Starwise Programme Terms

Starwise Programme Terms (version prog-1)

1. Who we are

These terms are between you and Starwise Co., a Delaware corporation (file no. 6374917), 2093 Philadelphia Pike #6054, Claymont, DE 19703, USA (“Starwise”, “we”). They cover the Star Partners programme (Schedule A), the Star Creators programme (Schedule B) and, for astrologers we invite to answer in Talk, Schedule C. By accepting, you agree to these terms and each schedule you join. Where a schedule differs from these terms, the schedule wins.

2. Who can join

You must be 18 or over, and you must not be:

• on any US, UK, EU or UN sanctions list, or owned or controlled by someone who is;
• living or located in, or acting for anyone in, a country or region on our list of places we can't pay or can't pay yet (starwise.app/partners/countries/).

You may join as a person or for a company. If for a company, you confirm you may sign for it. You may have only one account. One account can join both programmes. Your details must be true, and you must keep them up to date.

3. Our relationship

You are an independent contractor. You are not our employee, agent or partner in law. You choose how, when and where you work, and you may work for others, including our competitors. You may not make promises or sign anything in our name.

4. What you earn

Each schedule sets your share. In these terms:

• “Net sales” is the amount in US dollars that our payment provider (Stripe, which sells to customers on our behalf and collects the tax) pays out to us for an order credited to you, after its taxes, fees and currency conversion, minus refunds and chargebacks.
• An order is credited to you only as the schedule says, and only by our records. Our tracking decides who an order is credited to.
• The two programmes run in parallel, and each is calculated separately. Your own traffic (your link or code, and the customers credited to you for 12 months) is credited under Schedule A. Traffic we pay for (an ad with a creator's video) is credited under Schedule B, for customers not already credited to a partner. If you are in both programmes, you earn under both, each on its own orders.
• If you think our tracking is wrong, you may ask us to check it within 60 days of the order.

5. Holding period and clawback

Your share of an order becomes payable 30 days after the order, once Stripe has paid us for it. If we later refund an order or lose a chargeback, we take your share of that order off your future earnings. If you have left the programme, or your earnings don't cover it within 180 days, you repay it within 30 days of our request.

6. Payment

• We pay every two weeks, by the method you choose from those we offer in your country: USDT, USDC or bank transfer. You confirm that receiving the method you choose is lawful where you live.
• One dollar owed = one USDT or USDC sent. Your earnings are counted in US dollars.
• If your balance is under $20, it carries over to the next payout.
• We pay the network fee for one payout every two weeks.
• Your wallet address is your responsibility. Crypto sent to an address you gave us cannot be recovered. Once we have sent it, the payment is complete, unless the loss was caused by our own mistake or a breach of our security.
• If you change your address, we pay to the new one only after 72 hours and after you confirm the change by email.
• We may delay a payout while we check your identity, tax form or sanctions status, or if we suspect fraud.

7. Payout statements (self-billing)

You agree that we prepare the statement for each payout, and that you will not send your own invoices for these payments. This lasts while you are in the programme, and we review it with you every 12 months. If you are registered for VAT or a similar tax, tell us your number, and tell us at once if it changes.

8. Tax

You are responsible for your own taxes and social charges. Before your first payout you give us a valid IRS form: W-9 if you are a US person, W-8BEN (or W-8BEN-E for a company) if not. We may report payments to tax authorities where the law requires it.

9. How you must promote us

• Label every post that promotes us as an ad, clearly and at the start, for example “#ad” or the platform's paid-partnership label.
• Use only true claims. Never promise results, money, love, health or certainty. Never say astrology replaces medical, legal or financial advice.
• Never say or imply you know something personal about the viewer, such as their health, age, money troubles or religion.
• No spam, fake reviews, fake accounts, bought clicks or self-referrals.
• No bidding on “Starwise” or our product names in search ads, and no paid ads of any kind, unless we agree in writing.
• Follow each platform's rules and the law where your audience lives. Email or message only people who agreed to hear from you.
• Remove any post within 48 hours if we ask.

10. Our brand

While you are in the programme, you may use our name and the materials we give you, only to promote Starwise, and only as we allow. Everything else stays ours.

11. Personal data

We don't share customers' names or emails with you. Each of us looks after the personal data it holds, under the data-protection laws that apply. Our privacy notice (starwise.app/privacy/, section 6D) explains what we do with yours.

12. Confidential information

Keep private anything we tell you that is not public: earnings data, plans and unreleased products.

13. Liability

Neither of us is liable for indirect loss or lost profit. Our total liability to you is capped at the greater of $1,000 or what we paid you in the last 12 months. This cap never reduces shares you have earned. None of this limits liability for fraud, or anything else the law does not allow us to limit.

14. Ending

• Either of us may end this agreement with 7 days' notice by email.
• We may end it at once if you break these terms.
• Earned shares that are not in dispute are paid at the next payout after the holding period. When the agreement ends, we pay any balance, whatever the amount. We never pay where sanctions or any other law forbids it; we hold or handle that money as the law requires.
• If you commit fraud (fake or self-referred orders, or stolen cards), you lose the earnings from the orders affected, and you repay any we already paid for them, plus our reasonable costs.

