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 by Tykr in writing before going live. Paid advertising includes but is not limited to Google Ads, Microsoft/Bing Ads, YouTube Ads, Facebook/Instagram Ads, Reddit Ads, and other paid media. Trademark Plus (TM+), trademark bidding, bidding on “Tykr,” misspellings or variations of “Tykr,” Tykr-branded terms, or other terms that could reasonably cause a user to believe the affiliate is Tykr or an official Tykr property are not allowed unless Tykr provides specific written approval.
• Landing pages are allowed and do not require advance approval unless Tykr requests review, but they must comply with these terms and conditions, accurately represent Tykr, clearly identify the affiliate as independent from Tykr, include required disclosures, and avoid prohibited investment or performance claims.
• No pretending to be acting on behalf of Tykr (ie. as an employee of Tykr). 
• You are required to clearly and conspicuously disclose your affiliate relationship with Tykr wherever you endorse, review, recommend, or promote Tykr or use an affiliate link.
• 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 state or imply that Tykr guarantees returns, profits, stock performance, market outperformance, or any other investment result. You may not make unsupported performance or income claims.
• You cannot present Tykr as providing individualized investment advice or tell people to buy or sell a specific security on Tykr’s behalf. Tykr ratings and analytical outputs may be discussed accurately and in context, but they may not be presented as guarantees or predictions of future performance.
• You cannot use the slogan “Invest With Confidence.” Affiliates should use current approved Tykr messaging and positioning provided in the Affiliate Success Kit or other Tykr-approved program materials.

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 and Securities-Related Content

Participation in Tykr’s Affiliate Program does not by itself qualify an affiliate for any exemption or exclusion under federal or state securities laws. Affiliates are responsible for determining whether their own activities require licensing, registration, disclosure, or other legal status.

When promoting Tykr, affiliates must keep Tykr-related content general and educational. Affiliates may discuss publicly available information, Tykr’s product functionality, and Tykr ratings or analytical outputs accurately and in context. Affiliates may not use Tykr to provide individualized investment recommendations, imply that Tykr ratings guarantee or predict future performance, engage in market manipulation or “pump and dump” activity, or represent that Tykr is providing personalized investment advice through the affiliate.

3. Affiliate Obligations

3.1. 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.
• Primarily promotes partisan political advocacy or political content that Tykr reasonably determines creates material brand, legal, or reputational risk.
• 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.
• Uses Tykr trademarks, misspellings or variations of “Tykr,” confusingly similar names, domains, subdomains, social handles, application names, or other brand terms in a manner that creates confusion about sponsorship, ownership, or affiliation.
• 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. You must use the tracking method assigned or approved by Tykr. Tykr’s affiliate platform and internal records will ordinarily control attribution and commission calculations, subject to Tykr’s good-faith review of documented tracking disputes. Where Tykr has approved coupon codes or other attribution methods, those methods may also be used.

3.3. Tykr reserves the right, at any time, to review your marketing materials to ensure the materials comply with our guidelines. Tykr may require noncompliant promotional material to be corrected, paused, or removed, and affiliates agree to act promptly on reasonable compliance requests.

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. Tykr logos and brand assets may not be altered except for proportional resizing or other uses expressly permitted in Tykr’s current brand or affiliate guidelines.

4. Tykr Rights and Obligations

4.1. We have the right to review your websites, social accounts, channels, campaigns, advertisements, emails, apps, landing pages, and other promotional materials at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this Agreement. We may notify you of changes we believe are necessary to comply with this Agreement or our program guidelines. If you do not make requested changes within a reasonable period, or immediately where necessary for legal, compliance, fraud, or brand-protection reasons, we reserve the right to suspend or 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. Tykr may immediately suspend or terminate participation for suspected fraud, unlawful conduct, brand impersonation, material compliance violations, tracking manipulation, or other material abuse. Termination does not eliminate commissions validly earned before termination, except commissions attributable to fraud, abuse, prohibited conduct, invalid transactions, refunds, chargebacks, or other transactions that were not commissionable under this Agreement.

