DREAM
ESSENTIALS ASSOCIATE PARTNER PROGRAM
Affiliate
Operating Agreement
This Agreement, made and entered by and between
Dream Essentials and you, the affiliate ("you"
or "Affiliate"), contains the complete
terms and conditions that apply to your participation
in the Dream Essentials Associate Partner Program
(the "Affiliate Program" or "Program").
1.
Enrollment in the Program
You
will submit a complete Affiliate Program application
from our site. By completing the application,
you authorize that you have read and accept
this Affiliate Operating Agreement. 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 the purpose of Dream Essentials.
If your site is accepted, Dream Essentials may
terminate this Agreement anytime thereafter
if your site is determined (at our sole discretion)
to be unsuitable for the Program. Only sites
in English are
eligible to participate in Dream Essentials
Affiliate Partner Program.
2.
Promotion of the Affiliate Program
As
an affiliate, we will make available to you
a variety of graphic and textual links (each
of these links referred to herein as "Links"
or, individually, as a "Link") which,
subject to the terms and conditions hereof,
you may display on relevant areas of your site.
The Links will serve to identify your site as
a member of our Program and will establish a
Link from your site to ours.
As
an affiliate of Dream Essentials, you agree
not to create web pages with affiliate links
specifically designed to promote sales via search
engines. Instead, your affiliate links should
be part of the regular content of your website.
This condition is not designed to prevent the
creation of legitimate information or reviews
about Dream Essentials. Instead, it is meant
to help prevent search engine spam, especially
the submission of low-quality, poor content
"doorway pages." If you are concerned
you might violate this condition, you may contact
us for clarification
In
addition, the program restricts you from running
paid placement listings (such as via Overture
or Google) where ads for the program are linked
to the words directly associated with Dream
Essentials, specifically company names or URLs.
Again, if you have questions about linking an
ad to keywords, you may contact
us for clarification
3.
Our Responsibilities
We
will be responsible for providing all information
necessary to allow you to make appropriate Links
from your site to our site, however, all Links
must be approved in writing by us. We will be
solely responsible for processing orders placed
on our site by a customer following a Link from
your site, tracking the volume and amount of
sales generated by your site, and providing
information to affiliate sites regarding sales
statistics. We reserve the right to reject orders.
We will be responsible for order entry, payment
processing, shipping, cancellations, returns,
and customer service related to our site.
4.
Responsibilities of Affiliates
You
are responsible for placing the Dream Essentials
links on your site. You have sole responsibility
for the development, operation, and maintenance
of your site and for all the materials that
appear on your site.
You
must 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. You indemnify, defend, and hold
us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses
relating to the development, operation, and
contents of your site. As an Affiliate, you
will make sure that your site does not copy
or resemble the look and feel of Dream Essentials
and any of its properties or create the impression
that your site is our site or a part of our
site.
5.
Commission
Sales
of Dream Essentials products will qualify
for
a commission when the following conditions
are met: products are sold by us, products
are purchased
by users linking to our site from your site
through a Link, products are shipped by us
and
Dream Essentials has received full payment.
Commission rate will be equal to 20% of net
sales for qualifying purchases.
The
commissions paid under this Agreement are for
use by you only and may not be transferred or
in any manner passed on to any third party unless
expressly authorized in writing by us. When
the total commissions due to you exceed $50,
we will send a commission check for the applicable
amount. Commission checks will be sent approximately
35 days after the end of every month. If the
balance of your account is less than $50, we
will roll over the balance to the next month. For International accounts payments shall be made using Paypal (http://www.paypal.com). Associates based in the Untied States may elect to receive their payments via this method also.
6.
Policies and Pricing
Customers
purchasing Dream Essentials products through
the Program will be deemed our customers. All
rules, policies, terms, and conditions and operating
procedures concerning customer orders, customer
service, and Dream Essentials product sales
will apply to those customers. We may change
our policies and operating procedures, including
pricing, at any time. We solely will determine
the prices to be charged for Dream Essentials
products sold under the Program 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.
Prices and availability of Dream Essentials
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.
Publicity
You
cannot create, publish, distribute, or permit
any material that makes reference to us or uses
our name or any of our trademarks without first
submitting such material to us and receiving
our written consent.
8.
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 membership in Dream
Essentials. 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 Dream Essentials
Associate Partner Program. We may revoke your
license anytime by giving you written notice.
9.
Term of the Affiliate Operating Agreement
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 Dream Essentials 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.
10.
Modification
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.
11.
Relationship of Parties
You
and Dream Essentials 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.
12.
Disclaimers
We
make no express or implied warranties or representations
with respect to the Dream Essentials website
or the Dream Essentials Associate Partner 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.
13.
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, or any
other right of any person or entity.
14.
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.
15.
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.
16.
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 the desirability
of participating in the Dream Essentials Associate
Partner Program and are not relying on any representation,
guarantee, or statement other than as set forth
in this Agreement.
17.
Anti-Spam Policy
Affiliates
will be removed from the Dream Essentials Associate
Partner Program and forfeit any pending commissions
if they are caught spamming. Spamming is not
allowed and will not be tolerated.
18.
Fraud
If
you commit fraud or falsify information in connection
with the purchase of products at Dream Essentials
through the Links on your site, this Agreement
will be terminated immediately. In addition,
you will be liable to Dream Essentials for any
and all damages that Dream Essentials suffers
as a result of such actions. You will also be
responsible for returning to Dream Essentials
all commissions received for such purchases.
19.
Governing Law
This
Agreement will be governed by the laws of the
United States and the State of Washington State,
without reference to rules governing choice
of laws. Any action relating to this Agreement
must be brought in the federal or state courts
located in Olympia, Washington State, 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 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 a provision or any
other provision of this Agreement.
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