Affiliate program terms

1. Scope & relationship

These terms are a contract between you and the operator named in the imprint. The terms of service apply to everything not regulated here; where the two conflict, these terms control for the program.

You participate as an independent business. Nothing in the program creates an employment, agency, partnership, or joint venture; you may not make commitments on our behalf, and you promote at your own cost and risk.

2. Joining

• Enrolment is automatic. Participation is free. You sign up with a valid email address and confirm it through the link we send; confirming activates your account immediately. There is no application review, no waiting period and no admission decision — nobody at PageSpeedAudit approves or declines affiliates.
• Joining is two separate confirmations, and both are recorded. You accept these terms by ticking the box next to the version number on the sign-up form — that act is stored with its date and the version you accepted. You confirm the address by clicking the link we email — that click is stored with its own date. Neither stands in for the other: an address is not a contract, and a contract is not an address. If you were invited by a signed one-click link, that click is both acts at once, and both are recorded.
• The confirmation click is what creates the account. Until it happens you have no referral code, no coupons, no dashboard and no ability to earn — a sign-up that is never confirmed attributes nothing.
• Sign-up is screened mechanically, not editorially. We reject addresses that are malformed or that belong to disposable-inbox providers, and we drop automated submissions. These are automatic checks on the address and the request, not a judgement about you, and no other pre-approval exists.
• One account per person or entity, and the information you give must be accurate.
• We may suspend an account. Automatic enrolment is not a promise to keep anyone in the program: we may suspend or remove an affiliate at our discretion, including for breach of these terms, fraud or manipulation of tracking, unlawful or sanctioned activity, or conduct that puts the program at material risk. Suspension takes effect as described in section 11, and a suspended account cannot be restored by signing up again.
• You must be able to receive Stripe payouts to be paid (section 7). Checking that Stripe Connect supports your country is your responsibility, and doing so before you promote is strongly advised — check your country against the payout list, or see Stripe's own availability information.

3. Attribution & tracking

Key mechanic3.1 How a sale finds its affiliate. When a purchase completes we look for a crediting affiliate in a fixed order and stop at the first one that applies:

1. A confirmed email registration for the buyer's address (3.3). Inside its window this outranks everything below; once the window closes it drops out entirely.
2. Your personal coupon, if one of your codes was used on that purchase (3.4).
3. The referral code carried into checkout — set either by your referral-link cookie or by a direct checkout link (3.2).

If a reseller or wholesale code is used on the purchase, no affiliate commission arises at all, whichever of the above would otherwise have applied.

See the four routes compared, and try the outcome for a specific situation, in “Who receives credit?” below, or read the plain-language explanation on the program page.

3.2 Referral links and direct checkout links.

• Referral links set a last-click attribution cookie valid for 30 days. Last click wins: a later affiliate's click overwrites an earlier one and restarts the window. The window is also enforced when the cookie is read, so a cookie older than the window attributes nothing even if the browser still holds it.
• Material riskVisitor consent. For visitors in the EU/EEA, UK, and Switzerland the cookie is set only if the visitor agrees on the referral page. A visitor who declines can still buy normally — the sale is then simply not attributed to you, and no click is recorded. Declined consent is not a malfunction and creates no claim.
• Direct checkout links carry attribution inside the single checkout session they open, with no cookie. If the visitor leaves that checkout and buys later another way, that link attributes nothing.
• Both routes fill the same slot: a purchase carries one referral code, not one per route.

3.3 Confirmed email leads. This is the strongest and longest-lived form of attribution in the program, and it works without any cookie.

