Partner Terms

Effective October 4, 2026. Last updated October 3, 2026. Version partner-2026-10e.

1. These terms

These Partner Terms (“Terms”) are between you and Tyler Brock Jardine, a sole proprietor doing business as Tidepass, the operator of Tidepass (“Tidepass”, “we”, “us”). They apply when you join as a creator, a vacation-rental host or a business (“Partner”). Section 10 adds rules that apply only to Business Partners. Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy also apply.

Who runs Tidepass: Tidepass is a business name of Tyler Brock Jardine, a sole proprietor, 5120 Via Mindanao, Oceanside, CA 92057.

2. Who can join

• You must be at least 18 and able to make a binding contract.
• You must be able to open a Stripe Express account to get paid.
• Joining is free. You sign in with a link we email you.
• One account per person. A host may run one account for their rental business.
• A Business Partner account belongs to the business. The person who joins confirms they are allowed to act for it, and the business must be able to open a Stripe account in its legal name.
• We may decline or remove any account at our discretion, including if your content conflicts with these Terms.

3. Your page, codes and links

You get a public page at gettidepass.com/@yourhandle, a main code, and extra tracked codes and links (gettidepass.com/go/CODE). You can add picks, venues you like, with a note. Business Partners also get a co-branded page, campaign codes for each placement and a print and share kit (see section 10). Your picks must be your honest opinion. We may remove picks, handles or content that break these Terms, and we may reclaim a handle that’s misleading or infringes someone’s rights.

4. How you get credit

• 30-day credit. When a guest opens your link, a cookie remembers you for 30 days. If they claim a pass in that time, the pass is credited to you. A guest can also type your code when claiming.
• Last valid link wins. If a guest uses more than one partner’s link or code, the last valid one before the claim gets the credit.
• Verified visits only. You earn only when the guest checks in at the venue and the visit is confirmed (or presumed confirmed) under our Venue Partner Agreement.
• Cookies can be blocked or cleared, and some guests use different devices. We can’t credit what we can’t track, and our records decide attribution.

4.1 Not allowed

• Self-referrals: claiming passes through your own link or code for your own visits, or for your household’s.
• Incentivized fake visits: paying, rewarding or asking people to claim passes or check in for visits that don’t happen, or that wouldn’t happen except to earn you credit.
• Many check-ins from your device or network, fake accounts, bots, or anything that games the system.
• Cookie stuffing, forced clicks, or placing your link where the guest didn’t choose it.
• Offering your own extra discounts or cash back tied to Tidepass without our written OK.

Our system flags things like many check-ins from one device or network, self-claims and high dispute rates. A flag starts a review.

5. What you earn

You earn a percentage of the net visit value: the party’s experience total after the guest’s $10 off, before tax and tip. Your share is paid by Tidepass out of the venue’s fee; it doesn’t cost the guest or the venue anything extra.

• Hosts: 9%.
• Business Partners: 9% for lodging businesses (hotels, motels, inns, bed and breakfasts, vacation rentals and property managers) and 7% for all other businesses, except perk-only partners, who earn nothing (see section 10.1). We decide which group a business is in, based on what it mainly does.
• Creators, based on your verified visits in the last 90 days:
  • Opener (0+ verified visits): 9%
  • Rising (5+): 10%
  • Pro (15+): 11%
  • Headliner (40+): 12%

Example: a party of 4 at $40 each is $160. After the $10 pass it’s $150. A Rising creator earns 10% of $150, or $15.00.

Your tier for a visit is set by your verified visits in the 90 days before that visit’s check-in. Tiers update automatically.

Your tier for a visit is fixed at the moment the guest checks in, and doesn’t change if your count goes up or down later.

Partner Boost. A venue may choose to pay a higher fee through Partner Boost. Partners earn 2 extra percentage points on verified visits from passes claimed while that venue’s Boost was on. Boost can start and stop at any time, and it never lowers your normal rate.

6. When you get paid

• Pending: the visit is checked in and waiting for the venue to confirm and pay.
• Available: the venue’s payment for that visit has cleared.
• Paid: sent to you.

