| |
This Master
Agreement ("Agreement") is made between Dealtree Services Inc.
("Merchant") and affiliate partner ("Partner").
BACKGROUND
Partner and Merchant are each enrolled in The EZtradein.com
Affliate Program™. Partner and Merchant each desire to establish
the general terms and conditions which shall govern advertising
and commission arrangements between Partner and Merchant which
result from their participation in The EZtradein.com Affliate
Program™.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In consideration of the promises set forth below, we agree as
follows:
Offers and Engagements
1.1. From time to time, Merchant may post on The EZtradein.com
Affliate Program™ offers to pay to other participants a specified
commission in return for certain advertising services leading to a
Qualifying Link (defined below). If such offers receive an
identification number from The EZtradein.com Affliate Program™
they shall be deemed to be an "Offer" for purposes of this
Agreement. The term "Offer" shall also include any counter-offers
resulting from an Offer.
1.2. If an Offer made by one party is accepted by the other party
in accordance with the Offer's terms via The EZtradein.com
Affliate Program™, an "Engagement" will have been formed. Each
Engagement shall have the same identification number as the
original Offer that lead to the Engagement and shall be governed
by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. However, in the
event of any inconsistency between the terms of the specific
Engagement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the
Engagement shall govern.
1.3. At any time prior to Partner providing a Qualifying Link,
Merchant may with or without notice (a) change, suspend or
discontinue any aspect of an Offer or an Engagement or (b) remove,
alter, or modify any graphic or banner ad submitted by Merchant
for an Offer or an Engagement. Partner agrees to promptly
implement any request from Merchant to remove, alter or modify any
graphic or banner ad submitted by Merchant that is being used by
Partner as part of an Engagement.
Partner's Responsibilities
2.1. Partner will link its site to areas within Merchant's site
using special URLs specified in the Engagement (the "Required
URLs"). Partner may post as many links to the Required URLs and
the rest of Merchant's site as it likes on Partner's site. The
position, prominence and nature of links on the Partner's site
shall comply with any requirements specified in the Engagement,
but otherwise will be in the discretion of Partner. Partner agrees
not to alter or modify any graphic, banner, or link submitted by
Merchant.
2.2. Partner agrees not to make any representations, warranties or
other statements concerning Merchant, Merchant's site, any of
Merchant's products or services, or Merchant's site policies,
except as expressly authorized by the Engagement. Partner agrees
not to use or post any graphic, banner, or link relating to
Merchant not provided by Merchant through the EZtradein.com
Affliate Program.
2.3. Partner is responsible for notifying Merchant and The
EZtradein.com Affliate Program™ of any malfunctioning of the
Required URLs or other problems with Partner's participation in
the Engagement. Merchant will use reasonable efforts to respond to
concerns upon notification by Partner.
2.4. Partner agrees to abide by the Merchant's privacy policy
posted on Merchant's site.
2.5. Partner agrees that it shall in no way frame Merchant's site.
Commissions
3.1. Merchant agrees to pay Partner the commission specified in
the Engagement if Merchant sells to a visitor to Merchant's site
(a "Customer") a product or service that is the subject of the
Engagement and if that Customer has accessed Merchant's site and
purchased the product or service via a Qualifying Link.
Commissions shall be paid monthly within 30 days of the end of
each month. The commission payment shall only be made if the
aggregate commission for the month exceeds $5. Partner
reserves the right to carry over commission(s) not exceeding $5
for the month, to the next month's payment schedule.
3.2. A "Qualifying Link" is a link from Partner's site or ebay Listing to
the Merchant's using one of the Required URLs or any other URL
provided by Merchant for use in The EZtradein.com Affliate
Program™ if it is the last link to the Merchant's site that the
Customer uses during a Session where a sale of a product or a
service to Customer occurs. A "Session" is the period of time
beginning from a Customer's initial contact with Merchant's site
via a link from the Partner's site and terminating when the
Customer either returns to the Merchant's site via a link from a
site other than Partner's site or the Engagement expires or is
terminated.
