Program terms

What the program is

You share a personal Kollegio link with people who might find Kollegio useful. When someone signs up through your link and finishes setting up their account, that counts as one friend. Enough friends unlocks a reward.

There is no cost to take part, no quota, and no penalty for stopping. You are not an employee, contractor or agent of Kollegio, and you cannot make commitments on our behalf.

Who can take part

You need to be at least 13. There is no upper limit on age — high school students, college students, parents and guardians are all welcome. Being eligible to apply is not the same as being accepted: places are limited and every application is reviewed by a person. Some rewards are only available to ambassadors who are 18 or over — where that applies, the reward simply is not offered to you rather than being shown and locked.

If you are under 18 we may ask for a parent or guardian's email address before sending a reward.

When a friend counts

A friend counts when they are a student in the United States, have confirmed their email address, and have finished setting up their Kollegio account. All three are needed. Until they finish setting up they show on your Friends screen as still finishing setup, and nothing is lost while they are in that state — they move across the moment they finish.

A friend outside the United States does not count, and will not count later. Kollegio is used all over the world, so this will happen: most of the people who sign up are not in the US. Your Friends screen says so on the row itself rather than leaving you to work it out, and it is not a reflection on you or on them.

A friend can only ever be referred once, by whoever's link they first arrived through. If someone already had a Kollegio account before clicking your link, they do not count as a new friend.

You cannot refer yourself, and you cannot refer someone using an address you control.

Rewards

Reward thresholds and values are shown in the app and can change. A change never removes a reward you have already earned.

Every reward is checked by a person before it goes out. That normally takes a few days. We will email you when yours is on its way.

Gift cards and cash rewards may be reportable income depending on where you live and how much you receive in a year. We may need your details to meet a reporting obligation before we can send a reward above a certain value.

The weekly leaderboard

The leaderboard counts friends who count, in the week they count. A week runs from Sunday 7pm Eastern to the following Sunday 7pm Eastern, and everybody starts each week at zero. Nothing you have already earned is affected by it.

First place at the close of the week wins the prize shown on the leaderboard. If two people finish on the same number of friends, the one who got there first is ahead.

We may hold back the prize in a week where first place finished on fewer than 5 counted friends, or where the referrals behind it turn out not to be genuine. Every prize is checked by a person before it is sent, the same as every other reward.

Your first name, the city and state of your school, and your friend count for the week are shown to other ambassadors on the leaderboard. Your last name, your school's name, your email and your phone number are not.

The weekly friend giveaway

Every friend who joins Kollegio with an ambassador's link and counts during a leaderboard week is entered once in that week's friend giveaway. Signing up for Kollegio is free, and no purchase is needed to enter or to win. A week runs from Sunday 7pm Eastern to the following Sunday 7pm Eastern. The first draw is on Sunday, October 4, 2026, and includes every friend who counted from September 24, 2026.

One winner is drawn at random from that week's entries when the week closes, and wins that week's prize, currently a $50 gift card. Every entry has the same chance. Your odds depend on how many friends are entered that week.

Before a winner is announced, a person checks that the entry is genuine. If it is not, for example an account made only to enter, another winner is drawn at random from the remaining entries.

If fewer than 20 friends are entered in a week, there is no draw that week and no prize.

The winner is emailed a link to claim their prize and has 14 days to use it. A prize that is not claimed in time lapses and is not redrawn. Winners under 18 are asked for a parent or guardian's email, and that parent or guardian is told when the prize is sent.

Every prize is checked by a person before it is sent. We may withhold a prize if the entry behind it turns out not to be genuine, for example an account made only to enter, and ambassadors whose friends are found to be fake may be removed from the program.

The winner's first name and last initial are shared only with the ambassador who referred them. Other ambassadors are told that ambassador's first name and state, never the winner's name.

Your team: inviting other ambassadors

Once you reach Campus Scout, you can invite friends to apply to be ambassadors with your team invite link. They apply and are reviewed like everybody else; being invited does not guarantee a place.

When somebody you invited is accepted, they join your team. Each time one of your team members has a reward approved for reaching a new badge, you unlock a team bonus: currently $5 for Campus Scout, $10 for Campus Lead, $25 for Campus Director and $50 for Regional Director. Team bonuses are gift cards, claimed and checked by a person like every other reward.

You earn only from people you invited yourself, never from people they invite. A team bonus does not count against your own friends or rewards.

Your team is visible only to you. You see each team member's first name and last initial, their badge, how many friends they are from their next badge and when they last signed in, never who their friends are. If somebody invited you, they see the same about you, and you can still build a team of your own.

You can have a limited number of invites in use at once (people who have applied, or joined and not yet reached Campus Scout): 5 to start, 10 from Campus Director and 20 at Regional Director. An invite frees up when that person reaches Campus Scout or when you remove them from your team.

Inviting yourself, under another name, email or phone, is not allowed. If a team member's friends or rewards turn out not to be genuine, any team bonus that came from them is withheld, and we may remove the accounts involved.

A team bonus is paid for your team member's reward, so it follows that reward. It waits while their account or friends are being reviewed. If their reward is reversed before your bonus is sent, your bonus is taken back and we'll tell you, and it comes back if their reward is approved again. A bonus that has already been sent is yours.

"Cheer them on" sends your team member an email from Kollegio with their progress. We send at most one every few days, and never to somebody who has turned off tips emails.

Referrals that get reversed

If a signup turns out to be fraudulent, duplicated, or made by someone who was not a real new user, we may reverse it. Your friend count and credits go down accordingly, and you will be able to see that it happened and why.

We do not reverse a reward that has already been sent to you because of a later reversal on the referral behind it.

Buying signups, using bots, creating accounts for people who did not ask, or spamming are all grounds for removal from the program.

Suspension and removal

We may suspend or remove you from the program. If we do, your link stops counting new friends and you can no longer sign in to the ambassador portal.

Rewards you have already earned and been sent are yours. Rewards you have unlocked but not claimed stay claimable for 30 days.

People you referred are not affected in any way by anything that happens to your ambassador account.

Your data, and theirs

We show you a first name and last initial for each friend, and nothing else. Never their email address, their school, or anything from their profile. That is a firm limit, not a default setting.

We keep your application, your referral activity and your reward history for as long as you are in the program and for as long afterwards as we are required to.

If you gave us a phone number, we use it to contact you about your application and your rewards. We only send you marketing or reminder texts if you separately ticked the box asking us to, and you can stop those at any time.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects how you earn or receive rewards, we will tell you by email before it takes effect.

Getting in touch

Questions about the program, a friend who did not count, or a reward that has not arrived: reply to any email we have sent you and a person will read it.