Partner Terms

Anyone who runs a website, newsletter, social channel, app, or other traffic source can apply to become a partner, provided they have at least 1,000 followers on one channel. Above that we review applications on content quality and on where your traffic comes from, not on audience size. You must be able to enter a binding contract in the country you live in, and the information you give us, including your name, country, channels, and payment details, has to be accurate and kept current. Applying is free, and there is no monthly fee and no minimum spend at any point.

Approval works in two stages. Approval to LinkApprove gives you access to the platform and to the programs we can redistribute as an approved publisher on upstream affiliate networks. Individual advertisers may still apply their own criteria to your channels, so a program can decline you after we have already approved your account. We can also decline or delay an application, and we cannot always give a detailed reason, because the network rules and advertiser decisions sitting behind that outcome are not always ours to disclose.

We may re-review an account at any time, particularly if your traffic mix changes, if you add channels we have not seen before, or if an advertiser raises a concern. A re-review is not an accusation. It usually means we have been asked a question upstream and need to answer it with accurate information. If we need something from you while a review is open we will ask by email, and we will tell you if program access or payouts are paused in the meantime.

LinkApprove LLC, at 117 South Lexington Street, Ste 100, Harrisonville, MO 64701, United States, operates this network. You take part as an independent contractor. Nothing in these terms creates employment, a partnership, a joint venture, or an agency relationship between us. You decide what you publish, when you publish it, and how you run your own business. You are not entitled to employee benefits, we do not supervise your work, and we do not deduct income tax or social contributions from what we pay you.

The relationship is non-exclusive in both directions. You are free to join other networks, sign direct advertiser deals, and promote whatever you like alongside the programs you reach through us. Exclusivity is not a condition of approval here, and it is not a condition of a better rate either. We also work with many other partners, including some publishing in the same niche as you, and we may promote the same advertisers through them. Competition between partners is a normal feature of a network of this kind.

You act for yourself, not for us and not for the advertisers whose programs you promote. You have no authority to enter agreements, make promises about products, offer refunds or discounts that the advertiser has not published, or otherwise speak on behalf of LinkApprove or an advertiser. If a reader or customer contacts you about an order, point them to the advertiser's own support. If you think something has gone wrong with a program, tell us at support@linkapprove.com.

Keep one account unless we agree otherwise in writing, and keep your login details private. Everything that happens under your account and your sub-IDs is treated as your activity, including anything done by a team member, a contractor, or an agency acting on your behalf. We cannot detect every misuse of an account. If you think yours has been accessed by someone else, tell us at support@linkapprove.com straight away so we can pause tracking and payouts while we investigate what happened.

Your declared channels matter more here than on most platforms. Our approvals upstream are tied to the properties listed against your account, so promoting from a site, page, or channel you have not declared puts both your account and our standing on the networks at risk. Add new channels in the platform before you start promoting from them. If a channel goes quiet, changes topic, or is sold to someone else, tell us, because the approval attached to it no longer describes reality.

Running the network means we hold account data such as your name, email, country, payment details, tax information where it is required, and the channels you submit. We also hold performance data such as clicks, conversions, commission, sub-IDs, and referring URLs, technical data such as IP address, browser, device, and pages visited, and our correspondence with you. We use it to operate the platform, pay you, and answer advertiser and network queries. Partners in the United Kingdom and the European Union hold rights over that data under the UK GDPR and the GDPR, and you can exercise them by writing to support@linkapprove.com.

You can promote through channels you own or have a genuine right to publish on: content sites and blogs, review and comparison pages, newsletters sent to lists that opted in, social profiles, video, podcasts, and communities where affiliate content is allowed. Paid search is not banned across the network, but it is subject to the brand-term rule set out in the next section and to whatever the individual program says about it. Use the tracking links and sub-IDs generated in the platform rather than rewriting them by hand, because a hand-edited link can stop reporting altogether, and a click that never reports is a click nobody can pay you for.

Individual programs can be stricter than this. The program terms shown in the platform can exclude email, rule out coupon or loyalty placements, restrict paid search entirely, or narrow the countries you may target. Those terms are the ones that apply to that program, and where they are stricter than these terms, the stricter rule wins. If a method is not clearly permitted and you are unsure about it, ask us at support@linkapprove.com before you spend money on it rather than afterward.

You also have to follow the rules of whatever platform you publish on, including its advertising and disclosure policies. We do not police those platforms and we cannot get a suspended account reinstated for you. What we can tell you is that a takedown or a policy strike on your side can become visible upstream, and repeated problems attached to the same channel can affect how advertisers view your applications to their programs later on.

