Affiliate Programme Terms

These terms govern the Ziffer affiliate programme. They are published in draft pending review by qualified counsel and pending registration of the operating entity. The programme opens only after that review. While it is closed no registration is taken, no code is valid and no commission accrues.

In these terms a partner is a person or business registered in the programme. "You" is the partner. Figures are the programme settings at the date shown at the foot of this page. If a setting changes, these terms change with it (section 17).

1. What this is

An affiliate programme. A partner gets a code and a link. When a customer chooses to apply that code to an order, and the order is paid, the partner earns a commission on it.

You join by registering. We can close registration, and we can suspend or end any partnership, at any time.

The programme as a whole is either open or closed. While it is closed, registration is refused, codes are not valid and nothing accrues. An order paid while it is closed earns nothing, whenever it was placed. Commission already in your ledger stays there under these terms.

Registering gives you a code. It does not give you our agreement to anything you publish. Sections 9 to 13 apply from the first minute.

2. Who may join

A person of full legal age, or a business, publishing under a name we can trace to them.

You register at /affiliates/join, in the partner area. We ask for your name, your email address, a password you choose, and where you publish. Company, VAT ID and country are optional. You accept the content rules in section 9 and these terms when you register, and the version you accepted is recorded with your account. Your account, your code and your link exist at once.

One account and one code per partner.

We cannot verify your email address, because no system of ours sends email. Register with an address you control. If you lose your password, a person issues a one-time reset link and sends it to that address by hand.

Do not register if your channels fall under section 12.

3. Your code and link

Your code is generated by us: ZF followed by six characters. It carries no meaning. You cannot choose it and you cannot change it. A code that spelled a word would itself be a statement about a product.

Your link is any page of this site with ?ref= and your code added, or the short form /r/ followed by your code, which redirects to the same place. The portal builds both.

The code changes no price. A customer pays the same with it and without it. It is not a discount, a voucher or a coupon, and you may not describe it as one.

The code and the link remain ours. They stop working the moment you are suspended or terminated, and while the programme is closed.

4. What earns commission

Commission is a percentage of the commissionable value of a paid order that carries your code.

Commissionable value is the merchandise after any pack or volume discount. Shipping is never part of it. VAT is taken out of it once orders record VAT. Today they do not, so the base is the merchandise figure as charged, and each ledger row records which of the two bases it used.

The rate comes from a ladder, read from your commissionable sales over the trailing 90 days:

An order is rated by the sales that preceded it. The order that crosses a threshold earns the old rate. The next one earns the new rate.

The rate is fixed at the moment the order turns paid and is written on the ledger row. It does not change afterwards.

We may agree a different rate with you in writing. It then replaces the ladder for you.

No rate above 15 % exists. That ceiling is a constraint in our database, not a setting. No agreement, correction or adjustment can exceed it.

5. What does not

• Your own orders. An order whose email address or VAT ID matches yours earns nothing. A commission on your own purchase would be a discount, and the code changes no price.
• Orders paid while you are suspended or terminated.
• Orders paid while the programme is closed.
• Orders that are not paid: placed, awaiting payment, cancelled or lapsed.
• Refunded orders, to the extent of the refund (section 7).
• Orders without your code on them. A visit through your link earns nothing by itself.
• Shipping charges.

Where an order carried your code and earned nothing for one of the first three reasons, we record the order and the reason.

6. Attribution

Attribution is per order, and the customer decides it.

Arriving through your link applies nothing and stores nothing on the visitor's device. The site shows a notice that names your code, says that you earn a commission and that the price is unchanged, and offers two buttons: "Apply to my order" and "Dismiss". A customer can also type a code at the cart or at checkout.

An applied code is one visible line in the cart and at checkout. The customer can remove it at any time before ordering.

The last code applied wins. A second code replaces the first.

An applied code does not lapse. It stays in the customer's browser and is applied, visibly, to every order placed from that browser, until the customer removes it or applies another code.

That binds a browser, not a person. Nothing on our servers ties a customer to a partner: a customer who orders from another device, or who has cleared their browser's storage, orders with no code unless they apply one again.

We check the code again when the order is placed. If you are not active at that moment, or the programme is closed, the order carries no code.

7. Pending, approved, paid

Pending. When the order is paid, the commission is posted to your ledger as pending.

Approved. 30 days after payment we approve it, provided the order has not been refunded in full and you are active. Approval is an act by a person, and our database refuses one made before the hold has passed. The hold covers the 14-day withdrawal period. It can be changed, never to fewer than 14 days.

Paid. Approved commission goes into a payout (section 8).

Refunds reverse commission. A full refund reverses all of it. A partial refund reverses the same proportion. The refunded value also comes off your trailing sales.

If the commission was already paid out, the negative amount stays on your ledger and is set against future payouts.

The ledger is append-only. A wrong row is corrected by another row and is never edited.

8. Payouts

Monthly. One payout per partner per calendar month.

The minimum is €50. A payable balance under the minimum carries forward.

Payouts are made in Bitcoin, on-chain, and in no other way. You enter a Bitcoin address in the portal.

Commission is determined in euro. We convert it at the time of the transfer.

A person makes the transfer from our own wallet and records its transaction id. No software of ours moves money. The address is fixed for a payout at the moment the payout is prepared; a later change applies to the next one.

Check the address before you save it. A transfer to an address you entered wrongly cannot be recovered, and that risk is yours.

A new or changed address waits seven days before a payout is prepared for it, and every change is recorded. A transfer cannot be recalled, so an address nobody has had time to notice is not paid. If your address changes and you did not change it, tell us at once.

Only an active partner is paid.

