Alexander Anderson Center for Real Estate Education Affiliate Program Terms & Conditions

1. Parties

These Terms & Conditions apply to participants in the Alexander Anderson Center for Real Estate Education Affiliate Program.

“Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” means Alexander Anderson Center for Real Estate Education.

“Affiliate,” “you,” and “your” means the individual or organization applying to participate in the Program.

By enrolling in the Program, you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions.

2. Definitions

“Affiliate Dashboard” means the online dashboard or tracking system used to monitor affiliate referrals, purchases, and commissions.

“Attribution Window” means the 60-day period beginning when a prospective student clicks an Affiliate’s tracking link, during which a qualifying purchase by that prospective student will be credited to the Affiliate.

“Commission” means the amount payable to an Affiliate for a qualifying referral.

“Commissionable Course” means a course, bundle, or program designated by the Company as eligible for affiliate commission.

“Course Extension” means any paid extension of access time for a course.

“Materials” means textbooks, PDFs, printed books, study materials, shipping fees, or other non-course items.

“LearnWorlds Learning Management System” means the learning platform used by the Company for student course access, also referred to as the “LMS.”

“Qualified Referral” means a referred student who, within the Attribution Window, purchases a Commissionable Course through proper affiliate tracking and pays in full.

“Net Course Price Paid” means the actual amount paid by the student for the Commissionable Course after all discounts, sales, and promotions, and excluding taxes, refunds, chargebacks, Course Extensions, Materials, shipping, processing fees, or other non-commissionable items.

3. Enrollment

We may approve or reject any affiliate application at our sole discretion.

You must provide accurate contact, tax, and payment information and keep that information current.

You may not create multiple affiliate accounts without written approval.

Before any commission can be paid, you must submit a completed IRS Form W-9 (or, if applicable, a W-8 series form) to the Company.

4. Relationship of the Parties

You are an independent contractor. Nothing in this agreement creates an employment relationship, partnership, joint venture, agency relationship, or franchise.

You may not make promises, guarantees, warranties, or representations on behalf of the Company.

5. Scope of the Affiliate Program

The Affiliate Program compensates Affiliates solely for referring students to enroll in educational courses, programs, or related products offered by the Company.

Commissions are not paid for, and no Affiliate is authorized to engage in, any activity that requires a real estate brokerage license, including but not limited to referring buyers, sellers, landlords, or tenants in connection with the purchase, sale, lease, rental, exchange, or financing of real property.

Affiliates may not present the Affiliate Program, the affiliate commission, or any related payment as a real estate referral fee, brokerage referral, finder’s fee, or any other fee tied to a real estate transaction. Affiliates must hold any required real estate license to engage in brokerage activity, and the Company’s payment of an affiliate commission does not authorize any such activity.

6. Approved Promotion

Affiliates may promote approved Company courses using accurate, lawful, and professional marketing methods.

Affiliates may not:

• Misrepresent course approvals, pricing, licensing outcomes, refund policies, or exam guarantees.

• Impersonate the Company.

• Use the Company’s name, logo, branding, or course materials in a misleading way.

• Create websites, domains, ads, social media accounts, or materials that appear to be official Company channels.

• Use spam, unsolicited bulk email, fake reviews, deceptive ads, or blackhat SEO.

• Bid on Company trademarks, name variations, misspellings, or branded keywords without written approval.

• Offer unauthorized coupons, discounts, rebates, cash back, bonuses, or incentives.

• Promote the Company on offensive, illegal, hateful, pornographic, discriminatory, or misleading websites.

• Use AI-generated impersonation, fake testimonials, misleading voice or video content, or any content that suggests the Affiliate is the Company.

• Imply or state that enrollment in any Company course guarantees licensing, exam passage, job placement, income, or approval by any state authority or licensing body.

7. FTC Disclosure Requirements

Affiliates must comply with the Federal Trade Commission’s Endorsement Guides (16 C.F.R. Part 255) and all related guidance.

In every promotion, post, video, email, podcast, livestream, story, comment, review, or other content that promotes the Company, the Affiliate must clearly and conspicuously disclose the material connection between the Affiliate and the Company.

Disclosures must:

• Be placed where viewers will easily see them, before any affiliate link or call to action.

• Use plain language a typical reader will understand, such as “affiliate link,” “I earn a commission if you enroll,” or “Paid partnership.”

