Affiliate Program Agreement

This agreement is between Ottocaland you, either as an individual or on behalf of the business you represent (“you”, “affiliate”). You accept it when you submit an affiliate application, and again each time you use your referral link or referral code after a change takes effect.

It sits on top of the Ottocal Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, and the Affiliate Promotion Guidelines, all of which form part of it. Where this agreement and those documents conflict on an affiliate-specific question, this agreement controls. Governing law, dispute resolution, and notice provisions are those set out in the Ottocal Terms.

• You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a contract.
• The program is currently open to affiliates resident or established in the United States and Canada. You must be able to receive payments through Stripe in your country.
• You must hold a Ottocal account. The account is how you access your affiliate dashboard, link, code, and payout setup; holding one does not require a paid plan.
• You must have a genuine audience or client relationship. Accounts created solely to redeem your own code are not an audience.
• Current Ottocalemployees, contractors, and their immediate households are not eligible. Neither are agents acting on a prospective customer's behalf in the same transaction.
• You must not be on any applicable sanctions or denied-party list, and you must not be located in a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions.

Enrollment is at our discretion. We review every application against the eligibility rules above and the promotion guidelines, and we may approve, decline, or ask for more information without giving detailed reasons. Approval is not an endorsement of you, and it does not make you an authorized representative of Ottocal.

We may pause new applications at any time, including while we work through a review backlog. Pausing intake does not affect affiliates who are already approved: commission continues to accrue and payouts continue on schedule.

On approval you receive a referral link on a path you choose (for example ottocal.com/affiliates/yourname) and a referral code you choose (for example YOURNAME20). Both are licensed to you for use in the program, revocably and non-exclusively. Neither is your property.

• We may refuse, reclaim, or change a link path or code that conflicts with a product route, another affiliate, a third party's rights, or a name that could be mistaken for an official Ottocal property.
• You may not sell, rent, share, sublicense, or transfer your link or code, and you may not operate more than one affiliate account without our written agreement.
• You may not obscure, cloak, or wrap your link in a way that hides where it leads, other than ordinary link shorteners that resolve directly to it.
• Your code is for your own audience. Submitting it to coupon aggregators, browser extensions, deal forums, or any property that intercepts checkout traffic you did not send is a material breach.

You earn $10 per referred workspace, per paid billing cycle, for up to 12 months of paid cycles — a maximum of $120 per referral. The rate is the same on every paid plan.

• The clock starts on the first paid invoice. A referral who signs up on a free plan and upgrades months later still has a full 12 months of commission ahead of them.
• Commission stops when payment stops. If the referred workspace cancels, lapses, downgrades to a free plan, or otherwise stops paying, no further commission accrues on that referral. You keep what you already earned.
• A referral that resumes picks up where it left off. The 12-cycle limit is cumulative, not reset by a lapse.
• No commission accrues on unpaid, trialing, disputed, voided, or fully discounted invoices, on invoices a host issues to their own clients through Ottocal, on booking payments, or on any amount other than a Ottocal subscription invoice that has actually been paid.
• A discount applied by your code does not reduce your commission.

Attribution is last touch. If someone interacts with more than one affiliate, the most recent one before sign-up is credited.

• Link.Clicking your link sets a first-party cookie in the visitor's browser. If they create a workspace within 60 days, the referral is yours. Attribution depends on that cookie surviving: a visitor who clears cookies, blocks them, or signs up on a different device or browser cannot be credited, and we do not reconstruct attribution by other means.
• Code. A referral is also credited when your code is redeemed on the invoice that creates a subscription, even if no link was ever clicked. A code entered later, on a workspace that is already paying, does not create a referral.
• One affiliate per workspace, permanently. A workspace can only ever be attributed once. A workspace that already exists, or that is already attributed to another affiliate, cannot be claimed.
• Referral records, commission calculations, and click data maintained by Ottocal are the system of record. Where your own analytics differ, ours govern — but tell us, because we would rather find a bug than argue about one.

Each commission is held for 30 days after the invoice that produced it before becoming payable. The hold exists because refunds and card disputes arrive after the fact.

