Terms & Conditions

01The Program

Milton Insiders (the "Program") lets creators and affiliates ("you," an "Insider") open a branded online storefront (a "Storefront") stocked from the Milton Industries catalog. The Program and this website are operated by Riithink Digital Marketing ("Riithink," "we," "us"), 120 Mosaic Blvd, Suite 211, Pittsboro, NC 27312, on behalf of Milton Industries, Inc. ("Milton"), 4500 West Cortland Street, Chicago, IL 60639. Milton is the manufacturer and the seller of record for every product sold through the Program.

The Program is an affiliate marketing program, not a marketplace, reseller arrangement, or franchise. You never buy, hold, or sell inventory, and you never take payment from shoppers. You promote products through your Storefront, and you earn a commission on the qualifying orders attributed to it, as described in Section 5.

02Acceptance & Eligibility

These Terms & Conditions (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and us. You accept them by checking the agreement box when you create an account, by signing in to the partner dashboard (the "Dashboard"), or by continuing to participate in the Program. We record the Terms version and timestamp you accepted at signup. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the Program.

To join and remain in the Program you must:

• be at least 18 years old and able to enter a binding contract;
• provide accurate, current registration information and keep it updated;
• register one account for yourself or the entity you are authorized to act for (if you enroll for a company, "you" includes that company, and you confirm you can bind it);
• be able to receive payouts through a payout method we support, and provide the tax documentation described in Section 6;
• comply with all laws that apply to you, including, if you are outside the United States, your local marketing-disclosure and tax rules.

We may accept, decline, or re-review any application or account at our discretion, and we may decline enrollment to anyone whose participation was previously terminated for cause.

03Your Account & Storefront

You are responsible for your account credentials and for everything done under your account. Tell us immediately if you suspect unauthorized access.

When you create a Storefront, we provision it on a subdomain of miltoninsiders.com. You may also connect a custom domain you own. You control your Storefront's name, logo, colors, template, page content, and which catalog products it carries. We host the Storefront and control its infrastructure, checkout integration, and the shared legal pages shown to shoppers (privacy, terms of service, shipping, and refund policies), which you may not alter.

The Milton Insiders Privacy Policy governs how we collect and use your data as a partner. It is incorporated into these Terms and forms part of them (Section 17). It is a separate document from the shopper-facing privacy policy published on your Storefront, which covers the people who buy from it.

• The subdomain and Storefront URL are ours. They are allocated to you while you participate and are not your property. Custom domains you register remain yours.
• Naming. Your Storefront name and any custom domain must not be confusingly similar to "Milton," "Milton Insiders," or any Milton brand (see Section 9), and must not impersonate any person or brand.
• Content standards. Storefront content must be yours to use, accurate, and appropriate for a general audience. No unlawful, hateful, sexually explicit, or deceptive content, and no content directed at children.
• Monitoring. We may review, require changes to, or remove Storefront content, and may suspend a Storefront that violates these Terms. Where practical we will tell you what needs fixing first.

04How Selling Works

Every purchase on a Storefront is a sale by Milton to the shopper. Checkout runs through Milton's central commerce platform. Milton (directly or through us) owns and controls the catalog, product information, pricing, discounts, availability, payment processing, shipping, order fulfillment, returns, warranty service, and customer support. Prices and the catalog can change at any time, and products may be removed or go out of stock without notice.

Shoppers who buy through your Storefront are Milton's customers, not yours. You will see aggregate order and earnings data in your Dashboard, but you do not receive shoppers' personal information, and you must not attempt to collect payment or personal data from shoppers on or around your Storefront.

You have no authority to modify prices, promise delivery dates, accept returns, extend warranties, or make any commitment on Milton's or our behalf.

05Commissions

What earns a commission

A "Qualified Purchase" is an order that a shopper places and pays for through the checkout reached from your Storefront's cart, and that our systems attribute to your Storefront. Attribution is stamped server-side on the cart the moment a shopper adds a product to it on your Storefront, and it is copied onto the order at checkout. It uses no third-party advertising or click-tracking cookies; the shopper's own browser holds a first-party cookie that identifies their cart. Orders placed anywhere else (including miltonindustries.com, Amazon, retail stores, or another Insider's storefront) are never Qualified Purchases. Our tracking records are the system of record for attribution and earnings and are final.

