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Read this carefully before submitting an Affiliate Profile (the
“Application”) for participation in the ProfessionalCash
SATELLITEDIRECT
AFFILIATE AGREEMENT
This affiliate marketing agreement (the “Agreement”) is
between you and ETVCorp (“we” or “us”) and governs your participation in the SatelliteDirect
Affiliate Program (the “Program”). By participating in the Program, you fully
and unconditionally agree to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement.
1. APPLICATION AND PARTICIPATION
You represent and warrant that (i) the information included
in your application is truthful and accurate; (ii) if you are an individual,
you are at least 18 years old; (iii) if you are an entity, the person
submitting the application has the full right, power and authority to enter
into this Agreement on behalf of such entity; and (iv) your execution and
performance of this Agreement does not and will not violate any agreement by
which you are bound. You agree that you will keep your contact information
current, with a functioning email address at all times. You agree to respond
within twenty-four (24) hours to any email communication from us or our
administrator ClickBank.
2. PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
We have retained the services of ClickBank to manage and
administer the Program. ClickBank will serve as the data interchange between
you and us.
3. REFERRAL FEES AND PAYMENTS
Referral fees are paid for qualified purchases generated
from the Links. We reserve the right to change the referral fees at any time,
without prior notice or liability to you. Earning and payment terms are set
forth in the ClickBank terms and conditions, which are available at www.clickbank.com/accounting.html.
4. POLICIES AND PRICING
Customers purchasing our products through the Program will
be deemed our customers. All rules, policies, terms, conditions and procedures
concerning customer orders, customer service and our product sales will apply
to those customers. We may change our policies and procedures, including
pricing, at any time. We, at our sole discretion, will determine the prices to
be charged for products sold under the Program in accordance with our own
pricing policies. Prices and availability of our products may vary from time to
time. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate
information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any
particular product.
5. MARKETING AND PROMOTION
5.1. Requirements for All Marketing
You agree that you are solely responsible for all marketing and
promotional activities you conduct in the course of your participation in the
Program, including but not limited to keyword marketing and email marketing (“Marketing
Activities”). You agree that all Marketing Activities will comply with all
applicable laws, rules, and regulations, policies and guidelines, including
those of the United States Federal Trade Commission governing endorsements and
testimonials. You are solely liable for any damages or losses incurred as a
result of or in connection with any Marketing Activities you undertake in
violation of this Agreement and/or any applicable law, rule or regulation.
You will provide clear and conspicuous disclosure of your
status as a paid SatelliteDirect affiliate on the home page of Your Site, or,
if Your Site includes a Terms of Service or similar document, within the body
of such document in a separate provision entitled “Disclosure”.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing requirements,
you agree that in promoting SatelliteDirect:
(a) You will not engage in Marketing Activities that we
deem, in our sole discretion, to be inappropriate.
(b) You will not use pop-up or pop-under advertisements.
(c) You will clearly and conspicuously include, without modification, all terms
and conditions that we instruct you to include.
(d) You will not engage in Marketing Activities that advertise, offer or promise
rebates, coupons, vouchers or other consideration in connection with purchases
from us.
(e) You will not use the names, trademarks and/or logos of our competitors
other than in a comparative manner.
(f) You will not use the names, trademarks and/or logos of
content providers, including but not limited to broadcast or cable television
channels (e.g., ABC, CBS, FOX, TBS, AMC) or movie channels (e.g., HBO,
SHOWTIME), or the name, titles, trademarks and/or logos of programs, including
sporting events, teams, and their owners (e.g., NFL, MLB, NBA) (collectively,
“Prohibited Terms”).
You further agree that we may, at any time and in our sole
discretion, demand that you promptly and permanently remove or revise any
claim, copy, creative elements, or other promotional material, or cease any or
all Marketing Activities, that we deem inappropriate for any reason.
5.2. Your Site.
You are solely responsible for, and we hereby disclaim all liability for, the
development, content, use, operation, hosting, and maintenance of, and all
costs associated with, Your Site. You agree that Your Site will not copy or
resemble the look and feel of, or create the impression that it is part of, any
official SatelliteDirect website(s). You agree that Your Site will comply with
all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, all
laws, rules and regulations applicable to the collection, use, disclosure,
retention and security of individuals’ personal information.
We may suspend or terminate your participation in the
Program at any time, without notice or liability to you, if Your Site, in our
sole discretion, displays, promotes, or links to:
(a) Illegal content, products, services, materials or
activities;
(b) Content that is harassing, libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening,
harmful, pornographic, obscene or that is otherwise tortious, offensive or
objectionable (in our sole judgment) or which may give rise to liability or
violate any law;
(c) Content that infringes on the intellectual property rights or other rights
of any person or entity;
(d) Content that contains, downloads or installs any viruses, worms, bugs,
Trojan horses or other harmful code, files or programs designed to, or capable
of, interrupting, destroying or limiting the functionality of any computer
software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
(e) Content intended to attract children under 18 years of age;
(f) Content that disparages us or our business partners;
(g) Content that promotes any product or service of a competitor of ours; or
(h) Content that discloses any personally identifying or private information
about any person or entity with his, her, or its legally sufficient consent.
