Affiliate Programme Terms

1. These terms

These terms govern your participation in the Aplon affiliate programme. They are an agreement between you ("you", "the affiliate") and Aplon, operated by Hallway Ltd ("we", "us"), incorporated in Cyprus. By applying to the programme, or by using a referral link after being approved, you accept them.

Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy also apply to you. Where they conflict with these terms on a question about the affiliate programme, these terms take precedence.

You take part as an independent contractor. Nothing here creates an employment relationship, partnership, joint venture, or agency, and you may not present yourself as an employee, agent, or representative of Aplon.

2. Joining

Applications are reviewed and approval is at our discretion. We may decline an application without giving a reason. Your account becomes active only once it is approved; referrals made before approval do not count.

You must be at least 18, provide accurate details, and hold one affiliate account only. Operating several accounts to move yourself up the commission ladder, or to refer yourself through a second identity, ends your participation and voids the commission involved.

3. How a referral is credited

You are given a unique referral code and a link containing it. A referral is credited to you when someone creates a new Aplon account with your code present. Three things follow from that, and they are the parts most affiliate programmes handle differently:

• The code must be present at the moment the account is created. It is held for the visitor's current browser session — so they can read the site and then sign up — but it is not a long-lived cookie. If they close the browser and come back a week later without your link, the referral is not credited.
• New accounts only. Someone who already has an Aplon account cannot be credited to you, whichever link they arrive by.
• One referral, one affiliate. A merchant is credited to a single affiliate. Where a merchant arrives through more than one link, the code present when the account is created is the one that counts.

You cannot refer yourself. Signing up through your own link — including with a different address that is recognisably yours — creates an account normally but earns no commission.

People you refer get a longer free trial than the standard one, and an introductory discount, both applied automatically. We may change or withdraw that offer at any time; it is our offer to the merchant, not part of your commission.

4. Commission

You earn a recurring percentage of what a referred merchant pays us, for as long as they keep paying, up to the limits below. Current rates:

• Silver: 15%
• Gold: 20%
• Platinum: 25%
• Diamond: 30%

Everyone starts at 15%. Your tier is set by how many of your referred merchants are currently active — that is, they have paid at least once and have not cancelled. Your current tier, and how many active referrals you have, are shown in your affiliate portal.

Your tier can go down as well as up. It is recalculated from your active referral count each time a commission is earned, so if referred merchants cancel and your active count falls below a threshold, later commissions are paid at the lower rate. Commissions already earned are not restated.

We may agree an individual rate or duration with you in writing. Where we have, that agreement applies instead of the ladder above.

4.1 What the commission is calculated on

Commission is a percentage of the amount the merchant actually paid usfor their subscription on that invoice — after any discount or promotional code, and excluding tax. It is not a percentage of the plan's list price. If a merchant uses a 50%-off code, the commission is calculated on what they paid; if a code makes an invoice free, that invoice earns no commission.

One commission is earned per referred merchant per calendar month, regardless of how many invoices they are issued in it.

4.2 How long it runs

Commission runs for 6 months from the referred merchant's first payment, not from the date they signed up. Payments after that period earn nothing. Commission also stops if the merchant cancels; if they later return, that does not restart the period.

The rates, the 6-month period and the $50 payout threshold on this page are the current ones and are read live from our systems. We may change them for future referrals — see section 10.

5. Refunds, chargebacks and reversals

Commission is earned on money we have actually received and kept. If a payment behind a commission is refunded, reversed, disputed, or charged back, or if the merchant's subscription is found to have been obtained fraudulently, we may withhold that commission or deduct it from your balance or a future payout. The same applies to commission earned through a referral that breaches section 7.

We will tell you when we do this and why. We will not deduct from a payout that has already been paid to you.

6. Payouts

Commission accumulates in your portal as a pending balance. You request a payout from there once the balance reaches $50. Payouts are not automatic and are not sent on a fixed date — you ask, and we review and pay.

