AFFILIATE AGREEMENT
Each participant in the affiliate program offered by Prime Concepts Group Inc
(the “Program Operator”) at (the “website”) expressly agrees to this affiliate
agreement.
NOTICE: Please read this agreement carefully. Unless
you expressly agree and consent to this agreement, you may NOT
participate in the affiliate program. By participating in the affiliate program,
you are agreeing to comply with and be legally bound by the terms and conditions
of this contract. If you do not agree to all of the terms of this agreement,
please do not register for the affiliate program.
This agreement incorporates the Program Operator's Terms and Conditions of
Use (located on this website)herein as if it were set forth in full.
Throughout this agreement, “affiliate program” refers to the affiliate
program operated by the Program Operator in part for the website.
AFFILIATES
Each affiliate is an independent contractor of the Program Operator and not
an employee. Nothing herein is intended to create an employer/employee
relationship.
COMMISSIONS & REFERRAL FEES
Whenever someone orders through your affiliate link, your affiliate ID is
credited with a referral fee. When another affiliate registers as an affiliate
using your affiliate link, your account is credited as the Sponsoring affiliate.
You do not earn a referral fee for any other affiliate's registration. The
commission/referral fee amount varies from product, service or opportunity. The
rate at which your referral fee is generated can be found on the website and is
subject to change at any time. If the website is silent as to the commission
rate, then the base rate is .
Before any affiliate may be a sent a commission check, the affiliate must
submit to the Program Operator identification information. Such identification
information shall include, at a minimum, a copy of a government issued, picture,
identification card (for example, a drivers license). These documents shall be
faxed to the Program Operator as per the instructions sent in your "Welcome,
affiliate" email. You will not receive any payment of commission/referral fees
until such time as you submit the required documentation to the Program
Operator.
Commissions on products and services are paid at the rates as indicated on
the website. The Program Operator strives to pay similar rates on further
products, services, and opportunities, but reserves the right to pay a different
scale if necessary.
INCOME TAX LIABILITIES
Each affiliate acts as an independent contractor and as such is responsible
for any or all United States, state, or foreign income taxes and any other tax
liabilities that affect or concern the sales of the products or services, in
your state or location. If you are NOT a resident of the United States, the
Program Operator will withhold the appropriate U.S. income tax applicable to
foreign nationals, prior to your receipt of any commissions. The Program
Operator does so pursuant to the United States Internal Revenue Service laws
(also known as the United States Tax Code) and other applicable laws. It is the
affiliate's sole responsibility, and not the responsibility of the Program
Operator, to take any steps necessary to recover these sums under the Tax Code
and other applicable laws.
EMBARGOED NATIONS & SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATIONALS
The United States controls the export of products and information. Each
affiliate agrees to comply with such restrictions and to not export or re-export
the materials (including software) to countries or persons prohibited under the
export control laws. By becoming an affiliate, you are agreeing that you are not
in a country where such export is prohibited or are not a person or entity to
which export is prohibited. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of
your local jurisdiction with regard to the import, export, or re-export of the
materials (including software).
Each affiliate is responsible for compliance with all applicable U.S. laws
and regulations, including but not limited to, those laws pertaining to export
control. By registering as an affiliate, you warrant that you are not a citizen
or resident of a country designated as having Embargoed Nation Status and
further, you also warrant that you are not on the list of Specially Designated
Nationals or Blocked Persons maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department. The
products and/or services are exported from the United States in accordance with
the Export Administration Regulations. Diversion to other countries is contrary
to U.S. law and is prohibited.
In compliance with the United States Patriot Act, only those who have
provided appropriate identification information and do not reside within an
embargoed nation and who are not listed on the Specially Designated Nationals
list may receive commission checks paid by either the Program Operator.
COMMISSION SCHEDULE
Commissions are paid once per month by payment processor on the day of the
month for sales made from the first through the last day of the previous month,
and are paid by the Program Operator.
