ADGUARD SOFTWARE LIMITED is a company registered in Limassol, Cyprus, registered office is at Anexartisias and Athinon 79, Nora Court Flat/Office 203–205, 3040 Limassol, Cyprus. ADGUARD SOFTWARE LIMITED acts as the data controller when processing your data.

AdGuard is the rights holder of AdGuard Ad Blocker: adguard.com, AdGuard VPN: adguard-vpn.com, and AdGuard DNS: adguard-dns.io (hereafter, collectively, the “Software”). We also operate the websites of the Software mentioned above (hereafter, the “Software Websites”), as well as the AdGuard Affiliate Account service (hereafter, the “Affiliate Account”) available at adguardpartner.com (hereafter, the “Affiliate Website”).

We are committed to protecting our users by offering them the Software, and we invite you to partner with us and earn commissions for selling licenses and subscriptions to the Software via the Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website (hereafter, the “Affiliate Program”).

IMPORTANT: THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS (HEREAFTER, THE “TERMS”) REGULATE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM AND YOUR USE OF THE AFFILIATE ACCOUNT AND THE AFFILIATE WEBSITE AND CONSTITUTE A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR, IF THE ACCOUNT IS USED BY OR FOR AN ENTITY, AN ENTITY, HEREAFTER ALSO, “YOU”, “YOUR”, THE “PARTNER”) AND ADGUARD (OWNER OF ALL RIGHTS, WHETHER EXCLUSIVE OR OTHERWISE TO THE SOFTWARE, THE AFFILIATE ACCOUNT, THE AFFILIATE WEBSITE, AND THE SOFTWARE WEBSITES, HEREAFTER ALSO, THE “RIGHTHOLDER”). READ IT CAREFULLY BEFORE PARTICIPATING IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM AND USING THE AFFILIATE ACCOUNT OR THE AFFILIATE WEBSITE.

BY REGISTERING THE AFFILIATE ACCOUNT, OR BY ACCESSING OR USING THE AFFILIATE ACCOUNT OR THE AFFILIATE WEBSITE, OR BY CLICKING A BUTTON INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE IN THE WINDOW CONTAINING THESE TERMS, OR BY TYPING THE APPROPRIATE SYMBOL(S), YOU ARE CONFIRMING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND AGREEING TO BECOME BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, DO NOT REGISTER TO THE AFFILIATE ACCOUNT AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE AFFILIATE ACCOUNT AND THE AFFILIATE WEBSITE.

AdGuard may modify these Terms from time to time without prior notification. In some cases of important changes, the amendment of these Terms will be communicated to you by sending an email and/or by publishing the updated Terms on the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Terms to stay informed of any changes. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Terms by your continued use of the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website after the date such revised Terms are broadcasted.

AdGuard hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to connect, access and use the Affiliate Account within the scope of its functionality for the purpose of your participation in the Affiliate Program and to access and use the Affiliate Website, provided that you comply with all requirements, restrictions and terms specified in these Terms.

To use the Affiliate Account, you are required to register, using your username, email address and a password. A valid email address must be provided at registration. You agree to keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your username and password. AdGuard reserves the right to remove, reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable. You can access and use some pages on the Affiliate Website without registering your Affiliate Account.

AdGuard reserves the right to approve your registration in the Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Program, to suspend access to your Affiliate Account and your participation in the Affiliate Program, as well as to block your Affiliate Account and decline your participation in the Affiliate Program at any time for any reason or no reason without any further explanation from AdGuard.

Once you have registered your Affiliate Account and been approved by AdGuard, you have the right to participate in the Affiliate Program using any promo tools available to you on the Affiliate Website, such as personalized links to Software Websites, the Software installation links, and banner links, as well as promo texts, promo codes, media kits under conditions set forth in these Terms, and receive support from our Support Service.

The Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website are not intended to be used by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such use is contrary to applicable legislation, or which would subject AdGuard to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Those persons or entities who use the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

We provide different commission rates depending on the Software. The commission terms also depend on the Software. Please refer to the information below about the Software you wish to promote. The following conditions apply to all types of commission earning for all Software:

You are entitled to receive fifty percent (50%) of the purchase or renewal of subscriptions to the AdGuard Ad Blocker made by users referred by you, subject to the conditions described below.

You are entitled to receive forty percent (40%) of the purchase or renewal of subscriptions to the AdGuard VPN made by users referred by you, subject to the following conditions:

You are entitled to receive forty percent (40%) of the purchase or renewal of subscriptions to the AdGuard DNS made by users referred by you, subject to the following conditions:

When you invite others to participate in the Affiliate Program through your personalized link, they become your referrals (hereafter, the Affiliate Referral). The following conditions apply to earning commission on sales from your Affiliate Referrals:

You understand and agree that the following restrictions will apply to your participation in the Affiliate Program.

You have the right to view reports on the Affiliate Website regarding your commission revenue, number of user visits to the Software Websites via your personalized link, number of installations of the Software downloaded via your personalized installation link, number of registrations through the Software Websites and the Software with your personalized link, and to filter your commission statistics by date and time period, country, subaccount, the Affiliate Referral, the Software, source.

You acknowledge and agree that any commission will be voided, reversed, and deducted from your Affiliate Account balance if the underlying purchase is refunded, canceled, returned, subject to a chargeback, or determined by AdGuard, in its sole discretion, to be fraudulent or in violation of these Terms. This ensures that commissions are paid only on genuine, final, and compliant sales.

AdGuard may place a reasonable compliance hold on any pending or future commission payments if we suspect a breach of these Terms, fraud, traffic quality issues, or tracking manipulation. During the review, commissions may accrue but will not be paid out. Once the review is concluded, AdGuard may release, reduce, or reverse the affected commissions in whole or in part.

If your account balance is insufficient to cover any reversals, chargebacks, clawbacks, or other amounts owed to AdGuard, you acknowledge that your Affiliate Account may reflect a negative balance. AdGuard may set off such amounts against any current or future commissions or other sums payable to you until fully recovered.

No commission will be due on ineligible transactions, including but not limited to self-referrals, non-bona-fide orders, fraudulent transactions, use of unauthorized coupons, or orders placed in violation of these Terms.

You have the right to receive your earned commission via PayPal or via the Mellow payment service.

To set the chosen payout method for your Affiliate Account, you will need to provide the email address linked to your account in the third-party payment service to which you want to receive payouts.

If you choose the Mellow service, you will also be asked to read and accept an agreement between you and the Mellow service and the Mellow’s privacy policy. Upon your acceptance of these documents, the Mellow service will create your account using the email address you provide. To use Mellow as your payment method, you will need to complete your account registration on the Mellow website. If you do not agree to the Mellow’s agreement and/or privacy policy and do not wish to accept these documents, you must not use the Mellow service to get payouts from the balance of your Affiliate Account. Instead, you may choose PayPal as your payout method.

To receive earned commissions, you must request a payout on the Affiliate Website. The amount of the payment made, and the fees required to process the payment will be deducted from the balance of your Affiliate Account. AdGuard will process your payouts on the following terms:

Your chosen payout method may be subject to territorial and other restrictions. You must check such restrictions yourself with third-party payment services associated with your payout method. AdGuard is not responsible for the availability, reliability, operability, restrictions of your chosen payout method and connected third-party payment services.

AdGuard may delay or withhold payouts, in whole or in part, for up to ninety (90) days or for the duration reasonably necessary to complete a compliance or fraud review. We may request your cooperation and documentation; failure to cooperate may result in suspension or termination.

Please review this section carefully prior to using your Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website.

Any violation of this section will constitute a material breach of these Terms and your right to participate in the Affiliate Program will terminate immediately.

