Affiliate program terms

Last updated: 5 August 2026 · These terms govern participation in the PageSpeedAudit affiliate program. You accept them by applying.

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

  • Participation is free. You need a valid email address, must confirm it via the link we send, and must provide accurate information — one account per person or entity.
  • We may decline any application, and suspend or remove any affiliate, at our sole discretion and without giving reasons.
  • 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.

3. Links, coupons & tracking

  • 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 only the affiliate whose cookie is present at checkout is credited.
  • Visitor 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. 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, there is no attribution.
  • Personal coupons (5% and 10% and 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.
  • Sub-IDs (subid/clickid/s1) and campaign values are echoed in reporting and postbacks as you sent them.
  • 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

  • You 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.
  • The rate and coupon set may change at any time with prospective effect (section 12).

5. What never earns commission

  • Returning 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

  • A new commission is Pending for 30 days (the refund window) before it can become payable.
  • A 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 dashboard. There is no other payout method.
  • The minimum payout is $300; smaller balances carry over to the next run.
  • No 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;
  • 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.

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.
  • 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. Changes are announced on your dashboard or by email; your continued participation after notice is acceptance. Commissions already earned are handled under the version in force when they were earned.

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).

Questions? Contact us.