Partner Program Terms

1. General provisions

1.1. The partner program is a form of cooperation in which a partner attracts Users and receives a reward from confirmed payments made with their personal promo code.

1.2. Partner — a User whose account the Administration has granted partner status and to which a promo code has been linked.

1.3. Partnership does not create an employment relationship, agency, or any authority to act on behalf of the project.

1.4. A partner remains a User and must comply with the Terms of Use, the License Agreement and the Public Offer alongside these Terms.

1.5. These Terms prevail over oral arrangements. Individual terms are valid only if agreed by the Administration in writing through the official channels.

2. Who can become a partner

2.1. A partner may be a legally capable individual aged 16 or over, registered on the Website, with no active bans or restrictions.

2.2. An applicant must have their own platform with a real audience: a channel, community, stream, website or other resource where they publish material themselves.

2.3. The platform's subject matter must relate to DDNet, Teeworlds or gaming content generally. The audience must be genuine: purchased subscribers, bots and inflated metrics are not a basis for admission.

2.4. Holding an active subscription is not required, although preference is given to applicants with hands-on experience of the product.

2.5. The following may not be partners: persons with previously banned accounts, persons previously removed from the program, and members or representatives of competing projects distributing comparable software.

2.6. The Administration may refuse admission without stating a reason and may set individual requirements for particular categories of platform.

3. Onboarding procedure

3.1. To join, an applicant submits a request through the support service, stating a link to their platform, their reach, the intended format of placement and their planned activity.

3.2. The Administration reviews the request and may ask for additional information: platform statistics, proof of ownership of the resource, and samples of material.

3.3. Once approved, the account is granted partner status, a personal promo code is linked to it and access to the partner panel is opened.

3.4. The promo code gives the buyer a discount, the size of which is determined by the Administration. A partner may not advertise a discount other than the one in force.

3.5. A partner must confirm they have read these Terms. First use of the promo code in the partner's material constitutes acceptance of them.

4. Rewards and how they accrue

4.1. The reward is a percentage of the amount of a paid order placed using the partner's promo code. The rate is set by the Administration at onboarding and shown in the partner panel.

4.2. The Administration may change the rate upon notice to the partner. The change applies to payments made after the notice and does not recalculate earlier periods.

4.3. Rewards accrue only on confirmed and completed payments. Cancelled, unpaid and voided orders generate no reward.

4.4. An accrued amount is credited to the partner's balance once the hold period has elapsed — 7 calendar days from the date the order was paid. The hold is needed to monitor refunds and fraudulent payments.

4.5. Turnover, accruals and available balance are shown in the partner panel. The panel's figures are the basis for settlement; in the event of a discrepancy, the Administration's billing records prevail.

4.6. No reward accrues on orders paid by the partner themselves, by accounts linked to them, or on orders showing signs of promo-code abuse.

5. Payouts

5.1. A payout is made on the partner's request, submitted in the partner panel, out of the available balance.

5.2. The minimum request amount is 1,000 ₽. A request exceeding the available balance is not accepted.

5.3. The partner states the transfer details (card or phone number) and a comment where necessary. The details must belong to the partner themselves; payouts to third parties' details are not made.

5.4. Every request is reviewed by the Administration. The review and payout period is up to 5 business days from the request being created; it may be longer during periods of high load.

5.5. The Administration may reject a request stating the reason, including incorrect details, indications of fraud, an unexpired hold period or a breach of these Terms. A rejected amount is returned to the balance unless it has been voided under section 8.

5.6. Payment-system and bank fees on the transfer are deducted from the payout amount unless agreed otherwise.

5.7. The partner is solely responsible for accounting for and paying any taxes and levies on the reward received under the law of their country. The Administration is not the partner's tax agent.

5.8. Rewards are paid in rubles. Other forms of settlement (subscriptions, internal bonuses) are possible only by separate agreement.

6. Partner obligations

6.1. The partner must present the product accurately: they must not misstate its functionality, price, subscription terms or refund policy.

