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Last updated 21 July 2026

Terms of service

These terms govern every publisher and advertiser account on the AffiliateAdz network, and every click, conversion and payout that passes through it. They are written to be read — the traffic rules, the reversal rights and the payout mechanics are the parts that matter, and they are stated plainly rather than buried.

Terms of service sections

Agreement

This agreement is between you — the publisher, advertiser or agency holding an account — and Catalyst Web Trendz Pvt. Ltd., D 29, 2nd Floor, Greater Kailash Enclave 2, Greater Kailash, New Delhi – 110048, which operates the AffiliateAdz network. By applying for an account, accepting an insertion order, sending a click or receiving a payout, you accept these terms. Where a signed insertion order or master services agreement conflicts with this page, the signed document prevails for that relationship only.

01. Eligibility and account registration

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of contracting under the Indian Contract Act, 1872, or the equivalent law of your jurisdiction. Accounts held in a company name must be opened by a person authorised to bind that company. All information supplied at registration — entity name, traffic sources, tax identifiers, payout destination — must be accurate at the time it is given and kept current thereafter.

One account is permitted per legal entity. Where you genuinely operate separate businesses or media properties, ask your manager to open sub-accounts under a single parent rather than registering twice. Undisclosed duplicate accounts, whether identified by domain, payout destination, device signal or contact details, are treated as an attempt to evade caps, quality scoring or a prior suspension, and may result in closure of every linked account.

02. Publisher account terms

As a publisher you may promote only the offers to which your account has been granted access, using only the creatives and claim lines approved for that offer, and only through the traffic sources you declared and we approved. Adding a materially different traffic source — moving from content to push, or from organic to paid search — requires notification before you send traffic on it.

New accounts operate under a probation period during which per-offer caps apply and traffic is scored closely; caps lift as clean volume accumulates. You are responsible for compliance with the advertising law of every jurisdiction you send traffic from, including disclosure of affiliate relationships where required, and for anything published on properties you control. Payout rates, scrub windows and offer terms are confidential (section 11).

03. Advertiser account terms

As an advertiser you must define the conversion event precisely before launch, together with the rejection reasons you intend to apply, and you may not introduce new rejection grounds retrospectively. You warrant that your product, landing pages and claims comply with applicable law — including the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 and its rules on misleading advertisements and endorsements where you sell into India — and that you hold all licences your sector requires.

You must maintain working tracking for the duration of the campaign, notify us of any change to your funnel, postback endpoint or validation logic before it takes effect, and reconcile honestly. Systematic under-reporting, silent rejection of valid conversions or refusal to supply the monthly conversion file entitles us to suspend the offer, pay publishers from the network's own record of conversions, and recover that amount from you.

04. Approval, rejection and our discretion

Acceptance onto the network is at our discretion. We review every application manually, approve roughly 87.4% of them, and give a reason for every rejection. We may decline an application, restrict an account to particular offers or geos, impose caps, or require additional verification at any time, including after approval, where traffic quality, compliance risk or advertiser requirements make it necessary.

Access to an individual offer is separately controlled: advertisers may allowlist, blocklist or tier publishers, and we may withdraw access to an offer without withdrawing account access. Nothing in these terms obliges us to provide any particular offer, payout rate, volume or earnings level, and no representation made in conversation, on a call or in a chat message creates such an obligation.

05. Prohibited traffic and conduct

The following are prohibited across the network. Breach is a material breach and entitles us to reverse the affected conversions in full, suspend the account and terminate this agreement without notice.