We pay available earnings weekly through Stripe Express (part of Stripe Connect) when your available balance is at least $25. Smaller balances roll over to the next week. You must set up and keep your Stripe Express account in good standing; Stripe’s terms apply to it. If a venue never pays for a visit, earnings for that visit don’t become available.

7. Taxes

You’re an independent contractor, not an employee. You’re responsible for your own taxes on what you earn, whether or not you get a tax form. Your earnings are payment for referral services, so when federal law requires it, Tyler Brock Jardine reports them to the IRS and to you on Form 1099-NEC, using Stripe to collect your tax information and deliver the form. (For payments made in 2026, that generally means $2,000 or more in a calendar year; the IRS may adjust the amount in later years. Payments to most corporations aren’t reported.) Forms are issued for each payment account we pay you from, so a year in which we change payment accounts can mean more than one form. We may hold payouts until you give the tax information the law requires, and if the IRS requires backup withholding, we’ll withhold it.

8. Clawbacks

We may reverse earnings, before or after payout, for any visit that is disputed and not upheld, refunded or adjusted by the venue (we’ll adjust your share to match), or that we find was fraudulent or broke these Terms. We’ll tell you which visits and why. We may take reversed amounts out of future earnings, or ask you to repay them. Except for fraud, we won’t reverse earnings more than 12 months after we paid them.

9. Disclosure and honest promotion

The FTC’s Endorsement Guides and similar laws require you to tell people when you earn from a recommendation. You agree to:

• Disclose clearly, every time. Use plain words like “#ad”, “paid partner” or “I earn when you visit through my link.” Put it where people will see it before they click, in the post or video itself, not hidden in a bio, a pile of hashtags or “see more.” In video, say it out loud too.
• Only say what’s true. Recommend places based on your honest opinion. Don’t claim you visited if you didn’t. Don’t make up prices, savings, ratings or claims about a venue.
• Get the deal right. It’s $10 off listed experiences of $40 or more (before tax and tip, alcohol excluded), one pass per party per venue per day, on the pass date only. Some venues give bigger discounts on bigger bills; mention them only as that venue’s listing shows them. Don’t promise more.
• No spam. Don’t send unsolicited bulk messages, texts or comments, and follow anti-spam laws (such as CAN-SPAM) if you email anyone.
• Hosts: follow your rental platform’s rules when sharing your link or QR card with guests.

We check partner content. If we find a missing or unclear disclosure or a false claim, we’ll ask you to fix it, and we may hold earnings on the affected links, remove content or end these Terms if it isn’t fixed.

10. Business Partners

This section applies if you join as a business, such as a hotel, motel, inn, vacation-rental host or property manager, gym or studio, salon or spa, employer, apartment community, cafe, bar or restaurant, event planner or shop (“Business Partner”). The rest of these Terms apply to you too.

10.1 Who can join

• You must be a real, lawfully operating business, and the information you give us (name, address, website, phone and category) must be accurate.
• Not allowed: cannabis; tobacco and vape; firearms; adult businesses; gambling; payday lending, debt relief or credit repair; “get rich quick” or investment schemes; pharmacies, drugs or supplements; political campaigns and groups; multi-level marketing; and businesses aimed at minors.
• Perk only (share Tidepass, earn nothing): holders of a California healing-arts license (including doctors, dentists, chiropractors, nurses, therapists, pharmacists and veterinarians) or a CAMTC massage certificate, and businesses they own (Business and Professions Code section 650); CPAs and accounting firms (section 5061); public insurance adjusters; government agencies, public schools and public employees acting in that role; attorneys and law firms; and employers sharing Tidepass with their own staff (section 10.7). Your guests still get the full discount, and your page says you don’t earn. The share you would have earned stays with Tidepass; the venue’s fee doesn’t change.
• Earn with written disclosure: real estate licensees and property managers for owners, and financial advisers, brokers and insurance agents, may earn only if they agree to tell their clients in writing that they earn a commission from Tidepass visits.
• Alcohol licensees may join. To keep within California’s tied-house rules (Business and Professions Code sections 25500 and 25502), a partner with a retail alcohol license never earns on visits to a brewery, winery, distillery or other supplier-licensed venue, and a supplier-licensed partner never earns on visits to an alcohol-licensed venue. Alcohol is never part of any visit value.
• We decide these groups automatically from your screening answers, and you must update your answers within 10 days if anything changes. If a change moves you into a perk-only group, you stop earning on visits checked in after the change.
• A venue listed on Tidepass may also be a Business Partner, but never earns on visits to its own listing or to a listing it owns or controls.

10.2 Earnings and payouts

• You earn the Business Partner rate in section 5 on the net visit value of each verified visit you send. It’s paid by Tidepass out of the venue’s fee, so it costs your customers nothing extra.
• Payouts are weekly through Stripe Connect (Stripe Express) to an account in your business’s legal name, under section 6.
• Tax reporting works as described in section 7: Form 1099-NEC where federal law requires it. Payments to a business taxed as a corporation generally aren’t reported; payments to sole proprietors, partnerships and most LLCs are, once they reach the federal threshold. Your business is responsible for its own taxes on what it earns.

10.3 Disclosure

Your co-branded page and every printable from your print and share kit include this line, with your business name:

“{Business} earns a commission when you visit through our link.”

Don’t remove, cover, shrink or hide it. If you share your link or code in anything you make yourself (an email, a post, your website, a sign or a welcome book), include the same line near the link or QR code, where people will see it before they scan or click.

10.4 Your logo, images and details

• You keep ownership of your name, logo, photos and other content you upload.
• You give Tyler Brock Jardine a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license, while you’re a Business Partner, to host, display, reproduce and adapt (for example, resize, crop or recolor to fit a layout) that content on your co-branded page, in your printables, and in partner and venue tools inside Tidepass. Copies that were already printed or shared may remain after you leave.
• You confirm you own the content or have permission to use it, and that it doesn’t infringe anyone’s rights.
• If your name or logo belongs to a brand or franchisor (for example, a hotel chain), you confirm your franchise or license agreement lets you use it this way. If the brand owner objects, tell us and we’ll take it down.

10.5 Content standards

• Keep it accurate. Don’t change the deal: it’s $10 off listed experiences of $40 or more, one pass per party per venue per day.
• No false or misleading claims, about your business, the venues or Tidepass.
• Nothing hateful, sexual, violent, harassing or illegal, and nothing that uses someone else’s brand without permission.
• Don’t use venue names or photos except as Tidepass provides them for your page and printables.

10.6 No implied endorsement

Your co-branded page is part of Tidepass and is operated by Tyler Brock Jardine, not by your business. Being a Business Partner doesn’t mean Tidepass or any venue endorses, sponsors or is affiliated with your business, and you must not say or suggest that it does.

10.7 Employers

• Offering Tidepass to your staff must be voluntary. Never require anyone to claim a pass, visit a venue or share your link.
• Don’t tie it to pay, hours, scheduling, performance, reviews or any other term of employment, and don’t treat it as wages or a benefit you owe.
• You’ll see totals only, never which employees went where.
• Employers don’t earn. A business that joins to share Tidepass with its own employees is a perk-only partner: it earns nothing on any visit through its links, so it never profits from its staff’s personal spending. California law also forbids pressuring employees to buy from anyone (Labor Code section 450).

10.8 Apartment communities

Offer Tidepass to all residents equally, and to prospective residents only on the same terms for everyone. Don’t make it a condition of a lease, a renewal or any rental term, don’t offer it to some residents and not others, don’t advertise it in a way that suggests a preference for any group of people, and don’t offer it in exchange for reviews or ratings of your property. Fair housing laws (including California Government Code section 12955 and the federal Fair Housing Act) apply to the perks and services you offer residents.

10.9 Hotels, hosts and property managers

Follow the rules of any booking platform you use (for example, rules about sharing links or contact details with guests), and any brand or franchise standards that apply to you. Guests must never be required to use Tidepass.

10.10 Where you can promote

• Use your printables at your own business and in spaces you control, such as your front desk, lobby, rooms, units or tables. Door hangers are for doors of your own guests, residents or members only.
• No spam. Don’t send bulk emails, texts or messages to people who haven’t agreed to hear from you, and follow anti-spam laws (such as CAN-SPAM).
• No flyers on cars, windshields, utility poles, public property or other people’s property, and follow local sign rules.

10.11 Removing pages and materials

We may review, pause or remove your co-branded page, logo, images, codes, campaigns or printables at any time if we believe they break these Terms, the law or someone’s rights, or harm Tidepass, a venue or guests. We may ask you to take down printed materials, and you agree to do so promptly.

10A. Hosts and lodging partners: guest page, plans, reviews and guest lists

10A.1 Your guest page

Hosts and lodging Business Partners get a branded guest page with their logo, colors, photos, words, links and picks. The Tidepass offer terms, your disclosure and the line saying the offer is run by Tidepass (a business name of Tyler Brock Jardine) always appear and can’t be changed or hidden.

10A.2 Optional paid plans

• What they are. Guest Guide, Multi-property, Return Guests and Hospitality Pro are optional monthly plans. Prices are shown on your Plans tab before you subscribe.
• Automatic renewal. When you subscribe, you agree that we charge your card on file that day and then every month on the same date, at the price shown, until you cancel. We ask you to tick a box agreeing to these terms before we charge anything, and we email you a confirmation with the terms, the cancellation policy and how to cancel.
• Cancel any time, online. Press Cancel on your Plans tab. The plan stays on until the end of the month you paid for, and you won’t be charged again. We don’t refund partial months. Hospitality Pro includes the other three plans; when you start Pro, we stop renewing any of those you already have.
• Failed payments. If a renewal can’t be charged, the plan pauses. If it stays unpaid for 7 days, it ends.
• Your price is locked. Your plan keeps renewing at the price you agreed to. If we change plan prices, the new prices apply only to new subscriptions. If we ever change any other material term of your plan, we’ll email you between 7 and 30 days before it takes effect, with how to cancel.
• Records. We keep a record of what you agreed to, and when, for at least 3 years, or 1 year after your plan ends if that’s longer.
• Our changes. We may grant, extend or end plans, for example for misuse or if your page is removed.

These plans are business purchases, but we follow California’s automatic renewal law (Business and Professions Code sections 17600 to 17606) for them anyway.

10A.3 Guest Guide and stay PIN

You are responsible for what you put in your Guest Guide. Put private details (such as Wi-Fi or door codes) only in the PIN-protected section, and share the PIN only with your guests. We keep the guide out of search engines and store only a scrambled version of the PIN, but a PIN you share can be passed on, so change it as often as you need.

10A.4 Guest reviews

• Tidepass collects guest reviews of your property from people who grabbed a pass from your page. You can reply publicly and report reviews that break a content rule. You can’t edit, hide or delete reviews, and every published review counts toward your average.
• No incentives. Don’t offer guests anything (discounts, refunds, upgrades, gifts or entries) for a review, for a certain rating, or for changing or removing a review.
• No insiders or fake reviews. You, your staff, family and friends must not review your own property or a competitor, and you must not write or buy reviews.
• No suppression or gating. Don’t threaten or pressure reviewers, and don’t ask only happy guests to review. We don’t send reviewers to any other review site.
• These rules follow the FTC’s rule on consumer reviews and testimonials (16 CFR Part 465). Breaking them can get reviews removed, your guest page paused and these Terms ended.

10A.5 Return Guests: book direct and email lists

• You are responsible for following the rules of any booking platform you list on when you invite guests to book with you directly or email them.
• The email list belongs to you, and you are the sender. Guests join only with an unticked box and confirm by email. You must follow anti-spam law, including CAN-SPAM: say who you are, include your physical postal address, use honest subject lines, include a working unsubscribe link (each contact’s link is in your export) and honor unsubscribes within 10 business days. Download a fresh list before each send.
• Use the list only for your own offers to those guests. Don’t sell or share it.
• Tyler Brock Jardine doesn’t send, write, pay for or reward your emails, so you alone are the sender under CAN-SPAM and responsible for your messages. Tidepass sends only the sign-up confirmation email and processes unsubscribes from the links in your export; those links keep working for at least 30 days after you send.
• Guests ask to join your list, so their email goes to you at their direction. Once you download it, you’re responsible for it under privacy law, including deleting contacts who unsubscribe or ask you to delete them.

