Affiliate commissions

• SaffireTech will pay the Affiliate a commission for promoting their products. The Affiliate earns a percentage of the sale price (excluding tax) for any WordPress plugins bought by people who click on a referral link from the Affiliate’s website and make a purchase on SaffireTech.com.
• The current commission rate is 20% (for products with base price of less than $70) and 10%  for the rest of the products but SaffireTech may change it at any time. If the rate changes, SaffireTech will notify the Affiliate via email.
• The commission applies only to the initial 1-year payment for purchasing an annual or lifetime license for a SaffireTech plugin. It does not apply to any future renewals of the license.
• Referral links should direct users to the main SaffireTech website, such as the homepage, Plugins page, individual plugin sales pages, or blog posts/tutorials. No commission will be paid for affiliate links to plugin demo sites or documentation pages in the knowledge base.
• SaffireTech will maintain accurate and current records of the data used to calculate the commission owed to the Affiliate. These totals will be accessible to the Affiliate through the Affiliate Area of SaffireTech.com.
  

Payouts

• Due to SaffireTech’s 15-day refund policy, commissions will be paid from one month of referral purchase.
  For example – If someone buys on 1st January, then payment will be made in the first week of February.
• Payments will be made in USD to the PayPal account linked to the payment email address provided by the Affiliate during registration. This email address can be updated through the Affiliate Area.
• Each payout will have a minimum threshold of $100. Any amounts below this threshold will be rolled over and added to the next payout.

Rejected payments

• Commissions will only be paid for valid referrals. SaffireTech can reject any referrals if they believe the referrals violate the Terms. For example, referrals will usually be rejected if any of the following applies:

1. The sale that generated the commission has been refunded.
2. The referral method violated our policies or the spirit of our policies.
3. The purchase was made by the affiliate – for example, if they bought the plugin for their own use.
4. The referral came from a link on a coupon-sharing or discount site.

• If someone buys any plugins or themes from SaffireTech and then returns it or cancels the payment later, no one gets paid for that transaction. If SaffireTech already paid someone for that sale, they’ll take back that payment from a future payment.

Tax

• SaffireTech Plugins doesn’t handle taxes owed by Affiliates because of their partnership. Affiliates are responsible for sorting out their own taxes.

Cookie expiry

• Cookies are used to track the usage of the referral links. Referrals can only be tracked if the customer clicks on the referral link and the cookie is successfully added to their device.
• Cookies are stored for 30 days. If a customer purchases a plugin after the cookie has expired, or from a different browser or device from where they clicked the affiliate link, then no commission will be paid. Similarly, if cookies are disabled on the customer’s device, then no referral will be recorded and it is not possible to pay affiliate commission on their purchase.

Policies

Approved promotional methods

Affiliates are encouraged to promote our plugins in a way that adds genuine value for your readers and for our potential customers. The idea is that you promote a product that you like and genuinely believe in, and earn commission as a reward – so everyone wins. For example:

• Write a blog post or plugin review – The best way to generate significant Commission is to write high-quality, unique content about our plugins and publish it on your website. We are happy to suggest ideas of topics for you to write about.
• Social sharing – Regularly send tweets with your affiliate link, and share on Facebook and other social networks. These should offer genuinely useful information and recommendations of our plugins, and not spam your followers.
• Help others online – Lots of people would benefit from a SaffireTech plugin, but they haven’t discovered us yet! For example, customers often post on online forums and Facebook groups asking how to achieve a particular task in WordPress or WooCommerce. If you know that our plugins will solve their problem, help them out and include your affiliate link. Facebook groups such as ‘WordPress Experts’ and ‘WooCommerce Help & Share’ are excellent for this.
• Refer clients – If you are a developer or agency and have regular clients who will benefit from our plugins, then share an affiliate link with them.
• Cross-promotion – If you sell complementary products such as other WordPress themes and plugins, then you can share the word about SaffireTech with your existing customer base. We’re always happy to chat about interesting use cases that will benefit all of our customers.
  

