Affiliate Terms

These Affiliate Terms (these “Terms”) are an agreement between Permit Plotter, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Permit Plotter”, “we”, “us”, “our”), mailing address P.O. Box 412, Hampton Bays, NY 11946, and you: the individual or business whose name and mailing address you give when you apply to the affiliate program at permitplotter.com/affiliates (the “Program”).

You accept these Terms by checking the box when you apply, and again whenever we ask you to accept a new version (Section 13). That checkbox or button is your signature, and these Terms are a written agreement signed by you, as valid as one on paper. We accept by approving your application, and this agreement starts the day we approve you (Section 2); if we decline, there is no agreement. If you join on an invitation from us, the invitation is that approval given in advance, and this agreement starts the day you accept these Terms. The Program is separate from your use of permitplotter.com as a customer, which our Terms and Conditions govern. If you take part for a company, you confirm you may bind it, and “you” includes it.

These Terms are the written contract New York’s Freelance Isn’t Free Act calls for, for every affiliate the Act covers (Section 15); no list of services is ever due from you, because your Program page is that list (Section 7). You can save or print these Terms at any time, and if you ask, we will email you the version you accepted.

In these Terms: the “Service” is permitplotter.com and the subscription our Terms and Conditions describe; your work for us is the “Services” (Section 3); your “Program account” is your place in the Program, your “Program page” your page at permitplotter.com/affiliates, and your “Stripe account” the payout account you set up with Stripe (Section 7); “the customer” is the Referred Customer concerned (Section 4); your “earning” for a Referred Customer is the month you earn for them, paid in one or two “instalments”; a “payment” is a customer’s payment to us, a “payout” money paid from your Stripe account to your bank; “including” and “such as” mean without limitation; “business days” are Monday to Friday except New York State and federal holidays; “in writing” includes email.

You may join if you are at least 18, or a business run by someone who is; you are an individual or business in the United States and a U.S. person for federal tax purposes, able to complete Stripe’s payout onboarding (Section 7); you give your true name and mailing address; and, if Section 6 applies to you, you meet its conditions. You may have one Program account. We may decline an application, or end this agreement, at any time (Section 14).

You join by applying, while applications are open, or by accepting an invitation we send you, which works once and for 7 days, whether or not applications are open. What you tell us, and Stripe, must be true and complete; tell us at support@permitplotter.com when your name, mailing address or email address changes. We may approve or decline for any lawful reason. Your link and code work, and you can earn, only once we approve you. If we decline, you may apply again once we have deleted your application, about 30 days from the decline (Section 15).

Taking part must not break any agreement or rule that binds you, such as an employer’s policy, a non-compete or non-solicitation agreement, your sponsoring broker’s policy (Section 6) or a professional or government ethics rule; you confirm it does not.

The services you provide under these Terms (the “Services”) are these, and only these: sharing your affiliate link or code, in your own name, with people and businesses you know who may want to see East End building permits for their work (a pool company, builder, landscaper, supplier, roofer or real estate office, say), and recommending Permit Plotter in public in the ways Section 10 allows. A person follows your link and creates a new Permit Plotter account, or enters your code while choosing a plan, and may subscribe. You may also refer your own business, or one you work for: your code is entered on the plan screen of its account before that account first pays (Section 4), and it earns like any other Referred Customer if the account has never been a customer (Section 5).

That is the whole of the Services. Nothing obliges you to share your link, or us to accept any customer, and the Program is not exclusive either way. The value of the Services for each Referred Customer is the earning Section 4 sets; sharing that leads to no Referred Customer earns nothing.

