This Agreement contains the terms and conditions to apply to an individual's
or an entity's participation in the buycablesnow.com Affiliate Program (the
"program"). As used in this Agreement, "we", "us"
or "our" refers to buycablesnow.com corporation, "you" or
"your" refer to the applicant, "Participant" shall mean an
applicant which has been approved to be a participant with the Affiliate
Program," sponsoring Website" refers to the World Wide Website from
which you will link to buycablesnow.com, "product" refers to any item
listed for sale in the buycablesnow.com Website, and all dollars ($) shall mean
United States dollars
1. Definitions
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
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1.1. "$" or "dollars" shall mean United
States Dollars.
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1.2. To "link" shall mean to create a connection on the
World Wide Web through use of HTML.
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1.3. "Program Participant" shall mean an applicant which
has been approved and accepted by buycablesnow.com to be a participant with the
Affiliate Program.
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1.4. "Product" shall mean any item listed for sale on the buycablesnow.com
web site.
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1.5. "Sponsoring Web Site" shall mean the World Wide Web
site from which the Affiliate will link to buycablesnow.com under this
Agreement.
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1.6. "buycablesnow.com Web Site" shall mean the web site maintained
at www.buycablesnow.com
2. Commencement; Listing Software on Affiliate's
Site
Affiliate will select one or more buycablesnow.com pages to be linked from
Affiliate's web site. Affiliate may choose to link to any page in the store,
including the buycablesnow.com homepage, a category page, a specific key-word
search, or one or more specific Products. For each specific Product that is so
linked by Affiliate, Affiliate will display on Affiliate's site a short
description, review, or other reference. The content, style and placement of
these descriptions is entirely up to Affiliate and will also be entirely
Affiliate's responsibility. buycablesnow.com shall exercise commercially reasonable
efforts to provide expeditiously to Affiliate the unique affiliate code and
instructions related to establishing the special links under this Affiliate
Program. Using said special links and unique affiliate code, Affiliate will
provide a special link from each Product it describes or displays on its site to
the corresponding buycablesnow.com Product entry at buycablesnow.com's site. Affiliate
may add or delete Products and related links from its Sponsoring Web Site at any
time without buycablesnow.com's approval.
3. Order Processing
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3.1. Order Processing: buycablesnow.com will exercise commercially
reasonable efforts to process every order placed by a customer who utilizes
the special link from Affiliate's Sponsoring Web Site to the buycablesnow.com
web site. buycablesnow.com will process order forms, payment processing,
shipping, cancellations, returns, and related customer service. All of the buycablesnow.com
rules, operating procedures and policies regarding customer
orders and accounts will apply to orders buycablesnow.com receives through the
special link from Affiliate's Sponsoring Web Site. buycablesnow.com reserves
the right to reject any order for any or no reason, including any order that
does not comply with buycablesnow.com's rules, operating procedures and
policies or that violates applicable law.
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3.2. Tracking of Sales: buycablesnow.com will track sales made to
customers who use the unique affiliate code from Affiliate's Sponsoring Web
Site. Affiliate will be solely responsible for ensuring that Affiliate's
special link includes Affiliate's unique affiliate code and is formatted
properly, a necessary prerequisite for buycablesnow.com to track such sales.
Statements of referral Product sales activity will be provided to Affiliate.
All statements after 30 days shall be deemed correct unless Affiliate gives buycablesnow.com
notice of any error prior to that date. buycablesnow.com shall
not be liable for any errors Affiliate or Affiliate's customers make which
result in any loss of any tracking information contained in the special
link. To protect buycablesnow.com's customers' privacy, the names or other
personal information about specific customers will not be provided to
Affiliate.
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3.3. buycablesnow.com Policy Applies to All Orders: Every customer who
buys a Product through this program is deemed to be a customer of buycablesnow.com. Affiliate does not have the authority to make or accept any offer
of purchase on buycablesnow.com's behalf. All of buycablesnow.com's policies
regarding customer orders, including product availability, pricing and
problem resolution, will apply to these customers. buycablesnow.com is not
responsible for any representations Affiliate makes which conflict with buycablesnow.com's policies.
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3.4. Product Prices and Availability: The price charged for every
Product sold by buycablesnow.com under this program will be in accordance with
buycablesnow.com's own pricing policies. Product prices may vary from time to
time, including software publishers' price increases and special discounts
offered by buycablesnow.com on Products that may already be listed by
Affiliate. buycablesnow.com's policies will always determine the price paid by
the customer. Product availability changes frequently, and buycablesnow.com will endeavor to present
buycablesnow.com's best available information
regarding Product availability. buycablesnow.com cannot guarantee the
availability or price of any Product. buycablesnow.com disclaims all
liability for pricing inaccuracies on the Affiliate site. Further, Affiliate
will defend, indemnify and hold harmless buycablesnow.com from all claims,
damages, and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys' fees and
costs) relating to pricing inaccuracies on the Affiliate site.
