Sharing, and the marketing rules

Share your code or a course's link anywhere you are allowed to post, as long as you say you earn a commission. The Overview has ready-made posts that already say it. Faked referrals close your affiliate account at once.

The share panel

Share Your Code, on the Overview, holds your code with a copy button and three ready messages: Twitter, LinkedIn and Email. Each names your code, says you earn a commission, and links to the marketplace. None promises results or names a rate.

LinkedIn takes only a link, so LinkedIn copies the post for you to paste. For a link to one course, use the Courses page.

The rules

• Say you earn a commission next to every link or code, every time. "I earn a commission if you join through this link" will do. In a video, say it and write it.
• Quote what a course page says and no more. Promise no results, jobs, grades or income, and never call a course, creator or certificate accredited, official or endorsed.
• Call yourself an ACADA affiliate, not a partner or representative. No handle, page, sender name or code that reads as ours.
• Promote on your own channels, and in other people's spaces only where their rules allow it. Nothing aimed at children under 13, and nothing beside prohibited content.
• Email only people who asked to hear from you, with an unsubscribe, from your own name. No unsolicited direct messages.
• No ads that bid on or target ACADA, our marks, their misspellings, a course title or a creator's name.
• Offer nothing for joining: no cash, credit or gifts. Something you made, such as a guide, is fine. A discount the creator funds may be mentioned, but no link or code goes on coupon or deal sites.
• Every referral is a real person who chose to come: not you, your other accounts or your household. No hidden links, forced clicks or cookie tricks.

Rules and limits

A missed disclosure is a written warning and a request to fix it; breaking the rules again leads to restrictions, then closure. Faked referrals are fraud: your affiliate account closes at once, and commissions from them are withheld whether or not they had cleared. Each rule and its consequence are in the Marketing Guidelines.

Using the ACADA name or logo in what you make is covered by The ACADA name and logo.