1. Amount. For each Referred Customer you earn one month of the plan they pay for, in total: that plan’s monthly list price at permitplotter.com (today $499 for Solo and $999 for Office). On a monthly plan it comes in two instalments: half of that month, rounded up to the whole dollar (today $250 on Solo and $500 on Office), then the rest (today $249 and $499). A yearly payment earns the whole month at once. Each instalment is worked out on the list price on the day it is earned, and is never more than that customer paid, after discounts and before sales tax, on the payment that earns it. The welcome offer that customer receives (Section 10) never reduces it.
2. Referred Customer. A “Referred Customer” is a person or business that (a) follows your link and then creates a new Permit Plotter account, or enters your code on the plan screen of an account that has never been a customer; (b) has that account credited to you (item 6); and (c) makes a first qualifying payment within 90 days after the account is credited to you.
3. Qualifying payment. A “qualifying payment” is a payment in U.S. dollars by a card charge Stripe processes at checkout (card or Apple Pay), for a full month or full year of the Solo or Office plan when the subscription starts or renews, on a subscription bought from the credited account itself. It counts whatever discount it carried; a discount other than the welcome offer sends the instalment to review (item 7). Not counted: a prorated charge or credit for a mid-period plan change, a payment of nothing, a payment from account credit or outside Stripe, a payment for a plan we quote by hand such as Enterprise, or a payment on a subscription bought from someone else’s login. The one exception: a switch from monthly to yearly counts as the yearly payment (item 4).
4. When it is earned. On a monthly plan you earn it in two instalments: half after the customer’s first monthly payment, and the rest after their sixth, meaning their sixth qualifying monthly payment, back to back or not. On a yearly plan you earn the whole month after the yearly payment; a customer who starts monthly and then pays yearly earns you the rest with that payment. Each instalment is earned on its own payment: if the customer stops paying before their sixth payment you keep the first instalment and the second is never earned. A customer has stopped paying once every subscription of theirs has ended and 365 days have passed since their last qualifying payment; one who subscribes again before then, even after a break, carries on toward their sixth. An instalment waits 5 days after the payment that earns it (Section 8 says why), then is payable unless it is held under item 7, Section 8 or Section 14; Section 7 says when it reaches your bank.
5. One month in all. The instalments above are all you earn for a Referred Customer. Each follows the plan of the payment that earns it, so if the customer changes plan before the payment that earns the second, the two can add up to more or less than one month of either plan. After the last instalment, renewals, plan changes, extra logins and returning customers earn nothing more.
6. How credit works. An account is “credited” to you when our records tie it to your link or code. Your link keeps your code in the browser that opens it for 90 days: if the person creates their account and signs in within those 90 days, in that browser, the account is credited to you. The link cannot credit you if they open it on one device and sign up on another, use a private window, clear or block what websites store, or already had an account when they opened it; they can then enter your code on the plan screen instead, before they first pay, if the account has never been a customer and is not credited to another affiliate. If someone opens several affiliates’ links in one browser before signing up, the last one counts. Once an account is credited the credit is final, even if that person never pays: a later link or code changes nothing, and credit cannot be moved or shared. If you think our record of who is credited is wrong, ask us (Section 7).
7. Review. We hold an instalment for review before we send it only when: a discount or promotion code other than the welcome offer was used on a payment it stands on; Stripe rates the card payment that earns it as risky; a payment it stands on has been refunded in full or disputed; our automatic checks could not run, or show the customer’s account is older than the link that credited it; or your account is suspended (Section 14). Your Program page shows an instalment as “On hold” until its payout to your bank starts, whether it is settling or under review; email us to ask which. A review never changes what is owed: we cancel the instalment only on a ground Section 5 or 8 states, and otherwise send it. We finish each review within 30 days of the day it began, and tell you why if you ask.

You earn nothing for:

1. anyone who is or has ever been a Permit Plotter customer when they follow your link or enter your code (a subscription, one of our invitation or access codes, or an organization account that had one all count); a person who already had an account when they followed your link, unless they then enter your code (Section 4); or a person whose first qualifying payment came before the account was credited to you or more than 90 days after;
2. a person or business introduced without their knowledge, or reached in a way Section 10 forbids;
3. a sign company, cell-tower contractor, electrical-only contractor or irrigation-only contractor, whose permits the Service does not collect;
4. a person who subscribes for personal, family or household purposes, such as a home they own, rent, or are buying, building or selling, rather than for the work of a business (a person’s own trade is a business, even with no company);
5. a person or business that subscribes for, or as part of, a purchase, sale, lease, rental or financing of property they take part in, or whom you refer as part of a real estate transaction or a settlement service (Section 6); an agent, office or brokerage that subscribes for its own ongoing work is not excluded; or
6. an owner or employee of Permit Plotter.

Anyone not on this list who has never been a customer earns you money, even someone we or a sales partner of ours were already talking with. Do not knowingly refer anyone on this list; doing so is a breach of this Section. If we learn that a Referred Customer is on it, we cancel any instalment we have not yet sent to your Stripe account (Section 8).

Real estate and settlement services. This part applies if you hold a real estate license (salesperson, associate broker or broker, anywhere) or work in a settlement service: a service connected with buying, selling or financing property, such as lending or mortgage brokering, title insurance or searches, appraisal, home inspection, or closing work as an attorney.