There is a minimum commission amount of . This is the minimum amount that you
must earn before you will be paid commissions. In any commission period, your
commission must exceed this amount before you will receive any sums for that
period. Commissions below this minimum amount will be held until such time as
the commission equals or exceeds this amount.
Commissions are not paid for any sales for which payment has not been
received, or for any transaction that has been rejected for any reason.
We are not responsible for paying interest to affiliates for accrued but not
yet delivered commission payments.
If a transaction incurs a charge-back, or if an online transaction is not
completed in every way, no commission payment is due to the affiliate. If a
commission has already been paid, then it will be deducted from an active
affiliate's future commissions.
All commissions are paid in US Dollars by PayPal or bank draft. Affiliates
requesting bank drafts will have a processing fee of $10.00 deducted from the
check. This fee may change at any time.
Each affiliate is responsible for selecting the payment processor, through
which to receive their commissions/referral fees, from the payment processors
supported by the Program Operator. If you elect a payment processor through
which to receive your commissions and you later terminate the account or the
account becomes unavailable for any reason, the Program Operator is not
responsible for your not receiving the money. Each affiliate is responsible for
always maintaining the payment processor through which they receive their
commissions/referral fees OR selecting an alternate method of payment supported
by the Program Operator. This election is entirely made by the affiliate and the
Program Operator assumes no responsibility for non-receipt of payments made
according to the payment processor elected by the affiliate, or the affiliate's
lack of ability to then conform to the payment processors or processes supported
by the the Program Operator. The Program Operator assumes no responsibility for
an affiliate not electing a payment processor. If an affiliate fails to elect a
payment processor, any sums due will be paid via check and any fees applicable
to payments by check or bank draft will be deducted.
MIXING OF PRODUCTS
As an affiliate of the Program Operator, your website on which you advertise
any products or services of the Program Operator may only include products that
are not capable of being viewed by persons 13 years of age or younger unless the
Program Operator specifically allows such products. Your website may NOT contain
any content or images that are NOT suitable for being viewed by persons 13 years
of age or younger if you include any reference whatsoever to the Program
Operator, the website, the eBook(s), or your affiliate Link. On any website on
which you include any reference whatsoever to the Program Operator, its
products, services, and eBooks, you may NOT include any reference whatsoever to
any form of "Adult" content. Any violation of these requirements will result in
immediate termination of your affiliate status and you shall forfeit any
commissions/referral fees that may be due. In the event that any violation of
these requirements results in the suspension or termination of any payment
processor for or the Program Operator, you shall be liable for liquidated
damages in the amount of $10,000 as well as actual and any consequential or
actual damages that or the Program Operator may incur.
PAYMENT PROCESSOR FEES
All commissions are calculated based on the net transaction. In other words,
all payment processor fees are first deducted from the sums collected from the
customer. Then, all payment processor fees are deducted. The remaining amount is
a commissionable sale. The commission rate listed on the website is then applied
to determine the amount due the affiliate. Any sums paid for payment processor
fees are not commissionable. The Program Operator may also charge a per
transaction fee for every transaction processed. In the event that a per
transaction fee is applied, the amount of the fee can be seen on the website.
Any such fee is not commissionable and is also deducted from the sums paid by
the customer, prior to the calculation of any commission.
SPAM & UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL (UCE)
The Program Operator does not tolerate the sending of unsolicited bulk emails
(UCE or SPAM) which promote, or make reference to the Program Operator, or any
of their associated companies or websites, Partners, or employees, the websites,
products or services. The provisions of the Terms and Conditions pertaining to
UCE or SPAM shall apply to each affiliate. Any affiliate who, in the opinion of
the Program Operator, breaches this rule will have their affiliate status
canceled and any outstanding commissions will be forfeited.
UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
The Program Operator and their associated companies operate with the
strictest codes of professional conduct. Any affiliate who brings the the
Program Operator or their employees, partners, or associates into disrepute, or
who promotes any form of slander, racism, or unfair business practices, will
have their affiliate status canceled and any outstanding commissions will be
forfeited.
