Affiliate Program Terms & Conditions
1. Definitions and Interpretation
- 1.1 In these Terms & Conditions the following terms shall have the following meanings:
- "Business Day" means any day other than Saturday or Sunday that is not a bank or public holiday;
- "Cancellations Policy" means our cancellations policy which can be found at www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com/terms;
- "Commencement Date" means the date of your acceptance;
- "Commission Rate" means the percentage of commission paid on net sales revenue set out in Sub-clause 11.2;
- "Confidential Information" Third-party Cookies are not placed by Us; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to Us and/or to you. Third-party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on Our Site, or by third parties providing analytics services to Us (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).
- "Current Term" means the Term that the Parties may be in at any given time;
- "Direct Referral" means a sale of a Service Package to a customer who has been led to our website through your website where that customer can be tracked directly from your site to ours without any further intermediaries;
- "Intellectual Property Rights" means any rights subsisting in a copyright work, trade mark, patent or design and shall be construed in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, Trade Marks Act 1994 and Patents Act 1977;
- "Registered Email Address" means the email address of the Affiliate as provided in your Registration Data;
- "Registration Data" means the information provided by the Affiliate when registering for enrolment in the Program;
- "Service Package" means a particular set of services available from us through our website as defined in Clause 7; and
- "Term" means the term of the Agreement, as defined in Clause 17 of these Terms & Conditions, during which you shall participate in the Program under the terms and conditions set out in the Agreement.
2. Enrolment in the Program
- 2.1 By enrolling in the Program you agree that, at the time of registration, you will provide accurate and complete Registration Data and that you shall inform us of any changes in your Registration Data.
- 2.2 Upon your acceptance of these Terms & Conditions, subject to our approval and sub-clause 2.4 below, the agreement is deemed to be in effect. You will not be sent a signed Affiliate Agreement in hard copy.
- 2.3 We may, at our sole discretion, review your website following your acceptance of these Terms & Conditions. You will be informed within 10 Business Days of the outcome of your application. Following your acceptance of these Terms & Conditions, you will receive further instructions and guidance to allow you to commence marketing our goods.
- 2.4 We may, in our sole discretion, choose to reject any application for any reason (and are under no obligation to disclose such reasons). Reasons for which an Application may be rejected include, but are not limited to, content on your website that:
- 2.4.1 is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, obscene, harassing, discriminatory, defamatory or otherwise objectionable;
- 2.4.2 facilitates or promotes violence, terrorism, or any other criminal activity;
- 2.4.3 is sexually explicit; or
- 2.4.4 infringes or assists or encourages the infringement of any intellectual property rights belonging to any party.
3. Company / Affiliate Relationship
- 3.1 Nothing in these Terms & Conditions shall constitute, or be deemed to create, a partnership between the Parties; nor, except as expressly provided, shall it designate, or be deemed to designate, any Party the agent of any other Party for any purpose.
- 3.2 Subject to any express provisions to the contrary in these Terms & Conditions, you shall have no right or authority to and shall not do any act, enter into any contract, make any representation, give any warranty, incur any liability, assume any obligation, whether express or implied, of any kind on our behalf or bind us in any way.
4. Website Links
- 4.1 In your Affiliate Dashboard will be the requisite materials for a hyperlink to our website. These materials will include the HTML code for the link and/or a selection of graphics files to which the HTML code should be applied.
- 4.2 The HTML code as it appears in your Affiliate Dashboard must be copied exactly and not altered in any way. Failure to comply with this condition may result in your receiving no credit for sales of Service Packages that are generated through your website.
- 4.3 Under no circumstances may any of the graphics files provided by us be modified in any way without our prior written authorisation. You may not use graphics files of your own to link to our site.
- 4.4 All graphics files that we may provide for use as links may be displayed throughout your website as you deem appropriate, subject to our prior consent (which shall not be unreasonably withheld) which must be obtained in all cases. We reserve the right to request the alteration or removal of a link from your website.
- 4.5 You are required to assume full responsibility to maintain all links to our website from your website.
5. Site Maintenance and Content
- 5.1 Each Party shall be exclusively responsible for maintaining and updating its own website. Subject to the provisions of this Clause 5 and Clause 14 below, neither Party shall have any obligations to the other Party in relation to the maintenance or content of their website.
