Key partner rules (quick summary)
- You earn 20 % of our commission on bookings you refer (up to 25 % by agreement) — never a share of the customer's charter price, and it never costs the customer anything.
- Our commission is what we keep on the boat price: what the charter company pays us, less any discount we give the customer. Skipper, crew, extras, the card surcharge and anything paid at the base are not part of it.
- A visitor who follows your link and books within 365 days of their latest click on it is yours; if they follow another partner's link later, the last click wins.
- A customer whose booking we credit to you stays linked to you: later bookings with the same email address earn you commission too — unless they arrive through another partner's link.
- A commission becomes payable once the customer has paid in full and the charter has started. We pay once a month, by bank transfer, when your payable balance is at least 50 €.
- No bidding on our brand, no cookie stuffing, no booking through your own link, and say clearly, next to every promotion, that it is an ad or that you may earn a commission.
- Either of us can end the agreement (we give 30 days' notice unless you seriously break the rules); commissions on bookings confirmed before then are still paid, unless a commission itself came from fraud or a forbidden method.
Partner Agreement
Last updated: 06.10.2026 · Version: 1.0
This agreement is between Blackbird One Ltd., a company registered in Gibraltar under number 114712, registered office 5 Secretary's Lane, Gibraltar GX11 1AA, trading as SkipperCity ("SkipperCity", "we", "us", "our"), and the person or business whose application to our partner program we approve ("you", the "Partner").
1. What this agreement covers
In short: you send us visitors through your link; we pay you a share of what we earn on their bookings.
1.1. Our partner program (also called our affiliate program) lets you earn a commission on yacht charter bookings made by people you refer to our website, skippercity.com.
1.2. This agreement, together with the program page at skippercity.com/yacht-charter-affiliate-program and the rules shown in your partner dashboard, is the whole of our arrangement. Where they differ, this agreement prevails. The program page and the dashboard explain how the program works; they cannot change your commission, how bookings are credited, payouts, how the agreement ends or liability — only a change made under clause 15 can. We keep every version of this agreement and can send you the one you accepted.
1.3. We handle everything to do with the customer — offers, holds, payments, contracts with the charter company, support. You never take bookings or payments for us.
2. Joining the program
In short: you apply, we read every application ourselves, and the agreement starts when we approve you.
2.1. You apply through the form on our program page. You must be at least 18 years old and, if you apply for a business, authorised to act for it.
2.2. We approve applications by hand and may decline one without giving a reason. Until we approve you, your code does not work: it records no visits and earns nothing.
2.3. When you apply, you must tick a box saying that you have read and accept this agreement. The box is not ticked for you. We keep a record of the version you accepted and when you accepted it. Your agreement with us starts when we approve your application and email you your link.
2.4. The referral code you choose is yours for as long as you are a partner. We cannot change it later, because you will have published it in links; a different code means a new partner account.
2.5. The details you give us must be true and kept up to date — in particular the email address on your partner account, which is where we send everything under this agreement.
2.6. If you joined our program before this agreement existed, we will ask you, by email and in your dashboard, to accept it. For 30 days after we ask, bookings are credited to you as before. After that, bookings are credited to you only from the day you accept. Commissions already recorded for you are not affected, and commissions earned under our previous program are covered by clause 19.
3. Your link and how we credit bookings
In short: 365 days from the latest click, last click wins, and a customer we credit to you stays yours.
3.1. Your link. Adding ?ref=your-code to the address of any page of our website turns it into
your link. Your dashboard builds links for you and lets you add your own campaign tag (sub).
3.2. The 365-day window. When a visitor arrives through your link, our website stores a cookie in their browser that remembers you sent them. It lasts 365 days from their latest click on your link. If they start a booking on our website within that time, the booking is credited to you.
3.3. Last click wins. If the visitor later follows another partner's link, the newer link replaces yours, and a booking they then make is credited to that partner.
3.4. The moment that counts. We decide who is credited when the customer starts the booking on our website (the checkout). A link followed after that does not change the credit for that booking.
