Affiliate Promotion Standards

1. The one-sentence rule

Promote YMDL the way you would want it promoted to your own family: truthfully, in your own name, with your commission connection disclosed up front.

2. Disclosure rules

Canada's Competition Bureau guidance on influencer marketing, and advertising law in the US and elsewhere, require disclosure of a material connection. A commission you can earn is a material connection.

• Disclose in every promotion, on every platform, every time.
• Put the disclosure where it is seen before or at the start of the content: the first line of a caption, the opening seconds of a video (spoken and on screen), or the top of a post or email. Not buried in a hashtag block, not only in your profile, not behind a "more" fold.
• Use plain words. Approved examples: "I may earn a commission if you join through my link." / "Affiliate link: I earn a commission on qualifying purchases." / "Paid partnership with Your Million Dollar Lifestyle" where the platform offers that label.
• Not enough by itself: the affiliate link alone, a discount code, "#ad" hidden among twenty hashtags, tagging our account, or "link in bio".
• If you repost or share your content to another platform, the disclosure travels with it.

3. Approved promotion

These are allowed and encouraged:

• Sharing your genuine experience of the books, the membership, or a session, in your own words, with disclosure.
• Posting our approved creatives and copy from the affiliate portal, unaltered, with your link and disclosure.
• Writing or recording an honest review, including a mixed one, based on your real experience, with disclosure.
• Recommending YMDL to your own list, audience, or community, where those people have consented to hear from you.
• Answering questions about the program factually: price, trial terms, what is included, how commissions work.
• Comparing YMDL with alternatives fairly, using facts you can back up.

4. Prohibited promotion

These are violations of the Affiliate Agreement:

• Any claim that YMDL guarantees income, transactions, clients, or business results, or any invented earnings figure, including your own unless it is true, documented, and presented as your individual experience only.
• Fake review, comparison, or complaint sites; negative-angle campaigns built on attacking YMDL or Andrew John Cocks to capture traffic ("scam?" bait and similar), whether or not the page then recommends us.
• Impersonating YMDL, Andrew John Cocks, or our support team; using our names or marks in your domain, handle, page name, email identity, or ad account display name without written permission.
• Bidding on our names or marks (including misspellings such as "Cox") as ad keywords, or putting them in your ad's visible URL.
• Doorway pages or direct-linking ads designed to look like our official site or ads.
• Spam: bought lists, scraped lists, mass unsolicited messages, comment or DM blasting, or messaging anyone without lawful consent under CASL, TCPA, or the law that applies to them.
• Cookie stuffing, forced clicks, misleading redirects, or any technical method of claiming credit for a sale you did not genuinely refer.
• Self-referrals or household referrals used to harvest commissions on your own purchases.
• Altering our logos, covers, or approved creatives, or creating look-alike materials.
• Presenting the affiliate program itself as the product: promotion must be built around the membership's value to buyers, not around recruiting other affiliates. You may mention that a second tier exists; you may not market registration as an income opportunity by itself.

Protected, and not a violation: truthful, lawful criticism or an honest negative review, fairly stated. The prohibition list targets deception, not opinions.

5. Claims discipline

• Use only claims that appear in our approved materials, or that are true of your own documented experience.
• The membership's price and trial terms must be stated exactly as they are: $1 USD for 14 days, then $97 USD per month unless cancelled, where the trial is mentioned at all.
• Never quote commission percentages as earnings, and never suggest typical or expected income from the program.

6. When in doubt

Ask before you publish. If we ask you to change or remove a promotion, do it promptly; honest mistakes fixed quickly are treated as mistakes, not fraud. Enforcement is set out in section 10 of the Affiliate Agreement, including notice, cure, and appeal.