Bidding on advertiser trademarks and brand terms in paid search is prohibited across every program on this network, and no exception is granted at the account level. We treat brand names, common misspellings and variants, brand-plus-keyword combinations, and the use of a brand term in ad copy or a display URL as covered by that rule. The reason is straightforward. That traffic was already heading to the advertiser, so the click adds cost without adding a customer. It is also the breach most likely to cost us our standing as an approved publisher on the networks we work with, which is why the rule holds without exception.

Incentivized traffic, cashback, loyalty points, and any reward-for-action model need our written approval before you run them. Advertisers price commission on the assumption that the buyer chose the product, and paying users to click or convert changes the value of that sale in a way the advertiser has to agree to in advance. Approval is possible on some programs and out of the question on others. Running it without approval puts the commission at risk of reversal and the account at risk of closure, because the pattern tends to show up in the advertiser's own data.

Adult content, political campaigning content, and misleading content are not permitted anywhere you place our links. Misleading covers invented discounts, fake scarcity, fabricated reviews, claims about a product the advertiser does not make, and screenshots or earnings figures that did not happen. This is not only a network rule. Consumer protection law in the US, the UK, and the EU treats misleading commercial content as unlawful, and the exposure for that sits with the person who published it.

Cookie stuffing, forced clicks, hidden auto-redirects, links fired from an iframe or a tracking pixel, self-referral through your own purchases or those of people close to you, and any redirection a visitor cannot see or would not expect are prohibited. The common thread is a tracked click the visitor did not choose to make. These methods tend to surface in advertiser data weeks after the fact, and when they surface they are usually found across a whole account rather than in a single campaign.

If we find any of this, the likely outcomes are reversal of the affected commission, a hold on payouts while we investigate, removal from specific programs, or closure of your account. Upstream networks and advertisers can also act on their own, without consulting us and sometimes before we know anything about it, and their decisions apply to your access whether or not we agree with them. We will tell you what we have found and give you a chance to respond wherever we are able to.

You must disclose that your links are affiliate links. Advertising and consumer protection rules in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union all require the commercial relationship behind a recommendation to be obvious to the person reading it. This is your own legal obligation as the publisher. It is not something we can discharge on your behalf, and enforcement in each of those regimes is directed at the person who published the content rather than at the network sitting behind it.

A usable disclosure is clear, sits close to the link, and takes the same form as the content around it. Write it in plain words, for example saying that you earn a commission if someone buys through your link. Place it before the link rather than at the foot of the page. In video, say it out loud and show it on screen. In audio, say it. In social posts, keep it out of a block of hashtags and out from behind a more button.

We may ask you to fix a disclosure that is missing or buried, and we may pause links on a page until it is corrected. We do not review every piece of content you publish, and you should not read our silence as approval of any particular post. If a regulator or a platform challenges your content, that is a matter between you and them, though we can usually provide the records we hold of the programs and links involved if you need them.

Each link you generate carries an identifier for your account and for any sub-ID you set. When someone clicks it the click is recorded, and if that person completes a qualifying action inside the attribution window the advertiser has set, a conversion is attributed to you. The advertiser defines what counts as a qualifying action, what rate applies to it, how long the window lasts, and whether the last click or some other touch takes the credit. Those settings differ sharply between programs.

Tracking is imperfect, and we would rather say so plainly than pretend otherwise. Ad blockers, browser privacy restrictions, cookie deletion, a purchase completed on a different device, a jump from an app into a browser, or a checkout where an unrelated coupon is applied can all break attribution. We report what reaches us from the networks we are approved on. Where a sale was never tracked there is generally no record for anyone to recover, and escalation does not create one.

If your own numbers disagree with the platform, raise it with us at support@linkapprove.com with dates, links, sub-IDs, and order details where you have them, and we will query it upstream. Be realistic about what that achieves. The advertiser's own data decides the outcome, we have no ability to overrule it, and older discrepancies are harder to investigate because the underlying records age out on the advertiser's side and we do not control how long they are kept. Raising a problem early gives it the best chance of being resolved in your favor.

Commission stays pending until the advertiser validates the sale. Validation typically happens 30 to 60 days after the transaction date, and on some programs it takes longer, because the advertiser is waiting out its own returns window before confirming that the order is real and final. Pending commission is a forecast rather than money you hold. We show it because you need it to plan, but it can move down as well as up, and it is not payable until it clears.

