This document sets out the Terms and Conditions for participation in the Paso Affiliate Program via Awin’s network. By checking this box you are agreeing to abide by the specific terms and conditions for this programme.
Creative
Affiliates may not alter any of the creative or text links available through the Awin interface. Affiliates are also requested not to hardcode banners into their sites, so updates made to those through Awin may take immediate effect.
Anyone found infringing on these terms will receive a warning and may have commissions reversed. We reserve the right to withhold commission during this time. Continuous infringement of these terms will result in suspension.
Bespoke creative can be supplied on request please get in touch with sophie@pasocbd.co.uk for further help.
A) You agree that you contract with Awin and that there is not, nor will be, any contractual affiliate relationship with PASO
B) Awin grants you, as a Contracted Affiliate, a non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable (sub)license for the term of the Affiliate Agreement to use and reproduce the PASO Marks solely for the purposes of placement of Ad Links on the Affiliate Sites.
C) Awin reserves the right to terminate the Affiliate Agreement at any time for any reason whatsoever.
D) You undertake to return to Awin or to delete all materials which relate to Ad Links, designs, developments, prototypes, product samples and other items provided by Awin pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement, in the event of termination, for any reason whatsoever, of the Affiliate Agreement.
E) You undertake to immediately cease (i) to further use and reproduce any Ad Link, PASO Mark or other Intellectual Property Rights of PASO (or one of PASO Affiliates or any third party related to PASO); (ii) to use all (technical) know-how and other information provided to the Contracted Affiliate by Awin pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement, in the event of termination, for any reason whatsoever, of the Affiliate Agreement.
F) The term of the Affiliate Agreement as well as the sublicense as mentioned under B is subject to the Term of the Agreement between Awin and PASO. For the avoidance of doubt the Affiliate Agreement and the sublicense will under no circumstances be longer than the remaining term of the Agreement between Awin and PASO, and will terminate in the event that the Agreement between Awin and PASO terminates, for any reason whatsoever.
G) You undertake not to use any Paso promotion codes or coupons that are not made available through Awin. Any promotion of a code before the official live date and time is not allowed. Any use of toolkits for product launches provided by Paso and/or Awin are not to be used before the embargo date and time lifts. Any violation of these terms will disallow you to earn commission on that code or product launch.
H) You guarantee that your Affiliate Site does not conduct any illegal activity and does not contain: 1. Discriminative content; 2. Pornographic content; 3. Hate/offensive/violent content; 4. Lewd/pornographic content; 5. Religious content; 6. Political content that endorses one party or candidate; 7. Aesthetically unpleasing content as advised by PASO; 8. Abusive or irresponsible promotion of Alcohol, Tobacco or Drugs; 9. Use of the word "sex" gratuitously or excessively; 10. Firearms, games of chance, and lotteries.
I) You undertake not to use other URLs, banners, button(s), pointer(s), icon(s) or other link(s) that individuals can click on and that enables them to navigate directly to PASO’s Site(s), than the Ad Links provided by Awin pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement.
J) You undertake not to modify any creative made available through Awin, without express permission and sign-off by Paso
K) You agree to use the creative/promotions made available through Awin.
L) You agree not to bid, except with prior written permission, on PASO’s (or PASO affiliates’) name and on any PASO Marks, PASO’s (or PASO affiliates’) trademarks or any common misspelling or confusingly similar trademarks, on any pay-for- placement search engines, including, but not limited to: google.com, yahoo.com (overture), ask.com, msn.com and ilse.nl. Furthermore, You agree, except with prior written permission, not to utilise, advertise or otherwise promote, any Paso terms in the headline or description copy associated with pay-for-placement search engines or in meta-tags, keywords, page titles or paid search engine advertising. The following phrases and terms are considered examples of Paso (trademarked) terms: Paso Pasos Pasocbd Pasocbd.co.uk Paso.com Pasotown Paso store Pasostore Paso discounts Paso coupons Paso clearance Paso products.
M) You shall at all times comply with Awin’s requests as to the use of the Ad Links and PASO Marks and shall not remove any PASO copyright notices, trade marks or trade names from the PASO Marks.
N) You acknowledge that you will respect all Intellectual Property Rights of any third party pursuant to this Affiliate Agreement
O) You explicitly acknowledge and agree that all Intellectual Property Rights in the PASO Marks, PASO Sites and PASO Products belong to and shall continue to belong to PASO (or PASO’s affiliates, its licensors or other third party owners) and that you do not have any rights in or to the PASO Marks, PASO Sites and PASO Products other than the right to use or reproduce them during the term and in accordance with the Affiliate Agreement.
P) You agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations for the performance of the Affiliate Agreement. Furthermore, you agree to comply with all environmental policies, standards and procedures described in manuals or other written notification provided to the Contracted Affiliate by Awin from time to time. Pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement, you shall in particular not (non-limitative): For example: 1) send spam; 2) use spyware; 2) misrepresent to visitors of its Affiliate Site;
Q) You agree that Awin has the right to audit your business facilities to verify compliance with the Affiliate Agreement, any laws and any guidelines imposed on you pursuant to the Affiliate agreement.
R) You undertake not to assign (which includes (i) a sale or other transfer of shares or of all or substantially all of the assets of the business of Contracted Affiliate and (ii) a merger, consolidation or other reorganization to which the Contracted Affiliate is a party) any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement without the prior written approval of Awin.
S) You agree to respect confidentiality regarding all documents and materials which are made available to you and clearly marked as ‘Confidential’ pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement.
T) Paso will aim to validate transactions on a twice-monthly basis, after the returns period has ended. This period is 30 days for Paso product and 30 days for other products.
U) Transaction queries must be submitted within 45 days of the transaction date. Paso reserve the right to decline claims submitted after this time period.
V) Toolbars are not permitted on the Paso affiliate programmes, in any region.
Paid Search Policy:
The Paso program has a closed PPC policy. Affiliates are not permitted to use pasocbd.co.uk or any other PASO URL as a display URL in any paid search listings. PASO do not allow affiliates to bid on any brand name or terms including any misspellings, variations or derivatives. Affiliates are not permitted to bid on phrases which include both brand terms and generic keywords. Affiliates are not permitted to include any brand terms, misspellings, variations or derivatives in any search string or display URL on any pay per click search engines (including, but not limited to, Google AdWords, Google Content Network, Yahoo, Overture, Miva, Mirago, Bing, AOL search, 7Search etc.). Examples of prohibited terms include but are not limited to: Paso Paso CBD Pasostore Paso-store Pasostore.com Pasocbd.com Pasocbd.co.uk getpaso.
The use of any of the above search terms as either a keyword or in the display URL of any PPC advert is prohibited. To ensure that you do not appear for any search strings that include the PASO brand name, please make sure the following terms are negatively matched in all PPC campaigns: Pasocbd Pasocbd.co.uk Paso.co.uk, PASO trademarks must not be used as a subdomain or subfolder on any display URL in paid search listings. For example: www.Paso.mywebsite.com www.mywebsite.com/Paso Anyone found infringing these terms will be contacted by the PASO Affiliate Team. Affiliates found to be breaching the program terms and conditions may have their commissions declined and will face suspension from the program. In extreme circumstances PASO reserves the right to immediately suspend any affiliates found breaching these terms and conditions and declining any commissions accrued from the activity.
Commission Rates
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