Iodine Affiliate Program Terms

1. About these Terms

These Terms are an agreement between you and Persona Enterprises Inc., a Delaware corporation that operates Iodine ("Iodine", "we" or "us"), 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808. They govern your participation in the Iodine Affiliate Program (the "Program"). You accept them when you apply to the Program in the Iodine console. If you apply for a business, you confirm that you can bind it, and "you" means that business.

Iodine's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, published at iodine.dev/legal, also apply to your own use of Iodine's console and services. If they conflict with these Terms about the Program, these Terms control.

2. Joining the Program

You apply in the console, as an individual or a company, with accurate information: your name (or your company's), a contact email, your website or channel, where you will share Iodine, and a note about your audience. Iodine reviews each application and may accept or decline it at its discretion, without giving a reason. You are in the Program, and these Terms take effect, once Iodine accepts your application.

You must be at least 18 years old, able to enter into contracts, and not on any US or other applicable sanctions or restricted-party list, nor located in a country or region subject to comprehensive US sanctions. Each person or business may have one affiliate account. Keep your contact and payout details up to date.

3. Your links and how referrals count

Once you're accepted, Iodine gives you a referral link of the form https://iodine.dev/r/yourcode. Adding ?ref=yourcode to any iodine.dev page works the same way. You may also create custom links (https://iodine.dev/r/your-custom-name) that send visitors to any iodine.dev page you choose, up to the number your dashboard allows. Each of these is a "Link".

When someone opens a Link, Iodine remembers the click for 90 days, in their browser and, once they sign in, on their Iodine account. A customer becomes your "Referred Customer" when they make their first purchase of Iodine credits, if they clicked one of your Links in the 90 days before it. If they clicked more than one affiliate's link, the last one before that purchase counts. An Iodine account that already had a free plan or free credits can become your Referred Customer; an account that had already bought credits before clicking your Link cannot.

Tracking depends on the visitor's browser keeping the click, and Iodine isn't responsible for referrals that aren't recorded because cookies were blocked or cleared, links were altered, or for similar reasons outside its control.

You can't be your own Referred Customer. Your own Iodine account, any account you are a member of, and accounts that you, your employer, your business or anyone acting for you owns, controls or uses are not Referred Customers, and earn no commission.

Iodine's records decide which accounts are your Referred Customers and what they paid. Your dashboard in the console shows them, without identifying them.

4. Your commission

For each Referred Customer, you earn 22% (your "Rate") of each of their Net Payments made during the 12 months starting with their first purchase of credits (your "Commission"). After those 12 months you earn nothing more from that customer. The Rate and the length of that period are fixed for each Referred Customer when they become yours: a later change to your Rate applies only to customers who become yours after it.

"Net Payments" means money Iodine actually receives from the Referred Customer to buy prepaid credits on Iodine's standard self-serve pricing, including automatic top-ups, minus refunds, chargebacks and reversals of those payments, whenever they happen. Net Payments don't include: sales, use, value-added and similar taxes; free, welcome, promotional or goodwill credits; amounts Iodine hasn't received, for any reason; or money paid under an enterprise agreement, an invoice, or any other contract negotiated with Iodine's sales team.

A refund, chargeback or reversal of a payment reverses the Commission on it in proportion, as soon as it happens, even if that Commission was already paid out to you. Iodine deducts it from your future Commission.

While your participation is suspended under section 10, payments made by your Referred Customers earn no Commission. If Iodine reinstates you, you earn Commission again on payments made after that, within each customer's period.

Your Rate is shown in your dashboard. Iodine may agree a different Rate with you in writing.

5. Getting paid

Commission is on hold for 30 days after the payment it comes from, and then becomes available. Each month Iodine pays your available balance, if it is at least $50; a smaller balance carries over to the next month. Your dashboard shows each payout and what it covered.