• You can have one payout request open at a time. The next can be requested once the current one has been paid or declined.
• Payment is made by bank transfer to the details you provide. Keep them accurate — we are not responsible for money sent to details you gave us incorrectly.
• Payouts are in US dollars. Any conversion or receiving fees charged by your bank are yours.
• We may hold a payout while we check a referral, and decline one that includes commission covered by section 5 or section 7.

Tax is your responsibility. Payments are made gross. You are responsible for declaring your commission income and for any income tax, VAT, or social contributions due on it in your own country. We may ask for tax information where we are required to collect it, and may withhold payment until you provide it.

7. What you must not do

These end your participation and void the commission involved:

• Bidding on our brand. Do not buy paid search or social ads on "Aplon" or close variants and misspellings, and do not use our name in a display URL or ad domain.
• Impersonating us. Do not run a site, profile, or email address that could be taken for Aplon's own, and do not describe yourself as Aplon or as speaking for us.
• Making claims we have not made. Do not state prices, features, results, guarantees, or savings that are not on our own site. Do not promise an offer we are not running.
• Spam. Unsolicited email, SMS, DMs, forum or comment spam, and any promotion that breaches anti-spam law or a platform's rules.
• Coupon, deal, and cashback listings that exist to intercept traffic already heading to us, and offering cash or rebates for signing up through your link.
• Cookie stuffing or setting your code without a genuine click — iframes, redirects, pop-unders, automated traffic, or bots.
• Self-referral, referring accounts you control, and referring through friends or colleagues on your behalf.
• Promoting Aplon on sites containing illegal, adult, hateful, or infringing material.

You must make clear that your link is an affiliate link wherever the law or the platform requires it — which in most countries and on most platforms is everywhere you post one. Complying with advertising and disclosure rules is your responsibility, not ours.

8. Using our name and brand

While your account is active we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, worldwide licence to use the Aplon name and logo for the sole purpose of promoting Aplon under these terms. You may not alter, recolour, or redraw the logo, register it or anything confusingly similar as a domain, trade mark, app name, or social handle, or use it in a way that suggests we endorse you or your other products. The licence ends when your participation does, and you must stop using our brand within a reasonable time after that.

9. Data protection

Your affiliate portal shows limited information about the merchants you have referred, including their email address, so you can reconcile your own commission. That is personal data. You may use it only to check your commission — not to contact those merchants, add them to a mailing list, or pass them to anyone else. You are the controller of any such data you take out of the portal, and are responsible for handling it lawfully.

We process your own data — your contact details, tax information, and bank details — to run the programme and pay you. Bank details are encrypted at rest. Our Privacy Policy explains the rest. We keep commission and payout records for seven years after payment, because they evidence money we have paid, and those records survive the closing of your account.

10. Changes to the programme

We may change the commission rates, the commission period, the payout threshold, or these terms. We will give you at least 30 days' notice by email of a change that reduces what you earn, and it will apply only to commission earned after it takes effect — referrals already made keep the rate and period that applied when they were made, for the remainder of their period. Other changes take effect when posted here. We may also close the programme entirely on 30 days' notice, in which case commission already earned is still paid.

Section 13 is treated differently. We will not introduce or materially change section 13 (Disputes) by posting alone. We will email you, say plainly what has changed, and the 30-day opt-out in section 13.7 runs from the date of that email. Continuing in the programme is not by itself acceptance of a new agreement to arbitrate.

11. Suspension and termination

You can leave at any time by telling us. We may suspend or end your participation immediately, without notice, if you breach these terms, if we reasonably suspect fraud or abuse, or if we are required to by law. We may also end it for any other reason on 30 days' notice.

When your participation ends, your links stop crediting referrals. Commission already earned and not affected by section 5 or section 7 is paid at the next payout, whether or not it has reached the $50 threshold. Commission that would otherwise have accrued after that date is not earned. If we end your participation for breach or suspected fraud, unpaid commission is forfeited.

12. Liability

We make no guarantee about the number of referrals you will make, what you will earn, or the availability of the programme or of the tracking behind it. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profit or lost opportunity, and our total liability to you in connection with the programme is limited to the commission earned by you and unpaid at the time the claim arises.

