MASTER AFFILIATE AGREEMENT
This Master Agreement ("Agreement") is made between AudioOufitters,LLC dba ezGear ("ezGear.com") and Affiliate ("Partner").
BACKGROUND
Partner and ezGear.com are each enrolled in the The LinkShare Network(tm).
Partner and ezGear.com each desire to establish the general terms and conditions which shall govern advertising and commission arrangements between Partner and ezGear.com which result from their participation in this affiliate program.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
In consideration of the promises set forth below, we agree as follows:
1. Offers and Engagements.
1.1. From time to time, ezGear.com may post on mTracker offers to pay to other participants a specified commission in return for certain advertising services leading to a Qualifying Link (defined below). If such offers receive an identification number from mTracker they shall be deemed to be an "Offer" for purposes of this Agreement. The term "Offer" shall also include any counter-offers resulting from an Offer.
1.2. If an Offer made by one party is accepted by the other party in accordance with the Offer's terms via mTracker an "Engagement" will have been formed. Each Engagement shall have the same identification number as the original Offer that lead to the Engagement and shall be governed by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. However, in the event of any inconsistency between the terms of the specific Engagement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Engagement shall govern.
1.3. At any time prior to Partner providing a Qualifying Link, ezGear.com may with or without notice (a) change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of an Offer or an Engagement or (b) remove, alter, or modify any graphic or banner ad submitted by ezGear.com for an Offer or an Engagement. Partner agrees to promptly implement any request from ezGear.com to remove, alter or modify any graphic or banner ad submitted by ezGear.com that is being used by Partner as part of an Engagement.
2. Partner's Responsibilities.
2.1. Partner will link its site to areas within ezGear.com's site using special URLs specified in the Engagement (the "Required URLs"). Partner may post as many links to the Required URLs and the rest of ezGear.com's site as it likes on Partner's site. The position, prominence and nature of links on the Partner's site shall comply with any requirements specified in the Engagement, but otherwise will be in the discretion of Partner.
2.2. Partner agrees not to make any representations, warranties or other statements concerning ezGear.com, ezGear.com's site, any of ezGear.com's products or services, or ezGear.com's site policies, except as expressly authorized by the Engagement.
2.3. Partner is responsible for notifying ezGear.com of any malfunctioning of the Required URLs or other problems with Partner's participation in the Engagement. ezGear.com will respond promptly to all concerns upon notification by Partner.
2.4. Merchant reserves the right to terminate this Agreement in the event that any Restricted Content is incorporated on Affiliate's site after acceptance of your registration form and the commencement of the term of this Agreement.
Merchant may also terminate this Agreement if Partner engages in keyword bidding where they send traffic to a domain that they do not own. This means the Partner must direct traffic to their own site before sending to ezGear.com. If Partner misrepresents itself as a Merchant Website by altering the visual "look and feel" of or text from Merchant's site, and/or engage in "framing" the Merchant Website or engages in domain squatting.
Partner agrees not to register or use any URLs and/or domain names which are considered by Merchant to be infringing the Merchant's name or trademarks, including but not limited to the ezGear and AudioOutfitters, LLC Company trademarks.
Partner may bid on such terms and phrases as relates to paid search, but MUST NOT OUTBID Merchant on trademark terms. These include ezGear.com and ezVision, ezSkin, powerStick, ezArmor, ezSound and any other trademarked owned or claimed by ezGear.com. Affiliate is restricted from using merchant URL (www.ezGear.com) or any page in the merchant's site as a landing page for paid search.
3. Commissions.
3.1. ezGear.com agrees to pay Partner the commission specified in the Engagement if ezGear.com sells to a visitor to ezGear.com's site (a "Customer") a product or service that is the subject of the Engagement and if that Customer has accessed ezGear.com's site and purchased the product or service via a Qualifying Link.
