Affiliate
Terms & Conditions

Our affiliates are very important to us, and we do our best to treat our affiliates with the fairness and respect they deserve.

We have written the following affiliate terms and conditions with you in mind, as well as to protect our company’s good name. So please bear with us as we take you through this legal formality.

If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].

Here is a summary of the few rules about our Affiliate Program. No “gotchas” here, just some terms to keep everyone happy.

Within this article, we reference the Tykr article “Top 7 ways to make money as a Tykr affiliate”. That article provides template copy and images to help our affiliates maximize their success with Tykr. 

• Self-referrals are not allowed.
• In some cases, we can give credit to an affiliate even if the customer didn’t sign up through an affiliate link or coupon code. If you have a case like this, please contact us, and we’ll do our best to help.
• Paid advertising is allowed but must be approved before going live to the public. Paid advertising includes but is not limited to Google Ads, YouTube Ads, Facebook Ads, and Reddit Ads. Ad templates are found within the article “Top 7 ways to make money as a Tykr affiliate”.
• Landing pages are allowed and do not need to be approved by Tykr, but do need to comply with these terms and conditions. 
• No pretending to be acting on behalf of Tykr (ie. as an employee of Tykr). 
• You are required to inform your audience that you are an affiliate of Tykr.
• We reserve the right to change the Terms and Conditions for our Affiliate Program at any time.
• We reserve the right to terminate your affiliate account for violation of any of the rules at our sole discretion.
• Commissions generated by mechanisms that are in violation of our Affiliate Terms and Conditions will not be paid or owed.
• You cannot use the word “guarantee”. For example, never say “Tykr has guaranteed returns of 15% or more.”
• You cannot tell people to buy or sell stocks. However, you can say “I plan on buying this stock” or “I plan on avoiding this stock,” but never say “You should buy this stock.”
• You cannot use the slogan “Invest With Confidence” as that’s a registered trademark with T.Rowe Price. You can use phrases such as “Clear Confident Investing”, “Invest Confidently on your own”, or “Confidently Buy and Sell stocks”.

Affiliate Terms and Conditions

Please read the entire agreement. You may print this page for your records.

This is a legal agreement between you and TYKR LLC.

By signing up as an affiliate, you are agreeing that you have read and understand the terms and conditions of this agreement and that you agree to be legally responsible for each and every term and condition.

1. Overview

This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to you becoming an affiliate in Tykr’s Affiliate Program. The purpose of this Agreement is to allow linking between your website (including any other form of content, such as YouTube videos, Instagram post, etc.) and the Tykr website. Please note that throughout this Agreement, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Tykr, and “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to the affiliate.

2. Publisher Exclusion

You agree to the Publisher Exclusion requirements.

These requirements are fairly easy to follow for most affiliates.

1. Information you share must be bona fide or genuine information. In other words, all information should be data-driven, not speculation.
   1. What you can say – You can use Tykr’s ratings and share them with your audience because those ratings are data-driven.
   2. What you can’t say – You can’t say speculative comments like “I believe XYZ stock will go to $2,000 per share because their CEO is a smart guy.” 
2. Information you share needs to be disinterested or impersonal advice. In other words, you can’t give personalized financial advice to individual customers.
   1. What you can say – You can use Tykr’s ratings and share them with your audience because those ratings are data-driven and not personal.
   2. What you can’t say – You can’t ask people their age, risk level, and interests, and then use those criteria to recommend individual stocks.
3. Information you share needs to be general and have regular circulation. In other words, no “pump and dump” behavior is allowed.
   1. What you can say – You can use Tykr’s ratings and share them with your audience because those ratings are data-driven on not focused on a “pump and dump”.
   2. What you can’t say – You can’t say something like “I believe XYZ stock will skyrocket on Monday. Then, on Tuesday, without telling anyone, you sell XYZ stock. This is essentially the definition of a “pump and dump.”

Summary: If you use the phrase “Buy and Sell stocks with confidence” in combination with Tykr ratings, you meet the Publisher Exclusion requirements. 

3. Affiliate Obligations

3.1. To begin the enrollment process, you will complete and submit the online application at the Tykr affiliate website. We may cancel your application if we determine that your website is unsuitable for our Program, including if it:

• Promotes sexually explicit materials.
• Promotes violence.
• Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
• Promotes politics. 
• Promotes illegal activities.
• Incorporates any materials that infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law.
• Includes misspellings of the name “Tykr”. 
• Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion.
• Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program.

3.2. As a member of Tykr’s Affiliate Program, you will have access to the Affiliate Account. The Affiliate Account provides you with the ability to review our program details. In order for us to accurately keep track of all referrals, you must use the unique affiliate link within your Affiliate Account.

3.3. Tykr reserves the right, at any time, to review your marketing materials to ensure the materials comply with our guidelines.

3.4. It is entirely your responsibility to follow all applicable intellectual property and other laws that pertain to your website. You must have express permission to use any person’s copyrighted material, whether it be a writing, an image, or any other copyrightable work. We will not be responsible (and you will be solely responsible) if you use another person’s copyrighted material or other intellectual property in violation of the law or any third-party rights.

3.5. The Tykr logo cannot be altered or changed.

4. Tykr Rights and Obligations

4.1. We have the right to monitor your website at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this agreement. We may notify you of any changes to your website that we feel should be made, or to make sure that your links to our website are appropriate. If you do not make the changes to your website that we feel are necessary, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the Tykr Affiliate Program.

