The Terms of Service and Conditions found below shall govern participation in the 's Affiliate program (the "Program"). Your participating in the Program is bound by your adherence to the Terms of Service stated in this Agreement. The term 'Affiliate' shall refer to any individual or entity who accepts the terms and conditions of this Agreement and thereby enters into a legally binding contract with upon submitting the Affiliate Program application form.
ResponsibilitiesAffiliate shall enable users of Affiliate's web site to perform search queries or provide them with links by utilizing any form of the Intellectual Property provided by deemed necessary for Affiliate such as verticals, Search Boxes, Banners, Text-Link Directories, Full-page Portals, Java-Includes, Dynamic Banners, Text-links, Pop-ups, Panels, XML feed, HTML feed, or other methods that may be provided by in the future. Affiliate shall not modify the Intellectual Property, which is herein licensed to Affiliate. Affiliate is solely responsible for the creation and maintenance of its own web site and for all contents that appears on Affiliates web site that Affiliates submitted to Program. Affiliate may not issue any press release or other public statements regarding this Agreement without 's prior written consent.
Terms and TerminationThe term of this Agreement (the “Term”) will commence on the date accepts and approves Affiliate's completed application and will remain in full force and effect until terminated pursuant to this paragraph. All of the following terms and conditions must be adhered to and are legally binding immediately upon agreement. Both parties reserve the right to terminate this agreement at their discretion for any reason whatsoever. However, Affiliate must notify seven (7) days in advance, in writing or via e-mail, of its intentions to terminate Agreement. Inability to comply with any of said terms of agreement will forfeit any unpaid earnings and result in immediate termination of Affiliate's account. Further legal course of action may be considered to prosecute violating Affiliates. will track all Members’ referrals and their commission. will have full authority to make final decision in this regard.
Payment
will pay Affiliate a commission of minimum 90% of the net bid amount earned by for clicks generated as a result of a link from an Affiliate's site. All payments are distributed to Affiliates on a NET 30 basis. Affiliate is responsible to pay all taxes on the monies earned through the Program. Affiliate has the option of choosing to receive payments by check, through PayPal, MoneyBookers, Egold, or via other means if Affiliate has special needs. Affiliate is responsible for maintaining all payment and contact information current. requires each Affiliate to submit all applicable member info or documents before payments can be made to Affiliate.
agrees to pay Affiliate percent of money earned by referrals that are accepted into the Network during the term of this Agreement. The percent may vary by the affiliate member type of each Affiliate will be paid in accordance with the payment terms described herein. Affiliate may not signup under its own account without being approved by .
ReportingAffiliate is fully responsible to maintain and preserve for at least one (1) year following termination or expiration of the Term, accurate records relating to the number of Searches during the Term. shall have the right to review such records, including but not limited to log files, upon request to Affiliate.
Licensehereby grants to Affiliate a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, display, transmit, and redistribute 's linking methods, advertising, creative and related materials including search boxes, directories, exit consoles, vertical banners, and branded or co-branded search result pages and (ii) use and display ‘s trademarks, service marks and logos during the Term solely to display the Search Interfaces in furtherance of Affiliate's performance under this Agreement. Permission to use 's material is subject to change at any time deemed appropriate by and Affiliate agrees to comply with all reasonable guidelines for usage of Trademarks that may be provided by from time to time. Expiration of the Term or any other termination of this Agreement will immediately nullify and void all license privileges granted to Affiliate by . Affiliate hereby grants to a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use and display Affiliate's trademarks, service marks and logos during the Term of this Agreement. Expiration of the Term or any other termination of this Agreement will immediately nullify and void all license privileges granted to by Affiliate.
Search and Click StandardsAffiliate may not in any way “beg” or incentivize searches or clicks, use incentive techniques to drive traffic to the affiliate's site, nor may the Affiliate modify the Search Materials. Loading of search results through inframes is expressly forbidden especially while using a third party page or passing the results from another domain to accomplish this. Affiliate may not cache search results. Clicks generated from cached search results will not be paid for unless caching has been pre-approved by . Clicks without a referral url may not be counted or paid for. Deductions to affiliate payments may be made if it is determined by that traffic sent by Affiliate is fraudulent, incentivized or generally of very low quality. does not guarantee its bid prices as they are dynamic and keep changing from time to time. Affiliates suspected of cheating or in breach of any clause of the Agreement will have their account terminated without notification, notice or warning. It is the Affiliate's responsibility to inquire about further information regarding his/her account from 's billing department if payment is not received by affiliate when it is due. reserves the right to limit or annul Affiliate's access to premium advertisers with higher bids. By having been approved by , Affiliates may build a search portal containing at least 100 keywords in at least 8 topics(categories) and a search box. Affiliates cannot try and defraud the system by changing IP addresses or using any kind of click software. The use of open proxies is strictly prohibited. Affiliates found using proxies will immediately lose their account. Failure to comply with the ‘Search and Click Standards' may result in termination of Affiliate's participation in the Program and in the forfeiture of all monies owed to affiliate by .
DisclaimersDISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESSED, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, MAKES NO WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO ITS SERVICES.
Liability LimitationWILL IN NO EVENT BE LIABLE TO AFFILIATE FOR (I) INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING FROM SUCH PARTY S PERFORMANCE OR NON-PERFORMANCE UNDER ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE PROVISION OF SUCH PARTY'S SERVICES (INCLUDING SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES), SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF REVENUE OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS, OR (II) ANY AMOUNT IN EXCESS OF THE AMOUNT PAYABLE BY TO AFFILIATE DURING THE TERM. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT TO THE CONTRARY, THIS SECTION SHALL NOT LIMIT AFFILIATE'S LIABILITY TO FOR WILLFUL AND MALICIOUS MISCONDUCT, BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY OBLIGATIONS, OR FULFILLMENT OF ANY INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER.
Representation and warrantiesAffiliate party represents and warrants that: (i) it has power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to carry out its provisions; (ii) it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations; and (iii) this Agreement is valid and legally binding upon it and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such party does not conflict with any other agreement, instrument or understanding to which it is a party or by which it may be bound nor would violate any law or regulation of any court, governmental body or agency having jurisdiction over it. Affiliate hereby represents, warrants and covenants to that (i) it will not use any form of mass unsolicited electronic mail solicitations, news group postings, IRC posting, or any other form of "spamming" as a means of promoting its Web site or for the purpose of directing or referring users to any Web sites owned, operated or controlled by ; (ii) that Affiliate will not copy or reproduce, alter, modify or change, broadcast, distribute, transmit or disseminate the Materials in any manner that violates the terms and conditions of this Agreement; (iii) that Affiliate will not use, promote, or display any method of masking electronic identity on the Internet, serial numbers, cracks and hacks, Warez, any program cheats, or any similar application or information relating to such application; (iv) that Affiliate will not, directly or indirectly, place any Materials on any page that contains, or is accessible by any hyperlinks maintained or created on Affiliate's Web site: (a) any material which constitutes, or could be construed, as being abusing to animals, (b) any material which entices or promotes hate or violence against any particular race, nationality, religion or lifestyle, (c) any material that is illegal, threatening, abusive, hateful, defamatory, libelous, slanderous, scandalous or injurious to the reputation of any person or entity; or (d) any material which constitutes an infringement, misappropriation or violation of any person's intellectual property rights such as copyrights, trademark rights, rights of publicity, patent rights, personal property rights, privacy rights or other rights; or (e) any program, file, data stream or other material which contains viruses, worms, "Trojan horses" or any other destructive feature, regardless of whether damage is intended or unintended, which may detriment or have an adverse effect on any computer equipment, loss or corruption of data or programs, or inconvenience to any person, agency or entity.
AssignmentAffiliate may not assign this Agreement, in part or in whole, by operation of law or otherwise without the prior written consent of ; provided, however, that Affiliate may assign this Agreement to an acquirer of all or of substantially all of such party s equity securities, assets or business relating to the subject matter of this Agreement or to any entity controlled by, controlling or under common control with such party. In the case where an assignment is made by Affiliate in violation of this agreement, the assignment shall be null, void and of no effect. However, may assign this Agreement, at its sole discretion.
Modificationsreserves all rights and may modify the terms of this Agreement without prior notice. will attempt to inform Affiliate of modifications to this Agreement by posting an announcement of these changes in the Affiliate “Member Area” of its website. Affiliate's continued use of materials will constitute an acceptance of the modified agreement.
MiscellaneousThe term of this Agreement (the "Term") shall commence on the date Affiliate agrees to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and shall continue in force for a period of one-year thereafter, unless earlier terminated as provided herein. This Agreement will renew automatically for successive one-year periods until expiration of the commercial usefulness of the Search Results, until either party gives written notice to the other party of its intent not to renew no less than thirty (30) days prior to the end of the previous one-year period, or until terminated.
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