The attribution window

Attribution begins when a shopper adds a product to the cart on your Storefront. Browsing your Storefront without adding anything does not create attribution. Once created, it stays with that cart: the cart is held for up to 14 days, so an order placed at any point inside that window is attributed to your Storefront even if the shopper never comes back through your link. The 14 days run from when the cart was created, not from the shopper's most recent visit, and a cart can end sooner if it expires at our checkout provider.

A cart is held per browser and per Storefront. A shopper who switches device or browser, or who opens a different Insider's Storefront, starts a separate cart there. Attribution does not move between Storefronts: an order pays the Storefront whose cart it was placed from.

How the amount is calculated

Your commission on a Qualified Purchase is the order's merchandise subtotal (after discounts, excluding shipping, taxes, and fees) multiplied by your Commission Rate at the moment the order is placed. Your current rate is always shown in your Dashboard, and every order in your earnings ledger records the rate it earned. Commissions accrue in the order's currency, and each currency is held as its own separate balance. Balances in different currencies are never added together; see Section 6 for what that means when you request a payout.

Commission tiers

Commission Rates are tiered, so your rate rises with the sales your Storefronts generate:

• Tier 1 — 10%. Where Insiders start.
• Tier 2 — 15%. From $2,500 in trailing 12-month sales.
• Tier 3 — 18%. From $10,000.

Your tier follows your own sales volume. It is set by your Storefronts' sales over the trailing 12 months, and it moves on its own as that figure changes: up when you cross a threshold, and back down if your trailing volume falls below the one you are on. Holding a tier means maintaining the volume it asks for. The sales measured are the merchandise subtotals of your Qualified Purchases, the same figure your commission is calculated on, counted in US dollars; sales in another currency count at their US dollar equivalent. Your Dashboard shows your trailing-12-month total, your current tier and rate, and what you need to hold it or reach the next one.

Because the published table does not change when you move on it, a tier move needs no notice in either direction. What we will give you at least 30 days' notice of is a change to the table itself: the percentages, the thresholds, or the sales we measure. We may also agree an individual rate with you in writing; that rate then applies instead of your tier rate.

Either way, a rate change applies only to orders placed after it takes effect. It never re-prices commissions you have already earned, including ones still in the Holdback Period, so nothing you have banked moves when your tier does.

When commissions vest

A new commission starts as Pending. Once 30 days pass from the order date (the "Holdback Period") without the order being refunded or cancelled, the commission becomes Approved and is yours.

The Holdback Period is fixed at 30 days from the order date. It is set to sit alongside Milton's product return window, but it does not follow it automatically: if Milton changes its return window, the Holdback Period does not move with it, and we will give you at least 30 days' notice before any corresponding change to the Holdback Period takes effect.

Edits while Pending. If the order is edited while a commission is Pending, the commission is recalculated to match the edited order. An "edit" means a change to the order's quantity, the discount applied, or the shipping method. The recalculation follows the order in both directions: an edit that raises the merchandise subtotal raises your commission, and one that lowers it lowers your commission. Refunds, returns and cancellations are not edits; they are handled under "Reversals and exclusions" below. Once Approved, the amount is locked and a later edit does not change it.

Outages do not pause vesting. System outages, service interruptions, and force majeure events (Section 17) do not toll or extend the Holdback Period. Commissions vest as of their scheduled date and are credited from that date, even where a delay on our side means we record it later.

Reversals and exclusions

• Orders that are refunded, cancelled, or charged back are reversed and earn no commission. If a reversal lands after a commission was paid, we may offset the amount against your future earnings.
• Self-purchases do not earn commissions. You are welcome to buy through your own Storefront, but orders placed by you, your household, or anyone buying at your direction to generate commissions are excluded.
• No commission accrues on orders generated through prohibited conduct (Section 7), through prohibited paid search (Section 9), or through fraudulent, bot, or incentivized traffic. We may reverse those commissions and, for serious or repeated abuse, end your participation.
• Where attribution data is missing because tracking was circumvented or manipulated, no commission is due.

We make no promise about the traffic, orders, or earnings you can expect from the Program.

