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USADentalCare.com Affiliate
Program Agreement
USADentalCare.com Affiliate Program Operating
Agreement This Agreement, made and entered by and between
USADentalCare.com and you, the affiliate ("you" or "affiliate"),
contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to your
participation in the USADentalCare.com Affiliate Program (the "
Affiliate Program" or "Program").
1. Terms of the Agreement
The term of this Agreement will begin upon
our acceptance of your affiliate 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. You are only eligible to earn
commission on sales occurring during the term.
You must use and provide valid email address
and contact information through which you can be reached to
participate in the USADentalCare.com Affiliate Program. If you do
not, your account will be deactivated.
2. Compensation Defined
Affiliates can earn commissions through cost
per sale campaigns. The campaigns are defined as followed:
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$20 bounty on Monthly Dental Plans
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$24 bounty on Quarterly Dental Plans
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$35 bounty on Semi-Annual Dental
Plans
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$52 bounty on Annual Dental Plans
3. Termination
Upon 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 USADentalCare.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.
4. Modifications to the Agreement
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 this
site. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope
of available commission structure, 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.
5. Eligibility in the Program
Employees of USADentalCare.com, its
subsidiaries, parent companies or sister companies and the
immediate family members of such employees are not eligible to
participate in the USADentalCare.com Affiliate Program.
6. Enrollment in the Program
To begin the enrollment process, you will
submit a complete application from 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 (at
our sole discretion) that your site is unsuitable for the Program.
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 (at our sole
discretion) to be unsuitable for the program, we may terminate
this agreement.
Your site should:
a) Generate sufficient traffic to our
websites and have current and relevant content;
b) Attract a customer base who may be interested in our products
c) Not promote violence such as: hate crimes, fire arms,
terrorists organizations and/or related sites;
d) Not promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion,
nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
e) Not promote sexually explicit, pornographic or obscene content
(whether in text or graphics)
f) Not promote content related to liquor, tobacco, firearms, drugs,
gambling, crime or death
7. Privacy Policy
Except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement or with the consent of the other party hereto, each of
the parties hereto agrees that all information, including, without
limitation, the terms of this Agreement, business and financial
information, customer and vendor lists, and pricing and sales
information, concerning us or you, respectively, or any of our
affiliates provided by or on behalf of any of them shall remain
strictly confidential and secret and shall not be utilized,
directly or indirectly, by such party for its own business
purposes or for any other purpose except and solely to the extent
that any such information is generally known or available to the
public through a source or sources other than such party hereto or
its affiliates.
8. Fraud
If you commit fraud or falsify information in
connection with the registration of members in
USADentalCare.com.com through the links on your site, this
Agreement will be terminated immediately. In addition, you will be
liable to USADentalCare.com for any and all damages that
USADentalCare.com suffers as a result of such actions. You will
also be responsible for returning to USADentalCare.com all
commissions received for fraudulent sales, and we will not
hesitate to pursue all legal causes of action against you to the
fullest extent possible under the law.
9. 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 one month’s commission paid or payable
to you under this Agreement.
10. 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 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.
USADentalCare.comcom may cite your name or URL in connection with
your participation in the program in materials including but not
limited to postings on our site, newsletters, advertisements, and
other communications.
11. Payment to Affiliates
USADentalCare.com agrees to pay you the commission specified in
this Agreement if USADentalCare.com through one of its sites,
sells to a visitor to its sites (a "Customer") a product or
service that is the subject of this Agreement and if that Customer
has accessed USADentalCare.com’s site and purchased the product or
service a link on your web site.
a) Commissions will be paid in U.S. dollars
only by check.
b) Commission checks will be made payable to
the order of the person and/or company name designated on the
affiliates application at the time of sign-up. Absolutely no
exceptions will be made to this rule.
c) Commissions are accrued on a 30/31 day
calendar month. Failure to provide USADentalCare.com with a
correct address, or if checks mailed to You are returned to
USADentalCare.com.com, will result in forfeiture of any amounts
otherwise due to You hereunder. You can send updated information
to affiliates@USADentalCare.com. Any attempt by an affiliate to
manipulate, falsify or inflate clicks or referrals, to defraud
USADentalCare.com or to violate the terms of this Agreement
constitutes immediate grounds for USADentalCare.com to terminate
this Agreement and will result in forfeiture of any amounts
otherwise due to You hereunder.
d) Commissions are calculated based on the
achieved ‘Total Orders’ Generated (less any applicable
cancellations) amount for that month. All clicks are verified.
e) Commissions are paid on a monthly basis
when the affiliate’s account has reached a minimum threshold of
$25.00. Accounts with a balance of less than $25.00 will roll over
to the next month.
f) Commission payments to the affiliate will
be calculated on the 1st of the month. Should the 20th day fall on
a weekend, checks will be mailed on the next business day.
g) No commission will be paid on advertising
orders if for any reason an affiliate’s referred visitor cancels
their order. If the affiliate has already received commission for
a canceled order, the earned commission may be reversed from the
affiliate’s account.
12. Tracking of Clicks and Advertising
Orders
USADENTALCARE.COM will be solely responsible
for tracking clicks and orders made to customers who follow an
affiliate’s links or inputs the affiliate’s code. An affiliate
will be solely responsible for ensuring that its links are
formatted properly and maintained in a manner, which allows
USADentalCare.com to track such sales. No commission shall be paid
if the application cannot be tracked by USADentalCare.com or if
the customer accesses the USADentalCare.com site other than
through the affiliate’s links and does not input or mention the
affiliate’s code.
13. Order Processing
USADentalCare.com will process advertising
orders placed by merchants who follow links from your site to the
USADentalCare.com sites. USADentalCare.com shall be responsible
for the payment of advertising, returns and related customer
service issues. USADentalCare.com reserves the right, in its sole
discretion, to reject an advertiser sent to our site from your
site.
14. Responsibilities of 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.
You are solely responsible for:
a) The technical operation of your site and
all related equipment;
b) The accuracy and appropriateness of
materials posted on your site (including, among other things, all
USADentalCare.com materials);
c) Ensuring that materials posted on your
site do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party
(including, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or
proprietary rights);
d) Ensuring that materials posted on your
site are not libelous or otherwise illegal.
15. Indemnification
We disclaim all liability for these matters
listed in 14. 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.
16. Limited License
We grant you a nonexclusive, nontransferable,
revocable right to access our site through the links solely in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, for the sole purpose
of linking your site to our site, solely for the purpose of
identifying your site as a participant in the Program and
assisting in increasing traffic to USADentalCare.com You may not
alter, modify, or change the links in any way. You are only
entitled to use the links to the extent that you are a member in
good standing of the USADentalCare.com Affiliate Program. We may
revoke your license anytime by giving you written notice.
17. Publicity
You shall not create, publish, distribute, or
permit any written material that makes reference to us without
first submitting such material to USADentalCare.com and receiving
our consent.
Also, as an affiliate of USADentalCare.com,
the affiliate program for the site, USADentalCare.com, you may not
advertise USADentalCare.com services and solicit members on any
Internet forums, boards, email service or communities that are the
trademarked and owned property of another company designed for use
only by their registered members. "Roping" of customers from any
other company's member base by placing personalized ads on their
online product (or any other way) is not an acceptable method of
promoting USADentalCare.com products.
18. Anti-Spam Policy
Affiliates will be removed from the
USADentalCare.com Affiliate Program and forfeit any pending
commission if they are caught spamming. Spamming is not allowed
and will not be tolerated. All email campaigns muct be approved in
advance by the USADentalCare.comCorp’s Affiliate manager and must
comply with all elements of the CAN-Spam Act.
19. Anti-Predatory Policy
No affiliate will replace, intercept,
interfere, hinder, disrupt or otherwise alter in any manner the
Web users’ access, view or usage of, or other aspect of the Web
users’ experience at, any affiliate’s webpage (as defined below)
in a manner that causes or otherwise results in a different
experience from that was otherwise intended by such affiliate;
*No Affiliate will block, alter, direct or
redirect, or substitute, insert or append itself to, or otherwise
intercept or interfere in any manner with, any click-through or
other traffic-based transaction that originated from an affiliate
webpage (including without limitation any return visit to
USADentalCare.com to which such click-through or other traffic
reached or intended to reach) with the result of reducing
compensation or other payment earned by or owing to an affiliate
or increasing any payment obligation of USADentalCare.com with
respect to any individual transaction.
20. Disclaimer
We make no express or implied warranties or
representations with respect to the USADentalCare.com Web site or
the USADentalCare.com Affiliate Program (including, without
limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, no
infringement, or any implied warranties arising out of 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.
21. Miscellaneous
The laws of the United States and the State
of Washington will govern this Agreement, without reference to
rules governing choice of laws. Any action relating to this
Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts in
Washington and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction 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 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.
This Agreement sets forth the entire
understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter
hereof, and supersedes any prior agreements and understandings,
both written and oral, which may have existed or exist between the
parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. You may not
modify this Agreement.
22. 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.
23. Proper Age
BY ACCEPTING THIS CONTRACT, YOU CONFIRM YOU
ARE AN ADULT OF AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE (19 OR 21 WHERE
APPLICABLE)
24. Pay Per Click Search Engine Placement
Policy
Affiliates may not bid on our any
USADentalCare.com trademarked names, including, but not limited
to: usadentalcare.com.
25. Competitive Use
a)
Content, including, but not limited to, datafeeds, banners, and
articles, provided by USADentalCare.comoration is copyrighted. You
are granted a temporary, and revocable license to use it while
marketing any USADentalCare.comoration subsidiary. Should
Publisher become a Competitor, all licenses to Advertiser Content
are revoked immediately.
b) Except with express written consent, no competing ads may be
generated, nor revenue therewith, using content provided by
USADentalCare.comoration. This includes, but is not limited to,
Google Adsense, Quigo AdSonar, and other contextual ad services
provided by search engines. Other advertisements may be placed on
the webpage, but may not use any USADentalCare.comoration owned
content to generate the content, or context of any ad. In cases
where the majority of the page's content is owned by
USADentalCare.comoration, as determined solely by
USADentalCare.comoration, no ads from competing vendors may be
shown.

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