This Agreement governs participation in the Storage Studio Partner Program (the "Program"). It is between Techtonic Systems Media and Research LLC, a limited liability company organised under the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States ("Storage Studio", "we", "us"), and the person or business approved as a partner ("Partner", "you").
Storage Studio is developed by DNS Stack Private Limited (India), which provides development, support and operations to Techtonic, including running the Program's systems and partner support, under an agreement between the two companies.
Your individual commercial terms — your partner type, commission, any discount or wholesale price, caps, ownership window and benefits — are issued to you as the Terms of Partnership when you are approved, and form part of this Agreement. If this Agreement and your executed Terms of Partnership conflict, the Terms of Partnership control.
What changed in this version
Version 2.0.2 (29 October 2026):
- Suspension (§10.3, §5.5): while your account is suspended, codes already paid for keep working; new sales, commission and discounts on unpaid post-paid codes stop.
Version 2.0.1:
- Three partner types — Associate, Affiliate and Vendor — and what each can do (§2).
- Associates: referral links only, many links all carrying one offer we set, paid by commission (§2).
- Partner codes, buying for customers and partner invoices are for Vendors (§5).
- Partner knowledge base for Tuhi and co-branding: your responsibility for what you publish, and our right to review, reject or switch it off (§7).
- Payouts: monthly on the 15th after a 30-day hold, with a US$50 minimum that rolls forward; refunds after a payout are deducted from the next one (§4).
- Governing law and disputes: the laws of India, with arbitration seated in Chandigarh that can be held online (§16).
- Names both companies behind Storage Studio.
1. Definitions
- Product — the Storage Studio app and the related services we sell to customers, including the Delta services.
- Customer — a person or business that buys or uses the Product and is attributed to you under §3.
- Referral link — your link (
storagestudio.us/ref/<your code>, the download link, or astoragestudio.us/go/…partner link) that credits you for customers who arrive through it. - Hold period — the period during which commission is held in case the sale is refunded: 30 days from the customer's payment, unless we publish a different period in the Rulebook. A change applies only to commission earned after it.
- Partner portal —
storagestudio.us/partners/portal, where you see your links, customers, commission, payouts and terms. - Rulebook — the page in the Partner portal that explains how the Program's rules apply to you, with your own numbers. It describes how the system applies this Agreement; it does not change it.
2. Partner types
We approve you as one of three types, stated in your Terms of Partnership. We may change your type with notice, as described in §15.
Associate. You send us customers and are paid commission. You have:
- your referral link, and as many onboarding links as you like, made in the Partner portal — every one carries the same offer, which we set (for example a plan, a discount or a landing page) and which you cannot change;
- your commission and payouts;
- the customers you brought, read-only;
- the portal basics (dashboard, terms, rulebook, marketing materials, profile).
Associates have no partner codes, no buying for customers, no co-branding, no partner messages or contact buttons, no partner analytics, no knowledge base and no customisations. Associates are always paid by commission.
Affiliate. Everything an Associate has (except that your partner links are set up by us, link by link), plus, where your Terms of Partnership enable them: co-branding in the app for your customers, partner messages and contact buttons, partner analytics, a knowledge base for Tuhi (§7), and partner billing.
Vendor. Everything an Affiliate has, plus partner codes, buying for customers ("Reseller purchase"), and the invoices that go with them (§5).
3. Attribution and customers
3.1 A visitor who arrives through your referral link is credited to you in that browser for 60 days (last click wins). A customer who downloads the app through your link is linked to you from the app's first launch for your ownership window (stated in your Terms of Partnership; 60 days unless they say otherwise). A purchase in that time makes them your customer.
3.2 Every customer has one owner. An admin assignment overrides attribution. The rules are explained in the Rulebook.
3.3 A customer linked to you through the app who buys from inside the app within your ownership window is your customer, and the purchase earns you commission like any other. This applies to purchases made from an app version that confirms the purchase came from that installation; purchases from older app versions are credited only through your referral link.
3.4 Purchases using your own email address through your own link earn no commission, and are flagged.
4. Commission and payouts
4.1 Earned on money we receive. Commission is a percentage, stated in your Terms of Partnership, of what the customer actually paid us, after any discount. It applies to the first payment only, or also to renewals (for the period and at the rate your Terms of Partnership state). One sale earns one commission.
