StopBeingOverweight.Com Affiliate Agreement
and Application To apply, please read this agreement
and fill out the short application on the StopBeingOverWeight Sign
Up Page.. THIS IS A LEGAL AND CONTRACTUALLY
BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND RANDALLGARTMAN.COM,INC, OPERATOR
OF RANDALLGARTMAN.COM, STOPBEINGOVERWEIGHT.COM AND TELECOACHU.COM.
YOU INDICATE YOUR WILLINGNESS TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT BY COMPLETING
THE ONLINE APPLICATION AND CLICKING THE SEND BUTTON TO SUBMIT THE
FORM. THIS AGREEMENT WILL TAKE EFFECT IF AND WHEN RANDALLGARTMAN.COM
REVIEWS AND ACCEPTS YOUR APPLICATION AND GIVES YOU NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE.
BY SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION, YOU CERTIFY THAT YOU HAVE READ AND
UNDERSTAND THE TERMS SET FORTH HEREIN, AND THAT YOU ARE AUTHORIZED
TO SUBMIT THIS APPLICATION. WHILE THIS AGREEMENT IS REFERRED TO
AS A Online Store PROGRAM, THIS AGREEMENT DOES NOT OPERATE TO CREATE
A PARTNERSHIP OR AGENCY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND RANDALLGARTMAN.COM
OR RANDALLGARTMAN.COM, Inc.
1. Enrollment in the Program
To apply for enrollment, you must submit a complete
AFFILIATE Application via our Web site. We will evaluate your application
and will notify you of our acceptance or rejection of your application.
At the time you apply, your site must be fully functional and not
in "beta" or "under construction" state. We
may reject your application in our sole discretion for any reason,
including but not limited to a determination that your site is unsuitable
for or incompatible with the AFFILIATE PROGRAM; that your site incorporates
images or content that is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening,
defamatory, obscene, harassing or racially, ethically or otherwise
objectionable (PORNOGRAPHY IS OBJECTIONABLE); or that your site
incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe
on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights.
We also reserve the right to terminate this Agreement in the event
that any such content is incorporated on your site after acceptance
of your application and the commencement of the term of this Agreement.
You may not use unsolicited email ("spam") to promote
your site, doing so will result in the immediate termination of
this agreement and forfeiture of any commissions owed.
2. Utilizing RandallGartman.Com Links and
Pages on Your Site
As and Affiliate Site ("AFFILIATE"), you
will be provided a variety of graphical and textual links, banner
advertisements and button links to our site containing RANDALLGARTMAN.COM'S
LOGOS and words identifying RANDALLGARTMAN.COM'S (each of these
links sometimes being referred to herein as "Links", or
individually as a "Link") which, subject to the terms
and conditions hereof, you may display on your site. You agree that
in using the Link or Links, you will cooperate fully with us in
order to establish and maintain such Link or Links. You may place
and use any Link in as many areas on your site as you wish, subject
only to the limitations set forth below. You agree to display such
Links and graphic images prominently throughout your site. You also
agree that you shall use the Links only in order to link to our
site and to promote your ability to do so pursuant to this Agreement.
You agree that you will not use our marks or links on any site other
than the site you specified in your application to the AFFILIATE
PROGRAM or another site we approve following your acceptance into
the Program. If you incorporate our marks or links into a site other
than the sites approved by us, this Agreement is void. You agree
that you shall not present the Links or any images comprising the
Links in combination with any other name or mark, in connection
with your own goods or services, or in any manner that may suggest
or imply that you or your goods or services are supplied by, sponsored
by, endorsed by or affiliated with us. You may not alter or change
the images provided by us without our express prior written consent.
You may not create links to our site other than Links provided by
or approved by us, and you may not use the Links in any way that
may alter the look, feel or functionality of our site. We will provide
all information necessary to allow you to make appropriate Links
from your site to our site. All Links must be approved by us. We
have the right in our sole discretion to monitor your site at any
time and from time to time to determine if you are in compliance
with the terms of the Agreement. We require our Online Store partners
to make reasonable efforts to keep information updated on their
sites. Please note that prices can fluctuate and products are continually
added and others discontinued. Therefore, if you elect to post specific
product and price information on your site it will be necessary
for you to check the main site periodically (WWW.STOPBEINGOVERWEIGHT.COM,
RANDALLGARTMAN.COM OR TELELCOACHU.COM) to ensure your information
is current.
