Definitions

Free Member: A free member is a basic member who joins your website.  Free members have limited access to your site and are required to upgrade their accounts to full membership status in order to use the full range of features of your website. Free members are also referred to as member joins and basic members.

Upgrades: An upgrade occurs when a free member pays to use the full range of features of your website and becomes a full member.  This is classed as a conversion. I.e. A free member converts to full membership status.

Full Member: A full member is a member on your site who has upgraded their account to use the full features of your website.  This user can send and read messages on your website, view adult content (adult sites only), use the instant messenger facilities, and access the chat room (dating sites only).

Rebill: When a member joins your website and becomes a full member, the member selects a subscription duration of either 1, 2, 3, 6 or 12 months.  Member subscriptions automatically renew after the period of time they subscribe for until the member cancels their subscription to your website.  Note: 12 months subscriptions never renew and are classed as a one off payment.

Chargeback: Chargeback’s are upgrades that have been contested by the card holder. When a credit/debit card holder contests a payment (legitimately or otherwise) the bank automatically deducts this amount from our account until the issue has been resolved. More info on chargeback’s can be found here.

Refunds: Refunded payments occur as a result of fraudulent transactions, as a result of a profile not meeting our profile terms and conditions guidelines or due to administration or system error. DIY-Dating will under these circumstances refund the upgrade and in some circumstances remove the account in question from the website.

Renewal: A renewal occurs when a member of your site decides to upgrade their account again. Example: A person joins as a free member and joins for 3 months and then cancels their membership. 6 months later they decide to upgrade again. It is this and any subsequent upgrades that are classed as a renewal.

Commission: Commission is the money that we pay you each month. Commission payments are paid a month in hand. For example: Your payment at the beginning of May will be for your earnings in March.

If you do not meet the minimum payout amount in a calendar month your commission will roll over until you generate enough funds to reach the minimum payout threshold. Commission is always paid on the 1st of each Month.

Partner: A partner is someone who you referred to DIY-Dating. You earn 10% commission on every upgrade that’s made on your partner’s websites. Also referred to as affiliates of DIY-Dating.

Referral Program: The referral program allows us to pay people for referring new members to your site.  If the new member upgrades their free account, the referrer receives 10% of the upgrade fee in commission.

Sub Domain: A sub domain is an extension or part of a domain name. For example: marketing.diy-dating.com or example.diy-dating.com. In the example the words marketing and example are classed as a sub domain name.

URL:  A URL is an address of a resource on the internet; it could simply be a website address such as www.diy-dating.com. A full URL also contains a protocol, standard web pages usually run on the http protocol. So a full URL for this webpage would be http://www.diy-dating.com/definitions.php