The tax position of payouts is not settled. Open questions: whether VAT applies and who accounts for it, whether we issue a self-billed credit note or you send us an invoice, how a payout in Bitcoin is valued and documented, whether we must identify you before we may pay you, and what we must report to an authority. No payout is made until our accountant and counsel have settled them. Commission accrues and is held in the meantime. These terms will then say what was decided. Your own taxes on what you earn are yours to declare and pay.

9. Content rules

What you publish about us is assessed as if we had published it. Under EU medicines law a product is judged by how it is presented, a disclaimer does not repair a presentation, and the presentation of anyone paid by the seller counts as the seller's. So the rules for your content are the rules for this site.

• No statement about any effect of a compound on a person or an animal.
• No quantities, schedules or routes of use. No preparation instructions.
• No framing of any product as being for use in or on people or animals.
• No before-and-after material.
• No testimonials and no accounts of use: not yours, not a customer's, not anyone's.
• No implication. The impression counts, not only the words. That rules out the soft verbs — supports, improves, enhances, promotes, boosts, aids, optimises, restores — and any image, caption, hashtag or surrounding content that suggests a use.
• No naming of a supplier or manufacturer of ours, and no guessing at one.
• No statement about price other than the price shown on this site. The code is not a discount.
• No statement made in our name. You do not speak for Ziffer.

These rules cover everything you publish with or near your code or link: posts, captions, replies, comments, stories, video, audio, images, alt text, hashtags, profile text and private answers to people who ask.

If someone asks you what a compound does or how it is used, the answer is that you cannot say. Point them to the research-use policy.

10. Approved copy only

The only statements about a product you may publish are the approved-copy texts in the portal. Publish them word for word. Do not shorten one, add to one or combine two into something new. A translation is a new text and needs our written agreement first.

The approved texts are kept in our repository and pass the same automated check as this site's own copy.

You may state facts about yourself and about your relationship with us: that you are a partner, and that you earn a commission. You may link to any page of this site.

If you want to say something that is not there, ask. If we agree, it is added to the approved copy. Until then it is not approved.

11. Disclosure

Every placement carries a clear advertising disclosure. Every post, every video, every page, every time — not once per channel.

The required wording:

Advertisement. I earn a commission on orders placed with this code.

Put it directly with the code or link, readable without a click and at least as legible as the code. Not below a fold, not only in a profile, not as a hashtag alone. Where a platform has its own paid-partnership label, use that as well, not instead.

12. Where you may not promote

• No promotion in sport, physique or body-weight communities: forums, groups, channels, hashtags or accounts built around training, competition, physique or body weight.
• No paid search advertising on compound names or on our brand name.
• No coupon, voucher or deal sites. The code is not a discount, so listing it as one is false.
• No email campaigns and no direct-message campaigns. No unsolicited email or direct messages at all.
• Nothing aimed at minors.

If you are unsure whether a placement is allowed, it is not. Ask first.

13. Review and records

Nobody reviews your channels before your code works, and no review stands between you and a payout. That is not permission. The rules bind you from registration, and a breach found later counts from the day it was published.

We may look at what you publish at any time. Where we do, we keep written notes of what we looked at, what we found and what we told you. They are internal.

Tell us when you start publishing on a channel you did not list when you registered.

When we ask for a link to a placement or a copy of it, send it. When we ask you to correct or remove a placement, do it without delay and confirm it.

14. Suspension, termination and forfeiture

Suspension. We may suspend you at any time while we look into something. Your code stops working at once. While you are suspended, orders paid earn nothing, and nothing of yours is approved or paid out. You can still sign in and read your ledger.

Termination for breach. We may terminate you for a breach of sections 9 to 12, for orders you placed or arranged yourself, for false details at registration, or for anything that puts our legal position at risk. On termination for breach all commission not yet paid out is forfeited, pending and approved alike. It is taken off your ledger in one row that states the reason. Your code stops working and you can no longer sign in.

Ending without breach. You may leave at any time by telling us in writing, and we may end your participation at any time by telling you. From that day you remove your code and link from your placements. Your account stays open while commission already earned runs its course under sections 7 and 8: it is approved once its hold has passed, and it is paid in the monthly payout if the approved balance reaches the minimum. The account is closed after that payout, or once no approved balance at or above the minimum can arise. A balance below the minimum at that point is not paid out.

Afterwards. Remove your code, your link and the approved copy from every placement you control. Section 9 continues to apply to anything you leave up.

15. Data

What we hold about you: your registration (name, email address, where you publish, and company, VAT ID and country where given), the version of these terms you accepted and when, your password as an argon2id hash and in no other form, your payout details (a Bitcoin wallet address), every change to that address and when it was made, your ledger and payouts, and any notes we make about your account.

A wallet address is public on its blockchain. Payouts to it are visible there to anyone.

The portal sets one session cookie when you sign in. It is limited to the partner area and is set for nobody else.

What you can see about orders: that a paid order carried your code, its date, its commissionable value, the rate, the commission and its state. You also see daily click counts for your link. You never see who placed an order, its order reference or what it contained, and we hold nothing that identifies a visitor.

Do not try to work out who placed an order.

The privacy notice describes all of this, including what is recorded when someone follows your link.

16. No agency, no exclusivity

You are an independent contractor. You are not our employee, agent or representative. You cannot bind us and you do not speak for us.

Nothing here is exclusive. We may work with other partners. You may work with other sellers.

You bear your own costs.

None of this changes how your content is assessed. Because we pay you, a regulator may regard what you publish as ours. That is why sections 9 to 12 exist.

17. Changes and governing law

We may change these terms and the programme settings. A change applies to orders paid after it is published. Material changes are dated at the foot of this page. If you do not accept a change, stop using your code and tell us in writing; section 14 then applies.

These terms are governed by the law of the state in which the operating entity is established. That state is fixed when the entity is registered, and is then named in the imprint.