Terms

ReferralCodes and RewardCircle Terms of Use ("Terms")

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Last updated: 28 October 2026

ReferralCodes, ReferralCodes.com, RewardCircle and RewardCircle.com are trading names of Referral Ventures Limited (UK company number 13281997), 205 Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TB, United Kingdom ("ReferralCodes", "we", "us")

Legal Notice: By accessing any part of ReferralCodes.com or RewardCircle.com (together, the “Website”), from any platform (including mobile phone and tablet), or by using our apps, our WhatsApp service, our browser extension or any Official Agent Interface or other automated means, you shall be deemed to have accepted these Terms in full. If you do not accept these Terms in full, you must leave the Website immediately. The Website is only for people aged 18 or over and is not available to any member banned from the Website. By using the Website you confirm that you are 18 or over; we may close any account that we believe belongs to someone under 18. Applicable law is UK.

Copyright: The Website and its contents are copyright ReferralCodes, all rights reserved. Reproduction of all or any substantial part of the contents in any form is prohibited. No part of the site may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose without express approval from ReferralCodes.

Submissions to ReferralCodes: We may permit users to create a single client profile, submit referral codes, links, reviews, recommendations, messages, photos, requests, questions and/or other materials (“User Content”). We have the right to publish, edit, delete or reject any User Content via the site for any purpose whatsoever, except member messages, which we do not publish. Automated submissions, other than through the Official Agent Interfaces described in "Automated Access and AI Agents" below, and 'spam' links are strictly prohibited and will result in permanent expulsion from the site.

By submitting User Content to us, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, fully sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, distribute or publish the User Content (in whole or in part) as ReferralCodes, at its sole discretion, deems appropriate. That license does not include publishing member messages.

You agree that you will not submit any User Content protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, or other intellectual property, personal, contractual, proprietary or other right owned by a third party without the express permission of the owner of the respective right.

We rely on you to present us with User Content that contains accurate and factual material, including honest reviews and recommendations of brands you genuinely use or like. We therefore do not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of information provided on ReferralCodes.

We shall use our reasonable endeavours to monitor the material published on our Website and to ensure that any material that is immoral, unlawful, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, and/or causes offence is removed upon receipt of notice of any such material. Member messages, described below, are not part of that monitoring.

Member messages: Where messaging is available, messages between members are sent entirely at each member's own risk. We do not read, monitor or moderate them. We do not check that a member is who they say they are, and we are not a party to any conversation. You are solely responsible for the messages you send and for anything you choose to do because of a message you receive, including sharing personal information, contact details or payment details, and sending money or any other payment. We are not responsible for the content of any message, or for any loss, fraud, payment or other harm that comes from one, whether or not anyone tells us about it. We may delete a message or turn messaging off for an account, but we do not have to, and choosing not to is not a breach of these Terms. Messages are shown only to the members in that conversation. They are not published on the Website, and the license you grant us over User Content does not include a right to publish them. Nothing in this paragraph limits or excludes any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

Behaviour that seeks to follow large numbers of members without regard to relevance or genuine interest, or that attempts to game discovery, ranking, or social signals, may be treated as misuse of the platform. Repeated duplication of User Content and referral information including but not limited to creation of multiple accounts for this purpose, bulk posting, unauthorised bots and submission of promotional links or other submissions that we deem inappropriate, can result in permanent deletion of all such content and related accounts, with no notice and no right of appeal.

Newsletter & Notifications: upon opening an account with us we may send a newsletter update with relevant information relating to your account activity and site news. This will be no more than twice a month. You may choose to opt-out of this at any time, as well as notifications relating to activity on your own account, including new followers, new referral additions and referral confirmations. All of the notifications settings can be toggled in the "Settings" section of your account.

Subscriptions: ReferralCodes offers a variety of paid services, including promotion of a user's individual referrals to higher ranking positions on relevant pages, known as "Boosts", as well as enhanced visibility of a user's own referral page, known as "RC Premium". ReferralCodes will make reasonable efforts to process all payments and implement added services in a timely manner, where this is not performed automatically. The user can manage all subscriptions from directly inside their profiles and subscriptions continue until cancelled by them. The user understands that no financial benefits or rewards are guaranteed from any such paid services and that no refunds are possible once a subscription has been enacted. "Super Boosts", where available, entitle a user to be shown in the first position of the standard referral table for a particular store. This is the first position when viewed in 'private' or incognito mode. "Regular Boosts", where available, entitle a user to be shown in the top positions of the standard referral table for a particular store. No particular positions are guaranteed. We operate on a first-come first-served basis and users are reminded that failure to pay for a subscription may result in their boost or premium status being immediately revoked.

Advertising: ReferralCodes may carry some affiliate marketing links and other advertising, which means we may earn commission on sales of some products when users click through a link from the site. We may share some of the commission we actually receive with members through Circle Rewards, on the terms described below.

Referral Rewards from Brands: Rewards offered through referral codes and links on the Website, such as sign-up bonuses and refer-a-friend rewards, are offered and paid by the brand concerned, not by ReferralCodes, and are subject to that brand's own terms. We are not a party to any referral scheme, and we do not control whether a brand tracks a referral, accepts it or pays a reward. Reward details are as stated by the member who shared the referral or as listed by the brand, may be out of date or wrong, and can be changed or withdrawn by the brand at any time. We do not guarantee that any person will be eligible for, or will receive, any brand reward, and we are not responsible if a brand does not pay. Any question or dispute about a brand reward must be taken up with the brand.

RewardCircle and Circle Rewards: RewardCircle is our brand for rewarding members' everyday recommendations, and RewardCircle.com is part of the Website. RewardCircle accounts are ReferralCodes accounts: you sign up and manage your account on ReferralCodes.com and these Terms apply in the same way. “Circle Rewards” is a discretionary promotional programme through which we may share with members part of the commission we receive when someone follows their review or recommendation of a brand and completes a qualifying purchase or other qualifying action (each such share a “Circle Reward”). Taking part in Circle Rewards does not make you our employee, agent or partner, and does not entitle you to any payment other than as set out in this section.

Important – please read carefully: Circle Rewards are indicative only and are never guaranteed. Whether a Circle Reward is tracked, confirmed and paid depends on many steps, systems and third parties, most of which are outside our control, and any of them can fail. You should not rely on receiving any Circle Reward, or any particular amount, timing or method of payment, and you should not make any financial decision or commitment based on rewards shown on the Website or in our communications.