Reversals are a normal part of affiliate income and you should expect some. A sale is reversed when the customer returns the item or cancels, when an order fails payment or turns out to be fraudulent, when duplicate orders are cleaned up, when a discount code from outside the program was used, or when the advertiser rejects the sale under its own rules. Reversal rates vary widely by category, and the programs with the highest order values are often the ones with the most returns.

If commission is reversed after we have already paid it to you, the amount is offset against your future earnings. Where an account has no further earnings to offset against, we may ask you to repay it, and we will show you the reversal detail we received rather than simply asserting a number. In the other direction, if an advertiser or an upstream network fails to pay us for validated sales, we may be unable to pay that commission on. We will tell you if that happens, keep chasing it, and pass it on if it arrives.

The advertiser pays commission into the network for a validated sale, we retain a share, and the rest is yours. Partners receive up to 90 percent of the commission we receive. Read that as a ceiling rather than a default. The actual figure depends on your tier and on the individual program, because some programs leave far less margin than others. Your current rate for each program is shown in the platform, and that display is the rate that applies, not any figure quoted in marketing material.

Rates move. Tiers can improve as your validated volume grows, and they can be reduced if volume falls away or if the terms we receive upstream change. When we change a rate we will show the new figure together with the date it takes effect, and it applies to activity from that date onward. We will not apply a lower rate retroactively to commission that has already been validated at the previous rate.

Advertisers change their own commission rates too, sometimes with little warning and in the middle of a campaign you have already planned and paid for. When that happens the new rate flows through to you from the effective date of their change, because we can only pass on what we are paid. We do not add fees on top of the split, and there is no charge for holding an account, generating links, or using the reporting in the platform.

The minimum payout is 100 US dollars on PayPal, Wise, Payoneer, USDT on the TRC-20 network, Bitcoin, and Skrill. On ACH and bank wire the minimum is 1,000 US dollars, because the cost and handling of those transfers make small amounts uneconomical to send. Balances are held in US dollars, pounds sterling, or euros. Only validated commission counts toward a threshold. Pending commission does not count, however healthy it looks in the dashboard.

Payout frequency depends on your tier. Verified partners earning above 2,000 dollars a month can be paid daily. Partners above 500 dollars a month can be paid weekly. Bi-weekly is available to all approved partners, and monthly is the default for new accounts. These schedules describe when we initiate a payment, not when it lands. Banks, wallets, and payment providers add their own timing, and public holidays and provider review checks can add days that are outside our control.

Payment details are yours to get right. We send to the address, account, or wallet on file, and a payment sent to details you entered incorrectly may not be recoverable. That is especially true for USDT and Bitcoin, where a transfer is irreversible once broadcast and the value can move between the moment we send and the moment you convert. Provider fees and currency conversion can also reduce what actually arrives, and those costs sit outside the commission split.

A balance below the minimum rolls forward to the next payment run, and it does not expire. We may hold a payment while we investigate a suspected breach, a tracking anomaly, or a request from an advertiser or an upstream network. When we do, we will tell you and explain why, as far as we are permitted to. We may also pause payment where we are missing tax information that the law requires us to collect before paying you.

You are responsible for your own taxes. That covers income tax, self-employment or social contributions, and VAT or sales tax where your country charges it on the services you provide. We do not withhold or remit tax on your behalf unless a law that applies to us requires it. If that ever applies to one of your payments, we will tell you what was deducted and on what basis, rather than sending a short payment with no explanation.

We may need tax documentation from you before or during the payout relationship, depending on where you and we are located. Where the law requires it, we may pause payments until the required information is provided, and we will say clearly what is missing rather than leaving a payment silently stuck. Please keep your country of residence current in your account, because moving country can change what we are required to collect from you before we can pay.

We cannot give you tax advice, and nothing in these terms or in anything our support team writes should be treated as advice on your tax position. Affiliate income is handled differently across the US, the UK, and individual EU member states, and the right answer depends on facts about your business that we do not hold. If the amounts matter to you, take local advice before the tax year closes rather than after it.

LinkApprove is an approved publisher on upstream affiliate networks, and we redistribute that access to partners who would not be approved individually. It is worth understanding what that structure means for you. The rules of those networks, and the program terms of each advertiser, sit above these terms. Where anything conflicts, the stricter rule applies, and we have to enforce it whether or not we would have written it that way ourselves. We cannot grant you an exemption from a rule we do not own.

Those terms are not ours to freeze. An advertiser can change its commission rate, restrict a promotional method, narrow the countries it accepts, pause its program, or leave the network entirely, and we often learn about it at much the same time you would. Programs can also remove an individual partner without giving a reason. If your plans depend on one program continuing on today's terms, treat that as a real business risk rather than a background detail.

