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Affiliate Programme Terms

Last updated: 13 September 2026

These Terms govern participation in the affiliate programme of Shazark S.r.l. ("tapphost", "we") — VAT IT12620720966, REA 2673165, registered office Corso Buenos Aires 77, 20124 Milano (MI), Italy — by the customer who joins it ("Affiliate"). They supplement the Terms of Service, which continue to apply to anything not covered here.

1. What the programme is

The Affiliate receives a personal link. When someone reaches tapphost.com through that link and buys a service, the Affiliate earns a commission on what that customer pays. The programme is free, has no joining fees or mandatory purchases, and no minimum volume.

2. Who can join

Anyone aged 18 or over, whether an individual or a company, in Italy or abroad, can join by creating a free tapphost account: no purchase is required. Residents of, or entities established in, countries under sanctions (currently Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Cuba) or countries on the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes in force at the time of the request (currently American Samoa, Anguilla, Guam, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, Vanuatu and Vietnam), and persons or entities subject to European Union, United Nations or United States sanctions, cannot join or receive payments.

3. Joining

You join by signing up for free from the programme page or, if you already have an account, from the client area on the Affiliate programme page, by accepting these Terms. We record the date and the version of the Terms you accepted. Joining creates no obligation to promote tapphost or to buy any service.

If you sign up for free, you receive an email with a personal link to choose your account password. The link works once and for 72 hours; by using it the Affiliate also confirms that the email address is theirs.

4. Attribution

• A purchase is attributed to the Affiliate when the customer reaches tapphost.com through the personal link and completes the order within 90 days.
• The Affiliate's code is stored on the visitor's device only if the visitor accepts marketing cookies, as described in the Cookie Policy. If the visitor refuses, the purchase cannot be attributed. This is a legal safeguard, not a breach by tapphost.
• If the visitor uses links from several affiliates, the last one counts.
• Purchases made by the Affiliate for themselves, including through another account or email address, are not attributed.

5. Commissions

• The commission is 20% of the amounts actually paid by the customer, excluding VAT, for hosting and other tapphost subscription services, on the first invoice and on renewals, for as long as the service remains active.
• No commission is earned on domain registrations, renewals and transfers, add-ons, upgrades, manually issued invoices or third-party costs.
• tapphost may change the rate or the exclusions with at least 30 days' notice. Changes apply only to payments made after they take effect.

6. Maturation and reversals

Each commission becomes available 30 days after the customer's payment, provided the customer's service is still active at that time: if it has been suspended, cancelled or terminated, the commission does not mature. Commissions are cancelled, even once matured, if the customer's payment is refunded, disputed (chargeback), cancelled or fraudulent, or if they result from a breach of these Terms.

7. Requesting your balance

Once the available balance reaches €50, the Affiliate can request it from the client area with the Request balance button, choosing between:

• tapphost account credit: usable for renewals and new services. Once credited it cannot be converted into cash.
• Bank transfer to the account the Affiliate provides.
• PayPal to the PayPal account the Affiliate provides.

In every case the commission is a fee and requires the tax document and any withholding described in section 8; credit is granted net of withholding. A request covers the whole available balance, and only one request can be open at a time. To request a payout the Affiliate must have verified the email address of their account and state their country of tax residence. We pay or credit within 30 days of receiving a correct and complete tax document.

8. Tax treatment

Commissions are fees for procuring customers. Their tax treatment depends on the Affiliate's position. For Affiliates resident in Italy:

• VAT-registered, ordinary regime: issue an e-invoice to Shazark S.r.l. with 22% VAT. tapphost applies the withholding tax under Art. 25-bis of Presidential Decree 600/1973: 23% on 50% of the taxable amount, or on 20% if the Affiliate declares that they continuously use employees or third parties.
• VAT-registered, flat-rate regime: issue an invoice without VAT or withholding, stating the regime (Art. 1, paragraphs 54-89, Law 190/2014) and applying stamp duty where due.
• Individuals without a VAT number: sign an occasional-activity receipt that tapphost prepares from the data provided. commissions are miscellaneous income from non-habitual commercial activity (Art. 67(1)(i) TUIR); tapphost withholds the Art. 25-bis tax, 23% on 50% of the commissions, pays it to the Treasury and issues the annual Certificazione Unica. Receipts above €77.47 carry €2 stamp duty, which tapphost reimburses in the transfer.

Affiliates resident outside Italy. If the Affiliate is not resident in Italy and carries out the promotion outside Italy, with no office or permanent establishment in Italy, tapphost withholds no Italian tax (Art. 23 TUIR; Art. 25(2) Presidential Decree 600/1973):

• businesses and professionals with a VAT number in another EU Member State issue an invoice without VAT stating that the reverse charge applies (Art. 196, Directive 2006/112/EC); tapphost checks the VAT number on the European Commission's VIES system and accounts for VAT in Italy;
• businesses and professionals from non-EU countries issue an invoice without VAT; tapphost accounts for VAT in Italy through a self-invoice;
• individuals without a VAT number sign a receipt that tapphost prepares from the data provided.

A non-resident Affiliate declares their country of tax residence, their tax ID, that the activity is carried out outside Italy and that they are not subject to sanctions, and is solely responsible for the tax and social-security obligations of their own country. If the activity is carried out in Italy, the rules for residents apply.

To proceed, the Affiliate provides the data required for tax compliance (tax code, VAT number or foreign tax ID, personal and residence details, bank account or PayPal details) and, without a VAT number, declares that the activity is occasional. The Affiliate remains solely responsible for their own tax and social-security position and, if the activity becomes habitual (for example because commissions are regular and continuous), must register for VAT and tell us before the next request. tapphost does not provide tax advice.

9. How to promote tapphost

• Clearly and immediately disclose that the link is an affiliate link, for example with "#ad" or "affiliate link: I earn a commission if you buy", as required by the Italian Consumer Code, the IAP Digital Chart and the AGCOM influencer guidelines.
• Do not send unsolicited commercial communications (spam, bulk messages, purchased lists) and comply with data-protection law for your own contacts.
• Do not state features, prices, discounts or guarantees other than those published by tapphost, and do not promise earnings.
• Do not bid on search ads using the "tapphost" brand or its variants, and do not register domains, profiles or pages that contain the brand or could be confused with tapphost.
• Do not use techniques that set the code without a real click, hidden redirects, fake reviews, or customer incentives not authorised by tapphost.
• Do not promote tapphost on sites or channels with unlawful, misleading or infringing content.

10. Brand and materials

tapphost grants the Affiliate a free, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use the brand and the images provided in the client area, solely to promote tapphost under these Terms, without altering their meaning.

11. Personal data

tapphost and the Affiliate process personal data as independent controllers. In the client area the Affiliate sees, for each referred customer, only what is needed to check their commissions: a shortened name or company name, the product, the service status, a partially masked domain and the commission earned. The Affiliate must not use this data for other purposes and must keep it confidential. How we process the Affiliate's data is described in the Privacy Policy.

12. Nature of the relationship

The Affiliate acts fully independently. Participation creates no employment, agency, representation or mandate relationship, and involves no exclusivity, territories, targets or performance obligations. The Affiliate does not represent tapphost and cannot make commitments or conclude contracts on its behalf.

13. Duration, suspension and termination

Participation is open-ended. The Affiliate may leave at any time by writing to us or simply stopping using the link. tapphost may terminate with 30 days' notice, or suspend or close participation immediately for breach, fraud or misuse, or if the Affiliate is subject to sanctions or resident in an excluded country (section 2). Where termination is not due to a breach, commissions already matured remain payable under section 7.

14. Liability

The Affiliate is responsible for their own communications and indemnifies tapphost against third-party claims and penalties arising from their breach of these Terms or the law. To the extent permitted by law, tapphost's liability to the Affiliate is limited to the commissions matured in the 12 months preceding the event.

15. Changes

tapphost may update these Terms with at least 30 days' notice by email or in the client area. An Affiliate who does not accept the changes may leave before they take effect; commissions matured until then remain payable.

16. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by Italian law. For consumers, the court of their place of residence or domicile has jurisdiction and the mandatory protections of the law of their country remain unaffected; otherwise the court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere has exclusive jurisdiction.

17. Contact

Programme questions: [email protected]. Data protection: [email protected].