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Associate Partner Initiative Agreement
This Associate
Partner Agreement (hereinafter the Agreement) contains the terms
and conditions that apply to an individual's or company's participation
in the Candor Technologies Associate Partner Network (the "Associate
Partner Network").
- DEFINITIONS:
As used in this
Agreement,
1.1. "we" means
the Candor Technologies Associate Partner Network as operated by
Candor Technologies (Pty) Ltd, a company incorporated in terms of
the laws of South Africa with its principal place of business in
Princess street, Hout Bay Cape Town
1.2. "you" and
"Associate Partner" means the applicant in terms of the Associate
Partner Network.
1.3. "Associate
Partner Network" means the Associate Partner's link to the Candor
Technologies Associate Partner Network site locatable at www.bizcardprint.com,
1.4. "Associate
Partner website " means the applicants website which will link to
the Associate Partner network site at www.bizcardprint.com
"BizCardPrint.com
orders and products" mean the printed business cards and digital
files of colour business cards offered by the Candor Technologies
Associate Partner Network, and do not include other personalized
products that may be offered on the website by other vendors.
- The Associate
Partner Network structure
The Candor Technologies Associate Partner Network is intended
for web sites to offer on-line setting, proofing and ordering
of business cards to their customers via the bizcardprint.com
Associate Partner network website.
- Associate
Partner Enrolment
a. To begin the Associate Partner enrolment process, you will
review this Agreement and complete the Associate Partner Application
at the end of this Agreement. We will evaluate your application
and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection. We may reject
your application if we determine (using our sole discretion) that
your site is unsuitable for the Associate Partner Network for
any reason, including, but not limited to, inclusion of content
that is in any way promoting illegal activities, violence, sexually
explicit materials, discrimination based on race, sex, religion,
nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age. If we reject
your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Associate
Partner Network at any time.
b. You may only enrol one Associate Partner account per
applicant
c. As an Associate Partner, you cannot Sponsor yourself.
d. Once you have become an Associate Partner, you cannot
change Sponsors (unless your Sponsor agrees).
- Scope
of Services
a. The Candor Technologies Associate Partner network shall
make available, through a hyperlink to its site on the Internet
World Wide Web located at www.bizcardprint.com, its products and
services to visitors of the Associate Partner's web site. The
Candor Technologies Associate Partner network will add new products
as they may be developed.
b. Candor Technologies shall create, maintain, and manage
all aspects of the Associate Partner Network operation, including
the software and hardware environment and connections to Internet
Providers, subject to the terms of this Agreement.
- Licenses
Candor Technologies grants the Associate Partner, during the
term of this Agreement, a royalty-free, non-exclusive license
to establish the link(s) between the Associate Partner site and
the Associate Partner network site and to display trade names,
trade marks, service marks, products, and logos upon written approval,
not to be unreasonably withheld, for the purpose of indicating
the location of the links and in connection with the marketing
and promotion of the links.
- Intellectual
property rights
Candor Technologies owns all rights, title, and interest to
the technology and all content that make-up the Associate Partner
Network website including any space available for advertising
or other independent revenue producing mechanisms.
- Promotion
Associate Partner agrees to generally promote the Candor Technologies
Associate Partner Network to its clients and users. All such promotional
materials and activities shall be approved by both Candor Technologies
and the Associate Partner before being made publicly available.
- Restrictions
You agree to use the links in the exact format we send them
to you and not to alter, modify or adapt the links in any manner.
You agree not to engage in the practice of "spamming", or otherwise
sending out unsolicited emails to any third parties in connection
with the Associate Partner Program or acting as a representative
or representative of Candor Technologies in any way. Breach of
any of the provisions of this clause constitutes a material breach
of the agreement.
- Order
Processing
Candor Technologies will process orders placed by customers
who follow the designated special links from the Associate Partner
site. We reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply
with any requirements that we may periodically establish. We will
be responsible for all aspects of order processing and fulfilment.
Among other things, we will process payments, cancellations, and
returns. We will track sales made to customers who purchase products
in the Candor Technologies Associate Partner Network.
- Sales
and Activity Reports
To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and commission accrual,
you must ensure that the special links between the Associate Partner
site and the Associate Partner network site are properly formatted.
Associate Partner activity report may be requested by email: associates@bizcardprint.com.
If you earn more than R1000.00 in Associate Partner commissions,
you are entitled to a monthly Associate Partner report.
- Associate
Partner commission and payment
Candor Technologies will track all unique BizCardPrint.com
orders placed through the Associate Partner Network site and will
pay a commission of the net BizCardPrint.com orders revenue paid
by the third party client, as referred by the Associate Partner
site value; excluding any applicable taxes, shipping, refunds,
reprints, and returns. We will pay referral fees on transactions
that are made by a customer who visits our site directly (rather
than through a special link from your site), if the customer previously
followed a link from your site to ours, by means of a tracking
number assigned to that customer.
The BizCardPrint.com orders and products include the printed colour
business cards and digital files of colour business cards offered
by the Candor Technologies Associate Partner Network, and do not
include any other personalized products that may be offered on
the website by other vendors.