Our own access is not permanent either. If our relationship with a network or an advertiser ends, our ability to offer those programs ends with it, and links to the affected programs will stop earning. In that situation we will tell partners as soon as we reasonably can and pay out validated commission we receive for activity before the cut-off. Commission that was never validated, or never paid to us, is not something we are able to create.

You keep ownership of your content, your channels, and your audience. Nothing here transfers your work to us. You give us permission to use your name, channel names, handles, and URLs for the operational purposes of running your account, which means applying to programs on your behalf, answering advertiser and network questions about who you are, and investigating compliance issues. If we want to feature you publicly as an example partner, we will ask you first and accept no as an answer.

Advertiser trademarks, logos, product images, and creative belong to the advertiser and may only be used in the way that advertiser permits. Do not alter logos, do not present yourself as the advertiser or as an official representative, and do not imply a partnership or endorsement that does not exist. If an advertiser asks you to stop using a specific asset or phrase, stop, even where you believe the use was reasonable. Requests like that usually reach us as a compliance issue with a deadline attached.

The LinkApprove name and marks are ours. You may accurately say that you work with us, or that you access certain programs through our network. You may not use our name in a way that suggests you are employed by us, speak for us, or are yourself the source of the advertiser relationship, and you may not register domains, handles, or paid search ads built on our name. We will ask you to change anything that reads as though you are us.

You can stop at any time. Close your account in the platform or email support@linkapprove.com, and the relationship ends with no notice period and no exit fee. We can also end the relationship, and where the reason is not a breach we will give you reasonable notice and let existing validated commission run through to payment. Neither side needs a reason to walk away. That cuts both ways, and it is worth knowing before you build a business on a single network.

Suspension is different from termination and is usually temporary. We may suspend an account immediately where we see suspected fraud, a serious breach of the rules in these terms, a demand from an advertiser or an upstream network, or a legal requirement. During a suspension your links may stop tracking and your payouts are paused. We will tell you what triggered it, give you a route to respond, and restore the account if the concern turns out to be unfounded.

If your account closes without a breach, because you leave, because we exit a market, or because we end the arrangement, your validated commission is paid at the next scheduled payout. If the remaining balance sits under the payout minimum, contact us and we will send it wherever the payment rail allows. On some rails the transfer cost exceeds a very small balance. Where that is the case we will tell you plainly rather than leaving money sitting in an account you can no longer see.

If we close an account for fraud or a serious breach, we withhold the commission connected to the activity in question, and where the breach runs across an account we may withhold the whole balance. We will set out in writing what we found and what we are withholding, and you can respond to it. Be clear-eyed about the limit here. Where an advertiser or an upstream network reverses the commission itself, the money has left our side too, and there is nothing for us to release.

Some obligations outlive the account. Reversal and offset of commission already paid, your responsibility for tax on what you earned, the disclosure duty on content you leave published, our continued handling of your account and performance data under the GDPR and UK GDPR, and the limits on liability below all continue after closure. If you take content down, the links stop earning, but the disclosure obligation on any archived, syndicated, or reposted copy remains yours to manage.

We do not guarantee earnings. We cannot promise that a program will stay open, that an application will be approved, that tracking will capture every sale, that a rate will hold, or that the platform will be available without interruption. Where we describe something as typical, such as a validation window or a payout timing, that is a description of what usually happens rather than a commitment. The platform and its reporting are provided as they are, to the extent the law where you live allows us to say so.

Neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost opportunity, or the cost of traffic you bought in expectation of income that did not arrive. Our total liability to you for any claim connected to these terms is limited to the commission we paid or owe you in the twelve months before the claim arose. For a small account that is a small number, which is the honest consequence of a service that carries no fee.

None of this limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited. That includes our own fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, and any right you hold as a consumer or as a data subject that the law does not permit us to sign away. If part of this section is unenforceable in your country, the rest of it continues to apply as written.

These terms will change over time, mostly because the rules we receive upstream change. When we make a material change we will email the address on your account and post a notice in the platform, and we will give reasonable notice before it takes effect wherever we practically can. Some changes are forced on us by an upstream network, an advertiser, or a legal requirement with immediate effect. When that is the reason we will say so, rather than presenting it as a routine update.

If you keep using the platform after a change takes effect, that is your acceptance of it. If you do not accept a change, stop promoting and close your account, and we will pay validated commission through in the normal way. Changes do not apply retroactively to commission already validated under the previous version. If you need to know what an earlier version said, or when the current one took effect, write to support@linkapprove.com and we will send you the text we hold on file.