This Affiliate Program Service Agreement (“Services Agreement”) sets forth the terms and conditions of your use of LilyFair Jewelry Affiliate Program (“Affiliate Program”) and serves to supplement the Registration Agreement (“Agreement”) between you on the one hand and LilyFair Jewelry, Inc. (“LilyFair Jewelry”) on the other. In this Agreement “you” and “your” refer to you or any agent, employee, servant or person authorized to act on your behalf, and the registrant listed in the WHOIS contact information for the domain name. “We”, “us” and “our” refer to LilyFair Jewelry, Inc. (“LilyFair Jewelry”).
This Services Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations to us for the Affiliate Program offered by LilyFair Jewelry. When you use your account or permit someone else to use it to purchase or otherwise acquire access to additional LilyFair Jewelry service(s) or products or to cancel your LilyFair Jewelry service(s) (even if we were not notified of such authorization), this Services Agreement covers such service or actions.
DESCRIPTION OF THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM
To enroll in the Affiliate Program, you must be a LilyFair Jewelry customer in good standing, subject to and in compliance with the requirements of the LilyFair Jewelry Registration Agreement. Acceptance into the Affiliate Program is at our sole discretion, which may be withheld for any reason or for no reason at all. LilyFair Jewelry Affiliate Program allows you to provide a platform for advertising LilyFair Jewelry via your “web site” or “publishing location” (such as an electronic newsletter or blog), thereby driving traffic to LilyFair Jewelry web site or web site content, whereby you may earn a portion of the revenue generated (“commission”) if a person or entity that is not you (“visitor”) makes their first purchase of a LilyFair Jewelry product or service after being referred to the LilyFair Jewelry web site from an internet hyperlink (“link”) contained on your web site or publishing location.After being referred to the LilyFair Jewelry web site from a link contained on your web site or publishing location, visitors have thirty (30) days to complete their purchase in order for you to receive a commission. Should the visitor click on another web site or publishing location’s link that is not controlled by you, or return to the LilyFair Jewelry web site via another source-coded advertising link during the initial thirty (30) days, your link will be overwritten and you will not receive a commission for that visitor’s purchase. All LilyFair Jewelry products and services, except for hosting addon products, will be eligible for a commission.You acknowledge and agree that only first purchases completed by visitor through LilyFair Jewelry web site will be eligible for a commission.
PARTICIPATION IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM
You are eligible for a commission payment on purchases made by you from your affiliate account. LilyFair Jewelry employees (and their immediate family members) are not allowed to participate in LilyFair Jewelry Affiliate Program.
WEB SITE AND PUBLISHING LOCATION RESTRICTIONS
You acknowledge and agree that your web site or publishing location shall not (and shall not enable others to):
- Contain false, inaccurate or misleading information about LilyFair Jewelry products and services;
- Be a LilyFair Jewelry look-a-like site that gives an impression that it is related to LilyFairJewelry.com;
- Display, promote or sell illegal content, or offer any illegal product or service;
- Engage in sending unsolicited commercial email (“spam”) or indiscriminate advertising;
- Contain pornographic or obscene content, tasteless images, or excessively violent or hate-related material, as determined by LilyFair Jewelry in its sole discretion;
- Violate any applicable law;
- Advocate, promote, or encourage violence or discrimination against any person, organization, or governmental entity;
- Contain links to web sites containing any of the aforementioned content;
- Cause any purchases to be made that are not in good faith (such as using any device, program, robot iframes, or hidden frames, etc.).
In addition, you acknowledge and agree that you shall not:
- Copy, alter or modify any icons, buttons, banners, graphics, files, or content contained in LilyFair Jewelry links, including but not limited to removing or altering any copyright or trademark notices. You recognize that LilyFair Jewelry owns all rights in and to all information regarding the visitors that you refer to LilyFair Jewelry web site;
- Alter the tracking codes to allow you to collect personally identifiable information of visitors that would allow you to personally identify visitors;
- Do anything to give the impression to anyone that you are an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) accredited registrar;
- Engage in activities that LilyFair Jewelry determines, in its sole discretion, to be harmful to its customers, employees, operations, or reputation;
You acknowledge and agree that LilyFair Jewelry may terminate Services if you, your web site or your publishing location violates, as determined by LilyFair Jewelry in its sole discretion, any of the aforementioned restrictions or additional restrictions.
COMMISSIONS
We will pay you a flat 15% commission on any sale completed by visitors who are not already LilyFair Jewelry customers. LilyFair Jewelry will hold the commissions on all orders until such time as you have at least $50 (US dollars) in earn commissions and after you request payment. After this, your commission will be paid out to either your LilyFair Jewelry account funds or PayPal (for PayPal there is a minimum requirement currently set to $50 (US dollars).
Commissions will be debited or withheld on any orders refunded for fraud or charged back by the issuing bank.
