All the fine print

Earn Commission for Referrals

As an affiliate, you will earn a percentage on all successful referrals. If you refer a customer using your affiliate link and they spend $200, a 10% referral rate will earn you $20.

Commissions are for each class or product purchased. However, if the customer cancels their subscription, and signs up again later with a new subscription, this would not trigger a new referral (unless they used your referral link).

We pay affiliate commissions quarterly, usually in the first week of the new quarter. Lava Institute has a 30-day money back guarantee, so we only pay commissions that are 30 days or older. All affiliate commissions are paid via PayPal. The minimum payout balance is $100 (USD).

Referral Cookie Lifetime

When a customer clicks on your affiliate link, a cookie is set on their browser that tracks your referral. That cookie is stored for 7 days after the click. If the customer buys from Lava Institute on a different browser, or after the 7 days, the referral will not be awarded to you. If you are aware of a sale that didn’t get assigned to you, let us know and we will assign it to you.

Refunds and Revoked Payments

Only referrals that are older than 30 days and are still in good standing (not refunded) will be included with the payout. If a payment has been refunded or revoked, we do not pay commission for the referral. We reserve the right to reject affiliate commissions for any reason. Normally, rejections for commission happen for two reasons:

  • The sale that generated the commission has been refunded
  • The referral method violated our policies (details below) or the spirit of our policies

Affiliate Program Policies

Approved Promotional Methods

Essentially: promotional methods should add value to Lava Institute, and we will end up paying you more commissions!

Examples of good promotional methods:

  • Refer clients to Lava Institute – Do you think Lava Institute would be a good fit for your clients or customers? Share an affiliate link with them!
  • Write a blog post or review – Show how Lava Institute can be used in different use cases, or show how to do a specific thing with Lava Institute materials.
  • Share on social networks – Send out tweets to your Twitter followers with your affiliate link. Share on Facebook. As long as you’re not spamming them, that’s a great way to get referrals.
  • Help others online – Lots of people want Lava Institute but don’t know it yet! For example: a potential customer asks a question in a Facebook group about how to learn a new skill. In a helpful way, you reply that it’s possible using Lava Institute courses, and share your affiliate link.

Prohibited Promotional Methods

Affiliate programs are win-wins: you get to promote a product that you like and believe in, we make sales, and you make money from the commission.

  • Coupon sites are not allowed as a Lava Institute promotional method. Customers searching coupon sites are already highly motivated to buy Lava Institute. Promoting Lava Institute via a coupon site does not add value to Lava Institute.
  • Pretending to be formally associated with Lava Institute. Affiliates are not employees, and are not formal representatives of Lava Institute.
  • Any form of spam. Email, link spamming, comment spamming, etc. will not be allowed. If you’re posting to a forum or comment thread, follow the rules of the website you’re on.
  • Anything illegal, or morally offensive. That’s subjective, we know. Still, if we don’t like it for any reason, you’ll be banned from the program. This includes spam, for whatever definition of spam we want to use. (#9 from WordPress.org)
  • Confusing customers into thinking your site is operated or endorsed by Lava Institute (by copying our site’s design, for example) is not allowed.

Paid Search Guidelines

If you bid on keywords in any search engines or social media site like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Twitter, and Facebook:

  • Don’t bid to have your ad appear for terms with variations of the Lava Institute name, such as “Lava Institute”, “LavaInstitute”, “LavaInstitute.com”
  • Don’t bid to have your ad appear for Lava Institute with any additional terms, such as “Lava Institute coupons”, “Lava Institute discounts”, “Lava Institute promotions”. Broad matches are also not allowed (“[Lava Institute coupon]”)
  • Don’t use LavaInstitute.com or any other Lava Institute website URL as the ad’s display URL
  • Don’t direct link to LavaInstitute.com from any paid search ads. Instead, link to a landing page that users will then click through to access LavaInstitute.com

Bad Behavior Honeypot

If you are trying to find loopholes in this agreement, it means you’re trying to violate the spirit of the agreement, which is against the rules. Gotcha!

Consequences of Bad Behavior

If we find your promotional methods to be not in keeping with these terms, we will reject commissions and disable your affiliate account. We will likely notify you when this occurs and let you know what we find to be in violation of these policies. We may not, if it’s clear you’re a Bad Seed.

Other Stuff

By being an affiliate, you agree that your commissions are subject to approval before being paid. The affiliate terms of service is not a contract. The affiliate relationship does not represent a formal agreement. You are not an employee of Lava Institute or Wooden Bow Corporation. These terms are subject to change without notice.

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