Affiliate Program Terms

Last updated: 19 July 2026

These Affiliate Program Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your participation in the QR Hero Affiliate Program (the "Program"), operated by Etcetera Digital LLC, a limited liability company registered in Wyoming, USA, with its registered address at 30 N Gould St., Suite 2413, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA ("QR Hero", "we", "us", "our").

By submitting an affiliate application, checking the acceptance box on the registration form, or otherwise participating in the Program, you ("you", "Affiliate", "Partner") agree to these Terms. If you apply on behalf of a company or other organization, you confirm you are authorized to bind that organization, and "you" refers to that organization. These Terms supplement, and do not replace, our general Terms of Service governing use of the QR Hero platform itself.

1. Applying to the Program

1.1 You apply by completing the registration form, which asks for your contact details, company/individual identity information, address, and (optionally, at application — required before your first payout) payout details. You agree the information you provide is accurate and that you will keep it up to date via your affiliate dashboard.

1.2 Submitting an application does not guarantee acceptance. Your account starts in a pending state and is reviewed by QR Hero staff. We may approve, reject, or request more information at our discretion, and we do not owe you an explanation for a rejection.

1.3 You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into these Terms.

1.4 Once approved, you may participate as either:

(a) Individual affiliate — a single partner QR Hero manages directly; or
(b) Affiliate network — an aggregator with its own pool of sub-affiliates ("Publishers") QR Hero does not manage or contract with individually. Network-specific terms are in §7 below; if your application is for a network arrangement with custom commercial terms, we may ask you to execute the bilateral partner agreement template instead of or in addition to these Terms.

2. Your information

2.1 Identity & company details. You will provide your (or your company's) legal name, registered address, and — where applicable — company registration or VAT/tax identification number. We use this to verify you, to issue Commission statements, and to meet our own tax and compliance obligations.

2.2 Payout details. You will provide accurate details for the payout method you select — bank transfer (IBAN, account holder name, bank name, and BIC/SWIFT where required) or cryptocurrency (wallet address, currency, and network). You are solely responsible for the accuracy of the payout details you provide. Payments sent to a wallet address or bank account you entered incorrectly, or to an account you no longer control, are your responsibility, not ours; we do not guarantee recovery of misdirected funds. Cryptocurrency payouts, where offered, are irreversible once broadcast and are subject to the applicable network's own fees and confirmation times, which are outside our control.

2.3 Tax responsibility. You are responsible for your own tax obligations (including income tax, VAT, or equivalent) on Commission and Network Fees you receive, and for providing any tax forms we reasonably request.

2.4 Keeping information current. You must update your contact, company, address, and payout information promptly via your affiliate dashboard whenever it changes. Commission is not payable to an account with materially inaccurate identity information.

3. Tracking, attribution & activity logging

3.1 We provide you a unique tracking link (https://qrhero.com/go/{your-slug}). When someone clicks it, we record the click and set a signed attribution cookie for your Attribution Window (default 60 days, shown on your dashboard), then redirect them to the intended destination. Do not tamper with tracking parameters or the cookie mechanism.

3.2 At signup, we read the attribution cookie once and stamp attribution on the new customer; attribution does not change afterward. We use last-non-direct-click attribution: the most recent qualifying click (or affiliate-linked coupon redemption) before signup determines who is credited. Our own owned or paid marketing channels use a reserved internal tracking identity; if a visitor clicks your link and later clicks one of our own marketing links before signing up, our channel is treated as the last touch and no Commission is payable for that signup. This is standard industry practice — we disclose it here so you understand why a click that did not ultimately convert may have been superseded, not because of hidden cookie manipulation. Our attribution records are determinative for Program purposes.

3.3 Your account activity is logged and visible to you. Changes you make to your own account — profile edits, payout detail changes, and similar self-service actions — are recorded in an activity log you can review from your dashboard at any time. This log exists for your own transparency and for dispute resolution; you cannot delete or edit it.

3.4 Our staff's actions on your account are also logged. Where QR Hero staff make changes to your account (for example approving your application, adjusting your commission rate, or resolving a support request), those actions are recorded in an internal, append-only record for accountability and audit purposes.

4. Commission & payout

4.1 How you earn. For the standard revenue-share model, Commission is lifetime recurring: you earn on every qualifying subscription payment from a customer attributed to you, for as long as they remain subscribed — with no cap or expiry. Commission applies to subscription payments only, not to wallet top-ups, print orders, or overage charges. Where your account is instead configured for a one-time fixed bounty, you earn a flat amount on the referred customer's first qualifying payment only (this model requires our prior approval).

4.2 What's excluded. Commission is not payable on taxes or government charges, refunded or charged-back amounts, payments from customers not attributed to you, your own organization or any self-referral (§5), or conversions superseded by our own marketing channel under §3.2. Refunding a qualifying payment reverses the related Commission.

