In consideration of the promises set forth below, we agree as follows:
1. Partner’s Responsibilities.
1.1. Partner will link its site to areas within Merchant’s site using special URLs specified in the Engagement. 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.
1.2. 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.
1.3. Partner is responsible for notifying Merchant of any malfunctioning of the Required URLs or other problems with Partner’s participation in the Engagement. Merchant will respond promptly to all concerns upon notification by Partner.
2. 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.
2.2. A “Qualifying Link” is a link from Partner’s site to Merchant’s using one of the Required URLs or any other URL provided by Merchant for use 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.
2.3. Merchant shall have the sole right and responsibility for processing all orders made by Customers. Partner acknowledges that all agreements relating to sales to Customers shall be between Merchant and the Customer.
2.4. All determinations of Qualifying Links and whether a commission is payable will be made by the Merchant and will be final and binding on both Merchant and Partner. Prices for the products will be set solely by Merchant in its discretion.
3. Ownership and Licenses.
3.1. Each party owns and shall retain all right, title and interest in its names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights and proprietary technology, including, without limitation, those names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights and proprietary technology currently used or which may be developed and/or used by it in the future.
3.2. 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 Mediumcube.com Affiliate 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.
3.3. 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. Merchant will remove such graphic or banner ad upon Partner’s request.
4. Termination.
4.1. Either party may terminate any Engagement at any time. Termination of an Engagement shall not terminate this Agreement or any other Engagement.
4.2. 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. Termination of this Agreement shall also terminate any outstanding Engagements. However, all rights to payment, causes of action and any provisions which by their terms are intended to survive termination, shall survive termination of this Agreement.
5. Representations.
5.1. Each party represents to the other that (a) it has the authority to enter into this Agreement and sufficient rights to grant any licenses granted hereby, and (b) any material which is provided to the other party and displayed on the other party’s site will not, to its knowledge and best of its ability (i) infringe on any third party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or right of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation; (iii) be defamatory or libelous; (iv) be lewd, pornographic or obscene; (v) violate any laws regarding unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising; (vi) promote violence or contain hate speech; or (vii) contain viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines.
5.2. EXCEPT FOR THE ABOVE REPRESENTATIONS NEITHER PARTY MAKES ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES TO THE OTHER PARTY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
6. Indemnification.
6.1. Partner hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Merchant and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees 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 Partner’s representations or obligations herein.
7. Limitation of Liability.
7.1. In no event shall either party be liable to the other party for any direct, indirect, special, exemplary, consequential or incidental damages, even if informed of the possibility of such damages.
7.2. The parties agree that Mediumcube.com and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents shall not be liable to either party for any direct, indirect, special, exemplary, consequential or incidental damages, even if informed of the possibility of such damages.
8. General.
8.1. Each party shall act as an independent contractor and shall have no authority to obligate or bind the other in any respect.
8.2. 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 that state. If you need to send official correspondence, send it via registered mail to Merchant’s headquarters to the attention of Merchant’s legal department.
8.3. 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.
8.4. 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.
In Witness whereof, the parties authorized representatives have executed this Affiliate Agreement as of the date of the last signature set forth below.
