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This Agreement
contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an individual's or
entity's participation in the Asia-Product Services, LLC Associates Program (the
"Program"). As used in this Agreement, "we", "us", or "our"
means Asia-Product Services, LLC or any of our affiliate companies, as the case
may be, and "you" means the applicant. "Asia-Product.com Site"
means the site that has its primary home page identified by the URL
www.Asia-Product.com, and "site" means a World Wide Web site. "Your
site" means any site that you will link to the Asia-Product.com Site (and
which you will identify in your Program application). Save for our obligation to
pay referral fees under Section 4, which may be performed solely by us, we may
cause any of our obligations under this Agreement to be fulfilled by any of our
Affiliates (defined below), on our behalf.
1.
Enrollment in the Program
To begin the
enrollment process, you will submit a complete Program application via the Asia-Product.com
Site. We will evaluate your application in good faith and will notify you of its
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, but are not limited to, those that:
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promote
sexually explicit materials
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promote
violence
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promote
discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual
orientation, or age
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promote
illegal activities
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include
"Asia-Product," any other trademark of Asia-Product.com, Inc. or its
affiliates, or variations or misspellings of any of them, in their URLs to
the left of the top-level domain name (e.g., ".com", ".net", ".uk", etc.) --
for example, a URL such as "Asia-Product.mydomain.com", "Product-Asia.com"
or "Asia-Productauctions.net" would be unsuitable
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otherwise
violate intellectual property rights.
By
participating in the Program you agree that you will not engage in any such
activities. 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. Participation in the Program is
limited to parties that lawfully can enter into and form contracts under
applicable law. For example, minors are not allowed to participate in the
Program.
2. Links on
Your Site
Once you have
been notified that your site has been accepted into the Program, we grant you a
revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license for the duration of
the term of this Agreement, solely for purposes of facilitating referrals from
your site to the Asia-Product.com Site, to provide on your site one or more of
the following types of links to the Asia-Product.com Site:
Product Links:
You may select one or more Products to list on your site using a variety of
formats that we make available to you, such as text link format, graphical link
format or "product preview" link format. A "Product" is any product
listed on the Asia-Product.com Site that is fulfilled by us or on our behalf, or
any product sold by a third party seller on the Asia-Product.com 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 Asia-Product.com Site
online catalog entry. Each such link will connect directly to a single item in
our online catalog. 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
the Asia-Product.com Site from references to products on your site that are not
"Products" as defined above.
General Link
to Asia-Product.com Site Home Page: You may provide a general link on your site
to the home page of the Asia-Product.com Site.
Asia-Product
Recommends Link: If your site qualifies (as determined by us in our sole
discretion), you may place an Asia-Product Recommends link on your site to
enable Asia-Product Services to serve recommended content based on your site's
specialty or sales history directly to visitors to your site.
Cart Link: In
conjunction with Product Links on your site, you may provide a link that, when
clicked, will allow visitors of your site to add products to their Shopping Cart
and/or purchase products via our 1-Click feature. We will provide you with
technical specifications describing how to include a Cart Link on your site. If
you choose to provide a graphical Cart Link, you agree that you will use the
graphical artwork we serve or otherwise provide to you only to identify the Cart
Link. If you choose to provide a text-only Cart Link, you agree that the text of
the link will read "Buy from Asia-Product.com" and will include no other or
different text unless otherwise specified by us.
Any failure to
comply with this requirement to maintain the prominence of the Privacy
Information link and Asia-Product trademark may result in our terminating your
participation in the Program.
We will
provide you with guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking to the
Asia-Product.com Site 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 the Asia-Product.com Site (and for
purposes of this Agreement, the browser window described above that opens upon a
user's clicking on a Quick-Click link is deemed a part of the Asia-Product.com
Site, and any Quick-Click link is deemed a link between your site and the
Asia-Product.com Site). You must ensure that each of the links between your site
and the Asia-Product.com Site properly utilizes such special link formats. Links
to the Asia-Product.com 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 the
Asia-Product.com 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, we may receive information from or about
visitors to your site or communications between your site and those visitors.