6.2. The partner must use only current links, promo codes and materials and update them promptly after changes on the Website.

6.3. The partner must disclose the advertising nature of a placement where the platform's rules or the law of their country require it.

6.4. The partner must answer their audience's basic questions about the product and direct users to the official support service for payment, access and technical issues.

6.5. The partner must inform the Administration of a change of platform, a material change in the format of placement, and any known abuse of their promo code.

6.6. The partner must keep confidential the internal information received in connection with the program: test builds, unannounced features, internal statistics and internal correspondence.

6.7. The partner must keep access to their account and partner panel secure and is responsible for actions taken through their account.

6.8. The partner must stop publishing material at the Administration's request where it conflicts with these Terms.

7. Prohibited promotion methods

7.1. Self-purchases are prohibited: paying for orders with one's own promo code, and use of the code by accounts linked to the partner (relatives, shared devices, the partner's payment instruments).

7.2. Any incentive that circumvents the terms is prohibited: refunding part of the price to the buyer (cashback), buying through dummy accounts, and arrangements for sham payments.

7.3. Inflating platform metrics and using bots or purchased audiences to obtain or keep partner status is prohibited.

7.4. Spam in any form is prohibited: direct messaging, auto-replies, comments under other people's material, and placement in other communities and chats without their owners' permission.

7.5. Placing the promo code on coupon aggregators, discount sites and promo-code autofill services is prohibited unless separately agreed with the Administration.

7.6. Advertising on brand search queries, and creating sites, channels and accounts that imitate the project's official resources or its support service, are prohibited.

7.7. Presenting oneself as a member of staff, developer, moderator or official representative of the project, and making promises on its behalf, are prohibited.

7.8. Claiming product properties that do not exist is prohibited, including any guarantee against bans in third-party games, complete undetectability and any guarantee of results.

7.9. Reselling access, trading accounts, selling promo codes and distributing the client's or loader's files are prohibited.

7.10. Placing material on resources hosting unlawful content, or alongside material promoting violence, discrimination or content involving minors, is prohibited.

7.11. Publicly spreading false information about the project and its staff is prohibited; criticism is permitted on the conditions of section 9 of the Terms of Use.

8. Liability, deductions and voiding

8.1. In the event of a breach of these Terms, the Administration may suspend accruals, block withdrawals, void accrued rewards and remove the partner from the program.

8.2. Rewards on orders found to be sham, cancelled, refunded or disputed (chargeback) are voided in full, including after they have been credited to the balance.

8.3. Where systematic fraud is established, the Administration may void the partner's entire accumulated balance and refuse further cooperation.

8.4. Where a payout was made on the basis of inaccurate data or sham orders, the partner must return the amount received; no further payouts are made until it is returned.

8.5. The partner is solely responsible to third parties for the content of their material, including compliance with the rules of the platforms used and with advertising requirements.

8.6. The Administration's decisions on accruals and payouts are made on the basis of billing data and are final.

9. Suspension and end of participation

9.1. A partner may leave the program at any time by notifying the Administration through support. A confirmed balance that has cleared the hold and is not connected with any breach is paid out on the general terms.

9.2. The Administration may suspend or end a partner's participation at its own discretion, including without stating a reason, deactivating the promo code at the same time.

9.3. Where participation ends in the absence of any breach by the partner, the confirmed balance is paid out on request; the minimum amount does not apply on closure of participation.

9.4. Where participation ends due to a breach of these Terms, the balance may be voided under section 8.

9.5. Once the promo code is deactivated, accruals stop; payments made with a deactivated code generate no reward.

9.6. Leaving the program is not a ground for banning the user account where there is no breach of the Terms of Use.

10. Final provisions

10.1. The Administration may unilaterally amend these Terms. The current revision is published on the website and takes effect upon publication.

10.2. Continued participation in the program after a new revision is published constitutes the partner's acceptance of it.

10.3. The Administration may change the composition of the partner panel, the metrics it displays and the procedure for submitting payout requests.

10.4. All questions about accruals, payouts and placement conditions are handled through the official support service.