LilyFair Jewelry will track all commissions earned and may, at its sole discretion, decide not to pay any commission to you should we believe that any referral has been made in violation of its guidelines, due to visitor/customer fraud, or due to visitor/customer contract cancellation. It is your sole and absolute duty to follow precisely this Agreement and its guidelines at all times. LilyFair Jewelry is under no obligation whatsoever to pay any commission to any Affiliate who does not strictly follow this Agreement and its guidelines, as modified from time to time.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
As an Affiliate, we provide you with the links and banners necessary to promote LilyFair Jewelry products and services, which you may display in any area of your web site or publishing location as you wish. The links will identify your site as a member of our Affiliate Program and will establish a link from your web site or publishing location to ours. You may promote the products and services that LilyFair Jewelry offers in any manner you choose unless it misleads visitors about LilyFair Jewelry services.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY
LilyFair Jewelry is responsible for payment processing, cancellations, returns and other related customer service for LilyFair Jewelry products and services. However, LilyFair Jewelry will not be responsible for lost sales due to technical difficulties preventing LilyFair Jewelry from registering a domain name or providing any other product or service to the visitor. LilyFair Jewelry is also responsible for tracking affiliate sales and commissions and providing this information to the Affiliate via the Affiliate Area available within LilyFair Jewelry account.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE OUR WEB SITE(S) OR THE MATERIALS AND CONTENT OF THE WEB SITE(S) OR ANY OTHER WEB SITES LINKED TO SUCH WEB SITE(S) OR YOUR PROVISION OF ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION TO BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER OR ANY THIRD PARTY. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, WARRANTY, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER BASIS, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR SUCH DAMAGES WERE REASONABLY FORESEEABLE. BECAUSE CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT THE LIMITATION OR ELIMINATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, OUR LIABILITY IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. IF ANY PROVISION OF THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS FOUND TO BE UNENFORCEABLE, ONLY SUCH PROVISION SHALL BE REMOVED AND THE REMAINDER SHALL BE ENFORCED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
INDEMNITY AND DEFENSE
With respect to ICANN, the registry operators, and LilyFair Jewelry, as well as the contractors, agents, employees, officers, directors, shareholders, and affiliates of such parties, you agree to defend, release, indemnify, and hold such parties harmless from all liabilities, claims and expenses, including attorney’s fees and court costs, for third party claims relating to or arising under the Agreements, the Service(s) provided hereunder, or your use of the Service(s), including, without limitation, infringement by you, or by anyone else using the Service(s) we provide to you, of any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person or entity, or from the violation of any of our operating rules or policies relating to the Service(s) provided. When we may be involved in a suit involving a third party and which is related to our Service(s) to you under these Agreements, we may seek written assurances from you in which you promise to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from the costs and liabilities described in this paragraph. Such written assurances may include, in our sole discretion, the posting of a performance bond(s) or other guarantees reasonably calculated to guarantee payment. Your failure to provide such assurances may be considered by us to be a breach of these Agreements by you. The terms of this paragraph will survive any termination or cancellation of the Agreements.
LEGAL AGE
You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this Services Agreement.
FINAL AGREEMENT
This Services Agreement, the referenced agreements, the ICANN Policy and the UDRP, together with all modifications, constitute the complete and exclusive agreement between you and us, and supersede and govern all prior proposals, agreements, or other communications. This Services Agreement may not be amended or modified by you except by means of a written document signed by both you and an authorized representative of us.
NO AGENCY RELATIONSHIP
Nothing contained in this Services Agreement shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between the parties hereto. Each party shall ensure that the foregoing persons shall not represent to the contrary, either expressly, implicitly, by appearance or otherwise.
WAIVER.
The failure of us to require your performance of any provision hereof shall not affect the full right to require such performance at any time thereafter; nor shall the waiver by us of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.
ENFORCEABILITY
In the event that any provision of this Services Agreement shall be unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law or be so held by applicable court decision, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not render this Services Agreement unenforceable or invalid as a whole. We will amend or replace such provision with one that is valid and enforceable and which achieves, to the extent possible, our original objectives and intent as reflected in the original provision.
ASSIGNMENT AND RESALE
Except as otherwise set forth herein, your rights under this Services Agreement are not assignable or transferable. Any attempt by your creditors to obtain an interest in your rights under this Services Agreement, whether by attachment, levy, garnishment or otherwise, renders this Services Agreement voidable at our option.
FORCE MAJEURE
Neither party shall be deemed in default hereunder, nor shall it hold the other party responsible for, any cessation, interruption or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder due to causes beyond its control including, but not limited to: earthquake; flood; fire; storm; natural disaster; act of God; war; terrorism; armed conflict; labor strike; lockout; boycott; supplier failures, shortages, breaches, or delays; or any law, order regulation, direction, action or request of the government, including any federal, state and local governments having or claiming jurisdiction over LilyFair Jewelry, or of any department, agency, commission, bureau, corporation or other instrumentality of any federal, state, or local government, or of any civil or military authority; or any other cause or circumstance, whether of a similar or dissimilar nature to the foregoing, beyond the reasonable control of the affected party, provided that the party relying upon this section (i) shall have given the other party written notice thereof promptly and, in any event, within five (5) days of discovery thereof and (ii) shall take all steps reasonably necessary under the circumstances to mitigate the effects of the force majeure event upon which such notice is based; provided further, that in the event a force majeure event described in this Section extends for a period in excess of thirty (30) days in the aggregate, LilyFair Jewelry may immediately terminate this Services Agreement.
HEADINGS
The section headings appearing in this Services Agreement are inserted only as a matter of convenience and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section or in any way affect such section.