The Program Operator reserves the right to reject any affiliate application
if, in the Program Operator's opinion, that person or entity violates
established laws or commonly held standards of decency. For example, we will
reject applications from any person or company that promotes any form of
violence, illegal activities, or from applicants who the Program Operator
prefers not to be associated with.
AFFILIATE SALES & TRACKING
After signing up for the affiliate program, you will receive a unique
affiliate URL which you will use to advertise the website. When someone clicks
through this URL, a cookie will be set in their browser with your affiliate ID
and their IP address may also be logged with your affiliate ID. During that
visit to the website or any later visit, when a purchase is made the commission
will be given based on the existence of the cookie.
In order to receive proper credit for sales, a person or entity must purchase
through your unique affiliate URL. Masking or cloaking of the links (whether
done by software or by a script, and sometimes referred to as "affiliate link
cloaking") may or may not work with parts of the Sites. The Program Operator
allows masking or cloaking but You must provide a repeatable process for our
verification of the cloaked link, otherwise the use of the masked or cloaked
link is disallowed.
TERM & TERMINATION
This agreement will begin upon your sign-up with the affiliate program and
will end when either you or the Program Operator terminates your affiliate
status, or if your account is inactive in any continuous twelve month period. An
affiliate may terminate this agreement at any time, and for any reason, by
writing to - or emailing - the Program Operator at the email address listed on
the website. The affiliate may not transfer this agreement, or any rights
conveyed in this agreement, to any third party whatsoever.
The Program Operator may also terminate this agreement at any time, and for
any reason, by writing to affiliate at the email address listed in the
affiliate's Profile, with 30 days notice. the Program Operator may transfer this
agreement to any party whatsoever, at any time, and this agreement shall remain
in full force and effect, without notice to affiliate. However, if this
agreement should terminate for cause due to violation of this agreement or the
Terms and Conditions, this agreement shall terminate immediately and affiliate
shall forfeit all right to any commissions then due.
RIGHTS TO MODIFY AGREEMENT
The Program Operator, and its associated companies may, in good faith, modify
any of this agreement and/or the Terms and Conditions (including the affiliate
Commission Schedule), at any time and at its sole discretion, by posting a
change notice or a new agreement on the website. These changes will come into
force immediately upon posting. The affiliate's continued participation in the
affiliate program following the said posting of a change notice or new agreement
shall constitute binding acceptance by the affiliate of the change.
If any modification to this agreement is not acceptable to the affiliate, the
affiliate's only recourse is to terminate this agreement. Upon termination of
this agreement, the former affiliate must remove all affiliate links and
graphics from its web site, and refrain from publishing same in any manner
whatsoever.
NO MISUSE
It is understood that any individual that uses the Program Operator system
shall not use it in connection with obscene, defamatory, slanderous, hateful,
illegal or politically disruptive material, the definition of which shall be at
the sole discretion of the Program Operator. It is also understood that
affiliates shall not try to cheat the system in an effort to increase their
payments due. If such misuse is detected, the affiliate will be immediately
terminated as an affiliate and any sums paid and any sums payable as and for
commissions will be withheld. All affiliates further agree to refrain from
engaging in any hostile activity toward the system. Any individual that engages
in such hostile activity, such as hacking, shall be held liable for any loss
sustained by the Program Operator, or its associates due to such action.
AS-IS ONLY
There is no warranty or guarantee of any kind with respect to the Program
Operator system as far as reliability, stability, quality or dependability. This
means that the Program Operator, or its associates is not responsible for any
loss or damage incurred directly or indirectly due to the use of the Program
Operator website, products, services, or any other facet of the system. This
shall include, but is not limited to, any system malfunction, period of being
inoperative or unavailable, loss of data or discontinuation of service, other
inconveniences.
FEES
Affiliates shall be charged NO FEE by the Program Operator for setting up an
account to join affiliate programs or to join any program.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS & EMAIL
The Program Operator requires your primary email address be listed in your
affiliate Profile. Affiliates will not be able to use the website or participate
in the affiliate program until their email addresses are verified. Those who
fail to verify their email address or use an email address that generates an
error response consistently (e.g., "User is over quota" or "Mailbox full") will
forfeit any commissions due and this contract will be terminated immediately.
You may not use an email address with an auto responder as your Program Operator
email address. When you visit the Program Operator's websites or send emails to,
you are communicating electronically. You consent to receive communications from
the Program Operator electronically. The Program Operator will communicate with
you by email or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements,
notices, disclosures and other communications that the Program Operator provides
to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be
in writing. If you are an affiliate, you understand that you may NOT opt out of
any emails that you receive from the Program Operator. As an affiliate, you must
continually have a valid email account on file with the Program Operator or we
reserve the right to terminate your participation immediately, without any
refund of any license fees paid or payment of any commission due.
UNAUTHORIZED CHARGING OR RECEIPT OF PAYMENTS THROUGH THE
SITES
No affiliate, or other person or entity may use the website, or the Program
Operator payment processing system, for private transactions. Any revenue
collected through the website or through the the Program Operator payment
processing system may become the sole property of the Program Operator . Any
revenue collected through the the Program Operator payment processing system may
become the sole property of the Program Operator. Specifically, affiliates may
not link to the website for processing of products or services that are not
wholly sponsored by the Program Operator and authorized by the Program Operator
and further, may not link to the website for processing of any products beyond
what the Program Operator has identified as salable products for the website and
specific affiliate sales. Should any affiliate of the Program Operator or other
person or entity construct links that process orders through the Program
Operator payment processing system, the act will be considered an attack of
computing resources with intent to damage the website and therefore treated as a
serious computer crime. Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of
the law.
CHARGING OR RECEIVING ANY PAYMENT FOR ASSISTING YOUR AFFILIATES
The progress of any affiliate benefits the Program Operator in many ways. If
You recruit, sponsor, or obtain an affiliate through the websites, by any means,
You should always be willing to assist such affiliate at no charge to such
affiliate. If you are unwilling to assist such affiliates without charge, your
affiliate status with the Program Operator will be terminated immediately and
any commissions due will be withheld permanently as partial compensation for
managing the associated and impacted affiliates.
AFFILIATE IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS
You will be provided an affiliate identification number. Your affiliate ID
number may be numeric and/or CaSe sEnSitIvE. For example, the code 'learn_more'
is different from 'Learn_More'. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy
and security of your affiliate ID number and password. You agree to hold the
Program Operator harmless in the event that any such information is shared by
you with any other person or entity whatsoever.
NO PREDATORY ADVERTISING
All affiliates in the affiliate program agree to refrain from any type of
predatory advertising practices, the definition of which shall be at the sole
discretion of the Program Operator, and shall include, but not be limited to,
dynamically replacing the affiliate ID of one affiliate with that of another
with the effect of "stealing" the commission away from the affiliate that earned
it, whether this be intentional or not. affiliates may not adjust any of the
supplied affiliate links to reset cookies or bypass other safeguards in the
system. affiliates understand that engaging in such practices is grounds for
immediate termination and forfeiture of any earned commissions.
LIABILITY
The Program Operator will not be liable for indirect or accidental damages
(loss of revenue, commissions) due to affiliate system sale tracking failures,
commission processing system failures, losses of database files or backups
thereof, attacks on computing resources, computer viruses, the continued
viability of their products, any results of "intents of harm" to the program, or
acts of God or Nature. The Program Operator makes no claim that the operation of
the websites or the Program Operator network will be error-free nor will the
Program Operator be held liable for any interruptions or errors.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
a) If any part of this agreement or the Terms and Condition is declared void,
this agreement and the Terms and Conditions shall, to the maximum practicable
extent, be construed without reference to that part. No term or provision of the
Agreement shall be waived unless in writing and signed by the party waiving the
provision, and any waiver shall apply only to the specific event or situation
which it describes and shall not be continuing. No affiliate may assign or
sublicense this agreement without the Program Operator's prior written
consent.
