Affiliate Program Agreement
This Agreement, made and entered by and between Protus,
Inc. ("Protus" "we" or "our"), a Canadian Corporation, and you,
the affiliate ("you" or "Affiliate"), contains the complete terms
and conditions that apply to your participation in the MyFax or
my1voice Affiliate Program (the "Affiliate Program" or "Program").
1. Enrollment in the Program
You will submit a complete Affiliate Program application through
either Commission Junction or DirectTrack® in which
you agree to abide by these terms and conditions. After we carefully
review your application, we will notify you of your acceptance or
rejection to the Program. We may reject your application (at our
sole discretion) if we feel your site is unsuitable or inconsistent
with our mission.
We do not accept any libelous or defamatory sites, hacking sites,
software copying/piracy, illegal, hate, or racial hate sites, adult,
pornographic, or sites that link to adult oriented material whatsoever.
If your site is accepted, Protus may terminate this Agreement anytime
thereafter if your site is determined (at our sole discretion) to
be unsuitable for the Program.
2. Promotion of Our Affiliate Program
Upon your acceptance as an Affiliate Site, we will make available
to you a variety of graphic and textual links (the "Links"), which,
subject to the terms and conditions hereof, you may display as often
and in as many areas of your site as you desire. The Links will
serve to identify your site as a member of our Affiliate Network
and will establish a link from your site to ours.
Re: MyFax- Protus Agrees To:
- Pay Affiliate twelve dollars (US $12) per new MyFax account subscription that you refer from your site.
- Pay Affiliate on a tiered compensation schedule for confirmed subscriptions. A confirmed subscription is one in which the new MyFax account remains active for a minimum of forty-five (45) days. An affiliate is to be paid using the following tiered schedule:
- fourteen dollars (US $14) per confirmed subscription when sending up to twenty-four (24) subscriptions per month.
- twenty dollars (US $20) per confirmed subscription when sending between twenty-five (25) and forty-nine (49) subscriptions per month.
- thirty dollars (US $30) per confirmed subscription when sending over fifty (50) subscriptions per month.
- No fees shall be payable if the new account is fraudulent.
- Pay Affiliate on a monthly basis when your account has reached a minimum of twenty-five dollars (US $25) in fees payable. Accounts with a balance of less than twenty-five dollars (US $25) will roll over to the next month.
Re: my1voice- Protus Agrees To:
- Pay Affiliate fifteen dollars (US $15) per new my1voice account subscription that you refer from your site.
- Pay Affiliate on a tiered compensation schedule for confirmed subscriptions. A confirmed subscription is one in which the new account remains active for a minimum of forty-five (45) days. An affiliate is to be paid using the following tiered schedule:
- thirty dollars (US $30) per confirmed subscription when sending up to twenty subscriptions per month.
- thirty-six dollars (US $36) per confirmed subscription when sending greater than twenty (20) subscriptions per month.
- No fees shall be payable if the new account is fraudulent.
- Pay Affiliate on a monthly basis when your account has reached a minimum of twenty-five dollars (US $25) in fees payable. Accounts with a balance of less than twenty-five dollars (US $25) will roll over to the next month.
Affiliate Agrees To:
- Place MyFax/my1voice Links on your site.
- Have sole responsibility for the development, operation, and maintenance of your site and for all the materials that appear on your site.
- Ensure that all materials posted on your site are not illegal and do not infringe on the rights of any person or entity of any kind. We disclaim all liability for all materials on your site.
- Indemnify, defend, and hold Protus harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses relating to the development, operation, and contents of your site.
3. 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.
4. 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 Affiliate Network, even if we have been
advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate
liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Affiliate
Program will not exceed the total commissions paid or payable to
you under this Agreement. You agree to indemnify and hold Protus
and its agents harmless from any and all claims, losses, damages,
judgments, expenses and costs (including attorney fees and expenses)
arising out of this Affiliate Agreement or the Affiliate Network.
5. 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 MyFax/my1voice
account registrations. 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 MyFax/my1voice
Affiliate Program. We may revoke your license anytime by giving
you written notice.
6. Disclaimers
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with
respect to the MyFax/my1voice websites or the MyFax/my1voice Affiliate
Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability,
non-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.
7. Termination
The terms of this Agreement will begin upon acceptance of your application.
This Agreement shall commence on the date of approval of your Affiliate
Program application and shall continue thereafter in full force
and effect until terminated at any time by either party by giving
the other party written notice of 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 Protus,
MyFax and my1voice 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.
8. Policies and Pricing
Customers who subscribe to MyFax/my1voice services through this
Program will be deemed to be a Protus customers. Accordingly, all
of our rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer
orders, customer service, and MyFax/my1voice subscriptions 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 services sold under this Program in accordance
with our own pricing policies.