4. Referral Fees
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4.1. Referral Fee Amount: buycablesnow.com will pay the owner of the
Sponsoring Web Site 2% of Sales, "Sales" shall mean moneys collected
through Direct Referrals for sales of Products that are delivered to end
users. "Direct
Referrals" means referrals to the buycablesnow.com Web Site from the
Sponsoring Web site using the appropriate special link, including the unique
affiliate code. "Excluded Amounts" shall mean (i) amounts
due for refund for returns in accordance with the associated manufacturer's
end-user license, (ii) shipping, handling, and sales tax charges, and (iii)
sales in connection with special discounts including, without limitation,
gift certificates, coupons, volume discounts, publishers and academic
pricing. buycablesnow.com reserves the right to exclude certain products from
referral fees in the future.
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4.2. Referral Fee Payment: buycablesnow.com will send Affiliate a
referral fee check for the applicable referral fee and a statement of
customer purchase activity approximately 45 days after the end of each
calendar quarter. Amounts less than $50.00 will be held until the calendar
quarter in which the referral fee due exceeds $50.00, or until this
agreement is canceled.
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4.3. Returns and Cancellations: If a referral fee Product is later
returned by the customer, its referral fee will be deducted from Affiliate
the sum of the referral fees from same month in which that Product was
purchased.
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4.4. No Referral Fees to End Users: Affiliate will not pass on,
directly or indirectly, any portion of the referral fee to the end user
through discounts, rebates or any other means.
5. Responsibility for Affiliate's Site
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5.1. Affiliate will be solely responsible for the Affiliate Logo and the
development, operation, and maintenance of Affiliate's site and for all
materials that appear on Affiliate's site. For example, Affiliate will be
solely responsible for:
- the technical operation of Affiliate's site and all related equipment
- creating and posting Product descriptions on Affiliate's site and
linking those descriptions to buycablesnow.com's web site
- the accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on Affiliate's
site (including, among other things, all Product related materials)
- ensuring that materials posted on Affiliate's site and the Affiliate
Logo 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 Affiliate's site and the Affiliate
Logo are not libelous or otherwise illegal.
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5.2. buycablesnow.com disclaims all liability for these matters. Further,
Affiliate will defend, indemnify and hold harmless buycablesnow.com from all
claims, damages, and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys'
fees and costs) relating to the Affiliate Logo and the development,
operation, maintenance, and contents of Affiliate's site. buycablesnow.com reserves the right to terminate this agreement at any time without prior
notice if, in buycablesnow.com's discretion, Affiliate's site contains
unsuitable material, including, without limitation, material that infringes
on intellectual property rights, or promotes violence, discrimination, or
unlawful activities, or fails to promote the goals of the Affiliate program.
6. Linking to buycablesnow.com
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6.1. Use of special links to buycablesnow.com: Using a specially
formatted link, which includes a unique affiliate code that buycablesnow.com
would provide to Affiliate, Affiliate will provide one or more special links
from Affiliate's site to a buycablesnow.com page.
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6.2. Affiliate can add or remove links at any time: Affiliate may
select and link to additional pages, or remove such links, at any time and
without buycablesnow.com's prior approval. However, Affiliate must use the
correct special link format buycablesnow.com would provide to Affiliate in
order to receive proper credit for Affiliate's referrals.
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6.3. Affiliate can list as many Products as Affiliate determines:
There is no limit on the number of general pages or product pages which
Affiliate may choose to link to as part of this program.
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6.4. Affiliate can link directly to the buycablesnow.com home page:
Affiliate can link directly to any page and still receive Sample Name's
referral fee for any Product that a user may purchase during that session
provided Affiliate use the unique affiliate code and the correct special
link.
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6.5. Referral Fee qualifying software titles: All Products for sale
in buycablesnow.com's web store are eligible for the referral fee provided
Affiliate uses Affiliate's unique affiliate code and special link. buycablesnow.com
reserves the right to exclude certain Products from referral fees
in the future.
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6.6. No mirroring: Affiliate shall not frame the buycablesnow.com website, or use functionally similar technologies in connection with the
buycablesnow.com website.
7. Limited License
buycablesnow.com grants Affiliate a non-exclusive, revocable right to use the icon
and such other images for which buycablesnow.com grants express permission, solely
for the purpose of identifying Affiliate's site as a program Participant.
Affiliate may not modify the icon or any of buycablesnow.com's images in any way.
buycablesnow.com reserves all of buycablesnow.com's rights in the icon, any other
images, buycablesnow.com's trade names, trademarks and copyrights, and all other
intellectual property rights. buycablesnow.com may revoke Affiliate's license at
any time by giving Affiliate written notice. Affiliate may not use such icon and
other images in such a way that would harm buycablesnow.com's image. Upon
cancellation or termination of this Agreement, Affiliate agrees to cease all use
of such icon and other images.
