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Affiliate Program Terms
Of Use
This Affiliate Program Use Agreement (the "Agreement")
is made by and between Urban Profile T’s, LLC, a Michigan,
USA limited liability corporation ("urbanprofile.com"),
and you, as an Affiliate user of the urbanprofile.com affiliate
program ("You", "Your", "Affiliate").
To be an authorized Affiliate of urbanprofile.com, You agree
to abide by the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement.
Please read this Agreement carefully before registering and using
the urbanprofile.com Affiliate Program Service as an Affiliate.
By signing up for the urbanprofile.com Affiliate Program, you
indicate Your acceptance of this Agreement and its terms and conditions.
If You do not accept this Agreement, do not use the urbanprofile.com
Affiliate Program Service as an Affiliate.
PRIVACY POLICY
Urbanprofile.com respects the privacy of its users and promises
not to disclose personal or business information to third parties
without the express permission of You and Your company. We will
not sell Your name, e-mail address, phone number, or any other
personal information to anyone else. We consider this information
to be private, and it will remain as such. If You have any questions
about Your privacy rights, contact
us using our online contact form.
The following agreement is summarized as follows:
• You place our banners anywhere on your site as you see
fit, or within non-spam emails.
• We may email you concerning new merchant programs promotions
• We might change the service here and then
• Adult, Hate, or other related sites are not allowed
• You will be paid your commissions, at such time as your
account balance is $10 or more.
• All statistics are collected and calculated by Urbanprofile.com,
and will be the only valid stats used for determining commissions.
• Any page that contains urbanprofile.com links, banners,
or code must be written in English.
• As an affiliate, you can only have 1 account. You can
promote our site using multiple domains, but only one account
is allowed. Self-referrals for affiliate or merchant accounts
are strictly prohibited.
• International affiliates (those with addresses outside
of the 50 U.S. States) are paid via Paypal only.
• Your physical address listed for receiving checks MUST
be your actual address. Mail forwarding services, for the purpose
of avoiding network demographics, is NOT allowed. For example,
if you choose USA as your country, you must be in the USA.
• You won't hold us liable for anything, a link to a non-urbanprofile.com
Web site does not mean that urbanprofile.com endorses or accepts
any responsibility for the content or the use of such Web site.
• You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. We
will terminate your account on the first offense of SPAMMING.
Do not send email to lists or groups that you do not have permission
to send to. We cannot stress this enough, we WILL terminate your
account on the first offense.
• You may place banners or links within your newsletters,
in content of your website, or within other web related content.
• Affiliate accounts that are left inactive will be removed
from our system if their balance is equal to or less than $9.99.
If an abandoned affiliate account has a balance of $10.00 or greater,
that account will remain open for a period of 1 year. Unclaimed
commissions (any balance of $10.00 or greater) will be considered
as abandoned and the account will be closed. An abandoned affiliate
account is defined as any account that has not been logged in
to for a period of 1 year, nor have any transactions been posted
to that account. If one or the other of those conditions are true
- the account will remain in an active state.
• NOT ALLOWED: All other uses of banners
or links, such as newsgroups, chat rooms, ICQ, message boards,
banner networks, hit farms, counters, or guestbooks etc. are NOT
allowed.
• NOT ALLOWED: Any placement of creative
in a "Desktop" advertising scheme. This includes any
and all 3rd party advertising platforms that use a desktop application
to display ads in any form.
• NOT ALLOWED: Any display of a merchant
window that isn't the result of a direct click by the end-user.
• Failure to abide by these rules could mean termination
from a given merchant program, or from urbanprofile.com completely
with a complete forfeit of commissions.
• Fraud is a serious offense, and will be treated as such.
Fraud is defined as any action that intentionally attempts to
create sales, leads, or click-throughs using robots, frames, iframes,
scripts, or manually "refreshing" of pages, for the
sole purpose of creating commissions. ANY ATTEMPTED FRAUD OR FRAUD
WILL RESULT IN MEMBERSHIP TERMINATION AND VOIDED COMMISSIONS.
• If you run or utilize an incentive website, you MAY NOT
participate in urbanprofile.com's pay-per-click programs.
• You cannot refer yourself as an Affiliate with Urbanprofile.com
and receive commission. Sorry.
DEFINITIONS
"Performance Marketing" occurs when e-businesses ("Merchants")
and individual web sites that generate their own traffic ("Affiliates")
partner to drive traffic to the Merchant’s Web site and
the Merchant pays a reward or bounty when the Visitor referral
results in a sale, lead, click, or other measurable action.
"Affiliate" means a site that is rewarded for a legitimate
sale, lead, click, or other measurable action by a Visitor, and
uses the urbanprofile.com Affiliate Program Service to facilitate
applications, tracking, reporting, and receipt of commission payment.