• Commission is reversed if the underlying invoice is refunded in full, credited, voided, marked uncollectible, or disputed. A cycle reversed this way is returned to your 12-cycle allowance rather than consumed.
• Commission is voided if the referral turns out to be a self-referral, an account you control, fraudulent, or the product of prohibited promotion.
• If commission has already been paid out when a reversal event occurs, we may offset the amount against your future commission. If no future commission is expected and the amount is material, we may invoice you for it.
• We may withhold payment while we investigate suspected fraud, abuse, self-referral, or a policy breach. We will tell you that a hold is in place and, where we reasonably can, why.

• Payouts run monthly. Commission that has cleared its hold is transferred in the next run, provided your cleared balance is at least $50. A smaller balance rolls over.
• Payouts are made through Stripe Connect. You must complete Stripe's payout onboarding, including identity and bank verification, before any payment can be sent. Your relationship with Stripe is governed by the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, and Stripe's verification requirements are theirs, not ours.
• Commission is denominated and transferred in USD. If your bank settles in another currency, the conversion rate and any conversion fee are set by Stripe and your bank. Cross-border transfer fees, where they apply, are borne by Ottocal.
• You are responsible for the accuracy of your payout details. We are not liable for funds sent to an account you supplied incorrectly.
• If a payout fails, we retry it in a later run once the cause is resolved. Balances are not forfeited for being small — they wait.
• If you never complete payout onboarding, your commission is held. Where a balance stays unclaimed and unreachable for an extended period, we handle it as required by applicable unclaimed-property law.

You participate as an independent contractor. Nothing here creates employment, partnership, joint venture, franchise, or agency, and you have no authority to make commitments on our behalf.

• Commission is income, not a discount or rebate. You are responsible for reporting it and for any tax owed on it.
• Stripe collects your tax information — a Form W-9 for US persons, a Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E for non-US persons — during payout onboarding. We may withhold payment until it is provided.
• Where US information reporting applies, forms are prepared and delivered through Stripe using the thresholds in force for that tax year. Affiliates outside the US are responsible for reporting the income in their own jurisdiction; Canadian affiliates should expect no Canadian information slip from us.
• You are responsible for determining and remitting any sales tax, GST/HST, QST, or VAT that applies to your commission. Commission amounts are stated exclusive of any such tax.
• Nothing in this agreement is tax or legal advice.

The Affiliate Promotion Guidelines set out the detail. In summary, you agree that:

• You disclose the commission clearly and conspicuously in every place you promote Ottocal, before the audience acts, in the same medium and at least as prominently as the recommendation itself. This is a requirement of the FTC's Endorsement Guides in the United States and of Canadian consumer-protection and competition law, and it is a condition of this agreement.
• Everything you say about Ottocal — features, price, plans, security, integrations, regulatory posture — is accurate and current at the time you publish it.
• You make no earnings, income, savings, or outcome claims, whether about your results or a customer's.
• You comply with all applicable law, including CAN-SPAM in the United States, CASL in Canada, telemarketing and SMS rules, applicable privacy law, and advertising standards.
• You comply with the rules of every platform you advertise on, including Meta's Advertising Standards, and you use your own advertising accounts and pay your own advertising costs.
• You obtain and maintain lawful consent for any list you message, and you honour unsubscribes promptly.
• You do not present Ottocal as legal, tax, medical, lending, or investment advice, or as satisfying any licensing, HIPAA, or lending compliance obligation.

Any of the following is a material breach. We may void affected commission, suspend payouts, and terminate participation, with or without prior notice depending on severity.

• Promoting without disclosing the commission. Every post, video, email, page, and ad that carries your link or code must say you earn a commission, in the same place and format as the recommendation itself.
• Self-referrals and referrals you control. You cannot earn on your own workspace, an alias, a household member, a company you own or control, or an account you signed up on someone else's behalf.
• Bidding on our brand terms. No paid search, paid social, or app-store ads on "Ottocal" or close variants, misspellings, or Ottocal plus a modifier, and no using our name as a display URL.
• Impersonating Ottocal. No sites, ads, profiles, emails, or support channels that read as official Ottocal properties, and no domains or handles containing our name.
• Earnings, income, or outcome guarantees. No promises about revenue, bookings, savings, or results — yours or a customer's — and no "guaranteed", "risk-free", or get-rich framing.
• Claims we haven't made. No inventing features, prices, certifications, integrations, security posture, or regulatory approvals. Pricing and features change; check the site before you publish.
• Unsolicited messaging. No purchased lists, scraped contacts, cold bulk email, unsolicited DMs, SMS blasts, or comment spam. CAN-SPAM and CASL apply to you, and consent has to be real.
• Paying people to sign up. No cashback, sweepstakes entries, giveaways, points, or other incentives in exchange for using your link or code unless we approve it in writing.
• Coupon and deal-site placement. Your code is for your own audience. Do not submit it to coupon aggregators, extensions, deal forums, or any site that intercepts checkout traffic you did not send.
• Forced clicks and tracking manipulation. No cookie stuffing, hidden iframes, auto-redirects, pop-unders, typosquatting, toolbar or extension injection, or any tracking the visitor didn't choose.
• Placement next to prohibited content. No promotion alongside adult content, hate speech, harassment, illegal goods, malware, pirated material, or content aimed at children under 13.
• Giving regulated advice in our name. Do not present Ottocal as legal, tax, medical, lending, or investment advice, or imply it satisfies a licensing, HIPAA, or lending compliance obligation.

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Ottocal name and the logos and creative assets we provide, solely to promote Ottocal under this agreement. All goodwill from that use accrues to us.

• Do not alter, recolour, stretch, animate, or recreate our logos, or combine them with your own marks in a way that suggests a joint product.
• Do not register or use a domain, subdomain, social handle, app name, or business name that contains our name or a confusing variation.
• Do not bid on our brand terms in paid search, paid social, or app store advertising, and do not use our name in an ad display URL or as a display name.
• Do not use our name to send transactional-looking messages, support communications, or anything that implies you speak for us.
• The license ends automatically when your participation ends. Remove our marks, your link, and your code within 10 days.

• Your dashboard shows counts and amounts, not identities. We do not give affiliates the names, email addresses, or business details of referred workspaces, and you must not attempt to obtain them.
• Referral tracking uses a first-party cookie set on our own domain for the sole purpose of attributing and paying commission. We do not sell or share affiliate click data, and we do not use it for cross-context behavioural advertising. Click records carry a non-reversible fingerprint for fraud review only, and a Global Privacy Control signal suppresses even that.
• Any personal information you collect from your own audience is yours to handle lawfully, under your own privacy notice. Do not transfer it to us.
• Our Privacy Notice and Cookie Notice describe how we handle personal information, including yours as an affiliate.

We may change the commission amount, the number of paid cycles, the attribution window, the hold period, the payout minimum, the customer discount, the eligible countries, or these terms. Changes take effect prospectively: commission already accrued is paid on the terms in force when it accrued.

Where a change reduces the commission rate or shortens the earning window, we will give at least 30 days' notice to the email on your affiliate account before it applies to new referrals. We may make changes needed for legal, tax, fraud-prevention, or payment-processor reasons immediately. Continuing to promote Ottocal after a change takes effect is acceptance of it.

• You may leave at any time by telling us and removing your link and code.
• We may suspend or terminate your participation at any time, with notice where practical and immediately where a breach is serious or ongoing.
• On termination without cause, commission already accrued is paid on the normal schedule once it clears its hold, including commission accruing during the final cycle. No commission accrues on referrals after termination.
• On termination for fraud, self-referral, or material breach, unpaid commission connected to that conduct is forfeited and we may recover amounts already paid.
• We may end the affiliate program entirely on 30 days' notice. Commission accrued before the end date is paid.
• Sections 7, 9, 12, 13, 16, and 17 survive termination.

The program is provided as is. We do not guarantee any level of traffic, conversion, commission, or program continuity, and tracking may be affected by browser settings, privacy tools, ad blockers, and the behaviour of the people you refer.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to the affiliate program will not exceed the total commission paid or payable to you in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or lost opportunity.

You will indemnify and hold Ottocal harmless from claims, losses, liabilities, penalties, and reasonable costs arising from your promotional activity, your content, your advertising, your use of third-party platforms, your handling of personal information, your tax obligations, or your breach of this agreement — including any regulatory action arising from a missing or inadequate disclosure.

• We may assign this agreement in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. You may not assign it.
• If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
• Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Notices to you go to the email on your affiliate account. Notices to us go to hello@ottocal.com.
• This agreement, together with the documents it incorporates, is the entire agreement between us about the affiliate program.

Questions about commission, attribution, a specific payout, or a decision on your application go to hello@ottocal.com. Include your referral handle so we can find your records quickly.

Agreement version 2026-08-19. The version you accepted is recorded on your affiliate account.