3. Order Processing
We will process orders placed on-line by customers
who follow the Links from your site to the STOPBEINGOVERWEIGHT.COM
site and who subsequently enter the STOPBEINGOVERWEIGHT.COM site
to place additional orders on-line. We reserve the right to reject
or withhold acceptance or fulfillment of orders for any reason,
including but not limited to the failure of any person or entity
making an order to comply with our terms and conditions of sale,
that may be revised periodically. We will be solely responsible
for all aspects of order processing and fulfillment. We will track
the volume and amount of sales generated using the Links from your
site to ours. To permit accurate tracking and reporting, you must
ensure that the Links between your site and our site are properly
formatted.
4. Commissions
Only Products that are (i) sold by us, (ii) purchased
by a user linking on-line to our site initially from your site,
(iii) shipped by us, and (iv) for which we have received full payment
will qualify for a commission ("Commission")(each a "Qualifying
Purchase" and collectively, "Qualifying Purchases").
No Commission will be paid if the visitor to our site cannot be
tracked by our system. You are entitled to commissions generated
by purchases from this customer, including recurring orders (i.e.
"supplement subscriptions"), unless the customer becomes
AN "AFFILIATE". If the customer becomes an "AFFILIATE",
you are entitled to all commissions generated by said customer prior
to the customer entering INTO THE AFFILIATE AGREEMENT.
Commission rates ("Commission Rates") will be based on
the aggregate amount actually paid to us for Qualifying Purchases
of the Products for all sales, excluding amounts collected by us
for sales taxes, duties, gift-wrapping, shipping, handling, and
similar charges, amounts due to credit card fraud and bad debt,
and credits for returned goods ("Net Sales"). All available
items on our site will be included in the computation of Net Sales.
Commission Rates are as follows:
A. TWENTY-Five percent (50%) of the price received by RANDALLGARTMAN.COM,
FOR STOPBEINGOVERWEIGHT.COM PRODUCT.
B. We do not offer commissions on PRODUCT OR TRAINING PURCHASED
AT RANDALLGARTMAN.COM YET AS OF MARCH 16, 2004. THIS WILL CHANGE
WHEN OUR NEW TRACKING SYSTEM IS IN PLACE AND WHEN THIS HAPPENS A
NEW POSTING OF THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED.
Payment schedule
Commission payments shall be paid to your PayPal eMail address ON
THE 1st AND 15th OF EACH MONTH on a basis
for commissions that are at least $50.00. If the commission owed
is less than $50.00 we will withold the payment until next payment
period in which the total commission payable exceeds $50.00. (EXCEPTIONS
ARE BELOW)
PAYMENT EXCEPTIONS (READ CAREFULLY)
IF YOU DID NOT ENTER YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT'S EMAIL ADDRESS, NOR DID
YOU ENTER A VALID MAILING ADDRESS, WE ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO PAY YOU
COMMISSIONS. IF YOU HAVE ENTERED A VALID PHYSICAL MAILING ADDRESS
THAT CAN BE VERIFIED, YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR COMMISSIONS ON A QUARTERLY
BASIS PAID AS FOLLOWS.
JAN 1 - APR 1 - JULY 1 - OCT 1
Any commissions owed on returned items or payment
amounts lost due to fraud on refusal of payment will be deducted
from the commission owed. If the commission has already been paid
for such items, you agree to return the commission amount to RANDALLGARTMAN.COM,
Inc.
5. Licenses and Use of the RANDALLGARTMAN.COM
Logos and Trademarks
a. WE GRANT YOU A NON-EXCLUSIVE, NON-TRANSFERABLE,
REVOCABLE RIGHT TO (i) ACCESS OURSITE THROUGH THE LINKS SOLELY IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND (ii) SOLELY IN CONNECTION
WITH SUCH LINKS, TO USE THE RANDALLGARTMAN.COM TRADEMARK AND LOGO
AND SIMILAR IDENTIFYING MATERIAL RELATING TO US, FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE
OF LINKING YOUR SITE TO OUR SITE, WHERE YOUR USERS CAN PURCHASE
RANDALLGARTMAN.COM PRODUCTS. YOU MAY NOT ALTER, MODIFY, OR CHANGE
THE LICENSED MATERIALS IN ANY WAY. YOU ARE ONLY ENTITLED TO USE
THE LICENSED MATERIALS TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU ARE A MEMBER IN GOOD
STANDING OF THE Online Store PROGRAM
b. You agree not to use the Licensed Materials in any manner that
is disparaging or that otherwise portrays us in a negative light.
