Affiliate terms

This is a draft. It describes what the software actually does — every rule below is enforced in the database, not in a policy document — and what the operator intends. Every point that needs a legal or a commercial decision is marked [LEGAL: …] or [OWNER: …]. Do not rely on it until those marks are gone.

1. Who this is between

The programme is run by Slonge Solutions Tobler, Switzerland (“we”, “us”), the operator of SlongeHoops. “You” means the person or business we approved as an affiliate.

You are not our employee, agent, partner or representative. You may not sign anything, promise anything or accept anything in our name. Nothing here creates a joint venture.

[LEGAL: the contracting entity needs its legal form, registered address and register number, and it has to be the same entity that appears on the receipts and in the imprint.]

2. Joining

You apply with the form on this site. We read every application by hand and we do not have to explain a refusal. If we approve you we give you a referral code, which is also your link, and we may give you a discount code your audience can type at the checkout.

The code is ours. We can change it or withdraw it; we will tell you first unless it is being abused.

3. What you earn

Proposed, and not a promise until the owner confirms it.

• 30 % of what a coach you referred pays us, for 12 months from their first payment.
• The share is calculated on the net amount: the invoice total after every discount and before tax. Stripe is the merchant of record for our subscriptions and collects and remits the sales tax, VAT or GST itself. That money is never ours and is never yours.
• A click counts for 60 days. Buy inside the window, you earn; buy outside it, you do not.
• Money waits 30 days after each payment before it can be paid out, so that refunds settle first.
• We pay once you are over USD 50 in a currency. Under that, it rolls to the next month.
• Currencies are never converted. If you bring a euro customer and a dollar customer, you are owed both, separately.

The terms that apply to you are the ones you were approved on, and they are shown on your Affiliate screen in the app. If we change the programme’s defaults, your terms do not change unless we agree it with you.

[OWNER: confirm the rate, the number of months, the attribution window, the hold period and the minimum payout. Every one of them is a setting in the database and can be changed without a deployment, but changing it after somebody has been approved does not change their deal.]

4. How a referral is decided

• A person is referred once, for ever. The first code that reaches them wins, inside the 60-day window.
• A discount code typed at the checkout beats a link, because typing a code is a deliberate act. If somebody arrives on your link and then types another affiliate’s code, that affiliate earns.
• A referral that is outside its window can be replaced by a new one.
• Commission is earned only while your account is active. If we pause you, new referrals and new commissions stop at once; everything you have already earned stays yours.
• Commission is earned only on invoices that are actually paid. A trial that never converts earns nothing, and neither does a fully discounted invoice.

5. What you may not do

Breaking any of these is grounds for withholding unpaid commission and removing you from the programme. The first two are also the two that would get us both in trouble.

1. Self-referral. You may not use your own code, or a friend’s or a family member’s account, to buy your own subscription. The database refuses this in three ways and we check by hand as well.
2. Undisclosed recommendation. You must make it clear, before the click, that you earn a commission. See section 6.
3. Impersonation. Do not claim to be SlongeHoops, to speak for us, or to be an official partner. Do not use our name or marks in a domain, an account name or an app name.
4. Paid search on our name. Do not bid on “SlongeHoops” or misspellings of it, and do not run ads that could be mistaken for ours.
5. Spam. No unsolicited email, no direct messages to people who did not ask, no forum or comment drops, no posting your code on coupon or voucher sites.
6. Cookie stuffing, typosquatting, browser extensions, or anything that sets a referral without the person knowing. We do not use third-party tracking and neither may you.
7. Promises we do not make. Do not guarantee results, improvement, or anything about a team winning. Do not misstate the price, and do say that tax is added on top.
8. Content about minors. Our audience includes children. Do not use footage or photographs of identifiable minors to promote the product.

[LEGAL: check whether Swiss and EU law want an explicit list of prohibited practices in the contract or whether a reference to applicable advertising law is enough.]

6. Disclosure — the rule, not a suggestion

Wherever you post a link or a code, say that you earn from it, in the post itself, near the link, in the same language as the post. Not in a bio, not in a footer, not behind a “more” fold.

Affiliate link — I earn a commission if you subscribe.

This is the law in the United States (FTC Endorsement Guides), in the EU (the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, and since 2022 an explicit rule about disclosing paid rankings) and in Switzerland (UWG art. 3). On YouTube, TikTok and Instagram you must also use the platform’s own paid-promotion label — the platform’s label alone is not enough, and your sentence alone is not enough either.

If you are advertising to people in Germany, the word to use is Werbung or Anzeige.

[LEGAL: confirm the exact wording for each market we actually promote in, and confirm whether we need to require a specific German formulation.]

7. What we pay and how

We pay by the method we agreed with you — usually PayPal or a bank transfer — once a month, for everything that is past its hold period and over the minimum. We store a method and a reference you gave us. We do not store your bank account number.

You are responsible for your own taxes. If you are a business, invoice us; if you are an individual, we may need a declaration for our own records.

[LEGAL: Switzerland-specific. Confirm (a) whether paying individuals abroad creates a withholding obligation, (b) whether affiliate commission is VAT-relevant for a Swiss payer when the affiliate is abroad — reverse charge / place of supply, (c) what documentation the accountant needs per affiliate, and (d) at what volume this needs a written agreement signed by both sides rather than an acceptance on a web page.]

8. Refunds, chargebacks and clawbacks

If a sale is refunded or charged back, the commission on it is reversed. Stripe may refund a customer at its own discretion within 60 days of the purchase, and a card dispute can arrive much later.

• If we have not paid you yet, the reversal simply reduces what is owed.
• If we have already paid you, the negative amount is netted off your next payout. We will not send you an invoice for it.

Nothing is ever deleted from your ledger. A reversal is a new line, not an edit.

9. What you see, and what you do not

You see counts, dates and amounts: how many people clicked, how many signed up, how many are paying, and what each payment earned you.

You never see who they are. Not a name, not an email address, not a club, not a user id, and nothing you could use to work it out. That is a deliberate design decision and it is enforced in the database, not by a promise here. Our customers did not agree to be a line item on somebody else’s dashboard.

10. Ending it

Either of us can end this at any time, in writing, including by email. If you end it or we end it for an ordinary reason, you are paid everything that has cleared its hold period, on the next payout run. If we end it because of section 5, we may withhold unpaid commission, and we will tell you why.

11. Changes

We can change these terms. We will tell you by email before a change takes effect. A change never applies to commission already earned. If you do not accept a change, stop using your code and tell us; we will pay out what has cleared.

12. Law

Swiss law. Courts of the operator’s registered seat.

[LEGAL: confirm the seat, and confirm whether a consumer-protection rule makes this choice unenforceable for an affiliate who is an individual in the EU.]

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Not yet reviewed by a lawyer. Questions: the address in the imprint.