3.5. Customers who stay yours. The first time a booking credited to you is placed, we link that customer — by their email address — to you. Later bookings by the same customer, with the same email address, are credited to you even when they arrive without your link, unless they arrive through another partner's link, in which case clause 3.3 applies to that booking. The link to you is made once and is never transferred to another partner.
3.6. Only while you are an active partner. Bookings are credited only while your account is active. While it is suspended or after it has ended, your link and your linked customers earn nothing, except for bookings already started when it ended under clause 14.1 (see clauses 13 and 14).
3.7. What we cannot track. Crediting depends on technology we do not fully control. A visitor who blocks or deletes cookies, changes device or browser, books by phone or email, or books in our mobile apps (which cannot read a link — only clause 3.5 can credit those) may not be credited automatically. If you believe a booking is yours, tell us within 90 days of the booking, with whatever shows it (for example the date and how the customer found you). We will look into it in good faith and tell you our decision and the reason; any credit we then give is our decision.
4. What you earn
In short: a fixed share of what we keep on the boat price, calculated per booking.
4.1. Our commission on a booking is the commission the charter company pays us for arranging it, less any discount we give the customer on the boat price. It does not include: our skipper or cook, other crew, extras and services, the card surcharge, the security deposit, or anything the customer pays at the base.
4.2. Your share is 20 % of our commission, unless we have agreed a different share with you in writing (by email or in your dashboard). We may offer up to 25 % to partners who send us bookings regularly.
4.3. Your share is fixed when the booking is confirmed. We calculate and record your commission when the charter company confirms the reservation, using our commission on that booking and your share on that day. A later change of your share, or of our prices, does not change a commission already recorded. Your dashboard shows each recorded commission with the booking it belongs to. If the booking is cancelled, the commission is void under clause 7; any other later change to the booking does not change the recorded commission.
4.4. If our commission on a booking is zero or negative (for example because our discount to the customer is larger than what the charter company pays us), you earn nothing on that booking — never a negative amount.
4.5. If we cannot work out our commission on a booking automatically, we record the booking with an amount of zero, check it by hand and tell you the result by email.
4.6. All amounts are in the currency of the booking, normally euros.
5. When a commission becomes payable
In short: once the customer has paid in full and the charter has started.
5.1. A commission becomes payable only when both are true:
- the customer has paid the full charter price (every scheduled payment), and
- the charter has started (its check-in date has passed).
5.2. Your dashboard shows each commission as pending (confirmed, not fully paid), accrued (fully paid, charter still ahead), payable, paid, or void.
5.3. A booking that is cancelled, expires, fails or is never paid in full earns no commission, even if it was confirmed.
6. Payouts
In short: monthly bank transfer above 50 €, to the account you entered yourself.
6.1. We pay out once a month, by bank transfer, when your payable balance is at least 50 €. A smaller balance carries over to the next month. We may choose to pay a smaller balance. We aim to pay by the 15th of the month following the month in which a commission became payable.
6.2. Payout details. You enter your payout details yourself in your dashboard: whether you are paid as an individual or a business, your legal name, address, country of tax residence, and the bank account. The account must be in your own name or, if you are paid as a business, in your company's name; we do not pay into an account held by anyone else. We cannot pay until your details are complete. We will never ask for bank details by email, and we will not act on bank details sent to us by email.
6.2A. We may ask for a tax identification number or other information that we reasonably need to meet a legal reporting or withholding duty. We will tell you why we need it. We may delay a payout that the law does not allow us to make without that information.
6.3. Changes to your bank account need a fresh sign-in, and we email you whenever your account is changed. If you did not make the change, tell us immediately. We may delay a payout to confirm a recent change with you.
6.4. Statements and invoices. Every payout comes with a statement in your dashboard listing the bookings it covers by reference and dates, without the customer's name. The statement records our payment to you; it is not an invoice issued on your behalf. If the law that applies to your business requires you to issue an invoice, you must send us one with the details that law requires. We will use self-billing only if we separately agree a compliant process with you in writing.
