Effective Date: July 31, 2026
Last Updated: July 31, 2026
These Affiliate Program Terms govern participation in the Good Shit Only™ Affiliate Program, including applications, referral links, seller-funded commissions, advertising disclosures, promotional conduct, attribution, pending earnings, commission reversals, PayPal payouts, taxes, intellectual property, fraud prevention, and termination.
Good Shit Only™ is operated by CrownThrive LLC, a Virginia limited liability company. In these Terms, “Good Shit Only,” “GSO,” “CrownThrive,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to CrownThrive LLC and the Good Shit Only marketplace.
“Affiliate,” “you,” and “your” refer to an approved person or business participating in the Affiliate Program. “Participating Seller” means a seller that designates an eligible product for affiliate promotion and funds the associated commission.
The GSO Affiliate Program is seller-funded. Participating sellers choose eligible products and authorize affiliate commissions to be deducted from their seller proceeds for qualifying referred transactions.
These Terms supplement and are incorporated into the Good Shit Only Terms & Conditions, Seller Agreement, Payments, Fees & PayPal Payouts Policy, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Community, Messaging, Reviews & Ratings Standards, Advertising and Promotions Terms, and other applicable Trust Center policies.
By applying, receiving approval, obtaining or publishing a referral link, promoting an offering, earning a commission, requesting a payout, or otherwise participating in the Affiliate Program, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms.
Table of Contents
- Program Overview
- Eligibility
- Application and Approval
- Independent Affiliate Relationship
- Account Information and Security
- Eligible Products and Sellers
- Seller-Selected Commission Terms
- Referral Links and Codes
- Attribution
- Qualifying Transactions
- Excluded Transactions
- Self-Referrals and Related-Party Purchases
- Pending Commissions
- Commission Reversals
- Affiliate Balances
- Minimum Payout Threshold
- PayPal Payouts
- Taxes and Reporting
- Required Affiliate Disclosures
- Truthful and Substantiated Promotions
- Experience and Testimonials
- Reviews, Ratings, and Incentives
- Approved Content and Creative Materials
- Affiliate-Created Content
- GSO Names, Marks, and Branding
- Domains, Social Accounts, and Impersonation
- Paid Search and Advertising
- Email Marketing
- Text Messages and Calls
- Social Media and Influencer Marketing
- Coupons, Deals, and Loyalty Sites
- Cookies and Tracking
- Prohibited Traffic and Methods
- International Promotion
- Compliance Monitoring
- Records and Cooperation
- Program and Commission Changes
- Suspension and Termination
- Effects of Termination
- Indemnification
- Disclaimers and Liability
- Disputes
- Changes to These Terms
- Support and Notices
1. Program Overview
The Affiliate Program permits approved affiliates to promote eligible marketplace offerings through authorized referral links, codes, content, or campaigns.
When an eligible transaction is properly attributed and satisfies all applicable conditions:
- The participating seller funds the commission;
- GSO calculates and records the commission;
- The amount is deducted from seller proceeds;
- The affiliate may become eligible for payout after validation.
GSO does not guarantee that every seller or product will participate.
GSO does not guarantee clicks, traffic, sales, commissions, conversion, income, or continued access to the Program.
2. Eligibility
An affiliate must:
- Be at least eighteen years old and legally capable of contracting;
- Provide accurate identity, tax, contact, and PayPal information;
- Operate in a jurisdiction supported by GSO and PayPal;
- Use lawful promotional channels;
- Comply with advertising, privacy, marketing, and consumer-protection laws;
- Maintain an account in good standing;
- Comply with these Terms and all other applicable policies.
Businesses must authorize the person managing the affiliate account to bind the business.
3. Application and Approval
GSO may request:
- Legal name;
- Business name;
- Email and telephone number;
- Address;
- Website and social-media channels;
- Audience and promotional methods;
- Tax information;
- PayPal recipient information;
- Identity or business verification;
- Other information reasonably necessary to evaluate participation.
GSO may approve, deny, condition, limit, or later revoke participation at its reasonable discretion, subject to applicable law.
Approval in one campaign or product category does not guarantee approval for every seller, product, or promotional method.
4. Independent Affiliate Relationship
Affiliates are independent contractors and not employees, agents, partners, joint venturers, franchisees, or legal representatives of GSO or participating sellers.
