Affiliate Agreement
This Affiliate
Agreement ("Agreement") contains the terms and conditions between
WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company). ("WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company)", also referred to by the
words "we", "us" and "our") and you that apply
to your application to participate and to any subsequent participation as an
affiliate of WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) ("Affiliate") in WMJ
marine(DBA: WMJ company)'s Affiliate program (the "Affiliate
Program"). If you are accepted as an Affiliate, this Agreement will
describe the terms that govern the establishment of links from your Web site
that you identify in your Affiliate Application (your "Site") to
WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company)'s Web site at www.wmjmarine.com (the "WMJ
marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site"). By by
submitting your Affiliate Application, you are confirming that you have read
this Agreement, that it is a legally binding document, and that you agree to
be bound by the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement. PLEASE BE
SURE TO PRINT A COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT FOR YOUR RECORDS.
1. How to Become an
Affiliate
To begin the enrollment process for our Affiliate Program, you will need to
review the terms of this Agreement and indicate your acceptance of these
terms by clicking "I Agree" at the bottom of the page. (If you
click the "I Disagree" button, you will not be considered for
participation in the Affiliate Program.) If you agree to the terms by
clicking "I Agree", you will be linked to our Affiliate
Application. Once you complete and submit an Affiliate Application, we will
evaluate it and 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 our Affiliate Program for any reason, including, but not
limited to, business criteria that we may establish, or your inclusion in
your Site of content or links to content that we believe to be sexually
explicit, discriminatory, illegal, offensive, or infringing of third party
intellectual property rights.
2. The Program
Generally
As an affiliate, you place our links (e.g., banners, buttons or textual
links) on you web site. The Links will serve to identify your site as a
member of our Affiliate Program and will establish a link from your Site to
the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site. When a
visitor to your Site uses a Link to visit the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company)
Site, and makes a purchase meeting the criteria described in the
"Commissions" section of this Agreement, we will pay you commissions
as described in this Agreement. We will provide your organization
with a special URL that will allow you to monitor your organization's
activity at our store.
3. Commission
Eligibility and Calculation
You will qualify for a commission for sales by us of certain qualifying
products ("Qualifying Purchases") when all of the following
conditions are met:
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Products are purchased online within thirty days from the time
a customer links to the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ
company) Site from a Link on your Site using the same computer system. In
addition, for a sale to qualify, the customer must not have responded to
any other marketing activity (such as clicking on a link in an email, on a
banner or portal advertisement, or on a Link on another Affiliate's site)
subsequent to clicking on a Link on your Site;
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products are shipped by us to a shipping address;
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products are billed to a billing address; and
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we have received full payment, including
payment for shipping, taxes, and any other charges.
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Commissions will be
adjusted for product orders that are cancelled, undeliverable, returned, or
where payment is otherwise refunded or recredited
(including both full and partial refunds or recredits)
to the purchaser ("Customer Credits"). We will adjust your account
for Customer Credits on an ongoing basis, but at least monthly. If we have
paid you a commission, and the Qualifying Purchase is subsequently the
subject of a Customer Credit, the commission previously paid will be deducted
from your account on an on-going basis but at least monthly. You will not
receive a commission for any sales initiated or completed offline (for
example, by telephone or in store). Our determination of whether a commission
is payable is final and is binding on you.
Commission rates will
be based on the aggregate amount actually paid to WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ
company) for Qualifying Purchases, excluding amounts collected by us for
sales or other taxes, shipping, and similar charges, amounts due to credit
card fraud and bad debt, and Customer Credits ("Net Sales").
Commissions are only paid for certain qualifying products, and commission
rates are based on product categories. We establish the product categories
and place specific items within those categories in our sole discretion. Our
current categories and commission rates for products in those categories are
as follows:
- The
commission rate for products in all product categories is Five percent
(5%) of Net Sales for Qualifying Purchases.
- We do not pay
commissions on purchases of WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Gift
Certificates
4. Commission Payment
When the total commissions due to you (based on the requirements in the
previous section) meet or exceed $25, we will send you a
commission check for the applicable commission amount (less any taxes
required to be withheld under applicable law). At the same time, we will send
a statement of activity to you. Commission checks and statements of activity
will be sent approximately 30 days after the end of each month in which your
account balance meets or exceeds $25. If the balance of your account is less
than $25, we will carry over the balance to the next month. If, due to
Customer Credits, your account with us is ever in a negative balance, you
agree to pay us the balance in collected funds immediately upon demand.
