This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an
individual's or entity's participation in the SwapDrive, Inc. Associates Program
(the "Program"). As used in this Agreement, "we" means SwapDrive, Inc.,
and "you" means the applicant. "Site"
means a World Wide Web site and, depending on the context, refers either to SwapDrive, Inc.'s site, located at the URL
www.swapdrive.com, or to any site that you
will link to our site (and which you will identify in your Program
application).
1. Enrollment in the Program
To begin the enrollment process, you will submit a complete Program
application via our site. We will evaluate your application in good faith and
will notify you of your acceptance or rejection. We may reject your
application if we determine (in our sole discretion) that your site is
unsuitable for the Program. Unsuitable sites include those that:
promote sexually explicit materials
promote violence
promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
promote illegal activities
include "swapdrive" or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names
otherwise violate intellectual property rights
If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Program at
any time. You should also note that if we accept your application and your
site is thereafter determined (in our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for
the Program, we may terminate this Agreement.
2. Links on Your Site
Once you have been notified that your site has been accepted into the Program,
you may provide on your site one or more of the following types of links to
our site:
Product Links: You may select one or more Products to list on your site. A
"Product" is any product listed on our site, excluding products not sold and fulfilled by us, such as products sold by third parties
through our site. For each selected Product,
you will display on your site a short description, review, or other reference.
You will be responsible for the content, style, and placement of these
references. You will provide a Special Link (as defined below) from each
Product reference on your site to the corresponding SwapDrive, Inc. page. You may add or delete Products (and related links) from your site at
any time without our approval. You may not use Special Links to link
to our site from references to products on your site that are not
"Products" as defined above.
General Link to SwapDrive, Inc. Home Page: You may provide a general link on
your site to our home page at http://www.swapdrive.com.
We will provide you with guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking
to our home page. To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and referral fee
accrual, we will provide you with special "tagged" link formats to
be used in all links between your site and our site. You must ensure that each
of the links between your site and our site properly utilizes such special
link formats. Links to our site placed on your site pursuant to this Agreement
and which properly utilize such special link formats are referred to as
"Special Links." You will earn referral fees only with respect to
activity on our site occurring directly through Special Links; we will not be
liable to you with respect to any failure by you to use Special Links,
including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of
amounts that would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement.
You acknowledge that, by participating in the Associates Program and
placing any of the above links within your site, SwapDrive, Inc. may receive
information from or about visitors to your site or communications between your
site and those visitors. Your participation in the SwapDrive, Inc. program
constitutes your specific and unconditional consent to and authorization for SwapDrive, Inc.'s access to, receipt, storage, use, and disclosure of any and all
such information, consistent with the policies and procedures set forth in SwapDrive, Inc.'s Privacy
Notice.
3. Order Processing
We will process Product orders placed by customers who follow Special Links
from your site to our site. We reserve the right to reject orders that do not
comply with any requirements that we may establish periodically. We will be
responsible for all aspects of order processing and fulfillment. Among other
things, we will prepare order forms, process payments, cancellations, and
returns, and handle customer service. We will track sales made to customers
who purchase Products by using Special Links from your site to our site and
will make available to you reports summarizing this sales activity. The form,
content, and frequency of the reports may vary from time to time in our
discretion.
4. Referral Fees
We will pay you (in accordance with Sections 5 and 8 below) referral fees on
certain Product sales to third parties. For a Product sale to be eligible to
earn a referral fee, the customer must click-through a Special Link from your
site to our site, and add the Product to his or her shopping cart during a
session. The session ends upon one of the following events: (a) 24 hours
elapses from the customer's initial click-through, (b) the customer orders the
Product, or (c) the customer follows a third party's Special Link. We will
only pay referral fees on such Products after order, payment and shipping have
occurred.
You may not purchase products during sessions initiated through the links
on your site for your own use, for resale or commercial use of any kind. This
includes orders for customers or on behalf of customers or orders for products
to be used by you or your friends, relatives, or associates in any manner.
Such purchases may result (in our sole discretion) in the withholding of
referral fees or the termination of this Agreement. Products that are eligible
to earn referral fees under the rules set forth above are referred to as
"Qualifying Products."
In addition, you may not: (a) directly or indirectly offer any person or
entity any consideration or incentive (including, without limitation, payment
of money (including any rebate), or granting of any discount or other benefit)
for using Special Links on your site to access our site (e.g., by implementing
any "rewards" program for persons or entities who use Special Links
on your site to access our site); (b) post any Special Links on any Web site
or other platform that is accessible through any Internet Access Appliance;
(c) read, intercept, record, redirect, interpret, or fill in the contents of
any electronic form or other materials submitted to us by any person or
entity; (d) in any way modify, redirect, suppress, or substitute the operation
of any button, link, or other interactive feature of our site; (e) make any
orders or subscription requests, or engage in other transactions of any kind
on our site on behalf of any third party, or authorize, assist, or encourage
any other person or entity to do so; (f) take any action that could reasonably
cause any customer confusion as to our relationship with you, or as to the
site on which any functions or transactions (e.g., search, order, browse, and
so on) are occurring; or (g) post or serve any advertisements or promotional
content around or in conjunction with the display of our site (e.g., through
any "framing" technique or technology or pop-up windows), or assist,
authorize, or encourage any third party to take any such action. If we
determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in any of the
foregoing activities, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies
available to us) withhold any referral fees otherwise payable to you under
this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement.
