How does the affiliate system work?
- Gene Keys Guides and select Network Partners will each have their own unique affiliate referral ID & URL. Anyone can enter the affiliate ID during the checkout process to award a commission on that sale to a specific affiliate.Â
- Alternatively, the Affiliate URLÂ will add a cookie to your web browser's history, signifying that you arrived to genekeys.com from the recommendation of that particular affiliate.Â
- Once you click an affiliate URL, any purchase you make within 30 days will award a commission to that affiliate.Â
- If you click a new affiliate URL during that time, it will override your original cookie, and you will now be attributing your referral sales commissions to this new affiliate.Â
- You can tell if a link has a referral ID linked to it when you see the URL /ref/ followed by the unique ID number. For example you might see a link that looks like genekeys.com/affiliates/ref/2001
- This link would assign you to the Affiliate ID 2001, and any purchased made within 30 days would attribute an award to that affiliate.Â
- Once you click an affiliate link once, you do not need to see the affiliate ID in the URL anymore, it will be invisibly added as a "cookie" to your browser and you can use the site normally. For example you may click a link to the home page that says https://genekeys.com/ref/2001 --> you can then use the menu and click Shop. The /ref/2001 part of the URL will disappear, but you are still connected to that Affiliate
- You can remove any affiliate referrals from your system by clearing the cookies & cache for your web browser.Â
What are Cookies & Cache?
As you use the internet, web browsers collect data about your preferences, searches, and internet history. To keep your browser running optimally, it’s a good idea to clear your cache and cookies periodically.
Both cache and cookies are designed to improve website performance and user experience through storing data on your devices. However, there are differences between the two:
- Cookies are used to store information to track different characteristics related to the user, while the cache is used to make web pages load faster.
- Cookies store information such as user preferences, while cache retains resource files such as audio, video, or flash files.
- Cookies usually expire after some time, but cache remains in the user’s device until manually removed.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. We also use cookies to reward affiliates whose link you may have used to get to our website. We offer affiliates a commission for any successful sale of products from our website. This is a way to support our Gene Keys Guides & Network Partners, while also sharing the teachings far and wide.Â