Adalysis Affiliate Agreement
PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT.
BY SUBMITTING THE ONLINE APPLICATION YOU ARE AGREEING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.
1. Overview
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to you becoming an affiliate in the Adalysis Affiliate Program. The purpose of this Agreement is to allow HTML linking between your website and the Adalysis website. Please note that throughout this Agreement, "we," "us," and "our" refer to Adalysis, and "you," "your," and "yours" refer to the affiliate.
2. Affiliate Obligations
2.1. To begin the enrollment process, you will complete and submit the online application. The fact that we may auto-approve applications does not imply that we may not re-evaluate your application at a later time. We may reject your application at our sole discretion. We may cancel your application if we determine that your site is unsuitable for our Program, including if it:
2.1.1. Incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law.
2.1.2. Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion.
2.1.3. Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program.
2.2. You may not create or design your website or any other website that you operate, explicitly or implied in a manner which resembles our website nor design your website in a manner which leads customers to believe you are Adalysis or any other affiliated business.
2.3. As a member of Adalysis' Affiliate Program, you will have access to Affiliate Account Manager. Here you will be able to review our Program’s details, download HTML code (that provides for links to web pages within the Adalysis website) and banner creatives, browse and get tracking codes for our coupons and deals. In order for us to accurately keep track of all guest visits from your site to ours, you must use the HTML code that we provide for each banner, text link, or other affiliate link we provide you with.
2.4. The maintenance and the updating of your site is your responsibility.
2.5. It is entirely your responsibility to follow all applicable intellectual property and other laws that pertain to your site. You must have express permission to use any person's copyrighted material, whether it be a writing, an image, or any other copyrightable work. We will not be responsible (and you will be solely responsible) if you use another person's copyrighted material or other intellectual property in violation of the law or any third party rights.
3. Adalysis Rights and Obligations
3.1. We have the right to monitor your site at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this Agreement. We may notify you of any changes to your site that we feel should be made, or to make sure that your links to our web site are appropriate and to notify you of any changes that we feel should be made. If you do not make the changes to your site that we feel are necessary, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the Adalysis Affiliate Program.
3.2. Adalysis reserves the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in the Adalysis Affiliate Program immediately and without notice to you should you commit fraud in your use of the Adalysis Affiliate Program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, Adalysis shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales.
4. Acceptance and Termination
4.1 This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application, and will continue unless terminated.
4.2 Either you or we may end this Agreement AT ANY TIME, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice must be given in email. In addition, this Agreement will terminate immediately upon any breach of this Agreement by you.
5. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions in this Agreement at any time at our sole discretion. If the Agreement is modified, you will be notified by email. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the payment procedures and Adalysis' Affiliate Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only option is to end this Agreement. Your continued participation in Adalysis' Affiliate Program following the email being sent will indicate your agreement to the changes.
6. Payment
Adalysis uses a third party to handle all payment. The third party is PayPal.com. Kindly review the payment processors terms and conditions and User agreement.
7. Access to Affiliate Account Interface
You will create a password so that you may enter Adalysis’ secure affiliate portal. From there, you will be able to receive your reports that will describe our calculation of the commissions due to you.
8. Promotion Restrictions
8.1. You are free to promote your own web sites, but naturally any promotion that mentions Adalysis could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort.
8.1.1 You should know that certain forms of advertising are always prohibited by Adalysis. For example:
8.1.2 At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your web sites as independent from Adalysis. We will consider any forms of advertising prohibited by Adalysis cause for immediate termination of this Agreement and your participation in the Adalysis Affiliate Program. Any pending balances owed to you will not be paid if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.
8.2. Affiliates may not bid on Adalysis trademarks, tool names, or domain names within any paid search programs. Affiliates that bid in their Pay-Per-Click campaigns on Adalysis trademark keywords or similar terms, such as Adalysis, www.Adalysis, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these – be it separately or in combination with other keywords will be considered trademark violators, and will be banned from the Adalysis Affiliate Program. We will do everything possible to contact the affiliate prior to the ban. However, we reserve the right to expel any trademark violator from our affiliate program without prior notice on the first occurrence of such PPC bidding behavior.