"Merchant" means a Web site that pays a reward for
a legitimate sale, lead, click, or other measurable action by
a Visitor, and uses the urbanprofile.com Affiliate Program Service
to facilitate sign-ups, tracking, reporting, and issuance of commission
payment.
"Visitor" means any person, or user that clicks on
a Link to a Merchant’s Web site placed on an Affiliate's
Web site.
"sale commission" means the Payout the Merchant agrees
to pay for Visitors referred to the Merchant's Web site that results
in a sale of a product or service. The sale could occur at the
time of the visit or at a later time not to exceed 30 days. If
a sale occurs after 30 days and the Visitor has not returned through
an authorized Affiliate's site, then no Payout shall occur.
"lead commission" means the Payout the Merchant agrees
to pay for Visitors referred to the Merchant's Web site that results
in the Visitor performing an action defined by the Merchant. Such
an action could include filling out a form, joining a mailing
list, or other mechanism to identify potential customers. The
action could occur at the time of the visit or at a later time
not to exceed 30 days. If an action occurs after 30 days and the
Visitor has not returned through an authorized Affiliate's site,
then no Payout shall occur.
"click commission" means the Payout the Merchant agrees
to pay for a valid click from an Affiliate Partner's site to the
Merchant's site that results in the Merchant's Web site being
viewable to the Visitor. A click is deemed valid when it meets
certain criteria as defined on the Web site or in this agreement,
which criteria may change from time to time.
"Payout" means the amount sale commission, lead commission,
or click commission established and agreed upon by urbanprofile.com
and the Merchant. The Payout may be expressed as a set amount
or as a percent of sales.
"Commission" means the amount sale commission, lead
commission, or click commission established and agreed upon by
urbanprofile.com and the Merchant. The Commission may be expressed
as a set amount or as a percent of sales.
"Link" means a hyperlink placed on an Affiliate's site
that, when clicked on, serves a Merchant's Web site to the Visitor's
browser. The Link may be in the form of text, a product image,
a button, a banner or any other format acceptable to the Merchant,
and defined only through the Merchant's program on urbanprofile.com.
"VOID" means a reversal of a Payout previously earned
for a sale, lead, or click that is later rescinded or corrected
by the Merchant. Merchant's may VOID transactions that are fraudulent,
or in the case of returned merchandise, duplicate transactions,
or other valid reasons.
"Your Account" means a separate, specific account within
the Service that is credited with Your Commissions and other earnings.
THE SERVICE
Urbanprofile.com operates a service (the "Service")
which allows Web sites to run and/or participate in Performance
Marketing programs. You wish to become an Affiliate of urbanprofile.com
and utilize the Service as an Affiliate. All Affiliate relationships
established between You, the Affiliate, and urbanprofile.com will
be conducted and managed through the Service.
LINK PLACEMENT
As an Affiliate of the Service, you may place and remove Merchant
Links on Your site and in Your email messages at Your discretion.
AFFILIATE PAYMENT
You will receive a Commission for sending a Merchant authorized
sales, leads, and/or clicks via Your Links. In order to place
Links, You must first be approved by a Merchant to become an Affiliate
of that Merchant’s program. You understand that the Payout
amount may be changed at any time. This information is also available
to You at the urbanprofile.com Member’s Area. You are responsible
for determining if the Payout for a Link You have placed on Your
site has changed or been discontinued. You receive the Commission
from urbanprofile.com. Payments are made within 21 days upon request
Your account balance reaches $10 or more. Money credited to Your
Account does not accrue interest. In the event of a VOID by a
Merchant, urbanprofile.com may recover from You the corresponding
Commission previously credited to Your Account. The VOID Commission
will be immediately deducted from Your Account balance. In the
event that Your Account balance is less than the VOID Commission,
the VOID Commission will be deducted against Your future earnings.
You will NEVER be asked to send money to urbanprofile.com
SERVICE AND SUPPORT
Urbanprofile.com will provide support for the Service as indicated
on the urbanprofile.com Web site.
EMAIL CONTACT
Urbanprofile.com reserves the right to send e-mail to You for
the purposes of informing you of applicable changes or additions
to the Service or any urbanprofile.com related products and services.
CHANGES TO THE SERVICE
Urbanprofile.com reserves the right to change, modify, add or
remove portions of this Agreement at any time and may add to,
change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Service at any
time. In the event of any material change, urbanprofile.com will
notify You via e-mail, newsletter or the urbanprofile.com Web
site of such changes taking effect, at which time You may either
agree to such changes or withdraw from the Service.
REGISTRATION
To sign up as an Affiliate of urbanprofile.com and to use the
Service as an Affiliate Partner you must be at least 18 (eighteen)
years of age, and supply a valid tax-id, which may be your social
security number for individuals, or a federal tax-id for corporations
or entities.
THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SITES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN
THE URBANPROFILE.COM AFFILIATE PROGRAM: ADULT SITES, SITES THAT
DISPLAY ADULT BANNERS, SITES THAT PROMOTE VIOLENCE, BIGOTRY, OR
HATRED. SITES THAT PROMOTE ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, including but not
limited to WAREZ, CRACKING, and HACKING SITES. As part of the
registration process, You will select a username and password
combination that You use to access Your Affiliate area within
the Service. You shall provide urbanprofile.com with accurate,
complete and updated registration information. You may not select
the name of another person with the intent to impersonate that
person or deceive members or other users as to Your true identity.
You agree that urbanprofile.com may rely on any data, notice,
instruction or request furnished to urbanprofile.com by You which
is reasonably believed by urbanprofile.com to be genuine and to
have been sent or presented by a person reasonably believed by
urbanprofile.com to be authorized to act on Your behalf. You shall
notify urbanprofile.com by e-mail via our contact
form of any known or suspected unauthorized uses
of Your Account, or any known or suspected breach of security,
including loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure of Your username
and password. You shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of Your username and password and You are responsible for all
usage and activity on Your Account, including use of the account
by a third party authorized by You to use Your Account. Any fraudulent,
abusive or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for termination
by urbanprofile.com and referral to the appropriate law enforcement
agencies.
ACCEPTED USE
You represent to urbanprofile.com that all content You provide
to the Service is solely owned by You or provided by You with
the express authority of the company You represent, does not infringe
upon any other individual's or organization's rights (including,
without limitation, intellectual property rights) and is not defamatory,
libelous, unlawful or otherwise objectionable. You shall not provide,
promote, distribute, place or otherwise publish as an Affiliate
of the Service any content, or Web site that includes content,
which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive,
fraudulent or violates any law. As urbanprofile.com may not review
all information provided by You, You shall remain solely responsible
for Your content and Web site. As an Affiliate, You may not artificially
inflate traffic counts to Merchant site(s) using any device, program,
robot or other means, including but not limited to JavaScript
pop-up windows and redirects. You may not click on Your own banners
and/or links or submit multiple leads to Your Merchant partners.
Links may not be placed in newsgroups, unsolicited e-mail,
ICQ, banner networks, counters, chatrooms or guestbooks. Any Link
placed must be done in such a way that it is not misleading to
any Visitor and done with the intention of delivering valid sales,
leads, or clicks to the related Merchant for that Link.
Points or reward programs for click or lead programs are NOT
allowed. urbanprofile.com RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DEEM ANY SITE
INAPPROPRIATE AND TERMINATE THE SITE AS A MEMBER OF urbanprofile.com.
If You are terminated from the Service, urbanprofile.com has the
right to withhold money You earned within the Service or money
that You owe within the Service and You will not be allowed to
re-join urbanprofile.com.
LIMITED WARRANTY
The Service, its operation, its use and the results of such use
shall be performed in a workmanlike manner. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, urbanprofile.com DISCLAIMS
ALL WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, IN RELATION TO THE SERVICE, ITS USE AND THE RESULTS OF
SUCH USE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, urbanprofile.com SPECIFICALLY
DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY (A) THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED
OR ERROR-FREE, (B) THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, (C) THAT THERE
ARE NO VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, (D) THAT THE SECURITY
METHODS EMPLOYED WILL BE SUFFICIENT, OR (E) REGARDING CORRECTNESS,
ACCURACY, OR RELIABILITY. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION
OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO
YOU. The Merchant will make reasonable commercial efforts to keep
its transaction service operational during normal business hours.
However, certain technical difficulties may, from time to time,
result in temporary service interruptions. Affiliate understands
and acknowledges that it is normal to have a certain amount of
system downtime and further agrees not to hold the Merchant liable
for any of the consequences of such interruptions. MERCHANT SHALL
HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, OR ALTERATION, THEFT
OR DESTRUCTION OF ANY WEB SITE OF AFFILIATE OR AFFILIATE CUSTOMER
DATA FILES OR SYSTEMS OR PROGRAMS THROUGH ACCIDENT, FRAUDULENT
MEANS OR DEVICES. MERCHANT SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT
TO MERCHANT OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER OR OTHERWISE FOR CONSEQUENTIAL,
EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES EVEN IF MERCHANT
HAS BEEN NOTIFIED OF SUCH DAMAGES. ANY LIABILITY OF MERCHANT HEREUNDER
SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE REVENUE EARNED BY MERCHANT AS A DIRECT
RESULT OF THIS AGREEMENT.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Urbanprofile.com OR ITS SUPPLIERS OR RESELLERS OR MERCHANTS SHALL
NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR (I) ANY INDIRECT,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER
ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE urbanprofile.com
SERVICE OR ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE urbanprofile.com WEB
SITE OR ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEB SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION,
LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA, EVEN IF urbanprofile.com OR A
urbanprofile.com AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR (II) ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE
TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN THE WEB SITE OR
ANY HYPERLINKED WEB SITE. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW
THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS,
urbanprofile.com'S LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE SMALLEST AMOUNT
PERMITTED BY LAW. THIS PARAGRAPH WILL SURVIVE THE FAILURE OF ANY
EXCLUSIVE OR LIMITED REMEDY.