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5.2 Subject to Sub-clause 5.3 of these Terms & Conditions, neither Party may host any content that:
- 5.2.1 is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, obscene, harassing, discriminatory, defamatory or otherwise objectionable;
- 5.2.2 facilitates or promotes violence, terrorism, or any other criminal activity;
- 5.2.3 is sexually explicit; or
- 5.2.4 infringes or assists or encourages the infringement of any intellectual property rights belonging to any party.
- 5.3 Neither Party shall be under any obligation to pre-screen any content added to their website by third parties; however in the event that either Party receives from the other a written notification of any content that falls within that described in Sub-clause 5.2 of this Agreement, such content must be removed within 5 Business Days of receipt of such notice.
6. Display of Company Information
- 6.1 As an affiliate, you are free to display pricing and other information relating to our Service Packages. It is your responsibility to keep such information up-to-date through your own efforts; we will not provide pricing information updates to you.
- 6.2 We reserve the right to alter pricing at any time in accordance with our own policies.
- 6.3 Your Responsibilities: As a Aquatic Therapy University Affiliate you agree that:
- 6.3.1 You are responsible for providing us with full and accurate account information and for keeping that information up to date. Such information might include but is not limited to: contact details, payment details, tax information and any other details we may require. We reserve the right to request additional data regarding all the websites where you promote Aquatic Therapy University and the promotional practices you use. Failure to provide accurate information may result in exclusion from the Program, suspension or termination of your Affiliate account and forfeiture of any commissions.
- 6.3.2 You should not create more than one Affiliate account.
- 6.3.3 You should act in good faith to refer customers in good standing.
- 6.3.4 You cannot refer yourself, and you will not receive a commission on your own accounts. You should not use our Program to refer companies that you own or in which you have shares or other interests.
- 6.3.5 You should not take actions or make recommendations to your referrals that result in a potential revenue loss for Aquatic Therapy University.
- 6.3.6 You should not engage in incentivized programs and business-opportunity sites, using marketing practices that might be unethical or likely to attract customers, not in good standing.
- 6.3.7 You should not use on behalf of your referrals or encourage your referrals to use on their Aquatic Therapy University accounts any copyrighted or third-party material without the proper licenses.
- 6.3.8 You should not copy, alter or modify any icons, buttons, banners, graphics, files or content contained in Aquatic Therapy University’ Links, including but not limited to removing or altering any copyright or trademark notices, without prior written approval from us.
- 6.3.9 You should not engage in any blackhat SEO/spam link building techniques in order to generate more referrals for Aquatic Therapy University.
- 6.3.10 Post ads on offensive, illegal, hateful, pornographic, or otherwise distasteful websites.
- 6.3.11 You agree not to violate any applicable law.
- 6.3.12 If we detect a pattern in your affiliate practices that in our reasonable opinion violates any aspect of the T&C, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your affiliate account and cancel all outstanding commission payments due.
- 6.4 Affiliate Advertising. Inappropriate ways of advertising include, but are not limited to:
- 6.4.1 Using any illegal or spam method of advertising, e.g. unsolicited email, an unauthorized placing of the link in forums, newsgroups, message boards etc.;
- 6.4.2 Bidding on keywords and phrases containing the Aquatic Therapy University trademark, or variations or misspellings of the trademarked term on Pay per Click or Pay per Impression campaigns on the search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Bing or others) without our prior approval. You are not allowed to use the Aquatic Therapy University Website(s) as display URL in PPC ads and to direct-link or redirect to the Aquatic Therapy University Website(s);
- 6.4.3 Using non-unique copyright infringing content to promote Aquatic Therapy University;
- 6.4.4 Using traffic generated by pay to read, pay to click, banner exchanges, click exchanges, PPV advertising, pop-up/under, or similar methods;
- 6.4.5 Providing cash backs, rewards or any other kind of incentives to obtain the sale without our prior approval;
- 6.4.6 Offering price savings methods, including coupon(s), voucher(s), discount codes, or added value offers without our prior approval;
- 6.4.7 Using our advertising and promotional materials, trademark or name in a way which negatively affects our image;
- 6.4.8 Using iframes or any other techniques or technology that places your affiliate tracking cookie by any means other than an actual click-through;
- 6.4.9 Using link cloaking or masking techniques or technology with the goal to promote Aquatic Therapy University on websites and/or networks not explicitly listed in your affiliate profile and hiding that traffic source;
- 6.4.10 Your website(s) must NOT contain lewd, obscene, illegal or pornographic material or any other material that is deemed to be objectionable. This includes, but is not limited to, bigotry, hatred, pornography, satanic materials, trademark and copyright materials, all content of an adult nature, etc. The designation of any materials as such is subject to our reasonable opinion;
- 6.4.11 Your domain name(s), company name, logo, trademark, product(s), project(s), service(s) must NOT contain keywords and phrases containing the Aquatic Therapy University trademark or any other variations or misspellings confusingly similar to Aquatic Therapy University trademark, name, logo or domain name, without our prior approval;
- 6.4.12 Your domain name(s), company name, logo, trademark, your product(s), project(s), service(s) must NOT contain keywords and phrases that contain or are confusingly similar to third-party trademarks, names, logos or domain names, unless you have been duly authorised by the trademark owner.