• Appear in the content itself, not only in a profile bio, hashtag cluster, or separate page.

• Be repeated across formats and platforms, including video captions, audio mentions, and written posts, as required for that format.

Affiliates are solely responsible for their compliance with FTC rules and similar laws in their jurisdiction. Failure to disclose properly is grounds for immediate termination and forfeiture of unpaid commissions.

8. Email and Anti-Spam Compliance

If you promote the Company by email, text message, or other electronic message, you must comply with all applicable laws, including the CAN-SPAM Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 7701 et seq.), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and any other applicable federal, state, or international laws.

You must, at a minimum:

• Send messages only to recipients who have given valid consent or who otherwise meet the legal standard for permitted contact.

• Use accurate sender information and subject lines that are not deceptive or misleading.

• Identify the message as an advertisement when required by law.

• Include a valid physical postal address for the sender.

• Provide a clear, working unsubscribe option and honor opt-outs promptly.

• Never send messages from the Company’s domains, email addresses, phone numbers, or branded sender identities.

• Never represent your messages as being sent by the Company.

You are solely responsible for your email lists, sending practices, and compliance. The Company is not responsible for your messages or the consequences of your sending practices.

9. Pricing and Course Information

Affiliates may display course pricing and course information, but all information must be accurate and current.

The Company may change pricing, course offerings, discounts, and eligibility at any time.

Affiliates are responsible for checking current Company course information before publishing or sharing promotional content.

Affiliate-specific discount codes, coupon codes, or promotional codes, if issued, may only be used by the assigned Affiliate in approved promotions and may not be shared, resold, posted to coupon or deal sites, or otherwise distributed without the Company’s prior written approval. Misuse of an affiliate code is grounds for commission reversal and termination.

10. Qualifying Referrals and Attribution

A commission is earned only when:

• The student is properly tracked through the affiliate system;

• The student clicks the Affiliate’s tracking link and purchases a Commissionable Course within the 60-day Attribution Window from that click;

• The student pays in full;

• The purchase is not refunded, reversed, charged back, canceled, or otherwise invalidated.

Attribution is based on the most recent valid tracked affiliate click prior to purchase (last-click attribution), regardless of any prior referrals or earlier clicks from the same or different affiliates.

The Attribution Window and the commission holding period operate independently. A purchase that occurs late in the Attribution Window may result in a payout date that follows the standard 60-day holding period after the date of purchase.

The Company’s Affiliate Dashboard and LMS records shall be the final and authoritative source for determining Qualified Referrals, attribution, and commissions. In the event of any conflict between Company records and Affiliate records, the Company’s records will control.

If a student cannot be tracked through the affiliate system, no commission will be paid.

The Company is not responsible for tracking failures caused by cookie blocking, browser settings, user behavior, expired tracking links, incorrect links, or failure to use the affiliate link properly.

Affiliates may not refer themselves or receive commissions on their own purchases, accounts, companies, or entities in which they have an ownership interest.

11. Non-Commissionable Items

Affiliates are not paid commissions on:

• Course Extensions;

• Materials;

• Textbooks;

• PDFs;

• Printed books;

• Shipping charges;

• Processing fees;

• Taxes;

• Refunds;

• Chargebacks;

• Manually adjusted sales not attributed to the affiliate system;

• Any product or service the Company designates as non-commissionable.

12. Commission Amount

The commission rate is ten percent (10%) of the Net Course Price Paid for each Qualified Referral.

The Company may change the commission rate prospectively with written notice. Changes will not affect commissions already earned at the time the change takes effect.

13. Payment Timing

Commissions are held for 60 days from the date of purchase by the referred student.

After the 60-day holding period has passed, eligible commissions may be paid in the next regular payout cycle, provided the Affiliate has reached the minimum payout threshold and submitted all required tax and payment information.

14. Minimum Payout Threshold

The minimum payout threshold is $75.

If an Affiliate has earned less than $75 in eligible commissions, the balance will roll over until the threshold is met.

No payment will be issued until the Affiliate’s eligible commission balance reaches at least $75.

15. Payment Method

Commissions may be paid through PayPal.

Affiliates are responsible for providing accurate  PayPal payment information.

The Company is not responsible for payment delays caused by incorrect, outdated, incomplete, or inaccessible payment information.

