Affiliate Program Terms

• Referral Code: the personal code and referral link we issue to you.
• Referred Customer: a person who starts a paid Readlink Premium subscription, through checkout on readlink.app or through a Store, and who is attributed to you under section 5.
• Store: the Apple App Store or Google Play, when a customer subscribes inside the Readlink app and pays through it.
• Net Amount: the amount actually charged for a subscription payment, after any discount, credit, or price adjustment, and excluding tax. For a payment made through a Store, it is further reduced by the commission or service fee the Store keeps, so it equals what we actually receive.
• Commission Rate: the percentage of the Net Amount you earn, set by your Tier.
• Commission Window: the period, running from the date a Referred Customer is attributed to you, during which their payments earn commission. Its length is set by your Tier.
• Qualifying Referral: a Referred Customer whose first payment has been made and has cleared the 30-day hold in section 7 without refund or chargeback.
• Tier Schedule: the versioned table of tiers in section 4. The version applicable to you is fixed when you accept these terms.

• Participation is by invitation and at our sole discretion. We may decline any application without giving reasons.
• You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into this agreement.
• You must hold a Readlink account in good standing. One affiliate account per person or legal entity.
• You must be able to receive payouts in a supported country. Our payout provider reaches the European Economic Area (except Iceland), Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. We cannot enrol you anywhere else today, and we will tell you at application rather than at your first payout. Section 9 lists the countries in full.
• You accept these terms by completing affiliate onboarding. We record the version accepted and the date of acceptance.
• You may not participate if doing so would breach any law, platform rule, or agreement that applies to you, including any employer or exclusivity obligation.

• You earn your Tier's Commission Rate on the Net Amount of each payment successfully made by a Referred Customer that falls within your Commission Window. Rates by Tier are set out in section 4.
• Commission is earned on every qualifying payment inside the Window, not only the first. A monthly subscriber therefore earns commission each month they remain subscribed, up to the length of the Window.
• The Rate applied to a payment is the one in force for your Tier at the time the payment is made. Reaching a higher Tier raises the Rate on subsequent payments, and also applies retroactively as set out in section 4.
• Net Amount means the amount actually charged for the subscription, after any discount, credit, or price adjustment, and excluding value-added tax, sales tax, and any equivalent levy.
• Store purchases earn on the net. For a payment made through a Store, the Net Amount is what remains after the Store deducts its commission or service fee and any tax it collects or withholds. Store fees vary by program and by how long a customer has been subscribed, so the same plan can produce a different Net Amount on a Store than on readlink.app, and commission follows the amount we actually receive.
• Commission accrues only on payments actually received and retained by us. Unpaid, failed, waived, trial, and zero-value invoices earn nothing.
• A payment falls inside the Commission Window if the billing period it covers begins strictly before the Window ends. A payment whose billing period begins on or after the moment the Window closes falls outside it and earns nothing, even by a margin of minutes.
• Plan changes stay yours, on any platform. If a Referred Customer switches plan inside your Commission Window, whether monthly to annual or the reverse, or moves their subscription between readlink.app and a Store, the resulting payments earn commission on their Net Amount at the new plan and on the new platform. The Window is not restarted or extended by a plan or platform change (section 5).
• Where a payment is reduced by proration credit or account credit, commission is calculated on the reduced amount. A payment that nets to zero or less earns no commission.
• If Readlink Premium prices change, commission follows the amount charged at the time of each payment.

• Your Tier is determined by your cumulative number of Qualifying Referrals.
• Tiers never decrease. Once reached, a Tier is retained for as long as you remain in the program, regardless of later activity.
• Upgrades apply retroactively. On reaching a new Tier, both the higher Commission Rate and the longer Commission Window apply to all of your existing Referred Customers as well as future ones, and we will accrue any commission that becomes payable as a result. Commission already paid at a lower Rate is not recalculated.
• Because a referral must clear the 30-day hold before it qualifies, Tier changes lag conversions by approximately one month.
• Your Tier Schedule version is fixed at acceptance. We may publish later versions with different thresholds, rates, or windows for new affiliates. Those do not apply to you unless you expressly agree to them, and we will not amend a published version.
• We may grant an individual affiliate a higher Tier or different terms by written agreement. Doing so creates no entitlement for any other affiliate.

