Affiliate Program Terms

1. Scope and acceptance

These Affiliate Program Terms ("Program Terms") govern your participation in the TDS.SO referral program (the "Program") operated by TDS GLOBAL, an individual entrepreneur registered in Georgia ("we", "us", "Provider"). By generating a referral link or promo code, or by otherwise participating in the Program, you ("Partner", "you") agree to these Program Terms.

The Program is an addition to, not a replacement for, the Terms of Service. Those Terms — including the Acceptable Use Policy in Section 5 — continue to apply to you in full, and apply to everything you publish in connection with the Program. Where these Program Terms conflict with the Terms of Service on a Program-specific point, these Program Terms prevail; on all other points the Terms of Service prevail.

Participation is a revocable privilege, not a right, and is offered at our discretion.

2. Eligibility

To participate you confirm that:

• You are at least 18 years old and have legal capacity to enter contracts.
• You are acting for purposes relating to your trade, business, or profession. The Program is offered on a business-to-business basis only and is not open to consumers.
• You hold a TDS.SO account in good standing — not suspended, not terminated, and not under investigation for a breach of the Terms of Service or the AUP.
• You are not located in, organised under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in any country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions (including OFAC, EU, UK, UN lists), and you are not a Specially Designated National or otherwise sanctioned party.
• The information in your account and your payout details are accurate and kept up to date.

We may decline enrolment, or remove you from the Program, without giving reasons.

3. Referral links and attribution

3.1 How attribution works

The dashboard issues you a referral link containing your promo code. When a visitor arrives through that link, we record your code against that visit for a limited attribution window, the current length of which is published in the partner dashboard. If the visitor registers a TDS.SO account within that window, the new account is attributed to you.

Attribution is last-touch: if a visitor arrives through more than one partner's link within the window, the most recent link wins. Attribution is fixed at the moment the referred account is created and is not reassigned afterwards.

3.2 Limits of tracking

Attribution is a technical best effort and is not guaranteed. It can fail for reasons outside our control, including shared or changing network addresses, privacy tooling, browser settings, the visitor registering after the window has closed, or the visitor registering from a different device or network. We do not credit commission for referrals our systems did not record, and we do not reconstruct attribution retrospectively from your own logs or screenshots.

3.3 Direct referrals only

Commission is earned on accounts you refer directly. You do not earn commission on accounts referred by the people you referred, or on any further tier below that.

4. Commission

4.1 Rate

The commission rate applicable to your account is the rate published in your partner dashboard. The rate may depend on your partner level and may differ between partners. We may change the rate at any time; changes take effect prospectively only, applying to qualifying payments made after the change, and we will give notice by email or in the dashboard before a reduction takes effect. Commission already credited is not recalculated.

4.2 Qualifying payments

A qualifying payment is a payment that is successfully completed and credited to the referred account, and that is not subsequently refunded, reversed, or charged back. Commission is calculated on the amount actually credited to the referred account, excluding any taxes, processor fees, or network fees.

Commission is recurring: it is earned on each qualifying payment made by a referred account, for as long as that account remains attributed to you and the Program continues. Nothing in this clause creates a guarantee that the Program, the rate, or your participation will continue for any period.

4.3 Crediting

Commission is credited to your Program balance when the qualifying payment completes. A credited balance is a record of commission earned to date; it is not a deposit, is not held on trust for you, earns no interest, and confers no claim against us other than the right to request payout under Section 8.

5. Prohibited promotion

5.1 Self-referral

You may not refer yourself, and you may not earn commission on accounts you own, control, fund, or operate, whether directly or through a family member, employee, colleague, nominee, or any other person acting on your behalf or under your direction. Registering a second account through your own link, or arranging for someone else to do so on your behalf, is a material breach of these Program Terms.