AdGuard is the owner of all right, title and interest in and to or the licensee of all intellectual property rights to the content of the Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website, including, without limitation, all source or object code, scripts, databases, functionality, software, computer programs, techniques, improvements, designs, audio, video, text, photographs, graphics, concepts, formulas, processes, documentation, trade secrets, and any other copyrighted works or works of authorship, provided by AdGuard when you use the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website.

AdGuard is the owner of all intellectual property rights to all trademarks, service marks, and logos provided in the content of the Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website, excluding those owned by third parties.

Modifying, reverse engineering, copying, reproducing, aggregating, republishing, uploading, encoding, selling, licensing, distributing to unauthorized parties, or otherwise exploiting the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website for any purpose whatsoever not expressly authorized by AdGuard by these Terms or with a written consent is strictly prohibited.

The promo materials that AdGuard provides to you via the Affiliate Website to promote the Software contain copyrighted materials owned by AdGuard, such as promo texts, banners, images, media kits (hereinafter, the “Promo Tools”).

AdGuard hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, royalty-free license to copy, reproduce, publish, upload, post, publicly display, broadcast, transmit, encode, translate, and store the Promo Tools subject to the following conditions:

Use of the Promo Tools for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.

All texts and associated graphics of the Promo Tools are provided “as is” and without any warranties.

In connection with your participation in the Affiliate Program, you further agree that:

(a) While you may research and draw inspiration from various sources, you must not:

(b) Except for the Promo Tools used in accordance with Section 5(2), you may not reproduce, adapt, translate, or create derivative works from any AdGuard-owned content without prior written consent. (c) Any downloadable software, browser extension, toolbar, or similar technology used to promote AdGuard must be pre-approved in writing by AdGuard.

Please read this section carefully before using your Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website.

Any use of the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website in violation of the stated below violates these Terms and may result in, among other things, temporary or permanent blocking of the balance of your Affiliate Account, suspension or termination of your rights to use your Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website, suspension or termination of your participation in the Affiliate Program.

By registering your Affiliate Account and by using the Affiliate Website, you represent and warrant that:

Please read this section carefully before using your Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website.

Any violation of these rules constitutes a material breach of these Terms and may result in, among other things, the temporary or permanent blocking of the balance of your Affiliate Account, forfeiture of commissions, and immediate termination of your participation in the Affiliate Program.

The following types of activities do not require prior approval by AdGuard:

The following types of activities can be performed only after receiving prior written approval from AdGuard:

You are strictly prohibited from engaging in any form of paid search marketing that bids on AdGuard's trademarks or diverts traffic from AdGuard’s official marketing channels, except with prior, explicit written permission from AdGuard. This policy applies to all platforms that allow keyword-triggered advertising, including search engines, their partner networks, content networks, and social platforms.

The following activities are strictly prohibited and constitute grounds for immediate termination and commission forfeiture. This list is non-exhaustive, and AdGuard reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to determine whether any conduct is fraudulent, unethical, or otherwise non-compliant with these Terms.

Promo codes and discount coupons issued to affiliate partners are valid for a period of six (6) months from the date of issuance, unless otherwise specified. After this period, the promo codes will automatically expire and can no longer be used for any discounts or promotional offers. Upon expiration, you must request new promo codes to be issued in order to continue offering discounts to your customers.

You agree to conduct yourself in a professional and ethical manner as a participant in the AdGuard Affiliate Program. You shall not engage in any activity that harms the reputation of AdGuard, its products, or other affiliates.

You are strictly prohibited from interfering with the promotional activities of other AdGuard affiliates or attempting to divert commissions from them. This includes, but is not limited to:

You agree that, during the term of this Agreement and thereafter, you will not make, publish, or otherwise communicate any false, misleading, or malicious public statements that disparage or harm the image or reputation of AdGuard, its parent or affiliated companies, its products, its employees, or the AdGuard Affiliate Program. This does not prohibit you from providing honest, good-faith feedback to AdGuard privately or from making truthful statements as required by law.

