Affiliate Terms Conditions
PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT. THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND NOVOSBED INC. (DBA DreamFoamBedding.com) BY SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION OR ACCEPTING A REQUEST TO BECOME AN AFFILIATE YOU ARE AGREEING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH AND EVERY TERM AND CONDITION.
1. OVERVIEW
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to you becoming an affiliate in DreamFoamBedding.com’s Affiliate Program. Throughout this Agreement, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to DreamFoamBedding.com, and “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to the affiliate. The purpose of this Agreement is to allow HTML linking between your web site and the DreamFoamBedding.com website.
2. AFFILIATE OBLIGATIONS
2.1.
Novosbed accepts applications to be part of its Affiliate Program via email. At our sole discretion, we may reject your request and may terminate your involvement in the DreamFoamBedding.com Affiliate Program if we determine that your site is unsuitable for our Program, including if it:
2.1.1.
Promotes sexually explicit materials
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Promotes violence
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Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
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Promotes illegal activities
2.1.5.
Incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law
Novosbed accepts applications to be part of its Affiliate Program via email. At our sole discretion, we may reject your request and may terminate your involvement in the DreamFoamBedding.com Affiliate Program if we determine that your site is unsuitable for our Program, including if it:
2.1.1.
Promotes sexually explicit materials
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Promotes violence
2.1.3.
Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
2.1.4.
Promotes illegal activities
2.1.5.
Incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law
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Includes “Novosbed” or variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name
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Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion
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Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program
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You may not create or design your website or any other website that you operate, explicitly or implied in a manner which resembles our website nor design your website in a way which leads customers to believe you are DreamFoamBedding.com or any other affiliated business
2.2.
DreamFoamBedding.com reserves the right, at any time, to review your placement and approve the use of your Links and require that you change the placement or use to comply with the guidelines provided to you.
2.3.
The maintenance and the updating of your site are your responsibility. We may monitor your site as we feel necessary to make sure that it is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes that we believe should enhance your performance. 2.4. or any other copyrightable work. We will not be responsible (and you will be solely responsible) if you use another person’s copyrighted material or other intellectual property in violation of the law or any third party rights.
Includes “Novosbed” or variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name
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Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion
2.1.8.
Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program
2.1.9.
You may not create or design your website or any other website that you operate, explicitly or implied in a manner which resembles our website nor design your website in a way which leads customers to believe you are DreamFoamBedding.com or any other affiliated business
2.2.
DreamFoamBedding.com reserves the right, at any time, to review your placement and approve the use of your Links and require that you change the placement or use to comply with the guidelines provided to you.
2.3.
The maintenance and the updating of your site are your responsibility. We may monitor your site as we feel necessary to make sure that it is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes that we believe should enhance your performance. 2.4. or any other copyrightable work. We will not be responsible (and you will be solely responsible) if you use another person’s copyrighted material or other intellectual property in violation of the law or any third party rights.
3. RELATIONSHIP OF PARTIES
3.1
This Agreement shall not be construed to create any employment relationship, agency relationship, or partnership between Company and Affiliate. Affiliate shall provide services for Company as an independent contractor. Affiliate shall have no authority to bind Company into any agreement, nor shall Affiliate be considered to be an agent of Company in any respect.
This Agreement shall not be construed to create any employment relationship, agency relationship, or partnership between Company and Affiliate. Affiliate shall provide services for Company as an independent contractor. Affiliate shall have no authority to bind Company into any agreement, nor shall Affiliate be considered to be an agent of Company in any respect.
4. DreamFoamBedding.com RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
4.1.
We have the right to monitor your site at any time to determine if you comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
4.2.
We have the right to monitor your site at any time to determine if you comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
4.2.
We may notify you of any changes to your site that we feel should be made, or to make sure that your links to our website are appropriate and to notify further you of any changes that we feel should be made. If you do not make the changes to your site that we feel are necessary, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the DreamFoamBedding.com Affiliate Program.
4.3. DreamFoamBedding.com reserves the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in the DreamFoamBedding.com Affiliate Program immediately and without notice to you should you commit fraud in your use of the DreamFoamBedding.com Affiliate Program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, DreamFoamBedding.com shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales.
4.4. This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application, and will continue unless terminated hereunder.
