ECom24
Limited - Affiliate Program
TERMS
AND CONDITIONS
1 INTRODUCTION
ECom24 Ltd
("we" or "us") wishes to appoint you ("you"
or "the Affiliate") as an Affiliate of ECom24 Ltd to enable
you to promote the ECom24 Ltd owned Website(s) ("our Website(s)" or
"the Website(s)”) through your Website ("your Website")
in exchange for the referral fees referred to in Clause 6, on the
terms and conditions of this Agreement.
2 REGISTRATION
2.1 In order
to become an Affiliate you must complete the Affiliate Application
on our website. We will evaluate your application and notify you
of your acceptance or rejection. We reserve the right, at our sole
discretion, to reject any application to become an Affiliate, and
in particular we may reject your application if we determine that
your Website is unsuitable for our Affiliate Programme.
2.2 If we accept
your application and your Website is thereafter determined, at our
sole discretion, to be unsuitable, we may terminate this Agreement
immediately.
3 LINKS
3.1 To become
an Affiliate you must include one or more of our affiliate links
("the Links") on your Website. The correct link format
is available in the affiliates section of our Website(s).
Any of the Links will allow your end-users to navigate directly
to our Website(s).
3.2 You agree
that we must control the appearance of the Links and the way in
which the Links operate. As such you must ensure that:
3.2.1 you only
display the latest available Links in the format that they are made
available to you and you must not alter or amend the Links in any
way unless agreed in advance with us;
3.2.2 you only
use the Links to link to our Website(s).
3.3 We may change
the appearance of the Links and the manner in which you link to
our Website(s) at any time. It is therefore recommended that you visit
our Website on a regular basis for up-to-date information relating
to the Links.
4 LICENCE
ECom24 Ltd
grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence for
the term of this Agreement and solely for the purposes of facilitating
referrals from your Website to our Website(s), to establish and maintain
the Links referred to above. We have the right to terminate this
licence at any time and to request you to remove the Links immediately
if we consider that the Links are not being used in accordance with
these Terms and Conditions.
5 ORDERS
We will process
orders for products/services placed by customers who follow the
Links from your Website to our Website(s) and be responsible
for all aspects of the order process. We will track sales made to
customers who purchase products/services using the Links from your
Website to our Website(s) and will make sales reports available to
you. You must ensure that the Links from your Website to our Website(s)
are properly formatted to allow accurate tracking and reporting
and accrual of referral fees. We will not be liable for paying referral
fees on sales that are not correctly tracked and reported because
the Links are not properly formatted. Cookies are used to track
referrals from your Website to our Website(s). We will not be liable
for paying referral fees where the cookie could not be used to track
the referral for any reason.
6 REFERRAL
FEE
6.1 For a sale
to generate a referral fee, the customer must follow the Links from
your Website to our Website(s), purchase the product/service
on our Website(s), accept delivery of the product/service
and remit full payment to ECom24 Ltd. We will not pay referral fees
on any products/services that are added to a customer's shopping
basket or are purchased after the customer has re-entered our Website(s)
(other than through the Links from your Website), even if the customer
previously followed the Links from your Website to our Website(s).
6.2 You will
earn referral fees on revenues referred to in Clause 6.1, less costs
for dispatching, handling, taxes (including VAT if any), service
charges, returns and credit card processing fees, according to the
commission rates fixed by us. We may change the commission rates
at any time.
6.3 The Affiliate
Programme is intended for commercial use only and you may not purchase
products/services through the Affiliate Programme for your own use
or that of your friends or relatives or for resale or commercial
use of any kind. In addition you must not directly or indirectly
offer any person any consideration or incentive, including, without
limitation, payment of money or awarding of any benefits, for using
the Links on your Website to access our Website(s). In addition to
any other rights we may have, such actions may result, at our sole
discretion, in the withholding of referral fees and/or the termination
of this Agreement.
7 PAYMENT
7.1 We will
pay you referral fees (including VAT, if any, on presentation of
a valid VAT invoice) on a monthly basis. Within 60 days of the end
of the calendar month we will send you payment for commissions on
completed sales within that month at the rate specified in Clause
6.2, less any taxes that we are required by law to withhold. However,
if the fees payable to you for any calendar month are less than
$50.00 (USD) then we may retain your payment until the total amount
due is at least $50.00 (USD) or, (if earlier) until this Agreement
is terminated. If a refund is given on a sale that generated a referral
fee, we will deduct the corresponding fee from your next payment.
If there is no subsequent payment we will send you an invoice for
the fee. You will be entirely responsible for any taxation that
may be payable as a result of the payment of fees under this Agreement.
7.2 Payments
shall be made by PayPal.com.
8 POLICIES
For the avoidance
of doubt, customers who buy products/services through the Affiliate
Programme will be customers of ECom24 Ltd. Accordingly, all ECom24
Ltd rules, policies and operating procedures concerning customer
orders, customer service and sales will apply to those customers.
ECom24 Ltd reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change
such policies and procedures at any time, including pricing policies.
Product/service prices and availability may vary from time to time.
ECom24 Ltd shall use its reasonable endeavours to present accurate
information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of
any particular product/service.
9 DATA
PROTECTION
You undertake,
in relation to information relating to an identified or identifiable
individual, partnership, corporation or other entity ("Personal
Data") received pursuant to the operation of this Agreement,
to comply at all times (both during the subsistence and after termination
of this Agreement) with any obligations imposed under the terms
of the United Kingdom Data Protection legislation and any other
legislation or self-regulatory guidelines from time to time relating
to the holding, use and/or disclosure of Personal Data applicable
in the United Kingdom or other relevant jurisdiction.
