Affiliate Disclosure
Transparency about commercial relationships on this website
Short version (TL;DR):
This website contains a referral link to Star Citizen's official recruit program. If you create a Star Citizen account using the code STAR-MQHJ-SQYT, the operator of this site may receive an in-game reward from Cloud Imperium Games. You pay nothing extra, and the recruit program operator is the same whether you use this referral or not.
1. What this disclosure covers
Veanturverse.com promotes the official Star Citizen referral program. This page exists to disclose, clearly and in advance, every commercial relationship between the operator of this website and any third party whose products or services are linked from these pages. This disclosure is published in accordance with:
- § 5a Abs. 4 UWG (German Act Against Unfair Competition): commercial intent must be identifiable
- § 6 DDG (German Digital Services Act): commercial communications must be clearly identifiable as such
- 16 CFR Part 255 (United States Federal Trade Commission Endorsement Guides): material connections must be disclosed for US visitors
2. The Star Citizen Referral Program
The Star Citizen referral program is operated by Cloud Imperium Games Corp. / Roberts Space Industries, not by Veanturverse. The operator of Veanturverse is registered in this program as a recruiter and uses the referral code STAR-MQHJ-SQYT. The program, its qualification criteria and the applicable rewards are described exclusively by Cloud Imperium Games at:
- Program page (overview & FAQ): https://robertsspaceindustries.com/referral-program
General terms governing all Star Citizen accounts (including the referral program) are part of the Cloud Imperium Games Terms of Service: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/tos.
3. What the operator of this site receives
When a person creates a Star Citizen account using the referral code listed on this site and that account meets the qualification criteria defined by Cloud Imperium Games, the operator of this site may receive rewards directly from Cloud Imperium Games. These rewards consist exclusively of in-game items, in-game currency (UEC), and recruit-program ranks within the Star Citizen ecosystem.
The operator of this site receives no cash payment, no revenue share, and no commission on real-money purchases made by referred users. The relationship is non-monetary on both sides: visitors pay nothing extra; the operator receives no money. Veanturverse is not a paid advertiser of Cloud Imperium Games and is not under contract with Cloud Imperium Games beyond participation in the publicly available referral program.
4. What it costs you
Nothing. The Star Citizen referral program adds no surcharge, no markup and no cost to the recruit. On the contrary, recruits who sign up using a valid referral code receive a one-time bonus of 50,000 UEC (in-game currency) from Cloud Imperium Games, a bonus that is not available to recruits who sign up without a referral code.
You can also create a Star Citizen account entirely without using any referral code. You will simply not receive the 50,000 UEC recruit bonus in that case.
5. Editorial independence
Cloud Imperium Games does not review, edit, approve or pay for any content published on Veanturverse. All written guides, video content and tool recommendations on this website and on the affiliated YouTube channel "Veantur" are produced independently. Critical, neutral or negative statements about Star Citizen, its patches, ships, or game design are made on the basis of independent observation and gameplay.
The existence of the referral relationship does not influence the content of guides or video material. The operator of this site is contractually free to make any factual statement about Star Citizen, including statements that may be unfavourable to Cloud Imperium Games.
6. Identification of affiliate links
On this website, the following constitute affiliate links within the meaning of this disclosure:
- Any link whose target URL contains the referral parameter
?referral=STAR-MQHJ-SQYTor otherwise identifies the recruit codeSTAR-MQHJ-SQYT - Any reference to the recruit code itself, when it appears in a context that invites the visitor to apply the code during Star Citizen account registration
All other links on this website (including links to YouTube videos of the Veantur channel, to general Star Citizen information pages, to the official Roberts Space Industries privacy policy, and to other third-party reference sites) are not affiliate links and generate no reward for the operator of this site.
7. FTC Notice for visitors from the United States
In accordance with the United States Federal Trade Commission Endorsement Guides (16 CFR Part 255), the operator of this site discloses the following material connection: the operator of veanturverse.com receives in-game rewards from Cloud Imperium Games for visitors who create Star Citizen accounts using the referral code listed on this site. This disclosure is made conspicuously and in advance of any endorsement of Star Citizen, the recruit program, or any specific Star Citizen package.
8. Questions
If anything in this disclosure is unclear, or if you would like to verify how the referral program works directly with Cloud Imperium Games, please consult the program pages linked in section 2 or contact the site operator: contact.k@mailbox.org.
9. Changes to this disclosure
This disclosure will be updated if the commercial relationships of this site change, for example, if additional affiliate programs are introduced, or if the Star Citizen referral program terms are amended materially by Cloud Imperium Games.