Should an existing Associate Partner refer a new Associate Partner
client to the Candor Technologies Associate Partner Network, Candor
Technologies Associate Partner Network will pay a commission of
net BizCardPrint.com order revenue received by the third party
client, excluding any applicable taxes, shipping, refunds, reprints,
and returns as generated by that newly referred Associate Partner
website.
Commissions will be paid on a three monthly basis unless the fees
payable to you are less than R1000.00, whereupon we will hold
those fees until the total commission earned is at least R1000.00
If an order that generated a commission is returned by the customer
for whatever reason, we will deduct the corresponding commission
from your next payment.
- Commencement
and duration
This Agreement will commence upon our acceptance of your Associate
Partner Network application and will continue indefinitely. Either
party may terminate this Agreement at any time, by giving the
other party 30 days written notice of its intention to terminate
the agreement. You are only eligible to earn commission fees on
sales occurring during the period of the agreement and commission
fees earned after the date of termination will remain payable
only if the product orders are not cancelled or returned. We may
withhold final payment for a period of sixty days from termination
to ensure full reconciliation of any amounts still owing to the
Associate Partner. Upon termination of this Agreement, Associate
Partner agrees to remove their hyperlink to BizCardPrint.com within
five (5) business days.
- Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in
this Agreement, including percentages for Associate Partners and
sponsors, at any time and in our sole discretion without notice
to the Associate Partner, by posting a change notice or a new
agreement on our site. Modifications may include, for example,
changes in the scope of available commission fees, fee schedules,
payment procedures, and Associate Partner Network rules. If any
modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to
terminate this agreement. Your continued participation in the
Associate Partner Network following our posting of a change notice
or new agreement on our site will constitute binding acceptance
of the change.
- Confidentiality
and Non-Disclosure
In the performance of this Agreement, Candor Technologies
and Associate Partner may obtain or develop certain information,
which is considered by either party to be proprietary and confidential,
is designated in written form as confidential, which is not generally
known other than by Candor Technologies or Associate Partner,
and which provides commercial advantage to Candor Technologies
or Associate Partner. Confidential information shall not include
information that (a) is now or later becomes generally known to
the public (other than as a result of a breach of this Agreement);
(b) is independently developed by Candor Technologies or Associate
Partner; (c) Candor Technologies or Associate Partner lawfully
obtains from any third Party who has lawfully obtained such information;
or (d) is later published or generally disclosed to the public
by Candor Technologies or Associate Partner. Candor Technologies
or Associate Partner shall bear the burden of showing that any
of the foregoing exclusions apply to any information or materials.
Candor Technologies or Associate Partner shall not, without the
other Party's prior written permission, use for any purposes,
unless it is in connection with this Agreement, reveal or make
available to any person any proprietary or confidential information
or trade secrets. Candor Technologies and Associate Partner shall
limit access to proprietary information to those employees and
agents to whom disclosure is necessary for the performance of
this Agreement.
- Data Collection
and Privacy
Associate Partner certifies that if Usage Statistics have
been collected, it does not reasonably anticipate that the Usage
Statistics shall be used as a factor in establishing any consumer's
eligibility for (a) credit or insurance used primarily for personal,
family, or household purposes, (b) employment purposes, Company
and Associate Partner agree that the Usage Statistics are not
intended to be a consumer report as used in any legislation or
ordinances and that either Party may terminate this Agreement
if the Usage Statistics are deemed to be such a consumer report.
- Warranties;
Disclaimers
Candor Technologies makes no expressed or implied warranties
or representation with respect to the Associate Partner Network
or any products sold through the Associate Partner Network (including,
without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, non-infringement,
or any implied warranties arising out of a 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.
- Relationship
of Parties
You and we 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.
- Indemnification
Each Party agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the other
Party and the officers, directors, agents, Associate Partners,
distributors, franchisees and employees of the other Party from
and against any and all actions, causes of action, claims, demands,
costs, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable
attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to the other Party's
representations, warranties, or other obligations under this Agreement.
- Limitation
of Liability
The Associate Partner hereby indemnifies the Candor Technologies
Associate Partner Network against any liability in respect of
direct or indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any
loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising in connection with
this Agreement or the Candor Technologies Associate Partner Network,
even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
- Governing
Law; Arbitration of Disputes
This agreement shall be deemed to have been made in South
Africa and the construction validity and performance of this agreement
shall be governed in all respect by the laws of South Africa.
Any
disputes between the parties arising under or relating to this
agreement shall be resolved through arbitration, using the English
language and subject to the rules and procedures of the Arbitration
Foundation of South Africa.
Any arbitration may be commenced upon the filing by either party
of a demand to arbitrate. The award rendered by the arbitrator
shall be final and binding upon both parties and shall not be
subject to judicial appeal.
The place of arbitration shall be Cape Town, South Africa.
- Independent
Investigation
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO 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 WEBSITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY
OF PARTICIPATING IN THE ASSOCIATE PARTNER NETWORK AND ARE NOT RELYING
ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN IS SET
FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.
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