4.3. DreamFoamBedding.com reserves the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in the DreamFoamBedding.com Affiliate Program immediately and without notice to you should you commit fraud in your use of the DreamFoamBedding.com Affiliate Program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, DreamFoamBedding.com shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales.
4.4. This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application, and will continue unless terminated hereunder.
5. TERMINATION
Either you or we may end this Agreement AT ANY TIME, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice can be in the form of mail, email or fax. Also, this Agreement will terminate immediately upon any breach of this Agreement by you.
6. MODIFICATION
We may modify any of the terms and conditions in this Agreement at any time at our sole discretion. In such event, you will be notified by email. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the payment procedures and DreamFoamBedding.com’s Affiliate Program rules. If any change is unacceptable to you, your only option is to end this Agreement. Your continued participation in DreamFoamBedding.com’s Affiliate Program following the posting of the change notice or new Agreement on our site will indicate your agreement to the changes.
7. PAYMENT
DreamFoamBedding.com uses software AffiliateWP to handle the tracking and payment. You will receive a Commission of $75 for each person that discovers DreamFoamBedding.com from your site and makes a purchase of a mattress thereon. People that have already visited DreamFoamBedding.com before returning to DreamFoamBedding.com through a link you control as part of this Agreement is not subject to commission. Payments are made automatically on the last day of each month when your account balance reaches $100 or more for the previous months’ transactions. Money credited to Your Account does not accrue interest. Because Novosbed offers a 120-night trial on its mattress products, Novosbed shall hold-back 20% of all commission for 120 days. The amount of such hold-back may be adjusted by Novosbed from time to time at its sole discretion. Notice of such changes shall be provided to affiliate prior to such change occurring.
8. ACCESS TO AFFILIATE ACCOUNT INTERFACE
You will create a password so that you may enter Novosbed’s secure affiliate account interface. From their site, you will be able to receive your reports that will describe our calculation of the commissions due to you.
9. PROMOTION RESTRICTIONS
9.1.
You are free to promote your websites, but naturally, any advertising that mentions DreamFoamBedding.com could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort. You should know that DreamFoamBedding.com always prohibits certain forms of advertising. For example, advertising commonly referred to as “spamming” is unacceptable to us and could cause damage to our name. Other prohibited forms of advertising include the use of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once. Also, you may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name, or your return email address. You may use mailings to customers to promote DreamFoamBedding.com so long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or web site, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. Also, you may post to newsgroups to promote DreamFoamBedding.com so long as the news group specifically welcomes commercial messages. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your web sites as independent from DreamFoamBedding.com. If it comes to our attention that you are spamming, we will consider that cause for immediate termination of this Agreement and your participation in the DreamFoamBedding.com Affiliate Program. Any pending balances owed to you will not be paid if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.
9.2. You are prohibited from bidding on keywords in any Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaign that includes keywords such as DreamFoamBedding.com, Dream Foam Bedding, www.DreamFoamBedding, www.DreamFoamBedding.com, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these. Such activity shall be considered trademark violation you will be banned from Merchant’s Affiliate Program. We will do everything possible to contact you before the ban. However, we reserve the right to expel any trademark violator from our affiliate program without prior notice, and on the first occurrence of such PPC bidding behavior.
9.3. Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “ParasitewareTM,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers. As used herein a. “ParasitewareTM” and “Parasitic Marketing” shall mean an application that (a) through accidental or direct intent causes the overwriting of affiliate and non-affiliate commission tracking cookies through any other means than a customer initiated click on a qualifying link on a web page or email; (b) intercepts searches to redirect traffic through an installed software, thereby causing, pop ups, commission tracking cookies to be put in place or other commission tracking cookies to be overwritten where a user would under normal circumstances have arrived at the same destination through the results given by the search (search engines being, but not limited to, Google, MSN, Yahoo, Overture, AltaVista, Hotbot and similar search or directory engines); (c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of Merchant site in IFrames, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open DreamFoamBedding.com’s site; (d) targets text on web sites, other than those web sites 100% owned by the application owner, for the purpose of contextual marketing; (e) removes, replaces or blocks the visibility of Affiliate banners with any other banners, other than those that are on web sites 100% owned by the owner of the application.
