Policies & agreements, in one place.

Who this applies to, and our role

This policy applies to visitors to our website, applicants, publishers and creators, and advertisers and their staff. Depending on the activity, Adsectra acts either as a data controller — deciding why and how personal data is processed — or as a processor acting on an advertiser's instructions under a separate data processing agreement.

Personal data we collect

We collect the categories of data needed to run the network, and no more:

• Account and application data — name, email, postal address, country, and the channels or sites you plan to promote.
• Verification data — identity documents, business registration details and tax residency information, collected where required to approve an application or process payouts.
• Financial and payout data — bank or payment provider details, invoicing information and tax identifiers.
• Performance and tracking data — clicks, impressions, conversions, commission calculations and the programs you're linked to.
• Device and technical data — IP address, browser and device type, referring URLs, and cookie or similar identifiers.
• Support and communications data — messages you send us, call or chat records, and our replies.

Why we process it, and our legal basis

Under the GDPR and UK GDPR, we only process personal data where we have a valid legal basis:

• Performance of a contract — reviewing applications, running your account, attributing conversions and paying commissions.
• Legitimate interests — securing the platform, preventing fraud, and improving our products, balanced against your rights.
• Legal obligation — retaining records for tax, accounting and anti-money-laundering purposes.
• Consent — optional marketing communications and non-essential cookies, which you can withdraw at any time.

Who we share personal data with

We share the minimum necessary personal data with: the advertisers and affiliate networks relevant to your activity, so conversions can be attributed and paid; payment, payroll and tax providers who process payouts; identity-verification and fraud-prevention providers; cloud hosting, analytics and customer-support tool providers; and regulators, tax authorities or law enforcement where the law requires it.

Every third party we share data with is bound by a written contract that limits how they may use it. We do not sell personal data.

International transfers

Some of our providers are located outside the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom. Where that's the case, we rely on adequacy decisions or Standard Contractual Clauses, together with supplementary technical and organisational measures, to keep your data protected to the same standard.

How long we keep it

We keep personal data for as long as your account is active, plus a period afterwards to meet tax, accounting, anti-fraud and legal record-keeping obligations — typically up to seven years for financial records. Data no longer needed for these purposes is deleted or anonymised.

Your rights

Subject to some exceptions, you can ask us to: give you a copy of your personal data; correct inaccurate data; delete data we no longer need; restrict or object to certain processing; and receive your data in a portable format. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time without affecting past processing.

To exercise a right, email help@adsectra.io. If you're not satisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority — in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office.

Children

Adsectra is a business-to-business platform. You must be at least 18 years old to hold an account, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Keeping your data secure

We apply technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, including encryption in transit, access controls on a need-to-know basis, and regular review of our security practices. No system is completely secure, and we encourage you to use a strong, unique password and enable any available account protections.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our services or the law change. Material changes will be notified through the platform or by email; the 'last updated' date above always reflects the current version.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. We also use similar technologies such as local storage and tracking pixels, which this policy refers to collectively as 'cookies'.

Categories we use

We group cookies into four categories:

• Strictly necessary — required for sign-in, security, load balancing and remembering your cookie choices. These cannot be switched off.
• Affiliate tracking — identify which partner, link and program a visitor came from, so a resulting sale or lead is attributed and commissioned correctly.
• Analytics and performance — aggregated, pseudonymised usage data that helps us understand how the platform is used and where to improve it.
• Preferences — remember settings such as language and dashboard layout.

How affiliate tracking cookies work

When someone clicks a tracked link, we set a cookie containing a unique click identifier, the referring partner, and a timestamp. If the visitor completes a qualifying action — typically a purchase or sign-up — within the advertiser's cookie window, the conversion is attributed to that click and the corresponding commission is calculated.

Cookie windows are set by each advertiser and are typically between 24 hours and 90 days; the exact window for each program is shown in your dashboard. Where a visitor clicks links from more than one partner before converting, most programs attribute the sale to the last valid click before the purchase — again, program-specific rules are shown against each program.

First-party and third-party cookies

Some tracking cookies are set directly by adsectra.io (first-party); others are set by the advertiser's site once a visitor lands there (third-party). Where we use third-party analytics providers, they only process data on our instructions and for our purposes.

Example cookies we set

• adx_session — keeps you signed in during a dashboard session. Expires when you close your browser.
• adx_track — records the referring partner and click for commission attribution. Expires at the end of the relevant program's cookie window.
• adx_consent — remembers your cookie preferences. Expires after 12 months.
• adx_lang — remembers your selected display language. Expires after 12 months.

Managing your cookie choices

You can accept or reject non-essential cookies through the consent banner shown on your first visit, and change your choice at any time via the cookie settings link in the site footer. Most browsers also let you block or delete cookies directly — check your browser's help pages for instructions.

Blocking affiliate tracking cookies will prevent conversions from that visit being attributed to a partner, which means a commission can't be paid on it — so we'd only recommend it if you understand that trade-off.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as we add features or change providers. Material changes will be reflected in the 'last updated' date above.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

1. Acceptance of these terms

By accessing or using this website, you agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract in your jurisdiction to use this site or apply to join the network.

3. Accounts

You're responsible for the accuracy of the information you give us and for keeping your login credentials confidential. Notify us immediately of any unauthorised use of your account.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, our Acceptable Use Policy, or the relevant partner agreement.

4. Acceptable use

You must use the site for lawful purposes only. You must not attempt to disrupt or overload it, scrape it at scale without permission, reverse-engineer it, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation. Full restrictions applicable to partners are set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

5. Intellectual property

The Adsectra name, logo, website design and underlying software are owned by us or our licensors and protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Advertiser and network trademarks shown on the site belong to their respective owners and are used for identification only; nothing here grants you rights to any of them.

6. Third-party links and content

Our site links to advertiser and partner websites we don't control. We're not responsible for the content, policies or practices of any third-party site, and including a link doesn't imply endorsement.

7. Disclaimers

The website and general information on it are provided 'as is' and 'as available', without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including as to accuracy, availability or fitness for a particular purpose.

8. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, Adsectra is not liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential loss arising from your use of the site. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death, personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud.

9. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Adsectra against claims, losses and expenses arising from your breach of these terms or misuse of the site.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. Continued use of the site after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

11. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer-protection rules that apply in your country of residence. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Wyoming, unless mandatory local law says otherwise.

12. Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to help@adsectra.io.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

1. Definitions

• Advertiser — a brand or merchant running a program on Adsectra.
• Program — the specific set of commission terms, creative assets and rules an Advertiser makes available.
• Commission — the amount payable to you for a Validated Transaction, as set by the Advertiser's Program terms.
• Validated Transaction — a click-attributed sale, lead or other qualifying action that the Advertiser has confirmed and not reversed.
• Cookie Window — the period after a click during which a resulting transaction can still be attributed to you.

2. Eligibility, application and approval

Membership is by application and is subject to our review of your identity, channels, content and audience. We may approve, decline, pause or later remove any account, Program participation or specific placement at our discretion — including for compliance, brand-safety or fraud-prevention reasons.

You must keep your application information accurate and tell us promptly if your promotional methods, channels or ownership change materially.

3. Licence to promote

Once approved for a Program, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use the Advertiser's supplied creative assets, links and trademarks solely to promote that Program, in accordance with the Advertiser's guidelines. This licence ends immediately if you're removed from the Program or this agreement ends.

4. Your obligations and promotional rules

You agree to promote each Program honestly, accurately and in line with its specific terms. Without limiting our Acceptable Use Policy, you must not:

• Bid on an Advertiser's trademarks in paid search unless the Program expressly permits it.
• Use cookie stuffing, forced clicks, pop-unders or any technique that generates a click the visitor didn't intend to make.
• Generate self-referred, incentivised, fake or otherwise artificial conversions.
• Promote a Program in a channel, format or territory it excludes.
• Misrepresent your relationship with an Advertiser, or imply an endorsement that doesn't exist.

5. Disclosure obligations

You must clearly and conspicuously disclose your affiliate relationship wherever required by law, including FTC guidance in the US and ASA/CAP Code and equivalent consumer-protection rules in the UK and EU. See our Disclosure Guidelines for channel-by-channel guidance — treat them as part of this agreement.

6. Commissions, validation and payment

Commissions are earned on Validated Transactions and calculated according to the applicable Program's published rate at the time of the click. Advertisers may reverse a transaction that turns out to be a return, cancellation, duplicate, fraudulent or otherwise non-qualifying — reversed commissions are deducted from your balance.

Validated commissions across every Program you're active in are pooled into a single Adsectra balance. We pay out once your balance reaches the published threshold, on the published schedule, to the payment method on file, less any fees disclosed at signup.

7. Taxes

You're responsible for determining and meeting your own tax obligations arising from commissions paid to you. Where required, we'll provide self-billing invoices or reporting to help you do so.

8. Confidentiality

Program terms, commission rates, performance data and any non-public information we or an Advertiser share with you must be kept confidential and used only to fulfil your obligations under this agreement.

9. Term and termination

This agreement continues until ended by either party. You may stop participating at any time by closing your account. We may suspend or terminate your account immediately for a breach of this agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy or the Anti-Fraud & Compliance Policy, or on reasonable notice for any other reason.

On termination, your licence to promote ends immediately. Validated commissions earned before termination remain payable on the normal schedule; commissions under investigation or dispute may be withheld pending review.

10. Relationship of the parties

You act as an independent contractor. Nothing in this agreement creates an employment relationship, partnership, joint venture or agency between you and Adsectra or any Advertiser.

11. Liability

To the extent permitted by law, our liability to you under this agreement is limited to unpaid, Validated commissions properly due. We're not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost profits or lost opportunities.

12. Changes to this agreement

We may update this agreement to reflect changes in our services, the networks we integrate, or the law. We'll give reasonable notice of material changes; continuing to promote Programs after a change takes effect means you accept it.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

1. Setting up your program

You define your Program's commission structure, categories, creative assets, territories and any Publisher criteria or exclusions. We surface matched, vetted Publishers for your review — you retain final approval over who is admitted to your Program and may remove a Publisher at any time for cause.

2. Tracking and attribution

We provide tracking links, tags or an API integration to record clicks and attribute resulting conversions to the correct Publisher, using the cookie window and attribution model you configure for your Program.

3. Validating transactions and paying commission

You agree to review and validate or reject tracked transactions promptly — normally within the validation window shown in your dashboard — and to pay commission on every transaction you validate, at the rate published for the relevant Program at the time of the click.

You may reject or reverse a transaction only for a legitimate reason, such as a return, cancellation, non-payment, duplicate or fraudulent order — not simply because the resulting sale was more valuable than expected. Reversals must be recorded with a reason code.

4. Fees

In addition to the commissions you pay Publishers, you agree to pay Adsectra's platform and, where applicable, network fees, as set out in your order form or dashboard, on the agreed billing schedule.

5. Reporting and data

We provide unified reporting across every network we integrate for your Program. You agree not to use tracking or reporting data to identify and route around a Publisher's link in order to avoid paying a commission that would otherwise be due.

6. Brand safety and compliance

We review Publisher applications and monitor placements for compliance with your Program's guidelines and our Acceptable Use Policy, and we act on confirmed breaches.

To make that effective, you agree to give us accurate brand and content guidelines, respond to escalations in a timely way, and tell us promptly about any placement or Publisher you believe breaches your guidelines.

7. Publisher relationships

Publishers act as independent contractors of yours for the purposes of any Program they join, not of Adsectra. We facilitate the relationship — including tracking, reporting and payment processing — but a Publisher's compliance with your specific Program terms remains your responsibility to define and enforce, with our support.

8. Confidentiality

Program terms, performance data, and any non-public information exchanged under this agreement must be kept confidential by both parties, except where disclosure is required by law.

9. Intellectual property licence

You grant Publishers approved for your Program a limited licence to use your trademarks and supplied creative solely to promote that Program, on the terms you specify. You represent that you have the rights necessary to grant this licence.

10. Warranties

Each party warrants that it will comply with applicable law in performing this agreement, including consumer-protection, advertising and data-protection law relevant to its own conduct.

11. Liability

To the extent permitted by law, neither party is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss. Each party remains responsible for its own lawful conduct and for any liability arising from a breach of its own obligations under this agreement.

12. Term and termination

This agreement continues until terminated by either party on reasonable notice, or immediately for a material, uncured breach. Commissions and fees validated or accrued before termination remain payable on the normal schedule.

13. Governing law

This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA, without prejudice to mandatory local consumer or data-protection law.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

Prohibited content

You must not use Adsectra to promote, link to, or otherwise support content that is illegal in the jurisdictions where it's shown; that is deceptive, hateful, discriminatory or harassing; that sexually exploits minors or depicts non-consensual acts; or that infringes someone else's intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights.

Prohibited promotional techniques

• Malware, spyware, adware or unauthorised browser extensions, toolbars or redirects.
• Cookie stuffing, forced clicks, pop-unders, or any technique that sets a tracking cookie without a genuine, intentional click.
• Incentivised, self-referred or otherwise artificial clicks, leads or sales.
• Trademark or brand-term bidding in paid search without the Advertiser's written permission.
• Spam — unsolicited bulk email, SMS or messaging-app outreach — and disguising affiliate links to evade spam filters.
• Any attempt to interfere with, reverse-engineer or manipulate tracking, attribution, reporting or payout calculations.

Prohibited business practices

You must not misrepresent your identity, audience size, traffic sources or affiliation with an Advertiser; operate multiple accounts to evade a suspension; or resell, sublicense or share your Adsectra access with a third party without our written consent.

Consequences of a breach

Depending on severity, we may remove specific content or links, withhold or reverse related commissions, suspend or permanently close your account, and report unlawful activity to the relevant advertiser, network, payment provider or law-enforcement authority. We keep a record of serious breaches and may decline future applications linked to the same person, business or channel.

Reporting a violation

If you believe someone is breaching this policy, tell us at help@adsectra.io with as much detail as you can — we review every report.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

Partner vetting

Every publisher application is reviewed before approval, including identity checks, a review of stated channels and audience, and screening against known bad actors shared across the industry. Applications flagged as higher risk — for example, new accounts with unverifiable traffic sources — receive additional review and closer early monitoring.

What we monitor for

• Abnormal click-to-sale ratios, sudden spikes in conversions, or activity concentrated in a short time window.
• Duplicate, self-referred, or incentivised transactions inconsistent with a Program's terms.
• Traffic from data-centre IP ranges, known bot networks, or geographies excluded by a Program.
• Cookie-stuffing and forced-click signatures, including cookies set without a corresponding page view.
• Coordinated activity across accounts that appear to share ownership or infrastructure.

How we detect it

We combine automated, rule-based monitoring with statistical anomaly detection and manual review by our compliance team. Signals are checked against device, IP and account history, and against patterns reported to us by advertisers and the networks we integrate with.

What happens when we find it

Suspected fraud can trigger an immediate hold on the affected balance, a formal investigation, reversal of the related commissions, and suspension or permanent removal from the network. Where we confirm fraud, we report it to the affected advertiser and network, and — for serious cases — to payment providers or law enforcement.

Advertiser responsibilities

Advertisers help keep the network clean by validating transactions promptly, flagging suspicious orders with a clear reason, and not using fraud reviews to withhold commissions that were, in fact, legitimately earned.

Appeals

If your account or a commission is affected by a fraud decision you believe is mistaken, you can request a review by emailing help@adsectra.io with supporting evidence. We aim to respond within ten working days.

Reporting a concern

Advertisers, publishers and the public can report suspected fraud to help@adsectra.io. Reports are handled confidentially, and we don't disclose the identity of a reporter without consent.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

1. Roles and scope

The Advertiser or network is the data controller for the personal data in question; Adsectra is the processor, acting only on the controller's documented instructions as set out in the applicable agreement and this DPA.

2. Subject matter, duration and purpose

We process personal data for the duration of the underlying agreement, for the purpose of operating affiliate tracking, attribution, reporting, fraud prevention and payouts on the controller's behalf — and for no other purpose.

3. Categories of data and data subjects

The personal data typically processed is limited to click and conversion identifiers, order or lead references, and — where a Program requires it — the end customer's contact details needed to validate a transaction. Data subjects are typically the controller's customers, leads or site visitors.

4. Processor obligations

• Process personal data only on the controller's documented instructions, including regarding international transfers, unless required to do otherwise by law.
• Ensure anyone authorised to process the data is bound by confidentiality.
• Implement appropriate technical and organisational security measures under Article 32.
• Assist the controller in responding to data-subject requests and in meeting its own obligations around security, breach notification and data-protection impact assessments.
• At the controller's choice, delete or return all personal data at the end of the agreement, except where retention is required by law.
• Make available the information necessary to demonstrate compliance with this DPA and allow for audits.

5. Sub-processors

We use vetted sub-processors — for example, cloud hosting and payment infrastructure providers — under written terms that impose data-protection obligations equivalent to this DPA. We'll give notice of any intended change to our sub-processors so the controller can object on reasonable grounds. A current list is available on request.

6. International transfers

Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA or UK, we rely on an adequacy decision or Standard Contractual Clauses (or the UK's International Data Transfer Addendum), together with any supplementary measures needed to protect the data to an equivalent standard.

7. Security measures

We maintain measures including encryption of data in transit, role-based access controls, logging and monitoring, and regular review of our security practices, proportionate to the risk presented by the processing.

8. Personal data breaches

We'll notify the controller without undue delay after becoming aware of a personal data breach affecting their data, and provide the information reasonably needed for the controller to meet its own notification obligations.

9. Term

This DPA takes effect alongside the underlying agreement and continues for as long as we process personal data on the controller's behalf under it.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

The basic rule

If a link, code or recommendation can earn you money, say so — clearly, in your own words, close to the link or mention, and before your audience clicks. This applies whether you're paid a commission, given a free product, or offered any other benefit.

Platform specifics

• Instagram & TikTok — use the platform's paid-partnership or branded-content label and add a plain-language note such as 'affiliate link' or '#ad' in the caption itself, not just the label.
• YouTube & Twitch — disclose verbally near the start of the video or stream, and repeat the disclosure in the description for anyone who skips ahead.
• Newsletters and blogs — place a visible disclosure near the top of the piece and again next to each affiliate link or button, not only in a footer or terms page.
• Podcasts — disclose verbally when you mention the offer, not only in the show notes.
• Paid ads — the ad itself must make clear it's a promotion; don't rely on the landing page to carry the disclosure.

What doesn't count as disclosure

Burying a disclosure behind a 'more' link, using only a hashtag at the very end of a long caption, relying on vague terms like 'partner' without context, or disclosing once in a bio that's meant to apply to unrelated future posts, do not meet the standard we expect.

Regional notes

Follow the FTC's Endorsement Guides in the US, the CAP Code and ASA guidance in the UK, and the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and national implementations across the EU. Requirements vary by country in their detail but agree on the substance: disclose clearly, disclose early, and don't make your audience work to find it. When you're unsure which rule applies, disclose as if the strictest one does.

Why this matters to you

Clear disclosure protects your audience's trust, keeps you personally compliant with consumer-protection law — regulators can and do act against individual creators, not just brands — and is a condition of continuing to promote programs through Adsectra.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

Our organisation

Adsectra operates a technology platform connecting advertisers with publishers and creators. We're a small, remote-first team, and we publish this statement voluntarily as good practice, even where we fall below the turnover threshold that makes it a legal requirement.

Our supply chain

Our supply chain is limited and mostly consists of software, cloud-hosting, payment-processing and professional-services providers. We don't manufacture goods or operate a physical supply chain.

Our policies

We only engage suppliers and contractors who agree to comply with applicable employment and human-rights law, and our supplier terms prohibit the use of forced, bonded or child labour.

Due diligence and risk assessment

We assess the modern-slavery risk in our operations as low, given our size, sector and supply chain, but we don't treat that as a reason to skip due diligence. We review new suppliers before engagement and act on any credible concern raised about an existing one.

Training and awareness

Team members involved in supplier selection and partner vetting are made aware of the signs of modern slavery and human trafficking, and know how to escalate a concern.

Reporting a concern

Anyone — staff, suppliers, partners or the public — can raise a concern confidentially at help@adsectra.io. We investigate every report we receive.

Approval

This statement was reviewed and approved by Adsectra's leadership and is reviewed annually.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.

Company

Adsectra LLC

Registered address: 30 N Gould St N, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States

Contact

Phone: +1 307 500 7599

Email: help@adsectra.io

Responsible for content

The Adsectra editorial team, at the registered office above, in accordance with §18(2) of the German Interstate Media Treaty (MStV) where applicable.

Dispute resolution

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not obliged, and are not willing, to take part in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Liability for content and links

As a service provider, we're responsible for our own content on these pages in accordance with general law. We are not obliged to monitor third-party information we transmit or store, or to investigate circumstances pointing to unlawful activity. Once we become aware of a specific infringement, we'll remove the relevant content promptly.

Copyright

Content and works on this website created by us are subject to copyright law. Reproduction, editing, distribution or any use outside the scope of copyright law requires our prior written consent.

Trademarks

Adsectra is an affiliate marketing platform. All advertiser and brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification only.

This summary is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. For questions, contact help@adsectra.io.