Partner Terms

1. Who we are and what this is

WiredType (Kevin Weller, doing business as WiredType, Jersey City, New Jersey) runs the WiredType Partner Program. A Partner is a person or company that promotes WiredType and is paid a commission on purchases by customers they find. Joining is free. Partners buy nothing to join or to earn. Partners are independent; nothing here creates employment, agency, partnership or a franchise. A Partner may not sign contracts, make promises or incur costs in WiredType's name.

2. Joining

You must be 18 or older, have a WiredType account, accept these Terms, and complete Stripe's identity, bank and tax setup (Stripe Connect). During the launch period you may activate your account before Stripe payout setup is available; section 4 says how earnings are held and paid, and you complete Stripe setup before your first payout. We may decline or close an application only for a reason in section 8, and we tell you which one.

3. How you earn

3.1 A customer is "found by you" when their first purchase or account creation is attributed to your link, code or a share that carries your code, under the attribution rule in effect at that time (today: 60 days from the click, last click wins; once a person has bought, they stay attributed to you).

3.2 You earn the commission rate in effect when the customer was found (today 30 percent of net), on every purchase that customer makes at WiredType, for as long as they remain a customer, including later editions, team seats, credits, subscriptions and renewals. We may raise rates at any time. We may lower the rate only for customers found after the change and only with 30 days' written notice. Milestones raise your whole book: when the number of customers you have found reaches 25, 100 and 500, your rate on every future purchase by every customer in your book becomes 35, 40 and 50 percent, from that day, and a milestone rate is never taken away. Each purchase pays the higher of the customer's locked rate and your milestone rate at the time of the purchase.

3.3 Commission is computed on net revenue: the amount the customer paid, less Stripe processing fees, less any tax withheld or remitted, less refunds and disputes. A refund or dispute inside the clearing period cancels the commission for that purchase; after the clearing period it is not taken back.

3.4 Sharing inherits attribution: when a customer you found shares WiredType and the person they share with becomes a customer, that person is found by you too.

3.5 Your own purchases, purchases by your household or employees, and purchases made with your own code on accounts you control do not earn commission (self-referral).

3.6 We pay only for purchases by real customers. We do not pay for sign-ups, clicks, recruiting other Partners, or your own activity. If a customer you found later becomes a Partner, the customers they find are theirs; the customers you found, including that person as a customer, remain yours.

3.7 Once a year we ask you to re-accept the current Terms and answer a short check on the rules (about 10 minutes). Until you do, your links stop attributing new customers; everything you already earn continues, and the pause ends the moment you finish.

3.8 Milestones and the quarterly bonus. When the number of paying customers you have found reaches 25, 100 and 500, your rate on every future purchase by every customer in your book becomes 35, 40 and 50 percent, and a milestone rate is never taken away (section 3.2). At the end of each calendar quarter we add a bonus of 5, 10, 20 or 30 percent of the commissions you cleared in that quarter if you finished in the top 50, 25, 10 or 5 percent of active Partners by cleared commissions (active means at least one paying customer found in the quarter; ties resolve upward). Until 100 Partners are active in a quarter, the bands are instead 5, 10, 25 and 50 paying customers found in that quarter. A bonus is paid with the first weekly payout after the quarter closes. A bonus is not paid for a quarter in which a payout hold or suspension was opened against you, unless that hold was overturned on appeal before the quarter closed; commissions are never affected by this rule. Milestones and bonuses are computed from customer purchases only, never from recruiting.

4. Payment

Earnings clear after the customer's refund window (today 14 days for new purchases). Cleared earnings above the minimum (today $25) are paid weekly by Stripe transfer to the Stripe Connect account in your name; Stripe pays your bank and issues your tax forms. You are responsible for your own taxes. We may hold a payout only for a reason in section 8 and we tell you within 5 business days which reason and what would release it. Earnings never expire while you remain a Partner; on leaving, section 10 applies. You can see every customer count, earning, hold and payout in your Partner dashboard at any time. During the launch period, before Stripe payout setup is available, your earnings are recorded and cleared as above and held for you; they are paid in the first weekly payout after payout setup opens, and your dashboard says when that is.

5. What you may do

Promote WiredType anywhere you have the right to post: your site, newsletter, social accounts, videos, talks, workshops, print, in person. Use the WiredType name, logos, share cards and marketing kit as we provide them, unaltered except for size. Describe your own experience with the product honestly. Offer your code to your audience. Build a business around it.

6. What you may not do

Each rule names the harm it prevents, so it is clear why it exists.

6.1 Spam: unsolicited bulk email or messages, comment spam, unsolicited direct messages to strangers. (Harm: our sending reputation and legal exposure.)

6.2 Deception: false claims about WiredType, about DISC, about results, or about what a report contains; fake reviews; pretending to be WiredType; misleading redirects; cookie stuffing; forcing clicks; incentivized purchases without disclosure.