You will indemnify us against claims and costs arising from how you promoted Aplon, including any breach of section 7 and any breach of advertising, disclosure, anti-spam, or data protection law.

13. Disputes

13.1 Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Cyprus. Where 13.4 applies, the United States Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of the agreement to arbitrate itself; Cyprus law continues to govern everything else.

13.2 Tell us first

Before starting any formal proceeding, the party with the complaint must describe it in writing — to contact@aplon.io if it is yours, or to your registered email if it is ours — and give the other side 30 days to resolve it. This applies to both of us equally, and neither may begin arbitration or litigation until those 30 days have run. Most commission disagreements are a tracking question and end here.

13.3 If you are outside the United States

Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Republic of Cyprus. Section 13.4 does not apply to you.

13.4 If you are in the United States: individual arbitration

This applies if you are resident or established in the United States. Read it carefully — it means you and we are each giving up the right to go to court and to have a dispute heard by a judge or jury, except for the claims listed in 13.6.

Any dispute about the affiliate programme that is not resolved under 13.2 will be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator, in English. If the AAA determines that its Consumer Arbitration Rules apply to you instead, those rules govern. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

• Where. The arbitration is held remotely wherever that is possible. If an in-person hearing is needed, it takes place in the federal judicial district where you live or are established — not ours.
• Who pays. We pay the AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees, apart from any initial filing fee the applicable rules require of you, unless the arbitrator determines the claim was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose. Each side otherwise bears its own legal costs unless the law or the arbitrator says otherwise.
• What the arbitrator can do. The arbitrator may award any relief a court could award to you individually, and is bound by the limits in section 12 exactly as a court would be. They may not award relief to anyone who is not a party.

13.5 Individually, not as a class — and this part is all or nothing

You and we each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any form of class or representative proceeding.

Notwithstanding the severability provision in section 14, the waiver in this section 13.5 is not severable from the agreement to arbitrate. If a court decides this waiver is unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim — and only that claim — is removed from arbitration and must be brought in court; the rest of section 13 continues to apply to every other claim.

13.6 What is never arbitrated

Nothing in 13.4 or 13.5 applies to, or limits your right to bring in court:

• an individual claim in small-claims court;
• a claim for an injunction to stop actual or threatened infringement of intellectual property, by either of us;
• a claim for public injunctive relief, which may be brought in court and is not waived;
• a claim alleging sexual assault or sexual harassment — at your election these may be brought in court, whatever the rest of this section says; and
• anything else that, as a matter of law, cannot be made subject to arbitration.

For any claim that does end up in court under this section, you and we each waive the right to a trial by jury.

13.7 How to opt out — 30 days, one email

You can refuse 13.4 and 13.5 and keep your right to go to court. Email contact@aplon.io with the subject line "Arbitration opt-out", giving your registered email, within 30 days of joining the programme — or, if you were already an affiliate when this section was introduced, within 30 days of the date we notified you of it. Opting out changes nothing else: not your commission rate, not your tier, not your standing in the programme, and we will not treat you differently for doing it. If you opt out, section 13.3 applies to you instead.

13.8 Coordinated filings

If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against us by or with the coordination of the same lawyers or firm, the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply and the demands will be administered in staged batches. This is a sequencing rule about cost and administration; every claimant keeps their own arbitration and their own rights.

13.9 Rights that cannot be excluded

Nothing in these terms excludes any right or remedy that cannot be excluded by applicable mandatory law. If you take part as an individual rather than as a business, and the law of your own country gives you rights a contract cannot take away — including the right to bring proceedings there — you keep them.

14. General

You may not assign these terms; we may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. If a provision is unenforceable it is severed and the rest stands — except for the class-action waiver in section 13.5, which section 13.5 states is not severable, and which is governed by the rule set out there. Not enforcing a provision once does not waive it. Sections 5, 9, 12, 13 and 14 survive termination.

15. Contact

Hallway Ltd (operating as Aplon)
Tefkrou Anthia 90, Ayia Napa, 5330, Ammochostos, Cyprus
contact@aplon.io

Details of the programme, including how to apply and what you could earn at 15–30%, are on the affiliate programme page.