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FOREWORD
My affiliates are very important to me. I will do my best to treat you with the fairness and respect you deserve. I ask the same consideration of you. I have prepared the following affiliate agreement with you in mind, as well as to protect my company's good name. Please read this agreement, as it outlines all of the legal formalities pertaining to your request to join The Ornament Girl's Referral Program.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to let us know. For quickest results, please email us at staciann@theornamentgirl.com.
Thank you!
Staci Ann Lowry
CEO/Founder of TheOrnamentGirl.com
AFFILIATE AGREEMENT
PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT.
YOU MAY PRINT THIS PAGE FOR YOUR RECORDS.
THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND THE ORNAMENT GIRL, LLC. (DBA THEORNAMENTGIRL.COM)
BY SUBMITTING THE ONLINE APPLICATION YOU ARE AGREEING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH AND EVERY TERM AND CONDITION.
1. Overview
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to you becoming an affiliate in The Ornament Girl's Affiliate Program. Please note that throughout this Agreement, "we," "us," and "our" refer to The Ornament Girl, LLC, 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 at TheOrnamentGirl.com. The fact that we 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. Promotes sexually explicit materials
2.1.2. Promotes violence
2.1.3. Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
2.1.4. Promotes illegal activities
2.1.5. Incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law
2.1.6. Includes "The Ornament Girl" or variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name
2.1.7. Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion.
2.1.8. Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program.
2.1.9. 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 TheOrnamentGirl.com or any other affiliated business.
2.2. As a member of The Ornament Girl, LLC's Affiliate Program, you will have access to the Affiliate Center. Here you will be able to review our Program’s details, and download the tracking links to web pages within TheOrnamentGirl.com web site and affiliated sites). In order for us to accurately keep track of all guest visits from your site to ours, you MUST use the tracking links that we provide.
2.3. The Ornament Girl, LLC reserves the right, at any time, to review your placement and approve the use of Your Links and require that you change the placement or use to comply with the guidelines provided to you.
2.4. The maintenance and the updating of your site will be your responsibility. We may monitor your site as we feel necessary to make sure that it is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes that we feel should enhance your performance.
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. The Ornament Girl, LLC's 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 further 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 The Ornament Girl's Affiliate Program.
3.2. The Ornament Girl, LLC reserves the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in the The Ornament Girl Affiliate Program immediately and without notice to you should you commit fraud in your use of The Ornament Girl Affiliate Program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, The Ornament Girl, LLC shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales.
3.3. This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application, and will continue unless terminated hereunder.
4. Termination
Either you or we may end this Agreement AT ANY TIME, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice can be in the form of mail, email or fax. 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. In such event, you will be notified by email. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the payment procedures and The Ornament Girl Affiliate Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only option is to end this Agreement. Your continued participation in The Ornament Girl Affiliate Program following the posting of the change notice or new Agreement on our site will indicate your agreement to the changes.
6. Referrals.
“Referrals” is defined as any leads who have been referred by you, the Affiliate, to The Ornament Girl, LLC, using the Affiliate’s unique affiliate tracking link (“Tracking Link”). The Tracking Link will be provided by The Ornament Girl, LLC.. The Tracking Links are last-click-credit, and the cookies created by the Tracking Links have a ninety (90) day expiry. Affiliates may not make any purchases using their own Tracking Link. Any potential referrals who did not use the Tracking Link cannot be subsequently credited to Affiliate’s account.
7. Referral Fees.
Referral Fee is defined as the gross revenue of any fees paid by Referrals to The Ornament Girl, LLC for the purchase of the following products: The Ornament Girls Club VIP Membership,The Ornament Girls Club Digital Membership, The Ornament Girl's Guide to Selling Online, and The Ornament Girl eBook patterns.
8. Payment
The Ornament Girl, LLC agrees to pay you, the Affiliate, fifty percent (50%) of any such Referral Fees for the following products: The Ornament Girls Club VIP Membership (payable for one month),The Ornament Girls Club Digital Membership (payable for one month), The Ornament Girl's Guide to Selling Online (payable for one month), and The Ornament Girl branded eBook patterns. Commissions will not be paid on any other products sold by The Ornament Girl, LLC, including products sold for other companies on The Ornament Girl, LLC's website. Commissions are payable after the expiration of a thirty day refund period (“Affiliate Commissions”). Affiliate Commissions will not be paid on any Referral Fees that have been refunded. Affiliate Commissions for purchases on payment plans or recurring payment programs will be disbursed on the first month only. The Ornament Girl, LLC agrees to pay Affiliate any accrued Affiliate Commissions on a monthly basis, payable between the first and the fifth of the month following the expiration of the thirty-day refund period. Payment shall be made via PayPal.
9. Promotion Restrictions
9.1. You are free to promote your own web sites, but naturally any promotion that mentions The Ornament Girl, LLC could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort. You should know that certain forms of advertising are always prohibited by The Ornament Girl, LLC. For example, advertising commonly referred to as "spamming" is unacceptable to us and could cause damage to our name. Other generally prohibited forms of advertising include the use of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once. In addition, you may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name, or your return email address. You may use mailings to customers to promote The Ornament Girl,LLC so long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or web site, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your web sites as independent from The Ornament Girl, LLC. If it comes to our attention that you are spamming, we will consider that cause for immediate termination of this Agreement and your participation in The Ornament Girl Affiliate Program.
9.2. Affiliates that among other keywords or exclusively bid in their Pay-Per-Click campaigns on keywords such as theornamentgirl.com, The Ornament Girl, The Ornament Girls Club, www.theornamentgirl, www.theornamentgirl.com, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these – be it separately or in combination with other keywords – and do not direct the traffic from such campaigns to their own website prior to re-directing it to ours, will be considered trademark violators, and will be banned from The Ornament Girl's 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, and on the first occurrence of such PPC bidding behavior.
10. Grant of Licenses
10.1. 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 Ornament Girl's Affiliate Program. You agree that all uses of the Licensed Materials will be on behalf of The Ornament Girl, LLC and the good will associated therewith will inure to the sole benefit of The Ornament Girl, LLC.
10.2. 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.
11. Disclaimer
THE ORNAMENT GIRL, LLC MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING THE ORNAMENT GIRL, LLC SERVICE AND WEB SITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED THEREIN, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF THE ORNAMENT GIRL, LLC'S 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.
12. Representations and Warranties
You represent and warrant 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.
13. 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 THE ORNAMENT GIRL'S 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.
14. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Ornament Girl, LLC, 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.
15. Confidentiality
All confidential information, including, but not limited to, any business, technical, financial, and customer information, disclosed by one party to the other during negotiation or the effective term of this Agreement which is marked "Confidential," will remain the sole property of the disclosing party, and each party will keep in confidence and not use or disclose such proprietary information of the other party without express written permission of the disclosing party.
16. Miscellaneous
16.1. 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 The Ornament Girl, LLC. 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 Site or any other of Your Site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
16.2 You are not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits or unemployment benefits, and are obligated to pay federal, state, or local income tax on any commissions earned pursuant to this Agreement or any other agreement between the parties, if any such taxes are required. Affiliate will maintain workers’ compensation insurance, if required. Affiliate will indemnify and hold The Ornament Girl, LLC harmless for penalties arising from Affiliate’s failure to pay taxes on behalf of or wages to any person.
16.3. 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.
16.4. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to the conflicts of laws and principles thereof.
16.5. You may not amend or waive any provision of this Agreement unless in writing and signed by both parties.
16.6. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between us and you, and shall supersede all prior agreements and communications of the parties, oral or written.
16.7. 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.
16.8. 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.