Affiliates may not:
- Enter contracts for GSO;
- Make warranties on behalf of GSO or a seller;
- Bind GSO or a seller;
- Represent that they are employed by GSO;
- Represent themselves as official customer support;
- Collect payments on behalf of GSO;
- Make unauthorized promises concerning refunds, delivery, or results.
Affiliates are responsible for their own equipment, expenses, personnel, taxes, insurance, and business operations.
5. Account Information and Security
Affiliates must maintain accurate:
- Identity information;
- Business information;
- Tax information;
- Contact information;
- PayPal recipient information;
- Promotional-channel information.
Affiliates are responsible for protecting login credentials, referral links, campaign data, and account access.
Unauthorized access, suspicious activity, or compromised links must be reported promptly.
6. Eligible Products and Sellers
Only products expressly enabled for affiliate promotion are eligible for commission.
A participating seller may:
- Select eligible products;
- Set or approve the commission;
- End future product participation;
- Change future commission terms;
- Apply lawful campaign restrictions.
Product eligibility may end because of:
- Inventory;
- Seller choice;
- Listing removal;
- Price changes;
- Safety concerns;
- Intellectual-property concerns;
- Policy violations;
- Program changes.
7. Seller-Selected Commission Terms
The commission rate or amount displayed for the applicable product or campaign governs qualifying transactions.
The displayed terms may include:
- Percentage or fixed commission;
- Eligible products;
- Campaign dates;
- Attribution period;
- Geographic restrictions;
- New-customer requirements;
- Excluded discounts or order types;
- Validation period;
- Other conditions.
A seller may change a commission prospectively. A later change does not ordinarily alter a properly attributed eligible transaction completed under the earlier terms.
8. Referral Links and Codes
Affiliates must use authorized GSO referral links, codes, identifiers, or tools.
Affiliates may not:
- Alter tracking in a deceptive manner;
- Remove required parameters;
- Create misleading redirects;
- Hide the destination;
- Use malicious shortening services;
- Attach tracking without a genuine referral;
- Share private campaign links outside the authorized audience;
- Claim another affiliate’s referral.
The affiliate is responsible for testing links and ensuring that promotions lead to the intended listing.
9. Attribution
Attribution is determined by GSO’s applicable campaign configuration and transaction records.
Relevant factors may include:
- Referral link or code;
- Cookie or campaign identifier;
- Account association;
- Attribution period;
- Sequence of referrals;
- Buyer consent and tracking controls;
- Device and browser continuity;
- Completed checkout information;
- Fraud and duplication review.
GSO’s good-faith transaction and tracking records control attribution unless a documented system error is established.
GSO does not guarantee attribution when cookies or tracking are rejected, blocked, deleted, altered, or technically unavailable.
10. Qualifying Transactions
A qualifying transaction generally must:
- Involve an affiliate-eligible product;
- Use an authorized GSO checkout;
- Be properly attributed;
- Be successfully paid;
- Comply with campaign terms;
- Be genuine and lawful;
- Survive applicable refund, cancellation, fraud, and chargeback review;
- Not fall within an exclusion.
11. Excluded Transactions
A commission is not payable for a transaction that is:
- Unpaid or declined;
- Canceled;
- Refunded;
- Charged back;
- Reversed;
- Fraudulent;
- Duplicated;
- Manipulated;
- Completed outside GSO;
- Attributed through prohibited tracking;
- Made using stolen payment information;
- Placed solely to generate commission;
- Otherwise disqualified under campaign terms.
Taxes, shipping, fees, credits, gift value, and other amounts may be excluded from the commission calculation when stated in the campaign terms.
12. Self-Referrals and Related-Party Purchases
Unless a campaign expressly permits them, commissions are not payable on:
- The affiliate’s own purchase;
- A purchase made through an account controlled by the affiliate;
- A purchase made with the affiliate’s payment method;
- A purchase made solely to generate commission;
- Coordinated purchases among related accounts intended to manipulate attribution;
- Another disguised self-referral.
A legitimate purchase by a family member, employee, client, or related business may be reviewed for independence and genuine commercial purpose.
13. Pending Commissions
A recorded commission remains pending until GSO completes the applicable validation process.
