| This
Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions
which apply to your participation as a member of the
Adult Profit Network Affiliate Program (the "APN Program").
As used in this Agreement, "you" or "your" means the
applicant/participating member. The APN Program is also
referred to in this Agreement as the "Affiliate Program".
THIS
IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND COMPANY. BY SUBMITTING
AN APPLICATION FOR ENROLLMENT IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM
YOU ARE AFFIRMATIVELY STATING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND
UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN
AND ARE AFFIRMATIVELY INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF
THIS AFFILIATE PROGRAM AGREEMENT AND THAT YOU AGREE
TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS HEREOF. YOU CANNOT BECOME A
MEMBER OF THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM UNLESS YOU HAVE ACCEPTED
EACH AND EVERY TERM HEREOF.
GENERAL
TERMS APPLICABLE TO THE APN PROGRAM
1.
Enrollment in this Program. To begin the enrollment
process, you will submit a completed application through
our website: http://www.adultprofitnetwork.com. In
order to enroll and participate in the Affiliate Program,
you must be over the age of eighteen (18) years, or
over the age of majority if you reside and/or conduct
business in states, provinces or countries where the
age of majority is greater than eighteen (18) years.
You may not participate in the Affiliate Program in
any way if you are not of the age of majority in the
state, province or country where you reside and/or conduct
business. We will evaluate your application in good
faith and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection.
We may reject your application if, in our sole discretion,
we determine that your site(s) are unsuitable for the
Program for any reason. Our reasons may include, but
are not limited to, that we believe your site(s) incorporate
images or content that are unlawful, defamatory, obscene,
harassing or otherwise objectionable. We may also reject
your application if we believe your site(s) facilitate
illegal activity, promote violence or promote or assist
others in promoting copyright infringement or if you
provide incomplete and/or inaccurate information on
your submitted application.
2.
Responsibility for Your Site. While we will review
your site(s) for suitability in the Affiliate Program,
you will be solely responsible for the development,
operation and maintenance of your site(s) and for all
materials that appear on your site(s). We shall have
no responsibility for the development, operation and
maintenance of your site(s) and for any materials that
appear on your site(s). You shall also be responsible
for ensuring that materials posted on your site(s) do
not violate or infringe upon any laws including, but
not limited to, 18 U.S.C. Section 2257, or the rights
of any third party (including, for example, copyrights,
trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary
rights), and ensuring that materials posted on your
site(s) are not libelous or otherwise illegal (including
depictions of actual, implied or simulated bestiality,
rape, incest, child pornography, or any other content
deemed inappropriate or illegal). You must have express
permission to use another party's copyrighted or otherwise
proprietary material. We will not be responsible if
you use another party's copyrighted or otherwise proprietary
material in violation of the law.
A.
Child Pornography. We are especially adamant
that no sites associated in any way with the APN Program
contain child pornography. We maintain a zero tolerance
policy towards anything related to child pornography.
Not only do we prohibit pictures which depict or insinuate
sexual images of persons under the age of eighteen (18),
we also prohibit words which may insinuate sexual images
of persons under the age of eighteen (18). The following
is a list of words (which may be amended at any time)
which may not be used anywhere in the HTML or graphics
on your site(s):
adolescent
animal sex
banned
beast
beastality
bestiality
Cherie
child
children
Disney
elementary
fifteen
forced sex
fourteen
high school
High Society
Hustler
insest
illegal
juvenile
kid
kidnapped
Kids
kindergarten
lolita
lolita teen
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minor
pet
Pets
Playboy
Playmate
preteen
pre-teen
prom queen
puberty
rape
seventeen
sixteen
teen lolita
thirteen
unconcensual
underage
young boy
young chid
young girl
young school boy
young school girl
young teen
youth
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If
we determine that you have violated the Company’s zero
tolerance policy against child pornography, your membership
in the APN Program will be terminated. You will forfeit
all monies otherwise due you. APN is a member of content
rating system which prevents most browsers from viewing
sites in the APN Program if said browsers are configured
accordingly. B.
Bulk E-Mailings: Acceptable and Non-Acceptable Use.