- 6.4.13 Aquatic Therapy University shall have the sole right to decide if a promotional method you use is appropriate. The use of any advertising method that we consider inappropriate may result in warning, suspension or termination of your affiliate account and cancellation of all outstanding commission payments due.
7. Service Packages
8. Customer Referral Requirements
- 8.1 Terms & conditions relating to the referral of customers to us via links on your website can be found on our website at www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com/affiliate-program-terms.
- 8.2 We reserve the right to alter such terms & conditions at any time and will provide 10 Business Days’ written notice to you of any such alteration.
9. Orders
- 9.1 We undertake to use our best and reasonable endeavours to process and fulfil all orders for Service Packages placed by referred customers generated by affiliates.
- 9.2 We reserve the right to reject any orders that do not comply with the customer referral requirements detailed in Clause 8 of these Terms & Conditions.
- 9.3 It shall be our full responsibility to ensure that all orders are completed and that the provision of services is undertaken in accordance with our Service Level Agreements. We shall be responsible for order entry, payment processing, cancellations and all subsequent customer service. You shall have no further involvement with the customer or the completion of the transaction and all customers will be made aware of the same.
10. Affiliate Sales Reporting
- 10.1 We will track the following elements of all sales:
- 10.1.1 origin;
- 10.1.2 Service Package selected; and
- 10.1.3 revenue generated.
- 10.2 Full reports of all sales generated through the links on your website will be available in your Affiliate Dashboard. We reserve the right to alter the form and content of such reports without notice.
11. Commission and Referral Fees
- 11.1 You will be paid commission at the rates set out in Sub-clause 11.2 on the net profits of sales generated through your website.
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11.2 Commission shall be calculated on the following basis:
- 11.2.1 Notwithstanding Sub-clause 11.2.3 all sales that result from Direct Referrals will attract a commission of commission Rate%.
- 11.2.2 In the event that a customer resulting from a Direct Referral renews a Service Package upon the initial sale for which you earned Commission, such a renewal will attract a commission of commission Rate%. Where a customer does not renew a Service Package at the end of that package’s original term but reactivates that Service Package at a later time, Sub-clause 11.2.3 shall apply.
- 11.2.3 Cookies and IP logs will identify customers that have previously been referred through your website. In the event that such customers are identified, sales that do not fall within Sub-clause 11.2.2 will (unless referred directly from another affiliate’s website) attract a commission of commission Rate%.
- 11.3 Sub-clause 11.2.3 shall apply only until the expiration or removal of our cookies by the customer or for a period of x days set on the system days after the most recent Direct Referral for a particular customer, whichever is earlier.
- 11.4 In the event that a customer cannot be tracked, no commission will be paid.
- 11.5 Commission shall be calculated only once we have received payment in full from the customer. Only once payment has been received in full will sales be logged in your Affiliate Dashboard but will be shown as pending for x days set on the system days after the order has been completed (this time period reflects the time limit set out in our Cancellations Policy).
- 11.6 Commission payouts will be scheduled for the 20th of every calendar month. Every affiliate will receive commissions only for subscriptions that have passed their x-day limit, which reflects the “money-back guarantee”/refund period described in our Cancellations Policy. The minimum payout amount is x e.g.$100 of commissions per affiliate.
- 11.7 Commissions will be sent to the PayPal email address of the Affiliate or bank account as provided in their Registration Data. Existing Aquatic Therapy University subscribers may get part of their commissions in the form of free courses or Promotional credits added to their accounts, up to the sum of their monthly or yearly subscription fees payable to Aquatic Therapy University. Any subsequent commissions shall be sent to their PayPal account, as described above.