• A customer is attributed to you in either of two ways: by your Referral Code being applied at checkout on readlink.app or entered in the Readlink app before a Store purchase, or by a first purchase, on readlink.app or through a Store, made within 30 days of the customer arriving via your referral link. We record the click, so it survives the customer signing in later, and on another device once they are signed in to the same Readlink account.
• Store purchases count when we can connect them to you. Apple and Google do not tell us who referred a customer. A Store purchase is attributed when your Code was entered in the Readlink app, including a Code carried into the app by your referral link at install, or when your referral link click is tied to the Readlink account the purchase is made from. A Store purchase we cannot connect to your Code or link in one of these ways cannot be attributed.
• The most recent link wins, until they subscribe. A customer is attributed to at most one affiliate. Before they subscribe, the last referral link they followed inside the 30-day window is the one that counts, so a later link supersedes an earlier one.
• Once they subscribe, attribution is permanent. From their first payment onward the customer stays yours and is never reassigned, whatever links they follow or codes they later use.
• Where a customer arrives through one affiliate's link but applies a different affiliate's Code, at checkout on readlink.app or in the Readlink app, the Code takes precedence.
• Attribution attaches to the customer, not to a particular subscription. It survives plan changes, cancellation, and resubscription. Commission, however, arises only on payments falling inside your Commission Window: a customer who cancels and returns after your Window has closed earns nothing further.
• If we ever issue you a replacement Code, previously published Codes continue to attribute to you. We will not orphan a Code you have already put in front of an audience.
• Attribution follows the customer across platforms. Once a customer is attributed to you, their payments count whether made on readlink.app or through a Store, including after they move their subscription from one to another, as long as each payment falls inside your Commission Window and is made from the same Readlink account.
• Customers who already hold, or have previously held, a paid Readlink Premium subscription on any platform are not eligible for attribution or the customer discount.
• You may not be attributed your own purchase, or the purchase of an account you control, or of a member of your household.
• Where attribution is disputed or unclear, our records are determinative, applied in good faith.

• Your Referral Code entitles an eligible new customer to 20% off their first payment on the monthly plan, or 15% off their first payment on the yearly plan. It does not apply to subsequent payments.
• The Code is personal to you, non-transferable, and licensed for use only in your own promotional activity. You may not sell, auction, or sub-license it.
• We may deactivate, replace, or cap the redemptions of a Code at any time, including where it has been distributed in breach of section 8. Commission already accrued is not affected.
• Codes and discounts may not be combined with other offers, campaigns, or gift codes.

• Commission is held for 30 days from the date of the payment it arises from. It becomes payable only after that period passes without refund or chargeback.
• If a payment is refunded, reversed, charged back, or determined to be fraudulent, the related commission is cancelled. If it has already been paid to you, we may deduct the amount from future payouts or, where no future payout is expected, invoice you for it.
• Where a payment is only partly refunded, the related commission is reduced in the same proportion rather than cancelled outright.
• A cancelled commission also removes that referral from your Qualifying Referral count. It does not reduce a Tier you have already reached.
• If a subscription is paused, or payment is suspended for any reason, no commission arises for that period. Your Commission Window runs on calendar time and is not extended.

You must:

• clearly and conspicuously disclose your commercial relationship with Readlink wherever you promote it, in the manner required by the advertising rules applicable to you and to your audience;
• describe Readlink, its features, and its pricing accurately, and correct promptly anything we tell you is inaccurate;
• comply with the rules of every platform you publish on.

You must not:

• bid on "Readlink" or confusingly similar terms in paid search, or run ads that impersonate Readlink or imply you are us;
• register domains, social handles, or app listings that incorporate our name or marks;
• post your Code to coupon, deal, cashback, or voucher aggregator sites, or to any destination whose primary purpose is distributing discount codes;
• use unsolicited email or messaging, automated posting, bots, incentivised or purchased traffic, cookie stuffing, or any technique that manufactures attribution;
• create accounts, use payment instruments, or arrange transactions for the purpose of generating commission;
• promote Readlink alongside content that is unlawful, deceptive, hateful, sexually explicit, or that we reasonably consider damaging to our reputation;
• make any statement, warranty, or commitment on our behalf.