5. Referral Fee Schedule
You will earn referral fees based on Qualifying Revenues according to referral
fee schedules to be established by us. "Qualifying Revenues" are
revenues derived by us from our sales of Qualifying Products, excluding costs
for shipping, handling, gift-wrapping, taxes, service charges, credit card
processing fees, returns and bad debt. The current referral fee schedule is:
15% of Qualifying Revenues from sales of all Qualifying Products where the
total sales of all products sold is less than $100,000 in any one year
starting with the first day of the first month of the affiliate's
participation in the Program.
25% of Qualifying Revenues from sales of all Qualifying Products where the
total sales of all products sold is equal to or more than $100,000 in any one
year starting with the first day of the first month of the affiliate's
participation in the Program.
6. Referral Fee Payment
We will pay you referral fees on a quarterly basis. Approximately 30 days
following the end of each calendar quarter, we will send you a
check for the referral fees earned. However, if the referral fees payable to you for any calendar
quarter are less than $100, we will hold payment until the total amount due is
at least $100 or (if earlier) until this Agreement is terminated. In
calculating referral fees, we will deduct the corresponding referral fee from
your next quarterly payment if a Product that generated a referral fee is
returned by the customer. If there is no subsequent payment, we will send you
a bill for the referral fee.
7. Policies and Pricing
Customers who buy products through this Program will be deemed to be customers
of SwapDrive, Inc.. Accordingly, all SwapDrive, Inc. rules, policies, and operating
procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and product sales
will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating
procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be
charged for products sold under this Program in accordance with our own
pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary from time to time.
Because price changes may affect Products that you already have listed on your
site, you may not include price information in your Product descriptions. We
will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but
we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.
8. Identifying Yourself as an Associate You may not issue any press release with respect to this Agreement or your
participation in the Program; such action may result in your termination from
the Program. We will make available to you a small graphic image that
identifies your site as a Program participant. You must display this logo or
the phrase "In association with SwapDrive, Inc." somewhere on your site.
We may modify the text or graphic image of this notice from time to time. In
addition, you may not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship
between us and you, or express or imply any relationship or affiliation
between us and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted
by this Agreement (including by expressing or implying that SwapDrive, Inc. supports, sponsors, endorses,
or contributes money to any charity or other cause).
9. Limited License
We grant you a nonexclusive, revocable right to use the graphic image and text
described in Section 10 and such other text or images for which we grant
express permission, solely for the purpose of identifying your site as a
Program participant and to assist in generating Product sales. You may not
modify the graphic image or text, or any other of our images, in any way. We
reserve all of our rights in the graphic image and text, any other images, our
trade names and trademarks, and all other intellectual property rights. You
agree to follow our Trademark Guidelines, as those guidelines may change from
time to time. We may revoke your license at any time by giving you written notice.
10. Responsibility for Your Site
You will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance
of your site and for all materials that appear on your site. For example, you
will be solely responsible for:
the technical operation of your site and all related equipment
creating and posting Product descriptions on your site and linking those descriptions to our catalog
the accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your site (including, among other things, all Product-related materials)
ensuring that materials posted on your site do not violate or infringe
upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights,
trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights
ensuring that materials posted on your site are not libelous or otherwise illegal
ensuring that your site accurately and adequately discloses, either
through a privacy policy or otherwise, how you collect, use, store, and
disclose data collected from visitors, including, where applicable, that
third parties (including advertisers) may serve content and/or
advertisements and collect information directly from visitors and may
place or recognize cookies on visitors' browsers.
We disclaim all liability for these matters. Further, you will indemnify
and hold us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses (including,
without limitation, attorneys' fees) relating to the development, operation,
maintenance, and contents of your site.
11. Term of the Agreement
The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Program
application and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may
terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the
other party written notice of termination. Upon the termination of this
Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from
your site, all links to our site, and all SwapDrive, Inc. trademarks, trade dress,
and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you
pursuant hereto or in connection with the Program. You are eligible to earn
referral fees only on our sales of Qualifying Products that occur during the
term, and referral fees earned through the date of termination will remain
payable only if the related orders are not canceled or returned. We may
withhold your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct
amount is paid.
12. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at
any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new
agreement on our site. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the
scope of available referral fees, referral fee schedules, payment procedures,
and Program rules. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY
RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE
PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR NEW AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE
WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
13. Relationship of Parties
You and we are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will
create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales
representative, or employment relationship between the parties. 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 otherwise, that
reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
14. Limitation of Liability
We will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any
loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising in connection with this Agreement
or the Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such
damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this
Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or
payable to you under this Agreement.
15. Disclaimers
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to
the Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without
limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, noninfringement, or any
implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade
usage). 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.
16. Independent Investigation
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS
AND CONDITIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY TIME (DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY) SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE
CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR
COMPETE WITH YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY
OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION,
GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.
17. Arbitration
Any dispute relating in any way to this Agreement (including any actual or
alleged breach hereof), any transactions or activities under this Agreement or
your relationship with us or any of our affiliates shall be submitted to
confidential arbitration in Washington, District of Columbia, except that, to the extent
you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our intellectual
property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any
state or federal court in the District of Columbia (and you consent to
non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts) or any other court of
competent jurisdiction. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted
under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The
arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any
court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration
involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class
arbitration proceedings or otherwise.
18. Miscellaneous
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the United States and the
District of Columbia, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. You may
not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior
written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding
on, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable against the parties and their
respective successors and assigns. Our failure to enforce your strict
performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of
our right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of
this Agreement.