5.2 Fraudulent and abusive promotion

You may not, directly or indirectly:

• Create or procure fake, automated, duplicate, or incentivised signups, or signups from people with no genuine interest in the Service.
• Offer cashback, rebates, prizes, or any other inducement in exchange for registering through your link, unless we have agreed to it in writing in advance.
• Misrepresent the Service, its capabilities, its pricing, its plans, its refund terms, or its availability; or present yourself as TDS.SO or as an official representative of it.
• Bid on our trademarks, brand names, domain names, or close variants and misspellings of them in any paid search or paid social channel, or use them in ad copy, display URLs, or landing page URLs in a way that suggests you are us.
• Register or use typosquatted, confusingly similar, or brand-imitating domain names.
• Send unsolicited bulk messages of any kind — email, SMS, messenger, push, forum, comment, or social spam — or promote in any channel in breach of applicable anti-spam or electronic marketing law.
• Use cookie stuffing, forced clicks, hidden iframes, pop-unders, adware, browser extensions, malware, or any other technique that generates attribution without a genuine, informed click by the visitor.
• Promote the Service on any site or through any channel that breaches the AUP in Terms Section 5, or that carries illegal, infringing, deceptive, or adult content.
• Use our brand in a way that implies endorsement of a third-party offer, network, or product.

Suspected breaches of this Section are handled under Section 11, and confirmed breaches under Sections 7 and 15.

6. Use of our name and materials

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable licence to use our name, logo, and any promotional materials we supply, solely to promote the Service under these Program Terms and only in the form supplied. You may not modify our marks, combine them with your own branding in a way that suggests a joint venture, register them, or use them after your participation ends.

You are responsible for everything you publish. All of your promotional material must be truthful, must comply with the advertising, consumer protection, data protection, and disclosure laws applicable to you and your audience, and must clearly disclose that your link is a paid referral link where the law or the platform requires it.

7. Adjustments and clawback

Commission is provisional until the underlying payment is final. We may reverse commission already credited where:

• The underlying payment is refunded, reversed, disputed, or charged back, in whole or in part.
• The underlying payment is later found to have been made with stolen, fraudulent, or unauthorised funds.
• The referred account is suspended or terminated for a breach of the Terms of Service or the AUP.
• The referral was generated in breach of Section 5, or the attribution was produced by error, duplication, or a technical fault.

Reversals reduce your Program balance. If a reversal takes your balance below zero, the negative balance is offset against commission you earn afterwards, and no payout is available until the balance is positive again and above the minimum threshold. Where a negative balance arises from conduct in breach of Section 5, we may instead require you to repay it directly.

We may reverse commission at any time while the underlying payment remains reversible, and at any time in the case of fraud.

8. Payouts

8.1 Requesting a payout

You may request a payout once your available balance reaches the minimum threshold published in the partner dashboard. Your available balance is your credited commission less amounts already paid out and less any payout request still pending. When you submit a request, the amount is deducted from your available balance while the request is processed.

8.2 Review and timing

Every payout request is reviewed manually before it is paid. We aim to review requests within 5 business days. We are a small operation; review may take longer during holidays, absences, or where a request requires additional checks, and no fixed payment date is guaranteed. If a request is rejected, the amount is returned to your balance and we will tell you why unless we are legally prevented from doing so.

8.3 Method and wallet address

Payouts are made in cryptocurrency only, to a wallet address you supply, using one of the networks offered in the dashboard. Payouts are made net of the applicable blockchain network fee, which is shown to you before you confirm the request.

You are solely responsible for the accuracy of the wallet address and for selecting the correct network. Any format check we perform is a basic sanity check and is not confirmation that the address is yours, is correct, or is reachable. Cryptocurrency transfers are irreversible: once a payout has been sent to the address you supplied, we cannot recover it and we are not liable for it, including where you entered the wrong address, supplied an address on the wrong network, supplied an address controlled by someone else, or lost access to the wallet. A payout sent to the address you supplied discharges our obligation in full.

8.4 Currency and no set-off against fees

Balances are denominated in the currency shown in the dashboard. Where conversion is required, we apply the rate at the time of payout. Commission cannot be converted into service credit, applied against your subscription, or transferred to another account unless we agree otherwise in writing.

9. Sanctions, AML and screening

You warrant that you are not, and are not acting for, a sanctioned person or entity, and that the funds and the wallet address involved are not connected to money laundering, terrorist financing, or any other criminal activity.

We may screen you, your account, and any payout address against sanctions lists and blockchain analytics services before or after payment. We may delay, withhold, or refuse a payout, request identifying documents, or report the matter, where screening returns a positive or inconclusive result, where a wallet address is associated with illicit activity, or where applicable law, a payment provider, or a competent authority requires it. We may terminate your participation on this basis. Where the law prohibits us from explaining, we will not give reasons.