Iodine pays in US dollar stablecoin (USDC) to a wallet address you give it on a network Iodine supports, or in US dollars by bank transfer, as you choose in your dashboard. You are responsible for giving accurate payout details; a payment sent to the details you provided counts as paid. Iodine pays any fees it is charged to send a payment. Fees charged by your bank, wallet or exchange are yours.

Taxes. You are responsible for all taxes on your Commission. Iodine may ask you for a tax form (such as an IRS Form W-9, or a Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E if you're outside the US) or other information it needs to pay you lawfully, may hold payments until you provide it, and may withhold or report amounts where the law requires.

If Iodine pays you more than you earned, including through a later refund, chargeback or a reversal under section 7, it may deduct the difference from your future Commission. If there is no future Commission to deduct from, you agree to repay it within 30 days of Iodine asking.

6. How you may promote Iodine

Disclose that you're paid. Whenever you recommend or link to Iodine, whether in a post, video, review, newsletter, message or anywhere else, you must clearly and conspicuously disclose that you earn a commission from Iodine, and follow the US Federal Trade Commission's Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising and similar laws where you and your audience are. Don't present a review or testimonial as coming from an independent customer.

Be accurate. Describe Iodine, its products and its prices only as Iodine publicly describes them. Don't make promises for Iodine about prices, discounts, credits, features, performance or availability, and don't claim to be Iodine, to work for Iodine, or to be endorsed by it beyond being an affiliate.

You must not: (a) bid on "Iodine", "iodine.dev" or similar terms, or misspellings of them, in search or other paid advertising, or use them in ad copy or display URLs; (b) send unsolicited bulk email or messages, or promote Iodine in ways that break anti-spam laws (such as CAN-SPAM) or a platform's rules; (c) use cookie stuffing, forced clicks, hidden frames, browser extensions that insert links, or any other way of setting your cookie without a real, deliberate click; (d) offer people money, credits or other rewards to sign up, or share your Commission with them, unless Iodine agrees in writing; (e) create accounts with false information or have others sign up on your behalf; (f) promote Iodine on sites or in content that is illegal, hateful, sexually explicit, or that infringes anyone's rights; or (g) register domain names, social accounts or app names that contain "Iodine" or something confusingly similar.

Follow all laws that apply to your promotion, including consumer protection, privacy and anti-spam laws.

7. Reversals

Iodine may withhold, reverse or decline to pay Commission on any account or payment it finds in good faith to be connected with a breach of these Terms, fraud, self-referral, fake or duplicate accounts, stolen payment methods, or traffic that wasn't genuine, and may recover Commission already paid on it. For self-referral or fraud, Iodine may also remove a Referred Customer from you, so that you earn nothing more from them. Iodine will tell you when it does.

8. Iodine's name and logos

While you're in the Program, Iodine gives you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Iodine name, the logo files and the approved descriptions of Iodine provided in your dashboard, only to promote Iodine with your Link, and only as Iodine provides them, without altering them. Iodine may ask you to change or remove any use, and you must do so promptly. All goodwill from that use belongs to Iodine.

9. Changes to these Terms

Iodine may change these Terms, including your Rate, by giving you notice in the console or by email. An increase to your Rate takes effect immediately. Any other change takes effect no sooner than 15 days after notice, and a change to your Rate applies only to customers who become your Referred Customers after it takes effect, unless the change is needed to comply with law. If you don't agree with a change, your remedy is to leave the Program before it takes effect.

10. Leaving the Program

You may leave the Program at any time by telling Iodine in the console or by email. Iodine may suspend or end your participation, or end the Program, at any time, for any reason, by telling you. While you are suspended, section 4 applies.

When your participation ends, you earn no Commission on payments made after that date, your Links stop counting, and your license under section 8 ends. If it ends for any reason other than Cause, Iodine pays the Commission you earned on payments made before that date, once payable and after any deductions, if it totals at least $50. If it ends for Cause, Iodine owes you no unpaid Commission.

"Cause" means that you broke section 3, 6 or 8, committed fraud, gave Iodine false information, or materially broke any other part of these Terms.