5. Sales Reports
We will provide your
organization with a special URL that will allow you to monitor your
organization's activity at our store. The data will be updated once daily, and
will reflect data up to, but not including the prior day; throughout the
month, all Customer Credits will be reported and deducted from Qualifying
Purchases. All information available at the link provided is our confidential
information and is protected under the "Confidentiality" section of
this Agreement.
6. Our
Responsibilities; Pricing and Other Policies
We will be responsible for providing all information necessary to allow you
to establish Links from your Site to the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site.
We will be responsible for processing each order placed by a customer
following a Link from your Site to the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site, for
tracking the Net Sales for Qualifying Purchases generated by your Site, and
for providing information to you regarding sales statistics. We reserve the
right to reject orders that do not comply with any requirements that we may
establish from time to time. We will be responsible for all aspects of order
processing and fulfillment, including order entry, payment processing,
shipping, cancellations, returns, and related customer service.
Customers purchasing
products after linking to the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ
company) Site via the Links will be deemed to be our customers. All of our
rules, policies, terms, conditions and operating procedures concerning
customer orders, customer service, privacy and product sales will apply to
these customers. We may change our policies, terms, conditions and operating
procedures, including pricing, at any time. We solely will determine the
prices to be charged for products sold in accordance with our own pricing
policies. You may not include price information on your Site unless pricing
information is made available on Links we provide through the Reporting.
Prices and availability of products may vary from time to time. We will use
commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we
cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.
7. Links; Your Site
and the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site
You must comply with the terms of this Agreement and any instructions on
affiliate link Site in using the Links. To permit accurate tracking and
reporting, you will be responsible for ensuring that the Links are properly
formatted. In using our Links, you agree that you will cooperate fully with
us in establishing and maintaining such Links. In addition, we encourage (but do not
require) you to include a Link on the home page of your Site. Each Link
connecting users of your Site to the pertinent area of the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site must in no way alter the
look, feel or functionality of the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site. We reserve the right to disable Links at
any time without notice to you.
You further agree that
your Site will not, in any way, copy or resemble the look and feel of the WMJ
marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site and that you will not do anything to create the
impression that your Site is (or is a part of) the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ
company) Site. Specifically, you agree that you will not frame the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site in any manner. You also
hereby agree that your Site will not contain any content of our WMJ
marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site or any materials which are proprietary to us,
except 1) with our prior permission or 2) the materials that are obtained via
Affiliate link Site and used by you in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement and any associated instructions
8. Operation of Your
Site Generally
You are solely responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of
your Site, and for all materials that appear on your Site. Your
responsibilities include, but are not limited to (i)
the technical operation of your Site and all related equipment; (ii) the
accuracy, legality and propriety of materials posted on your Site, and (iii)
ensuring that materials posted on your Site are not libelous or defamatory.
You agree that your Site will not contain content that this sexually
explicit, discriminatory, illegal, offensive, or infringing of third party
intellectual property rights, and acknowledge that we may terminate this
Agreement in the event your Site contains, or links to content that we
believe to be sexually explicit, discriminatory, illegal, offensive, or
infringing of third party intellectual property rights. In addition, you are
responsible for ensuring that your Site accurately and adequately discloses
through a privacy policy how you collect, use, store, and disclose data
collected from visitors. You are also solely responsible for ensuring that
your Site complies with all applicable intellectual property (including
copyright) and other laws, and that it does not infringe or otherwise violate
the intellectual property rights of any third party. You must have express
permission to use another party's copyrighted or other proprietary material.
We will not be responsible if you use another party's copyrighted or other
proprietary material in violation of the law.
We disclaim all
liability for all the matters set forth in the previous paragraph. Your
obligations under this section are subject to certain indemnification
obligations described in the "Indemnification" section of this
Agreement.
9. Publicity; Email
and Other Communications
You may not create, publish, distribute, or permit any written material,
including email, that makes reference to us without
first submitting such material to us and receiving our written consent.
10. Licenses and Use
of WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Logos and Trademarks
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We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right
to (i) access the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company)
Site through the Links solely in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement and (ii) solely in connection with such Links provided by us, to
display our logos, trade names, trademarks, and similar identifying
material relating to us (collectively, the "WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ
company) Trademarks"), for the sole purpose of directing visitors of
your Site to the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Site as provided in this
Agreement. You may not modify the WMJ marine(DBA:
WMJ company) Trademarks in any way. We may terminate your right to use the
WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Trademarks for any
reason at any time in our sole and absolute discretion.
