Legal
Affiliate Agreement
The rulebook every affiliate agrees to — written to keep the program on the legal side of the FTC's anti-pyramid line.
Last updated: July 27, 2026
This is a plain-English working draft (matches docs/05-travelsavageloop-matrix-plan.md), not yet a binding legal document. Have a qualified MLM/FTC attorney convert this into a binding agreement and localize it for the states/countries you operate in before enrolling anyone.
1. Becoming an affiliate
Everyone participates through the $45/mo membership — a genuine product that includes the eBook, Savage Discount Deals, and the marketing dashboard, not a buy-in or a fee. New members get a 7-day free trial before the first charge. There is no separate enrollment cost, and no one is ever required to buy anything beyond the one membership to advance. Paying membership gives you the product and a position in your matrix tree (row M0); it does not by itself entitle you to every kind of commission (see Sections 2 and 3).
A Customer buys products and does not earn commissions. An Affiliate promotes products and earns on sales. You may personally use the products, but personal use never counts toward the spillover-qualification requirement in Section 3.
You must present the opportunity truthfully, using only official materials and the current Income Disclosure Statement. You may not promise or imply specific earnings.
2. The products are real
The membership is sold because members want it, at a fair standalone price: real travel discounts, the eBook, and the marketing dashboard. Paying the $45/mo membership gives you the platform, the eBook, and row M0 of your matrix tree — but paying it never by itself "unlocks" every kind of earning. Unlocking a deeper row of your tree (M1 through M5) is a separate, optional purchase that gives you a real, distinct thing — access to that row — and is never required to keep earning from a row you've already unlocked. There is nothing to stockpile — you may not buy, or be pressured to buy, a matrix tier merely to advance a rank or hit a bonus.
3. Spillover qualification — an activity requirement, not a sales requirement
Unlike some plans that gate earnings on personal retail sales, this plan gates new spillover placement on genuine advertising activity instead: you must generate at least 100 real clicks per day on your own link (real visitors, tracked with device-level fraud protection — see below) to receive new spillover placements into your matrix tree that day.
- The 100-clicks/day requirement determines only whether new people spill into your tree that day — it does not affect whether a row you've already filled pays out, and it never affects your own Fast-Start commission on people you personally referred.
- Click counting is designed to resist gaming: a first-party device cookie (not tied to your identity) means the same browser reloading your link never counts twice, with an IP/user-agent fallback and bot/script filtering behind it. Deliberately manipulating this count — bots, click farms, fake devices — is prohibited conduct (Section 8).
- This requirement is new and may be adjusted if it proves too strict or too easy to game in practice.
4. How commissions work
- Fast-Start commission. A flat $20 to your direct sponsor every month a person you personally referred keeps paying their $45 membership — recurring, for as long as they stay active, never gated by Section 3.
- Matrix tree payout. Every member has one shared 2-wide, 6-deep, 126-position matrix tree. It has 6 rows (M0 through M5, 2/4/8/16/32/64 positions each); a row only counts toward your payout once you've personally unlocked it. When a row you've unlocked fills completely with active positions, you're paid that row's full value minus a flat 10% company reserve. You then choose to cash it out or spend part of it unlocking the next row.
- Twice-weekly sweep, monthly cash-out. Fast-Start commissions accrue and move into your spendable wallet balance every Tuesday and Friday. Your wallet balance can be spent any time on membership or unlocking the next row, but requesting money out of the platform is only available once a month, on the 1st.
- Clawback. If a customer refunds, cancels a disputed charge, or charges back, commissions paid on that transaction are reversed.
- Taxes. You're responsible for your own taxes; the company issues required tax forms.
5. Income claims — strictly limited
- No guaranteed income, "passive" riches, specific earnings, or lifestyle claims (luxury cars, quitting your job, "financial freedom") tied to the opportunity.
- Any earnings example shown to a prospect must be accompanied by the current Income Disclosure Statement, which reports actual average and median affiliate earnings — including that many affiliates earn little or nothing.
- Spillover may never be marketed as guaranteed or automatic. It depends on hitting the daily click requirement in Section 3, and a filled row's payout depends on real, active positions actually accumulating over time.
6. Marketing conduct & anti-spam
- Opt-in only — email or SMS only people who have genuinely opted in. Purchased lists, scraped contacts, and unsolicited blasting are grounds for immediate termination.
- All email must comply with CAN-SPAM; all SMS must comply with the TCPA and carrier rules.
- No spam, misleading subject lines, fake scarcity, impersonating the company, or false product/health claims.
- Use only company-approved names, logos, and claims.
7. Refunds & cancellation
Customers may cancel and receive a refund under the posted Refund Policy. You may resign at any time with no penalty — there is nothing to buy in, so there is nothing to buy back.
8. Prohibited conduct
Any of the following may result in suspension or termination and forfeiture of unpaid commissions:
- Paying for signups, recruiting for pay, or presenting the program as earning from recruitment rather than sales.
- Making income guarantees or unauthorized earnings, lifestyle, product, or health claims.
- Spamming, buying lists, or violating CAN-SPAM, the TCPA, or carrier rules.
- Manipulating the matrix or the click tracker — fake accounts, self-enrolling phantom customers, bots or click farms to hit the 100-clicks/day requirement, or stacking positions to trigger bonuses without real activity.
- Misrepresenting the company, its products, its ownership, or this compensation plan.
9. Termination & changes
The company may suspend or terminate any affiliate who violates this agreement. Commissions already properly earned on real sales are paid; unearned or disputed amounts are withheld. The company may update this agreement with reasonable notice; continued participation constitutes acceptance. Governing law to be set by counsel.