You agree that urbanprofile.com, although the provider of the
Service, has no responsibility or liability as a result of Your
placement of authorized Links from Your Web site, and You, and
the Merchant, jointly and severally agree to indemnify, defend,
and hold harmless urbanprofile.com and its affiliates, officers,
directors, employees and agents 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 or any other matter related to this Agreement or
the subject matter hereof and any dispute relating thereto.
Urbanprofile.com agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless
Affiliate and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and
agents 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 urbanprofile.com's
negligence or willful misconduct in performance of the Services
or its breach of this Agreement.
NON-DISCLOSURE
Urbanprofile.com acknowledges that in the course of this Agreement
it shall have access to confidential and proprietary information
("Confidential Information") of Your company. Urbanprofile.com
agrees not to disclose or disseminate the Confidential Information
without Your prior express written consent. The term "Confidential
Information" shall not include information that is or becomes
part of the public domain through no action or omission of urbanprofile.com,
that becomes available to urbanprofile.com from third parties
without knowledge by urbanprofile.com of any breach of fiduciary
duty, or that urbanprofile.com had in its possession prior to
the date of this Agreement. Urbanprofile.com does not collect
information about a Merchant’s customer transactions, other
than what is passed to us through the installed tracking code
and displayed on Your own transaction reports. Any information
we receive is used solely for tracking and Commission payment
purposes. Urbanprofile.com reserves the right to be able to utilize
this data in aggregate to analyze Service trends, monitor Service
efficiencies, and perform such other analysis as urbanprofile.com
deems appropriate.
OWNERSHIP AND LICENSES
You, the Affiliate, are granted a non-exclusive, limited, revocable
right to use Merchant provided trademarks and banners. All images,
technology and content provided for Your use is and shall remain
the sole property of the Merchant, and no part thereof shall be
deemed assigned or licensed to You except as explicitly provided
for herein. All intellectual property rights, including trademarks,
copyrights, patent rights or applications, trade names and service
marks related to the foregoing shall remain the Merchant’s
sole property, including rights in and to any derivatives thereof.
You may not modify the trademarks, banners, the content or any
of the images provided to You in any way.
A Merchant may immediately terminate Your license to use the
marks if the Merchant reasonably believes that such use dilutes,
tarnishes or blurs the value of their marks. You acknowledge that
Your use of the marks will not create in You, nor will You represent
that You have, any right, title or interest in or to the marks
other than the license granted by the Merchant above. You will
not challenge the validity of or attempt to register any of the
marks or Your interest therein as a licensee, nor will You adopt
any derivative or confusingly similar names, brands or marks or
create any combination marks with the marks. You acknowledge the
Merchant’s ownership and exclusive right to use the marks
and agree that all goodwill arising as a result of the use of
the marks shall inure to the benefit of the Merchant.
REPRESENTATIONS
Urbanprofile.com makes no representations whatsoever about any
other Web site which You may access through the Service. In addition,
a link to a non-urbanprofile.com Web site does not mean that urbanprofile.com
endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or the
use of such Web site.
NONASSIGNABILITY
Affiliate or urbanprofile.com may assign this Agreement to any
successor or affiliate upon notice to the other party and mutual
agreement between both parties.
FORCE MAJEURE
Neither party shall be liable hereunder by reason of any failure
or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder on account
of strikes, shortages, riots, insurrection, fires, flood, storm,
explosions, acts of God, war, governmental action, labor conditions,
earthquakes or any other cause which is beyond the reasonable
control of such party.
JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES
This Agreement shall be governed by Michigan, USA law (except
for conflict of law provisions). The exclusive forum for any actions
brought in connection with this Agreement shall be in the state
and federal courts in and for the State of Michigan, USA and You
consent to such jurisdiction. The application of the United Nations
Convention on the International Sale of Goods is expressly excluded.
MISCELLANEOUS
This Agreement represents the complete agreement concerning this
license and may be amended only by a writing executed by both
parties. THE ACCEPTANCE OF ANY PURCHASE ORDER PLACED BY YOU IS
EXPRESSLY MADE CONDITIONAL ON YOUR ASSENT TO THE TERMS SET FORTH
HEREIN, AND NOT THOSE IN YOUR PURCHASE ORDER. If any provision
of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable, such provision
shall be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable
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