• Payouts are made through Stripe. You must complete Stripe's onboarding, including identity verification and bank details, before any payout can be issued. That information is collected and held by Stripe, not by us.
• Your Code and commission accrual are not conditional on completing onboarding. Payment is.
• Payouts run monthly. A payout is issued when your payable balance is at least $50.00; below that, the balance carries forward.
• Commission is denominated in US dollars. Where your payout account is in another currency, Stripe's conversion rate applies and we are not responsible for the rate obtained.
• We pay the cost of moving the money. Where you are paid through Stripe, we cover every fee Stripe charges to get your commission to you: the transfer to your account, the payout to your bank, and the account fee for keeping it open. Those are our costs and they are never deducted from your commission. The amount shown as payable in your dashboard is the amount that is sent.
• Two things remain yours, because they are outside our control: any fee your own bank or an intermediary bank charges to receive or convert a payment, and the currency conversion described above. Tax is dealt with in section 10.
• Supported payout countries. We can currently pay affiliates in: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This list is set by our payout provider, not by us, and we will update it here if it changes.
• If you are outside those countries we cannot enrol you at present. We may agree an alternative method in writing where one is lawfully available, but we do not promise one. Nothing in this section obliges us to pay by a method our provider does not support.
• If your payout account country changes after onboarding, tell us. Our provider fixes that country when your account is created and it cannot be edited, so a move may require a new account or an alternative arrangement.
• If Stripe restricts or rejects your payout account, or if paying you would breach sanctions or other law that binds us, we may withhold payment until the position is resolved. We will tell you, and will pay by another lawful means where one is available.
• A payable balance that remains unclaimed for 12 months after the program ends for you may be forfeited, unless applicable law provides otherwise.

• You act as an independent contractor. Nothing here creates employment, partnership, joint venture, agency, or franchise.
• Commission is gross of tax. You are solely responsible for determining, reporting, and paying any income tax, social contributions, VAT, or other charges arising on your commission in your own jurisdiction.
• You must provide any tax documentation, declaration, or identifying information we or Stripe reasonably require to make a payout or to meet a reporting obligation. We may withhold payment until it is provided, and may withhold tax where required by law.
• If you are registered for VAT or an equivalent, you are responsible for accounting for it correctly.

• We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Readlink name, logo, and approved marketing assets solely to promote Readlink under these terms.
• You may not modify our marks, use them in a way that suggests endorsement of anything other than Readlink, or use them after your participation ends.
• All goodwill in our marks accrues to us. We may require you to change or remove any use of them.
• You retain ownership of your own content. You grant us a non-exclusive licence to reference and reshare content you have publicly published promoting Readlink, with attribution.

• Your dashboard shows aggregate performance only. We do not disclose the identity, contact details, or account activity of any Referred Customer.
• Non-public program information we share with you, such as negotiated terms, unreleased features, or performance data about others, is confidential and may not be disclosed.
• We process your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy. Stripe processes payout and verification data as an independent controller under its own policies.

• Either of us may end your participation at any time, on notice, for any reason.
• We may suspend your Code and withhold payouts immediately while we investigate suspected fraud or a breach of section 8. We will tell you that we have done so.
• If your participation ends and you are not in breach, commission already accrued remains payable and is paid at the next payout run, regardless of the $50.00 minimum. Commission continues to accrue on existing Referred Customers only until the end of the month in which participation ends.
• If we terminate for fraud, manufactured attribution, or a material breach of section 8, accrued and unpaid commission relating to the affected referrals is forfeited, and we may recover amounts already paid on them.
• On termination you must stop using your Code, our marks, and all program assets.
• Sections 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16 survive termination.

• We may amend these terms. We will give at least 30days' notice by email to the address on your affiliate account before a change takes effect.
• Changes never reduce commission already accrued, and never apply retroactively to payments already made.
• Your Tier Schedule version is not changed by an amendment to these terms. Moving to a new Tier Schedule requires your express agreement.
• If you do not accept a change, you may end your participation before it takes effect and be paid your accrued commission under section 13. Continuing after the effective date is acceptance.
• We may suspend or close the program entirely on 30days' notice. Accrued commission remains payable.

• The program is provided as-is. We do not guarantee any level of traffic, conversion, earnings, or continued availability of any feature, price, or plan.
• To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of the program is limited to the total commission paid or payable to you in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.
• Neither of us is liable for indirect or consequential loss, or loss of profit, revenue, or goodwill. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
• You will indemnify us against claims, losses, and costs arising from your promotional activity, your breach of these terms, or your failure to make a required disclosure.

• These terms, together with the Readlink Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and any individually agreed terms, are the entire agreement between us on this subject.
• You may not assign your participation. We may assign these terms as part of a corporate transaction.
• If a provision is unenforceable, the rest continues in force.
• Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• These terms are governed by Swiss law. The courts of Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland have exclusive jurisdiction, except where mandatory law in your country of residence gives you the right to bring proceedings elsewhere.
• These terms are published in English. A translation is provided for convenience only; the English version governs.

Questions about these terms, your account, or a payout: support@readlink.app, or through our contact form.

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