• What creates one. Someone arrives through your referral link and registers an email address with us — the newsletter, the email course, or a page-watch — and then confirms that address through the double opt-in link. Both steps are required: an unconfirmed registration never decides a sale.
• Key mechanicIt is fixed at first touch. The affiliate recorded is the one whose link brought that address in the first time we ever saw it. A later registration by the same person through a different affiliate's link does not move it, and nothing we run re-points an existing lead.
• An unconfirmed registration holds nothing. A registration attributes only when the address holder clicks that exact registration's confirmation link. Confirming a different registration — another list, another affiliate's link, a later organic signup — does not activate it. Several registrations for one address may exist at once, each proved on its own; a registration nobody proved never decides a sale.
• It expires. A confirmed registration attributes for 90 days from confirmation. Inside that window it survives new devices, cleared cookies, and a later click from another affiliate. After it, ordinary cookie and coupon rules decide the sale. Where two live windows overlap, the earliest confirmation wins.
• Registration counts in your dashboard are audience signals, and not separate payable qualified leads — they are paid, if at all, only through the sale they go on to attribute.
• Material riskIt is exclusive while it lasts, and that cuts both ways. While a confirmed registration's window is open, that affiliate is the only candidate for the sale. If they are suspended, not yet active, or are the buyer themselves, the sale earns no commission for anyone — it does not fall through to the coupon holder or the last click.
• You are never docked for someone else's discount. If a lead-attributed buyer uses another affiliate's coupon, your commission is calculated on the amount actually paid, not reduced by a discount you did not fund.
• You cannot become your own lead: an address that matches your affiliate address is never recorded against you.
• Confirmed-lead totals appear in your dashboard and API reporting. Which route won a given commission is recorded on the sale, so it can be answered from the record.

3.4 Personal coupons. Your personal coupons (5% and 10%) attribute a sale to you when used — funded from your commission (section 4). Purchases using any other discount code are not attributed by coupon, and a reseller or wholesale code removes commission entirely.

3.5 Labels. Sub-IDs (subid, also accepted as clickid or s1), the four extra slots s2–s5, and campaign values do not select an affiliate. They are labels: stored on the click, carried to the sale, and echoed back in reporting and on the conversion postback for whichever route won — on every link type, including the direct-checkout link and a checkout the buyer abandoned and resumed.

3.6 Where no attribution runs. Some purchases carry no affiliate context at all and earn no commission by any route, including a confirmed lead: orders placed through the API or a reseller invoice, repeat purchases started from a customer's own dashboard, additional runs added to an existing audit (section 5), and any sale not settled in US dollars.

Material risk3.7 Our tracking records are conclusive. Attribution, commission amounts, and balances are determined solely by our records, absent manifest error. Claims based on your own analytics, screenshots, or a buyer's account of events are not evidence of an attributed sale.

4. Commission

• Key mechanicYou earn 30% of the net amount the customer actually pays, in USD, on each attributed qualifying sale. We may agree individual rates; without a written individual agreement, the published default applies.
• A general promotion lowers the net amount — and therefore your commission — proportionally; the rate is unchanged.
• Your personal coupons are funded from your commission: the discount the buyer receives with your coupon is deducted from your commission on that sale. Commission is never negative.
• Recruiter override. When an affiliate joins through your recruit link, you receive an override commission of 5% of the net amount (tax-excluded, after discounts) of each qualifying sale attributed to that affiliate, for as long as their program remains active. The override applies to the first level only: sales referred by affiliates they recruit earn you nothing, and no chain of overrides ever forms. Overrides follow the same hold, reversal, clawback and payout rules as ordinary commissions, are excluded while either account is suspended, and never apply to your own purchases. The override rate may change prospectively like any published rate; the recruit relationship itself is fixed at sign-up and is never reassigned.
• The rate and coupon set may change at any time with prospective effect (section 12). What these rates come to for a given promotion method is worked through on the program page.

5. What never earns commission

• Material riskReturning customers. Commission is earned on a customer's first purchase only. A buyer who has bought before is not a referral — even through your link or coupon, and even if they use a different email address that we determine belongs to the same person.
• Extra runs. Add-on purchases to an existing audit carry no affiliate attribution of any kind.
• Self-purchases and purchases by your own business, staff, or household.
• Wholesale purchases. Sales made with a reseller/wholesale code are not affiliate referrals.
• Anything tainted by a breach. Sales we determine to result from fraud or a violation of section 8 earn nothing, without affecting our other rights.

