Partner Marketing & Communications Compliance Policy
This document has not been reviewed by a lawyer yet. It is a plain-language draft written from an attorney-review package. Follow it as written — where it is stricter than you expected, that is deliberate. If a section matters to a decision you are making, email johnsontechstudio@gmail.com and we will tell you where it stands, in writing, before you rely on it.
This Policy is part of your Partner Agreement with Johnson Tech Studio LLC dba gig33, doing business as Gig33. The Agreement says sell honestly; this is what that means in practice, channel by channel.
Why it is this strict. A written “partners cannot bind us” clause does not stop a regulator looking at what partners actually said. The rules below are the ones that keep a partner network from becoming everybody’s problem — yours, because it ends your participation, and ours, because we answer for it.
1. Use only the current approved materials
- Current prices, product descriptions, screenshots, links, scripts, comparisons, and promotions from your portal. Nothing else.
- Do not edit a screenshot or a demo to make a feature look live when it is not.
- Do not make a claim about a feature, a timeline, savings, security, compliance, an integration, or an outcome that is not in the approved materials.
- When a price or a policy changes, stop sending the old version out that day.
2. Always say you earn a commission
Whenever the financial relationship would not be obvious — social posts, videos, testimonials, referral content, reviews, public recommendations — put a clear disclosure close to the recommendation. Use this:
“I’m a Gig33 partner and may earn a commission if you purchase through my link.”
The word “partner” on its own does not count. Most people do not read it as “this person gets paid”, and that is the whole thing the disclosure exists to tell them.
3. Claims you may never make without written approval
- “Guaranteed income”, “guaranteed commissions”, “easy money”, or any specific earning level presented as typical.
- “Guaranteed ROI”, “guaranteed leads”, “guaranteed bookings”, “guaranteed reviews”, “guaranteed Google ranking”, “guaranteed revenue”, or “it pays for itself”.
- “Replaces your receptionist” or “replaces your staff” as a flat factual claim. Describe the tasks it actually handles and the fact that it hands off to a person.
- “Compliant in all 50 states”, “HIPAA compliant”, “PCI compliant”, “SOC 2 certified”, “Google partner”, or anything similar — unless we have confirmed in writing that it is true for that product on that date.
- A refund, a cancellation right, a free trial, or a price that is not in the current official checkout or order materials.
- A fake deadline, fake scarcity, a fake testimonial, a made-up customer result, or an invented competitor comparison.
4. Reaching out to prospects
Phone. Manual, one-to-one calls to a business are usually fine where the law allows. What is not allowed, unless we have expressly approved the campaign and documented the consent and suppression controls: an AI-generated voice, a prerecorded message, an autodialer, an automated telemarketing campaign, a mass calling tool, or spoofed caller ID.
Text messages. Do not cold-text a scraped or purchased list. Ever. Use text only through approved systems, and only where the recipient and the purpose actually satisfy consent and carrier requirements. Honour STOP and every other recognised opt-out the moment you get it.
Email. Accurate sender and header details. Truthful subject lines. Identify advertising where the law requires it. Include a real physical postal address and a working unsubscribe link. Never keep marketing to someone after they opt out, and never use a third-party list vendor to get around this.
In person, social, and direct messages. No harassment, no trespassing, no impersonating a business’s staff, no fake social accounts. If a prospect clearly says stop contacting them, stop. Never post a prospect’s private information publicly.
5. The purchase itself
- Send prospects only to authorised checkout links, demos, or proposals we issued.
- Never collect a card number, bank credentials, a password, an identity document, or a tax ID from a buyer for us.
- Never change the checkout price, the recurring amount, the setup fee, the cancellation terms, the legal terms, or the disclosures.
- Never accept cash, a cheque, Venmo, Zelle, or any other off-platform payment on our behalf.
- Never sign for a buyer or tick a legal consent box on their behalf. It has to be them.
6. Prospect information
- Collect the minimum you need to make the introduction.
- Do not upload a purchased lead list unless we have specifically approved it and it was lawfully sourced.
- Use prospect information only for the approved sales purpose, and keep it in approved systems where you can.
- Honour do-not-contact and deletion requests, and tell us straight away if you think data or credentials have been exposed.
7. Reviews and testimonials about us
- Never fabricate a customer review, and never use AI to invent a customer experience.
- Never post a review as though you were an independent customer when you are a paid partner.
- If you describe your own experience, be truthful and disclose the commission relationship.
- Do not repeat a customer success statistic unless we have approved that claim, including any “results vary” context that goes with it.
8. Competitors
Do not make false statements about a competitor, copy their sales materials, impersonate them, interfere with their accounts, or claim they are breaking the law without our approval and evidence. A comparison has to be current, specific, and supportable.
9. Monitoring and enforcement
We may look at your public marketing, look into complaints, ask you to prove you had consent or made a disclosure, require corrective training, ask you to remove content, suspend your links, hold a disputed commission while we investigate fraud or a compliance problem, or end your participation. Ignoring an approved correction more than once is a serious breach of the Partner Agreement.
Not settled yet — we have not published how often we sample partner marketing, or a formal appeal route if you disagree with a decision. If we act on something you did, we will tell you what it was, and you can put your side to us.
10. When you are not sure, ask — do not guess
If a prospect asks about legal compliance, security certifications, tax treatment, guaranteed results, a custom refund, enterprise data processing, use in a regulated industry, or a feature that is not in the approved catalogue: say it needs confirmation from Gig33 and send the question to johnsontechstudio@gmail.com.
Not settled yet — we do not have a separate sales-compliance mailbox yet. The address above is a real, monitored inbox and is where this goes until one exists.
11. Short scripts you can use word for word
- Who you are: “I’m an independent Gig33 partner. I can show you Johnson Tech Studio’s approved services and send you the official checkout link.”
- Commission: “I may earn a commission if you purchase through my link.”
- Results: “Results depend on your business, your market, your offer, and how customers respond. Johnson Tech Studio does not guarantee revenue, leads, rankings, reviews, or bookings.”
- Refunds: “The official Refund & Cancellation Policy controls. I can show you the current policy; I can’t promise a different refund.”
- Compliance: “I don’t want to guess on legal or compliance requirements. I’ll route that to Johnson Tech Studio for the current answer.”