• Who can take part: Circle Rewards is currently in beta and invite-only. You can register interest in Reward Settings, but we decide at our sole discretion who takes part, and we may refuse, suspend or end anyone's participation at any time. You must have an active account with a valid email address. Circle Rewards only apply to selected brands, which are marked with the Circle Rewards star, and brands may be added or removed at any time without notice.
• Amounts are indicative only: Any reward amount, percentage, rate, estimate or example shown on the Website, on RewardCircle.com, in emails or in any other material is for illustration only. It is not an offer or a promise, and it can change at any time without notice. Commission rates and qualifying rules are set by brands and affiliate networks, not by us.
• Many points of failure: A Circle Reward can be lost, reduced or delayed for reasons outside our control, including: the purchaser's browser, cookie, privacy, ad-blocking or VPN settings; the purchaser using another link, coupon, cashback or comparison site, app or device; the purchase not being completed in the way the brand requires; failures or delays in a brand's or affiliate network's tracking or reporting; a brand or network declining, cancelling, reducing or reversing a commission for any reason; a brand or network paying late, paying less or not paying at all, including because of insolvency; and currency conversion. We are not responsible for any of these.
• Our reasonable efforts: We will use reasonable efforts to pass tracked clicks to the right brand and affiliate network, and to record and allocate the commissions reported to us correctly. Beyond that, we do not promise that any click, purchase or commission will be tracked, reported, confirmed, allocated or paid, and errors in our own systems are possible. If we find an error, we may correct it, including by removing or reducing a Circle Reward.
• Only paid from commission we actually receive: We are under no obligation to credit or pay any Circle Reward unless and until we have received the related commission from the brand or affiliate network in full, in cleared funds. Circle Rewards are calculated on the commission we actually receive, after any fees, deductions or currency conversion and after our own share. If we receive less, your Circle Reward will be reduced accordingly.
• Tracked activity is not a balance: Clicks, tracked or pending activity and estimated rewards shown in your account are provisional and for information only. They are not money owed to you and may be changed, reduced or removed at any time. Activity can take 72 hours or longer to appear. Confirmation depends on the brand and affiliate network and commonly takes 90 days or more, for example to allow for returns and cancellations, or because travel bookings are only rewarded after the trip; there is no set timescale. Only Circle Rewards we have confirmed are added to your balance.
• Reversals and set-off: If a brand or affiliate network reverses, reduces or claws back a commission after we have confirmed the related Circle Reward, or after we have paid it, we may deduct the amount from your balance or from future Circle Rewards, or ask you to repay it.
• Our decisions are final; no right of appeal: Our records, together with the information reported to us by brands and affiliate networks, decide whether a click or purchase was tracked and whether a Circle Reward is confirmed, declined, reversed or paid, and its amount. There is no right of appeal against our decisions on individual clicks, commissions, transactions or Circle Rewards. We are under no obligation to raise missing, declined or reduced transactions with a brand or network. If we choose to do so, it is at our discretion, and the brand's or network's decision is final.
• Keep, split or donate: In Reward Settings you can choose to keep your Circle Rewards, split them 50:50 with the person who made the purchase, or donate them to charity. Your choice is shown to other members. The setting in place when the purchase is recorded applies to that reward, and past rewards cannot be reallocated. The purchaser's half of a split reward can only be credited to them if they were signed in to a ReferralCodes account when they clicked the link; if they were not, that half is kept by ReferralCodes. If you choose to donate, the reward is paid to ReferralCodes and we donate it to one or more of the charities shown on our Circle Rewards charities page. We make donations manually, from time to time and at our discretion as to timing, and we may combine rewards donated by many members into a single donation. We only donate rewards for which we have received the commission. Donations are made by ReferralCodes, not by you, so you cannot claim tax relief or Gift Aid on them and we do not issue donation receipts to members. We may change the charities we support at any time.
• Withdrawals: You can request a withdrawal once your confirmed balance reaches the minimum shown in your account (currently $10), which we may change. You can have one withdrawal request in progress at a time. Our team processes requests by hand and we do not guarantee any processing time. We choose the payment method: during launch, withdrawals are paid as Amazon gift cards, which are subject to Amazon's own terms. We may ask you to confirm your identity or payment details, and we may delay or withhold payment while we do so or while we investigate any activity. We are not responsible for payments lost or delayed because of incorrect details you give us or failures by a payment or gift card provider. No interest is payable on any balance.
• No cash value until paid: Circle Rewards are a discretionary benefit. They have no cash value until paid to you, are personal to you and cannot be sold, transferred or assigned.
• Tax: You are responsible for any tax due on Circle Rewards you receive.
• Sharing your recommendations: If you share your recommendations or profile with others, including on social media, you must make clear that you may earn a reward when people buy through your links, as advertising rules require (for example the FTC's Endorsement Guides in the US and the CAP Code in the UK). You must not tell anyone that rewards are guaranteed. Your reviews and recommendations must be honest and must not make false or misleading claims about a brand or its products.
• Self-purchases: Circle Rewards are for purchases made by other people. You must not click or buy through your own reviews or recommendations, or through links you have shared, in order to earn a Circle Reward on your own purchase, whether directly or through another account or person acting for you. We may decline, remove or recover any Circle Reward that we believe came from a self-purchase.
• Misuse: You must not generate or try to generate Circle Rewards dishonestly. This includes self-purchases, fake or fraudulent purchases or clicks, using multiple accounts, using bots, scripts or Agents to click links, offering people money or other incentives to click or buy (other than through the split option), sending spam, placing paid ads that bid on or use a brand's name, and hiding or forcing tracking links. If we suspect misuse, or if a brand or affiliate network rejects or questions your activity, we may withhold, decline or remove any Circle Rewards (tracked or confirmed), cancel withdrawal requests, recover rewards already paid and end your participation in Circle Rewards or close your account. We are not obliged to monitor for or act on every breach, and if we do not act on a breach, or allow a reward in one case, we may still enforce these rules later or in any other case.
• Changes and ending Circle Rewards: We may change any part of Circle Rewards at any time, including reward shares, the withdrawal minimum, payment methods, participating brands and charities, and we may suspend or end the programme or your participation. If we end the programme, or your participation for reasons other than a breach of these Terms, you may request a withdrawal of any confirmed balance at or above the withdrawal minimum within the period we tell you, which will be at least 30 days. Balances not withdrawn in that period will lapse.
• Closing your account: Please request a withdrawal of your confirmed balance before closing your account. Any Circle Rewards, tracked or confirmed, that have not been paid when your account is closed, or when it is suspended or banned for a breach of these Terms, will be lost.
• Our liability: To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from any click, purchase or commission not being tracked, reported, confirmed, allocated or paid, or from any delay, and our total liability to you in connection with Circle Rewards is limited to the amount of your confirmed balance that we have not yet paid. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law, or affects your statutory rights.