Your participation in the Program constitutes your specific and unconditional
consent to and authorization for our access to, receipt, storage, use, and
disclosure of any and all such information, consistent with the policies and
procedures set forth in the Privacy Notice on the Asia-Product.com Site.
Except for the
license granted under this Section 2, you do not obtain any rights under this
Agreement in any intellectual property, including, without limitation, any
intellectual property with respect to the Special Links, link formats, technical
specifications, guidelines or graphical artwork referenced above, or with
respect to the Asia-Product.com domain name.
You also
acknowledge that we may crawl or otherwise monitor your site for the purpose of
ensuring the quality and reliability of Special Links on your site (for example,
to detect links that are broken or non-functional, links to products that are
out of stock or otherwise unavailable, etc.). Therefore, you agree that we may
take such actions and that you will not seek to block or otherwise interfere
with such crawling or monitoring (and that we may use technical means to
overcome any methods used on your site to block or interfere with such crawling
or monitoring).
You also
acknowledge that as a participant in the Program, we may from time to time send
you email updates about the Program. By participating in the Program, you
consent to our sending you these email updates.
Further, you
acknowledge and agree that you will: (a) not, in connection with this Agreement,
display or reference on your site, any trademark or logo of any third party
seller on the Asia-Product.com Site; (b) use any data, images, text, or other
information obtained by you from us or the Asia-Product.com Site in connection
with this Agreement ("Content") only in a lawful manner and only in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (c) not use any Content relating to
any Excluded Merchant or any product sold by any Excluded Merchant; (d) not
modify or alter any Content that consists of a graphic image, other than to
resize it; (e) not edit any Content that consists of text, other than to shorten
its length; (f) not sell, redistribute, sublicense or transfer any Content; (g)
not use any Content in a manner intended to send sales to any site other than
the Asia-Product.com Site; and (h) promptly delete any Content that is no longer
displayed on the Asia-Product.com Site or that we notify you is no longer
available for your use.
3. Order
Processing
We will
process Product orders placed by customers who follow Special Links from your
site to the Asia-Product.com Site. We reserve the right to reject orders that do
not comply with any requirements that we periodically may establish. 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 the Asia-Product.com
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 6 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 the
Asia-Product.com Site, and add the Product to his or her shopping cart or
purchase the Product via our 1-Click feature during a session. The session ends
upon one of the following events: (a) 15 mins 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 eligible
Products after order, payment and shipping have occurred.
To permit
accurate tracking, reporting and fee accrual, you must ensure that the Special
Links between your site and the Asia-Product.com Site are properly formatted. We
will not be liable for paying referral fees on purchases that are not correctly
tracked and reported because the links between your site and the
Asia-Product.com Site are not properly formatted.
We will not,
however, pay referral fees on any Products that are added to a customer's
Shopping Cart or are purchased via our 1-Click feature after the customer has
reentered the Asia-Product.com Site (other than through a Special Link from your
site), as determined by us, even if the customer previously followed a link from
your site to the Asia-Product.com Site.