06Payouts & Taxes

Requesting a payout

You can request a payout from your Dashboard whenever your Approved, unclaimed balance in a currency reaches that currency's minimum, which is 50 units of it ($50 on a US dollar balance). Your Dashboard shows the figure for each currency you hold. Payouts are sent by PayPal or bank transfer to the payout method on your account; the destination is locked in when you submit the request. One payout request may be open per currency at a time. We pay approved requests within 30 days. If we reject a request (for example, for suspected fraud or an invalid payout method), we will tell you why, and valid commissions return to your available balance.

Earning in more than one currency

Each currency you earn in is a separate balance (Section 5), and each one has to reach its own minimum before it can be paid out. Balances in different currencies are not combined to get you over that threshold: $35 USD and €30 EUR are two balances below their minimums, not one balance above.

If you would rather consolidate them, email partners@miltoninsiders.com and we will convert one balance into another so it can be paid out. We use the exchange rate current on the date the payout is issued, and we pay the cost of the conversion — nothing is deducted from your balance for it.

Payment processing fees

We bear all payment processing fees, including PayPal fees and bank transfer fees. Nothing is deducted from your payout to cover processing. Amounts we are required to withhold by law (below) and any offset under Section 5 are separate from processing costs and still apply.

Tax documentation

Before your first payout you must provide the tax documentation we request (for U.S. persons, an IRS Form W-9; for others, the applicable Form W-8). We may hold payouts until valid documentation is on file, and where required by law we will withhold from payments (including 24% U.S. backup withholding if a valid taxpayer identification number is missing) and file information returns such as Form 1099-NEC. We file Form 1099-NEC when your annual Program earnings reach the then-current IRS reporting threshold (currently $600 per tax year, subject to change).

You are solely responsible for all taxes on your Program earnings, including income and self-employment taxes. Commissions are paid without deductions except where the law requires.

07Marketing Rules & Disclosures

Tell your audience about the relationship

Your commission relationship with the Program is a "material connection" under the FTC's Endorsement Guides. Every post, video, stream, or other content that promotes your Storefront or its products must include a clear and conspicuous disclosure of that relationship (for example, "I earn a commission on purchases from my store"). The disclosure must be hard to miss and in the same medium as the claim: spoken claims need an audible disclosure, video needs it on screen and audibly, and a platform's built-in "paid partnership" label is not sufficient by itself. If you receive free or discounted products from us or Milton, disclose that too.

Only say what's true

• Share only your honest opinions and actual experience with products.
• Product claims must match Milton's published product information. In particular: do not claim a "lifetime warranty" (Milton's warranty is a limited one, generally one year, up to three years on marked products); do not make blanket "Made in USA" claims (only specific SKUs are marked as U.S.-made); and do not invent performance figures or certifications beyond the standards Milton publishes.
• These are professional-grade compressed-air and automotive products. Never depict or encourage unsafe use, removing safety features, or use contrary to the product's safety and hazard warnings.

Prohibited conduct

• No fake, purchased, or AI-fabricated reviews or testimonials, no review solicitation from family or employees without disclosure, and no buying followers, views, or other engagement indicators (FTC Rule on Consumer Reviews and Testimonials).
• No spam or unsolicited bulk messaging, and no marketing that violates CAN-SPAM, the TCPA, or platform rules.
• No forced clicks, misleading redirects, or misrepresenting links; no interfering with attribution or another Insider's traffic.
• No marketing directed at children, and no placement of Storefront promotion alongside unlawful, hateful, or adult content.
• No coupon-site posting of codes not issued to you, and no advertising discounts or promotions that do not exist.

We may provide disclosure wording, brand guidelines, or training materials, and may require you to correct or take down content that violates this section. Repeated or serious violations are grounds for immediate termination and reversal of tainted commissions.

08Free Product Credits

We may offer you products at no charge so you can feature them in your content ("Free Product Credits"). Credits are a benefit of the Program, not compensation: nothing here changes Section 5, and no credit is owed for signing up.

How credits are earned

• Starter credit. One per Insider, available once your Storefront is live, you have told us what you plan to post, and you have the minimum audience we publish in the Dashboard on at least one platform. We approve starter credits at our discretion and may cap how many we approve in a month.
• Earned credits. One credit for every $1000 of Qualified Purchases that have passed the Holdback Period, or for every 20 such orders, whichever gives more. Credits accumulate and do not expire while your account is active. Orders placed with a credit code, orders with a zero subtotal, and reversed orders never count.