Webmasters may promote APN approved paysites through
the transmission of bulk e-mail. Webmasters may not
promote the APN Program and related products through
the transmission of unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE).
If you chose to transmit bulk e-mail, you must have
an existing and provable relationship between the e-mail
recipient and the sender. You, or the sender of the
bulk e-mail, must have obtained the recipients e-mail
address through a verifiable opt-in procedure. If we
receive a complaint from a person who received a promotional
e-mail from you, we will require that you demonstrate
to us that the recipient did not receive UBE from you
or someone transmitting the e-mail on your behalf. Failure
to demonstrate this will result in your termination
from the Affiliate Program.
The
following acts are also strictly prohibited and your
participation in the APN Program will be terminated
if you engage in them:
- You
may not transmit e-mail that makes use of or contains
invalid or forged headers, invalid or non-existing
domain names or other means of deceptive addressing;
- You
may not transmit e-mail that is relayed from any third
party’s mail servers without the permission of that
third party or which employs similar techniques to
hide or obscure the source of the e-mail.
- You
may not harvest or collect screen names from any internet
service provider (ISP) for the purpose of sending
unsolicited e-mail.
Many
ISPs, such as America On Line, Inc. (AOL), have policies
and procedures relating to mass mailings to their members.
We suggest you familiarize yourself with such policies
and abide by them. AOL’s policy can be found at www.aol.com/info/bulkemail.html
C.
Other Grounds for Termination In addition to
the foregoing, we will immediately terminate your participation
in the Affiliate Program and forfeit of all monies due
if we believe you have engaged in any of the following:
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Altering by electronic, mechanical or automated means
or other technologies, that may now exist or come
into existence, the APN webmaster affiliate code or
APN site URLs belonging to or identified with accounts
other than your own, or causing the modification or
substitution of APN webmaster affiliate code or APN
site URLs belonging to or identified with accounts
other than your own that may reside within or originate
from a third party system in the form of bookmarks,
cached pages, cookies or other stored forms that may
be passed to the APN system by user operation of said
third party system.
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Any form of spamming including, but not limited to
unsolicited email, IRC postings, newsgroups, and/or
instant messaging clients;
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Publishing, transferring, reassigning, disclosing,
distributing, or permitting any other person to use
your APN account;
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Providing inaccurate or incomplete information to
COMPANY concerning your identity, bank account, address
or other required information;
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Attempts to cheat, defraud or mislead us in any way;
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Misrepresenting to the public the terms and conditions
of the APN approved websites or your site(s);
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Promotion of APN or APN approved websites on password
sites, MP3 sites or warez sites;
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Owning or operating a website in connection with a
person who is under eighteen (18) years of age; and/or
under the age of majority in states, provinces or
countries where the age of majority is greater than
eighteen (18) years;
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Inclusion of stolen or unauthorized content on your
site(s);
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Inclusion of our copyrighted and/or trademarked materials,
including our site graphics, text, and/or concepts,
not used in the context of linking to an APN approved
paysite as described above.
Affiliate
acknowledges that he or she is privy to certain
confidential and proprietary information which becomes
known during the course of paysite promotion. Affiliate
shall not use or disclose said information in any
way, including, but not limited to, developing a
competing or otherwise similar Website to that of
an existing APN paysite. Failure to comply with
this is cause for immediate termination from the
program and forfeit of all monies due.
3.
Term of the Agreements. The term of this
Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your
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 notice of termination. Notice by email,
to your email address in our records, is considered
sufficient notice for us to terminate this Agreement.
If this Agreement is terminated because you have
violated the terms of this Agreement you are not
eligible to receive any commission payments, even
for commissions earned prior to the date of termination.
If this Agreement is terminated for any other reason,
you are only eligible to earn a commission on sales
occurring during the term of the Agreement, and
commissions earned through the date of termination
will remain payable only if the related orders are
not canceled or returned. We reserve the right to
withhold your final payment for a reasonable time
to ensure that the correct amount is paid.
4.
Modification. We may modify any of the terms
and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any
time and in our sole discretion. Notice of any change
by email, to your address in our records, or notice
posted on our site, is considered sufficient notice
to you of a change to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement. Modifications may include, but are
not limited to, changes in the scope of available
commission fees, commission schedules, payment procedures,
and Affiliate Program rules. All such modifications
shall take effect 48 hours after we serve notice
as provided above, unless we indicate otherwise.