1. Your earnings are paid only for introducing a person or business to a software subscription, as a business arrangement: never for or in connection with any real estate transaction, any client’s purchase, sale, lease or financing of property, or any settlement service, and never depending on one or on the number or value of any deals.
2. Refer only people and businesses that will use Permit Plotter for their own work, such as a contractor, a supplier, or an agent, office or brokerage; never anyone as part of a real estate transaction or a settlement service, and never a buyer, seller, landlord, tenant or borrower you represent or serve in a transaction while it is open.
3. Never share any part of your earnings with a party to a real estate transaction.
4. If you are a licensed salesperson or associate broker, you confirm that your sponsoring broker’s policy on outside compensation allows you to take part, or that you told your broker about the Program in writing and your broker did not object, and that you will follow that policy. If your broker or the law requires your earnings to go through your broker, do not take part yourself: tell us, and your brokerage may apply in your place. We pay only the affiliate whose own Stripe account is set up under Section 7.

Other licensed professionals. If you hold any other professional or occupational license, registration or certification (architect, engineer, surveyor, landscape architect, accountant, attorney, insurance agent or broker, home inspector, for example), you confirm that its rules, and those of any firm or employer you work for, allow you to take part and receive earnings, and you will follow them. Do not refer anyone you serve in that role, such as a client or an insured, unless those rules allow it and you first tell them in writing that you earn money if they sign up through your link. If you are licensed in New York as an architect, engineer, land surveyor or landscape architect, do not refer your own clients at all. Knowing your professional rules is your responsibility; we give no legal or ethics advice.

1. Method. We pay through Stripe, in U.S. dollars. To be paid you open a payout account on Stripe’s own form, giving Stripe your identity, bank account and tax details, and accept the Stripe agreement the form shows you (for an account that only receives payouts from us, Stripe’s recipient agreement); bring any question about a payout to us, not Stripe. The account must be in your own legal name, or your company’s if your company joined. You authorize us to share with Stripe what you gave us and the details of each payment to you; Stripe uses it as its own privacy policy describes. Stripe keeps your identity documents, bank account number and tax details; we never ask for or store them, unless item 7 applies, and through Stripe we can see basic facts about your payout account, such as the name and contact details on it, whether it can be paid, your bank’s name and the last digits of your account, and the tax forms Stripe prepares for us to file. You pay nothing to take part or be paid; we pay Stripe’s charges for paying you.
2. Date. We send each instalment to your Stripe account 5 days after the customer’s payment that earns it, and our daily payout run has Stripe pay it out to your bank as soon as that payment settles (usually within about a week of it). Unless it is waiting under item 4, we send each instalment, and start its payout, within 30 days of the customer’s payment that earns it. When a wait ends, we send the instalment within 5 business days unless another wait still applies; a review or suspension hold lasts at most 30 days (Sections 4 and 14). A problem on our side, such as our own Stripe balance or a setting of ours, never moves these dates.
3. Your statement. Your Program page is your statement and your list of services. It shows how many people have been credited to you, and every customer who has paid, by number (“Customer 3”), never by name, with their plan, whether they pay monthly or yearly, the month they first paid, where your earning stands and, once all of it has been paid out, the month it reached your bank. Customers who later stopped paying, or whose instalments were cancelled, stay listed. Your page shows your most recent 200 paying customers; ask us for the rest. To protect customers’ privacy we never tell you who signed up or paid, but if you think someone is missing, email us and we will check our records.
4. Delays. An instalment waits, never cancelled for waiting: for the 5 days after the payment that earns it (Section 8); while your Stripe setup is unfinished (it waits for you), or Stripe is asking you for details or has paused your account; while a dispute is open on a payment it stands on (Section 8); while it is held for review (Section 4) or during a suspension (Section 14); while the customer’s money has not yet settled in your Stripe account; after your bank turns down a payout (we try again in a few days; fix your bank details in Stripe); and briefly when a day’s payout run reaches its limit. Only Sections 5 and 8, and item 6 below, can cancel an instalment, and only on the grounds they state; a review ends in one of those or in payment.
5. Questions about an earning. If you think an earning is missing, wrong or late, email support@permitplotter.com with the customer number on your page, or the month the person signed up. We aim to reply within 10 business days with what our records and Stripe’s show, and if we owe you more, we pay the difference within 10 business days of that reply. Please ask within 12 months of the payment concerned; this does not shorten any time the law gives you to bring a claim.
6. Mistakes. If we pay you more than you earned (an instalment paid twice, a wrong amount, an instalment for someone never credited to you), the extra is not yours. We tell you what happened and show the arithmetic. We may reverse the extra while it is still in your Stripe account; once it has reached your bank, you repay it within 30 days of our asking, or on a schedule we agree in writing. We ask within 12 months of the payment, never later. If we pay you less than you earned, we pay the rest within 10 business days of finding it. This item is only for our own mistakes, never for taking back an instalment because a customer’s payment was refunded or charged back after we sent it (Section 8).
7. Unclaimed earnings. Earnings waiting for your Stripe setup are never forfeited for that alone. If Stripe will not open or keep a payout account for you, tell us: once you have given us a signed Form W-9 and any proof of identity we need, we pay what you have earned another lawful way, such as by check to the mailing address on your account, within 30 days of having them (your Program page does not show a check; our record of it counts). Earnings unclaimed for as long as the unclaimed property law that applies says they are abandoned go to that state as the law requires, and you can claim them from the state.