10. Taxes

Commission is paid gross. You are solely responsible for determining, declaring, and paying all taxes, levies, and social contributions arising on your commission in every jurisdiction where you are liable, and for any registration, invoicing, or reporting obligation that applies to you there.

We do not withhold tax, do not act as your tax agent, and give no tax advice. If applicable law requires us to withhold or to report a payment, we will do so, and the amount withheld is deducted from your payout. You will provide any tax information or documentation we reasonably need to comply with the law, and payouts may be held until you do.

11. Investigation, withholding and suspension

Where we reasonably suspect fraud, self-referral, or any other breach of these Program Terms, we may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice: (i) pause the accrual of commission; (ii) withhold, delay, or refuse a pending or future payout; (iii) suspend your participation and disable your referral links; (iv) reverse affected commission under Section 7; and (v) preserve and examine relevant logs, traffic data, and account records.

We will act reasonably and will restore withheld amounts if the investigation clears you. Where a breach is confirmed, commission connected to it is forfeited, and we may terminate your participation, your TDS.SO account, or both. Our determination on the facts, made in good faith on the evidence available to us, is final for the purposes of the Program.

12. Independent contractor; no authority

You participate as an independent contractor. Nothing in these Program Terms creates an employment relationship, agency, partnership, joint venture, or franchise between us. You are not our employee, agent, or representative; you have no entitlement to salary, benefits, expenses, holiday, notice, or any protection arising from employment; and you bear your own costs of promotion.

You have no authority to bind us or to make any statement on our behalf. In particular, you may not promise or imply, to any person, any feature, roadmap item, price, discount, trial extension, refund, service level, uptime guarantee, support response time, or contractual term. Only we can agree those, and only in writing. Any commitment you give beyond these Program Terms is yours alone, and Section 13 applies to it.

13. Limitation of liability and indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we (and our directors, employees, contractors, and affiliates) shall not be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, nor for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, traffic, conversions, business opportunities, or data, including any loss arising from attribution failure, changes to the commission rate, withheld or reversed commission, or termination of the Program or of your participation.

Our aggregate liability under these Program Terms, however arising, is limited to the total commission properly credited and unpaid to you in the three (3) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing in this Section excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless TDS GLOBAL, its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, investigations, proceedings, losses, damages, fines, penalties, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: your promotional conduct and any content, channel, or claim you use to promote the Service; your breach of these Program Terms, the Terms of Service, or the AUP; any statement or promise you make about the Service beyond what we have published; your violation of any third-party right or of any advertising, anti-spam, consumer protection, or data protection law; and any tax liability of yours that is asserted against us.

14. Changes to the Program

We may amend these Program Terms, change or withdraw commission rates, change the minimum payout threshold or available payout networks, or discontinue the Program entirely. Material changes will be communicated by email or via the dashboard at least 14 days before they take effect, except where a change is required immediately by law or to prevent fraud or abuse. Continued participation after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

15. Termination

You may leave the Program at any time by ceasing to promote the Service and notifying us at legal@tds.so. We may terminate or suspend your participation at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice. Termination of your TDS.SO account terminates your participation automatically.

On termination you must stop using our name, logo, materials, and referral links. Commission stops accruing on the date of termination.

Accrued unpaid commission on termination. Where participation ends for convenience — by you, or by us without alleging a breach — commission properly credited and unaffected by Section 7 remains payable, and you may request a final payout within 90 days of termination provided the balance meets the minimum threshold and Sections 8 and 9 are satisfied. A balance below the minimum threshold at the end of that period is forfeited, as is a balance not claimed within it. Where participation ends because of a confirmed breach of these Program Terms, the Terms of Service, or the AUP, all accrued unpaid commission is forfeited.

Sections 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 17 survive termination.

16. Governing law and venue

These Program Terms are governed by the laws of Georgia, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with them shall be finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Georgian International Arbitration Centre (GIAC) in accordance with its rules; the seat of arbitration is Tbilisi, Georgia, and the language of the proceedings is English.

These Program Terms are published in English and Russian. In the event of any discrepancy or conflict between the two versions, the English version prevails.

17. Contact

TDS GLOBAL
Individual entrepreneur
Georgia, Batumi, Airport Highway Street, N 186, Apartment N33
Reg. No.: 345849610
Program / legal: legal@tds.so
Abuse reports: abuse@tds.so
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