Hype Team

AGREEMENT

We review and moderate all Hype Team registrations, and we appreciate your accurate and honest information. Please note that the review process may take a few days – we know you are eager to join our Hype Team, and we appreciate your patience!

If you’re approved, awesome! You’ll be given a unique referral ID that you can use to promote Esport Labs products via referral links. Check out your private Hype Team Zone for visits and referrals information, creatives, graphs and more!

Commissions and payouts

You’ll earn a sweet commission when a customer purchases a product using your referral link. Here’s the breakdown of earnings by each license level we sell:

VALIS (25ct) – you earn $5 bounty
VALIS (25ct) Subscription – you earn $5/month recurring
VALIS (3ct) Free Trial – you earn $5 bounty

We pay out Hype Team commissions in USD directly to your paypal in the first week of every month. As we have a 30-day money back guarantee, we only pay commissions that are older than 30 days. The minimum payout balance is $30.00, so you receive a decent chunk of cash when payouts come around. And there’s no maximum payout balance, so go nuts!

In order to receive a payout for your referrals, you must provide a valid paypal email address.

Referral cookie lifetime

When a potential customer clicks on your Hype link, a cookie is stored in their browser to track your referral. The cookie is then stored for a generous 30 days to give your referred customers time to decide if they wish to purchase Esport Labs, or ask us any pre-sale questions they may have.

A referral won’t be awarded if:

The customer uses a different browser to purchase than the one they originally used to visit our site (because the cookie does not exist in that browser)
The customer purchases after 30 days (because the cookie will expire).
The customer clicks someone else’s Hype link after yours then makes a purchase.

Refunded purchases

Referrals older than 30 days and in good standing (i.e. the purchase has not been refunded) will be included with each commission payout (if the commission balance totals $30.00 or over). If a purchase is refunded, a commission won’t be paid out for that referral.

We reserve the right to reject Hype Team commissions for any reason. Commission rejections may occur for the following reasons:

The sale that the referral was based on was refunded
The method by which the referral was generated was in violation of our promotional policies (see below) or violated the spirit of the Hype Team Agreement.

Hype Team news and updates

By becoming an Hype Team Member you agree to receive emails from Esport Labs. These emails will be sent to Hype Teams Members only, on an ad-hoc basis, and may include important information regarding the Esport Labs Hype Team program. These emails will also provide you with relevant news and updates to help you effectively promote Esport Labs. As an Hype Team you may be privy to embargoed or time-sensitive information in these emails (this information may only be promoted after an embargo is lifted). And we won’t spam you, ever – promise!

Hype Team application rejection

We reserve the right to reject Hype Team applications for any reason. We also reserve the right to choose whether we provide an explanation or reasoning for Hype Team application rejection. Below are just a few reasons why an application may be rejected (this is not an exhaustive list):

Hype Team applications for websites that sell, advertise or engage in pornography, phishing scams, spamming, illegal business practices, or that include any material infringing on National or International Copyright will be rejected.
Hype Team applications for websites that we do not believe are aligned with our industry or business may be rejected.
If you apply to become an Hype Team Member and you have not purchased anything from Esport Labs, your application may be rejected.
Hype Team applicants with websites that re-sell any of our products will be rejected.
Websites considered inappropriate by Esport Labs will be rejected.

Inappropriate websites:

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

Questions regarding your application

When you apply to become an Hype Team Member we may email you at the email address you have supplied with some questions regarding your application. This may be because:

We didn’t understand something in your application, or,
We’d like to learn a bit more about how you will promote Esport Labs and need a little more detail.

If we reach out to you and we haven’t heard back within 7 days, your application may be rejected. If your initial application is rejected, you are welcome to reapply to become an Hype Team and provide us with more detail for reconsideration.

Dormant Hype Team accounts

We encourage all of our Hype Teams Members to actively promote Esport Labs to keep earning referrals. If we can help you come up with ideas on how to promote Esport Labs, please let us know – we’re here for you! A Hype Team account is considered dormant if no visits have been generated after a 6-month period. A dormant Hype Team account will be temporarily deactivated if no visits have been generated after 6 months. But we don’t even want to go there right now, right?! Let’s work together to help you start earning some cash!

Esport Labs Hype Team Policies

Allowed and super cool promotional methods

How you promote Esport Labs is reflected in the commission you earn! We encourage the use of promotional methods that add value to Esport Labs and bring us legitimate, loyal customers. We love it when our team of Hype Team Members talk/blog/promote gaming and optimization and mention Esport Labs.

Here are a few examples of awesome promotional methods to earn more commission:

Tell customers, followers, or friends about Esport Labs, and give them your Hype Team referral link
Write a review or a blog post about VALIS or Esport Labs and link to our site with your referral link
Reach out to a broad audience with your social network accounts. Tweet about us on Twitter with your Hype Team referral link, post about us on Facebook with your Hype Team link, or communicate to your stream followers about VALIS with your Hype Team link. Spam-free promotion is a great way to get more referrals!
Provide value to others by answering related questions on other sites with helpful responses, and using your referral link in your replies.

Prohibited and super uncool promotional methods

We love and back our product 100%, and we are very careful with how it’s promoted, so we want Hype Teams Members who are 100% behind us too! The prohibited promotional methods listed below aren’t meant to scare you off – they’re here to protect you, and us, and our customers from any freaky or fraudulent activity, which is something we take pretty seriously. We know you’ll understand. But here they are in writing just in case you’re not totally sure what is and what isn’t allowed.

Esport Labs may not be promoted on coupon sites
Customers who are searching for a coupon are already in the market for Esport Labs, so this method adds no value to Esport Labs.
Paid advertising using your Hype Team link is prohibited

Buying ads through services like Google AdWords, social ads, or retargeting ads and using our brand keywords and your Hype Team link will result in Hype Team account deactivation.

Any type of spam is prohibited
Links, ads, emails, comments… any type of spam. Please respect the posting rules of any 3rd-party websites you use to promote Esport Labs. P.S. This is not an exhaustive list of spam methods; if we decide that your activity is spam, it’s spam.
Any illegal activity or activity deemed offensive by us is prohibited
This may result in referrals being rejected and/or your Hype Team account being deactivated. See above for allowed and super cool promotional methods!
We’re flattered, but please don’t pretend to be professionally associated with Esport Labs
Hype Teams aren’t employees of Esport Labs or Sandhills Development and have no employee rights.
Pretending to actually be Esport Labs is prohibited
Cloning our site, copying our site, using our copyrighted site assets, and pretending that a site created by you is an official Esport Labs site is unethical and prohibited (this includes using services that automatically clone websites, or place them into iframes).
Again, false promotion to customers that you are endorsed or operated by Esport Labs is prohibited (and super uncool).

If you’re unsure or concerned that some activity you’re about to proceed with may be considered prohibited, please ask us. 🙂

Consequences of not-cool promotional methods

If your promotional methods step outside of these terms, your referrals may be rejected and we may disable your Hype Team account. We reserve the right to do this and may or may not notify you in the instance that this occurs. Please use allowed promotional methods, and help us to help you succeed as an Hype Team Member!

Inappropriate websites

The important stuff

By accepting these terms and conditions you are providing your nonlegal agreement to abide by them. By registering and being approved as an Hype Team in our Hype Team program you agree that your commissions are subject to approval before they are accepted and subsequently paid.

The Hype Team relationship does not represent a professional or formal agreement, and as an Hype Team you are not an employee of Esport Labs, LLC. You agree that this is not a legally binding relationship and as a result may not take legal action against Esport Labs, LLC. These Hype Team terms and conditions are subject to change without notice.