Each instalment stands on the customer’s qualifying payments up to and including the one that earns it: the first payment for the first instalment; every payment up to the sixth, or up to the yearly payment, for the second. We send each instalment 5 days after the payment that earns it, so that a refund or dispute made in that time is seen first. If, before we send an instalment to your Stripe account, any of those payments is refunded in full, or the customer wins a dispute (a chargeback) about it, we cancel that instalment. A partial refund, such as a goodwill credit, never cancels an instalment, and a refund or dispute on a later payment does not affect it. If a dispute on one of those payments is open when the instalment would be sent, we wait for the outcome. If one is open when a sent instalment would be paid out to your bank, we hold the payout until it closes, then pay it out whatever the outcome, unless the next paragraph applies.

Once we have sent an instalment to your Stripe account it is yours: a refund or chargeback after that does not take it back (a suspension can delay its payout by up to 30 days: Section 14). There are two exceptions, both about what you did. We may cancel an instalment, and reverse a transfer whose payout to your bank has not started, (1) for your fraud, or (2) where you earned it by breaking Section 5, 6 or 10: you knowingly referred someone Section 5 lists, or reached or treated the customer in a way Section 6 or 10 forbids. If a customer is on the Section 5 list through no fault of yours, a sent instalment stays yours (Section 5 cancels only unsent ones). Fraud means fraud by you or anyone acting with or for you, such as a sign-up or payment arranged so that an earning forms that was not really earned; a stranger’s stolen card is not your fraud. Referring your own business as Section 3 allows is not fraud, but a refund or chargeback that you, that business or anyone acting for either of you asks for or makes on its payments counts as arranged by you, unless we gave the refund for our own fault under our Terms and Conditions. If an instalment we may cancel under this paragraph has reached your bank, you repay it within 30 days of our written request, which will say why. This does not limit our other remedies for fraud or breach.

You are an independent contractor, not our employee, agent, partner or franchisee. You decide whether, when and with whom to share your link; we set no hours or quota, require no sales training, reimburse no expense and provide no benefits. We may send you short written guidance on the law of sharing your link, such as how to show you are paid; following it is a requirement of these Terms, and it never adds a rule these Terms do not already contain. You have no authority to bind us.

You are responsible for your own taxes on your earnings. Your Stripe account must carry the same legal name and taxpayer identification number as the individual or business that joined; Stripe collects that number for us on its form and may pause payouts until it has verified it. We issue Form 1099-NEC through Stripe, or ourselves if we paid you outside Stripe (Section 7), when the law requires, and may report what we pay you to the tax authorities, including New York State, where the law requires. If your taxpayer identification number is missing or the IRS says it is wrong, we hold your earnings until you correct it in Stripe; if the law then requires us to withhold tax from a payment to you, the amount withheld counts as paid to you.

