QBO Dojo Affiliate
Program Terms.

These Affiliate Program Terms ("Affiliate Terms") govern participation in the QBO Dojo Affiliate Program ("Program") operated by QBO Dojo LLC ("QBO Dojo," "we," "us," or "our").

By applying to, accepting enrollment in, or participating in the Program, the applicant or approved affiliate ("Affiliate," "you," or "your") agrees to these Affiliate Terms and any program-specific commercial terms provided in the Affiliate Dashboard, approval notice, or other written Program documentation ("Program Details").

Submitting an application does not guarantee acceptance.

1. Eligibility and Approval

• Applicant must be at least 18 years old.
• An applicant acting for an organization represents that they have authority to bind the organization.
• All application information must be truthful, current, and complete.
• QBO Dojo may approve or reject an application in its discretion.
• QBO Dojo is not required to provide a reason for rejection.
• Approval may be conditioned on additional information.
• Affiliate status is personal to the approved individual or entity and may not be transferred or sold.
• Creating multiple affiliate accounts to circumvent Program rules is prohibited.
• QBO Dojo may periodically review continued eligibility.

2. Program Details and Commission

Commission rates, attribution terms, eligible products, tracking periods, payout schedules, minimum payment thresholds if applicable, and other commercial terms are communicated to approved Affiliates through their approval notice, Affiliate Dashboard, campaign details, or other written Program Details. Program Details are incorporated into these Affiliate Terms.

QBO Dojo may offer different commission structures to different affiliates, campaigns, products, promotional periods, or partnership types. Participation does not entitle an Affiliate to the rate or commercial terms offered to another Affiliate.

3. Qualifying Referrals

A commission is earned only on a Qualifying Referral. A Qualifying Referral is a purchase that:

• is successfully attributed to the Affiliate by the Program's tracking system;
• is made by an eligible customer;
• results in collected payment;
• is not fraudulent;
• is not a self-referral or prohibited related-party purchase;
• is not subsequently refunded, reversed, disputed, charged back, or otherwise invalidated; and
• satisfies the applicable Program Details.

QBO Dojo's tracking records control attribution absent a demonstrable technical error. QBO Dojo is not responsible for attribution lost because a customer deletes cookies, blocks tracking, uses another device or browser, follows another referral source, fails to use the Affiliate's tracking link, uses an unsupported browser configuration, or otherwise prevents the tracking system from identifying the Affiliate. QBO Dojo does not promise attribution where the technology did not actually attribute the sale.

4. Self-Referrals and Related-Party Purchases

Commissions are prohibited on:

• Affiliate's own purchases;
• purchases intended primarily to generate commission;
• purchases through another account controlled by Affiliate;
• purchases by a business controlled by Affiliate when Affiliate is effectively the purchaser;
• coordinated transactions designed to manufacture commission;
• repeated purchase/refund behavior;
• any transaction QBO Dojo reasonably determines is abusive or artificial.

QBO Dojo may reverse commissions arising from prohibited transactions.

5. Refunds, Chargebacks, and Reversals

Commissions associated with refunds, cancellations, payment disputes, chargebacks, fraudulent transactions, reversed payments, duplicate payments, or unauthorized purchases may be canceled, withheld, deducted from future commissions, or recovered from unpaid balances. A commission showing in an Affiliate Dashboard does not necessarily mean it is final or payable until any applicable validation or hold period has passed.

6. Affiliate Disclosures

Affiliates must clearly and conspicuously disclose their financial relationship with QBO Dojo whenever promoting or endorsing QBO Dojo where disclosure is legally required. Disclosure must be easy to notice, easy to understand, placed with the endorsement or recommendation, made before or near the affiliate link where appropriate, and appropriate to the platform and medium. Affiliates must comply with disclosure requirements applicable to video, social media, email, websites, podcasts, and other promotional media.

Examples of acceptable plain-language disclosures may include:

"I may earn a commission if you purchase through this link."

"This is a paid/affiliate relationship and I may earn a commission from qualifying purchases."

The phrase "affiliate link" by itself may not be automatically sufficient in every circumstance. Hashtags or platform disclosure tools may not be automatically sufficient. Affiliates are responsible for complying with applicable endorsement, advertising, consumer-protection, and disclosure laws, including FTC guidelines.

7. Truthful Promotion

Affiliate statements about QBO Dojo must be truthful and supportable. Affiliates may not claim or imply that QBO Dojo:

• guarantees bookkeeping competence;
• guarantees client readiness;
• guarantees employment;
• guarantees income;
• guarantees business success;
• guarantees certification;
• is an official Intuit or QuickBooks product;
• is endorsed, sponsored, certified, or operated by Intuit unless QBO Dojo specifically authorizes such a statement;
• guarantees that completing a practice client produces any specific professional result.

Affiliates may not invent features, pricing, discounts, guarantees, client outcomes, testimonials, product availability, or promotional offers. Affiliates are responsible for keeping statements reasonably current.

8. Honest Endorsements

Affiliates may only describe personal experience they actually have. Affiliates may not:

• publish fabricated testimonials;
• create fake reviews;
• claim to have used a QBO Dojo product they have not used;
• misrepresent their experience;
• conceal a material financial relationship;
• manipulate ratings or reviews;
• encourage false or deceptive reviews.

Nothing in these Affiliate Terms requires an Affiliate to give a positive review or prevents an Affiliate from expressing a truthful opinion.

9. Email and Direct Marketing

Affiliates using email, SMS, direct messaging, or similar channels must comply with all applicable marketing and privacy laws. Prohibited conduct includes unsolicited bulk email, spam, harvested email lists, deceptive sender information, deceptive subject lines, sending where required consent has not been obtained, and ignoring opt-out or unsubscribe requests. Affiliates are solely responsible for their own mailing lists and marketing permissions. QBO Dojo does not provide Affiliates authority to send marketing messages on QBO Dojo's behalf.

10. Paid Advertising

Without QBO Dojo's prior written permission, Affiliates may not bid on:

• "QBO Dojo," "QBODojo," or "QBO Dojo LLC";
• confusing misspellings or variations of the QBO Dojo brand;
• purchase advertisements designed to appear to be official QBO Dojo advertising;
• use QBO Dojo as the advertiser identity;
• direct-link paid search advertising through an Affiliate Link where prohibited by the applicable Program Details;
• create advertisements that impersonate QBO Dojo.

Affiliates must comply with advertising-platform rules and applicable trademark requirements.

11. Coupons, Discounts, and Incentives

Affiliates may advertise only coupons, promotions, discounts, or special offers expressly authorized by QBO Dojo. Prohibited conduct includes invented coupon codes, expired promotion claims, unauthorized discounts, fake coupon pages, "click to reveal" tactics that falsely imply a coupon exists, and rebate or cash-back programs unless QBO Dojo approves them in writing.

12. Prohibited Tracking Practices

Strictly prohibited:

• cookie stuffing;
• forced clicks;
• invisible links;
• automatic redirects intended solely to set tracking;
• adware, spyware, malware, or toolbar injection;
• misleading browser extensions;
• scripts designed to overwrite another Affiliate's attribution;
• iframe or technical methods intended to set an Affiliate cookie without a genuine user referral;
• bots or automated traffic intended to generate clicks or sales.

Commissions associated with these practices may be forfeited.

13. Social Media, Domains, and Brand Identity

Without written permission, Affiliates may not register or operate domains, social-media usernames, page names, company names, product names, or advertisements that reasonably create the impression they ARE QBO Dojo or an official QBO Dojo property. Affiliates may truthfully identify themselves as an approved QBO Dojo Affiliate. They may not identify themselves as QBO Dojo staff, QBO Dojo support, QBO Dojo customer service, an authorized reseller unless separately authorized, or an official Intuit or QuickBooks representative.

14. Intellectual Property and Brand Assets

QBO Dojo retains all rights in its brand, logos, graphics, website content, product descriptions, practice clients, Client Briefs, practice materials, files, documentation, and original training and practice content. Approved Affiliates receive a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use promotional materials specifically provided or approved for Affiliate promotion. Affiliates may not materially modify brand assets in a way that creates a misleading representation without approval. Affiliate participation does not transfer ownership of QBO Dojo intellectual property.

15. Practice Clients and Product Materials

Affiliate status does NOT grant redistribution rights to QBO Dojo products. Affiliates may not upload, distribute, resell, sublicense, share, publicly post, bundle, give away, or reproduce for distribution QBO Dojo practice clients, Client Briefs, CSVs, statements, supporting documents, or other paid product materials except where QBO Dojo has expressly authorized a particular promotional excerpt or asset. Affiliate promotional rights and product-license rights are separate.

16. Prohibited Content and Placement

Affiliates may not promote QBO Dojo through content or properties that are unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, defamatory, hateful, harassing, discriminatory, sexually explicit, malicious, infringing, or designed primarily to facilitate illegal conduct. QBO Dojo may determine that a promotional environment is unsuitable for the brand.

17. Customer Relationship

Customers referred through the Program are customers of QBO Dojo. QBO Dojo controls product fulfillment, payment processing, refund decisions, customer support, pricing, product availability, licensing, and account administration. Affiliates may not make binding commitments on QBO Dojo's behalf. Affiliates may not promise refunds, exceptions, product modifications, support arrangements, discounts, or other terms that QBO Dojo has not authorized.

18. Confidential Information

Affiliates may receive nonpublic information including unpublished commission terms, promotional plans, advance product information, launch information, private affiliate materials, and campaign strategy. Unless QBO Dojo authorizes disclosure, Affiliates must keep nonpublic Program information confidential. Information publicly released by QBO Dojo is not confidential.

19. Affiliate Monitoring and Cooperation

QBO Dojo may reasonably review publicly accessible Affiliate promotions for Program compliance and may provide compliance or brand instructions. QBO Dojo may request correction of inaccurate claims, addition or correction of disclosures, removal of unauthorized creative, correction of expired pricing or promotions, and removal of prohibited advertising. QBO Dojo may suspend tracking or commissions during a fraud investigation and may reverse commissions generated through prohibited conduct. Serious violations may result in immediate suspension or termination. QBO Dojo is not obligated to preapprove or continuously monitor every Affiliate communication.

20. Suspension and Termination

Either party may end Affiliate participation. QBO Dojo may suspend or terminate an Affiliate immediately for:

• fraud;
• deceptive promotion;
• disclosure violations;
• tracking manipulation;
• spam;
• intellectual-property violations;
• redistribution of QBO Dojo products;
• unauthorized advertising;
• conduct reasonably likely to harm QBO Dojo or its customers;
• material breach of these Terms.

Upon termination, Affiliate must stop representing themselves as an active QBO Dojo Affiliate, stop using Affiliate Links and restricted Program materials, and QBO Dojo may deactivate tracking links. Legitimately earned commissions should remain payable according to Program Details, subject to refunds, chargebacks, validation, fraud review, and any rights arising from a material Program violation. QBO Dojo does not automatically confiscate all earned commissions for any minor violation.

21. Taxes and Payment Information

Affiliate is responsible for taxes arising from Affiliate earnings. QBO Dojo may require tax documentation, identity information, payment information, or other information reasonably required to process payouts or satisfy legal obligations before payment. Failure to provide required information may delay payment.

22. Independent Contractor

Affiliate is an independent contractor. Nothing creates employment, agency, franchise, partnership, joint venture, or fiduciary relationship. Affiliate has no authority to bind QBO Dojo.

23. No Guarantee of Earnings

Participation does not guarantee referrals, traffic, sales, commissions, or minimum earnings. Affiliate is responsible for its own promotional activity and costs.

24. Program Changes

QBO Dojo may modify eligible products, campaigns, promotional rules, commission structures, attribution rules, Program features, and these Affiliate Terms. Material changes should be communicated through reasonable means such as email, Affiliate Dashboard notice, or updated Program Terms. Where practical, changes should apply prospectively rather than retroactively altering commissions already validly earned. Continued participation after the effective date of revised Terms constitutes acceptance where legally permitted.

25. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

The Affiliate Program and tracking technology are provided subject to reasonable technical limitations. QBO Dojo does not guarantee uninterrupted tracking or Program availability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, QBO Dojo and its owners, affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and licensors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages arising from Affiliate participation in the Program. Nothing in these Affiliate Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.

26. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Affiliate agrees to indemnify and hold harmless QBO Dojo and its owners, affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and licensors from third-party claims, losses, liabilities, damages, and reasonable legal expenses arising from Affiliate's unlawful marketing, false or misleading claims, disclosure failures, spam, infringement, misuse of QBO Dojo intellectual property, or violation of these Affiliate Terms.

27. Governing Law

These Affiliate Terms are governed by Arizona law without regard to conflict-of-law principles and govern participation with QBO Dojo LLC, an Arizona limited liability company. Subject to nonwaivable consumer rights, exclusive jurisdiction and venue lie in the state and federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

28. Entire Agreement

These Affiliate Terms, the applicable Program Details, and incorporated QBO Dojo policies constitute the entire agreement governing the Affiliate Program. If there is a direct conflict between these Affiliate Terms and campaign-specific written Program Details, the campaign-specific Program Details control for the specific commercial term at issue.

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