Terms of Service — referral program excerpt

Note: beta excerpt. This page contains only the supplementary Terms of Service clauses for the refer-a-friend referral program. You can find the complete WhispaWave Terms of Service under Terms of Service.

With this section, we supplement the WhispaWave Terms of Service with the terms of the referral program.

1. Participation in the program

Every WhispaWave user of full age with an active account can take part in the referral program. Participation takes place automatically by generating and sharing the personal referral code in the “Refer” area of the Mac app or the “Invite friends” area of the iPhone app.

2. Inviter reward (the person who invites)

As the inviter, you receive one month of WhispaWave Pro free of charge (with a paid subscription through our website, as a credit in the amount of the current monthly Pro price incl. VAT, see price list, applied to your next invoice) as soon as the person you invited meets the activation requirements (see clause 4).

The bonus is applied as a Stripe coupon (duration: once, amount_off: <list price>) to your existing or next Pro subscription. If at the time of activation you have no paid subscription (e.g. as a Free user), a free Pro month starts immediately instead, without you having to provide a payment method; if your free trial period or a free Pro month is currently running, it follows on at its end. If the reward cannot be redeemed immediately (e.g. as an Enterprise member or with a subscription via the App Store), it is parked (the reward does not expire as long as your account exists — for the exception on account deletion, see clause 7; a technical renewal of the coupon takes place automatically if needed).

The inviter reward is limited to a total of 12 rewards per participant (lifetime maximum). Further referrals beyond this maximum do not trigger an additional reward; the referral link remains usable for invited persons, and their benefit (clause 3) remains in place.

3. Invitee benefit (the invited person)

The invited person receives a free trial period extended to 30 days for WhispaWave Pro (instead of the regular 14 days). The benefit applies once and only if their first Pro trial begins within 180 days after the referral has been attributed — that is the point in time at which their account is linked to the referral, usually the day of registration.

In detail:

• Standard case — trial in the app: If the invited person starts their free Pro trial in the app (without a means of payment), it begins with 30 instead of 14 days.
• Subscription without a prior trial: If they take out a Pro subscription directly without a prior trial, the free trial period of this subscription is 30 instead of 14 days.
• Attribution shortly after the start of the trial: If the referral is only attributed after the regular 14-day trial is already running — this is only possible within 72 hours of registration — we extend the running trial to a total of 30 days from its start. We inform the invited person of this in the app.

The benefit exclusively extends a free trial period; it is not transferred to a later subscription, not credited and not paid out. No benefit therefore arises if the trial period has already ended at the time of attribution or the invited person has already subscribed with binding effect — a trial period that has already expired is not revived by a referral. We let them know in the app that the additional days could no longer be applied.

If, during the trial, the invited person expressly chooses an immediate start of the paid subscription, the trial ends with it; the remaining trial days — including the gifted ones — lapse without replacement. Instead, they can use the trial at any time up to its regular end and subscribe in advance for the period afterwards, without shortening the running trial.

If the first Pro trial begins later than 180 days after the attribution, the regular trial period of 14 days applies (provided the invited person is still entitled to a free trial — it is granted only once per person).

4. Activation requirement

A referral is deemed “active” and triggers the inviter reward as soon as one of the following conditions is met:

• The invited person dictates at least 1,500 words in WhispaWave (cumulatively across all monthly buckets), or
• the invited person takes out a paid Pro subscription with status active (a trial alone does not count — anti-fraud).

Both paths are subject to a 60-second lock after sign-up (bot race defense). Circular referrals (A → B → A) are detected and canceled automatically.

5. Prohibition of abuse

The following are prohibited in particular:

• self-referrals via secondary accounts,
• unsolicited mass advertising with the referral link (spam) — the participant sends invitations exclusively on their own and only to persons whose consent they may assume,
• automated or scripted sign-ups,
• the use of several referral codes per invited person (UNIQUE constraint at database level).

Violations lead to the loss of the rewards and, where applicable, to the blocking of the account. Amounts already paid out are charged back via the Stripe customer balance.

6. Right of withdrawal (Section 355 of the German Civil Code (BGB))

If the invited person ends their Pro subscription within the statutory 14-day withdrawal period and receives a refund in the process, the associated inviter reward is revoked:

• If the bonus coupon has already been applied to an invoice, it is settled via the Stripe customer balance (a positive balance that is applied to the next invoice).
• If the coupon has not yet been applied, it is simply deleted.

You receive a bilateral notification (bell + email).

7. No entitlement to continuation

The referral program is a voluntary marketing measure. WhispaWave reserves the right to adjust or discontinue the program at any time. Rewards already earned and not revoked remain in place and are redeemed at the agreed value. Exception: if you permanently delete your account, bonus months not yet redeemed lapse without replacement when the deletion is carried out — we expressly point this out to you in the deletion process. Rewards already applied to an invoice remain unaffected.