In everything you do for the Program, follow the law and these rules. You answer for anyone who shares your link or code for you, such as an employee or a family member, as if they were you. You will not:

1. sell, negotiate or close, or quote any price other than the list price at permitplotter.com and the welcome offer described below;
2. contact anyone in our name or as if the message came from us; phone, text or message anyone about Permit Plotter unless you know them, personally or through your work, or they asked; use any name, number or address from Permit Plotter’s records or from a bought, rented or scraped list; send bulk email, or the same email to many people one by one (a post in a group you belong to is fine if the group allows it and you include the line below); call or text before 8am or after 9pm their time; use an autodialer, a prerecorded, artificial or AI-generated voice (even a copy of your own), ringless voicemail, or any tool that calls, texts or emails automatically or in bulk; or contact anyone again about Permit Plotter after they have asked you to stop, in any words;
3. offer any discount, trial, free month, invitation code, price lock, side deal or anything of value to persuade someone to subscribe, other than the welcome offer described below, or pay or reward anyone to click your link, sign up, or share your link or code;
4. state as fact anything about the Service that is not on permitplotter.com or in material we gave you; call the data official, guaranteed, error-free, complete, every permit or real-time; say or suggest that Permit Plotter, or you, are part of, approved by or acting for any government office; promise any feature or date; quote a number of permits, towns or anything else as current without saying when you saw it (“as of this month” is enough); say or suggest that anyone will win work, make money or save money by subscribing; or make any other misleading claim about coverage, data or prices. You may say you use Permit Plotter, if you do, and give your honest opinion of what you have experienced, with no results or figures. You may describe the data this way: each office’s own record, checked, released once a day, and a customer confirms a permit with the office before relying on it;
5. contact any town, village or county office, or anyone who works for one or sits on one of its boards (a building department, clerk, board, assessor or elected official, or their staff), about Permit Plotter, the Program, our data or our records requests, in any way; share your link or code with them or give them anything of value in connection with Permit Plotter; or make any records request for us or to pass records to us, even if you are also a customer. You may still deal with an office about your own permits, property and work, including confirming a permit record with the office that issued it, without mentioning Permit Plotter or the Program. If anyone from an office asks you about Permit Plotter, you may say you are an affiliate and do not speak for us; tell us at support@permitplotter.com within 2 business days;
6. give any permit record, export or contact detail from the Service to anyone you refer or anyone outside your own business, even if you are a customer (showing someone the Service on your own screen is fine; copies, exports and contact details are not);
7. collect any payment or payment details, ask for anyone’s password, or create an account, choose a plan or pay for anyone else;
8. present yourself as our employee, agent, partner or representative, or as Permit Plotter itself or its support, or sign anything for us;
9. register or use any domain name, website, social media account or handle, page, group, app, business name or email address containing “Permit Plotter” or anything confusingly similar, such as a misspelling, or bid on either as a search keyword, or use it in an ad’s text or address, in paid search or social media ads;
10. run any other paid ad that mentions Permit Plotter or carries your link or code, anywhere, without our written approval (cards, flyers and signs you make yourself are fine if they carry the line below next to your link or code, use no logo and follow these rules);
11. post your link or code on a coupon, deal, discount, cashback, rebate or rewards site, app or extension, or anywhere that exists to hand out codes to strangers, or use any software that adds your link or code to someone’s visit or checkout or replaces someone else’s;
12. pay or engage anyone outside your own business to share your link or code for you, such as a marketing company, call center or another affiliate (your own employees and family may share it, and you answer for them); or
13. use forced redirects, hidden frames, auto-opened links or any other way of sending people to your link without their knowing.

The only offer you may make is the welcome offer, exactly as it is: a customer who follows your link or enters your code gets $100 off each of their first 2 monthly payments, or $200 off their first yearly payment, the same on Solo and Office and fixed at their first checkout. Describe it that way, or in short as “$200 off your first 2 months or your first year”, and in no other way. We apply it at checkout; you cannot change it for anyone. It goes only to a new customer whose account is credited to you (Section 4) and who subscribes within 90 days of being credited, and people already credited to you keep it if your account is suspended or this agreement ends (Section 14). We may change the offer for future checkouts; your Program page always shows the current one.

Tell people you are paid, every time. When you share your link or code in writing, put this exact line next to it, before the link, in the same message or post: “I earn money if you sign up through my link.” In Spanish, put this one: “Gano dinero si te registras con mi enlace.” In both languages, put both. Out loud, in person, by phone, in a voice message or on video, say the same line before or as you give your link or code, clearly, in the language you are speaking; in a video, also show it on screen, and in a livestream, repeat it from time to time. If you recommend Permit Plotter in public (a post, newsletter, group chat, video or talk), say plainly in the recommendation itself that you earn money if people sign up through your link, where it cannot be missed: not only in your profile, behind “more”, among hashtags or in a platform’s “paid partnership” label. Never say or suggest that you are not paid or that your recommendation is independent.

