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Affiliate Agreement -
Terms, Conditions and Acceptable Use You must read, agree to, and accept the terms and conditions contained in this user agreement before you may participate in our affiliate program. In
this agreement, the term "Affiliate" refers to you (the applicant).
Wherever the agreement refers to "you" or "your", it means "the
Affiliate." The terms "we", "our", and "us" throughout this user
agreement refers to the company Digital Media Covers, the company that
has created the products.
Payment Digital
Media Covers will
send payment via PayPal for the applicable commissions on or about the
1st of the month for the previous month's commissions when your balance
exceeds the payout limit set in your account. If any order that
generated a referral fee is cancelled by the customer, or if there are
any returned checks or chargebacks, the amount will be deducted from
the next monthly payment. If there is no subsequent payment, the
Affiliate will be invoiced. Affiliates must be PayPal members in order
to receive payment.
Order Fulfillment Digital Media Covers will be solely responsible for processing every order placed by a customer on the Affiliate Site. Customers Customers
who purchase products and services through the Affiliate Program will
be deemed to be customers of Digital Media Covers. Accordingly, all
Digital Media Covers rules, policies, and operating procedures
concerning customer orders and service will apply to those customers.
We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time.
Digital Media Covers policies will always determine the price paid by
the customer.
Qualifying Sites Digital
Media Covers reserves
the right NOT to accept any site into the Affiliate Program based on
site content. All sites will be reviewed and sites on certain topics
will not be permitted. Sites that do NOT qualify relate to any of the
following topics, including, but not limited to:
* Pornography of any kind, including but not limited to online subscription pornography or adult subscription content, or pre-adult content (pictures, videos, etc. of individuals under 18 yrs old). Anything that falls into the category of "adult entertainment" is prohibited. * Any form of "hate" oriented site. * Animal cruelty or procedures deemed harmful, unnecessary or unnatural to animals. * Any type of firearms, fireworks or pyrotechnic devices or supplies. * The sale of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, live animals, prescription drugs or other controlled substances, hazardous materials, combustibles, corrosives. * Unsolicited email services of any kind. * Gambling transactions of any kind, including lottery, raffles, contest sites. * Money making, work at home, home mailing, MLM, pyramid schemes, or similar products. * Phone chat lines or psychic readings. * Any form of sex product (viagra, penis, breast enlargement) growth hormones, nutrients, wonder drugs, or human growth hormone. Additionally, sites may not:
* Violate the privacy, publicity or personal rights of others.
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Distribute viruses or worms or provide information on how to send them.
Any site promoting any form of cyber crime or other illegal * Infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, i.e., copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, plagarism, software piracy, patents, music, images, or other proprietary or property right. Materials that infringe on the intellectual property rights may not be distributed to others. * Include Defamatory or Abusive Language. Sites may not contain any material that is unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, abusive, vulgar, hateful, racial or otherwise objectionable, including, without limitation, any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law. Sites with defamatory, abusive or threatening language will be shut down. computer activities will be shut down. * Any illegal activities. Digital Media Covers reserves the right to shut down your Affiliate Program if any activities are found to be harmful in any way. * You may not use your affiliate link as an entryway to pay for your own projects. No Spam Digital
Media Covers has a zero tolerance policy for spam. Spam is defined as
any unsolicited email whether commercial or non-commercial in nature.
Spam includes, but is not limited to, the sending of ANY unsolicited
information to a person or group that has not specifically asked to
receive that particular information or is not a personal acquaintance
of the individual sending the information. All Affiliates are expected
to adhere to Digital Media Covers's no spam policy. Affiliates may
promote Digital Media Covers to "opt-in" lists ONLY. If you run a
newsletter, ezine, or other kind of bulk email service, you must have
evidence that people signed up to receive email from you. Any and all
spam complaints will be investigated thoroughly. If you spam, we WILL
terminate your contract.
Part of the no spam policy means, you may NOT: * Send any email to any type of mailing list or opt-in list that has been purchased or acquired from an outside individual or party. * Send any email to any type of manually or automatically harvested list of email addresses, names, or contacts. * Send any email to any type of "lead" or "prospect" before you have received a request for more information. * Fax any message to any recipient that has not requested the information first. * Send inappropriate postings to any newsgroup or forum that violates their anti-spam regulations. Digital Media Covers reserves the right to terminate or refuse service to any person or organization at any time for any reason, or no reason at all. Any
Affiliate that engages spam or in promoting prohibited products or
services in connection with their site in any way shall have their
affiliate contract terminated and could lose any or all affiliate
commissions due to them. The site owner also shall be held liable for
any and all damages and/or losses that may result as a consequence.
Relationship of Parties Digital
Media Covers and the affiliate are independent contractors, and nothing
in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency,
franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the
parties. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or
representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement, whether
on your site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict this
statement.
No Warranties Expressed or Implied Digital
Media Covers makes no
warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, with respect to the
affiliate program. Digital Media Covers is not be responsible for
damages suffered by any customer, including incidental damages or lost
profits. Digital Media Covers makes no representation that the
operation of our site or the Affiliate Sites will be uninterrupted or
error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any
interruptions or errors. All content in the Digital Media Covers
software and affiliate program is provided to you "as is" without
warranty of any kind either express or implied including, but not
limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, title, non-infringement, security or accuracy.
Additionally,
Digital Media Covers in no way guarantees financial success through the
affiliate program or that any users of the affiliate program or our
products will make money in any amount. We are not offering you a
guaranteed business opportunity of any sort.
Governing Law/Severability This
agreement between you and Digital Media Covers will be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas (United
States), without reference to its conflicts of laws principles. You
agree that any litigation or arbitration between the parties will take
place in Texas (United States), and consent to personal jurisdiction
and
venue in the State. If any provision of this Agreement is found by a
court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable for any reason, the
remainder of that Agreement will continue in full force and effect.
Complete Understanding/Modification These
Terms & Conditions constitute the full and complete
understanding
and agreement between you and Digital Media Covers relating to the
subject matter hereof, and supersede all prior understandings,
agreements, representations and warranties relating to such subject
matter. Any waiver, modification, or amendment of any provision of this
Terms & Conditions, initiated by you will be effective only if
accepted in writing and signed by Digital Media Covers.
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