CPA: Cost per Action: payment for a player who signs up and deposits money
RMP: Real Money Player: a player who deposits real money to play poker
MGR: Monthly Gross Revenue is calculated as the sum total of all Players, contributing to all pots (rakes) that the players were involved in, while playing at the Websites you promote through the PAW Network. All of the programs on the PAW network have separate terms and conditions.
FPP’s: Frequent Player Points: Points players are required to accumulate (qualification amount dependent on each individual room) so that an affiliate qualifies to earn their CPA commission (eliminates fraud)
Rake: A percentage of the pot from each hand of poker that the house keeps
Banners and Text Links: Is the graphical artwork or text that you use to hyperlink Players from your site through one of the PAW trackers (all banners from all rooms can be found in the marketing tools section in PAW)
Fraud Traffic: Are deposits, Gross Revenue or traffic generated at the Website through illegal means or in bad faith to defraud us, regardless of whether or not it actually causes us harm. Fraud Traffic includes deposits generated on stolen credit cards, collusion, manipulation of the service or system, bonuses or other promotional abuse, and unauthorized use of any third party accounts, copyrights or trademarks. Fraud traffic also includes intentionally sending Players to a site with the sole intention to play the minimum amount of raked hands for the affiliate to receive CPA payment.
PokerNews Freerolls: the PokerNews.com website freerolls are located at http://www.pokernews.com/freeroll-tournaments/. Many of the PokerNews freeroll events are available to promote via the PAW Affiliate Network. For the included rooms, when a player signs up through your PAW tracker and meets the minimum requirement, they will be eligible to play in these special events.
Real Money Player(s): are players that make a real money deposit to his/her Account (at any time after opening the Account), per the individual rooms T&C’s regarding Real Money Players.
Sign up Bonus Codes: is a unique alphanumeric code that Players may enter when opening an Account with selected rooms on our network. When entered, the system automatically logs the Sign up Bonus Codes and records you as the Affiliate.
Sign up Bonus Incentives: are special offers to Players that give them extra cash or giveaways when they open their Account or make a real money deposit at any of the PAW Network rooms. Incentive Marketing or giving incentives in the form of cash, free bankrolls, poker software, or special gifts is strictly prohibited on the PAW Network. PAW reserves the right to withhold any CPA payments to affiliates who are promoting via incentive marketing. In rare cases we will allow incentive marketing, however any such marketing must be pre-approved.
Sub-Affiliate: is an affiliate, which you referred to the Affiliate Program, and for which, you will receive compensation based on the Affiliate earnings.
Tracker(s): Is the unique Tracking URL or Sign up Bonus Codes that we provide exclusively to you from the represented room in the PAW Network. Through which we track and calculate Affiliate earnings.
Tracking URL: is a unique hyperlink from the PAW Network, through which you refer potential Players to a represented Website on our network. When the Player opens his/her Account, the system automatically logs the Tracking URL and records you as the Affiliate.