eSeats.com Affiliate Program Agreement
This Affiliate Agreement
(this "Agreement") establishes the terms and conditions for
the Affiliate Program of eSeats Inc. ("eSeats Inc. " or "we").
BY CLICKING ON THE BOX AT THE END
OF THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM APPLICATION WHICH STATES "I HAVE READ AND
AGREE TO THE eSeats.com AFFILIATE PROGRAM AGREEMENT", THE PERSON
OR COMPANY NAMED IN THE APPLICATION ("Affiliate" or "you")
AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, AND
eSeats Inc. WILL AUTOMATICALLY BECOME COUNTER-PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT.
PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE AGREEING TO ITS TERMS.
1. AFFILIATE'S OBLIGATIONS.
You will complete and submit the
Affiliate Program application to eSeats Inc. eSeats Inc. may accept or
reject any Affiliate Program application in its sole discretion. eSeats
Inc. will notify you via email if your application has been accepted.
You will, at your own cost and
expense, establish eSeats Inc. - approved banners and/or text links to
the eSeats Inc. web site (www.eSeatscom) in order to induce potential
customers to purchase event tickets from eSeats Inc. ("Products").
We will provide you the guidelines, graphical artwork and permitted text
to use in linking to our home page, and you will use only approved graphic
images and text for purposes of linking to the eSeats Inc. website(s).
To permit accurate tracking, reporting and fee accrual, we will provide
you with a unique tracking URL(s) for your use only that contains your
unique affiliate ID ("Affiliate Link"). It is your responsibility
to test that you have linked up correctly as we are not liable for your
failure to link up properly.
You will not send Spam messages
to customers or potential customers that promote eSeats Inc. 's services
or the Affiliate Link. "Spam" means emails and messages that
are sent by you, directly or indirectly, which: (i) contain false or misleading
statements; (ii) do not truthfully identify the source or the originating
IP Address; or (iii) do not contain an online and real time remove option.
You may not issue any press release
with respect to this Agreement or your participation in this marketing
program without our prior written consent. You will be solely responsible
for your own websites and for the material appearing on them. You represent
and warrant that you will not place links to us on any website that contains
any material which is libelous, unlawful or otherwise unsuitable. Unsuitable
sites include without limitation websites which display violence, pornography,
illegal acts, promote violence, promote discrimination based on race,
sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age, promote
illegal activities and/or violate the intellectual property rights of
others.
2. eSeats.com. OBLIGATIONS.
We will make available to you graphic
images and text for purposes of linking customers from your website to
our website through your Affiliate Links. These pre approved banners and
text links are available at our link exchange page. You may NOT modify
these graphic images or text, or any other of our images, in any way,
without our prior written consent.
3. SECURITY AND PRIVACY.
Each party will employ commercially
reasonable security safeguards to protect customer information from loss,
misuse and unauthorized alteration during its storage, processing and
transmission, including the use of commercially available computer security
products, as well as industry standard security procedures and practices.
Each party will comply with its
respective privacy policies and statements in handling, using and disclosing
any customer information. You will comply with eSeats Inc's Privacy Statement
in all material respects and will not use or disclose any customer information
in a manner inconsistent with such Privacy Statement.
4. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
OWNERSHIP AND LICENSE.
Each party will retain all right,
title and interest in and to its respective trademarks and service marks
("Marks"), promotional material and information relating to
the eSeats Inc. Products ("Content") and other intellectual
property worldwide, subject to the limited license granted to the other
hereunder in connection with such party's performance of this Agreement.
Each party (a "Licensor")
hereby grants to the other party hereto (a "Licensee") a non-exclusive,
worldwide, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, royalty-free and limited
license to use its Marks and Content solely in connection with its marketing
and promotion obligations under this Agreement. All such use will be in
accordance with each party's reasonable policies regarding advertising
and trademark usage as will be established or changed from time to time
in each party's sole discretion upon written notice to the other. All
usage by Licensee of Licensor's Marks will include the appropriate registered
or unregistered trademark symbol and, where space reasonably permits,
a legend stating that the "[Licensor's Mark] is a registered trademark
of [Licensor]" or a reference to the effect that third party marks
are owned by their respective owners. eSeats Inc. fs current guidelines
for the use of the eSeats Inc. Marks are published on the Affiliate Information
Site.
