Compliance, built in.

1Our principles

Elisio is an affiliate partner network that links independent affiliates with consumer brands in finance, e-commerce, SaaS, travel and education. We don't run the products being promoted, and we don't own customer data. We route the traffic, attribute conversions and pay each affiliate the share owed to them.

Our stance on compliance is simple. Every brand we list has to be operating legally in each market it takes traffic from, and every affiliate we approve has to promote those brands within the rules. Everything below fills in the detail.

2Vetting affiliates

Everyone who signs up with Elisio goes through a documented vetting process, and it is finished before we release your first commission payment. How deep the due diligence goes depends on the verticals and markets you intend to work: finance and other regulated categories get the most rigorous checks.

What we collect

• Your full legal name (or, for a business, its registered name), a contact email and the country you operate from.
• For individuals: government-issued photo ID, meaning a passport, national ID card or driver's licence.
• For companies and other legal entities: the certificate of incorporation, a UBO declaration and proof of the registered address.
• Confirmation of where you are tax resident, plus your VAT number where one applies.
• A declaration of your traffic sources: the domains and channels you use, with estimated monthly volumes.

Ongoing monitoring

Every affiliate is checked again, on a rolling basis, against sanctions lists and PEP lists. Payout patterns that look unusual (a sudden jump in volume, market attribution that doesn't add up, or hopping between wallets) set off a manual review.

3Restricted markets

Traffic earns no commission if it comes from a jurisdiction where the brand being promoted isn't authorised to take customers, or from a country under comprehensive sanctions. Each brand's own market matrix sits in the affiliate portal, and wherever it differs from this page, the matrix takes precedence.

Right now the network-wide restrictions cover every country currently sanctioned by OFAC or the EU (at present North Korea, Iran, Syria and Cuba, plus named regions of both Russia and Belarus), along with any market in which a particular partner brand hasn't obtained approval to operate. A conversion that comes from a restricted market gets zero attribution. Repeatedly sending traffic from such markets gives us grounds to terminate you under section 9 below.

4Advertising standards

You're expected to follow the advertising codes of every market you target. Whatever the jurisdiction, these are the principles we hold you to:

• Truthful advertising. Nothing made up: no invented claims, no fake reviews and no doctored screenshots of results.
• Honest pricing. Any price, fee or discount you quote has to match what the brand is genuinely offering at the moment of the click.
• No false scarcity. Fake countdown timers, made-up stock levels and inflated “original prices” are all banned.
• No abuse of platforms. Stay within the policies of every channel you use, whether that's Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit, an email service provider or anything else.

Material misrepresentation of an offer means immediate suspension, followed by a review on the brand's side.

5Trademarks and brand use

You receive a licence to each brand's trademarks, logos and creative assets for one purpose only: promoting that brand under our Terms of Use. You may not sub-license them, resell them, create derivative works from them or keep using them after termination. Rules on brand bidding differ from partner to partner, so check that partner's page in the portal before you run any paid search.

6Preventing fraud

Some traffic is never acceptable, full stop: bots, click farms, iframe injection, cookie-stuffing, incentivised clicks passed off as organic, and any other traffic that is manufactured or sent without consent. Every conversion goes through automated quality scoring on our side, and brands run checks of their own further down the line. Anything that gets flagged is held until it has been reviewed. Confirmed fraud gives us grounds to terminate you on the spot and to treat any pending balance as forfeited.

7Disclosure

Wherever you operate, that market's disclosure rules apply to you. The main ones:

• FTC (United States). Any content that recommends a brand must disclose the affiliate relationship clearly and conspicuously.
• ASA (United Kingdom). Social posts carry #ad or an equivalent label, and the offer is represented honestly.
• EU DSA and consumer-protection rules. Advertising is disclosed as advertising, the advertiser can be identified, and dark patterns are off the table.

The affiliate portal has disclosure templates for every major jurisdiction. Applying them is your responsibility.

8Data and reporting

You act as a processor of customer data only insofar as postbacks pass through your stack. A DPA template is available in the portal. PII that reaches you through tracking pixels may not be stored, resold or enriched. How we handle personal data ourselves is set out in our Privacy Policy.

9Enforcement tiers

Every compliance breach is graded into one of three tiers:

1. Tier 1: a warning and a 12-day window to put things right, with no effect on your payouts.
2. Tier 2: temporary suspension, with payouts withheld until an audit is complete.
3. Tier 3: termination. Your pending balance is forfeited and you are blacklisted from applying again.

Fraud, whether a coordinated abuse ring, layered identities or injected fake traffic, goes straight to Tier 3, and we may pass the case to the relevant regulator as well as to law enforcement.

10Contacting compliance

You can reach our Compliance Officer directly by email. If a regulatory enquiry needs to go by post, send it to our registered office in Nicosia, and ask for the address through that same email.