Affiliate Agreement

 

As an authorized affiliate (Affiliate) of Affiliate Health Partners, LLC (a Wyoming corporation), you agree to abide by the terms and conditions contained in this Affiliate Agreement (Agreement). Please read the entire Agreement carefully before registering and promoting America’s HealthShare as an Affiliate.

America’s HealthShare, a program of Melita Sharing Ministry, Inc, is a member-driven health sharing community founded on the principles of liberty, responsibility, and transparency. As a healthcare sharing ministry, America’s HealthShare facilitates voluntary contributions for the sharing of certain eligible medical expenses by and among its Sharing Members. 

America’s HealthShare is neither an insurance company nor a substitute for an insurance plan, and the financial assistance provided through the healthcare sharing ministry is not insurance and is not provided through an insurance company, but rather permits America’s HealthShare, as a religious healthcare sharing ministry facilitator, and its Members access to healthcare or other products or services. There is no guarantee or promise that a Member’s medical bills will be paid or assigned to others for payment. Whether anyone chooses to pay a Member’s medical bills will be totally voluntary. America’s HealthShare should never be considered a substitute for an insurance policy. Whether a Member receives any payments for medical expenses and whether or not the healthcare sharing program continues to operate, the Member is always liable for any unpaid bills.

Your participation in the Affiliate Health Partners, LLC Affiliate Program (Program) is solely to legally advertise our health sharing programs to receive a referral fee on memberships enrolled in by individuals referred to Affiliate Health Partners, LLC by your own website or personal referrals.

By signing up for the Program, you indicate your acceptance of this Agreement and its terms and conditions.

Approval or Rejection of the Application

We reserve the right to approve or reject ANY Affiliate Program Application at our sole and absolute discretion. You will have no legal recourse against us for the rejection of your Affiliate Program Application.

We review and moderate all Affiliate registrations, and we appreciate your accurate and honest information.

If you’re approved to be an Affiliate, you will be given a unique Advisor ID that you can use to promote America’s HealthShare. Additional information is available on your private Advisor Portal, including for referrals information, creatives, and more.

Referral Fees and Payouts

You’ll earn a 4% referral fee when a Member enrolls in a new America’s HealthShare Membership using your Advisor ID.

We pay out Affiliate referral fees in USD directly to your bank account or debit card in the second week of every month. We only pay referral fees that are older than 60 days (to allow members to potentially cancel their memberships within the first 60 days of their memberships). There’s no maximum payout balance.

Payments for referral fees will only be sent for referred Member’s Monthly Contribution Amounts (MCA) that have been successfully completed. MCAs that result in chargebacks or refunds will not be paid out.

To receive a payout for your referrals, you must register your bank account or debit card within the Advisor Portal.

We do not allow referrals to be generated on your own purchases or your immediate family members (wife, children, etc.).

Referral Lifetime

When a Potential Member starts a Membership Enrollment Application, they must enter your Advisor ID. Referrals are paid out each month, as long as the membership is active and the MCA was successfully contributed by the Member.

A referral won’t be paid out if the Member does not use your Advisor ID when they create their Membership Enrollment Application.

Affiliate Links

You may use graphic and text links both on your website and social media accounts and within your email messages. You may also advertise the America’s HealthShare site in online and offline classified ads, magazines, and newspapers.

You may use the graphics and text provided by us, or you may create your own as long as they follow the branding guidelines provided in the Affiliate Portal and are deemed appropriate according to the terms and conditions and not in violation as outlined in the Termination section.

Coupon and Deal Sites

America’s HealthShare occasionally offers coupons to select Affiliates and to our newsletter subscribers. If you’re not pre-approved / assigned a branded coupon, then you’re not allowed to promote the coupon. Below are the terms that apply for any Affiliate who is considering the promotion of our products and services in relation to a deal or coupon:

  • Affiliates may not use misleading text on Affiliate links, buttons, or images to imply anything besides currently authorized deals to the specific Affiliate.
  • Affiliates may not bid on America’s HealthShare coupons, America’s HealthShare discounts, or other phrases implying coupons are available.
  • Affiliates may not generate pop-ups, pop-unders, iframes, frames, or any other seen or unseen actions that set Affiliate cookies unless the user has expressed a clear and explicit interest in activating a specific savings by clicking on a clearly marked link, button, or image for that particular coupon or deal.
  • The user must be able to see coupon/deal/savings information and details before an Affiliate cookie is set (i.e., “click here to see coupons and open a window to merchant site” is NOT allowed).
  • Affiliate sites may not have “Click for (or to see) deal/coupon” or any variation, when there are no coupons or deals available, and the click opens the merchant site or sets a cookie. Affiliates with such text on the merchant landing page will be removed from the Program immediately.