6.3 Income claims beyond the typical-earnings statement we publish; "get rich" language; promises of income.

6.4 Missing disclosure: every post, video, message, print piece or spoken recommendation that carries your link or code must include the disclosure sentence we supply ("I earn a commission if you buy through this link") where readers see it before they click, in the same medium as the recommendation (said or shown inside a video, not only in a caption).

6.5 Self-referral and code farming (section 3.5), buying through your own code, refund cycling.

6.6 Paid search on the WiredType name or trademarks, or on "wiredtype" misspellings; domains or handles that imitate WiredType.

6.7 Discrimination, harassment, hate, or targeting people under 18 in your promotion.

6.8 Coupon or deal sites that publish your code as a general discount without your own promotion attached (we may set a separate deal-site tier; until then it is not allowed).

6.9 Reselling reports, redistributing report content, scraping, or reverse engineering the site.

6.10 Acting for a competitor while using WiredType materials to do it (promoting a competing DISC product with our assets). There is no non-compete: you may promote other products, including competitors, as long as you do not use our materials or our name to do it and you keep your disclosures accurate.

7. Enforcement ladder (the whole point of section 6 is that this section is rarely needed)

We apply these steps in order. We skip steps only for a Serious Cause in 8.2. Every step is a written notice in your Partner inbox and by email, with the rule, the evidence, the date, the step, and what ends it.

Step 1, Notice: what we saw and the rule. No change to earnings or payouts. You have 14 days to fix it and reply.

Step 2, Warning: if it continues or repeats within 90 days. Earnings continue; we may pause new share-card generation for the channel involved until fixed.

Step 3, Payout hold: if it continues after a Warning. Earnings continue to accrue; payouts pause; you have 30 days to cure. Cured: the hold releases and everything held is paid. Not cured: Step 4.

Step 4, Suspension: your links stop attributing new customers. Existing customers keep earning for you. 60 days to cure; cured: reinstated with everything paid; not cured: termination under section 10 for cause.

A record that has been clean for 12 months returns to Step 1. Three Step-3 holds in 24 months is a Serious Cause.

8. Grounds for holds, suspension and termination

8.1 Ordinary grounds (ladder applies): any section 6 rule; refund rate above 20 percent on your customers for 60 days; inaccurate tax or identity information at Stripe; a Stripe account that cannot receive payouts.

8.2 Serious Cause (we may go straight to suspension, and to termination after the appeal in section 9): fraud (fake customers, stolen cards, chargeback patterns, refund cycling); illegal content or conduct; impersonating WiredType or a WiredType customer; selling or leaking customer data; a court order or a Stripe or card-network requirement; three Step-3 holds in 24 months.

8.3 Never a ground: the size of your business, your success, your rate, competing honestly with other Partners or with us, declining to promote a product, or a complaint without evidence.

9. Appeals and dispute resolution

9.1 Appeal: within 30 days of any notice you may appeal in writing from your Partner inbox. An independent review, separate from the automated rule that issued the notice, answers within 15 business days with a written decision and reasons. Payouts already held stay held during the appeal and are released with interest at the Stripe payout date if the appeal succeeds.

9.2 Good-faith talk: if you disagree with the appeal decision, either side may ask for a 30-day negotiation period in writing before anything else.

9.3 Mediation: after that, either side may request mediation (video, one day, a neutral chosen from a recognized mediation service; each side pays its own costs; the mediator's fee is split).

9.4 Arbitration, and what you give up: any dispute not resolved above, including a claim under a statute, is settled by binding individual arbitration instead of a lawsuit. This means that neither of us will have the dispute decided in a court of law by a judge or a jury, and that review of the arbitrator's decision is limited; the arbitrator can award the same damages and relief a court could, subject to these Terms. Either side may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court in Hudson County, New Jersey, if it qualifies there. The arbitration is administered by the American Arbitration Association: under its Employment/Workplace Arbitration Rules if you are an individual acting in your own name, and under its Commercial Arbitration Rules if you are a company or other entity. One arbitrator, by video unless both sides agree otherwise, seated in Newark, New Jersey, applying New Jersey law. Each side bears its own attorney fees unless the arbitrator finds a claim frivolous. Class waiver: you and WiredType bring claims only in an individual capacity, and each of us gives up any right to take part in a class action, class arbitration or other representative proceeding; if 25 or more similar demands are filed by or against affiliates through the same or coordinated counsel, the AAA Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply and the cases are administered in batches. Opt-out: you may reject this arbitration section by emailing hello@wiredtype.com from the email address on your account within 30 days after you first accept these Terms (or within 30 days after we notify you of a material change to this section) with your name, your account email and the words "I opt out of arbitration"; opting out changes nothing else in these Terms, and disputes then go to the state or federal courts sitting in Hudson County, New Jersey. A change to this section never applies to a claim that arose before the change.

