Ambassador program terms.

How you get paid. All of it, in writing.

Version 2026-08-12. Effective August 12, 2026.

Read this part first.

One person, the founder, runs every payout by hand. There is no automation behind the schedule below. No cron job fires on the 5th. A human opens a panel, reads the cleared balances, sends the money on PayPal or Wise, and types the transaction id back in. The arithmetic on this page is enforced by the software. The act of sending money is not.

As of the effective date of this version, zero ambassadors have ever been paid. The program is new. We are not going to dress that up with a member count, a testimonial, or a payout total, because none of those exist yet. What exists is this document and the code that enforces it.

There is no support SLA. Questions go to one inbox and get answered as fast as one person can answer them. We are not promising a response time we cannot keep.

Summary in one paragraph.

You share a code. Someone buys CyberSygn with it and gets 20 percent off their first three months. You earn a one-time bounty scaled to the plan they bought, plus milestone and monthly sprint bonuses. Each commission sits for a 30 day hold before it can be paid. Payouts run once a month, on the 5th, by PayPal, Wise, or CyberSygn account credit, with a $25 minimum that rolls over and gets waived after 90 quiet days, on account closure, and if the program shuts down. A completed W-9 or W-8BEN must be on file before the first dollar moves. If a sale is refunded or charged back, the exact amount that sale credited is reversed, and if that leaves you negative, the shortfall is carried forward against future commissions and is never invoiced to you. Disclose that you are paid, every time you promote us.

1. Who can join.

• You are at least eighteen years old and legally able to enter a contract where you live.
• You are not on a United States sanctions list.
• You enroll with an email address you control. That email address is your identity in the program. If you switch devices, the email is what keeps your code and your earnings attached to you.
• One ambassador account per person. Running several codes to stack milestone bonuses is grounds for revocation and for reversal of the stacked bonuses.
• You accept these terms at enrollment. We record which version you accepted, the timestamp, and a hashed form of your IP address. We store the hash, not your raw IP.

You are an independent contractor. This agreement does not make you an employee, a partner, or an agent of CyberSygn. You have no authority to sign anything, promise anything, or speak for CyberSygn. Either side can end the arrangement at any time, and the money rules in section 11 still apply when that happens.

2. You cannot earn on your own purchase.

Self-referral is blocked in the software, two different ways, at the moment the sale is recorded. If the buying account is the same account that owns the code, the sale pays zero. If the buyer's email address matches the code owner's email address, ignoring case and surrounding spaces, the sale pays zero. The block is written down so a retried webhook does not quietly re-attempt it.

This is not a warning system. There is no strike. The sale simply does not pay, and the buyer still gets their discount. Deliberately routing your own purchase, or a purchase you control, through your own code is self-dealing under section 7 and is the one situation where we reserve the right to recover money already paid.

3. What counts as a qualifying sale.

A sale qualifies when all of this is true:

• The buyer is new to paid CyberSygn, and this is their first paid subscription or their one-time Lifetime purchase.
• The purchase is Origin, Solo, Pro, Studio, Business (monthly or annual), or Lifetime.
• Your code was attached at checkout, either by our attribution cookie or by the buyer typing your code into the promotion box.
• The payment actually cleared. A failed or abandoned checkout credits nothing.
• The buyer is not you, by account or by email.

These do not qualify and pay zero:

• Renewals, upgrades, downgrades, or a second subscription from a customer who already counted. One bounty per customer, ever. We remember that customer against your code for five years so a renewal can never double-pay.
• Add-ons bought on their own: extra seats and white-label. They attach to an existing plan and pay no separate bounty.
• The free plan. Signups are worth tracking and are shown on your dashboard, but a free signup is not a sale and pays nothing.
• A sale that is later refunded, disputed, charged back, or otherwise reversed. See section 6.
• Your own purchase, or one from an account or email that matches yours.

4. How attribution works.

When someone visits cybersygn.io with your code in the link, we set a first-party cookie on cybersygn.io that holds your code for 60 days. Last click wins: if a visitor clicks two different ambassador links, the most recent click inside the 60 day window is the one that gets the sale. When they check out, the code is carried into the Stripe checkout session, so it survives every step of the payment and is still attached when the payment clears, even if that happens days later.

A buyer who never clicks your link but types your code into the promotion box at checkout is attributed to you as well. If the cookie has expired and no code is typed, the sale is not attributed and nothing is owed. We do not retro-attribute sales by hand on request, because there is no evidence to base it on.