Allowed Promotional Methods

How you promote America’s HealthShare is reflected in the referral fees you earn. We encourage the use of promotional methods that add value to America’s HealthShare and bring us legitimate, loyal Members. We also encourage our team of Advisors to blog about and mention America’s HealthShare.

Here are a few examples of promotional methods to earn additional referral fees:

  • Tell your clients, customers, or friends about America’s HealthShare and give them your Affiliate referral link and Advisor ID.
  • Write a review or a blog post about America’s HealthShare and link to our site with your referral link and Advisor ID.
  • Reach out to a broad audience with your social network accounts. Tweet about us on X with your Affiliate referral link, post about us on Meta with your Affiliate referral link, or communicate to your LinkedIn followers about America’s HealthShare with your Affiliate link.
  • Provide value to others by answering related questions on other sites with helpful responses and use your referral link in your replies.

Prohibited Promotional Methods

The prohibited promotional methods listed below are here to protect you, us, and our Members from any illegal or fraudulent activity, which Affiliate Health Partners, LLC and America’s HealthShare take seriously. 

Examples of Prohibited Promotional Methods 

The below list provides guidance on, but is not necessarily limited to, permissible and impermissible promotional activities: 

  • America’s HealthShare may not be promoted on coupon sites.
    Potential Members who are searching for a coupon are already in the market for America’s HealthShare, so this method adds no value to Affiliate Health Partners, LLC and America’s HealthShare.
  • Paid advertising using your Affiliate link is prohibited.
    Buying ads through services like Google AdWords, social ads, or retargeting ads using our brand keywords and your Affiliate link will result in Affiliate account deactivation.
  • Promoting incorrect or misleading information.
    Any promotional activity that shares incorrect or misleading information will result in Affiliate account deactivation. This includes false information intended to click-bait potential Members. If you are unsure of the correct information or details for promoting America’s HealthShare, please contact us.
  • Any type of spam is prohibited.
    Links, ads, emails, comments, and any other type of spam are prohibited. Please respect the posting rules of any third-party websites you use to promote America’s HealthShare. This is not an exhaustive list of spam methods, and we reserve full discretion to determine whether an Affiliate’s activity is spam.
  • Any illegal activity or activity deemed offensive by us is prohibited.
    Any activity involving illegal or offensive acts may result in referrals being rejected and/or your Affiliate account being deactivated.
  • Pretending to be professionally associated with Affiliate Health Partners, LLC and America’s HealthShare is prohibited.
    Affiliates are neither employees of Affiliate Health Partners, LLC nor America’s HealthShare and have no employee rights.
  • Pretending to actually be Affiliate Health Partners, LLC and America’s HealthShare is prohibited.
    Cloning our site, copying our site, using our copyrighted site assets, and pretending that a site created by you is an official Affiliate Health Partners, LLC or America’s HealthShare site is unethical and prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, using services that automatically clone websites or place them into iframes.
  • Again, false promotion to potential Members that you are operated by Affiliate Health Partners, LLC and America’s HealthShare is prohibited.

If you’re unsure or concerned that any activity you plan to undertake may be considered prohibited, please ask us.

Consequences of Using Prohibited Promotional Methods

If your promotional methods step outside of these terms, your referrals may be rejected, and we may disable your Affiliate account. We reserve the right to do this in our sole discretion. We may or may not notify you in the instance that your referral is rejected and/or your account is disabled. We encourage you to use allowed promotional methods. We welcome inquiries about acceptable promotional methods to help you succeed as an Affiliate.

Inappropriate Websites

The following types of sites are not permitted to become an Affiliate: adult sites, sites that display adult material or banners, sites that promote violence, sites that promote or engage in illegal activity, including (but not limited to), hacking, cracking, nulled, and warez sites. Affiliate applications for inappropriate websites will be rejected, and we reserve the right to choose whether to provide a reason for rejection.

Dormant Affiliate Accounts

We encourage all of our Affiliates to actively promote America’s HealthShare to keep earning referrals. An Affiliate account is considered dormant if no visits have been generated after a six-month period. A dormant Affiliate account will be temporarily deactivated if no visits have been generated after six months.

Termination

Your Affiliate application and status in the Program may be suspended or terminated for any of the following reasons:

  • Inappropriate advertisements (false claims, misleading hyperlinks, etc.).
  • Spamming (mass email, mass newsgroup posting, etc.).
  • Advertising on sites containing or promoting illegal activities.
  • Failure to disclose the Affiliate relationship for any promotion that qualifies as an endorsement under existing Federal Trade Commission guidelines and regulations, or any applicable state laws.
  • Violation of intellectual property rights. Affiliate Health Partners, LLC reserves the right to require license agreements from those who employ trademarks in order to protect our intellectual property rights.
  • Offering rebates, coupons, or other form of promised kick-backs from your Affiliate referral fees as an incentive. Adding bonuses or bundling other products with America’s HealthShare, however, is acceptable.
  • Self-referrals, fraudulent transactions, and suspected Affiliate fraud.

