AFFILIATE PROGRAM - AGREEMENT
If
you participate in the Affiliate Program you agree to all the terms and
conditions contained in this Agreement. If you do not agree to be bound by this
Agreement, don’t participate in the Affiliate Program.
A World Master must also sign up for the
Affiliate Program to earn money or get credit for users who upgrade within the Service. This is a separate signup once you become a VWW World
Master. If a member joins from your World and upgrades
to VIP anywhere within the VWW or Utherverse worlds, the referring Affiliate (or World Master as the
case may be will get
credit.)
1.
We may change this Agreement, at any time and in our sole
discretion, by giving you seven days
Notice by email, and posting a change notice or a new agreement on the site http://utherverse.com/affiliate/ or at http://redlightcenter.com/affiliate/ or at http://utherverse.vww/affiliate/.
Any changes are effective 48
hours after being posted. It is your responsibility to check the site
frequently. If any modification is unacceptable to you, you can terminate your
participation in the Affiliate Program. Your continued participation in the
Affiliate Program 48 hours following posting of a change notice or new
agreement on these sites constitutes your acceptance of the changes.
2.
The TOS are incorporated into this Agreement. As an Affiliate you will be
obliged to abide by the TOS. In the event of an inconsistency between this Agreement and any
other document, this Agreement shall control.
3.
You only qualify for the Affiliate Program if you are at least 18
years old and are a VIP member of the Services.
4.
You must provide us with complete, accurate, and updated payment
and contact information at all times. If any information changes, you are
required to notify us as soon as possible, but in no event later than 48 hours.
Payments otherwise due to you are forfeited for any period in which we are not
in receipt of your accurate contact and payment information. The information
required is listed on your account maintenance page on our website, but shall
include at minimum your name, your birth date, your
address, your telephone number, your email address, and your payment information.
5.
You must keep your password confidential and notify us immediately
if you believe your password has been or may be obtained or used by any
unauthorized person. In addition, you must notify us if you become aware of any
other breach or attempted breach of the security of your Account or any of the
Services. In the event that the Services or your account security are
compromised, we have no liability to you to the maximum extent permitted by
law.
6.
We will provide you with specified links and resources to access
and link to our site(s). You will only earn commissions on sales made from such
links. We are not liable to you for any failure by you to use the links
correctly.
7.
We
will process the membership requests of customers who follow your properly
formulated tracking links to our site ("Members"). We reserve the
right to reject customers that do not comply with any requirements that we
might establish. We will track memberships sold to Members and will make available
to you reports summarizing sales activity within a reasonable time frame and as
accurately as possible, but do not guarantee complete accuracy. All Members are
conclusively deemed customers of Utherverse.
8.
We
will pay commissions for any Members who pay money to us within twelve months
of following your properly formulated links to us shall be eligible to generate
a commission for you (the “Eligible Period”). The commissions shall be a one
time payment of $35 for each VIP sale payout, or 50% of any recurring revenue
share each month so long as that person remains a VIP member. No commission
shall be paid on any amounts we receive (including recurring billing) more than
12 months after the Member first clicks any link to our site. For example, if a
Member joins as a basic member and then, two months later, upgrades to a paid
member and remains a paid member for twenty months, you would be eligible for
commissions only for the ten months in which the Member has paid us during the
initial twelve month period following their first clicking the link to our
site. No commission shall be paid on anything other than monthly membership
payments. Without limiting the foregoing, no commission shall be paid on
merchandise purchases, leases, or event access fees. Commissions shall not be
considered final and due to you until the payment mechanism used by the
customer is final. This means, for example, that commissions on a credit card
charge that is subject to potential charge-backs for a period of six months
will not be due to you until that six month period has elapsed. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, we may decide to advance you money based on commissions for
sales that have a payment mechanism that is not yet final. If we do so, it
shall be deemed an interest-free loan that is immediately due and payable to us
in the event that the Member’s payment method results in a reversal of the
Member’s payment. Without limiting our other options to recoup such loans, they
loans may be recouped by withholding the principal balance from future payments
due to you. The loans shall bear interest at the lower of 10% per annum, or the
highest rate permitted by law, beginning at the moment the Member’s payment
method results in a reversal of the Member’s payment.
9.
Any
Member who has a cookie or other indicia of having visited our site prior to
first clicking your specially formulated link shall not generate any commission
for you.
10.
In
order to receive your Commissions you must provide your taxpayer information to
us as required by the IRS, Revenue Canada, or other pertinent taxing authority.
No payments shall be due to you for any commissions otherwise earned during a
period in which we do not have the required tax information.
11.
Checks
will be sent to you by third party payment processors according to their terms
and whatever schedule they follow. To the extent that our payment processors
require a longer wait for payment, higher commissions, or otherwise less
favorable terms for you with regard to commissions, those less favorable terms
and requirements shall govern. The policies of any third party payment
processor are incorporated into this Agreement and a violation of those
policies shall be considered a violation of this Agreement
12.
