a company I work in, signed through my affiliation link. is this legal?

[dsfwebsite]

a person in a company I work for, asked me for some advice and also for a lead. (work related)
I guided him and gave him a link to a company I'm affiliated with.
He started to use his newly created account.
This in turn , started to generate a monthly revenue that is appearing under my personal account.

I have a few questions that are bothering me...
1. is this legal?
2. can I earn a commission in such a way?
3. can they do anything against me if they find out?

just to clear some things:

• the company I work for is not affected by this commission, it is paid to be by the service provider.
• I didn't use the money yet. I can return it at any stage.
• I have already promoted other services and products over the net and I have been an affiliate for some time now.

[SSandecki]

I don't see even why you would think this isn't legal....

[dsfwebsite]

legalguy, so there is nothing wrong with this case?

it's not illegal?

[SSandecki]

I don't see why it would be, you provided someone with information they requested and that happened to be a product\company you are an affiliate of; what do you think to be illegal about that, it's the concept of affiliate marketing to begin with

[dsfwebsite]

well, some people might say it's not loyal to earn money "on the back" of a company you work for...

[dondi05]

It would be nicer and better if you are keeping some secrets inside your company so that you won't feel any guilt at all. But I think this is not illegal though.