These referral program terms are additional terms that apply if you use the Hush referral program (“Hush Referral Program”). These referral program terms form part of your agreement with us.

1. Definitions

In these referral program terms, defined terms have the same meanings given to them in the Creator Supplement. In addition, the following definitions apply:

“Referred Creator” means the person who joins Hush as a Creator through the Referring User’s unique referral link.

“Referring User” means “you” or “your.”

2. Hush Referral Program

Hush offers a referral program by which existing Users can introduce people who are interested in becoming Creators on Hush and receive referral payments from Hush that are calculated and limited as described in these terms.

3. Hush Referral Program Rules

   1. Only Users of Hush with a current User account can participate in the Hush Referral Program. If a User’s account has been suspended or terminated by us for any reason or deleted by the User, that User will not be eligible to participate in the Hush Referral Program.

   2. You must add payment method details on your User account page to receive referral payments under the Hush Referral Program.

   3. Each User has a unique referral link (which can be accessed through the User’s User account) that the User may share with others. When sharing your unique referral link, you must not impersonate Hush or give the impression that your referral link is being shared or promoted by us. You must not use Google Ads or any similar advertising platform or search engine advertising service to share or promote your unique referral link. On our request, you must disclose the methods by which you share your unique referral link in the Bio/Website field of your Hush account.

   4. The Referred Creator must click on your unique referral link and then register with Hush using the same browser that they used to click on your unique referral link. If someone registers with Hush other than by using your unique referral link, we will not link that account to your referral and no referral payments will be made to you.

   5. The Referred Creator must not have opened a User account with Hush (whether under the same name or another name) before clicking on your unique referral link. If the Referred Creator is currently or has previously been a User of Hush, no referral payments will be made to you for the referral.

   6. If the Referred Creator sets up more than one User account, we will make referral payments to you on the earnings made by the Referred Creator from their first User account only. No referral payments will be made to you on any further User accounts set up by the Referred Creator.

   7. We will not pay any referral payments to you on any referral of a Referred Creator that we determine is owned or operated by you or is in a commercial relationship with you. You will provide any information that we request to allow us to determine whether the Referred Creator is owned or operated by you or if there is a commercial relationship between you and the Referred Creator.

   8. When promoting Hush in any way as a Referring User:

      1. you must not give a false impression of Hush, the services, programs, and content (including Content) made available through Hush, its Users, or the Terms of Service; and

      2. you must not make any statements that suggest to a potential Creator that the potential Creator will make a particular sum of money (or any money) from their use of Hush, or any statements regarding the likely number of Fans.

4. Referral Payments

   1. Once a Referred Creator has become a registered User of Hush in accordance with the rules of the Hush Referral Program, we will pay the Referring User [NUMBER]% of Fan Payments generated by the Referred Creator in the 12 months after the date on which the Referred Creator becomes a registered User of Hush, up to a maximum referral payment by Hush to the Referring User of $[NUMBER] for each Referred Creator.

   2. All referral payments payable to Referring Users by us are inclusive of any Taxes.

   3. To receive referral payments, you must first choose one of the payout methods provided by Hush in your country of residence.

   4. The referral payments due to you on Fan Payments made to the Referred Creator in a calendar month will be transferred to you on or around the first day of the next calendar month (which means, for example, that referral payments due to you for Fan Payments made to the Referred Creator in May will be paid to you on or around June 1).

   5. Hush, not the Referred Creator, bears the cost of the referral payment.

5. Hush’s Rights Relating to the Referral Program

   1. If referral payments have been made incorrectly, we may recover the wrongly paid sums from the User to whom the wrongly paid sums have been paid.

   2. We may request you or Referred Creators or both to provide us with ID and other information reasonably required by us to verify any referral payment to be made and the person to whom any referral payment should be made. Failure to provide any information requested by us may lead to you losing your entitlement to referral payments for the relevant Referred Creator.

   3. We may change any aspect of the Hush Referral Program (including how referral payments are calculated) or discontinue the Hush Referral Program at any time, but no change will deprive any Referring User of referral payments already earned based on Fan Payments made to Referred Creators before the changes take effect.

6. Right to Withhold Referral Payments

   1. We may withhold any part of the referral payments due to you but not yet paid out: (1) if we think that you have or might have materially or repeatedly breached any part of the Terms of Service or Creator Supplement; (2) if you attempt or threaten to breach any part of the Terms of Service or Creator Supplement in a way that has or could have serious consequences for us or another User (including actual or possible loss caused to us or another User); or (3) if we suspect that any part of the referral payments due to you result from unlawful or fraudulent activity, either by you, by the Fan who made the Fan Payment to the Referred Creator that resulted in the referral payment, or by the Referred Creator to whom the Fan Payment was made that resulted in the referral payment, for as long as is necessary to investigate the actual, threatened, or suspected breach(es) by you or the suspected unlawful or fraudulent activity (as applicable). If after our investigation, we conclude that (1) you have materially or repeatedly breached any part of the Terms of Service or Creator Supplement; (2) you have attempted or threatened to breach any part of the Terms of Service or Creator Supplement in a way that has or could have serious consequences for us or another User (including actual or possible loss caused to us or another User); or (3) any part of referral payments due to you result from unlawful or fraudulent activity, we may notify you that you have forfeited all or part of your referral payments.

   2. We may also withhold all or part of the referral payments due to you but not yet paid out if we receive notice that you have secured, encumbered, pledged, assigned, or otherwise allowed a lien to be placed on, referral payments. We are not required to pay referral payments to nonparty lienholders and may withhold payment of Creator Earnings until the lien has been removed.

   3. We are not liable to you if we withhold or forfeit any payment due to you under the Hush Referral Program where we have a right to do so under these terms.

   4. If we are withholding all or part of the referral payments due to you and we determine that part of the referral payments withheld by us is unrelated to breaches by you of the Terms of Service or Creator Supplement or suspected unlawful or fraudulent activity, then we may arrange for you to be paid the part of the referral payments that is unrelated to breaches by you of the Terms of Service or Creator Supplement or suspected unlawful or fraudulent activity. But if we consider that your breaches of the Terms of Service or Creator Supplement has or might cause us loss, we may withhold all referral payments due to you but not yet paid and we may set off those amounts against any losses suffered by us.