5.3. Links.
As a participant in the Program, you may use, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, the banners, text, images and corresponding links
to our sites (collectively, the “Links”) we make available to you. The Links
make it possible to track and report all of the qualified purchases of the
SatelliteDirect software acquired through the website(s) identified in your application
(“Your Site”), provided that cookies have not been disabled on the web browser
used to connect to website where the purchase is made. It is your
responsibility to integrate the Links into Your Site properly and in accordance
with our instructions. We will not be liable to you with respect to your
failure properly to integrate the Links into Your Site, including to the extent
such failure may result in any reductions of amounts that would otherwise be
paid to you.
5.4. Additional Requirements For Keyword Marketing
When promoting Your Site via paid keyword advertising, you
must follow these guidelines:
(a) The phrase ‘Affiliate Site’ must be included at the end
of each keyword submission, so that users will be aware that they are accessing
our website through Your Site.
(b) You must not give the impression that you are us or otherwise use phrases
such as ‘Official Site’.
(c) You will not purchase or attempt to purchase the names or trademarks of our
competitors as keywords.
(d) You will not use or attempt to use the name or
trademarks of our competitors in advertisement copy.
(e) You will not purchase or attempt to purchase any
Prohibited Terms as keywords.
(f) You will not use or attempt to use any Prohibited Terms
in advertisement copy.
5.5. Additional Requirements For Email Marketing
5.5.1. CAN SPAM
You will fully comply with the email marketing and privacy laws, rules and
regulations of any jurisdiction into which you transmit email promoting the
Links on Your Site. When promoting the Links on Your Site through email marketing
sent to residents of the United States, you will fully comply with the federal
Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003,
all rules and official guidance promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”)
pursuant to the Act, the Federal Communication Commission’s rules and orders
regulating the transmission of commercial email to wireless devices and all
other applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations (the “CAN SPAM
Act”).
5.5.2. Address Lists
(a) You will take commercially reasonable efforts to ensure,
prior to a campaign promoting the Links, that your email list (“Email List”)
has been filtered to remove duplicate addresses, and those that are undeliverable
or otherwise appear to be invalid.
(b) You will ensure that the addresses on the Email List are
entirely “opt-in.” This means that the email recipient has consented to
receiving advertisements from us or of the type sent by you on our behalf via a
clear and conspicuous affirmative opt-in process (and has not subsequently
revoked such consent), and subject to a clear, conspicuous and accurate privacy
policy that you shall post on Your Site. If you use the list of a third party
to distribute such emails, such third parties, or “List Owners,” will be
considered one and the same as you for purposes of this Agreement.
(c) For each Email List (including, without limitation,
lists provided by a List Owner), you will promptly provide us, upon our request,
a written explanation of the source of the email addresses and the method by
which the recipients opted into receiving email such as messages from you
promoting the Links; and the opt-in and/or opt-out process such recipients had
and have, and the attendant privacy policy, as well as what made such process
and policy clear and conspicuous to the consumer.
5.5.3. Transmissions
(a) You may not promote the Links in emails sent through
open proxies, from email or IP addresses registered through fraud or false pretenses,
or to persons whose addresses were gathered in any automated process,
harvesting or screen scraping, or through any means in violation of an Internet
Service Provider’s policies, or as the result of randomly generated
combinations of characters.
(b) You must include complete and accurate transmission and
header information in each email, as well as a “from” line that accurately
identifies you as the initiator of the message.
(c)Upon our request, you will promptly provide a full list
of domain names, routing information and IP addresses that will be, are being
or were used to send emails promoting the Links. In addition, upon our request,
you will promptly provide an explanation of the transparency of the return
domain names, the List Owners’ contact information and all other information
that permits email recipients to identify senders. If at any time your and/or
List Owners’ IP addresses or domain names are mass-blocked or blacklisted, you
will inform us immediately.
5.5.4. Content
The subject line of all emails promoting the Links must
accurately reflect the content of the message. You must clearly disclose that
each email is an advertisement.
5.5.5. Opt-Out
Mechanism and Compliance
You must include in each email a link that allows the
recipient to opt-out of receiving future emails. You will not (and will not
allow others to) sell, remarket or use the email address of any person who has
opted out for any reason other than to comply with this Agreement and the law.
5.5.6. Other
Requirements
Upon our request, you will promptly identify, in writing,
any measures you have taken to comply with service providers’ email policies. You
agree that you are an “initiator,” as that term is defined in the CAN SPAM Act,
of messages advertising the Links.
