We currently accept members all over the world. In order to join, you must be at least 18 years of age.

No, there are absolutely no hidden fees and the service is absolutely free to use. Furthermore, it is you who has the potential to earn!

Yes, readbud is absolutely free to use, as per the answer above.

Yes, it is required of you to accept the Terms and Conditions in order to regiser and participate at readbud.

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No, as an individual you may have only one unique account, however you may have up to 5 accounts within the same household, so long as each individual has their own PayPal account.

No, you must represent your own account in your own name. Each account must be operated by the individual and have a unique PayPal account.

Visit the "Resend Activation Email" page and provide your email or username and submit the form. You will receive another activation email containing the validation link to activate your account. If you do not receive the resent activation email, please check your SPAM or Junk folder, otherwise Contact Us.

Simply use the "Contact Us" page and enter your termination statement and email address you registered with.

You can change your personal account details by going to "Account" and then clicking on "Account Details" from side menu.

Simply use the quick login form at the top right corner, or click on the "Account" tab and login from there by providing your email and password combination.

Visit the "Forgot My Password" page and provide your email or username and submit the form. You will receive an email containing your password.

Once you register, you must choose and save your Interest Topics. We urge you to choose the topics most relevant to your actual real-life interests.

We advise members not to change their Interest Topics at all. This is a security measure to ensure members are not changing topics for the sole purpose of receiving more articles.

It is impossible to estimate the amount of articles you will receive. The readbud article delivery engine determines the articles relevant to you and furthermore decides when and the amount of articles to send to you based on various factors such as your activity, other members activity at the time, article availability and daily budget buffer.

At the time when paid articles are unavailable, we present you other articles relevant to you that may just as well be of interest to you. To get more relevant articles, simply click on "Articles" tab or "Get Next Article" on the left side menu.

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Simply close this article and view the next article available.

By all means no! We never send you any unsolicited emails, especially spam. We only ever deliver articles that are relevant to you through your web browser!

Certainly. readbud is powered by a high performance, highly secure data center and all our data is securely stored on servers therein. The data center monitors all activity from any external sources at all times and ensures no threat is present to our operation.

readbud will not share your personal information to any third party without your agreement. The information you provide in your account is owned by you and you can change, update or delete it at any given time. readbud requires you to provide truthful information. Please refer to the Terms and Conditions for more information.

Generally no, unless it is our civil duty to do so if requested by a government body.

You will receive the $5 credit per referral once each of your referrals redeem successfully for the first time after reaching the $50 threshold. This is to ensure that your referrals are quality members interested in our service.

We will soon be releasing 3 new advertising banners in 3 different sizes to allow more flexible promotion of readbud.

Once the referred user lands on the readbud referral destination, our server picks up the Referrer ID (your Member ID) and stores it in memory (session). This further enables us to provide a better experience for the referred user before they register. Fear not, you will still receive the compensation once the referred user registers if within the bounds of that session! Please read the next question and answer for additional information.

Due to the fact that we store the Referral ID (your Member ID) into session, the referred user is only tracked within that particular session. Furthermore, if the referred user decides to close down the website or the browser for whatever reason and doesn't regiter during that session, then comes back another time to the website randomly or by manually visiting it from the address bar or favourites, you will not get the referral bonus as there is no reference to your Referral ID.

You can monitor all your referrals and their status by visiting the Referral Report under the "Account" section.