If any modification is unacceptable to you, your
only recourse is to terminate this Agreement. Your
continued participation in the Affiliate Program,
following our posting of modifications or a new
agreement on our site, will constitute your binding
acceptance of the change in terms and conditions.
5.
Relationship of Parties. You and COMPANY
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 have no authority
to make or accept any offers or representations
on our behalf. You will not make any statement,
whether on your site(s) or otherwise, that reasonably
would contradict anything in this Section. You are
not an agent of the COMPANY and COMPANY expressly
disclaims responsibility for any conduct by you
in violation of the terms of this Agreement.
6.
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 Affiliate
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 Affiliate
Program will not exceed the total commissions paid
or payable to you under this Agreement.
7.
Representations and Warranties. You hereby
represent and warrant to us that this Agreement
has been duly and validly executed and delivered
by you and constitutes your legal, valid and binding
obligation, enforceable against you in accordance
with its terms. You further represent and warrant
that the execution, delivery and performance by
you of this Agreement are within your legal capacity
and power, have been duly authorized by all requisite
action on your part, require the approval or consent
of no other persons, and neither violate nor constitute
a default under (i) the provision of any law, rule,
regulation, order, judgment or decree to which you
are subject or which is binding upon you, or (ii)
the terms of any other agreement, document or instrument
applicable to you or binding upon you.
Should
any law enforcement agency, internet service provider
or other person or entity provide COMPANY with notice
that you have engaged in transmission of unsolicited
emails or have engaged in otherwise unlawful conduct
or conduct in violation of internet service provider's
terms of service, we reserve the right to cooperate
in any investigation relating to your activities
including disclosure of your account information.
8.
Confidentiality. We may disclose to you certain
information as a result of your participation in
the Affiliate Program which we consider to be confidential
(herein referred to as "Confidential Information").
For purpose of this Agreement, the term "Confidential
Information" shall include, but not be limited to:
A.
Any modifications to the terms and provisions of
this Agreement made specifically for you or your
site(s) and not generally available to other members
of the Affiliate Program,
B.
Website, business, and financial information relating
to COMPANY, and
C.
Customer and vendor lists relating to COMPANY and
any members of the Affiliate Program other than
you. Confidential Information shall also include
any information that we designate as confidential
during the term of this Agreement. You agree not
to disclose any Confidential Information and that
such Confidential Information shall remain secret
and shall not be utilized, directly or indirectly,
by you for your own business purposes or for any
other purpose, except to the extent that any such
information is generally known or available to the
public or if disclosure is required by law or legal
process.
9.
Indemnification. You hereby agree to indemnify,
defend and hold harmless COMPANY, its shareholders,
officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates,
successors and assigns, from and against any and
all claims, losses, liabilities, damages or expense
(including attorneys' fees and costs) of any nature
whatsoever incurred or suffered by us (collectively
the "losses"), insofar as the losses (or actions
in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on
A.
Any claim or threatened claim that our use of your
trademark(s) infringes on the rights of any third
party;
B.
The breach of any promise, covenant, representation
or warranty made by you herein; or
C.
Or any claim related to your site(s).
10.
Disclaimers. WE MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE
PROGRAM, ANY COMPANY SERVICES, OR ITEMS SOLD THROUGH
THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
NON-INFRINGEMENT, 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(S) WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED
OR ERROR-FREE, AND WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE
CONSEQUENCES OF ANY INTERRUPTIONS OR ERRORS.
IN
ADDITION, WE MAKE NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
WITH RESPECT TO ANY INFORMATION DELIVERED HEREUNDER,
INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR FREEDOM FROM
PATENT, TRADEMARK OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS, WHETHER
ARISING BY LAW, CUSTOM OR CONDUCT, OR AS TO THE
ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION AND
WE SHALL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU OR TO ANY
OTHER PERSON RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OR SUCH THIRD
PERSON'S USE OF THE INFORMATION.
11.
