intrade.bar partner program marketing rules

intrade.bar partner program marketing rules

These rules are binding on every partner of Future plus LLC (the "Company") and form part of the terms of the intrade.bar partner program. The partner accepts them at signup; no payouts are made until the current version of the rules has been accepted.

1. General principles

1.1. The partner refers clients only through their own partner links and promo codes issued in the partner cabinet.

1.2. Advertising must be honest: it must not mislead anyone about the Company, its services, the risks of trading or the possible outcome.

1.3. The partner does not accept money from clients, does not fund accounts on their behalf and does not manage their funds.

2. Mandatory risk warning

2.1. Every advertising material and every partner page that contains a partner link or promo code must show the following warning, clearly legible and in the language of the material:

Trading digital options involves the risk of losing money.

2.2. Russian materials use «Торговля цифровыми опционами связана с риском потери средств.», Spanish materials use «Operar con opciones digitales conlleva el riesgo de perder dinero.». In materials in any other language the partner must show a warning in the language of the material with the same meaning as «Trading digital options involves the risk of losing money».

2.3. Advertising must not state or imply that the Company is licensed, regulated or supervised by any authority, and must not describe trading as safe, guaranteed or free of risk.

3. Forbidden ways of attracting clients

The following are forbidden:

• spam: bulk messages to people who did not agree to receive them, by e-mail, messengers, social networks, comments or push notifications;
• search-engine advertising on queries containing the word "intrade" (including "intrade.bar"), in any spelling;
• incentivised traffic: rewarding, paying or promising anything to a client for registering, depositing or trading (for example, "sign up and get…");
• presenting your site, page, account or channel as the official intrade.bar site or an official representative, or copying its look so that it can be taken for the official one;
• forced or hidden redirects of users to partner links;
• advertising with partner links in contextual advertising systems and banner networks, unless the Company has approved the campaign in writing in advance (by e-mail from partners@intrade.bar).

4. Forbidden claims

It is forbidden to state or suggest that:

• trading brings guaranteed profit or guaranteed income;
• trading carries no risk;
• a promo code gives the client a bonus or any other benefit: a promo code only attributes the client to the partner and gives the client nothing extra;
• the partner is the Company, its official site or its official representative.

5. Client countries

5.1. Registration of clients from certain countries is blocked across the whole site. The list includes, among others, the USA, China and North Korea; the full current list is published in the partner cabinet.

5.2. No commission accrues for clients from the countries on this list.

6. Self-referral and linked accounts

6.1. It is forbidden to:

• register as a client through your own link or your own promo code;
• register your relatives as clients, or any persons using the same IP address as the partner;
• create linked client accounts, including in order to open opposite trades between them (hedging).

6.2. The Company checks for overlaps of accounts, devices, IP addresses and payment details between the partner and their clients, and for links between clients.

6.3. One person or team may run several partner accounts, including ones paid to the same wallets. Such a network is allowed if it has been declared to the Company; undeclared overlaps are flagged and reviewed.

6.4. Clients must be at least 18 years old. It is forbidden to attract minors or to place advertising aimed at them. If it turns out that a client was under 18 when registering, no commission accrues on that client and commission already accrued is void, even if this comes to light after the client has turned 18.

7. Links and promo codes

7.1. A client is attributed to a partner by the last click on a partner link within 30 days before registration, and then for life. A valid promo code entered by the client takes priority over another partner's link.

7.2. Old links of the form intrade.bar/N and ?partner_id=N keep working and lead to the partner's default link.

7.3. After registration, other partners' links and promo codes do not re-attribute a client. Only the Company can move a client to another partner. Details are in the "Commission formula" document.

7.4. The partner may not offer a client anything for entering a promo code or for moving to them from another partner, including persuading a client to ask for such a move (see the ban on incentivised traffic).

8. Postbacks and the partner API

8.1. Data the partner receives through postbacks, the API and the cabinet (a pseudonymous client identifier, country, amounts, statuses and the like) may be used only to track and optimise the partner's own advertising campaigns. Selling or passing this data to third parties is forbidden.

8.2. The partner is responsible for the server that receives postbacks and for its security.

8.3. API access is given only to partners for whom the Company has enabled it. API tokens are secret: they must not be shared with outsiders, published or sent in a request URL (such requests are refused). If a token may have leaked, revoke it in the cabinet at once.

8.4. The partner keeps within the request-rate limits and quotas stated in the API documentation. Requests above the limits are refused; repeated authentication failures temporarily block access from the IP address.

8.5. The API limits and quotas published in the API documentation are part of these rules; the Company may change them. Breaking changes to API version /v1 are announced in the Cabinet at least 30 days in advance, and a version that is being retired keeps working for at least 90 days after its replacement is published.

9. Consequences of breaches

9.1. On a serious sign of a breach the partner's payouts are suspended at once and the case is reviewed. In the cabinet the partner sees the status "payout under review"; the reason is not disclosed.

9.2. After the review the Company may:

• void the commission on the clients involved in the breach (for confirmed hedging, for the whole period that client is attributed);
• ban the partner;
• clear the suspicion and resume payouts.

9.3. Voided commission that has not yet been paid is cancelled. Commission already paid is recovered by an adjustment; until the amount owed is covered, no payouts are made.

9.4. When a partner is banned, postbacks stop.

9.5. A partner banned for fraud loses the clients attributed to them: they pass to the Company, and the lifetime minimum rate of 45 % no longer applies.

10. Appeals

10.1. A partner may appeal any decision taken under these rules (a warning, voided commission, a hold or a ban) by writing to partners@intrade.bar within 30 days of being notified of the decision, with the reasons and any evidence.

10.2. The Company reviews the appeal and answers within 14 days; in complex cases it may extend this to 30 days and will tell the partner so. An appeal does not suspend the decision while it is reviewed.

10.3. If the partner does not agree with the answer, section 18 of the Partner agreement applies.

11. Changes to these rules

11.1. The Company notifies partners of changes to these rules at least 14 days in advance, in the cabinet and by e-mail. Changes are never retroactive; a change log is published.

11.2. A new version is accepted by the owner of the partner account. Until the current version is accepted, commission keeps accruing but no payouts are made.