9. Modifications
We may modify any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement
at any time. You will be notified by email, and a change notice
will be posted on our site. If the modifications are unacceptable
to you, your only recourse is to terminate this Agreement. Your
continued participation in this Affiliate Program after a change
notice has been posted will constitute binding acceptance of the
change.
10. Independent Contractors
You and Protus 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.
11. Representations and Warranties
You hereby represent and warrant to us as follows:
- This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by you and constitutes your legal, valid, and binding obligation, enforceable against you in accordance with its terms.
- The development, operation, and contents of your site do not infringe upon the copyright, trademark of Protus, or any other right of any person or entity.
12. 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 Websites
that are similar to or compete with your Website. You have independently
evaluated your desirability of participating in the MyFax/my1voice
Affiliate Program and are not relying on any representation, guarantee,
or statement other than as set forth in this Agreement.
13. Paid Search
You may not (i) bid on our trademarks, brand names or any variations
or misspellings, (ii) use our trademarks or brand names in the Display
URL, or (iii) redirect to any of our sites.
14. Privacy and your website
There must be a direct link from your website to our website. You
may not in any way mislead the visitor through such activities as
copying or creating the impression that your website is our website.
You may not use any device, program, robot, Iframes or hidden frames
to cause a transaction to be made.
Your website will post a privacy policy that complies with all applicable
laws and regulations and your site will not collect or retain personally
identifiable information of MyFax/my1voice customers.
15. Fraud
If you commit fraud or falsify information in connection with the
registration of MyFax/my1voice accounts through the Links on your
site, this Agreement will be terminated immediately. In addition,
you will be liable to Protus for any and all damages that Protus
suffers as a result of such actions. You will also be responsible
for returning to Prous all commissions received for fraudulent/falsified
accounts, and we will not hesitate to pursue all legal causes of
action against you to the fullest extent possible under the law.
16. Anti-Predatory Advertising Policy
Affiliates will be removed from the MyFax/my1voice Affiliate Program
and forfeit any pending commissions if they are utilizing or distributing
software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission
from other affiliates in our Program. Predatory advertising is defined
as any method that creates or overlays links or banners on Websites,
spawns browser windows, or any method invented to generate traffic
from a Website without that Website owner's expressed, written permission.
17. Email Compliance
For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency
of which is hereby acknowledged, Affiliate agrees to comply with
the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and all rules and regulations
thereunder in its distribution of email that contains messaging
regarding MyFax/my1voice. More specifically, email that meets this
criteria:
- May only be sent to recipients who have expressly agreed directly with Affiliate, in advance, to receive such communications from Affiliate;
- Must clearly and conspicuously identify that the message is an advertisement or solicitation, unless recipient has given prior affirmative consent to receipt of the message. Affirmative consent means that the recipient expressly consented to receive the message either in response to a clear and conspicuous request for such consent or at the recipient's own initiative;
- Must clearly and conspicuously notify the recipient of the opportunity to decline to receive further commercial email from Affiliate;
- Must provide a valid physical postal address of Affiliate;
- Must provide a functioning return email address or other Internet-based mechanism, clearly and conspicuously displayed, that a recipient may use to submit, in a manner specified in the commercial email, a reply email or other Internet-based mechanism a request not to receive future commercial email from Affiliate. The return address or Internet-based mechanism must be capable of receiving such messages for at least thirty (30) days after the transmission of the original message. Affiliate may not send subsequent commercial emails more than ten (10) business days after the recipient's request not to receive further emails has been received (unless there is a subsequent affirmative consent by the recipient to receive such emails.) Once Affiliate receives such a request, Affiliate may not sell, lease, exchange or otherwise transfer or release the email address of the recipient;
- May not contain materially false or materially misleading header information, or deceptive subject heading;
- May not contain sexually oriented material.
Affiliate may not initiate or assist in the transmission of commercial
email using an email address: (1) that was collected through automated
means; from a third party Website in violation of that third party's
posted privacy policy, or (2) that was generated through automated
means by combining names, letters or numbers into numerous permutations.
Affiliate may not conduct fraudulent activities related to electronic
mail, including but not limited to the material falsification of
header or transmission information, the unauthorized use of someone
else's computer to send bulk commercial email, and the registration
of an email account that materially falsifies the identity of the
actual registrant.
Upon Protus' request, Affiliate shall provide Protus with documentation
demonstrating that the recipients consented to receive the email
at issue.
18. Public Statements
You agree that we may identify you or Your Site as an Affiliate
of the Program as long as you participate in the Program. We may
make this identification orally, in writing or electronically.
19. Reservation of Rights
Protus may terminate this Agreement at any time if your site is
determined (at our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program,
even if your site has not changed since the time that your Affiliate
Program application was accepted. Protus also reserves the right
to monitor Affiliate sites at any time to determine whether they
are in compliance with this Agreement.
20. Governing Law
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario
and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without reference
to rules governing choice of laws.
All terms and conditions of the MyFax/my1voice Affiliate Agreement remain in full force and effect.