Business participation terms

The customer purchase charge and related refund records must identify the selected business as seller, merchant of record and payment recipient. BountyHunt’s own fee agreement, invoice and receipt must identify the approved legal company that operates BountyHunt. Before commitment, the business must see the applicable fee, tax, currency, cashback, purchase-refund and dispute terms. Payment descriptions must accurately identify the charging merchant or approved customer-facing brand and must never expose another venture or unrelated product.

• The representative must be authorised to act for the named business.
• For the Australian service, the business’s Australian Business Number (ABN), legal and trading names and applicable registration details must be accurate and current.
• Licences, insurance, service area and category checks must meet the rules for the exact Australian cell in which the business offers.
• A one-time invitation is not a blanket BountyHunt verification badge.
• BountyHunt may pause participation when a check expires or a material complaint is under review. Later countries require separate business-verification rules before activation.

• State the full quoted price, unavoidable fees, inclusions, exclusions, timing, availability, warranty and validity.
• Choose any Reward independently; do not coordinate prices, rebates or Rewards with competitors.
• Describe a Reward as conditional post-purchase cashback returned to the original payment method, not as an upfront discount or separate payout.
• Do not inflate price to disguise a Reward or make unsupported comparison, savings or scarcity claims.
• Material changes require a new version and buyer notice; they cannot be silently edited after selection.

Before a buyer selects an offer, a competitive Claim must not contain a business, legal or trading name; representative name; logo; phone number; email address; website or domain; social handle; street address; map location; external profile or listing; source or marketplace URL; QR code; referral or tracking code; or another direct or indirect identifier reasonably capable of revealing or contacting the business. BountyHunt must disclose the selected business's verified identity before the buyer commits or pays. This restriction applies only to competitive Claims, not standalone connected-shopping results that identify the retailer and provide a tracked purchase link.

A business must not propose, encourage or accept an arrangement intended to move a BountyHunt-introduced transaction outside the agreed route to avoid a platform fee clearly disclosed to and accepted by the business before it submitted its Claim, or to avoid a Reward included in the accepted Claim. An introduced transaction is limited to the same buyer and business completing the same or a substantially similar purchase within 180 days after BountyHunt first releases the selected parties' identity or contact details. If the business breaches the Claim-identifier rule, the period begins when the buyer first contacts it using that prohibited information.

No attribution applies where dated records created before the relevant introduction show that the buyer was already a current customer of the business or had independently begun an enquiry with it for the same or a substantially similar purchase, without using BountyHunt information. The business may provide only the narrowly necessary evidence and must not expose unrelated buyer information.

Where documented evidence gives reasonable grounds to investigate a breach, BountyHunt may require the business to report whether the introduced transaction completed and provide narrowly scoped evidence, preserve relevant records, pause Claim or contact-release access during review, or suspend future participation after fair notice and an internal review opportunity where lawful. BountyHunt may invoice or recover from the business only the platform fee that was clearly disclosed and accepted before the Claim, and may require the business to honour an accepted Reward through the approved route. Measures must be proportionate; there is no automatic damages amount, fee multiplier or buyer liability. Nothing in this section limits Australian Consumer Law or another non-excludable statutory right.

A verified business may later configure a narrowly scoped Auto-Claim rule for an exact category, country, service region, currency, product or stock identifier, condition, quantity, delivery window, price ceiling and minimum margin. BountyHunt must cap discounts and Rewards, re-check current stock and purchase policy, and reject any prohibited, review-only, ambiguous or mismatched request. An Auto-Claim is a versioned offer proposal from that business, not a BountyHunt guarantee. It cannot initiate a cashback refund before a qualifying purchase is verified, and it cannot reveal buyer contact details until the same approval, selection, current-business, safety and consent gates that apply to a manual offer have passed.

Businesses must follow the Prohibited and Restricted Purchases Policy, must not make an offer for a prohibited purchase, and must immediately report any request that appears unlawful, unsafe, misleading or wrongly classified. An invitation does not override local law, licensing requirements, sanctions, product-safety obligations or an inactive market category.

• Do not seek to identify or contact a shielded buyer outside BountyHunt.
• Use released contact details only for the selected purchase and only within the approved scope.
• Do not resell, enrich, upload to advertising audiences or retain buyer data after the permitted purpose ends.
• Report accidental disclosure or suspected misuse immediately.

By including a Reward, the business makes a conditional cashback offer to the buyer. If the selected purchase qualifies, the business remains responsible for the Reward and authorises BountyHunt, where the approved payment implementation permits, to submit that amount as a partial refund against the original customer charge on its behalf. The agreement must state the qualifying evidence, refund-submission timing, full and partial cancellation adjustments, failed-refund handling, platform-fee treatment and responsibility for disputes. No separate Reward charge, prepaid balance, buyer transfer or payout is created.

Businesses must not use BountyHunt data for unrelated marketing. Any commercial invitation or follow-up sent by BountyHunt must have recorded express consent or properly inferred consent under the Spam Act, identify the sender, provide valid contact details and include a functioning unsubscribe. Suppression applies across all providers.

The business remains responsible for its quote, sale contract, supply, licences, warranties, purchase refunds, approved Rewards and all non-excludable customer rights. A Reward must not be cancelled merely because a buyer makes a good-faith complaint or exercises a right that cannot lawfully be excluded. Participation does not transfer those obligations to BountyHunt.

For the Australian service, this includes the Australian Consumer Law and applicable state or territory requirements. A business must give the buyer its accurate legal and trading identity and all material sale terms before commitment.

Before submitting a Claim, the business must be shown the completed-sale platform fee, whether GST is included, the currency, the event that earns the fee, the effect of cancellation, refund or dispute, and any optional Reward it chooses to offer. BountyHunt will issue the applicable tax invoice or adjustment record for its own fee. The business must provide accurate seller and transaction information that BountyHunt reasonably requires to meet tax and reporting duties, including the Sharing Economy Reporting Regime where a facilitated service transaction is reportable. Goods-only transfers are not represented as reportable merely because they use BountyHunt.

BountyHunt may preserve records, pause an offer or suspend access while investigating fraud, privacy, safety, licensing or payment risk. We will provide a fair reason, notice where lawful, an internal review path and proportionate consequences. A business may use the published complaints process or email support@bountyhunt.com.au.