Your participation in the Affiliate Program does not create any employment, agency, partnership, or joint venture relationship between you and AdGuard. You are an independent contractor. You have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on AdGuard’s behalf. You shall not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that would reasonably contradict anything in this section.

You are solely responsible for the payment of all taxes applicable to the commissions you earn through the Affiliate Program. AdGuard will not withhold any taxes from your payments. You are also responsible for complying with all applicable local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations in your jurisdiction.

AdGuard processes very limited data and has a strong Privacy Policy available at https://adguard.com/website-privacy.html that explains in detail how AdGuard handles your personal data in relation to your use of the Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website.

By accessing and using the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and accepted terms and conditions of data processing set out in our Privacy Policy, available at the link mentioned above, which explains what type of information we collect, how it is shared and used.

AdGuard will receive and process certain data to perform our obligations under these Terms and to provide you with the functionality of the Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website. The data we process may be treated as personal data in accordance with the laws of certain territories and countries. You can read more about data processing in our Privacy Policy.

To process payments via the payout method you have chosen, AdGuard will share some of your personal data with a third-party payment service that you have chosen to receive your payouts.

AdGuard does not request or have access to your accounts in third-party payment services.

To properly calculate your commission when a subscription to the Software is purchased or renewed by a user referred by you or by your Affiliate Referral, AdGuard will process the email address used to create the user’s AdGuard account and username and email address of your Affiliate Referral. Data processing of users referred by you or by your Affiliate Referrals during their use of the Software, the Software Websites, the AdGuard Account and its parts related to the Software is governed by the respective applicable AdGuard privacy policies.

You are obliged to process personal data of users referred by you in accordance with applicable data protection laws at all times, including by using suitable legal bases and meeting all applicable requirements, including informing data subjects, and exercising their legal rights in relation to their personal data.

You hereby acknowledge and agree that your processing of the personal data of users referred by you is separate and independent from AdGuard’s processing of such users’ personal data. You are not bound to AdGuard in any controller, joint controller, or processor relationship with respect to the processing of the personal data of such users. You are solely responsible for complying with applicable data protection laws with respect to the processing of the personal data of such users.

You acknowledge that, with respect to any personal data you collect directly from users for your own purposes (e.g., through your website’s newsletter sign-up or analytics), you act as an independent data controller. You are solely responsible for your own compliance with all applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

You represent and warrant that you will maintain a publicly accessible and legally compliant privacy policy on all your promotional websites. You are responsible for implementing all necessary notices, obtaining required consents, and providing mechanisms for data subjects to exercise their rights as required by applicable data protection laws.

The Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website may contain links to other websites or services owned and/or operated by third parties.

AdGuard is not responsible for the content, terms of use, or data processing on third-party websites and services, even if such websites and services contain information related to AdGuard or the Software.

You must independently review the terms of use and privacy policies of third-party websites and services, including third-party payment services used by the payout method you have chosen.

Visiting third-party websites and using third-party services is entirely at your own discretion. You are solely responsible for your use of third-party websites and services and for complying with their terms of use.

By accessing and using the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website, you agree to the following terms:

AdGuard reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, change, update, or discontinue provision of the Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website at any time without notice. We cannot guarantee that the Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website will be available at all times due to hardware or software failures of Internet service providers or our maintenance operations.

AdGuard will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, change in the terms of use, suspension, or discontinuance of the Affiliate Account, or the Affiliate Website, or the Affiliate Program. AdGuard will not be liable for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website or to participate in the Affiliate Program during any downtime or discontinuance of the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website. Nothing in these Terms shall be construed as an obligation on our part to maintain and/or support the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.

AdGuard reserves the right, but not the obligation, to:

AdGuard reserves the right to audit your promotional activities for compliance with these Terms. You agree to provide reasonable cooperation in any such review, which may include providing substantiation for traffic sources, campaign settings, ad screenshots, and relevant logs. Failure to cooperate with a compliance audit may result in suspension, withholding of payments, or termination.