- 11.8 In the event of any refunds issued for any reasons including, but not limited to fraud and where such refunds are not incurred through any fault of ours, you may be contacted to arrange for the repayment of any related commission.
- 11.9 Any and all commission paid to you shall be based on sales revenue less any tax due; however, you may still be liable to pay tax on your commission. By accepting these Terms & Conditions you hereby acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the payment of tax on any income you may generate through your involvement in the Program.
- 11.10 We reserve the right to modify our Commission Rates at any time. You will be given 10 Business Days’ prior written notice (the “Notice Period”) of any such change. You will be given the option to opt out of the Program within the Notice Period and will, on the exercise of that option, be paid any Commission due to you, notwithstanding the total commission earnings requirement set out in Sub-clause 11.6 above.
12. Trade Marks
- 12.1 Upon your entry into the Program, we shall grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, royalty-free licence to use our logos and trademarks (our “Trade Marks”).
- 12.2 You may use our Trade Marks only to the extent required to establish links and perform your obligations as an Affiliate under these Terms & Conditions.
- 12.3 In the event that you wish to use our Trade Marks for any purposes outside of these Terms & Conditions you must not do so without prior written consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.
- 12.4 By accepting these Terms & Conditions you hereby agree that:
- 12.4.1 our Trade Marks shall remain the property of Aquatic Therapy University, unless and until we assign those marks to a third party;
- 12.4.2 nothing in these Terms & Conditions shall be deemed to confer any ownership rights in our Trade Marks on you; and
- 12.4.3 you shall not contest the validity of our trade marks.
13. Intellectual Property
- 13.1 Unless otherwise expressly indicated we are the sole and exclusive owners of all Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”) in our website including, but not limited to: all code, text, sound, video, graphics, photographs and other images that form a part of the site. We shall also be the sole and exclusive owners of all IPRs which may subsist in any supporting documentation which shall include, but not be limited to, site plans, maps, design sketches and other preparatory material.
- 13.2 We shall be the sole and exclusive owners of all IPRs which may subsist in all future updates, additions and alterations to our website, such material including any supporting documentation.
14. Affiliate Warranties and Indemnity
- 14.1 In accepting these Terms & Conditions you hereby warrant and acknowledge that:
- 14.1.1 Your website does not and will not contain any content that:
- a) is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, obscene, harassing, discriminatory, defamatory or otherwise objectionable;
- b) facilitates or promotes violence, terrorism, or any other criminal activity;
- c) is sexually explicit; or
- d) infringes or assists or encourages the infringement of any intellectual property rights belonging to any party.
- 14.1.2 Your website is and shall remain functional and, subject to the provisions of Clause 19 of these Terms & Conditions, reasonable downtime for maintenance or third-party access restrictions, accessible to all users of the internet;
- 14.1.3 All necessary authorities, consents and approvals have been obtained in respect of your obligations under these Terms & Conditions and will remain valid and effective throughout the Term;
- 14.1.4 Your obligations under these Terms & Conditions shall constitute legal, valid and binding obligations on you. Such obligations shall be direct, unconditional and general obligations; and
- 14.1.5 You will not refer to us in any way in any unsolicited bulk email campaigns or other spamming practices that you may conduct.
- 14.2 By accepting these Terms & Conditions you agree that you shall indemnify us in full against all liability, loss, damages, costs and expenses (including legal expenses) awarded against or incurred or paid by us as a result of, or in connection with:
- 14.2.1 breach of any warranty given by you in relation to your website;
- 14.2.2 any claim that your website infringes the patent, copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights of any other person, except to the extent that the claim arises from compliance with any terms stipulated by us; and
- 14.2.3 any act or omission by you or your employees, agents or sub-contractors in performing your obligations under these Terms & Conditions.
15. Disclaimers
- 15.1 We make no warranty or representation that our website, the Program, or Service Packages sold through the Program will meet your requirements or those of your visitors, that they will be of satisfactory quality, that they will be fit for a particular purpose, that they will not infringe the rights of third parties, that they will be compatible with all systems, that they will be secure and that all information provided will be accurate.
- 15.2 We make no guarantee of any specific results from the use of our website or from enrolment in the Program.
- 15.3 We make no guarantee that our website shall remain functional and accessible to all users of the internet.
16. Liability
- 16.1 We shall not be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss that you may suffer even if such loss is reasonably foreseeable or if we have been advised of the possibility of such loss being incurred.
