Rancho Meladuco, ranchomeladuco.com (hereinafter referred to as “The Company”) Affiliate Agreement
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to your participation as an Affiliate in the Affiliate Program of The Company, and the establishment of links from your affiliate website to our website: www.ranchomeladuco.com
Definitions
Customer: The user sent to The Company site via affiliate link
Affiliate / You: The publisher advertising links/promotions of The Company
Enrollment in the Affiliate Program You need to submit a complete Affiliate Program Application. We will evaluate your application and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection in 1 to 7 business days. We may reject your application if we determine (at our sole discretion) that your site is unsuitable for the Affiliate Program for any reason. If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Affiliate Program at any time.
Prohibited Sites/Verbiage
Sites that promote sexually explicit material or violence.
Sites that promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, or physical disability.
Sites that promote illegal activities.
Sites or verbiage making medical claims in regards to our products/services (ie. the curing or recession of an ailment).
Requires affiliates to seek permission if they want to place orders on behalf of customers. They must clear large volume orders they are brokering. We reserve the right to fulfill large volume orders.
Spam
Affiliate agrees to not utilize SPAM in promoting The Company. This action will result in the immediate termination of the Affiliate account with a cancellation of any pending commissions. Affiliate will also be in violation of The Company’s Affiliate Agreement and subject to legal action and be held liable for any financial loss incurred by The Company. Any service interruptions to The Company’s website as a result of Affiliates spamming will be billed to Affiliate at $500 U.S. dollars per hour until service is restored.
For the purpose of this agreement, SPAM is defined as emailing ANYONE, in bulk or by single mailing, about The Company, who has not specifically requested the information directly from Affiliate. The ONLY exceptions to this are:
Mailing to APPROPRIATE OPT-IN mailing lists where the source does the mailing on the Affiliate's behalf. We request that Affilates use discretion in selecting third-party opt-in mailing lists. Using anything but the most reputable sources could generate spam complaints against the Affiliate resulting in suspension or termination.
You may include information on The Company in email Acknowledgement Messages for orders and inquiries that you—The Affiliate—receive so long as it is stated clearly that you will be sending them an acknowledgment.
The Company reserves the right to consider ANY type of advertisement about The Company posted to a Newsgroup or Chat Room to be spam.
Promotion of Our Affiliate Relationship
As an Affiliate Site, we will make available to you Links (each of these links sometimes being referred to herein as "Links" or, individually, as a "Link") and banners, which, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, you may display as often and in as many areas on your site as you desire. The Links will serve to identify your site as a member of our Affiliate Network and will establish a link from your site to ours.
Links:
Subject to the terms of clause © below, we will provide you with Links, which will consist of graphic images or text provided by us (and subject to change from time to time in our sole discretion). These Links will connect your site directly to ours. By utilizing these Links, users of your site will be able to order, directly from us, any product(s) that were described or referenced on your site.
Agreements Regarding Links:
In utilizing Links, you also agree that you will display on your site only those graphic images (indicating a Link) that are provided by us, and you will substitute such images with any new images provided by us from time to time throughout the term of this Agreement. All Links may be modified and/or expanded from time to time throughout the term of this Agreement pursuant to the mutual agreement of the parties hereto. Each Link connecting users of your site to the pertinent area of our site will in no way alter the look, feel or functionality of our site. In addition, we encourage (but do not require) you to include a Link to the home page of our site.
PPC Bidding Rules Publishers are prohibited to bid on the following:
Branded/trademarked terms
Derivatives of branded/trademarked terms
Broad-match based on branded/trademarked terms
Paid Search publishers are also not allowed to use the brand name Vermont Wagyu or derivatives thereof in:
Display URL
You may bid on the branded/trademarked terms of other in-market organizations and competitors, as well as link directly to Vermont Wagyu from a Paid Search Ad.
