Affiliate Agreement

1. Joining the programme

You apply from the partner page in your VeraMargin account and accept this agreement when you do. We review every application ourselves and may approve or decline it at our discretion. Once approved you receive a personal code and a link; the terms that apply to you — your commission rate and your customers’ discount — are shown on your partner page and in the approval e-mail. You must be at least 18 and able to enter into a contract, and you take part as an independent business or individual, not as our employee, agent or representative.

2. How a referral is counted

• Your link is https://veramargin.com/r/<your code>. You may also add ?ref=<your code> to the address of any page of our website or app.
• When someone opens your link, our website stores a first-party cookie, tm_ref, holding only your code and the time. It lasts 60 days. An account created in that browser within those 60 days is your referral.
• If the person opens another partner’s link afterwards, the last partner link counts. Clicking one of our own ads never replaces a partner link.
• Someone who signed up without your link may type your code on the pricing page before their first payment and within 60 days of signing up; the account is then your referral.
• An account can be the referral of one partner only, and our records decide which. A team member invited into an existing account is not a referral.

3. What your customers get

A customer you refer gets a discount on their first paid VeraMargin subscription: by default 20% off their first 3 months of a monthly plan; on a yearly plan, which costs 10 months’ price, the same saving comes off the first year’s payment. The discount applied to your customers is the one shown on your partner page when they are referred. It never takes a package below the smallest paid package ($5 a month) and is applied at checkout. It applies once, to an account that has not paid before.

4. Your commission

• You earn a commission on every subscription invoice your referred customer pays to us within 12 months of their first paid invoice. The default rate is 30%; the rate that applies is the one shown on your partner page when the customer was referred, and a later change of your rate does not affect customers already referred.
• The commission is calculated on what the customer actually paid, in US dollars, after discounts and without taxes. Nothing is earned on a free plan, on a trial or on an amount we credited or refunded.
• Each commission is held for 30 days after the payment, then becomes payable.
• If a payment is refunded, in full or in part, the matching share of its commission is taken back. If a payment is disputed (a chargeback), its commission is taken back; it is given back if the dispute is decided in our favour.
• An amount taken back after it was paid to you is deducted from your later payouts.

5. When no commission is earned

A referral earns nothing, its customer gets no partner discount, and any commission it earned is taken back, when:

• the account is your own, or another account of yours (including an address that delivers to your own mailbox);
• the account shares a store with you, or one of you invited the other into a team;
• an Amazon seller account connected to it was already connected to VeraMargin under another VeraMargin account — it is then not a new customer;
• its first payment was made with a payment card saved in your own VeraMargin account;
• it is a test account of ours, or we reasonably find that it was created or paid for through fraud or a breach of this agreement.

6. Payouts

• At the start of each month we total the commissions that became payable by the end of the previous month. When the total is at least $50, we pay it during that month; a smaller total is carried over to the next month.
• We pay in US dollars by PayPal, Wise or bank transfer, to the details you enter on your partner page. Payouts wait until you enter them. You are responsible for their accuracy; a payout sent to the details you entered is paid.
• We bear our own fees for sending a payout. Fees your provider or bank charges you for receiving or converting it are yours.
• Before paying we may ask you for information needed to pay you lawfully, such as a tax form or proof of identity, and hold the payout until we receive it.
• Your partner page lists every commission, every amount taken back and every payout.

7. Taxes

Commissions are paid as stated, without any tax added. You are responsible for declaring and paying any income tax, social security contributions or value added tax due on them where you live or do business, and for issuing any invoice or receipt your local rules require. If a law requires us to withhold tax from a payout, we withhold it and tell you.

8. How you may promote VeraMargin

• Be honest. Describe only what VeraMargin does today, and use only prices, plans and figures published on our website.
• Say that you are paid for referrals. Mark your posts, videos and links as advertising or as an affiliate link wherever the law or the platform you publish on requires it.
• Do not suggest that you speak for VeraMargin, or that VeraMargin is made, endorsed or approved by Amazon. Use the VeraMargin name and the materials we give you only to promote VeraMargin, and stop when we ask you to; we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive permission for that and nothing more.

9. Prohibited practices

The following are not allowed. Any of them ends your eligibility for the commissions involved, and we may end the partnership at once:

• Bidding on “VeraMargin”, “Vera Margin”, “TrueMargin”, their misspellings or any phrase containing them as keywords in paid search or other paid advertising, or using them in an ad’s text or display address.
• Spam: unsolicited e-mails, messages or comments, bought or scraped contact lists, or posting your link where the place’s own rules forbid it.
• Misleading claims: promising profits or results, inventing discounts or deadlines, presenting yourself as VeraMargin or as Amazon, or creating sites, pages or accounts that look like ours.
• Cookie stuffing and forced attribution: setting your cookie without a real click (hidden frames, pop-unders, automatic redirects, injected links or browser extensions), or paying or rewarding people for signing up through you without our written consent.
• Publishing your code on coupon, voucher or deal-aggregator sites without our written consent, and referring yourself, your team or accounts you control.

10. Personal data

We process the information in your application, your payout details (kept encrypted) and the records of your referrals, commissions and payouts to run the programme and to pay you, as our Privacy Policy at https://veramargin.com/privacy describes; commission and payout records are kept for 7 years for accounting. We never tell you who your referred customers are: your partner page shows only when each one signed up and whether they pay. Do not collect personal data from the people you refer on our behalf.

11. Changes and termination

• We may change this agreement or the programme by e-mailing you at least 30 days before the change takes effect; staying in the programme after that means you accept the change. A change of your commission rate never affects customers referred before it.
• You may leave the programme at any time by writing to us. We may end your partnership at any time by e-mail, and pause it while we look into a possible breach — while paused, nothing new is earned and payouts wait.
• When the partnership ends, commissions are no longer earned. What was earned on payments made before the end is paid out as it becomes payable, even below the payout threshold — unless the partnership ended because of a breach of this agreement, in which case what has not been paid is forfeited.

12. General

The partnership is not exclusive: you may promote other products, and we may work with other partners. Neither of us may bind the other. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you under this agreement is limited to the commissions payable to you in the 12 months before the claim, and neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss. This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules; nothing in it deprives you of the protection of a mandatory law of your country of residence. Questions about the programme: support@veramargin.com.