Affiliate Registration

We review and moderate all affiliate 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 team of affiliates, and we appreciate your patience!

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

Datolock Affiliate Program Policies

Allowed promotional methods

How you promote DatoLock directly impacts your commission potential. We encourage promotional methods that provide real value, educate audiences, and raise awareness about digital security risks.

Examples of effective promotional methods include:

• Sharing your affiliate link with clients, customers, or your network
• Creating content across social media platforms (YouTube, TikTok, X, Facebook, LinkedIn)
• Producing educational videos or posts about online security and protection

Understanding the Problem: Invalid Traffic & Digital Threats

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), cyber threats are becoming increasingly automated, scalable, and difficult to detect. As a result, the demand for reliable protection solutions continues to grow.

One of the most significant and underrecognized threats is invalid or malicious traffic (IVT/SIVT). This type of activity can negatively impact both websites and social media accounts, often without immediate visibility.

Potential consequences include:

• reduced reach and visibility (shadow bans),
• declining engagement metrics,
• abnormal analytics patterns (e.g., spikes or drops in views),
• irregular engagement ratios (such as likes exceeding views),
• demonetization or reduced revenue,
• temporary or permanent account restrictions.

In many cases, these issues develop gradually. Some creators only notice long-term declines, while others observe sudden anomalies such as unexplained spikes in traffic or engagement.

A key challenge is that these problems are often misinterpreted. Creators may attribute performance drops to platform algorithms or external factors, without recognizing the role of invalid traffic or malicious interference.

Platform Dynamics & Automation

Modern platforms increasingly rely on automated systems to evaluate content and traffic quality. These systems analyze behavioral patterns, technical signals, and engagement data—factors that are not always transparent or controllable by users.

As a result:

• restrictions or penalties may occur without clear warnings,
• performance may decline due to factors outside a creator’s control,
• traditional assumptions (e.g., “following the rules is enough”) may no longer apply.

Awareness Gap

A significant number of creators are not aware of these risks or do not know how to identify and address them. Industry feedback and surveys suggest that a large percentage of users do not fully understand the causes behind sudden drops in performance or monetization.

Content Recommendations for Affiliates

To effectively promote DatoLock, affiliates are encouraged to create content that:

• explains the risks associated with invalid traffic and digital threats,
• highlights real-world examples and observable indicators,
• educates audiences in a clear and accessible way,
• and presents solutions, including DatoLock services.

Content based on real experiences—whether personal or observed—tends to perform particularly well. Creators do not need deep technical expertise; clarity and practical relevance are more important.

Using real cases, reviews, and documented examples can significantly increase audience trust and engagement, ultimately improving conversion and long-term results.

Key Takeaway

Invalid traffic and automated threats represent a growing challenge across digital platforms. Raising awareness and providing accessible solutions is essential for creators and businesses seeking to protect their online presence and maintain sustainable growth.

Commissions and payouts

You’ll earn a sweet 15% commission when a customer purchases a DatoLock subscription using your referral link. Lifetime Сommissions.You receive a commission for all subsequent customer purchase without exception.

You get 15% commission on every sale.

Below is the commission structure:
Basic (Year) – $299 Your commission $44
Standard (Year) – $579 Your commission $87
PRO (Year) – $1799 Your commission $269

Prices are subject to change, often upwards. The Pro (All Time) plan may have a one-year validity in the future. This is the best deal right now, and you can also share this information.

Your income and rewards:
100 sales of the Standard – you earn $8,700 +reward $500
100 sales of the Pro plan – you earn $26,900 +reward $1,000
300 sales of the Standard – you earn $26,100 +reward $1,000
300 sales of the Pro plan – you earn $80,700 +reward $2,000
700 sales of the Standard – you earn $60,900 + reward $2,000
700 sales of the Pro plan – you earn $188,300 +reward $3,500

1000 sales of the Standard – you earn $$87,000 +reward $2,500
1000 sales of the Pro plan – you earn $269,000 + reward $5,000

2000 sales of the Standard – you earn $174,000 +reward $3,500
2000 sales of the Pro plan – you earn $538,000 +reward $7,500

3000 sales of the Standard – you earn $261,000 + reward $5,000
3000 sales of the Pro plan – you earn $807,000 +reward $10,000

*applies to the “Standard” and “PRO” plan

We pay out affiliate commissions in USD directly to your bank account or debit card or a cryptocurrency account in the first week of every month. We only pay commissions that are older than 30 days. There’s no maximum payout balance.

Each plan is valid for the protection of only one website or one account. To protect multiple social media accounts, the customer must purchase a separate plan for each account. Since many customers have several social media accounts, they typically make multiple purchases depending on how many accounts they want to protect.

To receive a payout for your referrals, you must register your bank account, debit card, or cryptocurrency account with our payouts service.

Referrals cannot be generated on your own purchases (this includes using a different email address).

Prohibited promotional methods

We love and back our product 100%, and we are very careful with how it’s promoted, so we want affiliates 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.

DatoLock may not be promoted on coupon sites.

Dissemination of incorrect or negative information about Datolock will result in deactivation of the affiliate account.

Any promotional activity that contains incorrect or negative information about Datolock , will result in deactivation of the affiliate account.

Any illegal activity or activity deemed offensive by us is prohibited

This may result in referrals being rejected and/or your affiliate account being deactivated. See above for allowed promotional methods!

Pretending to actually be DatoLock is prohibited.

Cloning our site, copying our site, using our copyrighted site assets, and pretending that a site created by you is an official DatoLock site is unethical and prohibited (this includes using services that automatically clone websites, or place them into iframes).

Inappropriate websites

The following types of sites are not permitted to become an affiliate: 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, zero, and warez sites. Affiliate applications for inappropriate websites will be rejected, and we reserve the right to choose whether or not to provide a rejection reason.

The important stuff

By accepting these terms and conditions you are providing your nonlegal agreement to abide by them.

These terms of partnership are subject to change, a corresponding notification will be sent to your email address.

Referral cookie lifetime

When a potential customer clicks on your referral link, a cookie is stored in their browser to track your referral. The cookie is then stored for a generous 180 days to give your referred customers time to decide if they wish to purchase DatoLock.

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 180 days (because the cookie will expire).

Refunded purchases

Referrals older than 180 days and in good standing (i.e. the purchase has not been refunded) will be included with each commission payment If a purchase is refunded, a commission won’t be paid out for that referral.

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 or violated the spirit of the Affiliate Agreement.

Affiliate news and updates

By becoming an affiliate you agree to receive emails from DatoLock. These emails will be sent to affiliates only, on an ad-hoc basis, and may include important information regarding the DatoLock affiliate program. These emails will also provide you with relevant news and updates to help you effectively promote DatoLock. As an affiliate 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!

Affiliate application rejection

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

Affiliate 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.

Affiliate applications for websites that we do not believe are aligned with our industry or business may be rejected.

Websites considered inappropriate by DatoLock will be rejected.

Questions regarding your application

When you apply to become an affiliate 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 DatoLock 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 affiliate and provide us with more detail for reconsideration.

Dormant affiliate accounts

Please don’t leave us! We encourage all of our affiliates to actively promote DatoLock to keep earning referrals. If we can help you come up with ideas on how to promote DatoLock, please let us know – we’re here for you! An affiliate account is considered dormant if no visits have been generated after a 6-month period. A dormant affiliate 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 cash!

Phew! Sound good? Great! Thanks for taking the time to read through these T’s and C’s and for agreeing to them. We can’t wait to have you on board!