Publisher Terms

1. Parties and scope

These terms are between AKHUNSTECH (Pvt) Ltd, a private limited company registered in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and trading as Akhuns Media (“Akhuns Media”, “we”, “us”), and the person or entity whose web inventory we are engaged to monetise (“Publisher”, “you”). They apply to every property you list in your signed insertion order or onboarding schedule.

2. Our role

Akhuns Media acts as an intermediary. We do not own your content or your inventory. We are authorised by you to represent that inventory to programmatic demand sources, to serve advertising into it through Google Ad Manager and associated demand partners, to collect the resulting revenue, and to remit your share to you. We declare this relationship publicly in our supply chain disclosures.

3. Publisher eligibility and warranties

You warrant, continuously and not only at onboarding, that: you own or are lawfully licensed to operate each property listed; the content on those properties is original or lawfully licensed and does not infringe any third-party right; traffic to those properties is genuine human traffic acquired without payment for clicks, impressions or incentivised visits; each property complies with Google Publisher Policies and Google Publisher Restrictions; each property publishes a working privacy policy and, where it serves users in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, operates a functioning consent management platform.

4. Authorised digital sellers

You will publish and maintain the ads.txt lines we supply at the root of each listed domain, together with the OWNERDOMAIN and MANAGERDOMAIN declarations we provide. You will not add reseller lines for third parties without telling us. We monitor these files. If a file is removed, altered so that our authorisation is lost, or populated with unauthorised entries, we may suspend delivery to the affected property until it is corrected.

5. Ad serving and inventory control

We determine the demand sources, price floors, auction configuration and creative controls applied to your inventory. You determine the number and position of placements on your pages, subject to our advice and to platform policy limits. You will not alter, obscure, incentivise interaction with, or artificially refresh advertising served through our tags, and you will not place our tags on any property not listed in your schedule.

6. Revenue share and calculation

You are paid a percentage of net revenue attributable to your inventory. Net revenue means gross revenue reported by the applicable demand source, after that demand source has deducted its own fees, exchange fees and any platform revenue share. Your percentage is set out in your schedule according to the published tier table and is applied to each calendar month independently. We do not charge a setup fee, a platform fee or a minimum spend.

7. Payment

Revenue for a calendar month is paid within 45 days of the end of that month. The minimum payout threshold is 100 USD; balances below the threshold carry forward without expiry and are paid in the first month in which the accumulated total meets it. Payment is made by bank transfer, Wise or Payoneer, as selected by you at onboarding. Fees charged by your chosen payment provider are borne by you. Taxes and withholding obligations arising in your own jurisdiction are your responsibility, and you will supply any tax documentation we are legally required to hold.

8. Deductions, clawbacks and invalid traffic

Where a demand source deducts, withholds or reverses revenue in respect of your inventory, including for invalid traffic, policy breach or billing correction, that deduction is passed through to you at cost against the corresponding period. We will provide the underlying platform report on request. We do not mark up deductions and we do not absorb them. Where invalid traffic is confirmed on a property, we may suspend that property immediately and withhold the affected revenue pending the demand source’s final determination.

9. Reporting

We provide placement-level reporting covering impressions, fill rate, effective CPM and revenue. Reporting figures are provisional until the corresponding demand source finalises them, which typically occurs within the first ten days of the following month. Where our reporting and the demand source’s finalised figures differ, the finalised figures govern payment.

10. Confidentiality

Each party will keep the other’s non-public commercial information confidential and use it only for the purpose of this relationship. Your revenue share percentage, our floor strategy and our demand partner terms are confidential. Nothing in this clause prevents either party from making a disclosure required by law, by a regulator or by a platform on which the relationship depends.

11. Data protection

Each party is an independent controller in respect of personal data it determines the purposes and means of processing for. You are responsible for obtaining and transmitting valid end-user consent on your properties where consent is required, and for honouring data subject requests relating to your properties. We are responsible for our own lawful basis in respect of the data we receive. Our handling of personal data is described in our privacy policy.

12. Suspension and termination

Either party may terminate on 30 days’ written notice, for any reason or none. We may suspend or terminate immediately, without notice, where we reasonably determine that a property is generating invalid traffic, breaching Google Publisher Policies, misrepresenting its ownership or content, or exposing the network or its other publishers to platform enforcement. On termination you remove our tags and our ads.txt lines promptly, and we pay any earned balance on the next scheduled payment date following final reconciliation, subject to any clawback that arises.

13. Liability

Neither party excludes liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. Subject to that, neither party is liable for indirect or consequential loss, and each party’s aggregate liability arising in any twelve-month period is limited to the total amounts paid or payable to you under these terms in that period. We do not warrant any particular level of revenue, fill rate or effective CPM. Programmatic demand fluctuates and we make no guarantee of future performance.

14. Independent contractors

Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship. Neither party may bind the other.

15. Changes

We may amend these terms on 30 days’ written notice to the email address on your account. Where an amendment materially reduces your revenue share or lengthens your payment terms, you may terminate without notice before it takes effect. Continued use of our tags after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

16. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the courts of Pakistan have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to either party’s right to seek injunctive relief in any competent jurisdiction.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms should be sent to compliance@akhunsmedia.com. Payment queries should be sent to accounts@akhunsmedia.com.