The foregoing list is non-exhaustive, and Affiliate Health Partners, LLC reserves the right to terminate any Affiliate account at any time, for any violations of this Agreement or for no reason.

Affiliate News and Updates

By becoming an Affiliate, you agree to receive emails from Affiliate Health Partners, LLC and America’s HealthShare. These emails will be sent to Affiliates only, on an ad-hoc basis, and may include important information regarding the Affiliate Health Partners, LLC Affiliate Program. These emails will also provide you with relevant news and updates to help you effectively promote America’s HealthShare. As an Affiliate, you may be privy to embargoed or time-sensitive information in these emails. Any embargoed information may only be promoted after the embargo is lifted.

Liability

Affiliate Health Partners, LLC or America’s HealthShare will not be liable for indirect or accidental damages (loss of revenue, referral fees, etc.) due to Affiliate tracking failures, loss of database files, or any results of intents of harm to the Program and/or to our website(s).

We do not make any expressed or implied warranties with respect to the Program and/or the memberships, services, or products sold by Affiliate Health Partners, LLC and America’s HealthShare. We make no claim that the operation of the Program and/or our website(s) will be error-free, and we will not be liable for any interruptions or errors.

Term of the Agreement

The term of this Agreement begins upon your acceptance in the Program and will end when your Affiliate account is terminated.

The terms and conditions of this Agreement may be modified by us at any time. If any modification to the terms and conditions of this Agreement are unacceptable to you, your only choice is to terminate your Affiliate account. Your continuing participation in the Program will constitute your acceptance of any change.

Indemnification

Affiliate shall indemnify and hold harmless Affiliate Health Partners, LLC, America’s HealthShare, and its affiliate and subsidiary companies, officers, directors, employees, licensees, successors and assigns, including those licensed or authorized by Affiliate Health Partners, LLC to transmit and distribute materials, from any and all liabilities, damages, fines, judgments, claims, costs, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees, attorneys’ fees, and costs) arising out of or related to any and all claims sustained in connection with this Agreement due to the negligence, misrepresentation, failure to disclose, or intentional misconduct of Affiliate.

Electronic Signatures Effective

The Agreement is an electronic contract that sets out the legally binding terms of your participation in the Affiliate Health Partners, LLC Affiliate Program. You indicate your acceptance of this Agreement, and all of the terms and conditions contained or referenced in this Agreement, by completing the Affiliate Health Partners, LLC application process. This action creates an electronic signature that has the same legal force and effect as a handwritten signature.

Assignment

Affiliate may not assign the Agreement without the prior written approval of Affiliate Health Partners, LLC. Any assignment of this Agreement by Affiliate Health Partners, LLC will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon each party, its respective successors, and permitted assignees. 

Entire Agreement 

The Agreement, together with any exhibits, constitutes the entire agreement between Affiliate and Affiliate Health Partners, LLC and supersedes all other prior agreements and understandings regarding the subject-matter of this Agreement.

However, if Affiliate is an employee or contractor for a another Affiliate (Master Affiliate) the terms of the Master Affiliate agreement supersedes any conflicting terms in this Agreement. Affiliate by acknowledging this Agreement is still bound by the terms of this Agreement along with any superseding terms in the Master Affiliate agreement.

Severability 

In any event any provision of the Agreement shall, for any reason, be held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions, and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect. If any provision is held to be excessively broad, it shall be reformed and construed by limiting and reducing it so as to be enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law. But if modifying or disregarding the unenforceable provision would result in failure of an essential purpose, and both Affiliate and Affiliate Health Partners, LLC cannot come to an agreement in good faith, the entire Agreement is to be held unenforceable. 

Third-Party Rights

The Agreement is entered into, by, and between Affiliate and Affiliate Health Partners, LLC for their benefit. There is no intent by either party to create or establish a third-party beneficiary status or rights to any party other than the persons who may be indemnified under this Agreement. 

Waiver 

Neither Affiliate nor Affiliate Health Partners, LLC shall be deemed to have waived any rights under this Agreement unless the waiver is made in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative. A party’s failure to exercise any right or remedy under the Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of a right or remedy.

Governing Law and Venue 

This Agreement shall be construed and interpreted under the laws of the State of Wyoming, without giving effect to principles of conflict of laws, except where pre-empted by federal law. Venue shall exclusively and only be in the Sheridan County or the State of Wyoming. 

Change in Law

In the event of any change in federal, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations, including any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, which significantly alters the rights, duties, obligations, or cost of performance of any party under this Agreement, Affiliate and Affiliate Health Partners, LLC will work in good faith toward mutually acceptable modifications of the Agreement within sixty (60) days of receiving notice from the other party of the material alteration. If the parties cannot reach a mutually agreeable modification within sixty (60) days, then the Agreement shall be terminable by any party with thirty (30) days’ notice.