Partner Agreement

This Partner Agreement (the “Agreement”) governs your participation in the EngageDM Partnership Program. It is an addition to, not a replacement for, the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which continue to apply in full. Where this Agreement is silent, those documents govern.

1. Eligibility and age

You must be at least 18 years old to join the Partnership Program. This is not a preference: the Program is a commercial arrangement under which we pay you money, and a person below the age of majority cannot enter into a binding contract of this kind (Indian Contract Act, 1872, s. 11, and the equivalent rule in most other jurisdictions).

You confirm that you are at least 18 years old, that the information you give us is true, and that you have the legal capacity and authority to enter into this Agreement. If you are signing on behalf of a company, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.

2. What you earn

• You receive a 25% commission on the net value of every successful payment made by a user who subscribes through your referral link or code — including their renewals, for as long as they keep paying.
• A user who signs up through your link receives 10% off their first purchase.
• Commission is calculated on the net amount we actually keep — that is, after any discount and excluding taxes and payment-processor fees. It is not calculated on the total charged to the customer.
• Your payout currency is fixed when you sign this Agreement (₹ INR for India, $ USD elsewhere) and does not change afterwards without an administrator. Where a referral pays in the other currency, the commission is converted at our published reference rate, less any foreign-exchange spread we apply.

3. When you get paid

• A new commission is held as processing for 7 days — the length of the customer's refund window — and is credited to your balance only once that window closes. If the customer is refunded, the commission is cancelled.
• Commissions may also be held for manual review where our checks suggest the referral may not be genuine (see section 5). A held commission is not credited until it is released.
• You may request a withdrawal once your balance reaches the published minimum, and you may make at most 2 withdrawal requests in any rolling 30-day period.
• Payouts are sent manually, by UPI (INR) or PayPal (USD). Please allow several working days.
• Any transfer fee charged by the payment provider is deducted from your payout and shown to you as a separate line before you confirm the request.

4. Your payout details

You provide your payout destination (UPI ID or PayPal email) once, and it is locked thereafter — only an administrator can change it, on request. This protects your earnings: it means that even someone who gains access to your account cannot redirect your money to their own.

Where the law requires it, we verify that the destination belongs to you. For Indian partners this includes a ₹1 test transfer to your UPI ID, made with your explicit permission, to confirm the name registered on the receiving account. You are responsible for the accuracy of the details you give us; we are not liable for money sent to a destination you supplied incorrectly.

5. How you may and may not promote

You agree that you will not:

• Refer yourself. You may not use your own code — directly, or through another account, household member, or any arrangement whose effect is that you receive both the discount and the commission on your own purchase. We screen for this, and commissions that fail the screen are held for review. Confirmed self-referral means forfeiture of the commission and may end your participation.
• Send unsolicited bulk email, direct messages, or comment spam, or promote EngageDM in any way that breaches Instagram's or Meta's platform terms.
• Bid on “EngageDM” or confusingly similar terms in paid search, or run ads that appear to originate from us.
• Register domains, social handles, or app listings containing our name or a misspelling of it.
• Misrepresent the product — including inventing statistics, guaranteeing results or earnings, claiming an official, employment, or endorsement relationship with EngageDM or with Meta, or offering cashback or incentives we have not agreed to.
• Use cookie stuffing, forced clicks, iframes, redirects, or any technique that attributes a referral the user did not knowingly make.

You must make clear, wherever you promote us, that you earn a commission — this is required by advertising and consumer-protection rules in most jurisdictions, including the ASCI guidelines in India and the FTC endorsement guides in the United States.

6. Tax

You are responsible for your own taxes on what you earn. You are an independent contractor: this Agreement creates no employment, partnership in the legal sense, joint venture, or agency relationship between us.

For Indian partners, commission is subject to tax deducted at source under Section 194H of the Income-tax Act, 1961 once your cumulative payouts in a financial year cross the statutory threshold. Where TDS applies we deduct it, deposit it against your PAN, and it appears in your Form 26AS. We therefore require your PAN before your first payout. Without a valid PAN, the law obliges us to withhold at a substantially higher rate (Section 206AA). Collecting your PAN early does not mean tax is deducted early — nothing is deducted until you actually cross the threshold.

7. Data

We record your signature to this Agreement — the name you type, the date and time, the version of the text you agreed to, and the IP address and browser you signed from — as evidence that it was accepted. We keep it for as long as you are a partner and for as long afterwards as we are required to. Referral and commission records are financial records and are retained accordingly. Our full Privacy Policy applies.

You will see the volume and value of purchases attributed to you. You will never be given the personal details of the people you refer, and you must not attempt to identify them.

8. Suspension and ending this Agreement

• You may leave the Program at any time. Commission already confirmed remains payable to you once it meets the minimum withdrawal amount.
• We may suspend or end your participation, withhold unpaid commission, and reverse commission already credited, where we reasonably believe this Agreement has been breached — in particular sections 1 and 5 — or where we are required to by law or by a payment provider.
• We may change the Program's rates, thresholds, and rules, and may change this Agreement. Material changes are published with a new version number, and continuing in the Program after they take effect means accepting them. We will not apply a change retroactively to commission already confirmed.
• We may end the Program itself on reasonable notice. If we do, confirmed balances are still paid out.

9. Liability and governing law

The Program is provided as-is. To the maximum extent the law allows, our total liability to you in connection with this Agreement is limited to the commission actually confirmed and unpaid in your account. We are not liable for lost profits or for earnings you expected but did not make.

This Agreement is governed by the laws of India, and the courts at our registered place of business have exclusive jurisdiction — except where the mandatory consumer law of your own country of residence gives you rights that cannot be contracted away.

10. Signing

Typing your full legal name below and submitting it is a legally binding electronic signature. It has the same effect as signing on paper, and you agree not to dispute its validity solely because it is electronic. We will store it, with the date and version above, as the record of your acceptance.

Questions about this Agreement: [email protected]