Affiliate Program Terms and Conditions

In exchange for referring a paying student to DrClaudiaWelch.com’s pre-recorded courses, DrClaudiaWelch.com will pay the Affiliate a percentage Commission of the price (excluding tax) of any pre-recorded courses sold to a third party who accesses DrClaudiaWelch.com through a referral link on the Affiliate’s website.

The current percentage Commission is 20% and is subject to change by DrClaudiaWelch.com at any time. DrClaudiaWelch.com will notify the Affiliate via email or any change to the Commission percentage.

Commission will be paid for the initial purchase of a pre-recorded online course. It does not apply to any future extensions of course access.

Referral links should point to the main DrClaudiaWelch.com website, for example to the homepage, Online Courses page, or to individual pre-recorded course sales pages.

DrClaudiaWelch.com will keep accurate and up-to-date records of the data used to calculate the Commission owed to the Affiliate. The relevant totals will be made available to the Affiliate via the Affiliate Area of DrClaudiaWelch.com.com.

Payouts

Payment will be made in USD to the PayPal account associated with the payment email address which the Affiliate provided during registration (which can be updated via the Affiliate Area).

Rejected payments

Commission will only be paid for valid referrals. DrClaudiaWelch.com reserves the right to reject any referrals for any reason which we believe to be in violation of these Terms. For example, referrals will typically be rejected if any of the following applies:

  • The sale that generated the commission has been refunded.
  • The referral method violated our policies or the spirit of our policies, as outlined in this document.
  • The purchase was made by the affiliate – for example, if they bought the course for their own use.
  • The referral came from a link on a coupon sharing or discount site.

No commission will be paid for transactions that are later subject to refunds or chargebacks. If DrClaudiaWelch.com has already paid Commission for a transaction which is later refunded or charged back then the Commission already paid will be deducted from a future payment.

Tax

DrClaudiaWelch.com is not responsible for any taxes that the Affiliate owes as a result of their relationship with DrClaudiaWelch.com. The Affiliate is responsible for their own tax affairs.

Cookie expiry

The cookies used to track usage of the referral links are stored for 14 days. If a customer purchases a plugin after the cookie has expired, or from a different browser or device, then no commission will be paid.

Policies

Approved promotional methods

Affiliates are encouraged to promote our pre-recorded courses only in ways that add genuine value for your readers and for our potential customers. For example:

  • Write a blog post or course review – The best way to generate significant Commission is to write high quality, unique content about our courses and publish it on your website.
  • Social sharing – Sending tweets with your affiliate link, and sharing on Facebook and other social networks. These should offer genuinely useful information and recommendations of our courses, and not spam your followers.
  • Help others online – Lots of people would benefit from a DrClaudiaWelch.com course, but they haven’t discovered us yet. For example, customers often post on online forums and Facebook groups asking how to achieve a particular health outcome. If you know that our courses will help them address their concern, help them out and include your affiliate link.
  • Refer clients – If you are a healthcare practitioner or educator and have regular clients who will benefit from our courses, then share an affiliate link with them.
  • Cross-promotion – If you sell complementary courses, then you can share the word about DrClaudiaWelch.com’s courses with your existing customer base.

Prohibited promotional methods

  • Coupon sites are not permitted because they are most likely to be used by customers already planning to purchase a DrClaudiaWelch.com course. As a result, links on coupon code sites do not add genuine value.
  • Confusing customers or pretending to be formally associated with DrClaudiaWelch.com. Affiliates are not employees or associates and have no formal connection with DrClaudiaWelch.com, so you must not imply this.
  • Any type of spam. Email, link spamming, comment spamming, etc. is 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 DrClaudiaWelch.com name, such as “DrClaudiaWelch.com”, “DrClaudiaWelch.com Courses”, or “DrClaudiaWelch.com.com” either on its own or with additional terms (e.g. “DrClaudiaWelch.com discounts”) because this can be misleading.
  • Don’t use any DrClaudiaWelch.com website URL (e.g. DrClaudiaWelch.com.com) as the ad’s display URL. Don’t directly link to DrClaudiaWelch.com from any paid search ads. Instead, link to a landing page 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 it is clear that you joined the affiliate program with the intention of breaking these terms.

License & intellectual property

DrClaudiaWelch.com agrees for the Affiliate to use the referral links provided via the Affiliate Area to promote DrClaudiaWelch.com’s pre-recorded courses.

DrClaudiaWelch.com 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 DrClaudiaWelch.com and the Affiliate. The Affiliate will promote DrClaudiaWelch.com’s products as an independent party. The Affiliate will have no authority to bind DrClaudiaWelch.com into any agreement, nor will the Affiliate be considered to be an agent of DrClaudiaWelch.com 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 DrClaudiaWelch.com’s products or services.
  • They will not use DrClaudiaWelch.com’s name or any of its products or services for any misleading purpose. This includes implying that DrClaudiaWelch.com’s products or services are the Affiliate’s own; and using a domain name or other branding that is confusing similar to DrClaudiaWelch.com.
  • 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 DrClaudiaWelch.com 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 DrClaudiaWelch.com’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 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 DrClaudiaWelch.com’s products and services (unless DrClaudiaWelch.com specifically requests that this stops), however they will no longer receive commission for any transactions made through the referral link.

Removal of online information

The Affiliate is expected to communicate about DrClaudiaWelch.com’s courses in an accurate, ethical and responsible way.

DrClaudiaWelch.com reserves the right to request that any online material the Affiliate has published relating to the products and services is removed from the Internet. The Affiliate must comply with any removal requests within 2 working days.

Limitation of liability

DrClaudiaWelch.com 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.

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