3.3. Merchant shall have the sole right and responsibility for
processing all orders made by Customers. Partner acknowledges that
all agreements relating to tradeins to Customers shall be between
Merchant and the Customer.
3.4 No commission may be earned for purchases made from other
stores operated by third parties that may be accessible from
Partner's site.
3.5 Commission may be earned only on completed trade ins. Trade
Ins not offering any value are not eligible for commissions. Trade
In Value is determined by final verified value only.
3.6. All determinations of Qualifying Links and whether a
commission is payable will be made by The EZtradein.com Affliate
Program™ and will be final and binding on both Merchant and
Partner. Trade In Prices for the products will be set solely by
Merchant in its discretion.
3.7. In the event Merchant, in its sole discretion, suspects fraud
or other unlawful conduct by partner or by any third party
accessing Merchant's site through links on Partner's site,
Merchant shall be entitled to suspend or deny payments in whole or
in part to Partner in Merchant's sole discretion.
Ownership and Licenses
4.1. All materials within Merchant's site, including data, text,
graphics, and other files, and their selection and arrangement
thereof, are copyrighted works of Merchant. Partner is granted a
limited license to display, copy and download materials on the
site for personal, non-commercial use only. Any prior commercial
use of any copyrights requires the prior written consent of
Merchant. All trademarks, service marks, trade names and logos
(collectively, "Marks") are either registered or unregistered
marks of the Merchant or its vendors. No Marks may be copied,
imitated or used without the prior written consent of Merchant or
the third-party owner, and nothing in this Agreement confers any
rights in the Marks to Partner.
4.2. Merchant grants Partner a revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide
license to use, reproduce and transmit the name, logos,
trademarks, service marks, trade dress and proprietary technology,
as designated in the Engagement or during the registration process
in The EZtradein.com Affliate Program™, on Partner's site solely
for the purpose of creating links from Partner's site to
Merchant's site during Engagements. Except as expressly set forth
in this Agreement or permitted by applicable law, Partner may not
copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative
works from the same. Partner may not sublicense, assign or
transfer any such licenses for the use of the same, and any
attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer is void.
4.3. Partner grants Merchant a non-exclusive, worldwide,
royalty-free license to use, reproduce and transmit any graphic or
banner ad submitted by Partner solely for co-branding purposes or
as a return link from Merchant's site to Partner's site if
Merchant so desires. Merchant will remove such graphic or banner
ad upon Partner's request.
Termination
5.1. Either party may terminate any Engagement at any time by
deleting their acceptance of the Engagement through The
EZtradein.com Affliate Program™. Termination of an Engagement
shall not terminate this Agreement or any other Engagement.
5.2. Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time, for
any reason, provided that they provide at least five day's prior
written notice of such termination to the other party and The
EZtradein.com Affliate Program™. Termination of this Agreement
shall also terminate any outstanding Engagements. However, all
rights to payment, causes of action and any provisions that by
their terms are intended to survive termination, shall survive
termination of this Agreement.
Representations
6.1. Partner represents and warrants that is has the authority
to enter into this Agreement and sufficient rights to grant any
licenses granted hereby. Partner further represents and warrants
that Partner's site contains no material that infringes on any
third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other
proprietary rights or right of publicity or privacy or that
violates any applicable law, statute, ordinance, or regulation.
6.2. Partner represents and warrants that Partner's site contains
no material that is defamatory or libelous; that is lewd,
pornographic or obscene; that violates any laws regarding unfair
competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising; or that
promotes violence or contains hate speech.
6.3. Partner represents and warrants that it is not a reseller of
any products offered on Merchant's web site.
6.4. Merchant's site, including all products, software, functions,
materials and information, and any services sold, provided made
available through the site, are provided "as is" without
warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Merchant
disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, including,
but not limited to, warranties of quiet enjoyment and
non-infringement and any implied warranties of merchantability for
a particular purpose or use, non-infringement, title,
merchantability of computer programs and informational content,
including any warranties concerning Year 2000 compliance of
products, software or services sold, third-party sites linked to,
or otherwise made available on this site, or absence of viruses or
other harmful programs.