Invite Rewards: Members who invite friends to join ReferralCodes may unlock rewards such as RC Premium, Boosts and Super Boosts, as described on our invite page. Invite rewards are discretionary and promotional, are not guaranteed and may be changed, suspended or withdrawn at any time. An invited friend counts once they have an active account and at least two of their referrals have been approved and are live on the Website. Your account must be active, with a valid email address, to receive invite rewards. Some rewards are applied automatically; for others we will ask you which referrals to Boost and our team will apply them. Invite rewards have no cash value and cannot be transferred or exchanged. Invites must be genuine people who join for themselves: invites to fake, duplicate or your own accounts do not count, and we may remove rewards gained this way. Our decision on whether an invite qualifies, and on which rewards apply, is final, and there is no right of appeal. Rewards already applied will last for their stated period unless removed for a breach of these Terms.

Brands and Businesses: If you work with us as a brand or business, including as a RewardCircle brand partner or through ReferralLinks, our Business Terms, or any separate agreement we have with you, also apply.

Data Protection: We collect personal information from you when you use or post to our website and any related services. Our Privacy Policy explains in full how we collect, use and protect personal information.

We may use your personal information to provide and improve our services, provide you with a personalized experience on our sites, including to contact you about your account and our services, provide you customer service, provide you with personalized advertising and marketing.

GDPR: The way we store and process data is compliant with the 2018 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We always aim to comply both with the spirit as well as the letter of the law and to be responsible with your data.

We respect your right to access, correct, request deletion or request restriction of our usage of your personal information as required by applicable law. We also take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate and up to date. ReferralCodes is registered with the ICO in the UK.

Third Party Services: If you choose to register with the Website or otherwise link your account with a third party’s service (such as Facebook), we may receive the same type of information we collect from you (described above) directly from those services.

Third Party Partners: We may receive additional information about you, such as demographic data or fraud detection information, from third party partners and combine it with other information that we have about you.

Cookies: When you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, we or our authorized service providers may use cookies and other similar technologies to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience, and for advertising and marketing purposes.

Automated Content Processing: We may use automated systems to process messages, links, or images submitted through messaging services, including Whatsapp, in order to identify merchants or services relevant to your account. Image content is processed transiently in memory and is not stored or retained following analysis. Automated detection is probabilistic and may not always produce a result. Messaging identifiers, including phone numbers, are used only for service functionality and verification purposes and are not shared with merchants or other third parties.

Automated Access and AI Agents: We welcome AI assistants and other automated tools (“Agents”) that use ReferralCodes through the interfaces we provide and follow the rules in this section. “Agent Provider” means the company or person that builds or operates an Agent. These rules apply to Agent Providers, to anyone using an Agent with ReferralCodes, and to members who connect an Agent to their account.

Agents may only access ReferralCodes through the following interfaces (“Official Agent Interfaces”):

• our MCP connector and Agent API, as described at referralcodes.com/agents/mcp;
• the agent import page at /profile/import/agent, used by an Agent working for a member who is signed in to their own account, as described at referralcodes.com/agents;
• our public referrals API, data feed and partner APIs, where we have published them or given you access;
• any other interface we publish for Agents or agree with you in writing.

Search engine crawlers that comply with our robots.txt file may also crawl the Website for the purposes of legitimate search indexing. All other automated access is prohibited, including scraping or crawling pages of the Website, data harvesting, automated account creation, automated following or engagement actions, and the use of scripts, browser automation or other tools to operate any part of the Website other than the Official Agent Interfaces.

When using the Official Agent Interfaces, Agents must:

• use each tool only for its documented purpose, and follow our documentation, the instructions published with each tool and our published rate limits;
• search first, and request a referral link or code only for an offer the user has chosen;
• give users referral links as we provide them, without removing, replacing or bypassing our redirect links, so that the member who shared the referral is credited;
• present rewards as stated by the member or listed by the brand, and never tell users that they are guaranteed or eligible to receive a reward;
• only add referral codes and links that belong to the member the Agent is working for, with accurate details. Referrals added by an Agent are User Content and are subject to these Terms and to our review;
• identify themselves accurately, including the Agent's name and its Agent Provider, and not impersonate any other Agent, app or person.

Agents must not:

• request referral links or codes in bulk, or copy, store, compile or republish referral codes, links, member information or other data from ReferralCodes, including to build a database or directory, to offer a competing service or to train AI models;
• generate artificial clicks (including on referral links and tracked shop links), views, follows or other activity, generate or claim Circle Rewards or invite rewards, or attempt to influence rankings, Boosts, discovery or other social signals;
• avoid or exceed rate limits, daily allowances or other restrictions, including by using multiple accounts, apps, API keys, IP addresses or user agents;
• access or attempt to access other members' accounts or any information that is not public, or test, probe or attack the security of ReferralCodes. If you find a security issue, please report it to us through our contacts page;
• engage in low-value, repetitive or manipulative automated behaviour.

Connecting an Agent to your account: Agents may only act on your account through our sign-in and consent screen, with the permissions you approve there, or through the agent import page while you are signed in. Never give an Agent your ReferralCodes password. You are responsible for everything an Agent does using your account as if you had done it yourself, so only connect Agents you trust. You can see and disconnect connected apps at any time from Profile > Connected apps. Information you share with an Agent is handled by its Agent Provider under its own terms and privacy policy; see our Privacy Policy.

Agent Providers: Agent Providers are responsible for making sure their Agents follow these Terms. We may require an Agent Provider to register its Agent with us, or to agree separate terms, before it can use some interfaces or higher limits.

Enforcement and changes: We may, without notice, limit, suspend or block any Agent, app, API key, IP address or account that we reasonably believe has breached this section, revoke its access tokens and remove any content submitted through it. Serious or repeated breaches may result in account termination and the pursuit of legal remedies. We may change, limit or withdraw any Official Agent Interface, tool or limit at any time. Official Agent Interfaces are provided as they are, and we do not guarantee that they will always be available or free of errors.

Terminating Your Account & Social Logins: If would like to delete any referral information, or to completely terminate your ReferralCodes account, you can do this from inside your account when logged-in. You can edit or delete your referral information. You can also permanently delete your account in the "Settings" section of your account. Please note, this is a permanent deletion and can not be reversed. If you have a Circle Rewards balance, please request a withdrawal first: unpaid Circle Rewards are lost when your account is deleted.