You are free to promote your websites, but naturally, any advertising that mentions DreamFoamBedding.com could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort. You should know that DreamFoamBedding.com always prohibits certain forms of advertising. For example, advertising commonly referred to as “spamming” is unacceptable to us and could cause damage to our name. Other prohibited forms of advertising include the use of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once. Also, you may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name, or your return email address. You may use mailings to customers to promote DreamFoamBedding.com so long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or web site, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. Also, you may post to newsgroups to promote DreamFoamBedding.com so long as the news group specifically welcomes commercial messages. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your web sites as independent from DreamFoamBedding.com. If it comes to our attention that you are spamming, we will consider that cause for immediate termination of this Agreement and your participation in the DreamFoamBedding.com Affiliate Program. Any pending balances owed to you will not be paid if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.
9.2. You are prohibited from bidding on keywords in any Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaign that includes keywords such as DreamFoamBedding.com, Dream Foam Bedding, www.DreamFoamBedding, www.DreamFoamBedding.com, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these. Such activity shall be considered trademark violation you will be banned from Merchant’s Affiliate Program. We will do everything possible to contact you before the ban. However, we reserve the right to expel any trademark violator from our affiliate program without prior notice, and on the first occurrence of such PPC bidding behavior.
9.3. Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “ParasitewareTM,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers. As used herein a. “ParasitewareTM” and “Parasitic Marketing” shall mean an application that (a) through accidental or direct intent causes the overwriting of affiliate and non-affiliate commission tracking cookies through any other means than a customer initiated click on a qualifying link on a web page or email; (b) intercepts searches to redirect traffic through an installed software, thereby causing, pop ups, commission tracking cookies to be put in place or other commission tracking cookies to be overwritten where a user would under normal circumstances have arrived at the same destination through the results given by the search (search engines being, but not limited to, Google, MSN, Yahoo, Overture, AltaVista, Hotbot and similar search or directory engines); (c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of Merchant site in IFrames, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open DreamFoamBedding.com’s site; (d) targets text on web sites, other than those web sites 100% owned by the application owner, for the purpose of contextual marketing; (e) removes, replaces or blocks the visibility of Affiliate banners with any other banners, other than those that are on web sites 100% owned by the owner of the application.
10. GRANT OF LICENSES
10.1.
We grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to (i) access our site through HTML links solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (ii) solely in connection with such links, to use our logos, trade names, trademarks, and similar identifying material (collectively, the “Licensed Materials”) that we provide to you or authorize for such purpose. You are only entitled to use the Licensed Materials to the extent that you are a member in good standing of DreamFoamBedding.com’s Affiliate Program. You agree that all uses of the Licensed Materials will be on behalf of DreamFoamBedding.com and the goodwill associated tin addition to that will ensure to the sole benefit of DreamFoamBedding.com.
10.2.
Each party agrees not to use the other’s proprietary materials in any manner that is disparaging, misleading, obscene or that otherwise portrays the party in a negative light. Each party reserves all of its respective rights in the proprietary materials covered by this license. Other than the license granted in this Agreement, each party retains all right, title, and interest to its respective rights and no right, title, or interest is transferred to the other.
We grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to (i) access our site through HTML links solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (ii) solely in connection with such links, to use our logos, trade names, trademarks, and similar identifying material (collectively, the “Licensed Materials”) that we provide to you or authorize for such purpose. You are only entitled to use the Licensed Materials to the extent that you are a member in good standing of DreamFoamBedding.com’s Affiliate Program. You agree that all uses of the Licensed Materials will be on behalf of DreamFoamBedding.com and the goodwill associated tin addition to that will ensure to the sole benefit of DreamFoamBedding.com.
10.2.
Each party agrees not to use the other’s proprietary materials in any manner that is disparaging, misleading, obscene or that otherwise portrays the party in a negative light. Each party reserves all of its respective rights in the proprietary materials covered by this license. Other than the license granted in this Agreement, each party retains all right, title, and interest to its respective rights and no right, title, or interest is transferred to the other.
11. DISCLAIMER
DreamFoamBedding.com MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING DreamFoamBedding.com SERVICE AND WEB SITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED THEREIN, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF DreamFoamBedding.com ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED. 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.
12. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
You represent and warrant that:
12.1.
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;
12.2.
You have the full right, power, and authority to enter into and be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and to perform your obligations under this Agreement, without the approval or consent of any other party;
12.3.
You have sufficient right, title, and interest in and to the rights granted to us in this Agreement.
13. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE OR GOODWILL OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FURTHER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, IN NO EVENT SHALL DreamFoamBedding.com’S CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSION FEES PAID TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.