Merchant does not warrant or make representations regarding the
operation of Merchant's site, the use, validity, accuracy or
reliability of, or the results of the use of the materials on
Merchant's site, the products or services obtained through the
site or linked to the site. The materials or prices on the site
may be out of date or in error, and Merchant makes no commitment
to update the materials at the site. No advice or information,
whether oral, written or obtained by Partner from Merchant or
through Merchant's site shall create any warranty not expressly
made herein.
Merchant does not and cannot guarantee or warrant that the files
available for downloading from this site, if any, will be free
from viruses, logic bombs, worms, Trojan horses or other code that
manifests contaminating, destructive or operationally degrading
properties.
Merchant does not warrant that the site, product, software,
materials or services will be uninterrupted or error-free or that
any defects in the site, product, software, materials or services
will be corrected. Some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion
or limitation on duration of implied warranties, so the above
exclusion may not apply to you only with respect to implied
warranties.
Indemnification
7.1. Partner hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold
harmless Merchant and its affiliates, directors, officers,
shareholders, employees, representatives, and agents, from and
against any and all liability, claims, losses, damages, injuries
or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) brought by a
third party, arising out of a breach, or alleged breach, of any of
its representations or obligations herein.
Limitation of Liability
8.1. IN NO EVENT SHALL MERCHANT BE LIABLE TO PARTNER FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, EVEN IF INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN
NO EVENT SHALL MERCHANT'S LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO
THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT (OTHER THAN FOR PAYMENT
COMMISSIONS) EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF COMMISSIONS PAID TO PARTNER FOR
THE 2 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE CONDUCT GIVING RISE TO PARTNER'S CLAIM.
General
9.1. Each party shall act as an independent contractor and
shall have no authority to obligate or bind the other in any
respect.
9.2. This Agreement has been made in and shall be construed and
enforced in accordance with the laws of the state of Merchant's
headquarters. Any action to enforce this Agreement shall be
brought in the federal or state courts located in Orange County,
California. If you need to send official correspondence, send it
via registered mail to Merchant's headquarters to the attention of
Merchant's legal department.
9.3. This Agreement may be agreed to in more than one counterpart,
each of which together shall form one and the same instrument. The
parties agree that execution may be achieved in any format
convenient to the parties.
9.4. The provisions of this Agreement are independent of and
separable from each other, and no provision shall be affected or
rendered invalid or unenforceable by virtue of the fact that for
any reason any other or others of them may be invalid or
unenforceable in whole or in part.
ADDENDUM TO THE EZTradein.com MASTER AGREEMENT AND AFFILIATE
MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT
(Effective as of May 30, 2005)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This Addendum to the Affiliate Membership Agreement (including the
Network Operating Policies and Procedures) and EZtradein.com 's
Master Agreement, effective as of May 30, 2005, amends and
supplements your obligations thereunder in accordance with the
terms thereof.
A. BACKGROUND.
This Addendum addresses, in main, the following subjects:
(i) Your use of Email and/or other electronic messages in
connection with your continued participation on any EZtradein.com
Affliate Program and as an affiliate partner of EZtradein.com ,
including new requirements based on recently enacted federal
legislation in the United States; and
(ii) Your use of plug-ins, pop-up engines and/or other download
technology in connection with your participation on any
EZtradein.com Affliate Program and/or as an affiliate partner of
EZtradein.com .
Pursuant to the Affiliate Membership Agreement and EZtradein.com
's Master Agreement, you agreed to allow EZtradein.com Affliate
Program and EZtradein.com to add to or otherwise change the terms
of the Agreement at any time. This Addendum, delivered to you by
email and/or other permitted methods, constitutes notice to you of
our intent to do so. If you continue to use or work with
EZtradein.com , The EZtradein.com Affliate Program®, B2B
EZtradein.com Affliate Program(SM), or EZtradein.com Affliate
Program UK(SM) as an affiliate after receipt of this email, your
continued use will constitute your binding and legally enforceable
agreement to the terms of the Amendment.