- 16.2 Our entire liability to you in respect of any breach of our contractual obligations, any breach of warranty, any representation, statement or tortious act or omission including negligence arising under or in connection with these Terms & Conditions or the Agreement shall be limited to $1.
- 16.3 Notwithstanding any other provision in these Terms & Conditions, our liability to you for death or injury resulting from our own negligence or that of our employees, agents or sub-contractors shall not be limited.
17. Term and Termination
- 17.1 These Terms & Conditions and The Agreement shall come into force and become binding on the Commencement Date and shall continue in force for a period of 12 months from that date (the “Initial Term”). Following the Initial Term, your enrolment in the Program shall be renewed automatically for successive periods of 12 months (each a “Renewal Term”) unless and until terminated in accordance with this Clause 17.
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17.2 Either Party may terminate the Agreement by giving 10 Business Days’ prior written notice to the other:
- 17.2.1 at any time where the other Party has committed a material breach of these Terms & Conditions or the Agreement and such breach has remained unremedied 10 Business Days after receiving written notice of that breach; or
- 17.2.2 if the other Party enters into liquidation whether compulsory or voluntary (except for the purposes of bona fide reconstruction or amalgamation with the prior written approval of the other Party), or compounds with or makes any arrangement with its creditors or makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or if it has a receiver, manager, administrative receiver or administrator appointed over the whole or substantially the whole of its undertaking or assets, or if it ceases or threatens to cease to carry on its business, or makes any material change in its business, or if it suffers any analogous process under any foreign law.
- 17.3 Either Party may request the termination of the Agreement at the end of the Current Term for any reason provided that written notice is given at least 10 Business Days before the end of the Current Term.
- 17.4 Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason, you shall remove the links established under these Terms & Conditions.
- 17.5 Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason, all licenses granted shall also terminate.
- 17.6 In the event that we terminate the Agreement in accordance with Sub-clause 17.2.1, any Commission owed to you at that time shall be forfeited.
18. Confidentiality
- 18.1 Each Party (a “Receiving Party”) shall keep the Confidential Information belonging to the other Party (a “Supplying Party”) confidential and secret and shall not use or disclose or make the Confidential Information available, directly or indirectly, to any person other than its officers and employees who need the Confidential Information to enable the Receiving Party to perform its obligations under these Terms & Conditions and provided that such officers and employees are also obliged to keep such Confidential Information confidential and secret. The foregoing obligations shall not apply to any information acquired by the Receiving Party which:
- 18.1.1 at the time of its acquisition was in the public domain; or
- 18.1.2 at a later date comes into the public domain through no fault of the Receiving Party.
- 18.2 Each Party hereby agrees and undertakes:
- 18.2.1 that all Confidential Information shall be and shall remain at all times the sole and exclusive property of the Supplying Party;
- 18.2.2 that its right to use Confidential Information shall wholly cease upon the termination of the Agreement; and
- 18.2.3 to return to the Supplying Party on termination of the Agreement all material embodying Confidential Information (including information stored on digital media) or any part thereof and all copies thereof.
19. Force Majeure
20. Severance
21. Notice
22. Notice
- 22.1 These Terms & Conditions shall embody and set forth the entire agreement and understanding between the Parties and shall supersede all prior oral or written agreements, understandings or arrangements relating to the Program or the relationship between the Parties. Neither Party shall be entitled to rely on any agreement, understanding or arrangement not expressly set forth in these Terms & Conditions, save for any representation made fraudulently.
- 22.2 Unless otherwise expressly provided elsewhere in these Terms & Conditions, the Agreement may be varied only by a document signed by both of the Parties.
23. General
- 23.1 No Waiver - The Parties shall agree that no failure by either Party to enforce the performance of any provision in these Terms & Conditions shall constitute a waiver of the right to subsequently enforce that provision or any other provision of these Terms & Conditions. Such failure shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach and shall not constitute a continuing waiver.
- 23.2 Non-exclusivity - The relationship between the Parties shall be and shall remain non-exclusive. Both parties are free to enter into similar relationships with other parties.
- 23.3 Non-assignment - You may not assign any or all of your rights or obligations under these Terms & Conditions or the Agreement without our prior written consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.
24. General
- 24.1 These Terms & Conditions and the Agreement shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales.
- 24.2 Any dispute between the Parties relating to the Agreement shall be fall within the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Affiliate Program Terms
Effective date: October 19, 2026
These terms apply to anyone who takes part in the Aquatic Therapy University affiliate program (the "Program"). They are in addition to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. By accepting an invitation to the Program, or by sharing your affiliate link, you agree to these terms.