5.5.7. Monitoring: By
Us
You acknowledge and agree that we may, in our discretion,
monitor your emailing activities under this Agreement. Without limitation, we
may do so through the use of a third-party monitoring service.
5.5.8. Monitoring: By
You
(a) You agree that you will implement reasonable procedures
to ensure, on an ongoing basis, that your unsubscribe/opt-out capabilities
function in accordance with the requirements of the CAN SPAM Act. Without
limiting the foregoing, this means that you will, at a minimum, do the
following:
(i) Establish email accounts with Gmail,
Yahoo, and Hotmail, and add such addresses to the lists to which you transmit
email promoting the Links;
(ii) For each such address, use the
unsubscribe/opt-out mechanism contained in the email to opt-out of future
emails; and
(iii) Repeat this procedure on a
regular basis, at least once every two (2) weeks for the term of this
Agreement.
(b) If, at any time, your monitoring reveals that your
unsubscribe procedures are not functioning as required by the CAN SPAM Act or
the terms of this Agreement, you will immediately notify us and take immediate
steps to remedy the problem.
5.5.9. Termination
In addition to the termination provisions contained in Section 8 of this
Agreement, if you violate any of the provisions of this Section, your
participation in the Program will be subject to immediate termination,
including the forfeiture of any referral fees earned but not yet paid.
6. LIMITED LICENSE
We hereby grant to you a limited, nonexclusive, revocable
license to display the Links on Your Site and in email messages sent pursuant
to the terms of this Agreement, solely as necessary for, and for the purpose
of, promoting the products associated with the Links and identifying you as a
participant in the Program. We reserve all proprietary rights in and to the
Links not expressly granted herein. You acknowledge that all use of the Links
by you inures solely to the benefit of us and that you do not acquire any
rights in the Links as a result of such use. You will remove Links immediately
upon our request. You may not sublicense, assign or transfer this license, and
any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer is void. We may revoke
this license at any time by giving you written notice, and you agree upon
receipt of such notice to immediately cease using all Links.
7. MODIFICATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
We may modify this Agreement at any time, and will send
notice of any material modifications to the current email address provided by
you. Your sole recourse in the event any such modification is unacceptable to
you is to terminate this agreement and your participation in the Program,
provided that we will pay to you all amounts due to you prior to your
termination. Such termination by you will be effective immediately upon our
receipt of notice thereof.
8. TERM AND TERMINATION
This Agreement will be effective on the date we accept the
Application and will continue until either party terminates this Agreement as
set forth herein. You may terminate this Agreement by ceasing to promote our
sites, products and services. We may terminate this Agreement immediately,
or restrict your participation in the Program, without notice or liability to
you, in the event that you breach this Agreement. In such event, you will
forfeit all amounts earned by you and not yet paid prior to termination. We
also reserve the right to modify or discontinue any part of the Program at any
time.
9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY; DISCLAIMER; INDEMNIFICATION
This Section 9 will survive the termination or expiration of
this Agreement.
9.1. Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE TO THE
OTHER PARTY FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY
DAMAGES (EVEN IF THAT PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES), ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT (COLLECTIVELY, “DISCLAIMED
DAMAGES”); PROVIDED THAT YOU WILL REMAIN LIABLE TO US TO THE EXTENT ANY
DISCLAIMED DAMAGES ARE CLAIMED BY A THIRD PARTY AND ARE SUBJECT TO
INDEMNIFICATION PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT. IN NO EVENT WILL OUR
LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT FOR DAMAGES NOT EXCLUDED IN THE
IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SENTENCE EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID OR PAYABLE BY US TO YOU
UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
9.2. Disclaimer of Warranties
THE PROGRAM, SATELLITEDIRECT, AND THE LINKS ARE PROVIDED “AS
IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, WE HEREBY
SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF
PERFORMANCE.
9.3. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless us, our
related companies, and each such company’s respective officers, directors,
employees, agents, and shareholders from and against any claim, loss, damage,
expense or cost, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, arising,
directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, out of any claim, demand, action,
suit, investigation, arbitration or other proceeding by a third party based on
or in connection with (i) your breach of any covenant, duty, representation or
warranty contained in this Agreement; (ii) Your Site; (iii) your Marketing
Activities, including the use of Prohibited Terms; and (iv) your Email List.
10. MISCELLANEOUS
This Agreement will be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts,
excluding its conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the federal and state courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Our failure to enforce any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a
waiver of that or any other provision. If any provision of this Agreement
is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain
enforceable. You will not assign this Agreement or your participation in the
Program to any third party without our prior written consent. You and we are
independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any
partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative or
employment relationship between us. You
acknowledge that you have read this Agreement, that you understand it and that
you fully and unconditionally agree to it. You understand that we may at any
time (directly or indirectly) solicit customer referrals on terms that may
differ from those contained in this Agreement and that we and our affiliates
may operate websites that compete with Your Site.
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