CareerDad Partner Program Terms

These Partner Terms apply when you join or promote CareerDad through the CareerDad Partner Program. They supplement the CareerDad Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

1. Commission Rules

Base commission is 35% on eligible Sprint and Accelerator purchases.
Free users do not generate commission unless they later convert to an eligible paid purchase.
Commissions are held for 30 days before they can be approved.
Approved unpaid commission may be included in a manual payout batch once it reaches the R250 minimum threshold, unless CareerDad approves an exception.
Manual payouts are processed outside the app, usually on the 1st of the next payout month.

2. Attribution

CareerDad uses a 90-day last-click attribution model for the MVP Partner Program. Partner links use the via parameter and may include an optional campaign parameter. Attribution may be stored in first-party cookies, localStorage, and server-side referral records.

3. Privacy Boundaries

Partners may see referral and commission reporting, such as clicks, campaign labels, eligible package names, commission status, and commission amounts. Partners do not see buyer CVs, uploaded documents, interview answers, job descriptions, private profile data, email addresses, payment card details, or account content.

4. Required Partner Disclosure

Partners must disclose their affiliate relationship where appropriate for the channel they use. A simple disclosure such as "I may earn a commission if you buy through my link" is usually clearer than hiding the relationship.

5. Prohibited Promotion

No spam, deceptive outreach, fake accounts, bought traffic, cookie stuffing, forced clicks, or misleading redirects.
No self-referrals or attempts to earn commission on your own purchase.
No claims that CareerDad guarantees jobs, interviews, ATS pass results, refunds, or hiring outcomes.
No use of CareerDad branding in a way that suggests you are an employee, official support channel, or payment processor.

6. Fraud Review

CareerDad may flag, reject, reverse, or withhold commissions for self-referrals, duplicate payments, refunds, reversals, suspicious same-device or same-IP hash patterns, unusually high refund or reversal rates, misleading claims, or other abuse signals. Hashed IP and hashed user-agent values may be used for fraud prevention.

7. Manual Payouts

Payouts are not automatic. CareerDad reviews approved unpaid commission, creates payout batches, pays manually outside the app, and then marks the batch paid. Do not treat dashboard values as cash owed until the commission is approved and paid.

8. Changes and Termination

CareerDad may update these Partner Terms, pause the Partner Program, suspend a partner account, or reject commission where needed to protect users, comply with law, or prevent abuse.