Prohibited promotional methods

• Coupon sites are not permitted because they are most likely to be used by customers already planning to purchase a SaffireTech plugin. As a result, links on coupon code sites do not add genuine value.
• Confusing customers or pretending to be formally associated with SaffireTech. Affiliates are not employees and have no formal connection with SaffireTech, so you must not imply this.
• Any type of spam. Email, link spamming, comment spamming, etc. are not allowed. If you’re posting to a forum or comment thread, follow the rules of the website you’re on and ensure it adds real value.
• Anything illegal or morally offensive. All affiliate links should add genuine value and be intended to help and educate the reader.
  

Paid search

It is permitted to promote our plugins by bidding on keywords in search engines or social media sites if you meet the following conditions:

• Do not bid keywords with variations of the SaffireTech name, such as “SaffireTech”, “SaffireTech Plugins”, or “SaffireTech.com” either on its own or with additional terms (e.g. “SaffireTech discounts”) because this can be misleading.
• Don’t use any SaffireTech website URL (e.g. SaffireTech.com) as the ad’s display URL.
• Don’t directly link to SaffireTech.com from any paid search ads. Instead, link to a landing page on your own website containing your affiliate link.

Potential consequences

If we discover that your promotional methods do not meet these terms at any time, then we will reject any unpaid commissions and disable your affiliate account. We will normally notify you if this happens, but we may not contact you if we believe that you joined the affiliate program with the intention of breaking these terms.

License & intellectual property

SaffireTech agrees for the Affiliate to use the referral links and banners provided via the Affiliate Area to promote SaffireTech’s products and services.
SaffireTech retains all rights, ownership, and interest in these materials, and in any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property. Nothing in these Terms grant the Affiliate any rights, ownership, or interest in these materials, or in the underlying intellectual property, other than the rights to use them as granted under these Terms.

Relationship of Parties

Registering as an Affiliate does not create any employment relationship, agency relationship or partnership between SaffireTech and the Affiliate. The Affiliate will promote SaffireTech’s products as an independent party. The Affiliate will have no authority to bind SaffireTech into any agreement, nor will the Affiliate be considered to be an agent of SaffireTech in any respect.

Affiliate’s representations and warranties

The Affiliate represents and warrants that:

• They have the legal authority to enter into an agreement under these Terms.
• They will not distribute any unsolicited bulk emails or spam in relation to their promotion of SaffireTech’s products or services.
• They will not use the SaffireTech name or any of its products or services for any misleading purpose. This includes implying that SaffireTech’s products or services are the Affiliate’s own; and using a domain name or other branding that is confusing similar to SaffireTech’s name or its plugins.
• Their website does not contain any materials that are sexually explicit, obscene, or pornographic; offensive, hateful, threatening, libelous, or discriminatory in any way; graphically violent; or solicitous of any unlawful or misleading behavior.

Indemnification

The Affiliate indemnifies and holds harmless SaffireTech for any claim, damage, lawsuit or other consequences arising out of any breach of the Affiliate’s warranties under these Terms; or any other cost arising out of the Affiliate’s promotion of SaffireTech’s products or services.

Term

These terms will take effect as soon as the Affiliate submits the registration form for the Affiliate Program. Either party may terminate the agreement at any time and for any reason. No notice is required of termination. The Affiliate will receive a commission for any transactions made through the referral link up until the date and time of the termination.

After termination, the Affiliate may continue promoting SaffireTech’s products and services (unless SaffireTech specifically requests that this stops), however, they will no longer receive a commission for any transactions made through the referral link.

Removal of online information

The Affiliate is expected to promote SaffireTech’s products and services in an accurate, ethical, and responsible way.
SaffireTech reserves the right to request that any online material the Affiliate has published relating to the products and services be removed from the Internet. The Affiliate must comply with any removal requests within 2 working days.

Limitation of liability

SaffireTech shall not be liable for any loss of profits or costs or for any other direct or indirect damages arising out of any loss, suspension or interruption of service, termination, or any other performance of services under these Terms.

Severability

If any part of these Terms is held unenforceable or invalid for any reason, the remainder of these Terms will continue in full force and effect.