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This agreement contains the terms and conditions that apply to your participation as an Affiliate in the modchip.org
Affiliate Program and to the establishment of links from your affiliate Web site to our Web site, "modchip.org"
THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS, PLEASE CLICK THE BACK BUTTON ON YOUR BROWSER.
1. Enrollment
1.1. To begin the enrollment process, you must submit a complete the Affiliate Program sign-up via our site. We will evaluate your
application in good faith and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection in a timely manner. We may reject your application if we
determine (in our sole discretion) that your site is unsuitable for the modchip.org Affiliate Program for any or no reason,
including, but not limited to, inclusion of content, or links to such material that is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening,
harassing, defamatory, obscene, violent or that:
- promotes or depicts violence (i.e., murder, selling weapons, cruelty, abuse, etc.)
- promotes pornographic or sexually explicit materials
- promotes discrimination based on gender, race, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age
- violates copyrights, trademarks, or any other intellectual property rights of B & R Enterprises LLC, and their subsidiaries and
affiliates or any other person or entity
- includes "modchip.org" or any variations or misspellings thereof in the domain name or other HTML tags, including page titles,
metatags, or HTML comment tags
1.2. modchip.org and any product or service vendor or supplier doing business with us and each of their respective subsidiaries and
affiliates (all hereinafter referred to as a "Related Party") and the immediate family members of such employees are not allowed to
participate in the modchip.org Affiliate Program.
If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the modchip.org Program.
2. Promotion of Affiliation
2.1. As an Affiliate Program member, we will make available to you a variety of graphic and textual links ("Links" or "Link"), which,
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, 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 Program and will establish a link from your site to ours.
2.2. Agreements Regarding Links: In utilizing the Links, you agree that you will cooperate fully with us in order to establish and maintain
such Links. You agree not to alter Links or their content in any way. You also agree that you will display in your site only those graphic
or textual images (indicating a Link) that are provided by us, and you will immediately substitute such images with any new images that are
provided by us from time to time throughout the term of this Agreement. 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.
3. Affiliate Identification
All Affiliates will be required to display a graphic (which we will provide) indicating their affiliate relationship to modchip.org.
4. Our Responsibilities
We will be responsible for providing the information necessary to allow you to make appropriate Links from your site to our site.
We will be solely responsible for: (1.) processing every order placed by a customer following a special Link from your site; (2.) tracking
the volume and amount of sales generated by your site; and (3.) providing information to Affiliate Program members regarding sales
statistics via our Affiliate Reporting System. Our order processing obligations will include order entry, payment processing, shipping,
cancellations, returns and related customer service. Sales transaction data will be provided once daily, and reflects data through the
previous day; once a month, all returns/refunds/cancels will be provided, deducted from the overall sales transacted for the Affiliate
Program member.
5. Commission Determination
Only modchip.org products that are: (1.) sold by modchip.org; (2.) purchased by users linking to the modchip.org site
from your site pursuant to a Link; (3.) actually shipped by modchip.org to a U.S. shipping address and billed to a U.S. billing
address; and (4.) for which modchip.org has received full payment will qualify for a commission ("Qualifying Purchases"). No
commissions will be paid for product orders that are cancelled or returned, which such cancellations and returns will be deducted on an
on-going basis but no less frequently than monthly.
Commission rates will be based on the aggregate amount actually paid to modchip.org for Qualifying Purchases, excluding amounts
collected by us for sales taxes, duties, shipping, handling, and similar charges, amounts due to credit card fraud and bad debt, and
credits for returned goods ("Net Sales"). All qualifying product items available for sale on our site will be included in the computation
of Net Sales. We pay ten percent (10%) of Net Sales for Qualifying Purchases, less cancellations and returns.
6. Commission Payments
When the total commissions due to you under the preceding Section 5 exceed fifty dollars ($50) at the end of any calendar month,
we transfer your earned commissions to your PayPal Account. will send a a commission check for the applicable commissions (less any taxes
required to be withheld under applicable law) and a statement of activity to you. If at the end of any calendar month earned commissions are
less than fifty dollars ($50), such earned commissions will be held and accumulated until such time that they exceed fifty dollars ($50) at
which time they will be paid as set forth above.
7. Reports of Sales/Order Processing and Tracking
You will chose a password to allow you to enter modchip.org affiliate Reporting site. This password-protected site will allow you to
review your sales statistics, which will be updated once daily, reflecting data through the previous day.
8. Policies / Pricing / Product Descriptions
Customers who buy modchip.org products through the Affiliate Program will be deemed to be customers of modchip.org.
Accordingly, all of our rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, privacy, and modchip.org
product 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 modchip.org
products sold under the Affiliate Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Prices and availability of modchip.org
products may vary from time to time, and the availability and price of any particular product cannot be guaranteed.
YOU MAY NOT PLACE INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT PRICING OR LOGOS, IMAGES, OR DESCRIPTIONS RELATED TO PRODUCTS ON YOUR SITE WITHOUT OUR EXPRESS PRIOR
WRITTEN PERMISSION.
9. Publicity
You shall not create, publish, distribute, or permit any written material that makes reference to us without first submitting such material
to us and receiving our written consent.
10. License
10.1. WE GRANT YOU A NON-EXCLUSIVE, NON-TRANSFERABLE, REVOCABLE RIGHT TO (1.) ACCESS OUR SITE THROUGH THE LINKS SOLELY IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND (2.) SOLELY IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH LINKS, TO USE THE modchip.org TRADEMARK AND LOGO AND SIMILAR
IDENTIFYING MATERIAL RELATING TO US BUT ONLY IN THE FORMS THAT WE PROVIDE TO YOU (COLLECTIVELY, THE "LICENSED MATERIALS"), FOR THE SOLE
PURPOSE OF LINKING YOUR SITE TO OUR SITE, WHERE YOUR USERS CAN PURCHASE modchip.org PRODUCTS. YOU MAY NOT ALTER, MODIFY, OR CHANGE
THE LICENSED MATERIALS IN ANY WAY. WE RESERVE ALL OF OUR RIGHTS IN THE LICENSED MATERIALS.
