Affiliate Program Terms

These Affiliate Program Terms ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you ("Affiliate") and Ball Engine Studios, operator of the website ballengine.app as an entity ("we", "us"). By enrolling, accepting these Terms, or using a referral link to earn commission, you agree to them.

The program is open to every BallEngine.app account holder. To participate you must be at least 18 years old and have a BallEngine.app account in good standing. There is no application and no minimum audience size. To be PAID you must additionally be able to receive a payout through our payment provider, and not be located in any sanctioned country or be a person we are legally prohibited from paying. Our employees and contractors are not eligible to earn on their own purchases.

To join, you confirm you are 18 or older and accept these Terms. Your referral link is issued immediately; there is no review and nothing to wait for. You may hold more than one link, and you may choose the name of a link where that name is available. We may suspend or withdraw a link at any time under the Suspension & termination section below.

A referral is attributed to you when a new user signs up through your link, tracked via a 30-day cookie and permanently bound to that account at registration (first-touch). A user can be referred only once. You earn a one-time commission of 30% of the first successful payment made by a referred user when they upgrade to a paid subscription. Commissions are not recurring.

Each earned commission is held for a confirmation period before it becomes eligible for payout. If the referred user receives a refund, cancels under a money-back guarantee, or initiates a chargeback, the related commission is reversed; if already paid, we may deduct it from future commissions. We may withhold or reverse any commission we reasonably believe results from fraud or a breach of these Terms.

Commissions are paid through the affiliate programme run by our payment provider, and are funded from our own settled revenue rather than taken from the buyer transaction. Payout details are not required to join: you supply them, together with any identity, tax or sanctions information we are required to collect, before your first payment, and we may withhold payment until you do. The minimum payout threshold is $25; balances below it roll over. Payouts are processed monthly, on or around the 1st, for commissions that cleared the holding period, subject to manual review.

You are solely responsible for determining, reporting, and paying any taxes on commissions you earn, and for providing accurate identifying and tax information where required. Where the law requires, we may withhold taxes and/or report payments. We do not provide tax advice.

You must disclose that your link is an affiliate link wherever you share it, and promote BallEngine.app truthfully. You must not: make false or guaranteed-income claims; send spam; bid on our brand name in paid search or impersonate us; use cookie stuffing or deceptive tracking; self-refer or refer accounts you control; or promote via adult, hateful, illegal, or infringing content. Coupon/deal sites and browser-extension injection require prior written approval.

You will only receive aggregate statistics about your referrals (counts and earnings) and must not attempt to obtain the personal information of users you refer. We process referral data as described in our Privacy Policy.

You are an independent participant. Nothing here creates an employment, agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship, and you have no authority to make commitments on our behalf.

We may suspend or terminate your participation, withhold or forfeit unpaid commissions, and reverse paid commissions, at any time for any violation, suspected fraud, or as required by law. You may leave the program at any time; commissions properly earned and not subject to reversal will be paid per the normal schedule.

We may change the commission rate, thresholds, schedule, or these Terms at any time, effective prospectively. Participation does not guarantee any earnings, and the program is provided "as is". To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability relating to the program is limited to the commissions actually payable to you.