Validation may account for:
- Payment settlement;
- Shipment and delivery;
- Digital access;
- Service completion;
- Return periods;
- Refunds;
- Chargebacks;
- Fraud review;
- Seller funding;
- Compliance review.
Pending commissions are not guaranteed earnings and are unavailable for payout.
14. Commission Reversals
GSO may cancel, reduce, or reverse a commission when:
- The order is canceled;
- A refund is issued;
- A chargeback occurs;
- Payment fails;
- The order is fraudulent;
- Tracking was manipulated;
- The transaction violated campaign terms;
- The buyer receives duplicate reimbursement;
- A commission-calculation error occurred;
- The transaction otherwise becomes ineligible.
A reversal may be deducted from pending earnings, Available Balance, future earnings, or another amount payable to the affiliate.
A reversal exceeding available earnings may create a negative affiliate balance.
15. Affiliate Balances
Affiliate records may display:
- Pending commissions;
- Available commissions;
- Reversed commissions;
- Reserved amounts;
- Payout requests;
- Completed payouts;
- Negative balances;
- Other adjustments.
Dashboard balances are accounting records and not bank deposits, stored value, or guaranteed funds.
16. Minimum Payout Threshold
The current minimum affiliate payout request is:
$500 USD in Available Balance.
Pending, reversed, reserved, disputed, or promotional amounts do not count toward the threshold.
The affiliate must have at least $500 remaining after applicable corrections, withholding, reversals, fees, and other authorized deductions.
17. PayPal Payouts
PayPal is currently the only supported affiliate payout method.
The affiliate must maintain a PayPal account that:
- Can lawfully receive the payout;
- Uses accurate information;
- Meets PayPal verification requirements;
- Supports the applicable currency;
- Remains active and in good standing.
The affiliate is responsible for supplying the correct PayPal email address or identifier.
GSO is not responsible for loss or delay caused by inaccurate recipient information supplied by the affiliate, except to the extent required by law or caused by GSO’s own processing error.
Payout requests, holds, failed payments, returned payments, currency conversion, and unclaimed amounts are governed by the Payments, Fees & PayPal Payouts Policy.
18. Taxes and Reporting
Affiliates are responsible for:
- Reporting affiliate income;
- Paying applicable income, business, self-employment, and other taxes;
- Providing accurate taxpayer information;
- Maintaining appropriate records;
- Complying with business-registration requirements.
GSO, a payment provider, or another responsible entity may issue tax forms or report payments when required by law.
The absence of a tax form does not make affiliate income non-taxable.
GSO does not provide individualized tax advice.
19. Required Affiliate Disclosures
Every affiliate promotion must clearly and conspicuously disclose the affiliate’s material connection to GSO or the participating seller.
The disclosure must:
- Be easy to notice;
- Be easy to understand;
- Appear close to the endorsement or referral link;
- Appear before or at the point the consumer encounters the endorsement;
- Use language appropriate to the medium;
- Not be hidden behind multiple links, vague wording, or a profile page alone;
- Be included in audio or video when the endorsement is made through audio or video;
- Remain visible long enough to be read or heard.
Acceptable language may include:
- “I may earn a commission if you purchase through this link.”
- “Affiliate link.”
- “Paid partnership.”
- “Ad” or “Advertisement,” where appropriate.
Vague terms such as “collab,” “ambassador,” “partner,” or “support me” may be insufficient when they do not clearly communicate that compensation may be earned.
A platform-provided disclosure tool should be used where available but may need to be supplemented with the affiliate’s own clear disclosure.
20. Truthful and Substantiated Promotions
Affiliate content must be truthful, accurate, and not misleading.
Affiliates may not:
- Make false product claims;
- Misrepresent price, availability, or discounts;
- Invent product features;
- Guarantee unsupported results;
- Use false scarcity or countdown claims;
- Misrepresent shipping or returns;
- Claim official endorsement without authorization;
- Omit material limitations;
- Make health, financial, legal, safety, or performance claims without required support.
Affiliates must promptly correct or remove inaccurate content after becoming aware of the problem.
21. Experience and Testimonials
An affiliate may describe a personal experience only when the affiliate genuinely had that experience.