Reviews and real people. While you are an affiliate, do not post a review or star rating of Permit Plotter on any review site, app store, map listing or the like, do not ask or reward anyone, including anyone you referred, to post one, and do not review a competitor either. Do not write, post or pass on a review, testimonial or recommendation from anyone who does not exist or never used Permit Plotter, including one written with AI; do not use a fake name, account or persona, or buy or use fake followers, likes, views or reviews. Do not use any customer’s name, logo, words or results without their written permission and ours.

Email. An email that shares your link or code or promotes Permit Plotter must come from your own name and email address, never look as if it comes from us, and have an honest subject line. It must include the line above, give your own valid mailing address (a P.O. box is fine), and tell the person they can reply to say they want no more emails about Permit Plotter.

Checking and fixing. We may check how the Program is shared, including by searching for your link and code, and you will help us: when we ask, tell us where you share your link and how you reached a Referred Customer, and send us a copy or screenshot of any post, page, ad, flyer, video or message about Permit Plotter within 5 business days. If we ask you to correct or take down something you control, do it within 2 business days (1 business day if we say it may break the law), stop handing out any flyer or card we name, and tell us when it is done. Keep a list of anyone who asked you not to contact them about Permit Plotter, and keep what you post about Permit Plotter where you can find it while you are an affiliate. If anyone complains about how you contacted them, or a government agency, a lawyer or a website contacts you about how you shared Permit Plotter, tell us at support@permitplotter.com within 2 business days and help us answer. If you break this Section, Section 8 says which instalments we may cancel, and we may suspend your account or end this agreement (Section 14).

1. Your license. While you are an active affiliate, we give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use the name “Permit Plotter” in plain words, and your own link and code, only to tell people about Permit Plotter and the Program as Section 10 allows. Use our logo or other brand materials only if we give them to you, as given, unchanged. We may change or end this license at any time; it ends with this agreement.
2. Ours. The Permit Plotter name and logo, the Service and our materials are ours, with all goodwill from your use of our name; these Terms give you no other rights in them. If we ask you to change or stop any use of our name, do it within 5 business days, and transfer to us, at our cost, any domain name or account that breaks Section 10(i).
3. Saying you are an affiliate. You may say you are a Permit Plotter affiliate, with the line Section 10 requires, and nothing more (Section 10(h)): not an “official” or “authorized” seller or dealer. No press release or other public announcement about Permit Plotter or the Program without our written OK.
4. Naming you. We will not name you or your business publicly as an affiliate, or use your name, picture or words in our marketing, without your written OK; an email is enough.
5. When this agreement ends. Stop sharing your link and code. Within 10 days, remove them and any material we gave you from anything you control, and stop saying you are an affiliate. You may leave an honest past mention of Permit Plotter, and say you were an affiliate.

1. What is confidential. Some of what you learn through the Program is not public: what your Program page shows about the customers credited to you (their plan, the month, whether they still pay and anything about their payments), and any material or information we describe as not for sharing (together, “Confidential Information”). It excludes anything public through no fault of yours, that you already knew, or that someone free to share it told you.
2. What you do with it. Use Confidential Information only to take part in the Program, and share it with no one but your own accountant or lawyer, or where a law or court requires it (then only what is required, telling us first if the law allows). If you know or work out who a customer credited to you is, keep their plan, payments and status to yourself, and never tell anyone that a named person or business subscribes to Permit Plotter unless they have said you may. You may always say what you were paid and why we held or cancelled an earning, naming no customer. These duties last while you are an affiliate and for two years after; for information about a customer, as long as you hold it.
3. Personal data. You collect no personal data for us: do not gather people’s names, phone numbers, email addresses or other details to pass to us, or send us contact lists; tell people about Permit Plotter and let them sign up themselves. The contact details of people you know are your own; keep them safe and use them lawfully.
4. When this agreement ends. Stop using Confidential Information, except to follow the earnings still being paid to you on your Program page (Section 14), and delete any copies you made, such as screenshots, except what you need for your taxes and your own record of what you were paid. Anything you keep stays confidential.
5. Your right to report. Section 15 protects your right to report a possible violation of law and your rights under the Freelance Isn’t Free Act. Under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. Section 1833(b)), you cannot be held liable under any trade secret law for disclosing a trade secret in confidence to a government official or a lawyer only to report or investigate a suspected violation of law, or in a court filing made under seal.