AdGuard may maintain a confidential channel for reporting suspected violations of these Terms. Retaliation against any affiliate who makes a good-faith report is strictly prohibited. Abuse of reporting mechanisms (e.g., submitting bad-faith or coordinated false reports as a form of harassment) constitutes a material breach of these Terms.

By accessing and using the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website and by participating in the Affiliate Program, you expressly agree to the following terms:

These Terms shall remain in full force and effect until it is terminated by any reason described in this section.

You have the right to terminate these Terms at any time by deleting your Affiliate Account on the Affiliate Website. We may ask you to confirm the deletion of your Affiliate Account by entering your password.

If you confirm the deletion of your Affiliate Account:

AdGuard reserves the right to terminate these Terms and the provision of the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website to you for good cause. In such an event, we reserve the right, but not the obligation, to notify you thirty (30) business days prior to the date of the proposed termination by sending a message to your email address or posting a notice on the Affiliate Website. You will have the opportunity to request a payout before the date of the proposed termination.

AdGuard reserves the right to terminate your participation in the Affiliate Program immediately and without prior notice if you are in Material Breach of these Terms. A “Material Breach” includes, but is not limited to, any violation of the rules outlined in Section 6 (Restrictions), Section 7 (Rules of participation in the Affiliate Program), and Section 8 (Affiliate Code of Conduct). For violations deemed by AdGuard, in its sole discretion, to be fraudulent, malicious, or causing significant harm (such as Brand Hijacking, Partner Sabotage, or use of malware), no cure period will be provided.

In the event of termination for a Material Breach, the following shall apply:

Upon termination for any reason, you must immediately cease using and remove all AdGuard affiliate links, logos, and Promotional Content from your Affiliate Sites.

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Cyprus without reference to conflicts of law rules and principles. These Terms shall not be governed by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the application of which is expressly excluded. Any dispute arising out of the interpretation or application of the provisions of these Terms or any breach thereof shall, unless it is settled by direct negotiation, be adjudicated by arbitration in the Republic of Cyprus. Any award rendered by the arbitrator shall be final and binding on the parties and any judgment on such arbitration award may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction. Nothing in this section shall prevent AdGuard or you from seeking or obtaining equitable relief from a court of competent jurisdiction, whether before, during or after arbitration proceedings.

These Terms contain the complete agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements or understandings, whether oral or written. AdGuard’s failure to exercise or delay in exercising any of its rights under these Terms or upon any breach of these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of those rights or of the breach.

No AdGuard affiliate, or agent or employee of an AdGuard affiliate, is authorized to make any amendment to these Terms. Any conflict or ambiguity between these Terms and any separate terms or conditions provided by an AdGuard affiliate regarding the Affiliate Account or the Affiliate Website or the Affiliate Program shall be resolved in favor of these Terms.

If any provision of these Terms shall be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.

Access and use of the Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website and participation in the Affiliate Program are unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms.

You may not assign, by operation of law or otherwise, any rights or delegate any duties under these Terms to any third party without the prior written consent of AdGuard. Any purported assignment lacking such consent will be void at its inception. AdGuard may assign all or part of its rights and/or delegate all or part of its duties under these Terms to any party, at any time, and in its sole discretion, upon notice of assignment by publishing such notice on the Affiliate Website.

No action, regardless of form, arising out of the transactions under these Terms, may be brought by either party hereto more than one (1) year after the cause of action has accrued, except that an action for infringement of intellectual property rights may be brought within the maximum applicable statutory period.

Should you have any questions concerning these Terms, or if you desire to contact AdGuard for any reason, please contact our Support Service:

Email: support@adguard.com Website: adguardpartner.com

© ADGUARD SOFTWARE LIMITED. All Rights Reserved. The Affiliate Account and the Affiliate Website and any accompanying documentation are copyrighted and protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties.