Referral program terms

Everyone with a Blip account has a personal referral link, in Settings, Referrals. When someone opens your link and then signs up for Blip, they're your referral. You earn free recording minutes when:

• They sign up: 10 minutes, once their own new Blip workspace is created.
• They pay for a plan: 50 minutes in all for that person, so 40 more on top of the 10, the first time their workspace pays for a Blip plan.

Blip may show different amounts in Settings, Referrals. The amounts shown there when a step happens are the ones that apply.

Your minutes go to a Blip workspace you own or run. If you don't own or run one yet, your referrals still count, and the minutes are added once you do.

• A new person: someone who didn't have a Blip account before opening your link, and who creates their own new workspace. Someone who joins an existing workspace by invitation isn't a referral.
• The first link wins. When someone opens your link, Blip remembers it in their browser for 60 days. If they open another member's link in that time, yours still counts. If they join Blip's waitlist through your link, they stay your referral when they sign up later.
• Once per person. Each email address can be a referral only once, for one member.
• Not yourself. Referring yourself, another account of yours, or anyone using your email address doesn't count.

• Rewards are free recording minutes in Blip. They have no cash value, can't be exchanged for money, sold or moved to another workspace, and can't be used to pay for anything outside Blip.
• Referral minutes expire 12 months after they're added, like other prepaid minutes.
• You can earn up to 500 referral minutes in a calendar month. Referrals beyond that are reviewed before any more minutes are added.
• Blip may also give the person you refer welcome minutes in their new workspace. When it does, the amount is shown before they sign up.

To keep the program fair, some referrals are checked by a person at Blip before minutes are added, for example when:

• the referral uses the same company email domain as you (a colleague should usually be invited to your workspace, not referred),
• they sign up on a browser you use,
• many referrals sign up through your link in one day, or
• you reach the monthly limit.

A referral being checked shows as Being checked in Settings, Referrals. If it's approved, the minutes it has earned are added. If it isn't, no minutes are added.

• Say you get a reward. When you share your link, tell people you earn free Blip minutes if they sign up (for example: "I get free Blip minutes if you sign up"). The message Blip suggests already says this; keep it in if you change the words.
• Share with people who'd want it: people you know, your own posts, your own website.
• No spam. Don't send your link in bulk or unsolicited emails, texts or direct messages, and don't buy or use contact lists. Follow the laws on marketing messages where you and they are: in the US, for example, CAN-SPAM for email and the TCPA for texts and calls; in Canada, CASL; in the UK and the EU, the rules on electronic marketing such as PECR.
• Be honest. Don't make claims about Blip that aren't true, don't promise things Blip doesn't offer, and don't speak for Blip or pass yourself off as Blip.
• No paid ads on Blip's name. Don't buy search or social ads that use "Blip" or "sendablip" (or close variations) as keywords or in the ad, and don't post your link on coupon, deal or incentive sites.
• No tricks. Don't use fake accounts, scripts or bots, and don't pay or reward people to sign up through your link.

In Settings, Referrals you see how many people opened your link, and each referral's first name and last initial, when they joined, and whether they're on the waitlist, have signed up, or pay for a plan. Blip emails you when minutes for a sign-up are added. You don't see their email address or anything they record in Blip.

Blip may refuse or take back referral minutes, pause your link, or close your account if:

• a referral was fake, made with tricks, or broke these terms or the Terms of use, or
• the person you referred has their plan payment fully refunded (the 40 minutes for the plan are taken back; the 10 for signing up stay).

Blip never takes back more minutes than the workspace still holds. If you think Blip got it wrong, email support@sendablip.com.

Your link is yours to share under these terms. Blip may pause or change it, for example if it's being misused. A paused link still opens Blip's page, but new referrals through it don't earn minutes.

Blip may change these terms, the amounts or the limits, or end the program, at any time. Changes apply from when they're published, not to minutes you've already earned. If Blip ends the program, minutes you've already earned stay in your workspace until they expire, unless they're taken back under section 8.