6.5. Bank charges. We pay our own bank's charges. Charges of your bank, and of any intermediary bank for transfers outside the SEPA area, are yours.
6.6. Unclaimed commissions. If we cannot pay a payable commission because your payout details are missing or wrong, we keep a record of it and remind you by email. After 3 years from the date it became payable, we will send a final reminder and may close the balance only if applicable law allows it. We will pay an amount that the law still requires us to pay when you give us valid details.
6.7. Errors. If we pay you too much by mistake, we may deduct the difference from your next payouts or ask you to repay it. If we pay too little, we pay the difference with the next payout.
7. Voiding and withholding commissions
In short: we can refuse a commission that was not fairly earned, and we always tell you why.
7.1. We may void a commission at any time before it is paid, if:
- the booking was cancelled, not paid in full, or did not go ahead;
- the booking was made by you, for yourself, or for your own business (self-referral);
- the visit or booking came from a method this agreement forbids (clause 9), or from fraud, automated traffic or misleading promotion;
- the commission was recorded by mistake.
7.2. We always record the reason for voiding, and it is shown to you on request.
7.3. If we reasonably suspect fraud or a serious breach of clause 9, we may hold back your payouts while we investigate, for up to 60 days. We will tell you what we are investigating, unless doing so would prejudice the investigation, and give you a chance to respond. At the end of the investigation we will tell you our decision and the reasons, and commissions the investigation does not concern are paid with the next payout.
7.4. If we discover after payment that a commission on a booking was obtained through your fraud or a prohibited method under clause 9, you must repay that commission. We may deduct that amount from later payouts, but we will first give you the booking reference, the reason and the calculation. A breach affecting one booking does not automatically void commissions on other bookings.
8. Taxes
In short: you declare the income and pay any tax on it yourself.
8.1. You are responsible for declaring your commissions and paying any income tax, social security or other tax that applies to you. When you enter your payout details, you confirm that you understand this, and we record the date of that confirmation. This does not remove a reporting or withholding duty that the law places on us.
8.2. The commission amount we agree with you is the total amount we owe for your service, including any VAT, sales tax or similar tax that applies, unless the law requires us to pay an additional amount or we agree otherwise in writing. You are responsible for checking the tax treatment of your service and issuing any invoice your law requires. If you have a VAT registration number, give it to us in your dashboard and tell us if it changes.
8.3. We deduct or report tax on a payout only where the law requires us to do so. We may request the information needed to meet that duty under clause 6.2A.
9. How you may promote us
In short: honestly, visibly as a referral, and never in our name.
9.1. You may promote us to any audience if you follow these rules:
- Say clearly and prominently that your content is an advertisement, or that you may earn a commission when someone books through your link. Put the disclosure before or beside the promotion or link, where people will see it before deciding to click. In a video or audio promotion, include the disclosure in the content as well as near any link. Use the language your audience understands. A platform's own disclosure tool alone may not be enough. For example: for a UK audience on social media, start with "Ad"; next to links in an article, "I may earn a commission if you book through these links."
- Do not promise prices, availability, discounts or terms we have not published. Describe us and the charter honestly.
- Follow the advertising, consumer protection, privacy and anti-spam rules that apply to you and your audience, and the rules of each platform you use.
- On websites, mark paid links with
rel="sponsored"(our banner code already does). This link tag does not replace the disclosure people see.
We may ask you to show us a promotion, to correct a missing or unclear disclosure, or to remove content that breaks these rules, and you must do so promptly.
9.2. You must not:
- bid on our brand names ("SkipperCity", "Yachtco", "Blackbird One" or misspellings of them) in paid search or other paid ads, or use them in an ad's text or display address;
- register or use domain names, social media accounts, app names or ad accounts that contain our brand names, or otherwise suggest you are us or are run by us;
- use cookie stuffing, forced or hidden clicks, pop-ups or pop-unders, automatic redirects, browser extensions, or any method that marks a visitor as referred without them knowingly following your link;
- book through your own link, or credit yourself, your business or your employees in any other way;
- send unsolicited email or messages containing your link — only send it to people who have agreed to hear from you;
- offer visitors money, cashback, points or other rewards for clicking or booking, unless we have agreed it in writing;
- place your link on sites with illegal, hateful, sexually explicit or misleading content, or on sites that infringe others' rights.