B. USING ELECTRONIC OR OTHER TYPES OF MESSAGES.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing or any other
obligations you have under EZtradein.com 's Master Agreement, the
Affiliate Membership Agreement and Network Operating Policies and
Procedures and any obligations you may have under your Engagements
with EZtradein.com , if you use email and/or, as applicable,
mobile service messages (SMS), instant messaging (IM) or other
types of electronic messages (individually and collectively,
"electronic messages") in connection with your participation on
the EZtradein.com Affliate Program and/or in EZtradein.com 's
affiliate program, you agree as follows:
(i) Except as expressly authorized by EZtradein.com , any and all
such electronic messages initiated or sent by you or on your
behalf must:
Identify you as the sender and may not suggest or imply, or
mislead or be likely to mislead a recipient into believing that
EZtradein.com or EZtradein.com Affliate Program is a sender or
sponsor of, or has procured you to send, such electronic messages.
To be clear, you may not use a return address, subject heading,
header information or message contents that misleads or confuses
or is likely to mislead or confuse a recipient as to you being the
sender;
Feature the service or product offering(s) that you are offering
the recipient (and not those of EZtradein.com ) as its primary
contents and purpose;
Contain a valid physical postal address for you (and not any other
person or entity including EZtradein.com or EZtradein.com Affliate
Program);
Be clearly and conspicuously identified as an advertisement or
solicitation.
(ii) You will implement and employ in connection with each
electronic message sent by you or on your behalf an effective
mechanism and procedure for any recipient of such electronic
message to be able to request during the following thirty (30)
days at a minimum not to receive further electronic messages from
you or those sending electronic messages on your behalf and except
as otherwise expressly permitted by applicable law, such request
shall be heeded within ten (10) business days of receipt of such
request (collectively, an "opt-out procedure").
You will insure that such opt-out procedure is fully compliant
with any and all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including
the requirements of the Can Spam Act of 2003 (Public Law No.
108-187).
Pursuant to or in addition to the requirements of the Can Spam Act
of 2003, such opt-out procedure, you must also provide a means to
share, and will promptly share upon EZtradein.com Affliate
Program's or EZtradein.com 's request, the email, SMS, IM or other
address of any recipients that exercised such opt-out procedure
with EZtradein.com that are promoted in any electronic message
giving rise to such opt-out request. You may not sell, rent or
disclose for any consideration any lists of recipients that have
exercised such opt-out procedure.
(iii) You may not use any Qualifying Links (or any equivalent link
or mechanism that, upon being activated, causes the same result as
clicking on a Qualifying Link) in any electronic message unless:
you have received the express authorization of EZtradein.com to
use email or other electronic messages, as applicable, to promote
its Qualifying Link; and
any and all such electronic messages complies in all respects with
this Addendum, the Affiliate Membership Agreement, including the
Network Operating Policies and Procedures, EZtradein.com 's Master
Agreement and any and all applicable laws.
Further, except as expressly authorized by EZtradein.com , any and
all electronic messages initiated or sent by you or on your behalf
may not:
Identify any other person or entity, including EZtradein.com
Affliate Program or EZtradein.com , as a sender or sponsor of any
electronic message sent by you or on your behalf; nor
Contain content which has as its primary purpose the promotion of
EZtradein.com , a Network Affiliate (other than you) or
EZtradein.com Affliate Program, whether or not any Qualifying Link
is used. All electronic messages sent by you or on your behalf
must feature the service or product offering you are providing as
its primary purpose; nor
Contain sexually-oriented material without placing waning labels
and otherwise complying with applicable laws including the Can
Spam Act of 2003 in all respects; nor
Be sent by or through any computer without authorization,
including by relay or retransmission, or contain false header
information regarding the transmitting computers and transmission
path including the originating electronic mail address, domain
name or Internet Protocol address.