We reserve all of our rights in the Licensed Materials and of our
other proprietary rights. We may revoke your license at any time,
by giving you written notice.
c. You grant to us a non-exclusive license to utilize your names,
titles, and logos as set forth on Exhibit A hereto, as the same
may be amended from time to time (the "Online Store Program
Trademarks"), to advertise, market, promote, and publicize
in any manner our rights hereunder; provided, however, that we shall
not be required to so advertise, market, promote, or publicize.
This license shall terminate upon the effective date of the expiration
or termination of this Agreement.
6. Term 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, and commissions earned through the date
of termination will remain payable only if the related STOPBEINGOVERWEIGHT.COM
Product orders are not cancelled or returned. We may withhold your
final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount
is paid.
7. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained
in this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion. You may be
notified by email or a change notice may be posted on our site.
Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the
scope of available commissions, commission schedules, payment procedures,
and AFFILIATE Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable
to you, your only recourse is to terminate this agreement. Your
continued participation in the AFFILLIATE PROGRAM following our
posting of a change notice or new agreement on our site will constitute
binding acceptance of the change.
8. Obligations Regarding Your Site
a. You will be solely responsible for the development,
operation, and maintenance of your site and for all materials that
appear on your site. Such responsibilities include, but are not
limited to, the technical operation of your site and all related
equipment; creating and posting product reviews, descriptions, and
references on your site and linking those descriptions to our PRODUCTS
AND SERVICES; the accuracy and propriety of materials posted on
your site (including, but not limited to, all RANDALLGARTMAN.COM
related materials); ensuring that materials posted on your site
do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party and
are not libelous or otherwise illegal.
b. Your site shall not contain obscene material, including but not
limited to pornography.
c. We disclaim all liability for all such 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.
d. You are responsible to ensure all information on your site is
current with respect to information on www.STOPBEINGOVERWEIGHT.com
OR RANDALLGARTMAN.COM.
9. Confidentiality
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. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
each party is hereby authorized to deliver a copy of any such information
(a) to any person pursuant to a subpoena issued by any court or
administrative agency, (b) to its accountants, attorneys, or other
agents on a confidential basis, and (c) otherwise as required by
applicable law, rule, regulation, or legal process.
10. Relationship of Parties
You and RANDALLGARTMAN.COM, INC AND RANDALLGARTMAN.COM
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
11. Disclaimers
We make no express or implied warranties or representations
with respect to the online store owner Program or any Product(s)
or other items sold through the or otherwise on our Web site, and
WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PUPOSE. In addition, we make no representation
or warranty that the operation of our Web site, the Links, or our
procedures and systems tracking sales generated by your site will
be uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the
consequences of any interruptions or errors.
12. 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 Online Store PROGRAM, EVEN IF WE HAVE
BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
13. LIMITATION OF REMEDY
OUR AGGREGATE MONETARY LIABILITY ARISING WITH RESPECT
TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM SHALL NOT IN ANY EVENT
EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSIONS PAYABLE TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
14. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless RANDALLGARTMAN.COM,
INC and their subsidiaries and affiliates, and their directors,
officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members, and
other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities,
losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including
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
our use of the online store owner Trademarks infringes on any trademark,
trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property,
or other proprietary right of any third party, (ii) any misrepresentation
of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement
made by you herein, or (iii) any claim related to your site, including,
without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.
15. 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 AFFILIATE NETWORK AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION,
GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.
16. Governing Law
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the
United States and the STATE OF TEXAS without reference to the rules
of any jurisdiction governing choice of laws. Any action relating
to this Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts
located in DALLAS COUNTY, TX, and you irrevocably consent to the
personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts |