Publisher Terms

Advertisers pay us to reach audiences. Through the Publisher Programme we make their offers available to you, give you the advertising creative and a tracking link for each one, and share with you what we receive when one of your readers goes on to make a qualifying purchase or complete a qualifying action.

We share the rest of what we receive with the reader, as a Reward. We do not retain a margin on earnings from your Placements unless we tell you otherwise under section 5.B.

These words have the same meaning here as in our Advertiser Terms. Publisher means a third party whose property carries advertising we distribute. Publisher Property means a website, application, newsletter or other property operated by a Publisher. Advertiser means a business whose offers we make available. Advertiser Offermeans a product, service, promotion, rate or other offer of an Advertiser’s that we make available through the Publisher Programme. Advertiser Content means the creative, copy, images, marks and other materials an Advertiser supplies or approves for use with an Advertiser Offer. Affiliate Network means a third-party affiliate, partnership, referral or performance-marketing platform through which an Advertiser Offer may be tracked, validated or paid for. Reward means a benefit we give a person under the consumer Terms of Service.

These words are specific to these Terms. Placement means one advertising slot you create in the Publisher Programme for one Advertiser Offer, such as an advertisement at the top of a newsletter issue. Tracking Link means the link we give you for a Placement. Reader means a person who receives or views your Publisher Property. Activation Page means the page a Reader reaches after opening a Tracking Link, where they sign in to or create a Discomiles account before continuing to the Advertiser.

You must be legally able to enter into these Terms, and you must operate, or be authorised to place advertising in, every Publisher Property you use with the Publisher Programme. The information you give us when you apply must be accurate, and you must keep it accurate.

Your account is under review from the moment you apply. While it is under review you may create Placements and use your Tracking Links, and earnings may accrue to your account, but we will not pay you anything until we have approved your account.

We decide whether to approve an account at our discretion. We may ask you for further information, and we may reject an application, or later suspend an approved account, without giving a reason, subject to section 10.

Your payout currency and the country you tell us you are based in are set when you apply and cannot be changed in your account afterwards. Contact us if either is wrong. We use your country for invoicing and tax purposes; it does not limit where your Placements may appear.

You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your sign-in secure. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

You may choose any Advertiser Offer we make available to you. The catalogue changes often, and the earning rate we show beside an Advertiser Offer is an estimate — see section 5.C.

You must use the Advertiser Content exactly as we provide it. You may choose which of the available sizes to use. You must not edit, crop, re-word, re-colour, add to, obscure or rearrange it, and you must not combine it with other material in a way that changes its meaning.

Every Placement carries a “Sponsored” label and a Discomiles attribution line. You must not remove, hide, shrink or obscure either of them. If your Publisher Property has its own way of marking advertising, you may use that as well, but not instead.

You must link each Placement only to its Tracking Link. You must not replace it with an Advertiser’s own link or an Affiliate Network link, and you must not alter it, redirect it through your own systems, or shorten it with a service that changes where it leads.

Every Reader of a Publisher Property must receive the same Tracking Link. You must not add a Reader’s email address, name, subscriber identifier or any other personal information to a Tracking Link, and you must not create a separate link for each Reader.

You may use a Placement only in a Publisher Property you operate or are authorised to place advertising in. If you send it by email, you may send it only to people who have agreed to receive email from you, and you must comply with the laws that apply to electronic marketing, including the requirement to let people unsubscribe.

Some Advertisers allow their offers only in certain countries. We show you which countries each Advertiser Offer allows, and you must not direct a Placement at people in a country the Advertiser does not allow. Readers outside an Advertiser’s allowed countries may not be able to continue to the Advertiser, and you will not earn from them.

An Advertiser may change or end an Advertiser Offer, or choose not to appear in your Placements, at any time, and we may withdraw an Advertiser Offer for any reason. We are not required to give you notice.

A Placement you have already sent cannot be recalled. If an Advertiser Offer ends after you have sent it, its Tracking Link will continue to work: Readers who open it will be told that the offer has ended and shown other offers that are available. You are not entitled to any payment because an Advertiser Offer has ended.

You earn when a Reader opens your Tracking Link, continues from the Activation Page to the Advertiser, and then completes a purchase or other action that the Advertiser pays us for. You do not earn for opens, clicks, impressions, page views or sign-ups on their own.

When we receive payment for a qualifying purchase or action, we share it between you and the Reader. Your share is shown in your account. At the date of these Terms it is 50% of what we receive, and the Reader’s Reward is funded from the other 50%.

We may change your share. A change applies only to Placements you create after we tell you about it. It does not change the share that applies to a Placement you have already created.

The earning rate we show for an Advertiser Offer is an estimate based on what the Advertiser was paying when we showed it to you. Advertisers change their rates, and a purchase can fall into a different category, or carry a different rate, from the one you selected. Your share is always calculated on what we actually receive for the purchase or action, not on the estimate. We are not liable for any difference between the two.

An earning is shown as pending until both of the following are true: we have actually received payment for it from the Advertiser or the Affiliate Network, and we have checked it against their records. It then becomes confirmed. Only confirmed earnings are payable. Advertisers and Affiliate Networks can take weeks or months to validate and pay for a purchase, and we cannot pay you before they pay us.

If a purchase is cancelled, returned, refunded, rejected by the Advertiser or the Affiliate Network, or found to arise from invalid activity, the earning for it is reversed — including if we have already shown it to you as confirmed. If we have already paid you for an earning that is later reversed, we may deduct the amount from your future earnings, or ask you to repay it.

Email security systems often open every link in a message automatically, before the recipient sees it. For that reason we do not treat the opening of a Tracking Link as a click on its own. We count a click when a Reader reaches the Activation Page while signed in to a Discomiles account. Your reporting shows link opens separately so you can compare them with your own figures.

Earnings are calculated from our records and from the records we receive from Advertisers and Affiliate Networks. If you disagree with an amount, tell us within 60 days of it appearing in your account and we will review it in good faith. Our decision after that review is final, unless the law requires otherwise.

We pay confirmed earnings only to accounts we have approved. Confirmed earnings that accrue while your account is under review are held and become payable once your account is approved, unless we reject the account or they are reversed.

We ask for your payment details after we approve your account. You must give us accurate details and keep them up to date. We are not responsible for a payment that fails or goes astray because the details you gave us were wrong.

We pay you in your payout currency. We record earnings in US dollars; where your payout currency is different, we convert the amount at the exchange rate we use on the date of payment. We pay on the payment schedule we tell you about, and we may set a minimum amount below which earnings are carried forward to the next payment. We will tell you before either applies to you.

You are responsible for all taxes on your earnings, and for registering and accounting for any tax that applies to you. Where the law requires us to withhold or deduct tax from a payment to you, we will do so, and the amount we pay you will be reduced accordingly. We may ask you for the information we need to comply with tax law, and we may hold payments until you provide it.

We do not need, and you must not send us, your subscriber list, your Readers’ email addresses, or any other personal information about your Readers.

We give you aggregated reporting about your Placements, such as link opens, clicks, purchases and earnings. We do not tell you who your Readers are, or which Reader did what.

You are responsible for the personal information you hold about your Readers, and for complying with the laws that apply to it, including obtaining any consent you need to send them email. We are responsible for the personal information we collect from Readers who use the Activation Page or a Discomiles account, which we handle as described in our Privacy Policy.

A Reader may ask us to delete the personal information we hold about them. When they do, we keep the records your earnings depend on, but we remove the Reader’s identity from them. A deletion request does not, by itself, reverse an earning.

We may change these Terms. We will tell you about a material change before it takes effect, by email or in your account. If you continue to use the Publisher Programme after a change takes effect, you accept it. If you do not accept a change, you must stop using the Publisher Programme.

You and we are independent contractors. Nothing in these Terms makes you our employee, agent, partner or joint venturer, and you must not hold yourself out as acting on our behalf or on behalf of any Advertiser. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor to our business.

These Terms, together with the consumer Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Publisher Programme. If any part of them is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

We are not liable for any delay or failure caused by events outside our reasonable control, including the failure of an Advertiser, an Affiliate Network, a payment provider or a hosting provider.

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Publisher Programme are governed by the laws of Singapore, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Each party submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore.