Terms and conditions

Sierra star affiliates provides you with the non-exclusive right to direct customers (“Players”) from your site or sites to the Client’s websites, in return for the payment of commissions and referral bonuses as agreed to from time to time. This agreement commences when you confirm your registration with Sierra Star Affiliates and commence using marketing material of any kind provided by Sierra Star Affiliates.

Enrolment

Your application may be rejected if we determine, in our sole discretion, that your site is unsuitable for any reason, including but not limited to, sites that are under construction, aimed at children, promote sexually explicit materials, promote violence, promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age, promote illegal activities, or violate intellectual property rights. This decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Promotional Material

Your registration with Sierra Star Affiliates indicates your acceptance to utilize our provided marketing material on your website, email campaigns or print advertisements. You agree that we will terminate your account immediately if there is any form of spamming or misrepresentation of our clients or client offers. You will not make any claims, representations or warranties in connection with Sierra Star Affiliates or our clients and you shall have no authority to, and shall not, bind us or our client sites. Any of the above will result in immediate closure of your affiliate account with Sierra Star Affiliates and all earnings being forfeited.

Email Campaigns

Any form of spam will result in your account being suspended or closed and all funds due will be withheld. You need to be aware that we or our associated casinos and/or poker rooms are liable to incur expenses in dealing with spam generated mail and these same expenses may be deducted from your account. In this instance the amount determined by the relative client will be fair and deemed final and acceptable based on good faith and such amount will be collectable by law and deemed to have been accepted by yourself as fair and reasonable and as agreed to by registration as an affiliate of Sierra Star Affiliates.
Should these expenses not be covered by funds in your account we reserve the right to investigate other alternative means for obtaining payment including recourse to file a claim against you for unpaid amounts.

Fraudulent Activities

You will not knowingly benefit from known or suspected traffic not generated using accepted Internet marketing practices whether or not it causes Sierra Star Affiliates or its associated casinos and/or poker rooms harm. Should fraudulent activity, knowingly or otherwise, arise from a person directed to Client’s site via your link or from practices performed by you as an affiliate, we retain the right to retract the commissions paid to you at any time. Our decision in this regard will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. We reserve the right to retain all amounts due to you under this Agreement if we have reasonable cause to believe that fraudulent traffic has been sent with your knowledge.

Commission Structure :

CPA program

You shall be entitled to a commission based on the number of new depositing players directed to our casino clients who have purchased above a pre-determined amount (“filter”). The filter amount is at the discretion of Sierra Star Affiliates and we reserve the right to change this amount with prior written notice at anytime. To meet the requirements of a casino CPA program for $150, the player must make a minimum deposit of $50. Our decision with regards to this will be considered final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
WE RETAIN THE RIGHT DECLINE ADMITTANCE TO THE CPA PROGRAM AT ANYTIME AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION FOR ANY REASON. IF WE, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, DETERMINE THAT YOU ARE ENROLLED IN THE CPA PROGRAM TO ABUSE THE PROGRAM BY REFERRING PLAYERS TO OUR CLIENT SITES THAT WE DEEM TO NOT BE LIGITIMATELY ITERESTED IN OUR CLIENT SITES PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM. SHOULD THIS OCCUR, YOUR CPA PAYMENT GENERATED WILL BE FORFEITED AND CONSIDERED NULL AND VOID WITH NO FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED INTO.

Revenue Share

You shall be entitled to a commission equal to the applicable percentage of Player Net Revenue derived from any transaction from Players who used our associated casinos.
“Player Net Revenue” is defined as gross bets less payouts (calculated using the associated casinos software), derived from any real transaction with a Linking Visitor in which revenue is paid or credited to the Client, less: (i) charge backs and discretionary returns; (ii) sign up bonuses; and (iii) promotion bonuses. Negative balances will NOT carry forward from one month to the next except in the case of a chargeback, which will be carried forward until such time as it is absorbed by your earnings. Chargebacks will be applied in the month that we receive notification of the transaction.
“Applicable Percentage” is defined as the percentage, calculated monthly, set forth below for the service during the month from which the Player Net Revenues were derived:

Applicable Percentage is 25% or more of Player Net Revenue

All amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars.
WE RETAIN THE RIGHT DECLINE ADMITTANCE TO THE REVENUE SHARE PROGRAM AT ANYTIME AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION FOR ANY REASON. IF WE, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, DETERMINE THAT YOU ARE ENROLLED IN THE REVENUE SHARE PROGRAM TO ABUSE THE PROGRAM BY REFERRING PLAYERS TO OUR CLIENT SITES THAT WE DEEM TO NOT BE LIGITIMATELY ITERESTED IN OUR CLIENT SITES PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM. SHOULD THIS OCCUR, YOUR PAYMENT GENERATED WILL BE FORFEITED AND CONSIDERED NULL AND VOID WITH NO FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED INTO.

Charge-backs

A charge-back occurs when a credit card holder discovers a charge that they have not authorized. The credit card holder can request that this transaction be reversed by their bank. Charge-backs relate to fraudulent use by a third party of a credit card holder’s details. As outlined above, charge-back amounts are removed from affiliate earnings in the month that they are received.

Payment

Affiliate payments will be made on the 15th of each month unless this date falls on a Saturday or Sunday, in which case the payment will be paid on the Monday.
Sierra Star Affiliates commission is paid at a flat rate cpa explained previously above. The minimum earnings required to receive a commission payment from Sierra Star Affiliates is $50 and your payment can be sent to you via Neteller. For payments less than $500 made via Bank Wire or other, Sierra Star Affiliates will deduct the fee of $30.

Confidential Information

During your term as an affiliate of Sierra Star Affiliates, you may be entrusted with confidential information with regards to the program itself or clients represented. You agree to avoid disclosure of this information to any third party or outside persons unless you have the prior written consent to do so from Sierra Star Affiliates.

Changes to Program Rules

Sierra Star Affiliates may modify any of the Terms and Conditions set forth in this Agreement at any time to protect us from regular new scams that are developed by casino players and/or the affiliates who referred them. All changes to the Terms and Conditions of Sierra Star Affiliates will be posted on the site.
Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope of available referral fees, fee schedules, payment procedures and referral program rules.

IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT AND FORFEIT ANY FUTURE EARNINGS. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR NEW AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.