This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that
apply to an individual's or entity's participation in the
AppsFarm.com Associates Programme (the "Programme"). As used in this
Agreement, "we" means AppsFarm.com Ltd, and "you" means the
applicant. "Site" means a World Wide Web site and, depending on the
context, refers either to AppsFarm.com's site, located at the URL
www.AppsFarm.com, or to any site that you will link to our site (and
which you will identify in your Programme application).
1.
Enrolment in the
Programme
To begin the Enrolment process, you will
submit a complete Programme application via our site. We will
evaluate your application in good faith and will notify you of your
acceptance or rejection. We may reject your application if we
determine (in our sole discretion) that your site is unsuitable for
the Programme. Unsuitable sites include those that:
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promote sexually explicit materials
o
promote violence
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promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion,
nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
o
promote illegal activities
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include "AppsFarm" or variations or misspellings
thereof in their domain names
o
otherwise violate intellectual property rights
If we reject your application, you are
welcome to reapply to the Programme at any time. You should also
note that if we accept your application and your site is thereafter
determined (in our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the
Programme, we may terminate this Agreement.
2.
Links on Your
Site
Once you have been notified that your site has
been accepted into the Programme, you may provide on your site one
or more of the following types of links to our site:
General Link to
Join AppsFarm.com Page: You may provide a general link on your site
to Join AppsFarm.com Page located at http://www.appsfarm.com/newu0103.asp
.
We will provide you with guidelines
and graphical artwork to use in linking to our home page. To permit
accurate tracking, reporting, and referral fee accrual, we will
provide you with special "tagged" link formats to be used in all
links between your site and our site. You must ensure that each of
the links between your site and our site properly utilizes such
special link formats. Links to our site placed on your site pursuant
to this Agreement and which properly utilize such special link
formats are referred to as "Special Links." You will earn referral
fees only with respect to activity on our site occurring directly
through Special Links; we will not be liable to you with respect to
any failure by you to use Special Links, including to the extent
that such failure may result in any reduction of amounts that would
otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement.
You acknowledge that, by participating
in the Associates Programme and placing any of the above links
within your site, AppsFarm.com may receive information from or about
visitors to your site or communications between your site and those
visitors. Your participation in the AppsFarm.com Programme
constitutes your specific and unconditional consent to and
authorization for AppsFarm.com's access to, receipt, storage, use,
and disclosure of any and all such information, consistent with the
policies and procedures set forth in AppsFarm.com's Privacy Notice.
3.
Order
Processing
We will process Product orders placed by
customers who follow Special Links from your site to our site. We
reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any
requirements that we may establish periodically. We will be
responsible for all aspects of order processing and fulfilment.
Among other things, we will prepare order forms, process payments,
cancellations, and returns, and handle customer service. We will
track sales made to customers who purchase Products by using Special
Links from your site to our site and will make available to you
reports summarizing this sales activity. The form, content, and
frequency of the reports may vary from time to time in our
discretion.
4.
Referral
Fees
We will pay you (in accordance with Sections 5
and 8 below) referral fees on certain Product sales to third
parties. For a Product sale to be eligible to earn a referral fee,
the customer must click-through a Special Link from your site to our
site, successfully complete the Join AppsFarm page, and subsequently
purchase any Products identified on that page. We will only pay
referral fees on such Products after payment has occurred.
You may not purchase products during
sessions initiated through the links on your site for your own use,
for resale or commercial use of any kind. This includes orders for
customers or on behalf of customers or orders for products to be
used by you or your friends, relatives, or associates in any manner.
Such purchases may result (in our sole discretion) in the
withholding of referral fees or the termination of this Agreement.
Products that are eligible to earn referral fees under the rules set
forth above are referred to as "Qualifying Products."
In addition, you may not: (a) directly
or indirectly offer any person or entity any consideration or
incentive (including, without limitation, payment of money
(including any rebate), or granting of any discount or other
benefit) for using Special Links on your site to access our site
(e.g., by implementing any "rewards" Programme for persons or
entities who use Special Links on your site to access our site); (b)
read, intercept, record, redirect, interpret, or fill in the
contents of any electronic form or other materials submitted to us
by any person or entity; (c) in any way modify, redirect, suppress,
or substitute the operation of any button, link, or other
interactive feature of our site; (d) make any orders or subscription
requests, or engage in other transactions of any kind on our site on
behalf of any third party, or authorize, assist, or encourage any
other person or entity to do so; (e) take any action that could
reasonably cause any customer confusion as to our relationship with
you, or as to the site on which any functions or transactions (e.g.,
search, order, browse, and so on) are occurring; or (f) post or
serve any advertisements or promotional content around or in
conjunction with the display of our site (e.g., through any
"framing" technique or technology or pop-up windows), or assist,
authorize, or encourage any third party to take any such action. If
we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in any
of the foregoing activities, we may (without limiting any other
rights or remedies available to us) withhold any referral fees
otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate this
Agreement.
5.
Referral Fee
Schedule
You will earn referral fees based on
Qualifying Revenues according to referral fee schedules to be
established by us. "Qualifying Revenues" are revenues derived by us
from our sales of Qualifying Products, excluding costs for shipping,
handling, taxes, service charges, credit card processing fees,
returns and bad debt. The current referral fee schedule is:
10% of Qualifying Revenues from the
sale of any Product purchased as a result of completion of the Join
AppsFarm page.
6.
Referral Fee
Payment
We will pay you referral fees on a quarterly
basis. Approximately 30 days following the end of each calendar
quarter, we will send you either (a) a cheque for the referral fees
earned, or (b) deposit funds into your nominated bank account. You
will choose your preferred payment method on your application.
However, if the referral fees payable to you for any calendar
quarter are less than £25, we will hold payment until the total
amount due is at least £25 or (if earlier) until this Agreement is
terminated. In calculating referral fees, we will deduct the
corresponding referral fee from your next quarterly payment if a
Product that generated a referral fee is returned by the customer.
If there is no subsequent payment, we will send you a bill for the
referral fee.
7.
Policies and
Pricing
Customers who buy products through this
Programme will be deemed to be customers of AppsFarm.com.
Accordingly, all AppsFarm.com rules, policies, and operating
procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and product
sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and
operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the
prices to be charged for products sold under this Programme in
accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices and
availability may vary from time to time. You may not include price
information in your Product descriptions. We will use commercially
reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot
guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.
8.
Identifying Yourself as
an Associate
You may not issue any press release
with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the
Programme; such action may result in your termination from the
Programme. We will make available to you a small graphic image
that identifies your site as a Programme participant. You must
display this logo or the phrase "In association with AppsFarm.com"
somewhere on your site. We may modify the text or graphic image of
this notice from time to time. In addition, you may not in any
manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and
you, or express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us
and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted
by this Agreement (including by expressing or implying that
AppsFarm.com supports, sponsors, endorses, or contributes money to
any charity or other cause).
9.
Limited
License
We grant you a nonexclusive, revocable right
to use the graphic image and text described in Section 8 and such
other text or images for which we grant express permission, solely
for the purpose of identifying your site as a Programme participant
and to assist in generating Product sales. You may not modify the
graphic image or text, or any other of our images, in any way. We
reserve all of our rights in the graphic image and text, any other
images, our trade names and trademarks, and all other intellectual
property rights. You agree to follow our Trademark Guidelines, as
those guidelines may change from time to time. We may revoke your
license at any time by giving you written notice.
10. Responsibility for Your
Site
You will be solely responsible for the
development, operation, and maintenance of your site and for all
materials that appear on your site. For example, you will be solely
responsible for:
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the technical operation of your site and all related
equipment
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creating and posting Product descriptions on your site
and linking those descriptions to our catalogue
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the accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted
on your site (including, among other things, all Product-related
materials)
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ensuring that materials posted on your site do not
violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including,
for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or
proprietary rights)
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ensuring that materials posted on your site are not
libellous or otherwise illegal
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ensuring that your site accurately and adequately
discloses, either through a privacy policy or otherwise, how you
collect, use, store, and disclose data collected from visitors,
including, where applicable, that third parties (including
advertisers) may serve content and/or advertisements and collect
information directly from visitors and may place or recognize
cookies on visitors' browsers.
We disclaim all liability for these
matters. Further, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from all
claims, damages, and expenses (including, without limitation,
attorneys' fees) relating to the development, operation,
maintenance, and contents of your site.
11. Term of the Agreement
The
term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your
Programme application and will end when terminated by either party.
Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or
without cause, by giving the other party written notice of
termination. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason,
you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your site, all
links to our site, and all AppsFarm.com trademarks, trade dress, and
logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you
pursuant hereto or in connection with the Programme. You are
eligible to earn referral fees only on our sales of Qualifying
Products that occur during the term, and referral fees earned
through the date of termination will remain payable only if the
related orders are not cancelled or returned. We may withhold your
final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct
amount is paid.
12. Modification
We may
modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement,
at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice
or a new agreement on our site. Modifications may include, for
example, changes in the scope of available referral fees, referral
fee schedules, payment procedures, and Programme rules. IF ANY
MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO
TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE
PROGRAMME FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR NEW AGREEMENT
ON OUR SITE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
13. Relationship of
Parties
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 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 anything in this Section.
14. Limitation of
Liability
We will not be liable for indirect, special,
or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits, or data)
arising in connection with this Agreement or the Programme, even if
we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further,
our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and
the Programme will not exceed the total referral fees paid or
payable to you under this Agreement.
15. Disclaimers
We make no
express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the
Programme or any products sold through the Programme (including,
without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability,
non-infringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course
of performance, dealing, or trade usage). In addition, we make no
representation that the operation of our site will be uninterrupted
or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any
interruptions or errors.
16. Independent
Investigation
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS
AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. 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 OR OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH
YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF
PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAMME AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY
REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN
THIS AGREEMENT.
17. Miscellaneous
This
Agreement will be governed by the laws of England. You may not
assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our
prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement
will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable
against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. Our
failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this
Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently
enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement.