This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to
an individual's or entity's participation in the A Wedding Wish.com
Partners Program (the "Program"). As used in this Agreement,
"we" means Imagicom, DBA A Wedding Wish.com, and
"you" means the applicant. "Site" means a World Wide
Web site and, depending on the context, refers either to A Wedding
Wish.com's site, located at the URL www.aweddingwish.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 material
- promote violence
- promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality,
disability, sexual orientation, or age
- promote illegal activities
- include "A Wedding Wish" 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: General Link to A Wedding Wish.com Home Page: You
may provide a general link on your site to our home page at
http://www.aweddingwish.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.
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 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. We pay a referral fee every time a
customer clicks through to A Wedding Wish.com from your site, including
previous customers of A Wedding Wish.com. The session ends upon one of
the following events: (a) the user closes the browser after the visit,
(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. We will not, however,
pay referral fees on any Products that are added to a customer's
Shopping Cart or are purchased after the customer has reentered our site
(other than through a Special Link on your site), as determined by us,
or for Products that are purchased through any device (an "Internet
Access Appliance") that provides Internet access but does not
present our site, or permit users to access and interact with our site,
in the same manner as a desktop computer (e.g., mobile devices such as
cellular telephones or PDAs that may access only limited or modified
versions of our site). You may purchase products during sessions
initiated through the links on your site for your own use, for resale or
commercial use of any kind. This DOES NOT include orders for customers
or on behalf of customers. 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 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 the sale of each GIFT Individually Linked from
your Web site on the date of order.
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 $25,
we will hold payment until the total amount due is at least $25 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 A Wedding Wish.com. Accordingly, all A Wedding
Wish.com 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 may vary from time to time. Because price
changes may occur you may not include price information in your Product
descriptions.
8. Identifying Yourself as an Partner
You may not make any press release with respect to this
Agreement or your participation in the Program. 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 A Wedding Wish.com
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
site; * 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 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 A Wedding Wish.com 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.
The term Partner is used purely as a descriptive term, not intended in
any manner or form to describe you as a "literal" partner of A
Wedding Wish.com. 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. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless A Wedding
Wish.com, and its subsidiaries and affiliates and each of their
respective directors, officers, employees and agents ("Indemnified
Parties"), against any and all claims, actions, demands,
liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and
expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees)
(any or all of the foregoing hereinafter referred to as
"Losses") insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect
thereof) arise out of or are based on (i) any claim that any Indemnified
Parties' use of the Affiliate Trademarks infringes on any trademark,
trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or
other proprietary right of any third party, (ii) any breach of any
representation or warranty made by You thereunder, or any breach of any
covenant or agreement made by You herein, or (iii) any other Loss
suffered by any of the Indemnified Parties arising from or relating to
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,
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 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 Atlanta,
Georgia, 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 Georgia (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 Georgia, 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.