What a credit is

Each credit is good for one product from your own Storefront with a retail price of up to $100, from the products Milton has made available for this purpose. When a request is approved we place the order and ship the product to the US address you gave us, at no charge to you, shipping included. You must give us an accurate name, address, and phone number for delivery; we are not responsible for a product that cannot be delivered to the details you provided. If the order is cancelled or refunded, the credit returns to your balance. Credits have no cash value, cannot be transferred, sold, or exchanged, and are forfeited if your participation ends for any reason.

What you agree to do

• Publish at least one post, video, or stream featuring the product within 30 days of receiving it, and add the link in your Dashboard. The post must show the product and include your Storefront link, in the post itself or in your profile.
• Keep that content publicly available for as long as you participate.
• Follow every rule in Section 7, and the disclosure rules of the platform you post on. Safety warnings apply to demonstrations of free products exactly as to any other.

Approval and pausing

Every request is subject to our approval, which we may give manually or automatically, and may decline for any reason, including product fit, safety, or the content plan. While a post is outstanding or has been declined, no further credits can be spent. If a post is not published within the deadline more than once, or if the account shows a pattern of refunds or cancellations, we may suspend Free Product Credits for the account without affecting your commissions. We may change, pause, or end Free Product Credits at any time; credits already approved are honored.

09Intellectual Property & Content

Our and Milton's marks

"Milton Insiders" and the platform are ours; "MILTON®," "M-STYLE®," "KWIK-CHANGE®," "ACCU-GAGE®," and the other Milton brands, product names, images, and copy are Milton's. While you participate, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the program name, and the product names, images, and descriptions we make available through the platform, solely to operate and promote your Storefront, consistent with any brand guidelines we publish. You may not:

• alter the marks, or use them in your own logo, business name, or in any way implying you are Milton or that Milton endorses you beyond Program participation;
• register, apply to register, or acquire any domain, social handle, app name, trademark, service mark, or trade name containing or confusingly similar to the marks, without our prior written consent (and Milton's, where the mark is Milton's);
• bid on "Milton," "Milton Insiders," any other of the marks, or their misspellings as paid-search keywords in any match type — broad, phrase, exact, or otherwise — or run paid ads that link directly to your Storefront from those keywords (commissions from such traffic are disqualified);
• use the marks or product assets for anything outside the Program, or after your participation ends.

Paid search is not closed to you altogether. You may bid on descriptive, non-branded keywords that name a product category, for example "professional tire gauge" or "air tool accessories." A branded long-tail phrase such as "Milton ACCU-GAGE tire gauge" is still a brand term, and is still prohibited.

Your content

The content you create (your Storefront branding, copy, images, and promotional posts) stays yours. You grant us and Milton a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, display, reproduce, and share that content in order to operate the platform and to promote your Storefront and the Program, for as long as you participate plus 12 months for archival and record-keeping. We will not use your content to train AI models without your separate consent. We may identify you by name and handle in Program marketing; you can opt out of future campaigns by contacting us.

You promise your content is yours (or properly licensed), does not infringe anyone's rights, and complies with these Terms. If you send us ideas or feedback about the Program, we can use them without obligation.

10Independent Contractor

You participate as an independent contractor. Nothing in these Terms creates an employment, agency, partnership, joint-venture, or franchise relationship. You have no authority to act for or bind us or Milton. You are not eligible for employee benefits, and you bear your own expenses, equipment, insurance, and taxes. Participation is non-exclusive both ways: you may take part in other programs (subject to your confidentiality obligations), and we may work with any other creators.

11Confidentiality

Non-public information you learn through the Program (such as unreleased products or campaigns, commission structures offered to you individually, program analytics beyond your own, and business or technical information) is confidential. Use it only to participate in the Program and do not disclose it for three years after your participation ends, except where the law requires disclosure or the information becomes public through no fault of yours.

Nothing in these Terms stops you from sharing your own honest opinions or your own earnings, making disclosures required by law (including the FTC disclosures in Section 7), or reporting concerns to a government agency.