4.2. Tykr reserves the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in the Tykr Affiliate Program immediately and without notice to you should you commit fraud in your use of the Tykr Affiliate Program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, Tykr shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales.

4.3. This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application and will continue unless terminated hereunder.

5. Termination

Either you or we may end this Agreement AT ANY TIME, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice can be in the form of an email. In addition, this Agreement will terminate immediately upon any breach of this Agreement by you.

6. Modification

We may modify any of the terms and conditions in this Agreement at any time at our sole discretion. In such an event, you will be notified by email. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the payment procedures and Tykr’s Affiliate Program rules.

7. Payments

Tykr affiliates will be paid 30 days after the sale to account for refunds (Tykr has 30-day refund policy). 

The default payment method in our Affiliate Platform is PayPal, but affiliates may request to be paid via Wise or ACH.

Commission will be calculated only on orders that are not refunded or returned.

8. Access to Affiliate Account

You will have to create a password so that you may enter Tykr’s secure Affiliate Program interface. 

9. Promotion Restrictions

9.1. You are free to promote your own websites, but naturally, any promotion that mentions Tykr could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort. That is why it is important that you mention you are an affiliate of Tykr. You may use email marketing as a strategy to introduce prospects to Tykr, so long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or website, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. Also, you may post to newsgroups to promote Tykr, so long as the newsgroup specifically welcomes commercial messages. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your websites as independent from Tykr. If it comes to our attention that you are spamming, we will consider that cause for immediate termination of this Agreement and your participation in the Tykr Affiliate Program. Any pending balances owed to you will not be paid if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.

9.2. Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “Parasiteware™,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers from the time the consumer clicks on a qualifying link until such time as the consumer has fully exited Tykr’s site (i.e., no page from our website or any Tykr’s content or branding is visible on the end-user’s screen). As used herein a. “Parasiteware™” and “Parasitic Marketing” shall mean an application that (a) through accidental or direct intent causes the overwriting of affiliate and non-affiliate commission tracking cookies through any other means than a customer initiated click on a qualifying link on a web page or email; (b) intercepts searches to redirect traffic through an installed software, thereby causing, pop ups, commission tracking cookies to be put in place or other commission tracking cookies to be overwritten where a user would under normal circumstances have arrived at the same destination through the results given by the search (search engines being, but not limited to, Google, MSN, Yahoo, Overture, AltaVista, Hotbot and similar search or directory engines); (c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of Tykr site in iframes, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open Tykr’s site; (d) targets text on web sites, other than those web sites 100% owned by the application owner, for the purpose of contextual marketing; (e) removes, replaces or blocks the visibility of Affiliate banners with any other banners, other than those that are on web sites 100% owned by the owner of the application.

9.3. Tykr occasionally offers coupons to select affiliates. If you do not have a coupon code, you may request one. 

10. Self-affiliation

Self-referrals for affiliate or merchant accounts are strictly prohibited. You cannot refer yourself as a Merchant with Tykr and receive a commission.

11. Grant of Licenses

11.1. Each party agrees not to use the other’s proprietary materials in any manner that is disparaging, misleading, obscene, or that otherwise portrays the party in a negative light. 

12. Disclaimer

TYKR MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING TYKR SERVICE AND WEB SITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED THEREIN, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF Tykr ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED. IN ADDITION, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION THAT THE OPERATION OF OUR WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, AND WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY INTERRUPTIONS OR ERRORS.

13. Representations and Warranties

You represent and warrant that:

13.1. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by you and constitutes your legal, valid, and binding obligation, enforceable against you in accordance with its terms;

13.2. You have the full right, power, and authority to enter into and be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and to perform your obligations under this Agreement, without the approval or consent of any other party;

13.3. You have sufficient right, title, and interest in and to the rights granted to us in this Agreement.

14. Limitations of Liability

WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE OR GOODWILL OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FURTHER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, IN NO EVENT SHALL TYKR’S CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSION FEES PAID TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.

15. Indemnification

You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Tykr, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members, and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) (any or all of the foregoing hereinafter referred to as “Losses”) insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (i) any claim that our use of the affiliate trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of any third party, (ii) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement made by you herein, or (iii) any claim related to your site, including, without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.

16. Confidentiality

All confidential information, including, but not limited to, any business, technical, financial, and customer information, disclosed by one party to the other during negotiation or the effective term of this Agreement which is marked “Confidential”, will remain the sole property of the disclosing party, and each party will keep in confidence and not use or disclose such proprietary information of the other party without express written permission of the disclosing party.

17. Miscellaneous

17.1. You agree that you are an independent contractor, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between you and Tykr. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on your website or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.

17.2. Neither party may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement to any party, except to a party who obtains all or substantially all of the business or assets of either party.

17.3. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United States without regard to the conflicts of laws and principles thereof.

17.4. You may not amend or waive any provision of this Agreement unless in writing and signed by both parties.

17.5. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between us and you, and shall supersede all prior agreements and communications of the parties, oral or written.

17.6. The headings and titles contained in this Agreement are included for convenience only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect the terms of this Agreement.

17.7. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent necessary such that the intent of the parties is effectuated, and the remainder of this agreement shall have full force and effect.

17.8. Any action or proceeding seeking to enforce any provision of, or based on any right arising out of, this Agreement may be brought against any of the parties in the state and federal courts located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and each of the parties consents to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts (and of the appropriate appellate courts) in any such action or proceeding and waives any objection to venue laid therein.