15. Changes

We may change these terms or a schedule with 30 days' notice by email. If a change is material, we ask you to accept it again. If you don't, the agreement ends, and we pay you everything you have earned. Changes never reduce money you have already earned.

16. Law and courts

English law governs these terms. The courts of England and Wales decide any dispute.

17. Contact

partners@starwise.app

Schedule A: Star Partners (version A-1)

A1. What you do

You share your Starwise link and code with your own audience, on your own channels.

A2. Your link and code

We give you a personal link and a personal code. The code gives your audience 30% off a new customer's first order only. A new customer is someone who has never paid for a Starwise product; we check this by email address, payment method and the other details in our records. The code works once per customer. It works only on the products we list in your account. Talk tokens and plans, and anything bought through the App Store, are not credited unless your account lists them.

A3. Which customers are yours

• A customer is credited to you when they buy through your link (within 30 days of clicking it) or with your code. In some countries we can remember a click only if the visitor accepts cookies, so a click may not be credited; your code always works.
• From that first order, every paid order by that customer in the next 12 months is credited to you, subscription renewals included. We match the customer by email address and by the other details in our records.
• If a customer has two partners' links or codes, the first partner credited keeps the customer for those 12 months.
• Only new customers are credited to you: people who had never paid for a Starwise product before their first order through your link or code. Our records decide this. A customer who bought before is never credited to you, even with your link, your code or a new email address.
• Your own orders and your household's orders are not credited.
• If the agreement ends, orders made after the end date are still credited to you until the 12 months run out, unless we ended it because you broke these terms.

A4. Your share

50% of net sales on every order credited to you, whatever currency the customer pays in, Indian rupees included. If you are also a creator, orders that come through ads we pay for with your videos are calculated separately, under Schedule B. Where we pay for ads that use your content or your audience, we agree the share for those orders with you in writing first.

A5. Where your code may appear

On your own channels only. Whenever you show the code, say next to it: “New customers only. First order only.” Not on coupon, deal or cashback sites, and not in paid search ads. If the code leaks to such sites, we may change it, and orders from those sites are not credited.

A6. Big partners

We may agree different terms with you in a signed side letter. Where it differs, the side letter wins; everything else in these terms still applies. A side letter can be changed only in writing signed by both of us.

A7. Your account

Your account shows your clicks, your orders (with no customer names or emails), your earnings, what is pending and what has been paid.

A8. Payouts

Every two weeks, under section 6 of the Programme Terms.

Schedule B: Star Creators (version B-1)

B1. What you do

You make short videos for Starwise that follow our creator guidelines, and you upload them in your account.

B2. Review

We review each video and may accept it or turn it down. We use only videos we accept. Accepting a video does not mean we have to use it.

B3. Ad tests

We decide whether, where and how much to spend promoting your videos. A test usually runs for 7 days on a set of 6 videos. Good results may lead us to spend more, but we don't promise any spend or any earnings.

B4. Your share

10% of net sales from orders our ad and link tracking credits to your videos. We pay it for as long as we use the video, also after you leave, unless we ended the agreement because you broke these terms. To be paid, you must keep a valid tax form and pass our checks. Your account shows only your own videos and your own share.

B5. Licence

You keep the copyright. For each accepted video, you give Starwise a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable licence, with no further payment beyond B4, to:

• use, cut, edit, caption, subtitle and resize it;
• post it on our channels;
• use it in paid ads on any platform;
• use it in our emails and on our site.

Ads that are already running, and posts already published, may stay up after you leave. We will start no new paid ads with your video more than 24 months after you leave.

B6. Your face and voice

You agree that we may use your name, face, voice and likeness as they appear in the video, for the uses in B5. We will not change what you say to mean something different.

B7. Other people in your video

Only include an adult who has signed our release form. Upload the form with the video. No children in any video.

B8. Music and other material

Use only material you made or have the right to use, such as licensed music from the platform library or ours. You promise the video breaks no one's rights. Your videos must not show or mention any partner link or code.

B9. AI rules

• You may use AI tools to edit, light, clean sound or add captions.
• You may not use AI to create a person, face or voice, to imitate anyone, or to make fake testimonials.
• Tell us in the upload form if you used any generative AI.
• Optional box: ☐ I agree that Starwise may use AI to dub my voice into other languages for these videos. I can withdraw this for future videos at any time. Ads with a dubbed voice say so.

B10. Honest content

If you say you used Starwise, it must be true. Say you got the product free or are paid. Follow section 9 of the Programme Terms.

B11. Moral rights

As far as the law allows, you waive your moral rights, so we can cut and caption the video. We will credit you where the platform makes that practical.

B12. Your free product

After we accept a video from you, you are entitled to one free reading of your choice from among any Starwise readings. This is a one-time thank-you, is not part of your earnings or share, and has no cash value. If you mention or show it in a post, you must disclose that you received it for free, as required by advertising rules. It may count as income for tax where you live.

B13. Competitions

Some competitions have their own rules, which apply alongside these terms.