4.3 Network fees. If you're approved as an affiliate network with network fees enabled, you additionally earn a Network Fee on each qualifying payment, calculated independently of any sub-affiliate's Commission, per the basis shown on your dashboard.

4.4 Statements, hold, and schedule. We issue monthly Commission statements after month-end, covering entries that have cleared the payout hold period (default 30 days, shown on your dashboard) since accrual. Payment follows on our standard schedule after statement finalization, in the currency shown on your account. Balances below the minimum payout threshold (shown on your dashboard) roll forward to the next statement. Where Commission or Network Fees were accrued in a currency other than your payout currency, we convert those amounts to your payout currency using European Central Bank (ECB) euro reference exchange rates applied at statement generation; the rate used for each entry is shown on your statement for audit purposes.

4.5 We may set off amounts you owe us against Commission or Network Fees payable to you.

5. Prohibited activity & self-referral

5.1 You must not refer yourself, your own organization, your employees, or entities you control without our prior written disclosure and approval. We may block or flag attribution where a referred customer's signals (email domain, IP, device fingerprint, or similar) match your own account details or a recent click from your own links.

5.2 You must not use spam, cookie-stuffing, forced redirects, undisclosed incentivized clicks, unauthorized trademark bidding on our brand, or any fraudulent or deceptive method to generate attribution. Each referred customer must be a genuine, distinct business or individual — creating shell or duplicate signups to inflate Commission is a material breach.

5.3 We may audit your promotional methods and referred customer list at any time. We may suspend Commission accrual, withhold payouts, or terminate your account if we suspect or confirm abuse.

5.4 Commission or Network Fees obtained through fraud or material breach may be clawed back, including after payment. Otherwise, amounts legitimately earned and already paid are not clawed back on termination absent fraud.

6. Your obligations as an affiliate

You agree to: promote QR Hero honestly and in line with our brand guidelines; clearly disclose your affiliate relationship where required by law (for example FTC- or ASA-style disclosure on content); avoid making commitments on our behalf beyond our published documentation; use only the tracking links and coupon codes we assign you; and comply with applicable law, including data protection law, in how you promote the Program and handle any end-user data you encounter.

You agree not to: reverse-engineer or interfere with our tracking systems; misrepresent our pricing, features, or identity; bid on our trademarks in paid search without prior written approval; or engage in the prohibited activity described in §5.

7. Affiliate networks

If you're approved as an affiliate network, you're solely responsible for your own Publishers: their recruitment, compliance, and payment under your own publisher agreement; their compliance with applicable advertising and data-protection law; and confirming that our attribution methodology (§3.2), reporting cadence, cookie window, and any network fee arrangement are compatible with your own publisher agreement before we enable integration for you. We contract with you, not your Publishers, unless we separately agree otherwise in writing. You will not represent to your Publishers that a click guarantees conversion credit where our disclosed rules (§3.2) may supersede it, and you indemnify us against claims by Publishers arising from your misrepresentation of our rules or failure to disclose them.

8. Termination

8.1 You may stop participating in the Program at any time by contacting us; we may suspend or terminate your account for material breach of these Terms (including §5 and §6), on reasonable notice where practicable, or immediately in cases of fraud or abuse.

8.2 On termination, your access to the affiliate dashboard and tracking links ends (on the termination date, or immediately for termination for cause). Customers already attributed to you keep their attribution and Commission continues to accrue on their qualifying payments, unless termination is for your fraud or material breach, in which case we may cease future accrual and claw back fraudulent amounts under §5.4. Entries already accrued but still within the payout hold period follow the normal statement and payout cycle unless termination is for fraud. A final statement covers amounts through the termination date.

8.3 We retain click, attribution, Commission, and account activity records after termination for as long as reasonably required for audit and dispute resolution, or longer where required by law.

9. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time, including the commission model, attribution window, payout hold, or minimum threshold defaults referenced above (current values are always shown on your dashboard). For material changes, we will notify you — for example by email or an in-app notice — before they take effect. Continued participation in the Program after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance; if you don't agree, you may stop participating as described in §8.

10. Disclaimer, liability & general terms

10.1 The Program and Platform are provided "as is" and "as available," to the maximum extent permitted by law. We don't guarantee any particular volume of referrals, clicks, or Commission.

10.2 To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or revenue. Our aggregate liability arising out of the Program is limited to the total Commission and Network Fees paid or payable to you in the 12 months preceding the claim. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence, or other liability that cannot be limited by law.

10.3 These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA, excluding its conflict-of-law rules; the state and federal courts located in Wyoming have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction granting you non-waivable rights, nothing here deprives you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

10.4 If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect. You may not assign your Program participation without our consent. These Terms, together with the documents they reference, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Program.

11. Contact

Etcetera Digital LLC 30 N Gould St., Suite 2413 Sheridan, WY 82801, USA

Program inquiries: [email protected] General/legal inquiries: [email protected] Privacy: [email protected]