Referral program terms

01Who runs the program

The Keta referral program is run by Cherry Cowboys Inc., a Delaware corporation at 1314 Magnolia Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006. Any member with a Keta account can take part from Referrals in the Studio.

These terms add to the terms of service, the acceptable use policy and the privacy policy. Where they differ about referrals, these terms win.

02What you earn

By default you earn 10% of what a member you referred pays for their first purchase: $50 on a full $500 month. Only that first paid order counts.

We may set a different rate for a referrer. Your rate is the one shown on your Referrals page, and it applies when the member’s payment confirms. A change never alters a reward already recorded.

Renewals and later payments earn nothing. Test payments made with test coins earn nothing.

03Groupbuys never earn a reward

No reward is earned on any order made with a groupbuy code, whether the member paid for their own seat or the groupbuy owner prepaid it.

Because only the first paid order counts, a member whose first paid order was a groupbuy seat never earns their referrer a reward, even if they later pay the full price.

04Groupbuy owner share (a separate arrangement)

Keta and a groupbuy’s owner can agree an owner share for that groupbuy: a whole percent of what each member pays Keta for their seat.

It’s recorded when the payment confirms and waits 7 days (less for trusted accounts). Then Keta sends it by hand, in crypto, to the payout wallet you confirmed by email.

Prepaid seats, test payments and an owner’s own seat earn nothing. A payment that’s reversed or charged back voids its share, and one already paid may be recovered.

This is separate from referrals: groupbuy orders still earn no referral reward.

05Your links and who counts as yours

Each member gets a link (ketagen.com/?ref= and a random code) and can add up to 5 custom codes of 3 to 24 letters, numbers or hyphens. Words kept for Keta can’t be used. A code you turn off stays yours and is never given to anyone else.

A member counts as yours when they first reach Keta through one of your links and then create their account. The first link wins, and a member’s referrer never changes. Each member has one referrer at most.

When the visitor allows “Referrals” in their privacy choices, their browser remembers the link for 30 days. Without that choice, nothing is stored, so the link counts only if they create their account in the same browser while a Keta page from that visit is still open, and even then we can’t promise it will.¹

06No self-referral

You can’t earn a reward on your own purchase. That includes a second account with the same email (for example with a +tag or extra dots in a Gmail address) and any account that uses the same payout wallet as yours.

Rewards like these are recorded as void and never paid. We can also void them when we find them later.

07When and how you are paid

A reward becomes payable 7 days after the member’s payment confirms. We may shorten that hold for referrers we trust.

We pay payable rewards by hand, in crypto, to the payout wallet you set in Referrals. A new or changed wallet counts only after you confirm it from the link we email you (the link works once, for 24 hours). We don’t pay to an unconfirmed wallet.

Each payout shows in Referrals with its date, amount, network and transaction. Check your network and address: a payment sent to the address you gave can’t be recovered.

08When a reward is voided

We can void a reward before it is paid, with a reason, when the payment behind it is reversed or charged back, when it breaks these terms (self-referral, spam, misleading promotion) or when we see abuse. A paid reward is not voided.

09How to share your link

Say that you earn a reward when someone joins through your link, every time you share it, where people will see it before they click: for example “I earn a reward if you join Keta through my link.”²

• No spam or unwanted messages.
• No claims Keta doesn’t make.
• No ads on Keta’s name or brand.
• Never pose as Keta or its staff.

Everything you post about Keta must follow the acceptable use policy.

10Taxes

Rewards may be taxable income where you live, and paying any tax on them is up to you.

In the US, when the rewards we pay you in a calendar year reach the IRS reporting threshold, we report them on Form 1099-NEC. Before we pay rewards that would reach it, we ask for a Form W-9 (US persons) or W-8BEN (everyone else), and we may hold payouts until we have it.³

11Changes and ending the program

We can change these terms or end the program. We tell you by email before a change applies. Rewards that were payable before a change or the end are still paid, unless they are voided under these terms.

12Questions

Write to support@ketagen.com about a reward or a payout, and to hello@ketagen.com about these terms.