An affiliate program should be legally protected by well-defined Terms & Conditions. These define the business relationship between you and your affiliates promoting your products/company.
Trackdesk provides you with a template of Terms & Conditions that you can use to run your affiliate program.
Where are T&C visible?
Affiliates and advertisers can see your Terms & Conditions:
In the footer of the affiliate registration page
On the login page of your system
In their user menu in the top right corner
In an Updated Terms & Conditions modal, when you require them to accept a new version
That last one appears only when you ask for re-consent while publishing an update, as described below. It cannot be dismissed: the affiliate or advertiser has to click I agree with the Terms & Conditions before they can carry on using the app. Your own admins and managers are not blocked by it, and neither are impersonation sessions.
You will find the T&C section by going to Settings → Affiliates → Legal (the Terms and conditions block).
Preview
You can preview the version affiliates currently see by clicking Preview.
Edit
If you wish to edit the Terms & Conditions, you can edit the text directly in the Text of terms and condition editor in the block.
While editing, you can use predefined variables; these change depending on the current value.
For these variables, we use your company name, business address (which you define in Settings → General → System → Company details, also reachable through the Manage company details link in the T&C block), default currency, your country, and your date of registration.
Usable markdown
You can use:
H1 to H3
Bold formatting
Numbered list
Bullet point list
Align
Link
Photo
After editing, you can always return to our default version with Revert T&C to use default Trackdesk formulation at the bottom of the block.
Publishing an update and asking for re-consent
When you save your changes with Save changes, a confirmation modal opens with the checkbox Require affiliates and advertisers to agree with the updated T&C before they continue. Make your choice there and click Apply now to publish.
Leave the checkbox clear and the new text is simply published. Tick it and every affected affiliate and advertiser has to accept the new version, in the blocking modal described above, before they can use the app again. This is worth using for changes that affect the terms of your cooperation, and worth leaving off for a typo fix.
