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Affiliate
Agreement |
By submitting the completed application,
you acknowledge that you have read these terms and conditions, understand,
and agree with them.
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply
to an individual's or entity's participation in the Voxwire Independent
Affiliate Program
(the "Program"). As used in this Agreement, "we" means
Voxwire Systems, Inc., and "you" means the applicant. "Website"
means a World Wide Web website and, depending on the context, refers
either to Voxwire's website, located at the URL http://www.voxwire.com,
or to
any website or email where you will place a link to our website.
1. Enrollment in the Program
By submitting the online information form, you are
enrolling to become a Voxwire Independent Affiliate (Rep)
and are bound by the terms of this agreement.
Your participation in this program is solely for this
purpose: to receive a commission
on
products purchased by individuals referred by you. We reserve the right,
in our sole discretion, to cancel your
account for violating our policies. You may not promote our products
on
websites, in emails, or in any way that combines the offer with unlawful
activities. You may not:
- Include "Voxwire" or variations or misspellings thereof
in domain names and email addresses or
- Create inappropriate advertisements (False claims, misleading hyperlinks)
- Spam (mass email, mass newsgroup posting, etc...)
- Advertise on sites containing/promoting illegal activities or
- Otherwise violate intellectual property rights
You should also note that if we accept your application and
your promotion of our products are thereafter determined (in
our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program, we may terminate
this Agreement.
2. Links on Your Website or in other media
If you wish, you may include specially "tagged" hyperlinks
or web banners on your branded-website or within email messages.
We will provide you with guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking
to the Voxwire website. To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and referral
commission accrual, we will provide you with special "tagged"
link formats to be used in all links between your website or email messages
and our website. You must ensure that each of the links between your website
and our website properly utilize these special link formats. Links to
our website placed on your website pursuant to this Agreement and which
properly utilize such special link formats are referred to as "Special
Links." You will earn referral commissions only with respect to activity
on our website 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 Voxwire Independent Rep
Program and placing any of the above described links within your website
or
other
media, Voxwire may receive information from or about visitors to your
website or communications between your website and those visitors. Your
participation in the Voxwire Rep Program constitutes your specific
and unconditional consent to, and authorization for, Voxwire's access
to receipt, storage, use, and disclosure of any and all such information,
consistent with the policies and procedures set forth in the Voxwire
Privacy Policy.
3. Referral Order Processing
When a visitor clicks through your Voxwire link, a cookie is set
in their browser that contains your Rep ID. Also, their IP address
is tracked in the database along with your Rep ID. When this person
decides to buy one of our products, our script will look for this cookie
and/or try to match their IP address to identify the Rep who will
be awarded the commission. Visitors sent through your Rep link
may make a purchase later in time and the commission will still be awarded
if the cookie is present in their browser and/or they are using the same
IP address as the one logged in our database.
We will process orders placed by customers who follow Rep links
from your website to our website. 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 fulfillment.
Among other things, we will prepare order forms, process payments, cancellations,
and returns, and handle customer & technical service.
We will track referral sales made by customers who purchase products
by using your Voxwire Rep link and
will make reports available to you summarizing this sales activity.
The form,
content,
and frequency of the reports may vary from time to time at our discretion.
4. Referral Commissions
We will pay you referral commissions on Qualifying Product sales
to third parties. For a Product sale to be eligible to earn a
referral commission, the customer must satisfactorily complete an
order for any Qualifying Voxwire Products and/or Services from the
Voxwire website. We will only pay referral commissions on such
Products after order, payment and shipping (if necessary) have
occurred. Commissions will be paid out within 2 months of the
purchase date of the Qualifying Product sale. Commissions will only
be paid for Qualifying Products in which the third party purchasing
the product remains active and in good standing for at least 2
months. For instance if you are due a $50 commission, but the third
party who made the qualified purchase cancels or requests a refund
within 60 days you will not be due or paid that $50 commission.
through the date of the Payout. A maximum of $10,000 (TEN THOUSAND)
US dollars of earned affiliate commission is permitted per 1 month
period and the monthly period begins on the 1st day of each month.
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 website to access our website
(e.g., by implementing any "rewards" program for persons or
entities who use Special Links on your website to access our website);
(b) post any Special Links on any website or other platform that is accessible
through any Internet Access Appliance; (c) 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; (d) in any way modify, redirect,
suppress, or substitute the operation of any button, link, or other interactive
feature of our website; (e) make any orders or subscription requests,
or engage in other transactions of any kind on our website on behalf of
any third party, or authorize, assist, or encourage any other person or
entity to do so; (f) take any action that could reasonably cause any customer
confusion as to our relationship with you, or as to the website on which
any functions or transactions are occurring; or (g) post or serve any
advertisements or promotional content around or in conjunction with the
display of our website (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
commissions otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate
this Agreement.
5. Referral Commission Schedule
You will earn referral commissions based on Qualifying Revenues according
to referral commission schedules to be established by us and stated to
you in our email acceptance of your Application. The terms of your commission
amount is confidential and may not be divulged to any other party. "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, charge-backs, returns
and bad debt.