4.2 Hold period. New commission is held for the hold period (§1). If the sale is refunded or charged back in that time, the commission is cancelled. Commission counts as paid only when the payment to you has actually been made.
4.3 Payouts. On the 15th of each month we add up the commission that has passed its hold period and pay it to you by the method and in the currency in your portal profile. A payout is made only when the total is at least US$50 (or the equivalent in your payout currency); a smaller balance rolls forward to the next month.
4.4 Refunds after payout. If a sale is refunded or charged back after its commission was paid, that commission is deducted from your next payout, and we tell you. If your next payouts are not enough to cover it within 6 months, we may ask you to repay the remainder.
4.5 Your details. You are responsible for the accuracy of your payout details. If a payout fails because of them, we hold it for 90 days while you correct them; after that, the amount may be forfeited, with at least 14 days' notice.
4.6 Taxes. You must give us the tax information we ask for (for example a W-9, W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E, GST or VAT registration) before your first payout. We may withhold tax where the law requires. You are responsible for your own taxes.
4.7 No earnings promise. We do not promise any level of customers, sales or commission.
5. Vendors: partner codes, buying for customers and invoices
This section applies only to Vendors, and only as far as your Terms of Partnership enable each item.
5.1 Pre-paid codes. Your customer pays you, and their licence starts when they redeem the code. Unless you bought the code upfront, we invoice you the list price less your wholesale discount (plus tax where it applies), due in 15 days unless your Terms of Partnership say otherwise. You earn your margin, not commission, on pre-paid codes. Your customer is told that you settle with us separately.
5.2 Post-paid codes. Your customer pays us at the code's discount, and you earn commission under §4.
5.3 Buying codes and renewals upfront. You may buy pre-paid codes, or renew your customers, in the Partner portal, paying by card. These are already paid and raise no further invoice.
5.4 Buying for a customer ("Reseller purchase"). You pay the discounted price and the licence is delivered to the customer you name. You receive a receipt without the licence key. You earn no commission on it.
5.5 Unpaid invoices. If a code invoice is not paid by its due date, or its payment fails, we email you and your customer and suspend your account: the suspension has the effects in §10.3, and you can still sign in and pay. If it is still unpaid after the period stated in the Rulebook, your customer's licence is paused. Paying restores both. Codes already paid for keep working throughout.
5.6 Cancelling a Reseller purchase. Within 14 days of purchase, and only if the customer has not activated the licence, you may ask us at <partners@storagestudio.us> to cancel it and refund the price you paid.
6. Your obligations
You will:
- represent Storage Studio honestly, and make no claim about it that we have not published or authorised in writing;
- not present yourself as our agent, employee, subsidiary, franchisee or support, or as Storage Studio itself;
- not sub-license or transfer your participation;
- not use disposable, masked or generated email addresses for attribution or delivery;
- not send spam, use misleading advertising, or bid on our trademarks in paid search without our written consent;
- follow the Acceptable Use Policy and the Brand Usage Guidelines;
- keep your tax, payout and contact details current;
- keep your Terms of Partnership confidential (§11);
- comply with all laws that apply to you, including consumer-protection, privacy, anti-spam, anti-bribery, export-control and sanctions laws;
- handle any personal data of customers you receive from us only to serve those customers, and protect it.
7. Co-branding, messages and your knowledge base for Tuhi
This section applies to Affiliates and Vendors whose Terms of Partnership enable these features.
7.1 Your content. Your logo, branding, messages, contact details, links and knowledge-base entries ("your content") are yours, and you are responsible for them: that they are accurate, lawful, kept up to date, and that you have the right to use them. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to review, store, copy, display and deliver your content to your customers in the Product for as long as it is published.
7.2 Knowledge base. You may upload a knowledge base of questions and answers so that Tuhi, the assistant in the app, can answer your customers' questions about your own services. Tuhi shows these answers as coming from you. You must not:
- claim to be, or speak for, Storage Studio or Storage Studio support;
- give advice about Storage Studio that we have not published;
- include instructions aimed at the assistant rather than at your customers, links outside your approved web addresses, or anything else our published rules for the knowledge base refuse.
You are responsible for what your knowledge base tells your customers, including any advice in it.
7.3 Our controls. We review your content before it is shown. We may approve or reject it, with a reason, and we may switch any of it off at any time — for example if it breaks this Agreement, could mislead customers, or creates a security, legal or reputational risk. We will tell you when we do. We never publish your content without your choice to publish it.