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You shall not make any specific use of any WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Trademarks for purposes other
than directing visitors to your Site to the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company)
Site as provided in this Agreement, without first submitting a sample of
such to us and obtaining our prior written consent which we may withhold in
our sole and absolute discretion. You agree not to use the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Trademarks in any manner that
is disparaging or that otherwise portrays us in a negative light. You shall
not sublicense any of the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ
company) Trademarks. You acknowledge that we (or certain related
corporations or other entities) retain all right, title and interest in the
WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Trademarks, and you
agree that you will not at any time dispute or contest, directly or
indirectly, such exclusive right and title to the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ
company) Trademarks or the validity thereof. You agree that you do not
acquire any rights in the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ
company) Trademarks, and acknowledge that they are licensed AS IS without
warranty of any kind. You further agree that you will comply with all
federal, state and local laws and regulations in connection with your use
of the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Trademarks.
Your use of the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company)
Trademarks shall include the appropriate trademark, copyright or other
legal symbol or notice of our right to the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company)
Trademarks and our interest therein. We reserve all of our rights in the
WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Trademarks and of our
other proprietary rights. This license will terminate automatically upon
the termination of this Agreement, and you will immediately discontinue all
uses of the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company)
Trademarks. Your obligations under this section are subject to certain
indemnification obligations described in the "Indemnification"
section of this Agreement.
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You grant to us a non-exclusive license to utilize your names,
titles, and logos (the "Affiliate Trademarks"), to advertise, market,
promote, and publicize in any manner our rights hereunder; provided,
however, that we shall not be required to advertise, market, promote, or
publicize our rights, your Site or your Affiliate Trademarks in any way.
This license shall terminate upon the effective date of the termination of
this Agreement.
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11. Term of the
Agreement; Termination
The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate
Application and will end immediately when terminated by either party. Either
party may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by
giving the other party written notice of termination. If we terminate this
Agreement or notify you of a breach by you, you shall be required to remove
all Links within one (1) hour of receipt of notice. We also reserve the right
to disable Links upon termination. You are only eligible to earn commissions
on sales occurring during the term. Commissions earned through the date of
termination will remain payable only to the extent that the related
Qualifying Purchases are not subject to Customer Credits. We may withhold
your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is
paid. Such final payment will be made even if the total amount of commissions
is less than $25.
12. Modification
We reserve the right to modify any terms and conditions contained in this
Agreement at any time. Modifications may include, but are not limited to,
changes in products eligible for commissions, commission rates, commission
schedules, payment procedures, and Affiliate Program rules. If any
modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse and sole remedy is to
terminate this Agreement.
13. Representations
and Warranties
You hereby represent and warrant to us as follows:
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You will use the Links only as authorized under this
Agreement.
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II.
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This Agreement has been duly and validly accepted, executed
and delivered by you and constitutes your legal, valid, and binding
obligation, enforceable against you in accordance with its terms.
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III.
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The acceptance, execution, delivery, and your performance of
this Agreement, and your consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby
will not, with or without notice, lapse of time, or both, conflict or
violate 1) any provision of law, rule, or regulation to which you are
subject, 2) any provision of your by-laws or certificate of incorporation
or other documents relating to your formation or operation as a legal
entity, or 3) any agreement or other instrument applicable to you or
binding upon your assets or properties.
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You are the sole and exclusive owner of the Affiliate
Trademarks and have the right and power to grant us the license to use the
Affiliate Trademarks in the manner contemplated in this Agreement, and such
grant does not and will not 1) breach, conflict with, or constitute a
default under any agreement or other instrument applicable to you or
binding upon your assets or properties, or 2) infringe upon any trademark,
trade name, service mark, copyright, or other proprietary right of any
other person or entity.
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V.
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No consent, approval, or authorization of, exemption by, or filing
with any governmental authority or third party is required in connection
with the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement or any
other action taken by you.
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VI.
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To the best of your knowledge there is no pending threatened
claim, action, or proceeding against you, or any entity controlling,
controlled by or under common control with you with respect to the
execution, delivery, or consummation of this Agreement, the operation of
your Site or the Affiliate Trademarks. To the best of your knowledge, there
is no basis for any such claim, action, or proceeding.
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VII.
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If you are an individual, you are an adult of at least 18
years of age, and if you are a legal entity, you are duly formed and
validly existing in good standing in the jurisdiction of your formation.
