Terms & Conditions
Last revised: January 1, 2020
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THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND CHEMIST CONFESSIONS INC. BY REGISTERING AS OUR 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
Welcome to Chemist Confessions Inc. ShareASale Affiliate Agreement Terms & Conditions (the “Agreement”). This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to you becoming an affiliate as part of Chemist Confessions' ShareASale Affiliate Program. The purpose of this Agreement is to allow HTML linking between your website and Chemist Confessions' website. Please note that throughout this Agreement, "we," "us," and "our" refer to Chemist Confessions Inc. and "you," "your," and "yours" refer to the affiliate.
2. Affiliate Obligations
2.1. Our affiliate program runs through ShareASale. Chemist Confessions Inc. has the right to reject or revoke your affiliation at our sole discretion or if we determine that your site/s and/or various online third party services, such as social media and social networking services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (“Social Networking Services”) are unsuitable for our Program.
2.2. 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 manner which leads customers to believe you are Chemist Confessions Inc. or any other affiliated business.
2.3. Chemist Confessions Inc. 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 we provide to you.
2.4. The maintenance and the updating of your site/s and/or Social Networking Services will be your responsibility. We may monitor your site and/or Social Networking Services as we feel necessary to make sure that it is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes that we feel should enhance your performance.
2.5. It is entirely your responsibility to follow all applicable intellectual property and other laws that pertain to your site and/or Social Networking Services. You must have express permission to use any person's copyrighted material, whether it be a writing, an image, 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. Chemist Confessions Inc. Rights and Obligations
3.1. We have the right to monitor your site and/or Social Networking Services at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this Agreement. We may notify you of any changes to your site and/or Social Networking Services that we feel should be made, or to make sure that your links to our website are appropriate and to further notify you of any changes that we feel should be made. If you do not make the changes to your site and/or Social Networking Services that we feel are necessary, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the Chemist Confessions ShareaSale Affiliate Program.
3.2. Chemist Confessions Inc. reserves the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in our Chemist Confessions ShareaSale Affiliate Program immediately and without notice if you should you commit fraud in your use of the Chemist Confessions ShareaSale Affiliate Program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, Chemist Confessions Inc. shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales.
3.3. This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your ShareaSale Affiliate registration, and will continue unless terminated hereunder.
4. Termination
Either you or we may end this Agreement AT ANY TIME. In addition, this Agreement will terminate immediately upon any breach of this Agreement by you.
5. Modification
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change or modify portions of this Agreement at any time. If we do this, we will post the changes on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the date the Terms & Conditions were last revised. You may read a current, effective copy of this Agreement at any time by selecting the “Terms & Conditions” link in the Info Page tab on the Affiliate Panel. We will also notify you of any material changes either through an e-mail or through other reasonable means.
We may modify any of the terms and conditions in this Agreement at any time at our sole discretion. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the payment procedures and Chemist Confessions ShareASale Affiliate rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only option is to end this Agreement. Your continued participation in Chemist Confessions ShareASale Affiliate Program following the change to our terms will indicate your agreement to the changes.
6. Promotion Restrictions
6.1. You are free to promote your own site/s and/or Social Networking Services at any time, but naturally any promotion that mentions Chemist Confessions Inc. could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort. You should know that certain forms of advertising are always prohibited by Chemist Confessions Inc. For example, advertising commonly referred to as "spamming" is unacceptable to us and could cause damage to our name. Other generally 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. In addition, 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 Chemist Confessions Inc. so long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber to your site and/or Social Networking Services, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. Also, you may post to newsgroups to promote Chemist Confessions Inc. so long as the news group specifically welcomes commercial messages. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and and your site/s and/or Social Networking Services as independent from Chemist Confessions Inc. 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 Chemist Confessions ShareASale Affiliate Program. Any pending balances owed to you will not be paid if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.
6.2. Affiliates that among other keywords or exclusively bid in their Pay-Per-Click campaigns on keywords such as chemistconfessions.com, Chemist Confessions, www.chemistconfessions, www.chemistconfessions.com, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these – be it separately or in combination with other keywords – and do not direct the traffic from such campaigns to their own website prior to re-directing it to ours, will be considered trademark violators, and will be banned from Chemist Confessions' ShareASale Affiliate Program. 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.
6.3. Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “Parasiteware™,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers from the time the consumer clicks on a qualifying link until such time as the consumer has fully exited Chemist Confessions' site (i.e., no page from our site or any of Chemist Confessions' content or branding is visible on the end-user’s screen). As used herein “Parasiteware™” 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, Yahoo, Overture, Hotbot, Bing, and similar search or directory engines); (c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of Chemist Confessions' site in IFrames, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open Chemist Confessions' site; (d) targets text on websites, other than those websites 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.
7. Grant of Licenses
7.1. 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 Chemist Confessions' ShareASale Program. You agree that all uses of the Licensed Materials will be on behalf of Chemist Confessions Inc. and the good will associated therewith will inure to the sole benefit of Chemist Confessions Inc.
7.2. 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.
8. Disclaimer
CHEMIST CONFESSIONS INC. MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING CHEMIST CONFESSIONS INC. SERVICE AND WEB SITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED THEREIN. ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF CHEMIST CONFESSIONS INC's 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.
9. Representations and Warranties
You represent and warrant that:
9.1. 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;
9.2. 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;
9.3. You have sufficient right, title, and interest in and to the rights granted to us in this Agreement.
10. 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 CHEMIST CONFESSIONS INC'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.
11. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Chemist Confessions Inc, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members, and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) (any or all of the foregoing hereinafter referred to as "Losses") insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (i) any claim that our use of the affiliate trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of any third party, (ii) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement made by you herein, or (iii) any claim related to your site, including, without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.
12. Confidentiality
All confidential information, including, but not limited to, any business, technical, financial, and customer information, disclosed by one party to the other during negotiation or the effective term of this Agreement which is marked "Confidential," will remain the sole property of the disclosing party, and each party will keep in confidence and not use or disclose such proprietary information of the other party without express written permission of the disclosing party.
13. Miscellaneous
13.1. You agree that you are an independent contractor, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between you and Chemist Confessions Inc. 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 and/or Social Networking Services or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
13.2. Neither party may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement to any party, except to a party who obtains all or substantially all of the business or assets of a third party.
13.3. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California without regard to the conflicts of laws and principles thereof.
13.4. You may not amend or waive any provision of this Agreement unless in writing and signed by both parties.
13.5. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between us and you, and shall supersede all prior agreements and communications of the parties, oral or written.
13.6. The headings and titles contained in this Agreement are included for convenience only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect the terms of this Agreement.
13.7. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent necessary such that the intent of the parties is effectuated, and the remainder of this agreement shall have full force and effect.