7.4 No guarantee. We do not promise that your content will be shown to any particular customer or at any particular time. Content is refreshed in the app about once an hour, so a change or a switch-off can take that long to reach every Mac.
8. Anti-fraud
We monitor Program activity for fraud and abuse (for example self-referrals, unusual volumes, disposable addresses). If we reasonably suspect fraud or a breach, we may pause your account, cancel affected commission, codes or purchases, and end this Agreement under §10. You will cooperate with any investigation.
9. Brand and intellectual property
We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive licence to use the Storage Studio name and marks only to promote the Product under this Agreement, following the Brand Usage Guidelines. All goodwill belongs to us. The Product, the Program and their intellectual property belong to DNS Stack Private Limited and its licensee Techtonic; nothing here transfers any of it to you. You will not register any trademark, domain, social-media handle or company name containing "Storage Studio" or anything confusingly similar.
10. Suspension and termination
10.1 Either party may end this Agreement on 30 days' written notice (email is enough).
10.2 We may suspend or end it immediately for a material breach, suspected fraud, insolvency, or a breach of law connected with the Program.
10.3 While your account is suspended: a code that has already been paid for — bought upfront in the Partner portal, or activated and its invoice paid — keeps working for your customers. Everything else stops until the suspension ends: new sales through your links and codes, any commission (on first sales, codes or renewals; commission not earned during a suspension is not earned later), and the discount on post-paid codes that have not been paid for. Commission you earned before the suspension remains yours and is paid once your account is active again.
10.4 When it ends, your right to use your links, codes and our marks ends. Commission that has passed its hold period is paid at the next payout, whatever its amount; commission still in its hold period is paid if the sale is not refunded. Customers stay with Storage Studio. Sections that by their nature survive (including §4.4, §11, §12, §13 and §16) survive.
11. Confidentiality
Each party protects the other's confidential information with at least reasonable care. Your Terms of Partnership and our non-public product information are confidential. You may share them with professional advisers bound by confidentiality, or where the law requires (with prompt notice to us where allowed). This lasts for three years after the Agreement ends.
12. Data protection
Each party complies with the data-protection laws that apply to it. Customer personal data we show you in the Partner portal may be used only to serve those customers under this Agreement, and must be protected and deleted when no longer needed for that. Our handling of your own data is described in the Partner Privacy Notice.
13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
13.1 The Product and the Program are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows.
13.2 Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or business opportunity.
13.3 Our total liability under this Agreement is limited to the commission and discount amounts payable to you in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.
13.4 Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
14. Indemnity
You will defend and indemnify Storage Studio, DNS Stack and their officers, employees and contractors against third-party claims arising from your breach of this Agreement, your marketing or statements about the Product, your content (§7), your dealings with customers outside this Agreement, or your breach of law.
15. Changes
We may propose changes to this Agreement or to your Terms of Partnership by email. A change takes effect when you accept it through the link in that email, or 14 days after we send it if you keep taking part in the Program. If you do not agree, you may end the Agreement under §10.1 before the change takes effect. Commission already earned is paid at the rate in force when it was earned.
16. Governing law and disputes
16.1 This Agreement is governed by the laws of India.
16.2 The parties will first try to resolve a dispute by good-faith discussion for 30 days. A dispute not resolved will be finally settled by binding arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (India), before a sole arbitrator appointed by agreement or, failing agreement within 30 days, in accordance with that Act. The seat and venue is Chandigarh, India; the language is English; hearings may be held online or by video conference.
16.3 The courts at Chandigarh have exclusive jurisdiction over matters relating to the arbitration. Either party may seek urgent interim relief from any competent court to protect its intellectual property or confidential information.
16.4 Claims may be brought only individually, not as part of a class or representative action, to the extent the law allows.
17. General
This Agreement, your Terms of Partnership and the policies it links to are the entire agreement about the Program. You may not assign it without our consent; we may assign it to a company in our group, including DNS Stack, or to a successor of the business. If any part is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Not enforcing a right is not a waiver. Neither party is liable for events beyond its reasonable control. You are an independent contractor; nothing here creates a partnership in law, a joint venture or employment.
18. Notices and contact
Notices to us: <partners@storagestudio.us> (legal notices also to <legal@storagestudio.us>). Notices to you: the contact email in your Partner portal profile.
By applying and accepting your Terms of Partnership, you agree to this Agreement in its current version.