple All Inclusive, Apple Cancun Vacations, www.applevacations.com, www.apple.com, Apple Cozumel Packages, Apple Caribbean Packages, Apple Cancun Packages, etc.

This includes possible misspellings, abbreviations, terms, and phrases identical to the restricted trade name but use the wrong case and the merging of the restricted trade name with other terms, words or phrases.

Negative Matching for Protected Keywords

Affiliates are required to use, as negative keywords, the “AppleVacations” trade name and trademarked terms and phrases in all paid advertising campaigns to include pay per click (PPC) and cost per click (CPC).

Affiliates are required to use the protected terms and phrases as negative broad match keywords. Negative keywords are a feature of PPC / CPC systems that block an advertiser’s ad being shown on the search results page when the user includes / uses the negative keyword or phrase within their query. Failure to add forbidden terms as negative keywords is a violation of the terms of the program.

Destination Examples (i.e. "Cancun vacations", "Cancun getaway", and "Cancun hotels"):

"Destination / activity" vacation(s), trip(s), travel, getaway(s), resort(s), and hotel(s)

Activity Examples (Can also substitute vacation(s) with trip(s) and travel)

Getaway(s), Gaming vacation(s), Spa vacation(s), Family vacation(s), Golf vacation(s), Diving vacation(s), Romantic vacation(s), Ski vacation(s), Cultural vacation(s), Luxury vacation(s), Dining vacation(s), Adventure vacation(s), Shopping vacation(s), and Sports vacation(s)

Prohibited SEM Display URL Content

Affiliates are not authorized to incorporate into any paid advertising the URL of Apple Vacations (www.applevacations.com). These restrictions include all links used for search engine marketing and paid advertising campaigns.

Affiliates utilizing search engine marketing and/or pay per click campaigns are not authorized to link directly to Apple Vacations web site through search engines; this refers to PPC / CPC keyword or text ad destination URL's as well as display URL’s. Links within search engines must direct visitors to the publisher's web site, without redirects, and not to Apple Vacations.

Prohibited SEM Ad Copy Content

Affiliates are not authorized to incorporate into any paid advertising the Apple Vacations brand or the URL of Apple Vacations (www.applevacations.com). These restrictions include all links used for search engine marketing and paid advertising campaigns.

Creative, Copy & Content: Affiliates are not authorized to exploit creative, copy, or content from the Apple Vacations web site for use within their own websites. This includes search engine marketing and pay per click campaigns. Any publisher found utilizing Apple Vacations creative, copy, or content will be removed from our CJ Affiliate Program.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Policy: Affiliates engaging in Search Engine Marketing to include Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and /or pay per click advertising (PPC) to promote Apple Vacations are not authorized to bid on keywords incorporating the "Apple Vacations" trade name (A.K.A. branded terms) or any variation there-of.

Outside Technologies: Affiliates are not allowed to use any outside technology to access, crawl, acquire, copy, "deep-link," “inline-link” or "page-scrape." This includes the use of "robots," "spiders" or other automated devices.

Website Cloning, Branding, & Self-Promotion: Affiliate sites may not divert or pull internet traffic away from Applevacations.com. Affiliate domain names can not contain any variation of the words Apple Vacations at any time, nor can the site resemble Applevacations.com. Affiliates caught using outside technologies to compromise Applevacations.com infrastructure and resources will be terminated from the program.

Affiliates are only allowed to link and promote their own web site/brand through search engines, not Apple Vacations. Failure to add forbidden terms as negative keywords is a violation of the terms of the program. Affiliates are not allowed to use any outside technology to access, crawl, acquire, copy, "deep-link," “inline-link” or "page-scrape." This includes the use of "robots", "spiders" or other automated devices.

Non-Compliant Affiliates: Apple Vacations has the right to monitor your site at any time to ensure that the Website Terms of Use and the Affiliate Marketing Program Policies, Terms and Conditions are being followed. If an affiliate does not comply with any of the above terms and conditions, the consequences are as follows:

• First Offense: Affiliate will receive notification from Apple Vacations and will be given one week to comply.
• Second Offense: Affiliate will be removed from the program.

Right of Termination: Apple Vacations reserves the right to terminate any Affiliate from this program for any reason. Should this agreement be terminated you must immediately remove all links to Applevacations.com from your web site.

Incentivized Traffic: Not allowed

Software: Not allowed

Technology: Browser extensions / toolbars, mobile apps, and third-party solutions / platforms are not allowed.

Sub-Affiliates: Not allowed

Social Media: Affiliates are permitted to promote Applevacations.com via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or any other social media platform, however, we request that affiliates use @AppleVacations in all posts.