5. What each sale pays.

The bounty is scaled to the plan, not flat, so a Business sale is visibly worth chasing and a cheap plan never pays out more than it brings in. Annual billing pays the same bounty as monthly for the same plan.

Your tier is a multiplier on the plan bounty, set by your lifetime qualifying sales. Bronze is 0 to 4 sales and pays the base amount. Silver starts at 5 sales and pays 1.15 times the base. Gold starts at 15 sales and pays 1.3 times the base. The multiplied amount is rounded to the nearest whole dollar. The tier that applies is the tier you are in as of that sale, so climbing a rung does not repay old sales.

Milestone bonuses. Each one pays once, ever, the moment the sale count lands on it.

• 1st qualifying sale: $10.
• 10th qualifying sale: $40.
• 25th qualifying sale: $75.

Monthly sprint bonus. $40 for 5 qualifying sales inside one calendar month. It pays at most once per calendar month, and it resets and can be earned again the next month. The month is measured in UTC.

Reversals affect all of it. A reversed sale stops counting toward your lifetime total, so it can move you back down a tier, and it can undo a sprint bonus if it drops that month below 5 sales. See section 6.

6. The buyer's discount.

Your code takes 20 percent off the buyer's first three months. On a monthly plan that is three discounted charges. On a plan billed once a year, and on the one-time Lifetime purchase, the charge that falls inside that three month window is the one discounted by 20 percent. After the window the buyer pays the normal price.

The discount is a real Stripe promotion code tied to your ambassador code. If your code is revoked, that promotion code is switched off and stops giving the discount to anyone new.

7. Getting paid. This is the part that matters.

Method. You pick one of three rails:

• PayPal, goods and services. Not friends and family. We send it as a commercial payment.
• Wise. For most non-US ambassadors this is the cheaper rail.
• CyberSygn account credit against your own subscription. No minimum, no transfer fee, any balance, any time.

CyberSygn pays the sending fee on PayPal and Wise. Any receiving fee or currency conversion fee that your own bank or your own PayPal account charges on the other end is yours. We do not pay by cash app, cryptocurrency, paper check, or wire transfer.

The 30 day hold. Every commission is stamped with a clearing date when it is credited: the day it was credited plus 30 days. Until that date passes the money is pending, and pending money cannot be paid out. Your dashboard shows pending and available as two separate numbers, always, so you can see money coming before you can spend it. The hold exists because a card dispute can arrive weeks after a payment. If we later change the hold length, the change applies only to new commissions. A clearing date already stamped on your ledger never moves.

The schedule. Payouts run once a month, on the 5th. If the 5th falls on a weekend or a US holiday, the run happens the next business day. A commission joins a run once its 30 day hold has finished on or before the 5th. That means the common case is 30 to 35 days from the day the customer's payment cleared. A sale that clears just after a monthly cutoff waits for the following run, which is up to about 60 days. We would rather write that second number down than bury it.

The minimum. $25. Balances under $25 roll over and are paid in the first run that clears the minimum. The minimum is waived, and the whole balance is paid, in four situations:

• On request, after 90 days with no new qualifying sale.
• When you close your ambassador account.
• If we shut the program down.
• On account credit, which has no minimum at all.

Worked example: the fastest a first dollar can arrive.

• You are Bronze, no sales yet. On March 3 someone buys the Business plan with your code.
• Business at Bronze pays $70. Your first-sale milestone pays $10. Total credited: $80.
• The 30 day hold runs from March 3, so this commission clears on April 2.
• April 2 is on or before April 5, so it joins the April 5 run.
• $80 is above the $25 minimum, so nothing rolls over.
• The founder sends $80 on April 5. That is 33 days after the sale.

Worked example: the slow case, with the minimum and the cutoff both biting.

• You are Bronze. On March 7 someone buys Origin with your code. Origin at Bronze pays $7, plus the $10 first-sale milestone. Total credited: $17.
• The hold clears April 6. April 6 is after April 5, so it misses the April run entirely and waits for May 5.
• On May 5 it has cleared, but your available balance is $17, under the $25 minimum. It rolls over. Nothing is sent.
• On April 20 someone buys Solo with your code. That pays $10 and clears May 20.
• On June 5 both commissions have cleared. Available balance is $27, over the minimum. You are paid $27 on June 5.
• Had the second sale never happened, June 5 is also 90 days after your last qualifying sale, so you could email and ask for the $17 in full, minimum waived, and get it.