Affiliates are also prohibited from bidding on the following trademarks, domain names, and or variations thereof:
Rancho Meladuco
ranchomeladuco.com
Rancho Meladuco Farm
Rancho Meladuco Date Farm
Rancho Meladuco Dates
Our Responsibilities
We will be responsible for providing all information necessary to allow you to make appropriate Links from your site to our site. We will be solely responsible for processing every order placed by a customer following a special Link from your site, for tracking the volume and amount of sales generated by your site, and for providing information to Affiliate Sites regarding sales statistics. We will be responsible for order entry, payment processing, shipping, cancellations, returns, and related customer service.
Other Responsibilities and Opportunities of Affiliate Sites and Publishers
If you qualify and agree to participate as an Affiliate Site or Publisher, you have our expressed permission and consent to display Links prominently throughout your site or embedded in a published article as you see fit.
Contests and Promotions:
As an Affiliate, you will be entitled to participate and promote on your site any sweepstakes, contests, and special promotions we may offer. In addition, you will be entitled to earn commissions as set forth.
Only offers and promotional tools provided explicitly by The Company for use on an affiliate site are valid.
The unauthorized use of promotional offers taken from another website is strictly forbidden and may result in the termination of this agreement
Compliance with the Agreement:
We have the right in our sole discretion to monitor your site at any time and from time to time to determine if you are in compliance with the terms of this Agreement.
We will monitor for FTC compliance to ensure disclosures are adequately added.
Reports of Sales
You will be given a user name and password and have the ability to access our ShareASale Merchant Page to receive your sales statistics on a daily basis.
Your Responsibilities
You are solely responsible for ensuring that reviews, descriptions, and articles on your site comply with applicable copyright, FTC disclosure, and other laws. You must have express permission to use another party’s copyrighted or other proprietary material. We are not responsible for violations or infractions carried out by our Affiliates on their sites or in their published materials.
Policies and Pricing
Customers who buy The Company’s products through the Affiliate Program will be deemed to be customers of The Company. Accordingly, all of our rules, policies and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and sales will apply to those Customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for our products sold under the Affiliate Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Our prices and product availability may vary from time to time. Be aware price changes may affect Products that you already have listed on your site. Pricing changes should be updated often. You have the option to not include price information in your product descriptions as a means of avoiding pricing updates.
Customers sent to The Company must be the end user of the product/service. The Company must approve of any promotional methods in which The Affiliate is placing an order on behalf of the customer. For example, if any large-volume customers wish to have The Affiliate broker a large order from The Company, it is the responsibility of The Affiliate to communicate with The Company to ensure that inventory and shipping commitments can be met. In the absence of such communication, The Company reserves the right to decline the sale.
Publicity
All permissions granted to make reference to The Company in written materials are granted directly to The Affiliate. You shall not permit any third-party—either contracted or volunteer— to write material that makes reference to The Company without first submitting such material to us and receiving our written consent, which we agree shall not be unreasonably withheld.
Licenses and Use of the The Company’s logos and Trademarks
WE GRANT YOU A NON-EXCLUSIVE, NON-TRANSFERABLE, REVOCABLE RIGHT TO (i) ACCESS OUR SITE THROUGH THE LINKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND (ii) SOLELY IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH LINKS AND UNDER THE CONDITIONS PROVIDED FOR HEREIN, TO USE OUR LOGOS, TRADE NAMES, TRADEMARKS, AND SIMILAR IDENTIFYING MATERIAL RELATING TO US (COLLECTIVELY, THE "LICENSED MATERIALS"), FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SELLING PRODUCTS ON YOUR SITE OR IN PUBLICATION FOR THE COMPANY. YOU MAY NOT ALTER, MODIFY, OR CHANGE THE LICENSED MATERIALS IN ANY WAY WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION. YOU ARE ONLY ENTITLED TO USE THE LICENSED MATERIALS WHILE YOU ARE A MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING OF THE AFFILIATES PROGRAM.
You shall not make any specific use of any Licensed Materials for purposes other than selling products on your site for The Company, without first submitting a sample of such to us and obtaining the prior written consent of The Company’s Affiliate Program Manager(s), which shall not be unreasonably withheld. We reserve all of our rights in the Licensed Materials and of our other proprietary rights. We may revoke your license at any time, by giving you written notice.
Promotion through Google Shopping / Product Listing Ads are not allowed unless express permission is provided.
