How a referral is attributed to you

A signup is credited to you when three things are true at once: the person opened your link within the previous 30 days, they are creating a brand-new account, and no other affiliate's link was the last one they opened. The credit is decided once, at account creation, and then locked.

The rules, in full

1. Your link is jinu.app/r/ followed by your handle. Opening it records a touch.
2. The window is 30 days from that touch. A signup after that earns nothing, even from the same person and the same link.
3. The last valid touch before signup wins. If somebody opens your link and then another affiliate's before creating an account, the credit goes to the other affiliate, because they are who actually sent the person who arrived.
4. Attribution happens once and is then locked for the twelve month commission period. It is never recalculated and a later touch of somebody else's link never moves it.
5. New accounts only. Somebody who already had a Jinu account when they opened your link is never attached to you, retroactively or otherwise.
6. No self-referral. You cannot refer your own account.
7. One affiliate per referred account. This is a database constraint, not a policy anybody has to remember to apply.
8. Only approved affiliates receive attribution. While your application is still pending, touches of your link attribute to nobody. This is what lets applications open before attribution does.

The cookie is not the decision

Opening your link leaves a cookie carrying the handle and the time. Nothing in it is trusted. The handle is checked against our own records and rejected unless it names an approved affiliate, the 30 days are measured against the server clock, the account's age is read from our own account records and not from the browser, and the one-affiliate-per-account rule is enforced by the database. The most a hand-edited cookie can achieve is the same result as genuinely clicking the link, which is the feature rather than an exploit.

The practical consequence for you: a person who blocks cookies, switches browsers, or opens your link on their phone and signs up on a laptop may not be credited. That is a limitation of how the web works, and it is why the honest way to promote is volume and relevance rather than trying to outsmart the tracking.

Shared addresses

Households, offices, campuses, shared mobile networks and coffee shops all put many different people behind one internet address. Jinu records a shared address as a signal for review and never as an automatic block, because the number of ordinary people it would wrongly catch is enormous and the cost of getting it wrong is refusing somebody a referral they genuinely earned.

When attribution can still change

Jinu may correct an attribution where it determines that an error, manipulation, fraud, a duplicate account or other invalid activity occurred. Where more than one affiliate has referred the same person, Jinu's attribution systems decide which one is credited, generally on the last valid touch before the account was created. The full wording is in the Operating Agreement.