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14. Confidentiality
During the course of performance of this Agreement, we may disclose to you
certain business, technology, research, customer and other business information,
including trade secrets, which we consider to be and treat as confidential
information. You agree to maintain the Confidential Information in
confidence, and shall protect it with the same degree of protection that you
use to protect your own Confidential Information (which shall not be less
than reasonable care), shall not disclose it to any third party, and shall
use it for the sole purpose of performing under this Agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may disclose such information as may be
required by law or governmental regulations or authority, provided, however,
that prior to disclosure of any information required by law or governmental
regulations or authority, you shall give prompt notice to us to allow us an
opportunity to seek to protect such Confidential Information. We may enforce
your obligations under this section with an injunction or other similar
relief as provided in the "Injunctive Relief" section of this
Agreement. Finally, you agree that all customer information related to the
Affiliate Program belongs to us.
15. Disclaimers
NEITHER WE (NOR ANY RELATED CORPORATION OR OTHER ENTITY), BE FREE NOR ANY OF
OUR OTHER SUPPLIERS MAKE ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM OR ANY PRODUCTS SOLD TO CUSTOMERS USING
THE LINKS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, NONINTERFERENCE, NON-INFRINGEMENT,
ACCURACY, OR ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, DEALING OR TRADE
USEAGE, AND THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM AND PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED "AS
IS", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. IN ADDITION, NEITHER WE (NOR ANY
RELATED CORPORATION OR OTHER ENTITY), BEFREE, NOR OUR OTHER SUPPLIERS MAKE NY
REPRESENTATION THAT THE OPERATION OF THE WMJ MARINE(DBA:
WMJ COMPANY) SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, AND NEITHER WE, (NOR
ANY RELATED CORPORATION OR OTHER ENTITY), BEFREE NOR OUR OTHER SUPPLIERS WILL
BE LIABLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY INTERRUPTIONS OR ERRORS.
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE,
AND DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ANY FAILURE TO TRACK QUALIFYING PURCHASES AND PAY
COMMISSIONS CAUSED BY ANY VIRUS, TROJAN HORSE, WORM OR OTHER MALICIOUS CODE,
OR WHICH OCCURS THROUGH THE INTERFERENCE OF ANY THIRD PARTY.
16. Limitation of
Liability
NEITHER WE (NOR ANY RELATED CORPORATION OR OTHER ENTITY), BEFREE NOR OUR
OTHER SUPPLIERS WILL BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR
RELIANCE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF REVENUE, PROFITS, OR DATA, ARISING IN
CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, THE PRODUCTS OR THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM, EVEN
IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FURTHER, OUR
AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE PRODUCTS AND
THE PROGRAM WILL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSIONS PAID OR PAYABLE TO YOU
UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
17. Relationship of
Parties
The parties to this Agreement are independent contractors,
and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture,
agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between
the parties. Neither of us will have any authority to make or accept any
offers or representations on behalf of the other. You will not make any
statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that reasonably would
contradict anything in this section.
18. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify, defend (through counsel acceptable to us) and
hold us (and any related corporation or other entity), and our other
suppliers, and our and their directors, officers, employees, agents,
partners, members, and other owners, harmless 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 , are connected to or are
based on 1) any claim that our 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, 2) any failure or
breach of any representation, warranty, covenant, or agreement made by you
under this Agreement, 3) your use or any misuse of our name or trademarks,
including but not limited to the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Trademarks, 4)
any claim related to your Site, including, without limitation, its
development, maintenance or operation, or content therein not attributable to
us, and 5) any violation by you or your Site of any copyright, patent,
trademark, trade secret or other proprietary right of any third party.
19. Injunctive Relief
You agree and acknowledge that, because of the unique nature of the
Confidential Information, the WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) Trademarks, the
Links and any other intellectual property or customer information shared by
us or used hereunder, we would suffer irreparable harm if you fail to comply
with the terms of this Agreement, and money damages and other remedies at law
available in the event of a breach or threatened breach of this Agreement are
not, and will not be adequate to compensate for the harm caused by the breach
or the threatened breach. Accordingly, we shall be entitled to such relief as
a court of competent jurisdiction may deem appropriate. Such injunctive
relief will be in addition to and not in lieu of any other remedy available
at law or in equity.
20. Notices
All notices, consents, requests, instructions, approvals and other
communications made, required or permitted hereunder (each a
"Notice") shall be given in writing and delivered (i) by personal delivery, (ii) by electronic mail, (iii)
by certified or registered mail (return receipt requested), or (iv) by a
nationally recognized courier. If the Notice is to you, it shall be addressed
to the electronic or postal address you have provided in the Affiliate
Application; if the Notice is to WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company), it shall be
addressed to WMJ marine(DBA: WMJ company) 2932 zircon place, Carlsbad, ca
92009, Attention: wmjmarine Affiliate Program.
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