An affiliate may not:
- Claim to have used a product that the affiliate did not use;
- Fabricate results;
- Use another person’s experience as the affiliate’s own;
- Create a false customer testimonial;
- Use an artificial-intelligence-generated persona to falsely imply a genuine customer experience;
- State that unusual results are typical without appropriate qualification.
An honest opinion does not permit a false factual claim.
22. Reviews, Ratings, and Incentives
Affiliates may not:
- Create or purchase fake reviews;
- Provide compensation conditioned on positive or negative review sentiment;
- Submit reviews through fabricated identities;
- Use undisclosed insider reviews;
- Suppress honest negative reviews through threats or intimidation;
- Purchase fake followers, views, likes, subscribers, or other influence indicators for a commercial purpose;
- Misrepresent a controlled review page as independent;
- Review a competitor dishonestly.
An affiliate who receives a free product, discount, commission opportunity, or other benefit must disclose that material connection when reviewing or endorsing the offering.
23. Approved Content and Creative Materials
GSO or a participating seller may provide:
- Logos;
- Banners;
- Product images;
- Descriptions;
- Approved claims;
- Campaign copy;
- Links and codes;
- Other promotional assets.
Affiliates receive a limited, nonexclusive, revocable, nontransferable license to use those materials solely for authorized Program promotion.
Affiliates may not materially alter required disclosures, legal notices, pricing, product claims, or brand identity.
24. Affiliate-Created Content
Affiliates retain ownership of content they lawfully create, subject to rights in GSO and seller assets.
By tagging GSO, submitting promotional content for approval, or participating in an identified campaign, the affiliate grants GSO and the participating seller a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to:
- Review the content;
- Repost or share it;
- Display it in campaign reporting;
- Use it to promote the applicable product or Program;
- Preserve it for compliance and dispute records.
The affiliate represents that all content is lawful and that necessary copyright, music, image, voice, likeness, and publicity permissions have been obtained.
25. GSO Names, Marks, and Branding
Affiliates may use approved GSO names, logos, and brand assets only as authorized.
Affiliates may not:
- Modify a logo without approval;
- Use GSO branding as their own;
- Imply ownership of GSO;
- Create false sponsorship;
- Use a mark in unlawful, deceptive, hateful, or disparaging content;
- Register GSO marks;
- Challenge CrownThrive’s ownership;
- Continue using the marks after authorization ends.
Good Shit Only™, GSO branding, and associated CrownThrive marks remain the property of CrownThrive LLC or the applicable rights holder.
26. Domains, Social Accounts, and Impersonation
Affiliates may not register or use a domain, username, account name, application name, page title, business name, or other identifier that:
- Contains a GSO or CrownThrive trademark without written approval;
- Is confusingly similar to an official GSO property;
- Falsely appears to be official support;
- Misrepresents affiliation;
- Impersonates GSO, CrownThrive, a seller, or another affiliate.
An affiliate page must clearly identify itself as independently operated when confusion is reasonably possible.
27. Paid Search and Advertising
Unless GSO expressly approves otherwise, affiliates may not:
- Bid on “Good Shit Only,” “GSO,” “CrownThrive,” or confusingly similar trademark terms;
- Use GSO trademarks in paid-ad display URLs;
- Impersonate an official GSO advertisement;
- Direct paid traffic through a misleading or invisible redirect;
- Use false pricing or coupon claims;
- Target prohibited audiences or jurisdictions;
- Use unauthorized comparison or competitor claims.
Paid advertising must lead to a truthful landing page and contain required affiliate disclosures.
Campaign-specific written approval may impose additional bidding, targeting, creative, or budget restrictions.
28. Email Marketing
Affiliates using email must:
- Have a lawful basis to contact recipients;
- Use accurate sender and routing information;
- Use non-deceptive subject lines;
- Identify advertising where required;
- Provide a working unsubscribe method;
- Honor opt-outs promptly;
- Include legally required business contact information;
- Protect recipient information;
- Comply with applicable email-marketing law.
Affiliates may not use purchased, scraped, stolen, or unlawfully obtained email lists.
Affiliates may not imply that an email was sent directly by GSO unless expressly authorized.
