[Simon]

Sometimes sponsors just don't understand how things work either.

We signed up for a sponsor earlier this year (not private cash), but hadn't gotten around to using them yet. We were about to grab all their links and hosted content when we received an email saying,

"Your ************ affiliate account has been terminated. We require a minimum amount of clickthrough traffic from our affiliates to remain active in our program. Your account was sending us less than 100 clicks per month. Thank you for your participation in the program."

Yep, we were sending less than 100 clicks, since we hadn't even put up their links anywhere yet. I know I could contact them and explain, but since they didn't bother to ask before terminating our account, I'm not going to waste my time promoting their program.

In your case though, it's probably worth contacting them and straightening things out.