6. Holds, reversals & clawbacks

• Key mechanicA new commission is Pending for 30 days (the refund window) before it can become payable.
• Material riskA refunded, disputed, or charged-back sale loses its commission — before or after the hold. A partial refund reduces the commission proportionally to the total fraction refunded.
• If the commission was already paid out, we recover it by reversing the Stripe transfer or by offsetting your future payouts; further statutory recovery rights remain reserved.
• We may extend holds and withhold payouts while we investigate a reasonably suspected breach of these terms.

7. Payouts

• Payouts run periodically via Stripe Connect in USD to the connected account you set up in your affiliate settings. There is no other payout method.
• The minimum payout is $300; smaller balances carry over to the next run.
• Material riskNo payout account, no payout — and eventually forfeiture: payable commissions of an account that has not enabled Stripe payouts are forfeited 180 days after they become payable. Reminder emails before that are a courtesy; the deadline applies whether or not you read them.
• All taxes on your commissions are your responsibility; you are not our employee and we withhold nothing.

8. Promotion rules

You must:

• make only truthful claims about the product that are consistent with what our site says — our published measurements are the safest source for a claim, because they are what our own copy is held to;
• disclose your affiliate relationship where the law of your audience requires it (for example FTC endorsement rules in the US);
• comply with all marketing, anti-spam, and data-protection law applicable to your channels — your lists, your ads, and your placements are solely your responsibility.

You must not:

• send unsolicited email or messages of any kind promoting us;
• use cookie stuffing, forced or hidden clicks, incentivized clicks, iframes, or any technique that manufactures attribution without a genuine referral;
• run self-referral schemes of any construction;
• post your coupon codes to coupon-aggregator or deal sites;
• bid on our brand name or its misspellings in paid search, or use them in ad display URLs;
• register domains, subdomains, apps, or social handles confusingly similar to ours, or otherwise impersonate us or claim to be an "official" representative.

We decide in reasonable discretion whether a practice violates this section; attribution manufactured in violation of it is void from the start.

The promotion kit generates copy that already follows these rules, and the rules at a glance states them in plain language.

9. Postbacks & API

• Server-to-server postbacks and the affiliate API are optional conveniences, provided as-is. We may change, limit, or discontinue them at any time.
• Postback URLs must be public https endpoints. Deliveries are retried a limited number of times and are not guaranteed — our dashboard and records remain the sole authority (section 3).
• API keys are personal, must be kept secret, and are revocable at any time. Rate limits apply; circumventing them is prohibited.

10. Data

• How we process your data is described in the privacy policy, including the consent records we keep for your application and the click-data anonymization after 400 days.
• You receive no buyer personal data from us. Reporting shows amounts, dates, and statuses — never who bought. Do not attempt to identify buyers.
• For data you collect in your own channels, you are the sole controller; we are not joint controllers with you.

11. Suspension & termination

• Either side may end participation at any time, without notice or reasons. You end it yourself from your dashboard: declining the terms currently in force closes your account in one step (section 12), with no request to us and no waiting.
• On suspension or termination, your coupons are deactivated and your links stop attributing immediately.
• If we terminate for fraud or material breach: commissions from sales connected to the breach are reversed (section 6), and we may withhold your remaining balance while we investigate and offset it against damage the breach caused us.
• Otherwise, payable, non-reversed commissions earned before the end remain payable under section 7, including its minimum-payout and forfeiture rules.

12. No guarantees; changes

There is no guarantee of earnings, traffic, conversion, or program continuity. We may change these terms, the commission rate, the coupon set, or any program mechanic — or close the program — at any time with prospective effect.

A change is accepted by accepting it, not by carrying on. These terms carry a version number (1.3, effective 9/7/2026). When it changes, the new version is shown to you the next time you open your affiliate dashboard, together with a summary of what changed, and you cannot use the dashboard until you accept it or decline. Silence is not acceptance and neither is continued promotion: one version governs everyone in the program, and the way it comes to govern you is that you accepted it. Your acceptance is stored with its date and the version number, and you can see both on your affiliate settings page.

