Affiliate Terms of Use

As an authorized affiliate (Affiliate) of WPCloudDeploy, you agree to abide by the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement (Agreement). Please read the entire Agreement carefully before registering and promoting WPCloudDeploy as an Affiliate.

Your participation in the Program is solely to legally advertise our website to receive a commission on memberships and products purchased by individuals referred to WPCloudDeploy by your own website or personal referrals.

By signing up for the WPCloudDeploy Affiliate Program (Program), you indicate your acceptance of this Agreement and its terms and conditions.

Approval or Rejection of the Application

We reserve the right to approve or reject ANY Affiliate Program Application at our sole and absolute discretion. You will have no legal recourse against us for the rejection of your Affiliate Program Application.

Commissions

Commissions will be paid once a month. For an Affiliate to receive a commission, the referred account must remain active for a minimum of 62 days.

You cannot refer yourself, and you will not receive a commission on your own accounts.

Payments will only be sent for transactions that have been successfully completed. Transactions that result in chargebacks or refunds will not be paid out.

Unless otherwise stated, commissions are as follows:

  • 20% for affiliate lifetime sales up to $10,000 USD
  • 25% when your lifetime sales exceed $10,000 USD
  • 30% when your lifetime sales exceed $20,000 USD

A customer is associated with the affiliate for the lifetime of the users account. This means that any NEW purchases the customer make will also result in a commission.

Commissions will be paid for the initial 1-year payment for an annual or lifetime license. Commissions are not paid for renewals.

Payouts

Due to our refund policies, commissions will be paid out 60 days after a sale – this allows for users who might decide to request a refund as well as for any potential chargebacks.

Affiliates who develop a positive reputation with us will be granted a 30 day payout window. A minimum of six affiliate sales is required for us to consider reducing the payout window.

Payment will be made in USD to the PayPal account associated with the payment email address which the Affiliate provided during registration (which can be updated via the Affiliate Area).

Each payout will have a minimum amount of $50. Any payouts under the threshold will be rolled over and added to your next payout.

Rejected Payments

Commissions will only be paid for valid referrals. WPCloudDeploy reserves the right to reject any referrals for any reason which we believe to be in violation of these Terms. For example, referrals will typically be rejected if any of the following applies:

  • The sale that generated the commission has been refunded.
  • The referral method violated our policies or the spirit of our policies.
  • The purchase was made by the affiliate – for example, if they bought the plugin for their own use.
  • The referral came from a link on a coupon sharing or discount site.

No commission will be paid for transactions that are later subject to refunds or chargebacks. If we have already paid Commission for a transaction which is later refunded or charged back then the Commission already paid will be deducted from a future payment.

Taxes

WPCloudDeploy is not responsible for any taxes that an Affiliate owes as a result of their relationship with WPCloudDeploy. Affiliates are responsible for their own tax affairs.

Cookie Expiry

Cookies are used to track usage of the referral links. Referrals can only be tracked if the customer clicks on the referral link and the cookie is successfully added to their device.

Cookies are stored for 30 days. If a customer purchases a plugin after the cookie has expired, or from a different browser or device from where they clicked the affiliate link, then no commission will be paid. Similarly, if cookies are disabled on the customer’s device then no referral will be recorded and it is not possible to pay affiliate commission on their purchase.

Termination

Your affiliate application and status in the Program may be suspended or terminated for any of the following reasons:

  • Inappropriate advertisements (false claims, misleading hyperlinks, etc.).
  • Spamming (mass email, mass newsgroup posting, etc.).
  • Advertising on sites containing or promoting illegal activities.
  • Failure to disclose the affiliate relationship for any promotion that qualifies as an endorsement under existing Federal Trade Commission guidelines and regulations, or any applicable state laws.
  • Violation of intellectual property rights. WPCloudDeploy reserves the right to require license agreements from those who employ trademarks of WPCloudDeploy in order to protect our intellectual property rights.
  • Offering rebates, coupons, or other form of promised kick-backs from your affiliate commission as an incentive. Adding bonuses or bundling other products with WPCloudDeploy, however, is acceptable.
  • Self referrals, fraudulent transactions, suspected Affiliate fraud.

In addition to the foregoing, WPCloudDeploy reserves the right to terminate any Affiliate account at any time, for any violations of this Agreement or no reason.

You may use graphic and text links both on your website and within in your email messages. You may also advertise the WPCloudDeploy site in online and offline classified ads, magazines, and newspapers.

You may use the graphics and text provided by us, or you may create your own as long as they are deemed appropriate according to the conditions and not in violation as outlined in the Termination section.

Landing Pages

Referral links should point to pages on the main WPCloudDeploy website, for example to the homepage, Plugins page, individual plugin sales pages, or to blog posts/tutorials. No commissions will be paid for affiliate links to a demo site or to documentation pages.

