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Affiliates Program 		     
Affiliates Agreement

This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an individual's or entity's participation in the Connected Lines Affiliates Program. As used in this Agreement, "we" means Connected Lines, "you" means the applicant, "Site" means a World Wide Web site and, depending on the context, refers either to connetedlines.com, or to any site that you will link to our site (and which you will identify in your Affiliates application).

1. Enrollment in the Program

To begin the enrollment process, you will submit a complete Affiliates Program application. We will evaluate your application and notify you of your acceptance or rejection. We may reject your application if we determine (at our sole discretion) that your site is unsuitable for the Affiliates Program. Unsuitable sites include those that:
  • Promote violence.
  • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
  • Promote illegal activities.
  • Include "Connected Lines" or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names.
  • Otherwise violate intellectual property rights.
  • Mislead others.
  • Engage in spamming, indiscriminate advertising, or unsolicited commercial email.
By participating in the Affiliates Program you agree that you will not engage in any such activities. If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Affiliates Program at any time. If we accept your application and your site is thereafter determined (at our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Affiliates Program, we may terminate this Agreement.

2. Promotional Coupon

Once you have been accepted into the Affiliates Program, you may distribute your Promotional Coupon to your customers. You may distribute the promotional Coupon in paper or electronic format. You may print, copy, and/or link to your Promotional Coupon.

In addition, you may not:
  1. Display or reference on your site, any trademark or logo of any third party seller on the connectedlines.com site.
  2. Use any data, images, text, or other information obtained from us or our site in connection with this Agreement in an unlawful manner. It must be in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
  3. Modify or alter any Content that consists of the Promotional Coupon, other than to resize it;
  4. Modify or alter any Content that consists of a graphic image, other than to resize it; or text other than to shorten its length;
  5. Sell, redistribute, sublicense or transfer any Content;
  6. Use any Content in a manner intended to send sales to any site other than the Connected Lines site;
  7. Display Content that is no longer displayed on the Connected Lines site or that we notify you is no longer available for your use. It must be deleted;
  8. Directly or indirectly offer any person or entity any consideration or incentive (including, without limitation, payment of money (including any rebate), or granting of any discount or other benefit) for using the Promotional Coupon on your site to access our site (e.g., by implementing any "rewards" program);
  9. Read, intercept, record, redirect, interpret, or fill in the contents of any electronic form or other materials submitted to us by any person or entity;
  10. Modify, redirect, suppress, or substitute the operation of any button, link, or other interactive feature of our site or a Connected Lines Affiliate;
  11. Take any action that could reasonably cause any customer confusion as to our relationship with you, or as to the site on which any functions or transactions are occurring;
  12. Post or serve any advertisements or promotional content around or in conjunction with the display of our site (e.g., through any "framing" technique or technology or pop-up windows), or assist, authorize, or encourage any third party to take any such action;
  13. Attempt to circumvent the referral fee schedule or artificially increase your referral fees;
  14. Attempt to intercept or redirect (including, without limitation, via user-installed software) traffic from or on, or divert referral fees from, any Web site that participates in the Affiliates Program;
  15. Seek to purchase or register any keywords, search terms or other identifiers that include the word "Connected Lines" or variations thereof for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service.
If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in any of the foregoing activities, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold any referral fees otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement.

3. Links on Your Site

Once you have been notified that your site has been accepted into the Affiliates Program, you may link to your online Promotional Coupon located at www.connectedlines.com. You will be responsible for the content, style, and placement of these links.

Connected Lines will provide you with guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking. To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and referral fee accrual, your link must adhere to these guidelines. The link to the Promotional Coupon contains a Coupon Code, which uniquely identifies you. You will earn referral fees only when customers purchase Connected Lines Products using your Coupon Code. We will not be liable to you for p urchases made without using your Coupon Code.

4. Order Processing

Connected Lines will be responsible for all aspects of order process and fulfillment, (e.g. prepare order forms, process payments, cancellations, and returns, and handle customer service). Connected Lines will track sales made to customers who purchase Products by using your Promotional Coupon and will make available to you reports summarizing this sales activity. The form, content, and frequency of the reports may vary from time to time at our discretion.