8. Press Releases & Other Communications
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8.1. Any communication must accurately identify that you are participating
in the "buycablesnow.com Affiliate Program."
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8.2. Any communication must clearly and accurately describe the nature of
your participation in the buycablesnow.com Affiliate Program: your
communication must not create confusion or misrepresent the nature of your
or any other participant's participation in the buycablesnow.com Affiliate
Program.
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8.3. You may, without our prior consent, say the following in any
communication: that you have become an buycablesnow.com, and/or that you have
joined or become a member of the buycablesnow.com Program. You may also
describe the buycablesnow.com Affiliates Program as any of the following:
"buycablesnow.com Affiliates can offer their customers access to
all of their product offerings."
"Visitors to buycablesnow.com enjoy a comprehensive selection of
products backed by customer service and competitive pricing."
"buycablesnow.com's mission is to bring computing devices to life,
helping people be more productive, learn faster, work more efficiently,
and experience new forms of entertainment."
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8.4 Inaccurate or misleading content in press releases or other
communications may be materially misleading under United States securities
laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Accordingly, buycablesnow.com may cooperate with or notify the
Securities and Exchange Commission of inaccurate or misleading content in
press releases pertaining to buycablesnow.com's affiliate relationships.
9. General Provisions
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9.1. Web site service interruption: buycablesnow.com will make every
effort to keep its web site operational. However, certain technical
difficulties may, from time to time, result in temporary service
interruptions. Affiliate agrees not to hold buycablesnow.com liable for any of
the consequences of such interruptions.
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9.2. Term of the Agreement: Affiliate may only receive referral fee
payments for orders that are properly placed during the term of this
agreement. The term of this Agreement shall commence shall commence on the
date specified at the beginning of this Agreement. The term of this
Agreement shall end when canceled or terminated by either party as provided
below. Unless otherwise canceled or terminated, the agreement will be for
one (1) year and thereafter be automatically renewed quarterly. Referral
fees earned through the date of cancellation or termination of this
agreement will remain payable only if the Products are not returned or
canceled from their orders. Payment of the final referral fee payment to
Affiliate may be withheld for a reasonable time in order to ensure that the
correct amount is paid.
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9.3. Cancellation of this agreement: Either party may choose to
cancel or terminate this agreement at any time and for any or no reason with
30 day written notice of cancellation or termination to the other.
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9.4. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER: buycablesnow.com makes no warranties,
representations or conditions with regard to the program or any products
sold thereunder, whether express or implied, arising by law or otherwise,
including without limitation any implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement or any implied warranty
arising out of course of performance, course of dealing or usage of trade.
In addition, buycablesnow.com makes no representation that the operation of buycablesnow.com's site will be uninterrupted or error-free, and
buycablesnow.com will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.
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9.5. LIMITATION OF DAMAGES: buycablesnow.com shall have no liability for any
indirect, incidental, punitive, special or consequential damages or any loss
of revenue or profits arising under or with respect to this agreement or the
program, even if buycablesnow.com were advised of the possibility of such
damages. Further, buycablesnow.com's aggregate liability arising under or with
respect to this agreement or the program shall in no event exceed the total
referral fees paid or payable by buycablesnow.com to affiliate under this
agreement.
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9.6. Independent Contractors: Affiliate is an independent contractor
and nothing in this agreement is intended to or will create any form of
partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative or
employment relationship with buycablesnow.com.
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9.7. Governing Law: This Agreement shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of California,
excluding its conflict of laws principles. Any lawsuit relating to this
Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts located in San
Jose, California.
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9.8. Headings: The titles and headings of the various sections and
paragraphs in this Agreement are intended solely for convenience of
reference and are not intended for any other purpose whatsoever, or to
explain, modify or place any construction upon or on any of the provisions
of this Agreements.
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9.9. Assignment: Affiliate may not assign this Agreement, by
operation of law or otherwise, without buycablesnow.com's prior written
consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on,
inure to the benefit of, and enforceable against the parties and their
respective successors and assigns.
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9.10. Waiver: buycablesnow.com's failure to enforce Affiliate's strict
performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver
of buycablesnow.com's right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other
provision of this Agreement.
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9.11. Free to Contract with Others: Affiliate understands that buycablesnow.com
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 Affiliate's web site.
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9.12. Independent Investigation: Affiliate has independently
evaluated the desirability of participating in the program and is not
relying on any representation, guarantee, or statement other than as set
forth in this agreement.
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9.13. Amendments and Modifications: buycablesnow.com reserves the right,
in its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove all or part of this
Agreement at any time upon prior written notice to Affiliate; provided,
however, that Affiliate will receive not less than 25 days prior notice of
material changes to Affiliate's rights and/or responsibilities under this
Agreement. In the event that Affiliate objects to such material changes,
Affiliate may terminate this Agreement on fifteen (15) days written notice.
Upon termination, buycablesnow.com reserves the right to delete from its
servers any and all information related to Affiliate.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS: BY SUBMITTING