We may change these Terms. We post each new version, with its effective date, at permitplotter.com/affiliates/terms and ask you to accept it on your Program page. Until you accept a new version, the version you last accepted keeps applying to you, and we may end this agreement (Section 14). If you do not want the new version, stop sharing your link and end the agreement yourself. Either way, earnings you have already earned are paid under the Terms they were earned under, and a change to how much you earn, or to when or whether an instalment is earned, applies only to instalments that form after you accept the new version. A change to our list prices or the welcome offer is not a change to these Terms; Sections 4 and 10 say how each applies.

We may pause the Program, or end it, for everyone. While it is paused, links and codes credit no one new and your Program page says so; your link does not credit anyone who signs up meanwhile, even after the pause ends, though they can still enter your code before they first pay. Customers already credited to you keep earning under Sections 4 to 8 and keep their welcome offer. If you have no Stripe account yet, you can set one up once the pause ends, and what you earn meanwhile waits for you (Section 7). If we end the Program, we tell you by email, this agreement ends on the date the email names, and Section 14 says what is still paid.

You may end this agreement at any time, for any reason, by email to support@permitplotter.com. We may end it at any time, for any lawful reason other than one Section 15 forbids, by email to the address on your account. It ends when the email is sent, unless it names a later day.

We may also suspend your account at once while we look into suspected fraud, a breach of these Terms, or a complaint about how someone was contacted that, if true, would break Section 10. While your account is suspended, your link and code credit no one new, and we hold your earnings: we send nothing new to your Stripe account and pay nothing out of it to your bank. We finish looking within 30 days of the suspension, then either lift it and release what we held (Section 7), or end this agreement.

When this agreement ends, your link and code stop crediting anyone new; stop sharing them, and Sections 11 and 12 say what else to do. Earnings you have already earned, and earnings from customers credited to you before the end, are still paid under Sections 4 to 8 on the dates in Section 7, including the second instalment at a customer’s sixth monthly payment, except an earning Section 8 lets us cancel. People already credited to you keep their welcome offer, and your Program page and Stripe payout setup stay open so that you can follow and receive what is paid.

Sections 1 and 4 to 9, Section 10(e) for 12 months after the end, Section 10(f), (h) and (i) and its paragraphs on reviews and on checking and fixing, Sections 11 and 12, Section 13’s rules on earnings already earned, and Sections 14 to 20 survive the end of this agreement, with anything else that by its nature should.

Once we approve you, we keep every version of these Terms, your Program details, including the version you last accepted and when you accepted it, and a record of each customer credited to you and each instalment, for at least six years after this agreement ends. If we decline your application, we delete it about 30 days from the day we declined it. Our Privacy Policy describes what we keep.

We will not threaten, intimidate, discipline, harass, deny work to or otherwise penalize you for exercising or trying to exercise any right under New York’s Freelance Isn’t Free Act (General Business Law Article 44-A), or for asking or complaining about payment. Nothing in these Terms stops you from reporting a possible violation of law to, or taking part in an investigation by, a government agency, including the New York State Attorney General. If a law that applies to you sets an earlier payment date, or gives you more protection in being paid, than these Terms, we follow that law.

THE PROGRAM, YOUR PROGRAM PAGE, YOUR LINK AND CODE, AND THE TRACKING BEHIND THEM ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. WE DO NOT PROMISE THAT ANYONE WILL SIGN UP OR SUBSCRIBE, THAT EVERY PERSON WHO FOLLOWS YOUR LINK WILL BE CREDITED TO YOU, OR THAT YOU WILL EARN ANY AMOUNT.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) NEITHER OF US IS LIABLE TO THE OTHER FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS, ARISING OUT OF THESE TERMS OR THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE; AND (B) EACH OF OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO THE OTHER FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF THESE TERMS OR THE PROGRAM IS CAPPED AT THE GREATER OF (1) THE EARNINGS WE PAID YOU IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (2) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

These limits never apply to, and never reduce: (1) an earning you have earned under Section 4 and that is payable, which is an amount we owe you and never “lost profits”; (2) any right or remedy you have under New York’s Freelance Isn’t Free Act, or anything else the law does not allow to be limited or excluded; (3) either side’s duties under Section 17, and your duty to repay under Sections 7 and 8; (4) your breach of Section 10, 11 or 12, or our breach of Section 11 item 4 (naming you) or Section 7 item 1 (your identity, bank and tax details); or (5) liability for fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct. Stripe’s decisions about your Stripe account are Stripe’s, not ours, but they never cancel an earning you have earned (Section 7 says what we do if Stripe will not pay you).