16. Tax Reporting

Affiliates are independent contractors and are solely responsible for reporting and paying all taxes on commissions earned.

If required by applicable tax law, the Company will issue an IRS Form 1099 (or other applicable tax form) to the Affiliate. The Company will follow the reporting thresholds in effect at the time of payment.

Affiliates must keep their W-9 (or applicable W-8) and contact information current. The Company may withhold payment until valid tax documentation is on file.

17. Refunds, Chargebacks, and Reversals

If a referred student receives a refund, initiates a chargeback, cancels, or otherwise reverses payment, the related commission will be canceled.

If commission has already been paid, the Company may deduct the amount from future commissions or request repayment.

The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to reverse commissions, withhold payments, suspend the Affiliate Dashboard, or terminate Affiliate accounts in cases of suspected fraud, abuse, manipulation, self-dealing, or other misuse of the Affiliate Program. The Company may take these actions without prior notice and without liability to the Affiliate.

18. Customer Ownership

All referred students and customers become customers of the Company.

Affiliates do not own, control, or retain rights to referred students, student accounts, course records, customer data, or future purchases.

19. Intellectual Property and Trademarks

All Company names, trademarks, logos, course materials, videos, text, graphics, handouts, and other intellectual property remain the sole property of the Company.

Affiliates receive a limited, non-exclusive, revocable license to use approved Company materials only for participation in the Affiliate Program.

Affiliates may not copy, sell, distribute, modify, or reuse Company course content without written permission.

20. Confidentiality

Affiliates may receive non-public information about Company pricing, marketing, students, business operations, course materials, or systems.

Affiliates must keep all confidential information private and may not disclose it to third parties.

This obligation continues after termination of the Affiliate relationship.

21. Termination

Either party may terminate participation in the Affiliate Program with written notice.

The Company may immediately suspend or terminate an Affiliate for misconduct, misleading promotion, brand misuse, fraud, spam, self-referrals, violation of law, or violation of these Terms.

Upon termination, the Affiliate must stop using Company links, branding, materials, and promotional content.

If termination is due to fraud, misconduct, misleading promotion, or violation of these Terms, unpaid commissions may be forfeited.

22. Disclaimers

The Company does not guarantee that an Affiliate will earn any commissions.

The Company does not guarantee uninterrupted access to websites, dashboards, tracking systems, LMS platforms, or payment systems.

23. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or lost-profit damages.

The Company’s total liability to an Affiliate shall not exceed the total commissions paid to that Affiliate during the previous 12 months.

24. Indemnification

Affiliate agrees to indemnify and hold the Company harmless from claims, losses, damages, costs, penalties, or expenses arising from:

• Affiliate’s marketing or promotional activities;

• Misrepresentations made by Affiliate;

• Violation of these Terms;

• Violation of law, including FTC, CAN-SPAM, TCPA, CASL, GDPR, or any other applicable advertising, privacy, or consumer protection law;

• Infringement of third-party rights;

• Unauthorized use of Company materials or branding.

25. Notices

Notices may be sent by email to the email address provided by the Affiliate during registration.

26. Dispute Resolution

The parties agree to attempt to resolve any dispute, claim, or disagreement arising from or relating to the Affiliate Program in good faith before filing any lawsuit.

The required pre-litigation process is:

• Written notice of the dispute, sent by email to the other party, describing the issue and the relief requested.

• A good-faith negotiation period of at least 30 days following the written notice.

• If the dispute is not resolved through direct negotiation, the parties must participate in non-binding mediation with a neutral mediator agreed upon by both parties. Mediation will take place in New Jersey or remotely by mutual agreement. The parties will share the mediator’s fees equally, and each party will bear its own costs.

Neither party may file a lawsuit related to the Affiliate Program until the negotiation and mediation steps above have been completed, except for claims seeking injunctive or equitable relief to protect intellectual property, trademarks, or confidential information.

27. Governing Law

These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States.

Subject to Section 26, any dispute shall be handled in the courts of New Jersey, unless otherwise required by law.

28. Changes to Terms

The Company may update these Terms & Conditions at any time.

Continued participation in the Affiliate Program after notice of updated terms means the Affiliate accepts the updated terms.

29. Entire Agreement

These Terms & Conditions represent the entire agreement between the Company and the Affiliate regarding the Affiliate Program.

No waiver, modification, or exception shall be valid unless provided in writing by the Company.