6. Referral Commission Payment
Qualified Referral Commissions will be paid out monthly (per the schedule
listed above such as the qualified sale from the third party must
remain in good standing and active for 2 months) and paid in US
DOLLARS via paypal. There is no fee for processing affiliate
payments via paypal, for affiliate payments equal to or in excess
of $50. For any affiliate payouts less than $50, or affiliates
who do not use paypal, the affiliate may opt to hold on account
the affiliate payout for up to 12 months or have the amount posted
as a credit towards Voxwire Services. In the event the affiliate
opts for credit towards Voxwire Services we will pay your
commissions on a monthly basis as a credit to your Voxwire account
which will be deducted from the next billing cycle. Said credits
will be entered into your account approximately 15 days following
the end of each calendar month.
If an affiliate commission is paid out, but later the product that
qualified the affiliate for said commission is found to have been
purchased fraudulently, results in a credit card charge back, or a
valid refund request is processed for such product(s), we will
deduct the corresponding referral commission from your next
payment.
Affiliate Commission eligibility will remain in effect
for a period of 12 months, until you terminate your Voxwire
Affiliate account, or until Voxwire terminates your Voxwire
Affiliate account, whichever occurs first. Affiliate Commission
eligibility may be extended at Voxwire’s discretion depending
on market conditions and whether or not you are
actively referring customers.
7. Policies and Pricing
Customers who buy products through this Program will be deemed to
be customers of Voxwire. Accordingly, all Voxwire 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 Program in accordance
with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary
from time to time.
8. Identifying Yourself as a Voxwire Representative
You may not issue any press release or announcement with respect
to this Agreement or your participation in the Program; such action may
result
in your
termination
from the Program. 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 Voxwire 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 Voxwire name,
graphic images and texts for which we grant express permission, solely
for the purpose of assisting with referral activity. You may not modify
the Voxwire
name, graphic images 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. We may revoke your license at any time by giving you written
notice.
The name of Voxwire and other names as may be adopted by Voxwire are
proprietary trade names, trademarks and service marks of Voxwire Systems
Inc. As such, these marks are of great value to Voxwire and are supplied
to Representatives for their use only in an expressly authorized manner.
Use of Voxwire's name on any item not produced by the company is prohibited
except as follows:
Representative's Name
Independent Voxwire Representative
All Affiliates may list themselves as an "Independent Voxwire Representative"
in the white or yellow pages of the telephone directory under their own
name. No Representative may place telephone directory display ads
using Voxwire's
name or logo. Representatives may not answer the telephone by saying "Voxwire",
'Voxwire Incorporated", or in any other manner that would lead
the caller to believe that he or she has reached corporate offices
of Voxwire.
Representatives may not produce for sale any recorded company events,
speeches, recording, audio or video tape presentations without written
permission
from Voxwire.
Because "Voxwire" is a proprietary trade name, trademark and
service mark of Voxwire Systems, Inc., Representatives may not use the
words
"Voxwire" or any confusingly similar name, word or variation
of "Voxwire" in website domain names or addresses ("URLs")
or e-mail addresses other than the ones provided by Voxwire.
10. Responsibility for Your Website
If you own and/or operate a website, in which you link to our website,
you will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance
of your website and for all materials that appear on your website. For
example, you will be solely responsible for:
- The technical operation of your website and all related equipment
- Creating and posting Product descriptions on your website and linking
those descriptions to the Voxwire website.
- The accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your website
(including, among other things, all Product-related materials, up-to-date
prices, and feature-descriptions, etc.)
- Ensuring that materials posted on your website do not violate or infringe
upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights,
trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights)
- Ensuring that materials posted on your website are not libelous or
otherwise illegal
- Ensuring that your website 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 website.
11. Term of the Agreement
The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your
Program 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 delivered via
email. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will
immediately cease use of, and remove from your website, all links to our
website, and all Voxwire trademarks, logos, and all other materials provided
by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the
Program. You are eligible to earn referral commissions only on our sales
of Qualifying Products that occur during the term, and referral commissions
earned through the date of termination will remain payable only if the
related orders are not canceled 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 website. Modifications may include, for example,
changes in the scope of available referral commissions, referral commission
schedules, payment procedures, and Program rules. If any modification
is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this agreement.
Your continued participation in the program following our posting of a
change notice or new agreement on our website 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, Affiliate,
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 website 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 Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility
of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect
to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral commissions
paid or payable to you under this Agreement.
15. Disclaimers
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect
to the Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without
limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, noninfringement, 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 website 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 websites that are similar
to or compete with your website. You have independently evaluated the
desirability of participating in the program and are not relying on any
representation, guarantee, or statement other than as set forth in this
agreement.
17. Arbitration
Any dispute relating in any way to this Agreement (including any
actual or alleged breach hereof), any transactions or activities under
this Agreement
or your relationship with us or any of our Representatives shall be submitted
to confidential arbitration in a city selected by the company in Ohio,
United States, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated
or threatened to violate our intellectual property rights, we may seek
injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court
in the state of Ohio (and you consent to non-exclusive jurisdiction
and
venue in such courts) or any other court of competent jurisdiction. Arbitration
under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing
of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's award shall
be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent
jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration
under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any
other
party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings
or otherwise.
18. Miscellaneous
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the United States
and the state of Ohio, without reference to rules governing choice of
laws.
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.
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