29. Text Messages and Calls
Affiliates may use text messaging, automated calls, prerecorded calls, or telephone marketing only when all legally required consent, identification, opt-out, timing, recordkeeping, and do-not-call requirements are satisfied.
Affiliates may not:
- Send unsolicited marketing texts;
- Use automated dialing without required consent;
- Ignore revocation or opt-out requests;
- Misrepresent caller identity;
- Use GSO’s name as the sender without authorization;
- Purchase or scrape telephone lists unlawfully.
30. Social Media and Influencer Marketing
Social-media affiliates must:
- Disclose the affiliate relationship in each applicable post or content item;
- Place disclosures where users will encounter them;
- Repeat disclosures in temporary, live, or multi-part content where necessary;
- Provide audible disclosures in spoken endorsements where appropriate;
- Use on-screen disclosures in video where appropriate;
- Avoid burying the disclosure among hashtags or after a truncated caption;
- Follow the platform’s rules in addition to these Terms.
An affiliate must not assume that a biography disclosure covers every individual endorsement.
31. Coupons, Deals, and Loyalty Sites
Coupon, deal, cashback, rewards, toolbar, extension, or loyalty-based promotion requires GSO approval.
Affiliates may not:
- Promote expired or invented coupon codes;
- Claim a discount where none exists;
- Overwrite another affiliate’s attribution without a genuine user action;
- Automatically activate tracking without informed interaction;
- Use misleading “click to reveal” practices;
- Intercept checkout traffic deceptively;
- Misrepresent cashback availability;
- Apply unauthorized credits or incentives.
32. Cookies and Tracking
Affiliate tracking may involve referral identifiers, cookies, campaign parameters, account association, or comparable technologies.
Affiliates must comply with applicable privacy and cookie requirements.
Affiliates may not:
- Stuff cookies;
- Force clicks;
- Use hidden iframes;
- Install tracking without lawful notice or consent;
- Use malware or unauthorized browser extensions;
- Replace another affiliate’s tracking improperly;
- Collect unnecessary personal information;
- Misrepresent how tracking operates.
A buyer’s rejection of optional tracking may prevent commission attribution.
33. Prohibited Traffic and Methods
Prohibited affiliate activity includes:
- Bot traffic;
- Click farms;
- Fake accounts;
- Forced clicks;
- Adware or malware;
- Unauthorized browser extensions;
- Cookie stuffing;
- Spam;
- Deceptive redirects;
- Domain impersonation;
- Trademark abuse;
- Fraudulent orders;
- Stolen payment information;
- Self-referral manipulation;
- False discounts;
- Fake testimonials;
- Fake followers or engagement;
- Unlawful discrimination;
- Adult, violent, hateful, extremist, exploitative, or illegal promotional environments;
- Promotion of prohibited products;
- Any method intended to defeat GSO’s controls.
34. International Promotion
Affiliates promoting outside the United States are responsible for:
- Local advertising laws;
- Consumer disclosures;
- Privacy and cookie requirements;
- Language accuracy;
- Tax obligations;
- Promotion restrictions;
- Sanctions and export controls;
- Product availability;
- Local endorsement and influencer requirements.
GSO may restrict countries, products, campaigns, or payout access.
35. Compliance Monitoring
GSO may review:
- Affiliate websites;
- Social-media content;
- Email samples;
- Advertisements;
- Referral activity;
- Conversion patterns;
- Device and traffic information;
- Complaints;
- Public content;
- Other relevant Program activity.
GSO may request correction, removal, disclosure improvement, traffic evidence, consent records, advertising records, or other compliance information.
Failure to correct a violation promptly may result in suspended links, withheld commissions, or termination.
36. Records and Cooperation
Affiliates should maintain records concerning:
- Promotional content;
- Publication dates;
- Affiliate disclosures;
- Advertising purchases;
- Email consent and opt-outs;
- Text or call consent;
- Traffic sources;
- Influencer and contractor arrangements;
- Expenses;
- Tax records;
- Other compliance information.
Affiliates must cooperate with reasonable GSO, seller, payment-provider, regulator, or legal inquiries.
37. Program and Commission Changes
GSO or a participating seller may prospectively:
- Add or remove products;
- Change commission rates;
- Change attribution periods;
- End campaigns;
- Change promotional restrictions;
- Change payout procedures;
- Change eligibility requirements;
- Discontinue the Program.