The Licensee hereby acknowledges
and agrees that (i) the Licensor's Marks and Content are owned solely
and exclusively by the Licensor, (ii) except for the limited license granted
pursuant to this Agreement, the Licensee has no rights, title or interest
in or to the Licensor's Marks or Content, and (iii) all use of the Licensor's
Marks or Content by Licensee will inure to the benefit of Licensor. Licensee
will not apply for registration of the Licensor's Marks (or any mark confusingly
similar thereto) anywhere in the world, and will not engage, participate
or otherwise become involved in any activity or course of action that
diminishes and/or tarnishes the image and/or reputation of Licensor's
Marks. Upon the expiration or termination of this Agreement, each party
will immediately cease using the Marks or Content of the other, and will
remove such Marks and Content from their respective Sites, except as the
parties may agree in writing.
5. Order Tracking and Processing.
We will track and process all transactions made by customers who follow
special links from your site to our site. We will send you reports summarizing
sales activity. The form, content, and frequency of these reports may
vary from time to time at our discretion. To enable accurate tracking,
reporting, and commission accrual, you must ensure that the special links
between your site and our site are properly formatted. When customers
come to eSeats.com via your links, our web server sends a client-side
text string (cookie) containing your unique affiliate code to their computers.
Our system then uses those strings to identify your site at the point
of purchase or sale. We are responsible for all aspects of order processing
and fulfillment. Along with providing customer service, we will handle
all transaction logistics including payments, cancellations, and shipping.
We reserve the right to cancel orders that do not comply with any requirements
we establish.
6 . COMPENSATION.
You will earn commissions for each
purchase of tickets made when visitors come from your site to eSeats.com.
You will receive your commissions on a monthly basis, approximately 15
days following the end of the month in which they are earned. Your commissions
will be transferred to your PayPal account, less any taxes that we are
required by law to withhold. However, if the commissions payable to you
for any month are less than $20.00, we may hold those commissions until
the total amount due is at least $20.00 or, if earlier, this Agreement
is terminated. If a transaction that generated a commission is later cancelled
by a customer, we will deduct the corresponding commission from your next
payment or, if thereafter your site accrues no commissions during the
following quarter, we may send you a bill for the overpayment. Affiliates
are not eligible to receive commissions on their own transactions.
Payouts: eSeats.com is partnered
with PayPal, the secure way to receive payments online. Through PayPal,
you may either request that your earnings be transferred directly to your
bank account or that a check be mailed to you. You will be paid on a monthly
basis; payments will be made approximately 15 days after the month in
which you earned commissions.
7. COVENANTS, REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES.
Each party will comply with all
applicable laws governing its performance of and activities under this
Agreement. Affiliate is and will be solely responsible for any recommendations
or advice it may offer to its customers.
Each party will provide any services
required by it pursuant to this Agreement in a workmanlike manner. Each
party hereto represents and warrants to the other party that: (i) the
execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement will not conflict
with or result in any breach of or a default under, any material agreement,
instrument or undertaking to which it is a party or by which any of its
property is bound; (ii) that the use, reproduction, distribution, transmission,
or display of its respective Content and Marks pursuant to this Agreement
will not constitute an infringement, be defamatory or violate any third
party's rights of publicity, privacy or personality.
8. INDEMNITY.
You agree to release, indemnify,
and hold eSeats Inc., our partners, contractors, agents, employees, officers,
directors, shareholders, affiliates and assigns harmless from all liabilities,
claims, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees
and expenses, relating to: (i) a violation of applicable law asserted
against eSeats Inc. to the extent caused by your acts or omissions in
the course of your performance of this Agreement, (ii) a breach of or
inaccuracy in your representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement,
or (iii) your error or omission in the performance of or failure to perform
your covenants set forth in this Agreement; except to the extent such
claims result from our acts or omissions, or materials provided by it.