9.3. If you are unsure whether a method is allowed, ask us first.
10. Our brand and materials
In short: use our logos and texts as we supply them, only to promote us, while you are a partner.
10.1. While you are an active partner we give you a free, non-exclusive, revocable permission to use the logos, banners, texts and facts from the promotion kit in your dashboard, only to promote us under this agreement.
10.2. Use them as supplied. You may shorten our texts, but not change their meaning, and you may not alter, recolour or combine our logos with other marks.
10.3. Do not copy other content from our website (photos, boat descriptions, prices) without our written permission. Facts in our texts change; you may not publish a price or a rating figure that we have not given you, and please refresh what you republish from the kit from time to time.
10.4. When this agreement ends, stop using our brand and materials and remove them within 30 days. Links you have already published may stay; they simply stop earning.
10.5. Our brands, website and materials remain ours. Your content remains yours.
11. Personal data
In short: you never see our customers' personal data, and you are responsible for your own visitors.
11.1. Your data. We use your account, tax and payout details, and the visits and bookings credited to your code, to run the program, investigate disputes, comply with the law and pay you. Our Privacy Policy explains our legal bases, who receives the data, international transfers, and how long we keep each type of data.
11.2. Booking data. We do not give you our customers' names, contact details or other personal data: your dashboard, emails and statements show bookings by reference, dates and amounts only. Those details may still be personal data if a person can be identified from them, so you must keep them secure and use them only for this program.
11.3. Visitors and tracking. You are responsible for the privacy information and any consent required for tracking on your own websites and channels. We are responsible for the referral cookie and related tracking on our website, as described in our Privacy and Cookie Policies. The referral cookie is set when a visitor arrives through your link, so that the booking can be credited to you, and lasts up to 365 days from their latest click on it.
11.4. Contact details. If you send us a person's contact details (for example to ask for a quote on their behalf), you must first have their permission or another lawful basis, and tell the person that you are sending the details to us. You may not collect bookings or payments, or handle personal data, on our behalf unless we agree a separate written arrangement.
12. Our relationship
In short: we are independent of each other.
12.1. You act as an independent partner, not as our employee, agent or representative. You cannot make promises, take payments, accept bookings or enter contracts in our name.
12.2. This agreement is not exclusive: you may promote others, and we may work with other partners.
12.3. You bear your own costs of promoting us.
13. Suspension and ending the agreement
In short: either side can stop at any time; we can suspend you straight away for a serious breach.
13.1. You can end this agreement at any time by emailing us.
13.2. We can end this agreement at any time by emailing you, with 30 days' notice.
13.3. We may suspend your account immediately while we investigate suspected fraud, false details or a serious breach. We may end the agreement immediately for fraud, deliberate misuse of referrals, or a serious breach that cannot reasonably be fixed. For another material breach, we will tell you what is wrong and give you 14 days to fix it before ending the agreement, unless it creates an immediate legal or reputational risk.
13.4. While suspended, your link and your linked customers earn nothing, and bookings confirmed during the suspension are not credited to you, even if the visitor clicked your link before. If we lift the suspension, crediting starts again from that day.
14. What happens when the agreement ends
In short: commissions on bookings confirmed before the end are still paid; nothing new is earned.
14.1. Bookings confirmed after the agreement ends earn no commission — including bookings by customers linked to you under clause 3.5 — with one exception: if the agreement ends without your fault (you end it, or we end it with notice under clause 13.2), a booking credited to you that the customer started before the end and that is confirmed within 30 days after it still earns your commission, under clauses 5 to 7. This exception does not apply if we end the agreement under clause 13.3.