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 and/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 the Asia-Product.com Site (e.g., by
implementing any "rewards" program for persons or entities who use Special Links
on your site to access the Asia-Product.com Site); (b) 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; (c) in any way modify,
redirect, suppress, or substitute the operation of any button, link, or other
interactive feature of the Asia-Product.com Site; (d) make any orders or
subscription requests, or engage in other transactions of any kind on the
Asia-Product.com Site on behalf of any third party, or authorize, assist, or
encourage any other person or entity to do so; (e) 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; (f) other than providing Special Links on your site in
accordance with this Agreement, post or serve any advertisements or promotional
content promoting the Asia-Product.com Site or otherwise around or in
conjunction with the display of the Asia-Product.com Site (e.g., through any
"framing" technique or technology or pop-up or pop-under windows), or assist,
authorize, or encourage any third party to take any such action; (g) attempt to
circumvent the referral fee schedule or artificially increase your referral fees
(e.g. by intentionally featuring, purchasing or requesting or encouraging any
third party to purchase low-price items offered on the Asia-Product.com Site (as
determined by us) for the purpose of exceeding any referral fee threshold or by
causing any page of the Asia-Product.com Site to open in a customer's browser
other than as a result of the customer clicking on a Special Link on your site);
(h) attempt to intercept or re-direct (including, without limitation, via
user-installed software) traffic from or on, or divert referral fees from, any
web site that participates in the Program; or (i) seek to purchase or register
any keywords, search terms or other identifiers that include the word
"Asia-Product" or variations thereof (for example "ammazon", "amaozn", etc.) ("Proprietary
Terms") for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service
or other search or referral service. From time to time we may request that you
cause any applicable Web search provider to exclude Proprietary Terms from
keywords used to display your advertising content in association with search
results, assuming the provider of such Web search engine offers such exclusion
capabilities. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in
any of the foregoing activities or, as the case may be, refused promptly to
comply with a request from us to exclude Proprietary Terms from any keyword as
mentioned above, 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
During each
calendar month, for Qualifying Products sold during sessions initiated through
Special Links on your site, you will earn (subject to the other terms of this
Agreement) referral fees. The monthly deadline for choosing a fee structure,
however, is 11:59 PM on the last day of that month, and you will earn (subject
to the other terms of this Agreement) referral fees for the entire month in
accordance with the most recent referral fee structure that you have chosen by
the deadline. If you are a new Associate, you will automatically be enrolled in
the Performance Fee Structure unless you make an affirmative election to
participate in the Classic Fee Structure by the first month deadline. The
referral fee structure under which you are enrolled during any calendar month
will apply to the following calendar month, unless you thereafter change your
enrollment in accordance with the above.
6. Referral
Fee Payment
We will pay
you referral fees on a monthly basis for Qualifying Products shipped in the
applicable month. Approximately 30 days following the end of each calendar
month, we will pay you directly through your registered Paypal account. We will
accrue and withhold referral fees until the total amount due is at least $50.00.
7. Policies
and Pricing
Customers who
buy products through this Program will be deemed to be our customers.
Accordingly, all of our 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 have listed on your site, your site may only show prices when
we serve the link in which those prices are displayed. You may not otherwise
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 Asia-Product" 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 we support, sponsor, endorse, or contribute 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 8 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:
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the
technical operation of your site and all related equipment
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creating
and posting Product descriptions on your site and linking those descriptions
to the Asia-Product.com Site catalog
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the
accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your site (including,
among other things, all Product-related materials)
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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)
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ensuring
that materials posted on your site are not libelous or otherwise illegal
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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.
Compliance with Laws
As a condition
to your participation in the Program, you agree that while you are a Program
participant you will comply with all laws, ordinances, rules, regulations,
orders, licenses, permits, judgments, decisions or other requirements of any
governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, whether those laws, etc.
are now in effect or later come into effect during the time you are a Program
participant. Without limiting the foregoing obligation, you agree that as a
condition of your participation in the Program you will comply with all
applicable laws (federal, state or otherwise) that govern marketing email,
including without limitation, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and all other anti-spam
laws.
12. 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 the
Asia-Product.com Site, and all of our 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
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.
13.
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 the
Asia-Product.com 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 THE
ASIA-PRODUCT.COM SITE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
14.
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.
15.
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.
16.
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 the Asia-Product.com Site will be
uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of
any interruptions or errors.
17.
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.
18.
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 Seattle, Washington, 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 state of Washington (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.
19.
Miscellaneous
This Agreement
will be governed by the laws of the United States and the state of Washington,
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.
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