Affiliate Terms
1. Who this is between
These terms are between you, the affiliate, and lemon.gallery ("we", "us"). They apply from when you tick the box on the application form, and they sit alongside our Terms and Privacy Policy. Being an affiliate doesn't make you our employee, agent or partner, and you can't make promises on our behalf.
We review applications by hand and can say no without giving a reason. You're an affiliate once we email you your code, your link and your private portal link.
2. What you earn
- When someone creates a lemon.gallery account through your link or by typing your code at sign-up, they are linked to you for 12 months (365 days) from the day they sign up.
- For those 12 months you earn your commission rate (25% unless we've agreed another rate with you; your portal shows yours) of what they pay us: their subscription, and our fee on sales they make through lemon.gallery. It's worked out on the amount after any VAT. We aren't VAT registered today, so that is the full amount they pay.
- People who sign up through you get 15% off an annual plan, or 10% off a monthly plan for their first year.
- Signing up through your own link, or an account you run yourself, doesn't count.
- Only new accounts count: someone who already has a lemon.gallery account can't be linked to you later. After their 12 months you earn nothing more from them.
3. When it's paid
- Commission on each payment clears 30 days after that payment. Until then it shows as "clearing" in your portal and can't be paid out. This gives refunds and card disputes time to land first.
- Once you have at least £50 cleared, you can ask for it from your portal. We pay in pounds sterling to your bank through a Stripe account you set up yourself; we never see or keep your bank details.
- Payouts usually go out within a day of your request. How long the bank transfer then takes is up to Stripe and your bank.
4. Refunds and disputes
If a payment you earned commission on is refunded in full, or lost to a card dispute (chargeback), the commission on it is cancelled. If it had already been paid to you, we take it off the commission you earn next. We won't ask you to send money back for it.
5. How you can promote us
- Say it's an ad, first. Wherever you share your code or link, make it obvious up front that it's an advert: start with "Ad" or "#ad", and switch on the platform's paid-partnership label where it has one. Labels like "affiliate link", "#sp" or "#collab", or a mention at the end, aren't enough on their own. This is what the CAP Code (rule 2.1: ads must be obviously identifiable) and the ASA and CAP's "Influencers' guide to making clear that ads are ads" expect.
- Only say what's true. Don't make claims about lemon.gallery, its features or its prices that we haven't published ourselves, and don't offer discounts we haven't given you.
- No paid search on our name. Don't bid on "lemon.gallery", "lemon gallery" or misspellings of them in Google, Bing or any other search ads, and don't use them in ad copy or display URLs.
- No spam. No unsolicited bulk email or messages, no comment or forum spam, and no fake reviews.
- Don't pretend to be us. No sites, accounts or ads that look like they're ours.
If you break these rules we can end your account straight away and cancel commission earned from them.
6. Tax
We pay commission as a gross amount and don't take any tax off it. You're responsible for telling HMRC (or your own country's tax authority) about it and paying any tax and National Insurance due, and for charging VAT on it if you're VAT registered.
7. Ending it
You can stop being an affiliate at any time by emailing us. We can end it at any time too, by pausing your account and telling you. From then your link stops earning. Commission you earned before that still clears as normal, and we'll pay what has cleared unless we ended it because you broke section 5.
8. Changes
We may change these terms or the commission and discount rates. We'll email you at least 30 days before a change takes effect, and it never changes commission you've already earned.
9. Contact
Questions about the programme, or about a payout: hello@lemon.gallery.