SharpFooty Partner Terms
1. Who this agreement is between
These terms are an agreement between SharpFooty Analytics ("SharpFooty", "we", "us") and the person or business that applies to, and is accepted into, the SharpFooty Partners programme ("you", "the partner"). You accept them by ticking the acceptance box when you apply. They apply from the moment your application is approved and continue until the agreement ends under section 11. The Marketing & Compliance Policy and the Self-billing and Payout Statements Agreement form part of these terms.
2. Eligibility and your account
You must be at least 18, able to enter a binding contract, and the owner or authorised operator of the audience, channel or publication you name in your application. Everything in your application must be accurate and kept up to date in your partner settings. One partner account per person or business. SharpFooty decides applications at its discretion and may decline one without giving a reason; where an account is later suspended or closed the reason is recorded on the account (section 11).
3. Referral links and attribution
On approval you receive a referral link and may create campaign links under it. A customer is attributed to you when they create a SharpFooty account within 30 days of arriving through your link, no other partner is already attributed to them, and the account is new. The first valid partner wins; a later click by anyone does not change an attribution. Attribution is recorded on SharpFooty's servers, and SharpFooty's records are the record of it.
A referral is stored on a visitor's browser only where the visitor accepts cookies on our site. A visitor who declines, or who leaves the landing page before choosing, cannot be attributed and no commission arises from them. You are not attributed a customer who is you, who shares your contact identity, or who is otherwise connected to you in a way intended to produce commission on your own purchase; such attributions are refused and recorded as a risk signal.
4. Commission
Commission is 30% of the amount SharpFooty actually receives for a membership payment made by a customer attributed to you, calculated in pence and rounded down, for the customer's first 6 successfully paid subscription periods. No commission arises from a registration, an incomplete checkout, a free or trial period, a failed payment, a complimentary membership, a payment SharpFooty does not receive, or any payment made outside the periods above. SharpFooty may agree a different rate, cycle count or model with an individual partner in writing; the terms shown in your dashboard are the terms in force for new payments. Commission is stated in pounds sterling and is exclusive of any tax.
5. Hold, refunds and chargebacks
Each commission is held for 35 days after the customer's payment before it becomes payable. If the payment is refunded in full before payout, the commission is void. If it is refunded in part, the commission is reduced in proportion. If the payment is disputed or charged back, the commission is reversed; if the dispute is later resolved in SharpFooty's favour, the commission is reinstated with a fresh hold. Where a refund or chargeback follows a payout, the corresponding amount is recorded as a negative entry against your account and offset against future commission. You may not be asked to repay money you have already received except where you are in breach of these terms.
6. Payouts, statements and verification
Payouts are made monthly, by the method you choose in your settings, for a balance that is payable at the end of the period and at or above £50.00; a smaller balance carries forward. Every payout is prepared and confirmed by a person at SharpFooty and recorded with a payment reference, and a statement for it is available in your dashboard. Before your first payout, and again after any change to your payout details, SharpFooty verifies the payout destination with you; a balance is held until that verification is recorded. You are responsible for the accuracy of your payout details and for any charge your payment provider makes to receive the payment. SharpFooty does not send a payout by itself: no payment is made without a person confirming it.
7. Tax and self-billing
You are responsible for all tax, national insurance, VAT and reporting that applies to commission you receive, in every territory that applies to you. Before your first payout you must declare your tax status in your settings and accept the Self-billing and Payout Statements Agreement, under which SharpFooty prepares a statement for each payout and you do not raise a separate invoice for the amounts on it. If you are registered for VAT you must tell us before your first payout and keep your VAT number current; the VAT treatment of your commission is then agreed with you in writing. Where the law requires SharpFooty to withhold or report an amount, it will do so and tell you.
8. How you may promote SharpFooty
You must follow the Marketing & Compliance Policy, the advertising rules of every territory you promote in (in the UK, the CAP Code and ASA rulings on gambling-related advertising), the rules of each platform you publish on, and the law. In particular you must describe SharpFooty accurately, disclose that you are a partner where you use your link, not direct content at people under 18, and not generate traffic by forced clicks, hidden frames, automated requests, incentives, cookie stuffing or bidding on SharpFooty's brand terms without written permission. SharpFooty may void any attribution that arises from prohibited traffic and hold, void or reverse the commission on it.
9. Brand and materials
For the term of this agreement SharpFooty grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive licence to use the logos, screenshots and captions supplied in the partner dashboard, unaltered, to promote SharpFooty. You may not modify them, use them to suggest that SharpFooty endorses anything other than your role as a partner, register or use any name, domain or handle confusingly similar to SharpFooty, or present yourself as SharpFooty. SharpFooty may ask you to take down any material and you will do so promptly.
10. Data
You see customers you referred only as opaque references and aggregate figures; you must not attempt to identify them or combine what you see with other data to do so. SharpFooty processes your application, contact and payout details and your ledger to run the programme, pay you and meet its legal duties, as described in its Privacy Policy. Data you collect from your own audience is your responsibility.
11. Suspension, ending and what happens then
Either of us may end this agreement at any time by notice: you from your settings or by writing to us, SharpFooty by notice on your dashboard or by email. SharpFooty may suspend your account while it investigates a suspected breach or a risk signal, and may close it for breach; the reason is recorded on the account and shown to you. While suspended, your links do not attribute and held commission does not mature. When the agreement ends, commission already recorded that is not void, reversed or the product of a breach is paid in the ordinary cycle once its hold has passed and the payout conditions in section 6 are met; commission arising from a breach may be withheld or voided. Sections 5, 7, 9 (take-down), 10, 12 and 14 continue after the agreement ends.
12. Liability
The programme is provided as it is. SharpFooty gives no assurance that it will continue in its present form, that any level of traffic, referral or commission will result, or that the site will be available at all times. To the fullest extent the law allows, SharpFooty's total liability to you under or in connection with this agreement in any twelve-month period is limited to the commission paid to you in the previous twelve months, and neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss or loss of profit, revenue or opportunity. Nothing limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death, personal injury or fraud.
13. Changes
SharpFooty may change these terms, the policies that form part of them, or the programme parameters (rate, model, cycles, hold, minimum, window) by giving at least 14 days' notice on your dashboard or by email. Continuing to use your links after the notice period is acceptance of the change. A change of rate applies to payments made after it takes effect; commission already recorded is not reduced.
14. General
You are an independent contractor; nothing here creates a partnership, agency, employment or joint venture, and you have no authority to bind SharpFooty. You may not assign or transfer this agreement. If any part of it is found unenforceable the rest stands. This document, the Marketing & Compliance Policy, the Self-billing and Payout Statements Agreement and the terms shown on your dashboard are the whole agreement between us about the programme. Notices to you are given on your dashboard or to your contact email; notices to SharpFooty are given through the contact page.
15. Governing law
This agreement is governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from it.