1. Who we are
The Program is run by ATU Educational Services, LLC (Aquatic Therapy University) ("ATU", "we", "us") on www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com (the "Site"). "You" means the person or organization taking part in the Program as an affiliate.
2. Who can join
- The Program is by invitation only. There is no open sign-up. We invite or approve each affiliate, and we may decline or remove anyone at our discretion.
- You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding agreement.
- Give us accurate details in your affiliate account (name, email and payment details), and keep them up to date. We send Program notices to the email address in your affiliate account.
- If you join on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you are allowed to accept these terms for it.
3. How referrals are tracked
- Your affiliate dashboard on the Site gives you a personal referral link. It is generated by LearnWorlds, the platform that runs the Site.
- When someone clicks your link, a cookie is stored in their browser. If they buy within the cookie period while that cookie is still there, the sale is credited to you. The cookie period is currently 7 days from the click. The current period is always the one shown in your affiliate dashboard.
- A sale may not be tracked if the buyer blocks or clears cookies, uses another browser or device, or buys after the cookie period. We can only pay on sales that the LearnWorlds tracking records for you.
- If a buyer clicks more than one affiliate's link, credit goes to the affiliate that the LearnWorlds tracking records for the sale.
- Only purchases made on the Site count. Live classes that are registered and paid for through a host facility's website are not sales on the Site, and they do not earn a commission.
4. Commissions
- The commission rate is currently 10% of each eligible sale that is credited to you. The rate, and the products it applies to, are the ones shown in your affiliate dashboard. If anything here differs from the dashboard, the dashboard controls.
- The commission is calculated on the amount the customer actually pays, after any coupons or discounts. It does not include taxes or payment processing fees. Sign-ups and free enrollments do not earn a commission. Only paid purchases do.
- We may set a different rate for a particular affiliate or product by written agreement or in the dashboard.
5. When a commission is earned
- A commission starts as pending when a credited sale is completed and paid.
- It becomes earned (shown as "mature" in the dashboard) after a holding period, currently 7 days from the sale, as long as the sale has not been refunded, reversed or disputed.
- Only earned commissions are approved for payout.
6. Refunds and chargebacks
- A sale that is refunded, cancelled, charged back or found to be fraudulent earns nothing, and any commission on it is reversed. If the commission was already paid, we may deduct it from your next payout or ask you to repay it.
- A commission is not due on a purchase that breaks these terms, for example a self-purchase or a sale that came from spam.
7. Payouts
- We pay approved commissions by PayPal, or by another payment method we agree with you, as offered in your affiliate dashboard. Payout timing and any minimum amount are those shown in your dashboard or agreed with you in writing.
- Make sure your payment details are correct. We are not responsible for a payment sent to the account details you gave us.
- Payouts are in US dollars. You pay any fees your payment provider charges you.
- We may hold a payout while we look into a possible breach of these terms, fraud or a dispute about a sale.
8. Taxes and your status
- You are an independent contractor. Nothing in these terms makes you an employee, agent, partner or joint venturer of ATU. You may not make promises or sign anything on ATU's behalf.
- You are responsible for reporting your commissions and paying any taxes on them.
- Before we pay you, we may ask for a tax form, such as an IRS Form W-9 (US affiliates) or Form W-8BEN (affiliates outside the US). Where the law requires it, we will report payments to tax authorities, for example on Form 1099. We may hold payouts until we have the form we need.
9. You must disclose that you earn a commission
US law, including the Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides, requires you to tell people that you may be paid when they buy through your link. The disclosure must be clear and conspicuous:
- Use plain words, for example: "I earn a commission if you buy through my link." or "Affiliate link: I get paid if you buy."
- Put it next to the link or recommendation, where people will see it before they click. A note only on a separate "About" or "Disclosures" page is not enough.
- On social media, put it in the post or caption itself, not only in a hashtag such as #aff or in your profile. In a video or live stream, say it out loud and show it on screen. In an email, put it in the email, near the link.
- Also disclose any other connection you have with ATU, for example if you teach for ATU or got a course for free.
- Only share honest opinions based on your own experience. Do not say you took a course you have not taken, and do not write or pay for fake reviews.
10. What you may not do
- Spam. Do not send unsolicited emails, texts or direct messages, or post your link in forums, groups or comments where it is not welcome. Any email you send must follow the CAN-SPAM Act and other laws that apply.