Changes generally apply to future transactions after the effective time.
Pending or recorded commissions remain subject to validation, reversals, fraud review, and the terms applicable to the underlying transaction.
38. Suspension and Termination
GSO may suspend or terminate an affiliate for:
- Violation of these Terms;
- Missing or false information;
- Fraudulent traffic or transactions;
- Failure to disclose the affiliate relationship;
- False advertising;
- Trademark misuse;
- Spam or unlawful marketing;
- Review manipulation;
- Cookie stuffing;
- Self-referral abuse;
- Negative balance;
- PayPal or tax verification failure;
- Legal, payment, privacy, security, or reputational risk;
- Failure to cooperate with review;
- Another material policy violation.
GSO may act immediately when necessary to stop fraud, unlawful promotion, consumer harm, security risk, or evidence destruction.
39. Effects of Termination
After termination:
- The affiliate must stop using referral links where instructed;
- The affiliate must stop using GSO and seller marks;
- Future referrals are ineligible;
- Pending commissions remain subject to validation;
- Fraudulent or noncompliant commissions may be forfeited or reversed;
- Valid Available Balance remains subject to the payout threshold, deductions, verification, and applicable law;
- Negative balances remain payable;
- Confidentiality, intellectual-property, tax, indemnification, dispute, and record obligations survive.
Termination does not guarantee immediate payout or waive unresolved investigations.
40. Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the affiliate agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless CrownThrive LLC, GSO, participating sellers, and their affiliates, owners, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from claims, losses, penalties, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising from:
- The affiliate’s promotions;
- False or misleading claims;
- Failure to disclose compensation;
- Privacy or marketing-law violations;
- Intellectual-property infringement;
- Unlawful calls, texts, or emails;
- Fake reviews or engagement;
- Fraudulent traffic or transactions;
- Violation of these Terms;
- Conduct of the affiliate’s personnel or contractors.
41. Disclaimers and Liability
The Affiliate Program is provided “as is” and “as available” to the fullest extent permitted by law.
GSO does not guarantee:
- Acceptance into the Program;
- Continued product eligibility;
- Clicks or traffic;
- Successful tracking;
- Commissions;
- Conversion;
- Income;
- A particular attribution decision;
- PayPal availability;
- Program continuation;
- Uninterrupted referral systems.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, GSO will not be liable for indirect, consequential, special, punitive, or speculative losses, lost profits, lost opportunity, tracking interruptions, rejected traffic, seller withdrawal, or PayPal decisions.
GSO’s aggregate liability relating to the Program will not exceed the amount of valid unpaid commission directly affected by GSO’s legally actionable conduct or one hundred United States dollars, whichever is greater.
Nothing in this section limits liability that applicable law does not permit GSO to limit.
42. Disputes
Affiliate disputes are governed by the informal-resolution, governing-law, arbitration, class-action waiver, jury-trial waiver, and forum provisions in the Terms & Conditions.
Before initiating a legal proceeding, submit:
Affiliate Legal Dispute Notice
The notice should identify the affiliate account, campaign, transaction, commission, disputed decision, supporting evidence, and requested resolution.
43. Changes to These Terms
GSO may update these Terms prospectively to reflect legal, advertising, tracking, payment, seller, platform, or operational changes.
The revised Terms will display an updated Last Updated date.
Material changes may also be communicated through the affiliate dashboard, email, or another reasonable method.
Continued participation after the updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.
44. Support and Notices
Relevant Help Center subjects should include:
- Affiliate Application Support
- Affiliate Link or Tracking Question
- Affiliate Attribution Review
- Affiliate Commission Question
- Affiliate Commission Reversal
- Affiliate PayPal Payout Support
- Affiliate Disclosure Question
- Affiliate Advertising Approval
- Affiliate Account Appeal
- Affiliate Legal Dispute Notice
Good Shit Only™ is operated by:
CrownThrive LLC
Virginia, United States
BY APPLYING, PROMOTING AN OFFERING, USING A REFERRAL LINK, EARNING A COMMISSION, OR REQUESTING AN AFFILIATE PAYOUT, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREED TO THESE AFFILIATE PROGRAM TERMS.