b) All legal or other fees incurred in collecting returned checks or declined
credit cards or any other lack of payment related to a sale made by an affiliate
will be payable by the affiliate. Any sums not collected from the affiliate or
affiliate's customer are not commissionable, and any fees incurred during
processing or handling of sales made by the affiliate will be deducted in whole
from any commissions due to the affiliate. Further, in the event that the
commissions due the affiliate are insufficient to cover any sums, the affiliate
agrees to pay the full amount to the Program Operator.
c) IF THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS OR THE LIMITATIONS WITHIN THE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS ARE HELD TO BE UNENFORCEABLE, THE PROGRAM OPERATOR'S LIABILITY FOR
DAMAGES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT
OF FEES PAID BY THAT PERSON OR ENTITY FOR THE PRODUCT, SERVICE, AND OR EBOOK OR
SOFTWARE (LICENSE).
d) To the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate the
Program Operator’s intellectual property rights, the Program Operator may seek
injunctive or other appropriate relief in any court located in Sedgewick, KS,
USA and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Use of
the Program Operator website is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not
give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without
limitation this paragraph. You agree that no joint venture, partnership,
employment, or agency relationship exists between you and the Program Operator
as a result of this agreement or use of the website, products, and/or services.
The Program Operator's performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws
and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of
the Program Operator's right to comply with governmental, court and law
enforcement determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law
including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability
limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be
deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches
the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall
continue in effect.
e) This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws
of KS, USA applicable to agreements made and to be performed in KS, USA. You
agree that any legal action or proceeding between the Program Operator and you
for any purpose concerning this agreement or the parties' obligations hereunder,
will first attempt to be resolved with the help of a mutually agreed-upon online
mediator. Any costs and fees (other than attorney fees) associated with the
mediation will be shared equally by each of us.
f) If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution
through online mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration
at the following location: for legal actions or proceedings between the Program
Operator and you, in Sedgewick, KS, USA under the commercial rules of the
American Arbitration Association. Judgment upon the award rendered by the
arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.
In no case shall you have the right to go to court or have a jury trial. You
will not have the right to engage in pre-trial discovery except as provided in
the rules; you will not have the right to participate as a representative or
member of any class of claimants pertaining to any claim subject to arbitration;
the arbitrator's decision will be final and binding with limited rights of
appeal.
g) Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to the website, the
products, the services, or the eBook(s), must be commenced within ninety (90)
days after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action
is barred. The Program Operator 's failure to insist upon or enforce strict
performance of any provision of this agreement shall not be construed as a
waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the
parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any provision of this agreement.
the Program Operator may assign its rights and duties under this agreement to
any party at any time without notice to you. Use of headings in this document is
for convenience only and does not identify legal boundaries or terms
explicitly.
h) The Program Operator may modify this agreement, and the agreement this
creates, at any time, simply by updating this posting and without notice to you.
This is the ENTIRE agreement regarding all the matters that have been
discussed.
i) The Program Operator may transfer any rights or responsibility that it may
have to any person or entity whatsoever. Nothing herein shall alter or encumber
the right of the Program Operator to transfer any such rights or
responsibilities. Any transfer by the Program Operator shall cause this
agreement, and any other agreement then in effect (as well as any other contract
between you and the transferring party) to transfer simultaneously, all without
permission.
j) Should this affiliate program be deemed illegal in any jurisdiction, the
Program Operator has the right to immediately terminate this program, without
recourse. If the payment processors utilized by the Program Operator determine
that sales made through affiliates cannot be processed through the payment
processor, then the Program Operator has the right to immediately terminate this
Program, without recourse. Nothing herein is intended to imply that the Program
Operator will always offer any affiliate program, or this affiliate program, for
all products, services, and/or opportunities sold by the Program Operator on the
websites or that the Program Operator will offer any affiliate program
whatsoever.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
Copyright © 2008 Law Office of Michael
E. Young PLLC, and licensed for use by the owner of this website at
www.PrimeConcepts.com All Rights Reserved. No portion of this document may be
copied or used by anyone other than the licensee without the express written
permission of the copyright owner.