Affiliate Programme Terms

These terms form the agreement between you (the "Partner") and BasedOnBusiness ("we", "us") for participation in our affiliate programme. They apply from the moment your application is approved and continue until either side ends the arrangement under clause 15.

You take part as an independent contractor. Nothing here creates employment, agency, partnership or a joint venture, and you may not present yourself as able to bind us or speak on our behalf.

Applications are reviewed individually and we may decline one without giving a detailed reason. Approval is personal to you and cannot be transferred or sold.

You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter into a contract in your country of residence.

A referral is credited to the Partner whose link was clicked most recently in the 90 days before the customer created their account, or to the Partner whose coupon code the customer used. A coupon takes precedence over a click, but only while the customer has never paid.

Attribution is fixed at the moment the customer's account is created and does not change afterwards. Clicks on another Partner's link later have no effect. A customer who already had an account before clicking your link is not a referral.

We do not attribute referrals we cannot see. If a customer blocks or clears cookies, uses a different device without your coupon, or reaches us through a channel that strips the referral, no commission arises.

You earn 25% of each successfully collected subscription payment made by a customer attributed to you, for 12 months from that customer's first payment. Your individual rate and duration are shown in your dashboard and may differ if we have agreed otherwise with you in writing.

Commission is calculated on the amount actually collected excluding tax and after any discount. We do not pay commission on VAT or other taxes we collect and remit on a customer's behalf.

Commission arises only on payments we actually receive. Failed, disputed, uncollected and refunded payments produce no commission.

We may change the rate or the duration for the future. Any such change applies only to customers referred after we notify you; commission already earned, and the terms attached to customers you have already referred, are not affected.

Commission on a monthly invoice becomes payable 30 days after we collect the payment. Commission on an annual invoice becomes payable 60 days after collection, because a single annual payment carries a larger refund exposure.

Where a referral is under review for suspected abuse, commission is held and does not become payable until the review is closed in your favour.

If a payment is refunded or charged back, the commission on it is cancelled in proportion to the amount reversed. If the commission had not yet been paid to you, it is simply reduced or removed.

If it had already been paid, the amount is recorded against your account and deducted from your future commission. If you earn no further commission, we will not pursue you for the balance and it is written off after 12 months.

Chargebacks can arrive months after a payment. The holding periods in clause 5 reduce this risk but do not remove it, which is why this clause exists.

We pay monthly, within the first ten business days of the month, for commission that has become payable by the end of the previous month.

The minimum payout is USD 50. Below that, your balance carries over to the following month.

Payments are made in USD by Wise or PayPal to the account you provide. You are responsible for the accuracy of those details and for any fees your provider charges. We are not liable for funds sent to an account you entered incorrectly.

Where your local law requires you to issue an invoice for these payments, you are responsible for doing so.

You are solely responsible for reporting and paying any tax due on your commission in your own jurisdiction, including income tax, VAT and social contributions where applicable.

Amounts we quote are gross. We do not withhold tax unless the law obliges us to, in which case we will tell you and pay you net.

You may use your affiliate link and coupon code on your own website, newsletter, videos, social accounts, courses and communities.

You must make clear that your recommendation is paid. If your audience's local law requires a specific label, such as "ad" or "affiliate link", you must use it.

You may only describe what the product actually does. Our media kit lists claims we do not permit, and you must not exceed it: no guaranteed results, no claim of an official Google relationship, no promise of verified contact data, no invented customer numbers.

Referring yourself, your own company, or an account you control or create on a customer's behalf.

Bidding on our brand name or close variants in paid search, or running ads that could be mistaken for our own.

Placing your link on coupon, deal or cashback sites without our written agreement.

Cookie stuffing, hidden iframes, forced redirects, pop-unders, or any technique that sets a referral without the visitor deliberately clicking.

Unsolicited email, purchased lists, or any messaging that breaches anti-spam law.

Fake reviews, fake testimonials, impersonating us or our staff, or registering domains, handles or app names containing our brand.

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive licence to use our name and the logo files in the media kit, solely to promote the product while you are an active Partner.

Do not alter the logo's colours or proportions, do not use it in a way that implies we endorse another product, and stop using it if we ask you to or if you leave the programme.

We record referral clicks with a salted, irreversible hash of the visitor's IP address and a country code. We never store the address itself for a referral click.

You will never see who your referrals are. Your dashboard shows counts, plans, countries and earnings, never a customer's name, email address or company. Do not ask us for that information; we will not provide it.

If you collect personal data through a newsletter list, lead form or audience database, you are the controller of that data. You are responsible for complying with the GDPR, the UK GDPR, KVKK or whichever regime applies to you.

Our own handling of visitor and account data is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

We may hold commission, suspend your account, or pause payouts while we investigate suspected abuse, unusually high refund or chargeback rates, or a breach of these terms.

We will tell you that a review is open and give you a fair opportunity to respond. We will not disclose the detection methods themselves, because doing so would help the behaviour we are trying to prevent.

We may cancel commission that arose from a breach of clause 10, from a payment that was refunded or charged back, or from a transaction we reasonably determine to be fraudulent.

Where we cancel commission we will tell you which referrals are affected and why.

You may leave at any time from your account settings. We may end your participation at any time, with immediate effect in the case of a serious breach, and otherwise on notice.

If you leave or are removed without a breach, commission already earned and payable is still paid on the normal schedule. If you are removed for a breach of clause 10, we may withhold commission connected to that breach.

When your participation ends, your links stop attributing new referrals and your licence to use our brand ends.

We may update these terms. We will give at least 30 days' notice of a material change by email and by publishing the new version here.

If you keep promoting us after a change takes effect, you accept it. If you do not accept it, you may leave under clause 15 and will still be paid the commission you have already earned.

The programme is provided as it is. We do not guarantee any level of traffic, conversion or earnings, and nothing on our site is a projection of what you will make.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you in connection with the programme is limited to the commission payable to you in the 12 months before the claim arose. Nothing limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, without affecting any mandatory protection available to you in your country of residence.