3.2. A "Qualifying Link" is a link from Partner's site to ezGear.com's using one of the Required URLs or any other URL provided by ezGear.com for use in mTracker if it is the last link to the ezGear.com's site that the Customer uses during a Session where a sale of a product or a service to Customer occurs. A "Session" is the period of time beginning from a Customer's initial contact with ezGear.com's site via a link from the Partner's site and terminating when the Customer either returns to the ezGear.com's site via a link from a site other than Partner's site or the Engagement expires or is terminated.
3.3. ezGear.com shall have the sole right and responsibility for processing all orders made by Customers. Partner acknowledges that all agreements relating to sales to Customers shall be between ezGear.com and the Customer.
3.4. All determinations of Qualifying Links and whether a commission is payable will be made by mTracker and will be final and binding on both ezGear.com and Partner. Prices for the products will be set solely by ezGear.com in its discretion.
4. Ownership and Licenses.
4.1. Each party owns and shall retain all right, title and interest in its names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights and proprietary technology, including, without limitation, those names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights and proprietary technology currently used or which may be developed and/or used by it in the future.
4.2. ezGear.com grants Partner a revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce and transmit the name, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress and proprietary technology, as designated in the Engagement or during the registration process in mTracker, on Partner's site solely for the purpose of creating links from Partner's site to ezGear.com's site during Engagements. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement or permitted by applicable law, Partner may not copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the same. Partner may not sublicense, assign or transfer any such licenses for the use of the same, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer is void.
4.3. Partner grants ezGear.com a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce and transmit any graphic or banner ad submitted by Partner solely for co-branding purposes or as a return link from ezGear.com's site to Partner's site. ezGear.com will remove such graphic or banner ad upon Partner's request.
5. Termination.
5.1. Either party may terminate any Engagement at any time by deleting their acceptance of the Engagement through mTracker. Termination of an Engagement shall not terminate this Agreement or any other Engagement.
5.2. Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time, for any reason, provided that they provide at least five day's prior written notice of such termination to the other party and mTracker. Termination of this Agreement shall also terminate any outstanding Engagements. However, all rights to payment, causes of action and any provisions which by their terms are intended to survive termination, shall survive termination of this Agreement.
6. Representations.
6.1. Each party represents to the other that (a) it has the authority to enter into this Agreement and sufficient rights to grant any licenses granted hereby, and (b) any material which is provided to the other party and displayed on the other party's site will not (i) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or right of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation; (iii) be defamatory or libelous; (iv) be lewd, pornographic or obscene; (v) violate any laws regarding unfair competition, antidiscrimination or false advertising; (vi) promote violence or contain hate speech; or (vii) contain viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines.
6.2. EXCEPT FOR THE ABOVE REPRESENTATIONS NEITHER PARTY MAKES ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES TO THE OTHER PARTY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF EZGEAR.COM ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
7. Cross-Indemnification.
7.1. Each party hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the other party and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents, from and against any and all liability, claims, losses, damages, injuries or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) brought by a third party, arising out of a breach, or alleged breach, of any of its representations or obligations herein.
8. Limitation of Liability.
8.1. In no event shall either party be liable to the other party for any direct, indirect, special, exemplary, consequential or incidental damages, even if informed of the possibility of such damages.
9. General.
9.1. Each party shall act as an independent contractor and shall have no authority to obligate or bind the other in any respect.
9.2. This Agreement has been made in and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the state of ezGear.com's headquarters. Any action to enforce this Agreement shall be brought in the federal or state courts located in that state. If you need to send official correspondence, send it via registered mail to ezGear.com's headquarters to the attention of ezGear.com's legal department.
9.3. This Agreement may be agreed to in more than one counterpart, each of which together shall form one and the same instrument. The parties agree that execution may be achieved in any format convenient to the parties.
9.4. The provisions of this Agreement are independent of and separable from each other, and no provision shall be affected or rendered invalid or unenforceable by virtue of the fact that for any reason any other or others of them may be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part.