If someone else (a person, a business or a government agency) makes a claim against Permit Plotter or its owners, officers or employees arising from (a) how you, or anyone acting for you, shared your link or code or talked about Permit Plotter in a way these Terms or the law do not allow; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your violation of any law, including the FTC Act and the FTC’s endorsement and review rules, CAN-SPAM, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, do-not-call and telemarketing laws, and trademark and false advertising laws; or (d) your own taxes on what we pay you, or wrong tax details you gave Stripe, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Permit Plotter and those people: you cover the damages, fines, penalties and settlements that result and the reasonable cost of defending the claim, including what lawyers reasonably charge.

This does not apply to the extent the claim results from our own breach of these Terms, our negligence or our violation of law, or from a statement about Permit Plotter that you repeated exactly as we published it at permitplotter.com or gave it to you. In the same way, we will defend, indemnify and hold you harmless against a claim by someone else that our name, logo or materials, used as Section 11 allows, infringe their rights, or that a statement you repeated exactly as we published or gave it was false or misleading.

Whoever asks for protection tells the other promptly; a delay reduces the other’s obligations only to the extent it harmed the defense. Whoever owes protection may conduct the defense with lawyers the other reasonably approves, or let the other conduct it and pay its reasonable costs as they come in; either way we keep each other informed, consult before any major step, and whoever pays may see the bills. The side not conducting the defense may take part at its own cost, and each gives the other the help it reasonably asks for. Neither of us settles a claim so that the other pays money or admits fault without the other’s consent, not unreasonably withheld.

This Section covers claims by others. It does not make either of us pay the other’s legal costs in a dispute between us, except where a law gives that right, as the Freelance Isn’t Free Act does.

New York law governs these Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Program, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. We will each try in good faith to settle a dispute by talking first, but that is not a condition of going to court and never stops a deadline running. A lawsuit may be brought only in the state or federal courts located in Suffolk County, New York, or in small claims court in Suffolk County, and you and we each consent to those courts’ personal jurisdiction and waive any objection to venue there. A breach of Section 10(e), 11 or 12 can cause harm that money cannot fix, so either of us may ask those courts for an order stopping one (injunctive relief) in addition to any other remedy.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND PERMIT PLOTTER EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY DISPUTE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE PROGRAM.

1. Entire agreement. These Terms are the whole agreement between us about the Program: the version you last accepted, with Section 13’s rule for earnings already earned. They replace anything said or written about the Program before; if our website, help pages, your Program page, an email or anyone at Permit Plotter says something different, these Terms control. Examples of earnings on our pages are arithmetic, not a promise or prediction, and in joining you rely only on these Terms. Our Terms and Conditions govern your use of permitplotter.com as a customer, and these Terms win if the two conflict about the Program. The Stripe agreement in Section 7 governs your Stripe account; where it differs from these Terms about what we owe you, these Terms control.
2. Changes only in writing. These Terms change only through a new version you accept under Section 13, or a written agreement signed by both of us. Nothing said in person, by phone or by text changes them.
3. Severability. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, it is limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.
4. No waiver. Not enforcing a right is not a waiver of it.
5. Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor to our business, which then owes you everything these Terms promise, including instalments from customers already credited to you.
6. Notices. We give you notices by email to the address on your account, which counts as written notice; keep it current. Notices to us, including one ending this agreement, go by email to support@permitplotter.com or legal@permitplotter.com. An email notice either way counts when sent, unless it bounces; a letter to Permit Plotter, LLC, P.O. Box 412, Hampton Bays, NY 11946 counts when we receive it.
7. Events beyond our control. Neither of us is responsible for a delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as a storm, a power or internet failure, an outage at Stripe, our hosting providers or the banks, or a government order; the one affected acts as soon as it can. This never cancels an earning you have earned; we pay it as soon as the event allows.
8. No one else’s rights. These Terms are between you and us. No one else, including any Referred Customer, may enforce them, except that our owners, officers and employees may enforce Section 17.
9. Reading these Terms. Headings do not change the meaning.
10. Language. These Terms are written in English. Any translation is provided for convenience, and if a translation conflicts with the English version, the English version controls.

Questions about the Program or your earnings: support@permitplotter.com. Legal notices: legal@permitplotter.com. Mail: Permit Plotter, LLC, P.O. Box 412, Hampton Bays, NY 11946. Your Program page is at permitplotter.com/affiliates.