Rope team

The exact rules, in plain words — no small print elsewhere.

In climbing, a rope team is the group you are tied to. Hand your code to a family who would use a better instrument: they start with a longer Pro trial, and when they actually use it, you earn Pro time.

What counts as an invitation

An invitation counts when a new family comes through your code, finishes a placement (24 questions) and has a confirmed email address. They can come either way round:

• they scan your poster or open your link, finish a placement, and then confirm their email (by opening a parent account or confirming the Sunday page); or
• they open a parent account with your code first, and a child they link finishes a placement.

Not a click, and not a sign-up alone — those are too easy to fake, and rewarding them would turn this into a numbers game. Not a purchase either: you should be handing on an instrument, not selling one. Your own code does not count for your own account.

What each side gets

• The family you invite gets a 21-night Pro trial instead of the usual 14 when they open their parent account through your link, or type your code as they sign up — a friend sent them, so there is more room to look around.
• If you subscribe: two weeks of Pro for your first invitation, two weeks for the second, and one week for each one after that, up to three months in any twelve-month period. We add them by moving your next payment later; nothing is charged for the extra days.
• If you are on a one-off plan (lifetime or founding family): extra time would be meaningless to you, so each invitation gives you a gift code: a month of Pro for another family — hand it to whoever you like. They use it on their account page.

When it is honoured

Each invitation is recorded the moment it counts, and the tally is on your account page. If you have a paid subscription running, the days are added to it straight away and we email you the new payment date. If you do not yet (you are on the free trial, or only receive the Sunday page), the days are kept and added the moment you subscribe, and we email you then. Anything recorded stays recorded.

What we count, and what we do not

We count how many families came through your code and finished a placement. We never tell you who they are. When a family opens a parent account with your code, our records note which code it came through, so that the invitation can count; nothing about them appears on your account page except the count. There is no leaderboard, and we will never publish or compare invitation counts.

Limits, so it stays honest

• One counted invitation per household per day.
• Subscribers: up to three months in any twelve-month period. One-off plans: up to twelve gift codes in any twelve-month period.
• Invitations that look automated are not counted. Nobody answers 24 maths questions by accident.

We can change these rules for future invitations, but anything already earned stays earned. Questions: [email protected].