8.3. Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “Parasiteware™,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers from the time the consumer clicks on a qualifying link until such time as the consumer has fully exited AdAylsis’s site (i.e., no page from our site or any AdAylsis’s content or branding is visible on the end-user’s screen). Under this agreement, “Parasiteware™” and “Parasitic Marketing” means an application that:
(a) through accidental or direct intent causes the overwriting of affiliate and non affiliate commission tracking cookies through any other means than a customer initiated click on a qualifying link on a web page or email;
(b) intercepts searches to redirect traffic through an installed software, thereby causing, pop ups, commission tracking cookies to be put in place or other commission tracking cookies to be overwritten where a user would under normal circumstances have arrived at the same destination through the results given by the search (search engines being, but not limited to, Google, Bing, Yahoo, and similar search or directory engines);
(c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of Adalysis site in iFrames, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open Adalysis’s site;
(d) targets text on web sites, other than those web sites 100% owned by the application owner, for the purpose of contextual marketing;
(e) removes, replaces or blocks the visibility of Affiliate banners with any other banners, other than those that are on web sites 100% owned by the owner of the application.
9. Grant of Licenses
9.1. We grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to:
(i) access our site through HTML links solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (ii) solely in connection with such links, to use our logos, trade names, trademarks, and similar identifying material (collectively, the "Licensed Materials'') that we provide to you or authorize for such purpose. You are only entitled to use the Licensed Materials to the extent that you are a member in good standing of the Adalysis Affiliate Program.
9.2. Each party agrees not to use the other's proprietary materials in any manner that is disparaging, misleading, obscene or that otherwise portrays the party in a negative light. Each party reserves all of its respective rights in the proprietary materials covered by this license. Other than the license granted in this Agreement, each party retains all right, title, and interest to its respective rights and no right, title, or interest is transferred to the other.
10. Disclaimer
Adalysis makes no express or implied representations or warranties regarding Adalysis’ service and website. Any implied warranties of Adalysis’ ability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement are expressly disclaimed and excluded. 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.
11. Representations
You represent that:
11.1. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by you and constitutes your legal, valid, and binding obligation, enforceable against you in accordance with its terms;
11.2. You have the full right, power, and authority to enter into and be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and to perform your obligations under this Agreement, without the approval or consent of any other party;
11.3. You have sufficient right, title, and interest in and to the rights granted to us in this Agreement.
12. Limitations of Liability
We will not be liable to you with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, tort, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages (including, without limitation, loss of revenue or goodwill or anticipated profits or lost business), even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this agreement, in no event shall Adalysis' cumulative liability to you arising out of or related to this agreement, whether based in contract, negligence, strict liability, tort or other legal or equitable theory, exceed the total commission fees paid to you under this agreement.
13. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Adalysis, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members, and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) (any or all of the foregoing hereinafter referred to as "Losses") insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (i) any claim that our use of the affiliate trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of any third party, (ii) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement made by you herein, or (iii) any claim related to your site, including, without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.
14. Miscellaneous
14.1. You agree that you are an independent contractor, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between you and Adalysis. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. You will not make any statements that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
14.2. Neither party may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement to any party, except to a party who obtains all or substantially all of the business or assets of a third party.
14.3. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom without regard to the conflicts of laws and principles thereof.
14.4. You may not amend or waive any provision of this Agreement unless in writing and signed by both parties.
14.5. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between us and you, and shall supersede all prior agreements and communications of the parties, oral or written.
14.6. The headings and titles contained in this Agreement are included for convenience only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect the terms of this Agreement.
14.7. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent necessary such that the intent of the parties is effectuated, and the remainder of this agreement shall have full force and effect.