6. Modification

We may modify the terms and conditions in this Agreement or the Affiliate Program from time to time. We will provide notice of material changes by email, through the affiliate platform, or by another reasonable electronic method. Changes will be effective on the date stated in the notice. Tykr may make immediate changes where reasonably necessary for fraud prevention, legal compliance, platform requirements, or material brand protection.

7. Payments

Tykr affiliates will be paid via PayPal or Wise in accordance with the terms set here. 

Commissions are earned only on eligible transactions attributed to the affiliate under Tykr’s approved tracking rules. Transactions that are refunded, charged back, fraudulent, duplicate, self-referred, canceled, invalid, or otherwise noncommissionable may be reversed or excluded. Affiliates are responsible for providing accurate payment and tax information.

8. Intentionally Omitted 

9. Promotion Restrictions

9.1. You are free to promote your own websites, channels, and content, but any promotion that mentions Tykr must clearly represent you as independent from Tykr and must clearly and conspicuously disclose your affiliate relationship where required. Affiliates may use email, SMS, direct messaging, and other direct marketing channels only where they have the legal right and required consent to contact the recipient. Affiliates are responsible for complying with applicable marketing, privacy, anti-spam, and platform requirements, including unsubscribe and opt-out obligations. Affiliates may not falsely identify Tykr as the sender or imply that a communication is sent by Tykr unless expressly authorized.

9.2. Affiliates may not use software, browser extensions, toolbars, adware, overlays, pop-ups, pop-unders, redirects, cookie stuffing, forced clicks, click injection, hidden iframes, automatic redirects, or other technology to set or overwrite affiliate tracking without an intentional user-initiated interaction. Affiliates may not intercept, divert, or overwrite traffic or attribution that would otherwise belong to Tykr, another affiliate, or another marketing channel. Artificial traffic, bots, fake accounts, misleading redirects, and other deceptive methods used to generate traffic or commission are prohibited.

9.3. Tykr occasionally offers coupons or promotional codes to select affiliates. Only coupons, codes, discounts, or offers expressly authorized by Tykr may be promoted. Affiliates may not publish expired, fabricated, leaked, or unauthorized offers or represent that a code is exclusive unless Tykr has approved that representation.

9.4. Trademark Plus (TM+), trademark bidding, and paid search bidding on “Tykr,” misspellings, variations, confusingly similar terms, Tykr-branded terms, Tykr coupon-related terms, or other terms intended to capture users specifically searching for Tykr are prohibited unless Tykr provides prior written approval. Affiliates may not use Tykr trademarks or confusingly similar terms in paid-search display URLs, domains, subdomains, ad copy, or other placements in a manner that implies the advertisement or property is operated by Tykr.

10. Self-affiliation

Self-referrals are strictly prohibited and are not commissionable. This includes purchases by the affiliate, purchases by accounts owned or controlled by the affiliate, and transactions structured primarily to generate affiliate commission rather than acquire a genuine new Tykr customer.

11. Grant of Licenses

11.1. Subject to this Agreement, Tykr grants Affiliate a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable license during the term to use Tykr-approved trademarks, logos, links, and marketing assets solely to promote Tykr in accordance with Tykr’s current brand and affiliate guidelines. 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. Affiliate receives no ownership interest in Tykr intellectual property and must stop using Tykr brand assets upon termination except as otherwise permitted by law.

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

Confidential Information includes nonpublic business, technical, financial, product, customer, partner, pricing, performance, and commercial information disclosed by or on behalf of a party that is marked confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential under the circumstances. Confidential Information will remain the sole property of the disclosing party, and each party will keep such information confidential and will not use or disclose it except as permitted by this Agreement or with the disclosing party’s written permission. Confidential Information does not include information that was already lawfully known, becomes public without breach of this Agreement, is independently developed without use of the other party’s Confidential Information, or is lawfully received from a third party without a duty of confidentiality.

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 State of Wisconsin without regard to conflicts of laws principles.

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.