- Brand keyword bidding. Do not bid on "Aquatic Therapy University", "ATU", "swimatu", "Andrea Salzman", "Aquatic Therapy Foundation" or any of our course or program names, or on misspellings and variants of any of them (for example "aquatic therapy univ", "Aquatic Therapy U" or "swim ATU"), in Google Ads or other search or social ads. Do not use them in domain names, ad copy or account names.
- Aquatic Therapy Foundation. Do not use the Aquatic Therapy Foundation's name or materials to promote ATU.
- False or misleading claims. Do not make claims about ATU, our courses, prices or discounts that are not true or that we have not published. Do not suggest that you are ATU or that you speak for us.
- Coupon misuse. Only share a discount code if we gave it to you to share. Do not post codes on coupon, deal or cash-back sites, and do not offer buyers a cash-back or rebate out of your commission unless we agree in writing.
- Self-purchases. No commission is paid on any purchase you make, pay for or control, including seats you buy for your employer. If your employer buys through its own account using your link, the commission is earned.
- Tricks. Do not use cookie stuffing, hidden or forced clicks, pop-ups, browser extensions that insert links, paid or rewarded clicks, or any method that sets a cookie without a real click from a person.
- Patient information. Never use patient names, photos, stories or other health information in your promotions unless you have the patient's written permission and the law allows it.
- Anything that breaks the law or anyone else's rights.
11. Claims about courses, CE credit and clinical results
- Describe continuing education (CE) credit only as it is shown on the course page and our CE Approvals page. Do not say that a course is approved by a board, state or profession unless we list that approval.
- Describe the ATU Clinical Aquaticist Associate™ (Tier I, 36 hours) and ATU Clinical Aquaticist™ (Tier II, 84 hours) only as certificates of advanced recognition issued by ATU. Do not call them a license, a board certification or a credential that lets someone practice.
- Do not promise clinical outcomes, jobs, pay raises, insurance reimbursement or licensure from taking an ATU course, and do not give medical advice in ATU's name.
12. Use of the ATU name and marks
- While you are an affiliate, you may use the names "Aquatic Therapy University" and "ATU", our course and program names, and any banners or images we give you, only to promote the Site through your referral link.
- ATU names and marks, such as ATU Clinical Aquaticist™, ATU Clinical Aquaticist Associate™, AquaCognition™ and FAST Skills™, belong to ATU. Do not change our logos or materials, and do not use them in a way that suggests ATU endorses you, employs you or sponsors your services. You may describe yourself as "an ATU affiliate".
- Do not copy our course content, videos or handouts into your promotions.
- We may ask you to change or remove any promotion. Please do so promptly. Your right to use our name and marks ends when you leave the Program.
13. Privacy
We handle your affiliate account information as described in our Privacy Policy. To protect our students' privacy, your dashboard does not show the names of the customers you refer. You must follow privacy laws for any personal information you collect yourself.
14. Leaving the Program
- You can leave the Program at any time by emailing info@swimatu.com.
- We can end your participation at any time by emailing you. If we end it because you broke these terms, we may cancel commissions linked to the breach.
- When your participation ends, stop using your referral link and our name and marks. Commissions on valid sales made before the end date will still be paid once they are earned, unless they are cancelled under these terms.
15. Changes to the Program and these terms
We may change the Program, including the commission rate, cookie period, holding period, payment methods or eligible products, or change these terms, or end the Program. We will tell you by email, at the address in your affiliate account, before a change takes effect, and we will post the updated terms on this page with a new effective date. A change does not reduce commissions already earned. If you keep taking part after a change takes effect, you accept it.
16. No warranties and limits on liability
- We provide the Program, the tracking and the dashboard "as is". We do not promise that you will earn any amount, or that tracking will always work.
- To the fullest extent the law allows, ATU, its owners, instructors and staff are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, or lost profits, arising from the Program. Our total liability to you for any claim about the Program will not exceed the commissions you have earned under the Program and that remain unpaid. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
- You are responsible for your own promotions. If a claim is brought against ATU because of something you did that breaks these terms or the law, you agree to cover ATU's reasonable costs of that claim.
17. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the same law, and handled the same way, as our Terms of Use. See Governing law and disputes in our Terms of Use. If you have a concern, please email info@swimatu.com first so we can try to resolve it informally.
18. Contact
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Phone: (865) 204-0618
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