When we are threatened with suit or sued by a third party, we may seek
written assurances from you concerning your promise to indemnify us; your
failure to provide those assurances may be considered by us to be a material
breach of this Agreement.
9. DISCLAIMER.
AFFILIATE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES
THAT THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM AND THE PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS,"
AND THAT eSeats Inc. MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS, ON ITS OWN
BEHALF ON AND BEHALF OF ITS SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS, ANY WARRANTIES AS
TO THE USEFULNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR EFFECTIVENESS
OF SUCH PRODUCTS OR THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM, OR THAT ANY OF SUCH PRODUCTS
OR THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS
HAVE OR WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT SUCH PRODUCTS OR THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM
WILL MEET THE NEEDS OF ANY PARTY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, eSeats
Inc. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF REASONABLE SKILL OR CARE. IN NO EVENT
WILL eSeats Inc. BE LIABLE TO AFFILIATE FOR ANY FAILURE, DISRUPTION, DOWNTIME,
INCORRECT LINKAGE OR OTHER NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCTS OR THE AFFILIATE
PROGRAM. eSeats Inc. 'S SOLE LIABILITY, AND AFFILIATE'S SOLE REMEDY, WITH
RESPECT TO SUCH WARRANTY WILL BE eSeats Inc. 'S OBLIGATION TO CORRECT
ERRORS WITH A LEVEL OF EFFORT COMMENSURATE WITH THE SEVERITY OF THE ERROR.
10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER PARTYS
LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT FROM ANY CAUSE EXCEED
US $10,000. IN ADDITION, IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER PARTY, ITS AFFILIATES,
OR EACH OF THEIR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE RESPONSIBLE
OR LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF REVENUES
OR LOSS OF PROFITS), EVEN IF SUCH PARTY, ITS AFFILIATES, OR ANY OF THEIR
DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES, UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER
THEORY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO SERVICES, OR ANY OTHER
SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT. NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY
LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY DELAY IN FURNISHING SERVICES TO THE OTHER PARTY
OR ANY OTHER PERFORMANCE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. Neither party will be liable
for delays in data transmission.
11. TERM AND TERMINATION.
This Agreement will take effect
when you activate a link to our website and will be continuous unless
and until either party notifies the other party, in writing, that it wishes
to terminate the Agreement, in which case, the Agreement will terminate
immediately. TERMINATION IS AT WILL BY EITHER PARTY. In addition, this
Agreement will automatically terminate if your affiliate relationship
becomes Inactive. An affiliate relationship will become Inactive if a
Qualified Purchase has not occurred from your Affiliate Link for a period
of forty-five consecutive calendar days.
In the event you breach any provision
of this Agreement and/or we receive a complaint against a particular Affiliate
Link, we may in our sole discretion, disable that particular Affiliate
Link with or without notice, temporarily or permanently. In such cases,
it is our sole option to suspend or disable your links rather than completely
terminating this Agreement. The fact that we chose to leave some Affiliate
Links open does not entitle you to have all Affiliate Link(s) operational
or reactivated, nor does it entitle you to compensation for the disabled
Affiliate Links.
The following will apply upon the
effective date of termination: (i) you will remove all banners and text
links to the eSeats.com. website and/or we may disable your Affiliate
Link; (ii) all rights and licenses given to you under this Agreement will
terminate immediately; (iii) you will return all confidential information
and cease use of any of our trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos,
banners and other designations of eSeats Inc. .com; (iv) we may withhold
Fees for up to one hundred and eighty days to ensure that the correct
amount is paid and that any fraud has been reversed; (v) if any link remains
open or if customers obtained through the Affiliate ID are still allowed
to purchase Products this will not constitute a continuation or renewal
of this Agreement; and (vi) you will be entitled to only to those unpaid
Fees, if any, earned by you on or prior to the date of termination. You
will not be entitled to Fees with respect to customer activities made
after the termination date.