Coupon and Deal Sites

WPCloudDeploy occasionally offers coupon to select affiliates and to our newsletter subscribers. If you’re not pre-approved / assigned a branded coupon, then you’re not allowed to promote the coupon. Below are the terms that apply for any affiliate who is considering the promotion of our products in relation to a deal or coupon:

  • Affiliates may not use misleading text on affiliate links, buttons or images to imply that anything besides currently authorized deals to the specific affiliate.
  • Affiliates may not bid on WPCloudDeploy Coupons, WPCloudDeploy Discounts or other phrases implying coupons are available.
  • Affiliates may not generate pop-ups, pop-unders, iframes, frames, or any other seen or unseen actions that set affiliate cookies unless the user has expressed a clear and explicit interest in activating a specific savings by clicking on a clearly marked link, button or image for that particular coupon or deal. Your link must send the visitor to the merchant site.
  • User must be able to see coupon/deal/savings information and details before an affiliate cookie is set (i.e. “click here to see coupons and open a window to merchant site” is NOT allowed).
  • Affiliate sites may not have “Click for (or to see) Deal/Coupon” or any variation, when there are no coupons or deals available, and the click opens the merchant site or sets a cookie. Affiliates with such text on the merchant landing page will be removed from the program immediately.

Pay Per Click (PPC) Policy

PPC bidding is NOT allowed without prior written permission.

Valid Promotional Methods

Now that you know what NOT to do, here are some valid promotional methods you can use:

Affiliates are encouraged to promote our plugins in a way that adds genuine value for your readers and for our potential customers. The idea is that you promote a product that you like and genuinely believe in, and earn commission as a reward – so everyone wins. For example:

  • Write a blog post or plugin review – The best way to generate significant Commission is to write high quality, unique content about our products and publish it on your website. We are happy to suggest ideas of topics for you to write about.
  • Social sharing – Regularly send tweets with your affiliate link, and share on Facebook and other social networks. These should offer genuinely useful information and recommendations of our plugins, and not spam your followers.
  • Help others online – Lots of WordPress professionals would benefit from WPCloudDeploy products, but they haven’t discovered us yet! If you see a request for help and if you know that our products and services will solve their problem, help them out and include your affiliate link.
  • Refer clients – If you are a developer or agency and have regular clients who will benefit from our plugins, then share an affiliate link with them.
  • Cross-promotion – If you sell complementary products then you can share the word about WPCloudDeploy’s services with your existing customer base. We’re always happy to chat about interesting use cases that will benefit all of our customers.
  • Bundles – Create and promote a unique bundle of products or products + services that include WPCloudDeploy as a component.

License & Intellectual Property

WPCloudDeploy agrees that Affiliates can use the referral links and banners provided in the Affiliate Area to promote WPCloudDeploy’s products and services.

WPCloudDeploy retains all rights, ownership, and interest in these materials, and in any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property. Nothing in these Terms grant the Affiliate any rights, ownership or interest in these materials, or in the underlying intellectual property, other than the rights to use them as granted under these Terms.

Removal of online information

Affiliates are expected to promote WPCloudDeploy’s products and services in an accurate, ethical and responsible way.

WPCloudDeploy reserves the right to request that any online material an Affiliate has published relating to the products and services is removed from the Internet. The Affiliate must comply with any removal requests within 2 working days.

Relationship of Parties

Registering as an Affiliate does not create any employment relationship, agency relationship or partnership between WPCloudDeploy and the Affiliate. Affiliates will promote WPCloudDeploy’s products as an independent party. The Affiliate will have no authority to bind WPCloudDeploy into any agreement, nor will the Affiliate be considered to be an agent of WPCloudDeploy in any respect.

Liability

WPCloudDeploy will not be liable for indirect or accidental damages (loss of revenue, commissions) due to affiliate tracking failures, loss of database files, or any results of intents of harm to the Program and/or to our website(s).

We do not make any expressed or implied warranties with respect to the Program and/or the memberships or products sold by WPCloudDeploy. We make no claim that the operation of the Program and/or our website(s) will be error-free and we will not be liable for any interruptions or errors.

Term of the Agreement

The term of this Agreement begins upon your acceptance in the Program and will end when your Affiliate account is terminated.

The terms and conditions of this agreement may be modified by us at any time. If any modification to the terms and conditions of this Agreement are unacceptable to you, your only choice is to terminate your Affiliate account. Your continuing participation in the Program will constitute your acceptance of any change.

Indemnification

Affiliate shall indemnify and hold harmless WPCloudDeploy and its affiliate and subsidiary companies, officers, directors, employees, licensees, successors and assigns, including those licensed or authorized by WPCloudDeploy to transmit and distribute materials, from any and all liabilities, damages, fines, judgments, claims, costs, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and costs) arising out of or related to any and all claims sustained in connection with this Agreement due to the negligence, misrepresentation, failure to disclose, or intentional misconduct of Affiliate.

Severability

If any part of these Terms is held unenforceable or invalid for any reason, the remainder of these Terms will continue in full force and effect.

Electronic Signatures Effective

The Agreement is an electronic contract that sets out the legally binding terms of your participation in the WPCloudDeploy affiliate program. You indicate your acceptance of this Agreement and all of the terms and conditions contained or referenced in this Agreement by completing the WPCloudDeploy application process. This action creates an electronic signature that has the same legal force and effect as a handwritten signature.