  • Incentivised traffic on any offer not explicitly flagged incent-allowed by the advertiser, including cashback, points, reward walls, competition entries and any promise of value in exchange for the action.
  • Bot, emulator, datacentre and proxy traffic, click farms, automated form fills, and any generated interaction not initiated by a genuine human user.
  • Cookie stuffing, forced or hidden clicks, iframe stacking, pixel dropping and auto-redirects that give the user no meaningful choice.
  • Adult, hate, extremist, weapons, counterfeit and piracy placements, and any placement on a site hosting such content.
  • Misleading creatives: fabricated approval odds, invented countdowns or scarcity, false testimonials, imitation of a bank, regulator, court or government notice, unauthorised use of a public figure's likeness, and any claim the advertiser has not approved in writing.
  • Trademark bidding on advertiser brand terms, misspellings of them or brand-plus-modifier terms in any search or shopping platform, unless the advertiser has expressly whitelisted you in writing. Use of a brand name in a display URL or ad headline without permission is likewise prohibited.
  • Toolbars, browser extensions, adware and SDKs that inject, rewrite or overwrite affiliate links, and any interference with another publisher's attribution.
  • Unsolicited email and messaging, purchased lists, and any communication that breaches applicable anti-spam or telecom regulation.

06. Fraud detection, reversals and clawbacks

Every click is scored in real time on IP reputation, device signal entropy, click-to-conversion timing, sub-identifier concentration and geo-to-language coherence. Where a cohort behaves anomalously we place the affected earnings on hold and notify you the same day with the offer and metric concerned. A hold is not a forfeiture: you have 7 days to respond with logs, placement evidence and traffic-source detail, and a person reviews every hold before any money moves.

We reserve the right to reverse a conversion, and to claw back a conversion already approved and paid, where the underlying event was fraudulent or artificially generated, duplicated, charged back or refunded, cancelled inside the advertiser's stated validation period, or generated in breach of section 05. Clawbacks are itemised with the conversion identifier and a reason code and are set off against your next payout run; where no future payout is expected they become a debt repayable within 30 days. Any reversal may be disputed within 30 days of appearing in your ledger, and is reinstated where the advertiser cannot evidence the reason given.

07. Payout terms, thresholds and taxes

Commissions accrue when a conversion is recorded and become payable when it is approved by the advertiser and the applicable scrub window — 7 to 14 days, stated on each offer page — has closed. Payout runs are weekly on NET-7 terms and clear every Wednesday; the cycle closes the preceding Sunday night. The minimum payout threshold is $50 or local equivalent; balances below it roll forward indefinitely and are never forfeited, and the threshold is waived on a final settlement when an account closes.

Payment is made to the verified destination on your account by bank transfer, international wire, PayPal, Payoneer or USDT-TRC20. Wire and network fees are borne by the recipient and shown before release. Changes to payout destinations trigger re-verification and a seven-day hold. Tax is deducted at source for Indian residents at the statutory rate with a quarterly certificate issued, and GST is applied where the supply is taxable in India; non-resident publishers are paid gross and are responsible for tax in their own jurisdiction. Currency conversion is applied at the rate fixed on the run date.

Advertisers are invoiced monthly against the signed conversion file on NET-30 terms unless otherwise agreed in the insertion order. Overdue sums carry interest at 1.5% per month or the maximum permitted by law, whichever is lower, and we may suspend an offer while an invoice is outstanding.

08. Chargebacks, refunds and cancellations

Performance marketing pays for outcomes, and an outcome that is undone was never an outcome. Where an end customer charges back a transaction, cancels an order, returns goods, fails underwriting, or is refunded within the validation period stated on the offer, the associated commission is reversed and, if already paid, clawed back under section 06.

Advertisers must report chargebacks and cancellations within 45 days of the original conversion; reversals raised after that window are not enforceable against publishers except in cases of proven fraud. Advertiser deposits and prepayments are applied against invoices and are not refundable once conversions have been delivered against them, save for amounts genuinely unspent at termination, which are returned within 30 days of final reconciliation.

09. Offer caps, budget exhaustion and changes

Offers carry daily and monthly caps and a total budget. When a cap or budget is reached the offer stops accepting clicks immediately and its status changes in the marketplace within seconds; caps reset at 00:00 UTC unless a different boundary is agreed. Conversions arising from clicks sent before a pause remain payable — we do not retro-reject on the basis of a cap, and advertisers may not do so either.