Both examples are the real arithmetic, not a best case. The first dollar takes about a month if the sale is big enough to clear $25 on its own, and can take about three months if it is not.

8. Refunds, chargebacks, and negative balances.

If a referred customer's payment is refunded, charged back, disputed, or otherwise reversed, the commission for that sale is reversed. The reversal backs out the exact amount that sale credited, including any milestone or sprint bonus that sale triggered, not a flat figure and not a guess. It is written to your ledger as a visible negative line with the reason and the date. The sale also stops counting toward your lifetime sales and your tier, and a reversal that drops a month below 5 sales removes that month's sprint bonus.

If your unpaid balance covers the reversal, it comes out of the balance. If the reversal is larger than your unpaid balance, the shortfall becomes a negative balance carried forward and is offset against future commissions.

We will not invoice you for a reversal and we will not ask for money back. If you leave the program, or the program ends, while you are carrying a negative balance, the balance is written off to zero. The single exception is fraud or self-dealing, where we reserve the right to recover.

Worked example: a clawback that goes past your balance.

• You are Bronze. On February 1 a Business sale credits $70 plus the $10 first-sale milestone. Total: $80.
• The hold clears March 3, so the $80 is paid to you on March 5. Your balance is now $0.
• On April 10 that customer wins a chargeback. We reverse $80, the exact amount that sale credited, and your ledger shows a line reading minus $80, chargeback, April 10.
• Your lifetime sales go from 1 back to 0. Your tier recomputes from the new count.
• Your balance is now minus $80. It is shown to you as minus $80. It is not hidden and it is not clamped to zero.
• Your next $30 of commission brings the balance to minus $50. Nothing is sent to you until the balance is positive and at or above $25.
• If you walk away at minus $50, the $50 is written off. No invoice, no collection.

Card networks generally allow a customer to dispute a charge for up to 120 days after payment, and some payment methods allow up to 180 days. The 30 day hold covers the common case. The carry-forward rule covers the long tail. No hold length anyone could offer would cover 180 days, so we are honest about which tool does which job.

9. Taxes.

A completed tax form must be on file before your first dollar moves, at any amount. A W-9 if you are a US person, a W-8BEN if you are not. A missing, refused, or expired form blocks the payout. It does not reduce it and it does not delay it partially. It blocks it until the form arrives. Your dashboard tells you plainly if this is what is holding your money.

We ask for this earlier than the law strictly requires, on purpose. All of our leverage disappears the moment money moves. If we pay an undocumented person and the IRS later decides backup withholding was owed, CyberSygn pays 24 percent out of pocket with no realistic way to recover it from you. Blocking the payout is the cheap version of that control, and it means we never have to withhold 24 percent from anybody.

There are two thresholds, and the lower one is what matters. The federal 1099-NEC threshold for 2026 is $2,000. The old $600 figure was repealed for payments made after December 31, 2025, and the new number is indexed for inflation starting with 2027 payments, so we keep it as a per-year value in the code rather than a fixed number that quietly goes stale. But CyberSygn files from Colorado, which kept the $600 threshold and did not follow the federal increase. So in practice we file a return once we have paid you $600 in a year, even though no federal return is due until $2,000. Three details that follow from the way the rules actually work:

• Both thresholds are measured against cash actually paid to you in the calendar year, not commission you accrued. Account credit counts exactly like cash, because credit for work done is still compensation.
• Crossing $600 means a state filing only. Crossing $2,000 means both. You may therefore get a form in a year you were not expecting one.
• If we filed an information return for you for the previous calendar year, there is no threshold for you this year. You are reportable from the first dollar.

A W-8BEN stays valid through the last day of the third calendar year after you sign it. We will ask you for a fresh one when it expires, and payouts pause until it arrives.

We never store your SSN, ITIN, EIN, or a copy of your W-9. Not in our database, not in a file, not in a support email. Tax document collection is routed to a third-party collector that specialises in it. What CyberSygn keeps is a status flag saying the document is on file and an opaque payee id from that collector. That is the entire footprint. If anyone at CyberSygn ever asks you to paste a tax ID into a chat, an email, or a form on cybersygn.io, do not do it, and tell us.

You are responsible for your own taxes on what you earn here. We are not your tax advisor. Your own state may treat this income differently from ours.

10. The product pass.

While you are an active ambassador you get the full CyberSygn product free. It is a pass, not a plan you are paying for.

The pass runs in a 90 day window that renews on any real sign of life: opening your ambassador dashboard, a click on your referral link, or a sale. So it cannot lapse in the middle of you actually participating. It ends after 90 days of complete silence, or immediately if your code is revoked.

Losing the pass does not touch anything else. You keep your code, your history, your lifetime sales, and every dollar of earned commission. You just stop getting the product free. The pass is not commission, has no cash value, and is never paid out as money.

11. Ending it, from either side.

You can leave at any time. Email us. Your cleared balance is paid in full on the next run with the minimum waived.

We can revoke a code. The reasons:

• Fraud or self-dealing, including routing your own purchases or purchases you control through your code.
• Spam: unsolicited bulk email, DMs, comment spam, or posting your link where you were asked not to.
• Promoting CyberSygn without disclosing that you are paid, after we have told you once.
• Saying things about CyberSygn that are not true, including invented numbers, invented customers, or invented capabilities.
• Impersonating CyberSygn, bidding on our brand name in ads in a way that pretends to be us, or registering domains or handles that look like ours.
• Harassment, or breaking the law, or breaking the main Terms of Service.
• Running more than one ambassador account.

What revocation actually does, checked against the code that does it:

• Your Stripe promotion code is switched off, so the discount stops working for new buyers.
• Your product pass ends immediately.
• Your code stops earning on new sales.
• Nothing deletes your earned balance. Your ledger, your lifetime sales, your payout history, and your balance all survive revocation untouched. There is no code path anywhere in CyberSygn that zeroes an ambassador's earnings, and we did not write one.

Money you already earned is still paid. Cleared, earned, unpaid commission is paid out on the normal monthly run, with the minimum waived because your account is closing. Reversals still apply to it, so a refund that lands after revocation still backs out the commission for that sale. The one exception is fraud or self-dealing, where we may withhold the balance and may pursue recovery.

Being honest about the mechanism: revocation is a manual act by the founder, and so is the final payout that follows it. Nothing schedules itself.

12. Disclosure. This one is not optional.

Every single place you promote CyberSygn must clearly and conspicuously say that you get paid if someone buys. The Federal Trade Commission puts that duty on the advertiser, which is us, which is why it is a condition of earning rather than a suggestion.

• Plain words work: "I get a commission if you sign up with my link." You do not need legal language.
• Put it where a person sees it before they click, in the post itself. Not in your bio. Not behind a "more" fold. Not buried at the end of a wall of hashtags.
• In video, say it out loud and put it on screen. In audio, say it. In a livestream, say it again periodically, because people arrive late.
• Do not claim things about CyberSygn you cannot back up. No invented customer counts, no invented testimonials, no invented compliance claims. If you could not prove it, do not say it.

We may withhold or reverse commission on any sale that came from an undisclosed placement, and we may end the arrangement for repeated non-disclosure.

13. What we show you, and what we will not hide.

Your dashboard shows pending, available, and paid as separate numbers, plus your full ledger line by line, including negative lines from reversals. A negative balance is displayed as a negative number to you and to the owner. It is never clamped to zero to make a screen look tidier. If a payout is blocked, the dashboard names the reason: no accepted terms, tax document missing, tax document expired, negative balance, minimum not reached, or nothing cleared yet.

14. Changes to these terms.

This document has a version number at the top. When we change something that lowers what you earn or changes how you get paid, we email the address on your ambassador record at least 14 days before the change takes effect, and we bump the version. Small edits, like fixing a typo or clarifying a sentence without changing its meaning, go live with a version bump and no email.

Changes never apply backwards. A commission is settled under the version of these terms in force on the day it was credited. A clearing date already stamped on your ledger never moves. If you do not want to accept a change, leave, and your cleared balance is paid in full with the minimum waived.

15. Governing law.

This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes that cannot be settled by email go to the state or federal courts in Douglas County, Colorado. If any part of this agreement is unenforceable where you live, the rest still applies.

16. Contact.

hello@cybersygn.io. Include your ambassador code so we can look at your actual numbers with you. It goes to the founder, who is also the person who sends the payouts, so there is nobody to escalate to and nobody to hide behind.