Affiliate Agreement
This is the Agreement that will govern your participation in an Engagement
through The 199Trust.com affiliate program with Us. Please read this Agreement and check the box on the previous page to digitally sign this Agreement. To print a
PUBLISHER AGREEMENT
This Publisher Agreement (this "Agreement") is made between you ("You") and
us ("We" or "Us"). Neither LinkShare Corporation nor any of its corporate
affiliates are parties to this Agreement.
BACKGROUND
Both parties desire to establish the general terms and conditions which shall
govern advertising and commission arrangements between You and Us resulting
from our participation in The 199Trust.com affiliate program.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
In consideration of the promises set forth below, each party agrees as follows:
1. Offers and Engagements.
1.1. From time to time, We may post on The 199Trust.com affiliate program offers
(each, an "Offer") to pay to other participants a specified commission in return
for certain advertising services leading to a Qualifying Link (defined below).
1.2. If You accept one of our Offers, we will have entered into an "Engagement."
Each Engagement shall have the same identification number as the original Offer
that lead to the Engagement and shall be governed by the terms and conditions
of this Agreement. However, in the event of any inconsistency between the
terms of the specific Engagement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of
the Engagement shall govern.
1.3. At any time prior to You displaying a Qualifying Link on one of Your
websites, Advertiser may, with or without notice (a) change, suspend or
discontinue any aspect of an Offer or an Engagement or (b) remove, alter, or
modify any graphic or banner ad that we have submitted for an Offer or an
Engagement. You agree to promptly implement any request from Us to remove,
alter or modify any such graphic or banner ad.
2. Your Responsibilities.
2.1. You hereby agree to comply with all applicable laws.
2.2 You hereby agree that the position, prominence and nature of links on the
Your site shall comply with any requirements specified in the Engagement, but
otherwise will be in Your discretion.
2.2. You agree not to make any representations, warranties or other statements
concerning Us, Our site, any of Our products or services, or Our site policies,
except as expressly authorized by the Engagement.
2.3. You are responsible for notifying Us and LinkShare Corporation of any
malfunctioning of the URLs specified in the Engagement (the "Required URLs")
or other problems with Your participation in the Engagement. We will respond
promptly to all concerns upon receipt of Your notification.
2.4. PPC bidding is not allowed on the terms netalamode, net a la mode,
netalamode.com, net a la mode clothing, netalamode com, netalamode.com sale
and on any variations or misspellings of the brand name. Please note,
"trademark +" (trademark plus) bidding is also not allowed in the program
3. Commissions.
3.1. We agree to pay to You the commission specified in the Engagement if We
sell to a visitor to Our site (a "Customer") a product or service that is the subject
of the Engagement and if that Customer has accessed Our site and purchased
the product or service via a Qualifying Link.
3.2. A "Qualifying Link" is a link from Your site to Our site using one of the
Required URLs or any other URL provided by Us for use in the LinkShare
Network(B2C) if it is the last link to Our 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 Our site via
a link from Your site and terminating when the Customer either returns to Our
site via a link from a site other than Your site or the Engagement expires or is
terminated.
3.3. We shall have the sole right and responsibility for processing all orders made
by Customers. You acknowledges that all agreements relating to sales to
Customers shall be between Us and the Customer.
3.4. All determinations of Qualifying Links and whether a commission is payable
will be made by LinkShare Corporation and will be final and binding on both You
and Us. Prices for the products will be set solely Us in Our discretion.
4. Ownership and Licenses.
4.1. 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.
4.2. We grant to You 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 199Trust.com affiliate program, on Your site solely for the
purpose of creating links from Your site(s) to Our site(s) during Engagements.
Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement or permitted by applicable law,
You may not copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative
works from the same. You 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.
4.3. You grant to Us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use,
reproduce and transmit any graphic or banner ad submitted by You solely for co-
branding purposes or as a return link from Our site(s) to Your site(s). We will
remove such graphic or banner ad upon Your request.
5. Termination.
5.1. Either party may terminate any Engagement at any time by deleting their
acceptance of the Engagement through The 199Trust.com affiliate program.
Termination of an Engagement shall not terminate this Agreement or any other
Engagement.
5.2. 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 and The 199Trust.com affiliate program. 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.
6. Representations.
6.1. 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 (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, antidiscrimination 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.
6.2. 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.
7. Cross-Indemnification.
7.1. Each party hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the other
party and its publishers, 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 its representations or obligations herein.
8. LinkShare Required Provisions.
8.1. Each party jointly and severally agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold
harmless LinkShare Corporation and its publishers, officers, directors,
employees and agents (collectively, "LinkShare") from and against any and all
liability, claims, losses, damages, injuries or expenses (including reasonable
attorneys' fees) directly or indirectly arising from or relating to any Offer,
Engagement, any other matter related to this Agreement or the subject matter
hereof any dispute relating thereto.
8.2. The parties agree that LinkShare may rely on any data, notice, instruction or
request furnished to LinkShare by either party which is reasonably believed by
LinkShare to be genuine and to have been sent or presented by a person
reasonably believed by LinkShare to be authorized to act on behalf of one of the
parties. In the event of any dispute between the parties, the parties agree that to
the extent the parties contact and involve LinkShare, LinkShare may consult with
and use counsel of its own choice in connection with such dispute and the
reasonable fees and disbursements of LinkShare's counsel shall be within the
costs and disbursements covered by the indemnity specified in Section 8.1
above.
8.3. The parties acknowledge and agree that this Agreement and the
Engagements are only made possible due to LinkShare and that the parties
shall not, for the duration of this Agreement and for twenty-four (24) months
thereafter, enter into any advertising, collaborations or other commercial
arrangements with each other in connection with their sites on the World Wide
Web except via The 199Trust.com affiliate program.
8.4. The parties acknowledge and agree that the nature of the Product is such
that in its normal operation it may access and download elements of software
data from resources which are external to the computer or device running the
Product, such as Product enabled servers. The parties acknowledge that
LinkShare has not undertaken to provide such external resources or servers and
specifically disclaims any representation or warranty as the availability, quality or
performance of such resources or whether they may contain any defects which
may affect the performance of the Product or either party's computer. LinkShare
shall not be responsible for provision of any communications facilities or the
costs associated with such communications.
8.5. The parties agree that LinkShare is an intended third party beneficiary of
this Agreement.
9. Limitation of Liability.
9.1. 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.
9.2. The parties agree that The 199Trust.com affiliate program and LinkShare
Corporation and its publishers, 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.
10. General.
10.1. Each party shall act as an independent contractor and shall have no
authority to obligate or bind the other in any respect.
10.2. This Agreement has been made in and shall be construed and enforced in
accordance with the laws of the state of New York. 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 Our
headquarters to the attention of Our legal department.
10.3. By accepting any Offer through The 199Trust.com affiliate program, You agree
that you will be deemed to have executed, and will be bound by, this Agreement.
10.5. 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.