Affiliate Promotion Code of Conduct
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This Code of Conduct governs how you may promote Restackd as an affiliate. The goal is simple: protect the platform's reputation so every affiliate can keep earning. Three strikes within any rolling 12-month window will end your affiliate account. Read this. It is short on purpose.
1. What's Allowed
You may promote Restackd through any channel where you have a legitimate audience and where the platform allows commercial content. Examples include your own newsletter, podcast, YouTube channel, social profiles where you have built followers organically, paid ads from your own accounts (with disclosure), and one-to-one conversations with people who have asked you about the product.
- Organic content created by you, on platforms you own or where you are an established creator.
- Paid traffic that you fund yourself, with platform-required disclosures (Meta, TikTok, Google "sponsored", "ad", or "paid partnership" labels as applicable).
- Honest income disclosures with the FTC-compliant earnings disclaimer (auto-injected in your profile page footer — do not remove it).
- One-to-one replies to people who explicitly asked about Restackd, the affiliate program, or how you make money online.
- Truthful comparisons with competitor products that cite verifiable facts.
2. What's Banned
Each item below is a strike if confirmed. Multiple violations in one investigation may count as one strike or multiple, at Restackd's discretion.
2.1 Spam promotion
Cold DM blasts, mass copy-paste comments under unrelated content, automation tools that send unsolicited messages, comment-scraping bots, and follow-unfollow churn schemes are banned regardless of platform. If a reasonable person would call your outreach "spam," stop sending it.
2.2 False or unsubstantiated income claims
You may not state, imply, or visually suggest that buying Restackd will produce a specific income result without a clearly visible, FTC-compliant disclaimer. "Made $10k in my first week!" with no disclaimer, no proof, and no representative-results context is a strike.
2.3 Fake or doctored earnings screenshots
Photoshopped Stripe dashboards, recycled screenshots from other creators, AI-generated earnings UIs, and any visual that depicts revenue or commissions you did not actually earn through Restackd are banned. This is fraud, not marketing. Restackd reserves the right to ask you to verify earnings claims with a live screenshare.
2.4 Cookie-stuffing and fraudulent traffic
Cookie-stuffing (injecting affiliate cookies without a real click from a real user), forced clicks, iframe stuffing, pop-under traffic, and any method that registers attributions without genuine user intent are banned and will result in immediate termination plus forfeiture of all pending commissions. Restackd runs server-side attribution verification; these schemes are detectable.
2.5 Self-referral and self-purchase abuse
Purchasing Restackd through your own affiliate link — directly or through proxies (family members, friends acting on your behalf, secondary accounts) — to farm commission is banned. The self-referral guard runs at checkout and blocks most attempts automatically. Circumventing it is grounds for immediate termination and chargeback of the fraudulent commission.
2.6 Trademark misuse and impersonation
You may not register social handles, domains, or business names containing "Restackd" or confusingly similar marks, claim to be a Restackd employee or staff member, or imply official endorsement beyond what your affiliate status entitles you to.
2.7 Multi-account abuse
One person, one affiliate account. Operating multiple affiliate accounts, funneling referrals through dummy accounts to manipulate leaderboards, or creating new accounts to circumvent a suspended account result in termination of every related account.
2.8 Verified customer complaints
If a buyer escalates a complaint about your conduct (misleading sales, harassment, non-delivery of promised bonuses) and we confirm the facts, that's a strike.
2.9 Chargeback patterns
A chargeback rate exceeding 1.0% in any trailing 30-day window, or three or more chargebacks in a 30-day window regardless of rate, triggers a strike.
3. The Three-Strike System
Strikes age out after 12 months. If you go a full year without a new strike, your oldest active strike rolls off automatically.
Strike escalation
| Active Strikes | Account Status | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Active | Normal operation. Commissions paid on schedule. |
| 1 | Warned | Yellow flag. Email with strike reason and appeal process. Commissions continue. |
| 2 | Suspended | Commission payouts paused. New referrals may be blocked pending review. |
| 3 or more | Terminated | Affiliate account closed. Pending commissions forfeited. |
Restackd may bypass graduated steps and terminate immediately for severe violations including cookie-stuffing, identity misrepresentation, fraudulent traffic, threats or harassment of customers or staff, or any conduct that jeopardizes the platform's payment processing relationships.
4. Appeals
If you believe a strike was issued in error, appeal in writing to affiliate@restackd.com within 30 days of the strike notification email. Include:
- Your strike ID (from the notification email).
- A clear, factual explanation of why the strike was incorrect.
- Any supporting evidence (original DMs in context, full screenshots, screenshares, witness statements).
Restackd reviews appeals within 7 business days. Successful appeals overturn the strike and restore your account status. Strike outcomes are final once 30 days have passed without an appeal.
5. How Restackd Detects Violations
Restackd combines automated monitoring with human review:
- Automated fraud guards on attribution patterns, chargeback rate, refund rate, self-referral detection, and cookie-stuffing signals.
- Customer complaint intake at support@restackd.com.
- Public report submissions at affiliate@restackd.com.
- Periodic spot-checks of social content, paid ads, and profile pages.
Strikes are issued only after a human reviewer confirms the facts.
6. Restackd's Good-Faith Commitments
- You will receive an email for every strike, with the reason, evidence summary, and your appeal options.
- A first strike is a warning, not a punishment.
- Strikes are not used to push out affiliates Restackd dislikes — every strike requires documented evidence.
- Restackd will publish anonymized strike statistics quarterly so the community can see this system is fair.
This Code of Conduct may be updated by Restackd from time to time. Material changes will be announced 30 days in advance by email. Effective date: 2026-04-29. Version 2.0.0.