12Term & Termination

These Terms apply from the moment you accept them until your participation ends. You can leave at any time from your Dashboard or by contacting us. We can suspend or end your participation at any time (suspension for inactivity alone follows Section 17), and will act immediately for fraud, material breach of these Terms, unlawful conduct, or conduct that harms shoppers, the Program, or the Milton brand. For a first, fixable violation we will normally tell you what is wrong and give you a chance to cure it.

When participation ends:

• your Storefronts go offline, their subdomains return to us, and your license to the marks and product assets ends;
• unless termination was for fraud or material breach, commissions you validly earned still count: Pending commissions that survive their Holdback Period become Approved, and we pay out your remaining Approved balance on the normal schedule, even if it is under that currency's minimum;
• commissions attributable to fraud or material breach are forfeited;
• your records stay reachable: for 90 days you keep Dashboard access to export your earnings and your orders. After that, the commission, payout and tax records we are required to keep are archived rather than deleted, and we will retrieve them on reasonable request to partners@miltoninsiders.com for at least three years after termination, so you can still get what your tax filings need. Nothing in this bullet limits the access rights the Privacy Policy gives you for as long as we hold the data;
• sections that by nature survive (including commissions earned, payment, IP licenses for the stated tail, confidentiality, disclaimers, liability, and disputes) survive.

13Changes to the Program & These Terms

The Program will evolve: we may change, add, or retire features, templates, and the catalog at any time. We may also update these Terms. When we do, we will post the new version here with a new "Last updated" date, and for material changes (including any change that reduces Commission Rates or payout terms) we will notify you by email or in your Dashboard at least 30 days before the change takes effect. Your own tier moving on the published table is not such a change and carries no notice, as Section 5 explains. Economic changes apply only to orders placed after their effective date. Your continued participation after the effective date is acceptance of the updated Terms; if you do not agree, stop participating and your existing earned commissions will still be handled under Section 12.

14Disclaimers

The Program, the platform, and your Storefront are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation, that any product will remain available or keep its price, or that you will earn any particular amount. Product warranties run from Milton to the purchaser under Milton's published warranty terms; you receive no product warranty through the Program.

15Liability & Indemnity

To the fullest extent the law allows: neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data; and our and Milton's combined total liability arising out of the Program is capped at the greater of the commissions we paid you in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or $100. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

You will defend and indemnify us and Milton against third-party claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your content, your marketing conduct, your breach of these Terms, your violation of law, or your taxes. We will indemnify you against third-party claims that materials we supplied to you for the Program (used as supplied and as permitted) infringe their intellectual-property rights.

16Governing Law & Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing any claim, you and we agree to try to resolve the dispute informally: either party may send a written description of the dispute to the other (for you, to the contact in Section 18; for us, to your account email), and the parties will confer in good faith for 30 days. Disputes that are not resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Chatham County, North Carolina (or the federal district covering it), and both parties consent to their jurisdiction. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court, to the extent permitted by applicable law, and either party may seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property misuse in any court of competent jurisdiction.

17General Terms

• Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any program policies, rate schedules, or brand guidelines we publish in the Dashboard (all of which are part of these Terms) are the whole agreement about the Program. Where they conflict, these Terms govern, except on the handling of your personal data, where the Privacy Policy governs. If you and we sign a separate campaign or sponsorship agreement, that agreement controls for its campaign.
• Notices. We send notices to your account email; keeping it current is your responsibility. You send notices to the contact in Section 18.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale, including to Milton.
• No waiver; severability. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control. This does not pause the Holdback Period or push back when a commission vests (Section 5).
• Inactive Storefronts. A Storefront with no orders and no Dashboard activity for 12 consecutive months may be suspended. Before we suspend it we will email you a notice of intent, and you have 30 days to sign in and confirm you want to stay active. A suspended Storefront earns no new commissions on carts started after the suspension; sign in and we put it back online. Suspension does not forfeit anything you have already earned: your Approved balance stays payable under Section 6, and we will pay it out on request even if it is below that currency's minimum.
• Electronic contracting. You consent to contracting, notices, and records electronically.

18Contact

Questions about these Terms or the Program: email partners@miltoninsiders.com, or use the Help section of your Dashboard.

Riithink Digital Marketing · 120 Mosaic Blvd, Suite 211, Pittsboro, NC 27312, on behalf of Milton Industries, Inc. · 4500 West Cortland Street, Chicago, IL 60639.