Miscellaneous. Terminated accounts cannot
later apply to the Affiliate Program without our
express written consent. This Agreement will be
governed by the laws of the United States and the
State of California, without reference to rules
governing choice of laws. The sole and exclusive
venue for any action arising under this Agreement
will be the state and federal courts sitting in
Newport Beach, California, and you hereby submit
to the jurisdiction and venue of such courts. You
may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law
or otherwise, without our prior written consent.
Subject to that restriction, this Agreement shall
be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and shall
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.
TERMS
SPECIFIC TO THE ADULT PROFIT NETWORK AFFILIATE PROGRAM
12.
Single Application. We only allow one application
per 24-hour period. If your application was rejected
because you submitted erroneous information, please
resubmit an application with correct information
the following day.
13.
Forms of Promotion. As the owner/operator
of an affiliate website of COMPANY ("Affiliate Site"),
you may use any form of promotion you choose, consistent
with the terms of this Agreement. You may use banner
advertisements, button links and/or text links (collectively
referred to herein as "Links" or "the Links") to
APN approved websites, however, you CANNOT SPAM.
Any activity by you or on your behalf that we determine
or reasonably suspect to be the result of an unsolicited
email program will result in your immediate termination
from the APN Program and your forfeiting of monies
otherwise due you hereunder. Allowable promotional
links may contain COMPANY's trade names, service
marks, and/or logos for display on your Affiliate
Site(s). Subject to the terms and conditions hereof,
you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable
license to access and download such Links and other
designated promotional materials for placement on
your Affiliate Site(s) for the sole and exclusive
purpose of promoting APN approved websites. In utilizing
the Links, you agree that you will cooperate fully
with us in order to establish and maintain such
Link or Links. A Link may only be visually modified
with our consent.
14.
Commissions for Sign-ups to APN Approved Subscription
Based Adult Content Paysites. As a participating
member in the APN Program you have the following
form of commission payout available to you for sign-ups
to APN approved paysites:
Recurring:
We will pay you a commission equal to 50% of
each sign-up coming from your Links up to a maximum
of 99 sign-ups. If you achieve 100 or more signups
during a 2 week term -- either from the 1st through
the 15th of the month or the 16th through the 30/31st
of the month, APN will increase your commission
to 60% for all signups achieved during that period.
5% Webmaster Referral: You receive 5% for
each Webmaster you refer who signs up in our Affiliate
Program. The referred Webmaster must not have participated
in the APN Affiliate Program at any time before
he or she is referred to APN by you.
Commission
rates are subject to change from time to time, upon
email notice to you and/or notice posted on our site.
Note that a commission will only be paid if the visitor
to an APN approved site can be tracked by the system
from the time of the click on your Link to the time
of the sale. No commission will be paid if the visitor's
payment to the APN Program cannot be tracked directly
to your site by our system or if full payment for services
is not made to us by the customer.
15.
Commission Payment. Commissions due and owing
to you under the APN Program will be paid directly to
you by Digimead, LLC. The payout schedule is generally
8 days following the close of the bi-monthly signup
period (1st-15th and 16th -30/31st). The minimum payout
is $25, with amounts being carried over to subsequent
payout periods until the minimum payout is reached.
16.
Insufficient Activity. If, as a participating
member, you fail to send traffic (i.e., uniques) to
the APN Program for any consecutive sixty (60) day period,
we reserve the right to terminate your membership in
the APN Program. If your membership is terminated for
this reason, you may apply for a new account.
17.
Illegal Content. Webmaster must have the legal
right to use all content and material used to create
Web pages which promote sites in the APN Program. APN
reserves the right to terminate your membership in the
APN program if the use of illegally owned content is
brought to its attention. If your account is cancelled
for this reason, all monies due to you will be forfeited.
THIS
IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND COMPANY. BY SUBMITTING
AN APPLICATION FOR ENROLLMENT IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM
YOU ARE AFFIRMATIVELY STATING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND
UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN
AND ARE AFFIRMATIVELY INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF
THIS AFFILIATE PROGRAM AGREEMENT AND THAT YOU AGREE
TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS HEREOF. YOU CANNOT BECOME A
MEMBER OF THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM UNLESS YOU HAVE ACCEPTED
EACH AND EVERY TERM HEREOF |