Should you be expressly authorized to promote EZtradein.com or
Qualifying Link using an electronic message, in addition to any
other applicable terms of the relevant Engagement, you agree to
comply with the Can Spam Act of 2003 and any rules and regulations
that are promulgated by any governmental authority in respect
thereof and any and all orders, judgments and decrees of any
court, agency or other authority relating thereto and any other
applicable foreign, federal, provincial, state, or local law
applicable to the use or transmission of electronic message. While
some of the requirements of the Can Spam Act of 2003 are set forth
as contractual obligations hereunder, compliance with the above
provisions shall not be construed as or deemed to be sufficient to
comply with any such or other applicable law.
(iv) You shall provide EZtradein.com with any information
requested by EZtradein.com at any time, including evidence that
you have complied with all required opt-out procedures and other
aspects of your compliance herewith. Further, you authorize
EZtradein.com to provide any information, including confidential
information, and otherwise make any disclosures that EZtradein.com
determines to be necessary or appropriate about you or your
participation or activities on or in relation to EZtradein.com or
your use of any EZtradein.com -provided resources to any local,
state, provincial, federal or foreign governmental authority or
Internet Service Provider bringing or contemplating the bringing
of any action or conducting any investigation in relation to the
enforcement of any applicable laws, including the Can Spam Act of
2003.
C. NOT AN EMAIL OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER.
EZtradein.com 's affiliate program or more EZtradein.com Affliate
Programs is as an affiliate partner and an Online Affiliate. Your
participation is purely voluntarily and you may terminate your
participation at any time.
(i) Neither EZtradein.com Affliate Program nor EZtradein.com shall
be construed or deemed as having "procured" you or your services
to send or initiate any email or other types of electronic
messages to any computer, including for the purposes of promoting
EZtradein.com Affliate Program or EZtradein.com or its respective
trade or business, or goods, products, property, or services.
(ii) You are not and shall not, at any time, be deemed to be a
vendor, supplier or provider of goods or services to EZtradein.com
. You are not and shall not at any time be deemed, based on your
participation in any EZtradein.com Affliate Program or entering
into an Engagement with EZtradein.com or otherwise being an
affiliate partner, to be a vendor, supplier or provider of goods
or services to EZtradein.com , unless EZtradein.com has expressly
agreed in writing to engage you as a vendor, supplier or provider
of goods or services.
(iii) Neither your participation in EZtradein.com 's affiliate
program or on any EZtradein.com Affliate Program (including your
use of any resource made available and earning or receiving of any
commissions or other monies) shall be construed as or deemed to be
an inducement for, solicitation of, or payment or provision of
other consideration to, you to provide any products or services to
EZtradein.com Affliate Program or, except in any written agreement
with EZtradein.com expressly provides otherwise, to EZtradein.com
.
D. USING PLUG-INS, POP-UP ENGINES AND OTHER DOWNLOAD TECHNOLOGY
(i) No Interference. If you make available, directly or indirectly
through any of your "Affiliated Providers" (as defined in
Paragraph D(iii) below) any downloadable or other technology, you
agree to insure, and hereby insure, that such technology does not
and will not "Interfere" (as defined in Paragraph D(iii)below)
during your participation in EZtradein.com 's affiliate program
and afterwards, except with "an end user's express and informed
prior consent" (as defined in Paragraph D(iii)below), with any of
the following:
any EZtradein.com Web-based links, advertisements, sites or other
commercial offerings in any manner that is contrary to
EZtradein.com 's intentions; or
any Engagement (including the click-through and any subsequent
activity) tracked by EZtradein.com Affliate Program between
EZtradein.com and any Network Affiliates with which EZtradein.com
has entered into such Engagement; or
the tracking technology or network resources offered by
EZtradein.com Affliate Program to its Merchants, Network
Affiliates and other participants or users.