9.5 One-year limit: a claim must be started within one year after you first knew, or reasonably should have known, of the facts behind it. This shortens New Jersey's longer default period for contract claims. It does not shorten the time for any claim that the law says cannot be shortened, and the year does not run while a written dispute you sent us is still open.

9.6 Nothing here stops either side from seeking a court order to stop infringement, data misuse, or fraud in progress.

10. Leaving and termination

10.1 Your book is yours for life. You never have to keep promoting to keep earning: a Partner who stops promoting, for any length of time, keeps every customer they found, and those customers keep earning for that Partner at their locked rates for as long as the account stays open and in good standing (the annual renewal in section 3.7 keeps the account current; missing it pauses only new attribution, never earnings on customers already found). Leaving means closing your Partner account, which you may do at any time from the dashboard. Earnings cleared through your last day are paid on the next payout. After you close the account, customers you found keep earning for you for 12 months (wind-down), then attribution ends. The wind-down applies only to a closed account (this section and 10.2); a termination for cause is governed by 10.3.

10.2 If we end the program or your participation without cause, the same 12-month wind-down applies, plus 60 days' notice.

10.3 Termination for cause after the ladder and appeal: earnings cleared through the termination date are paid; no wind-down. For Serious Cause involving fraud, earnings from the fraudulent transactions are forfeited; all other cleared earnings are paid.

10.4 We never take back money already paid to you except for a refund or dispute inside the clearing period, or a court order.

11. Changes to these Terms

30 days' written notice for any change. A change that lowers a rate or narrows a benefit applies only to customers found after it takes effect (section 3.2). You may leave before a change takes effect with the section 10.1 wind-down. Each version is dated and archived; your dashboard shows the version you accepted.

12. Marketing materials, trademarks, data

License: you get a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use the marketing kit we generate for you (cards, handouts, scripts, templates, the WiredType name and logo as they appear in it) only to promote WiredType, only in the form we provide, resized but not altered. We may change or withdraw any asset at any time. You gain no ownership of our marks or content and will not register, imitate or contest them. When your participation ends, or when we ask by email, the license ends and you remove our assets from every channel you control within 48 hours. Takedown: if we tell you that a page, post or message of yours breaks these Terms, infringes someone's rights, or must come down under a copyright notice-and-takedown law, you take it down within 48 hours and confirm in writing. Anything you add beyond our kit is yours or licensed to you, and you are responsible for claims that it infringes. Data: we give you counts and amounts only (visits, starts, results, customers, earnings). We never give you a customer's name, email, address or result, and you will not try to identify anyone from what we show. You are not our data processor under GDPR or UK GDPR; each of us is an independent controller of the personal data it collects itself (your own list and analytics on your side; your account data on ours). You will not add anyone's personal information to a WiredType link or route our links through your own tracking. About you, we keep your account details, your acceptance record (section 14), your commission ledger, a hashed record of the connection you sign in from (used only to detect self-referral), and your messages with us, as our Privacy Policy describes. Your partner page at wiredtype.com/p/<handle> is public and shows your first name, your type and its line, your booking link if you add one, and the disclosure. You must follow our privacy policy and the law where you promote, including CAN-SPAM, TCPA and GDPR where they apply.

13. Warranties, liability

The program is provided as is. Except for commissions you have earned and we have not paid, for fraud or willful misconduct, and for anything the law does not let us limit, our total liability to you for all claims about the program is capped at the commissions we paid you in the twelve months before you first told us in writing about the claim, or $500, whichever is greater. We are not liable for lost profits, or for indirect, incidental, special or punitive damages, or for a loss caused by a tracking failure, an outage, or a change by a third-party platform, except where New Jersey law does not allow that exclusion. Nothing here limits a liability that New Jersey law makes non-waivable. You are responsible for your own promotion, taxes and compliance, and you indemnify Kevin Weller and WiredType against third-party claims that arise from content you create beyond our kit or from promotion that breaks section 6.

14. Legal

Independent contractor; no exclusivity; assignment only with consent; severability; entire agreement with the WiredType Terms of Service and Privacy Policy; notices by email to the addresses on file; New Jersey law. Electronic acceptance: these Terms are an electronic record under the federal E-SIGN Act and New Jersey's Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. By checking "I have read and accept the Partner Terms" and submitting, you sign electronically, you agree to deal with us electronically, and you confirm you can print or save a copy. We keep, for at least six years after your participation ends, a record of the exact version you accepted (its date and content hash), the time, your account, your IP address and browser, and each renewal or re-acceptance; you can see the version and date in your dashboard. Changes: an operational change (wording, examples, an address) takes effect no sooner than 14 days after an email to your account with a link to the new version, and continuing in the program after that date is your acceptance. A material change (rates or how they are computed, section 9, section 12, section 13, your data, or your disclosure duties) requires a fresh acceptance from you before it applies to you, and a change to section 9 restarts its 30-day opt-out window. Every prior version stays archived, and a dispute is decided under the version you had accepted when it arose.