Affiliate terms

1. Klibon is free for you

Affiliates never pay for Klibon. You create an account, join programs, generate tracked links and follow your commissions at no cost.

2. Who owes you money, and who pays you

Your commissions are owed to you by the merchant, not by Klibon. Klibon computes what each merchant owes you under the terms of their program and produces a monthly statement. A statement is then paid in one of two ways, shown on the statement itself.

2.1 The merchant pays you themselves

The merchant pays you directly, using the payment details you entered in your profile, and marks the statement as paid. Klibon plays no part in that payment. If a merchant does not pay, Klibon can show you the record of what was earned, but cannot pay in their place and cannot compel them to.

2.2 Klibon pays you on the merchant's behalf

Where a merchant uses managed payouts, Klibon instructs Stripe to charge the merchant and to transfer your commission to your own Stripe account. To be paid this way you connect a Stripe Express account from your Klibon account and accept the Stripe Connected Account Agreement. Stripe, not Klibon, verifies your identity, holds the funds in transit and pays them out to your bank account on your Stripe payout schedule. Klibon is not a bank or a payment institution and does not itself hold your money.

It is free for you: you receive the full commission shown on the statement. Your bank, or a currency conversion if your bank account is in another currency, may apply its own charges.

Until Stripe has created the transfer, your claim remains against the merchant. A statement is shown as paid by Klibon only once that transfer exists. If the merchant's payment fails, if Stripe restricts your account, or if Stripe cannot pay out in your country or currency, the statement stays due and the merchant is asked to pay you themselves under 2.1.

Klibon does not take back money it has paid you. A sale refunded after you were paid is deducted from your next statement with that merchant, as described below.

3. How a commission becomes payable

A sale attributed to one of your links creates a pending commission. It becomes approved once the merchant's refund window has elapsed without a refund. Approved commissions for a month are grouped into a statement. If the total is below the program's minimum payout, it carries over to the following month rather than being lost. Every program's minimum payout is at least 50 in the program's currency (5,000 in a currency without decimals); a merchant may set a higher one, which their program page states.

A refund reverses the corresponding commission. If it had already been paid to you, it appears as a deduction on your next statement with that merchant.

4. Program terms can change

A merchant may change their commission rate, cookie window or approval rules at any time. Changes apply to sales attributed after the change. Commissions already earned are not affected. A merchant may also pause or close a program, or remove you from it.

5. What you may not do

The following will get commissions reversed and may get you removed from a program or from Klibon:

• Referring yourself, or purchasing through your own link under another identity.
• Generating clicks that do not come from real people.
• Bidding on the merchant's brand terms where their program forbids it.
• Misrepresenting the product, or claiming to be the merchant.
• Spam, in any channel.

Klibon flags suspected self-referral automatically; the decision to accept or reverse the commission is the merchant's.

6. Disclosure

Where you are required to disclose that a link is an affiliate link — the FTC endorsement guides in the United States, and comparable rules elsewhere — that obligation is yours. It applies wherever you place the link.

7. Your data

Merchants whose programs you join can see your display name, your website, your bio and, when a statement is due, the payment details you entered — they need them to pay you. They see your click and conversion counts for their own program only. They do not see your activity in other programs.

If you connect Stripe, the identity, tax and bank details you give during that setup go to Stripe, which handles them as an independent controller under its own privacy policy. Klibon receives and stores only your Stripe account's identifier, its country, and whether Stripe currently allows it to be paid.

7a. Tax

You are responsible for declaring and paying any tax due on what you earn. Where Klibon pays you on a merchant's behalf, the law may require Klibon, as a platform operator, to collect information about you and to report what you were paid to tax authorities (in the European Union, under the DAC7 directive). Where that applies you will be asked for the information required, and payouts may be withheld until it is provided.

8. Liability and changes

Klibon is provided as is. To the extent permitted by law we are not liable for commissions a merchant fails to pay, for sales that were not attributed, or for a merchant's decision to reject or reverse a commission. We will give notice of material changes to these terms by email. Questions: [email protected].