10 COPYRIGHT
The content
of our Website(s), including without limitation the design,
text, graphics and all software and source codes connected with
our Website(s), and the Links are protected by copyright, trade marks,
patents and other intellectual property rights and laws. You do
not obtain any rights under this Agreement in any intellectual property,
including, without limitation, any intellectual property rights
in the Links, except for the licence expressly granted in Clause
4 above.
11 AVAILABILITY
OF OUR WEBSITE(S)
We will endeavour
to make our Website(s) available but cannot guarantee that our Website(s)
will operate continuously or without interruptions or be error-free.
You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of our
Website(s) and, in particular, you must not attempt to circumvent security,
tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt any computer system,
server, website, router or any other internet connected device.
Should we find that you have done or attempted to do any of the
above actions, we will terminate this Agreement immediately. In
these circumstances we reserve the right to seek remedies from you,
including without limitation, withholding any payments due to you.
12 WARRANTIES
AND INDEMNITY
12.1 You hereby
warrant to us that you will not include any of the following on
your Website:
12.1.1 any illegal
material;
12.1.2 any obscene
or sexually explicit material;
12.1.3 any violent,
discriminatory, threatening or abusive material;
12.1.4 any material
which is blasphemous or defamatory in any way or which in any way
detracts from our Website(s);
12.1.5 any material
that infringes the Intellectual Property of any third party.
12.2 You acknowledge
that you are solely responsible for all materials that appear on
your Website together with the technical operation of your Website
and all related equipment. You agree to indemnify and hold ECom24
Ltd and its employees and agents harmless from all claims, damages
and expenses including, without limitation, legal expenses, arising
out of the operation, maintenance and content of your Website.
12.3 You acknowledge
that ECom24 Ltd has a zero-tolerance SPAM (Unsolicted Commercial
Email) policy and reserves the right to immediately terminate this
Agreement if we believe that you have engaged in sending SPAM. For
this Agreement, the definition of SPAM is defined by us, and may
vary at our discretion, and our decision to terminate this Agreement
for this reason is at our sole discretion.
13 TERM
AND TERMINATION
13.1 The term
of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate
Application and will end when terminated by either party in accordance
with this Agreement. Either party may terminate this Agreement at
any time upon giving written notice to the other. Termination is
immediate.
13.2 Either
party may terminate this Agreement forthwith by notice in writing
to the other if:
13.2.1 the
other party commits a material breach of this Agreement and, in
the case of a breach capable of being remedied, fails to remedy
it within a reasonable time of being given written notice from the
other party to do so; or
13.2.2 the
other party commits a material breach of this Agreement which cannot
be remedied under any circumstances; or
13.2.3 the
other party passes a resolution for winding up (other than for the
purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction), or a court of
competent jurisdiction makes an order to that effect; or
13.2.4 the
other party ceases to carry on its business or substantially the
whole of its business; or
13.2.5 the other
party is declared insolvent, or convenes a meeting of or makes or
proposes to make any arrangement or composition with its creditors;
or a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, manager, trustee
or similar officer is appointed over any of its assets.
13.3 Upon termination
of this Agreement, you must immediately remove the Links from your
Website and all ECom24 Ltd trade marks, trade names and logos.
13.4 Any rights
to terminate this Agreement shall be without prejudice to any other
accrued rights and liabilities of the parties arising in any way
out of this Agreement as at the date of termination.
14 DISCLAIMERS
AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
14.1 Nothing
in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit the liability
of ECom24 Ltd for death or personal injury resulting from the negligence
of ECom24 Ltd or that of its employees or agents.
14.2 The entire
liability of ECom24 Ltd to you in respect of any claim whatsoever
or breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence,
shall be limited to one pound sterling.
14.3 In no event
shall ECom24 Ltd be liable to you for any loss of business, loss
of opportunity or loss of profits or for any other indirect or consequential
loss or damage whatsoever. This shall apply even where such a loss
was reasonably foreseeable or we had been made aware of the possibility
of such a loss occurring.
14.4 To the
fullest extent permitted by law, we make no express or implied warranties
or representations with respect to the Affiliate Programme or any
products/services sold through the Affiliate Programme, including,
without limitation, warranties of fitness for purpose, merchantability,
non-infringement or any implied warranties arising out of performance,
dealing, or trade usage, and the same are hereby excluded.
15 PUBLICITY
You may not
make any public announcement with respect to this Agreement or your
participation in the Affiliate Program without our prior written
consent, which may be withheld at our sole discretion.
16 RELATIONSHIP
OF PARTIES
Nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed to create a partnership, joint venture
or agency relationship between the parties. Neither party shall
have the authority or power to bind the other party or to contract
in the name of or create a liability against the other party in
any way or for any purpose.
17 ASSIGNATION
We may assign
or subcontract any or all of our rights and obligations under these
Terms and Conditions. You may assign this Agreement and your rights
and obligations under it with the prior written consent of ECom24
Ltd.
18 MODIFICATION
ECom24 Ltd reserves
the right to update or amend these Terms and Conditions at any time
and if you continue to maintain the Links following any changes
you shall be deemed to have accepted such change. It is therefore
your responsibility to check the Terms and Conditions on our Website
regularly for any changes.
19 SEVERANCE
If any provision
of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable for
any reason by any Court of competent jurisdiction such provision
shall be severed and the remainder of the provisions hereof shall
continue in full force and effect as if this Agreement had been
agreed with the invalid illegal or unenforceable provision eliminated.
20 ENTIRE
AGREEMENT
This Agreement
contains the entire Agreement between the parties relating to the
subject matter and supersedes any previous agreements, arrangements,
undertakings or proposals, oral or written. Unless expressly provided
elsewhere in this Agreement, this Agreement may be varied only by
a document signed by both parties.
21 GOVERNING
LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Agreement
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of
Scotland and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction
of the Scottish courts.
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