11. Using the Tidepass name

• You may use the Tidepass name and logo, and the venue names and photos on Tidepass, only to promote your Tidepass links and picks.
• Don’t change the logo, use it in ads that bid on Tidepass’s name, or register domains, handles or accounts that include Tidepass’s name.
• Don’t suggest you work for Tidepass or a venue, or that we endorse anything else you do.

12. Your content

You keep ownership of your profile, picks, notes, photos and posts. You give Tyler Brock Jardine a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, reproduce and adapt the content you put on Tidepass, and to quote and share your picks and public posts about Tidepass venues (with credit to you) in Tidepass marketing while you’re a Partner and for a reasonable time after. You confirm you have the rights to everything you post.

13. Suspension and termination

• You can close your account any time. We’ll pay your whole available balance on the next payout run (even if it’s under $25), and pending earnings once they become available.
• We may suspend your account, hold payouts during a review, or end these Terms for fraud, breaking these Terms, harmful or illegal content, or damage to Tidepass’s or a venue’s reputation. You don’t earn on visits that were fraudulent or that came from breaking these Terms (for example, self-referrals or undisclosed promotions). Earnings from your legitimate visits are still paid under section 14.
• We may end these Terms for any other reason with 30 days’ notice and will pay legitimate earnings owed.

14. Inactive accounts

If your account has no sign-ins and no verified visits for 12 months, we may close it after emailing you at least 30 days before. Signing in during that time keeps it open. You never lose money you’ve earned because your account is inactive or closed:

• When an account closes for any reason other than fraud, we pay your whole available balance, even if it’s under $25, and pay pending earnings once they become available.
• If we can’t pay you (for example, your Stripe Express account is closed), we keep the money for you and keep trying to reach you. If you still haven’t claimed it after the period set by California’s Unclaimed Property Law (generally 3 years), we report and send it to the California State Controller, where you can claim it.

15. Changes

We may change these Terms, including earnings rates and tiers. We’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice by email before a change that lowers your rates or materially affects you. Changes don’t apply to visits checked in before the change. If you keep participating after a change takes effect, you accept it.

16. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The program is provided “as is.” We don’t guarantee any amount of earnings, traffic or that tracking will always work. To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages or lost profits, and our total liability to you is limited to the greater of $100 or the earnings paid to you in the 12 months before the claim, plus any earnings we still owe you. These limits don’t apply to our fraud, willful injury to a person or property, gross negligence or violation of law, or anything else California law (including Civil Code section 1668) doesn’t allow to be limited. Venues are responsible for their own experiences.

17. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify Tyler Brock Jardine against claims, losses and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from your content, your promotions (including missing disclosures or false claims), or your breach of these Terms or the law.

18. Governing law and disputes

California law governs these Terms. Before starting a formal claim, email support@gettidepass.com and both sides will try in good faith to resolve it for 30 days. After that, either of us may bring a claim in small claims court if it qualifies; otherwise, claims will be heard in the state or federal courts in San Diego County, California. There is no arbitration requirement and no class-action waiver.

19. General

You and Tidepass are independent contractors. You can’t assign these Terms without our written consent. If part of these Terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. We send notices to your account email; you send notices to support@gettidepass.com or Tyler Brock Jardine, a sole proprietor doing business as Tidepass, 5120 Via Mindanao, Oceanside, CA 92057.

Assignment. We may assign these Terms, including any plan subscription, without your consent, to an entity we own or control or that is under common control with us (for example, a limited liability company that Tidepass’s owner forms to run Tidepass), or to a successor in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets or other transfer of the Tidepass business. The new operator must agree in writing to take on all of our obligations. We’ll give you notice by email and in your account, no later than the day it takes effect, saying who the new operator is, when it takes effect and, if you have a plan, how to cancel it online. From that date the new operator takes on our rights and obligations; we stay responsible for anything that happened before. Your earnings rates, earnings already owed, plan prices and renewal dates don’t change because of an assignment, and you keep all your rights, including closing your account (section 13) and canceling a plan online at any time. If the new operator pays partners or charges plans through a different payment account, we’ll ask you to reconnect payouts or add your card again, and payouts or charges already in progress finish on the account that started them. Tax forms are issued per payment account (section 7).