14.2. Commissions on bookings confirmed before the end remain payable under clauses 5 and 6, including if we end the agreement for breach. We may void or recover only a commission that meets the grounds in clause 7. Ending the agreement does not, by itself, take away a valid commission already recorded.
14.3. We pay the remaining balance with our normal monthly payouts; once nothing more can become payable, we pay any final balance even if it is below 50 €. Until then you can still sign in to your partner dashboard to see what is owed and keep your payout details up to date, and we send you a statement each month.
14.4. Clauses 6.6, 6.7, 7.4, 8, 10.4, 11, 15, 16 and 18 continue to apply after the agreement ends.
15. Changes to this agreement
In short: we may change it with notice; you can leave if you disagree; recorded commissions never change.
15.1. We may change this agreement, the program rules or the standard share by emailing you at least 30 days before the change takes effect.
15.2. A change takes effect for bookings confirmed on or after its effective date. It never changes a commission already recorded (clause 4.3).
15.3. If you do not agree with a change, you may end the agreement before it takes effect. If you keep using your link after that date, you accept the change.
15.4. We may make changes that only correct errors, or that the law requires, with shorter notice.
15.5. The current version and its date are always shown on our website.
16. Liability
In short: neither of us is liable for indirect losses, and our liability is capped.
16.1. We provide the program, the tracking and the dashboard "as is". We aim to keep them working, but do not guarantee that every visit or booking will be tracked, or that the website will always be available.
16.2. Neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, including expected future profits. This does not reduce a commission already earned and payable under this agreement, or any liability the law does not allow us to exclude.
16.3. Our total liability to you for damages under this agreement is limited to the commissions we paid or owe you in the 12 months before the event that caused the claim. This limit does not reduce our duty to pay valid commissions, or any liability that the law does not allow us to limit.
16.4. You are responsible for your content and promotions. If a third party brings a claim against us because of your material breach of clause 9, 10 or 11, you will reimburse our reasonable, documented direct losses and defence costs to the extent your breach caused them. We will tell you promptly about the claim and let you help with its defence. If you are an individual partner, your liability under this clause is limited to 1,000 € plus the commissions we paid or owe you in the previous 12 months, except for fraud or deliberate misconduct. We may recover a regulatory fine from you only where the law allows it.
16.5. Nothing in this agreement limits liability for fraud, or for anything that cannot be limited by law.
17. Confidentiality
In short: keep our private numbers private.
17.1. Booking references, the amounts in your dashboard and statements, and any share we have agreed with you individually are confidential. Do not publish them or share them with anyone except your own advisers. Your link, your code and the published program terms are not confidential.
18. Governing law and disputes
In short: Gibraltar law and Gibraltar courts, after an honest attempt to settle.
18.1. This agreement is governed by the laws of Gibraltar, where Blackbird One Ltd. is registered. If a mandatory rule gives you rights that cannot lawfully be removed by this choice of law, those rights still apply.
18.2. We will both try to resolve any dispute by talking first: write to us, and we will answer within 14 days. After a dispute arises, we may both agree to voluntary mediation.
18.3. If we cannot resolve the dispute, the courts of Gibraltar have jurisdiction, except where a mandatory rule allows a person who legally qualifies as a consumer to bring proceedings elsewhere, or prevents this choice of court from being enforced.
19. Partners of our previous program
In short: what you earned under the old program is still paid.
19.1. If you were a partner in our previous affiliate program, commissions you earned under it on bookings made before 11 October 2026 are paid under its terms, even if you do not join this program. Joining this program does not replace them.
20. General
20.1. Notices. We send notices to the email address on your partner account. You send notices to info@skippercity.com.
20.2. Transfer. You may not transfer this agreement to anyone else. We may transfer it to a company that takes over the SkipperCity business, and will tell you if we do.
20.3. Language. This agreement is written in English. If we provide a translation, the English version prevails.
20.4. Severability. If a court finds any part of this agreement invalid, the rest still applies.
20.5. Waiver. If we do not enforce a right straight away, we have not given it up.