Advertisers may pause an offer immediately for compliance or budget reasons. Payout reductions and other material term changes require 48 hours notice, and the previous payout is honoured for any click already inside the attribution window at the time of the change. Publishers are responsible for monitoring offer status before scaling spend; we publish status changes in the dashboard and by webhook but do not guarantee delivery of notification to any particular channel.

10. Platform, API and acceptable use

API credentials are personal to your account, must be kept secret, and must not be shared, resold or embedded in client-side code. The REST v2 API permits 120 requests per minute per key on reporting endpoints and 600 per minute on conversion ingestion; exceeding a limit returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header, and persistent disregard of that header is grounds for key revocation. Bulk data must be taken through the asynchronous report endpoint rather than by aggressive pagination.

You may not scrape the marketplace, reverse-engineer the tracking or scoring systems, probe or load-test the platform without written permission, circumvent caps or access controls, or use the platform to build a competing network's offer database. Security vulnerabilities should be reported to the desk rather than demonstrated against production. We may suspend access immediately where continued use threatens platform integrity or other partners' data.

11. Intellectual property and confidentiality

Advertisers grant publishers a limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use the supplied creatives, trademarks and copy solely to promote the specific offer, for as long as that offer is active on your account, and strictly within the approved claim set. The licence ends the moment the offer is paused or access is withdrawn, and all use must cease within 48 hours. Publishers may not modify creatives, translate claim lines, or produce derivative assets without written approval.

The platform, its interfaces, documentation, scoring logic and aggregated network statistics remain our property. Payout rates, offer terms, scrub windows, caps, advertiser identities where not publicly listed, and reporting data are confidential information. Neither party may disclose the other's confidential information for three years after termination, except where disclosure is compelled by law or by a regulator, in which case the disclosing party will give notice where lawfully able to.

12. Warranties, indemnity and limitation of liability

Each party warrants that it has the authority to enter this agreement and will comply with applicable law, including the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. You indemnify us against all claims, losses, penalties and reasonable legal costs arising from your breach of these terms, your traffic, your creatives, your product or landing pages, or your infringement of a third party's rights.

The platform is provided on an as-is basis. We do not warrant uninterrupted availability, error-free tracking, or that any level of traffic, conversion rate, EPC or earnings will be achieved. To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue, goodwill or anticipated savings. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with this agreement is limited to the total amounts paid to or by you in the three months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, or any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

13. Suspension, termination and consequences

Either party may terminate on 30 days written notice. We may suspend or terminate immediately for breach of section 05, suspected fraud, insolvency, or a legal or regulatory requirement. Termination for convenience does not affect commissions already approved and payable, which settle on the next run after the longest applicable scrub window closes, with the threshold waived.

Where termination follows a finding of fraud or a material breach of the traffic rules, unpaid balances attributable to the offending traffic may be withheld and applied against advertiser reversals, and we may notify affected advertisers of the fact and reason for termination. Sections on confidentiality, indemnity, limitation of liability, clawbacks and dispute resolution survive termination.

14. Governing law, disputes and general

This agreement is governed by the laws of India. Before commencing formal proceedings the parties will attempt good-faith resolution for 30 days through the published escalation path, beginning with the affiliate manager and ending with network operations. Disputes that remain unresolved will be referred to arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, before a sole arbitrator appointed by agreement, with the seat and venue of arbitration at New Delhi and proceedings conducted in English. The award is final and binding.

Subject to the arbitration clause, the courts at New Delhi have exclusive jurisdiction. We may amend these terms; material changes are notified to account holders by email at least 14 days before they take effect, and continued use after that date is acceptance. You may not assign this agreement without our written consent; we may assign it on a business transfer. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder continues in force. Neither party is liable for failure caused by events beyond reasonable control, and no delay in enforcing a right operates as a waiver of it.

Questions about this policy?

If a clause affects a decision you are about to make — a traffic source, a payout structure, a creative — ask before you act rather than after. Written answers on interpretation are given as a matter of course, and they are faster than a dispute.

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