11. Independent contractor

You are an independent contractor. You are not Iodine's employee, agent, partner or joint venturer, and you have no authority to make commitments for Iodine. You are not entitled to wages, benefits, expenses or any other payment from Iodine besides your Commission. You decide how, when and where you promote Iodine, within these Terms, and you pay your own costs.

12. Confidentiality and data

Your dashboard shows information about your Referred Customers without naming them, such as when they became yours, what they paid and the Commission on it, and about the visitors your Links bring, such as where they came from. It is Iodine's confidential information. Use it only to follow your referrals and Commission, don't share it, and don't try to identify or contact those customers through it.

If you collect personal information from your audience, you are responsible for doing so lawfully. Iodine handles the personal information of people who sign up as its Privacy Policy describes.

13. Responsibility for your actions

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Iodine and its officers, directors, employees and agents from any claim, loss, liability, penalty, cost or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your breach of these Terms, your content and promotion, your violation of any law, or your taxes.

14. Disclaimers and limits on liability

The Program, your dashboard and Iodine's tracking are provided "as is". Iodine doesn't promise that the Program will continue, that tracking will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that you will earn any particular amount.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW: (a) NEITHER YOU NOR IODINE IS LIABLE TO THE OTHER FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOST PROFITS OR OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE PROGRAM; AND (b) IODINE'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE PROGRAM WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE COMMISSION PAID TO YOU IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE OR $100.

These limits don't apply to Iodine's obligation to pay Commission you have earned and not been paid, to your obligations under section 13, or to liability for fraud or willful misconduct.

15. Disputes: individual arbitration, and no class actions or jury trials

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS HOW DISPUTES ARE RESOLVED AND YOUR RIGHT TO GO TO COURT.

Informal resolution first. Before starting arbitration, the party with a dispute must send the other a written description of it and what they want (to legal@iodine.dev for Iodine, or to the email on your Iodine account for you), and both will try in good faith to resolve it for 30 days.

Agreement to arbitrate. You and Iodine agree that any dispute, claim or controversy between you and Iodine (or its officers, directors, employees or agents) arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Program or your Commission, including any question about the existence, scope, validity, enforceability or arbitrability of this section, will be resolved only by final and binding arbitration before a single arbitrator, administered by the American Arbitration Association under its rules that apply to the dispute, as modified by this section. The hearing will be held by video unless the arbitrator decides an in-person hearing is needed. Iodine pays all AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees, except that if you start the arbitration you pay a filing fee no more than you would pay to file the claim in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

What isn't covered. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies, or ask a court for temporary relief to protect intellectual property or confidential information while an arbitration is pending.

Class action and jury trial waiver. YOU AND IODINE MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST EACH OTHER ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR ARBITRATION. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, YOU AND IODINE EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL. If the class action waiver is found unenforceable for a claim, that claim must be decided by a court, not in arbitration.

Your right to opt out. You may opt out of arbitration (but not the rest of these Terms) by emailing legal@iodine.dev within 30 days after you first accept these Terms, with your name and the statement "I opt out of arbitration".

16. Governing law and courts

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and, for section 15, by the Federal Arbitration Act. For any matter that is not arbitrated, and to enforce an arbitration award, you and Iodine agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in New Castle County, Delaware, except where the law where you live gives you a right that can't be waived to bring the claim there.

17. General terms

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and Iodine about the Program and replace any earlier version. If any part is found unenforceable, it will be enforced as far as allowed and the rest stays in effect. Iodine may assign these Terms, including in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets; you may not assign them without Iodine's written consent. Iodine may give you notice in the console or by email to the address on your Iodine account; you give notice to Iodine at legal@iodine.dev. If Iodine doesn't enforce a right, that isn't a waiver of it. Sections 4, 5, 7, 10 and 12 through 17, and any right to Commission already earned, continue after your participation ends.

Contact

Questions about the Program: business@iodine.dev. Legal notices: legal@iodine.dev, or Persona Enterprises Inc., 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808, United States.