If you decline, you close your account — from your dashboard, in one step, with no request to us. Your links and coupons stop earning immediately. Commission you had already earned is not affected by declining: it is handled under the version in force when it was earned, and a payable, non-reversed balance still pays out under section 7. Accepting later reopens the account with the same referral code.

13. Liability, indemnity, goodwill, law

• Liability is limited as in section 17 of the terms of service.
• Indemnity: you indemnify us against all third-party claims, and the reasonable costs of defending them, arising from your promotion — including spam complaints, ad-platform violations, disclosure failures, and data-protection claims in your channels.
• Goodwill; no waiver: anything we grant beyond these terms is voluntary, one case only, and creates no entitlement or precedent; not enforcing a provision waives nothing.
• Law & venue follow sections 21–22 of the terms of service (Bulgarian law; exclusive business venue at the operator's seat).

14. Pay-per-lead (a separate, earned offer)

Key mechanic14.1 This section is dormant unless we offer it to you and you accept. Pay-per-lead is not part of the programme you join. It is a second, optional way to earn that we may offer separately. It is not currently open: nothing in this section entitles anyone to a payment today, and if we never open it, nothing here ever applies to you. When it does open, you will see the offer in your workspace and nothing starts until you take it.

14.2 It is earned, and it can be lost. The offer appears once your lifetime approved commission reaches $1,000 — approved commission already paid out still counts towards that total. If your lifetime approved total later falls back below the line (refunds and chargebacks reverse approved sales), the offer is withdrawn immediately and we email you to say so.

Material risk14.3 The two offers do not mix, and that is the whole design. Pay-per-sale and pay-per-lead use different tracking links. Traffic you send on your pay-per-sale link earns commission on sales and never a lead payment. Traffic you send on your pay-per-lead link earns per qualified lead and never a sale commission — including when that person goes on to buy. Promote either, or both. Pay-per-sale is unaffected by any of this and does not go away.

What counts as a qualified lead

• The person must confirm their own address by clicking the link in the email for that specific request. Until they do, nothing qualifies, claims attribution, or earns anything.
• After they confirm, the request is judged by fixed rules, not by opinion: the decision must be reasonably near-term, they must not already be a customer, they must not be you, and the site must not already be represented by a live opportunity.
• Material riskOne site, one live opportunity. If someone else's confirmed opportunity for that site is still open, yours is recorded as a duplicate and earns nothing. We do not pay twice for the same commercial opportunity.
• Material riskYour daily cap is a hard limit on what is PAID, not on what you send. Qualified leads beyond your cap on a given day earn nothing. A submission that does not qualify never uses the cap up.
• An opportunity is yours for a fixed window from confirmation. After the window closes without a purchase it is recorded as lost, and both the opportunity and its attribution end.

The rate, the hold, and reversals

• Your rate and daily cap are yours specifically. New entrants start at $2.00 per qualified lead, up to 5 a day. We may raise either as your leads prove themselves; we will not reduce them without telling you first.
• A qualified lead's payment is held for 30 days before it credits your balance, in the same way a sale commission is held. Once credited it is paid under section 7 like any other balance.
• Losing the sale does not lose the lead payment. You are paid for producing a qualified lead, not for whether it buys. A lead that goes quiet, or that we close as lost, still pays what it had already earned.
• A lead payment can be reversed — before or after it credits — where the lead turns out to be fabricated, duplicated, self-referred, or obtained in breach of section 8. Recovery works exactly as in section 6.
• If we ever run pay-per-lead as an advance against a later sale, the offer will say so in as many words before you accept it, and the sale then absorbs the advance instead of paying both.

What you can see

• Your own opportunities only: an opaque id, the date, the site host, the current status, and why a lead did not qualify.
• You never receive the prospect's email address, name, or the full page they submitted — not on confirmation, not on purchase, not on request. This is not a list you are building; it is a record of an introduction you made. See the privacy policy for what is stored and shared.
• Our records of qualification, caps, holds and reversals are conclusive in the same way as section 3.7.