5. Referral Fees

Connected Lines will pay you referral fees on Product sales to third parties. For a Product sale to be eligible to earn a referral fee, the customer must purchase the product with your Coupon Code from Connected Lines, accept delivery of the product at the shipping destination, and remit full payment to Connected Lines. We will only pay referral fees on such Products forty-five days after the order, payment, and shipping have occurred.

We will not pay referral fees on any Products that are purchased by customers who do not enter your Coupon Code, even if the customer previously followed a link from your site to our site or received a Promotional Coupon from you. Referral fees will not be paid on returned or cancelled orders.

You will earn referral fees based on the price of products, according to fee schedules set by us. "Price" means the Product purchase price and does not include costs for shipping, handling, coupons, discounts, and taxes. The current referral fee schedule is:
15% of qualifying revenues from the sale of products purchased in accompaniment with your Promotional Coupon.
6. Referral Fee Payment

Connected Lines will pay you referral fees on a quarterly basis. Forty-five days following the end of each quarter, we will send you a check for the referral fees earned on your sales of products that were sold during that period. However, if the referral fees payable to you for any quarter are less than $50.00, we will hold those referral fees until the total amount due is at least $50.00 or until this Affiliate Agreement is terminated.

In the event the Affiliate Agreement is terminated and your account balance is less than $50.00, a $10.00 check processing fee will be deducted from your referral fees. As such, the referral fee payment will not be issued on account balances of $10.00 or less.

If a Product that generated a referral fee is returned by the customer, we will deduct the corresponding referral fee from your next payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we will send you a bill for the referral fee.

7. Policies and Pricing

Customers who buy through this Affiliates Program will be deemed to be customers of Connected Lines. All Connected Lines rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning orders, customer service, and product sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. We will determine the prices to be charged for products sold in accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect Products that you have listed on your site, you may not include price information in your product descriptions. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.

8. Limited License

We grant you a nonexclusive, revocable right to use the graphic images and text and such other images for which we grant express permission, solely for the purpose of identifying your site as a participating affiliate and to assist in generating product sales. You may not modify the graphic image or text, or any other of our images. We reserve all of our rights in the graphic image and text, any other images, and all other intellectual property rights. Connected Lines may revoke your license at any time by giving you written notice.

9. Responsibility of Referring Site

You will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of your site and for all materials that appear on your site. For example, you will be solely responsible for:
  • Ensuring the technical operation of your site and all related equipment.
  • Creating and posting Connected Lines Product descriptions on your site and linking those descriptions to our Promotional Coupon.
  • Ensuring the accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your site (including, among other things, all Product-related materials).
  • Ensuring that materials posted on your site do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights).
  • Ensuring that materials posted on your site are not libelous or otherwise illegal.
  • Ensuring that your site accurately and adequately discloses, either through a privacy policy or otherwise, how you collect, use, store, and disclose data collected from visitors, including, where applicable, that third parties (including advertisers) may serve content and/or advertisements and collect information directly from visitors and may place or recognize cookies on visitors' browsers.
We disclaim all liability for these matters. Further, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys' fees) relating to the development, operation, maintenance, and contents of your site.

10. Terms of the Agreement

The terms of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliates Program application and will end when terminated by either party. Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination. Upon the 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 other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Affiliates Program. You are eligible to earn referral fees only on our sales of Qualifying Products that occur during the term, and referral fees earned through the date of termination will remain payable only if the related orders are not canceled or returned. We may withhold your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid.

11. Modification

We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on our site. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the scope of referral fees, fee schedules, payment procedures, and Program rules.

IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO THE APPLICANT, THE ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. THE APPLICANT'S CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR NEW AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.

12. Relationship of Parties

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 Agreement.

13. 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 Affiliates Program, whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement.

14. Disclaimers

We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, noninfringement, 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.

15. 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 WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.

16. Miscellaneous

The laws of the United States and the state of New Hampshire will govern this Agreement, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. 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 be 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 provision or any other provision of this Agreement.

     



 
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