(ii) Testing and Compliance. Prior to any commercial release of
any downloadable or other technology that is used in relation to
or might affect in any manner the EZtradein.com Affliate Program
and/or any of its participants, including any Network Affiliates
and/or EZtradein.com , or any revisions to any such technology
previously commercially released, you will notify EZtradein.com
that such technology may be made available and provide
EZtradein.com with a reasonable opportunity to test a
representative copy thereof. Upon completing its testing of such
technology, EZtradein.com shall provide you with a verbal report
of any violations, if any, of the above "No Interference"
provisions or any other errors or adverse problems caused by the
technology in respect of the EZtradein.com Affliate Program or to
EZtradein.com . If, for whatever reason, the technology has
already been commercially released by the time any testing is
conducted or completed, you will use reasonable best efforts to
make any modifications, upon a mutually agreed timetable, but in
any case such modifications shall be made within thirty (30) days
(unless the parties have agreed based on good faith mutual
discussion and consultation that a longer period is necessary).
Once any version of any technology is approved by EZtradein.com ,
you will make available only such EZtradein.com -approved version
of the technology and will use reasonable best efforts to cause
any prior versions to be replaced or modified to bring such
versions into compliance.
(iii) Defined Terms.
"Affiliated Provider" may mean, variously, a corporate affiliate,
developer, distributor, enterprise user, retailer, reseller or
other provider or agent, together with any of their respective
corporate affiliates.
"Interfere" (and its other grammatical variations) means,
variously, to, whether intentionally or unintentionally:
replace, intercept, redirect, disrupt, block, alter or otherwise
adversely affect (including by opening a pop-up or new window or
using other types of diverting or disruptive mechanism); or
substitute, insert or append; or
modify the behavior or functionality, or simulate, copy or assume
control of, or create a substitute or derivative version of, any
browser, plug-in, email, software, file or other platform or
technology provided by any third party; or
cause an error or unintended result to occur; or
cause the parties involved or affected to violate any applicable
laws; or
aids, abets, contributes, facilitates or supports any third party
to do any of the foregoing; in each case, including but not
limited to (x) in relation to any Engagement, tracking code,
cookie, file, data record, sale, clickthrough, commercial activity
or other action or transaction facilitated or intended by the
target of such interference or (y) with the result of reducing any
payment owing to a third party or increasing any payment
obligation by any third party.
"end user's express and informed prior consent" refers to and
requires (a) a reasonable opportunity to view and expressly
consent to the download and use prior to the download, including
the rejection and removal, of any technology subject to this
Addendum, (b) full and prominent disclosure at the time of the
relevant action or transaction originally intended by the target
of such Interference sufficient, in EZtradein.com 's reasonable
good faith determination, to insure that any choice to Interfere
is fully informed as to the benefits and potential consequences,
and (c) disclosure and consent that are consistent with any and
all applicable laws.
E. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS.
You shall at all times insure that you and your affiliates,
officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents and
representatives, the conduct of your business, your performance as
an affiliate partner and under any Engagements with EZtradein.com
, and your use of any EZtradein.com Affliate Program in any manner
must at all times comply with all applicable federal, state,
provincial and foreign laws, ordinances, rules, regulations,
orders, judgments and decrees. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, such laws shall include without limitation any
state and federal laws dealing with the transmission and labeling
of commercial and/or other electronic mail messages, laws relating
to fraud or predatory or abusive business practices, and rules and
regulations that are, from time to time, established by
governmental agencies.
F. GENERAL
Partner hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless
EZtradein.com and its affiliates, directors, officers,
shareholders, employees, representatives, and agents, from and
against any and all liability, claims, losses, damages, injuries
or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees), as incurred,
brought by a third party, arising out of a breach or violation, or
allegation which if true would constitute a breach or violation,
of any of its representations or obligations in this Addendum.
This Amendment shall be deemed to be an amendment and part of the
EZtradein.com Master Agreement, the terms of which are
incorporated by reference herein. If there is any conflict between
this Amendment and the EZtradein.com Master Agreement in relation
to the subject matter expressly covered hereby, this Addendum will
govern and in all other respects the EZtradein.com Master
Agreement will govern. To the extent any provision hereof is held
to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be enforced
to the full extent permitted by law and the remaining provisions
hereof shall remain in full force and effect. This letter
agreement shall be construed under the laws of the State of
California without regard to conflicts of law principles.
|
|