Affiliate Agreement
Last updated: November 2026
1. Parties and acceptance
This agreement is between YMDL ("we") and the individual or business accepted into the YMDL Affiliate Program ("Affiliate", "you").
Acceptance is by clickwrap: you must actively accept the current version of this agreement in the affiliate portal before your referral link is activated. We log the version accepted, the date and time, and the IP address used for acceptance (see section 12). Registration is free. There is no fee to join, and no purchase is required to be an affiliate.
2. What the program is
You may promote Your Million Dollar Lifestyle memberships and products using your assigned referral link. Commissions are earned only on bona fide, completed sales of YMDL products to real customers, tracked through your link. Nothing is earned for recruiting, registering, or signing up another affiliate by itself.
3. Commission structure
- Tier 1: you earn the tier 1 rate on qualifying membership sales made through your own referral link.
- Tier 2: you earn the tier 2 rate on qualifying membership sales made through the referral links of affiliates who registered through you.
- Rates in effect at launch of this agreement: base tier 1 is 25% and tier 2 is 5%; affiliates who hold the VIP upgrade earn tier 1 of 50% and tier 2 of 10%.
- A sale is "qualifying" when payment has cleared, the buyer is not you or a member of your household, and the sale has not been refunded or charged back.
- Trials: a $1 trial is not a commissionable sale. Commissions arise when paid membership charges clear, as set out in the Tax and Payout Policy.
- Rate changes: we may change rates for future sales on notice posted in the portal and sent by email. Changes never reduce commissions already earned on completed sales.
- Refunds and chargebacks reduce or reverse the related commission, including tier 2 amounts, as set out in the Tax and Payout Policy.
4. Brand protection — names, domains, and marks
The names and marks "Cocks", "Andrew John Cocks", "Your Million Dollar Lifestyle", our logos, book titles, and any misspellings or sound-alike variations of them (including "Cox") are our property. To protect buyers from confusion:
- You must not register, buy, or use any domain name, subdomain, social media handle, page name, channel name, marketplace listing, app name, email address, or email identity that contains any of these names, marks, misspellings, or confusingly similar variations, unless we give you written permission first.
- You must not bid on these names or marks, or misspellings of them, as keywords in any advertising platform, and you must not use them in the visible URL or domain of any ad.
- You must not build doorway pages, redirect pages, or ads that link directly to YMDL checkout or registration pages in a way that makes your page or ad look like our official site or official ad.
- If you already control a name, handle, or domain covered by this section, tell us in writing; we may require transfer or shutdown of it as a condition of staying in the program.
5. Brand assets — limited licence
We may make approved logos, images, copy and links available in the affiliate portal. You receive a limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use only those approved assets, exactly as provided, only while you are an active affiliate in good standing, and only to promote YMDL truthfully. You may not alter the assets, create your own versions of our logos or book covers, or keep using assets after your participation ends.
6. Honest promotion
- No deceptive negative-angle marketing: you must not market YMDL by attacking, disparaging, or manufacturing complaints about YMDL, Andrew John Cocks, or the program in order to capture search traffic or attention.
- No fake review, comparison, or complaint sites, and no pages designed to look like independent review media when they are your affiliate promotion.
- No impersonation of YMDL, Andrew John Cocks, our staff, or our support channels, in any medium.
- No fabricated claims: no invented results, income figures, testimonials, endorsements, sales numbers, or scarcity.
- Carve-out: nothing in this section prohibits truthful, lawful criticism, commentary, or reviews by anyone, including former affiliates. Honest negative opinions, fairly stated, are not a violation of this agreement and are not grounds for withholding commissions that were legitimately earned.
- Your promotion must comply with the Affiliate Promotion Standards, which form part of this agreement.
7. Disclosure and lawful outreach
- Every promotion must clearly disclose your material connection: that you may earn a commission if someone buys through your link. Disclosure placement rules are in the Promotion Standards. An affiliate link, hashtag, or profile note alone is not a disclosure.
- No spam. You may market only to people who have given you lawful consent to contact them. You are responsible for complying with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), the US TCPA and CAN-SPAM, and any other anti-spam or telemarketing law that applies to your audience, including consent, identification, and unsubscribe requirements.
- You must not send messages from, or make messages appear to come from, YMDL or Andrew John Cocks.
8. Payouts and tax documentation
Payouts are made under the Tax and Payout Policy, which forms part of this agreement. In short: no payout is released until your identity and required tax documentation have been collected and verified through our secure provider flow. Tax identification numbers must never be sent by ordinary email or entered into unsecured forms, and we will never ask for them that way.
9. Independent contractor
You are an independent contractor, not an employee, agent, partner, or franchisee of YMDL. You may not bind us to any commitment, and you may not describe yourself as our representative beyond "affiliate".
10. Suspension, investigation, and termination
- Investigation: if we receive a credible complaint or detect activity suggesting a breach of sections 4, 6, or 7, or fraud, we may investigate.
- Notice and cure: for a breach that can be fixed, we will tell you what we found and give you a reasonable chance to fix it before termination, unless the breach is fraudulent or cannot be undone.
- Suspension of disputed commissions: while an investigation is open, we may hold only the commissions that relate to the activity under investigation. Commissions that are legitimately earned and undisputed are not held, and are never confiscated as a penalty.
- Termination: either side may end participation at any time on written notice. We may terminate immediately for material violations, including fraud, brand misuse under section 4, deceptive promotion under section 6, or spam under section 7.
- Recovery: we may recover commissions that are shown, with records, to have been earned through fraud or through sales that were refunded or charged back.
- After termination: stop all promotion, stop using brand assets, and remove or hand over any names or handles covered by section 4 as directed. Commissions legitimately earned and undisputed up to the termination date remain payable under the Tax and Payout Policy.
- Dispute and appeal: if you disagree with a hold, reversal, or termination, you may appeal in writing. We will review the records, respond in writing, and release any amounts we cannot show were improper.
12. Versioning and records
This agreement is versioned. The version you accepted, and every later version, is kept accessible in the affiliate portal. We log acceptance by version, date, time, and IP address. If we change this agreement, we will post the new version in the portal and email active affiliates; material changes require fresh clickwrap acceptance before further payouts.
13. General
Notices go to the email address in your affiliate account and to support@yourmilliondollarlifestyle.com for us. If any clause is unenforceable, the rest stand.