10.2. You are only entitled to use the Licensed Materials to the extent that you are a member in good standing of the Affiliate Program.
We may revoke your license at any time in our sole discretion, by giving you written notice. If we give you such notice, you must
immediately discontinue all use of the Licensed Materials.
10.3. You agree not to use the Licensed Materials in any manner that is disparaging or that otherwise portrays us in a negative light.
10.4. You grant to us a non-exclusive license, for the term of this Agreement, to utilize your names, titles, and logos, as the same may
be amended from time to time to advertise, market, promote, and publicize in any manner our rights hereunder; provided, however, that we
shall not be required to so advertise, market, promote, or publicize.
11. Obligations Regarding Your Site
11.1. You are solely responsible for, and we have no liability for, the development, operation, or maintenance of your site, or for any
materials contained on your site.
11.2. You agree that your site will not, in any way, copy or resemble the look and feel of our site, nor will you create the impression
that your site is our site or is a part of our site, nor will you frame any page on the modchip.org site being viewed by a user of
your site who links to the modchip.org site through a Link.
11.3. You agree that your site does not currently contain and will not contain any content, or links to such material, that is in any way
unlawful, harmful, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or violent as more fully set forth in Section 1 (Enrollment).
11.4. You also agree that your site will not contain any content from our site or any materials that are proprietary to modchip.org,
except with our prior permission, or to the extent that materials are obtained by you strictly in accordance with the provisions of this
agreement. You further agree that your domain name does not and will not contain the words "modchip.org" or anyvariation thereof
(collectively, the "modchip.org marks") or misspelling. You agree not to purchase or otherwise contract with any third party to
exploit any of the modchip.org marks for the purpose of causing the Affiliate site to appear as a search result in any search engine
or for any other reason.
11.5. You agree that your Affiliate site will not use any form of mass email communication ("spam") as a marketing tool for the site or
for any other purpose.
11.6. In the event your Affiliate site is or incorporates or utilizes an internet search engine, you agree that no modchip.org marks
will appear as search results or will be used as markers or tags or for any other purpose within the search engine without our prior written
approval.
12. Terms of Agreement and Termination
The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate Program application and will end when terminated by either party.
Either you or modchip.org may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice
of termination. You are only eligible to earn commissions on sales occurring during the term, and commissions earned through the date of
termination will remain payable only if the related Qualified Purchases are not cancelled or returned. We may withhold your final payment
for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid.
13. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion. Modifications may include,
but are not limited to, changes in the scope of available commissions, commission payment schedules, payment procedures, and Affiliate
Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this agreement. Your continued participation
in the Affiliate Program following our posting of a change notice or new agreement on our site will constitute binding acceptance of the
change.
14. Relationship of Parties
You and modchip.org are independent contractors, and 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.
15. Disclaimers
NEITHER modchip.org NOR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKES ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM
OR TO ANY modchip.org PRODUCTS SOLD THROUGH THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, DEALING, OR TRADE USAGE).
IN ADDITION, NEITHER modchip.org NOR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION THAT THE OPERATION OF THE modchip.org SITE WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, AND NEITHER modchip.org NOR ITS SUPPLIERS WILL BE LIABLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY INTERRUPTIONS OR
ERRORS.
16. Representations and Warranties
You represent and warrant to us that: (1.) you have the right and authority to enter into this Agreement and perform your obligations under
the Agreement; (2.) you are the sole and exclusive owner of the Affiliate trademarks and have the right and power to grant to us the license
to use your trademarks in the manner provided for in this Agreement; (3.) you are an adult of at least 21 years of age; and (4.) you are not
an employee or immediate family member of a Related Party as described in Section 1.2. above.
17. Confidentiality
You agree that all customer information related to the modchip.org Affiliate Program belongs to us. You agree to protect as secret
all modchip.org Affiliate Program customer information and Affiliate Program business and sales information related to us, you, or
our suppliers (collectively, "Information"), not to disclose Information to any third parties, and not to use Information for any purpose
other than the purposes of this Agreement. You agree to protect Information using methods at least as protective as those you use to protect
your own information of a confidential nature, but in no event, using less than a standard of reasonable care.
18. Limitation of Liability
NEITHER modchip.org NOR ITS SUPPLIERS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR
ANY LOSS OF REVENUE, PROFITS, OR DATA, ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND YOU WAIVE ALL RIGHTS TO ANY CLAIMS FOR ANY SUCH DAMAGES. FURTHER, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF modchip.org AND
ITS SUPPLIERS WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM WILL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSIONS PAID OR PAYABLE TO YOU UNDER
THIS AGREEMENT.
19. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless modchip.org and its subsidiaries, and suppliers, and their directors, officers, employees,
and shareholders, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses,
including reasonable attorneys fees, ("Losses") insofar as such Losses, or actions in respect of Losses, arise out of or are based on (1.)
any claim that our use of Affiliate trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual
property, or other proprietary right of any third party, (2.) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant
and agreement made by you, or (3.) any claim related to your site, including, without limitation, claims regarding content on your site.
20. Uncontrollable Circumstances
modchip.org performance under this Agreement shall be excused to the extent that its performance is hindered, delayed or made
commercially impractical by causes beyond its reasonable control.
21. 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 Affiliate
Program and are not relying on any representation, guarantee, or statement other than as set forth in this Agreement.
22. Governing Law
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of Austria. You may not assign this Agreement. 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 a provision or any other provision
of this Agreement.
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