12. NON-EXCLUSIVE.
YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY
TIME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY), ENTER INTO MARKETING TERMS WITH OTHER WEBSITES
OR MARKETERS ON THE SAME OR DIFFERENT TERMS AS THOSE PROVIDED TO YOU HEREIN
AND THAT SUCH OTHER WEBSITES OR MARKETERS MAY BE SIMILAR AND EVEN COMPETE
WITH YOU. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY RE DIRECT TRAFFIC AND USERS FROM
OUR SITE TO ANY OTHER WEBSITE THAT WE DEEM APPROPRIATE IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION,
WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION TO YOU.
13. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT.
Except as otherwise provided in
this Agreement, you agree, during the term of this Agreement, that we
may revise the terms and conditions of this Agreement and/or change the
services provided under this Agreement at any time. Any such revision
or change will be binding and effective ten (10) calendar days after the
revised Agreement or change to the service(s) is posted on the eSeats.com
website. You agree to periodically review our website, including the current
version of this Agreement available on our website, to be aware of any
such revisions. If you do not agree with any revision to the Agreement
or change to the services, you may terminate this Agreement at any time.
By continuing to use our services ten (10) calendar days after any revision
to this Agreement or change in service(s) is posted on our website, you
agree to abide by and be bound by any such revisions or changes. We are
not bound by and you may not rely on any representation concerning this
Agreement or our services made by: (i) any agent, representative or employee
of any third party that you may use to apply for our services; or (ii)
information posted on our Web site of a general informational nature.
No employee, contractor, agent or representative of eSeats Inc. .com or
any partner of eSeats Inc. .com is authorized to alter or amend the terms
and conditions of this Agreement.
14. RELATIONSHIP OF THE
PARTIES.
The relationship of the parties
established by this Agreement is that of independent contractors. here
is no relationship of exclusivity, partnership, joint venture, employment
or franchise between you or us under this Agreement. Neither party has
the authority to bind the other nor to incur any obligation on the other's
behalf, except as expressly provided herein. Nothing in this Agreement
will be construed to provide any rights, remedies or benefits to any person
or entity not a party to this Agreement.
15. SEVERABILITY.
You agree that the terms of this
Agreement are severable. If any term or provision is declared invalid
or unenforceable, that term or provision will be construed consistent
with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions
of the parties, and the remaining terms and provisions will remain in
full force and effect.
16. ENTIRETY.
You agree that this Agreement is
the complete and exclusive agreement between you and us regarding the
Affiliate Program. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements, representations
and understandings regarding the subject matter hereof, whether established
by custom, practice, policy or precedent.
17. NON-ASSIGNMENT.
Your rights under this Agreement
are not assignable. Any attempt by you to assign your rights will render
this Agreement voidable at our option. Any attempt by your creditors to
obtain an interest in your rights under this Agreement, whether by attachment,
garnishment or otherwise, will render this Agreement voidable at our option.
18. GOVERNING LAW.
You agree that this Agreement and
any disputes hereunder will be governed in all respects by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the state of Arizona excluding its conflict
of laws rules. You and we each submit to exclusive subject matter jurisdiction,
personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of that state. You agree
that any action, suit or application will be brought and heard in Phoenix,
Arizona.
19. FORCE MAJEURE.
The parties' obligations under
this Agreement are subject to and neither party will be liable for, failure
to perform, damage, or malfunction of any equipment, or any consequences
thereof occasioned by or due to fire, flood, water, the elements, labor
disputes, power failures, explosions, governmental actions, unavailability
of transportation, acts or omission of third-parties, or any other causes
beyond the party's reasonable control.
20. NOTICES.
All notices pertaining to this
Agreement will be given by email as follows: to us at bob@eSeats.com;
and, to you at address provided on our online signup form (or as subsequently
updated by you to us in the event of change).
20. AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND.
By applying to become an Affiliate
of eSeats Inc. , you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound
by all terms and conditions of this Agreement.