Any
time we have to send you a check for under $50 (for example, if your account is
terminated and you are owed less than $50), we shall deduct a $5 processing fee
from that check.
13.
We
will make available to you various graphics to promote the Affiliate Program.
We may modify the text or graphic images from time to time.
14.
You
may not create a look-alike site, use our content, or make any press release
with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Affiliate Program
without our written consent, which may be given or withheld in our sole
discretion.
15.
We
grant you a limited nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable right to use the
graphic images and text provided to you by us, for use on your web site or web
space, solely for the purpose of identifying your web site or web space as an
Affiliate Program participant and to assist in generating Commissions. In
addition, we grant you a limited, nontransferable, nonexclusive, worldwide
right to reproduce and use all graphic images and other materials provided to
you, solely for the purpose of selling products pursuant to this Agreement. You
may not modify the graphic images or text, or any other of our images in any
way. We may revoke your license at any time by giving you written notice. We
reserve all of our rights in the graphic images, text, any other images,
Utherverse trade names and trademarks, and all other intellectual property
rights. Any and all rights in and to our intellectual property shall inure to
the benefit of Utherverse.
16.
You may not link to us from any web site containing any materials
that are illegal anywhere within the United States or Canada; or that contain sexual depictions of persons under 18 years
old; depictions of unclothed persons under 18 years old; that contain
depictions of beastiality; that contain materials that violate copyright; that
contain depictions that would require records be kept with regard to 18 U.S.C.
2257 but where such records have not been kept; or that could give rise to
civil or criminal liability. This means, for example, that if a web site
contains a cartoon depiction of beastiality, even if you link to us from a
different page on the web site, your link would be a violation of this
Agreement.
17.
You may not embed links in unsolicited emails, unsolicited instant
messages, newsgroup postings, message board postings, spyware, or other
non-html mechanisms.
18.
IF YOU LINK TO US IN VIOLATION OF THIS PARAGRAPH, IN ADDITION TO
ANY CIVIL OR CRIMINAL REMEDIES WE MAY HAVE AGAINST YOU, ALL AMOUNTS DUE TO YOU
FOR PAST, PRESENT, OR FUTURE ACTIVITIES ARE IRREVOCABLY FORFEITED.
19.
You agree to must indemnify, defend and hold us harmless for any claim arising
out of, relating to, or connected with your alleged breach of this agreement.
You must also indemnify, defend, and hold us harmless based on any claim
alleging facts that, if true, would constitute a breach of this Agreement. You
also agree that covered claims under this indemnity obligation shall include,
without limitation (a) any claim that our use of any images provided via
your web site or web space infringes on any trademark, trade name, service
mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of
any third party; and/or (b)any claim related to your web site, including,
without limitation, content therein not attributable to us,
we may withhold any
Commissions that it owes you if you have to indemnify us. In addition, to the extent that
your site contains illegal content, and Utherverse and/or its affiliates,
agents, or employees are required to defend themselves criminally or civilly
with regard to the content on your site, you shall provide an indemnity and pay
all defense costs.
20.
Any disputes hereunder shall be resolved only in Vancouver,
British Columbia. In the event that a court determines that, despite the
preceding clause, that the case may be heard within the United States, such a
case may be brought only in San Jose, California. Regardless of where the case
is brought, all disputes shall be resolved by binding arbitration under the
rules of the American Arbitration Association. In any event, no exemplary or
punitive damages shall be permitted in any judgment or arbitration award.
21.
The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate
Program application and will end when terminated by either party for
any reason.
22.
In its sole discretion, with or without notice to you, we may terminate your participation
in the Affiliate Program and terminate your Account. If
we determine in our sole discretion, that you are abusing the Service and/or the
Affiliate Program, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withdraw your participation and withhold any Commissions
payable to you.
23.
You can only earn Commissions 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 may withhold your final payment
for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid. Upon the
termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use
of, and remove from your web site, all links to the Service, product images from the database, all trademarks, trade
dress and logos, all Special Links, and all other materials provided by or on
behalf of Utherverse to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Affiliate
Program.
24.
We may terminate this entire program
at any time. In the event that the entire program is terminated, all
obligations to pay affiliates hereunder shall cease, even with regard to
commissions already earned but not yet paid. You may terminate your participation
in the program at any time by providing us notice of the same.
25.
Reward for fraud reporting: You agree to immediately report to us
any fraud against us that you learn us. In the event you report fraud and such
reporting results in a criminal conviction against the person committing the
fraud, we will pay you $5,000 or the amount of money you have saved us by
reporting the fraud, whichever is smaller. Falsified fraud reports will be
grounds for immediate termination of this agreement, and may result in further
legal action.
26.
Notices to us shall be effective upon our actual receipt of them.
All
notices must be sent via email to legal@utherverse.com; We will send notices to
you at the addresses you have provided to us and you are responsible for
keeping these current.