Affiliate Terms and Conditions Agreement
September 2, 2009
This terms and conditions agreement ("Agreement")
is between you, the independent professional account holder
(Affiliate) and KKf Marketing LLC, doing business as www.HuffsList.com
("Huffs
List").
You must agree to abide by
the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement in order
to represent Huffs List as an Affiliate. By signing up
as an Affiliate for HuffsList.com, you indicate Your acceptance
of this Agreement and its terms and conditions. If You do
not accept this Agreement, do not use the HuffsList.com Service
as an Affiliate.
Huffs List is a subscription-based web site
where Members showcase their business(es) as independent
professionals. Huffs List is also a revenue sharing web site
where Affiliates
receive a commission (pay for conversion) for each new Member
who they successfully convert to a full Subscription
Membership ("Downline Members").
Huffs List Affiliate Account
The Affliate Account covers:
- You must
be a current paid subscriber to HuffsList.com.
- You will be paid a 20% commission each month on
all Subscription fees received from each of your first
level Downline Paid Members, except any fees received during
an introductory period.
- You will be paid your commissions, at such
time as your account balance is $30 US or more.
- All statistics
are collected and calculated by HuffsList.com, and will
be the only valid stats used for determining commissions.
- As an affiliate, you can have only
have 1 account.
- All affiliates located within the United
States and
subject to US Federal taxes are required to file
a valid 1099 form with Huffs List in order to be paid
$600.00 or more within a taxable year.
- All affiliates will be paid via Paypal Mass Pay. All
affiliates will be paid by check who do not provide a Paypal
account.
- Your physical address listed for receiving
checks MUST be your actual address. Mail forwarding services,
for the purpose of avoiding network demographics, is NOT
allowed. For example, if you choose USA as your country,
you must be in the USA. If you choose Great Britain as
a country, you must be in Great Britain.
- You won't hold us liable for anything,
a link to a non-HuffsList.com Web site does not mean that
HuffsList.com endorses or accepts any responsibility for
the content or the use of such Web site.
- You may place Huffs List Affiliate banners or Affiliate
links within your newsletters, in the content of your web sites,
or within other web related content. You may place Huffs
List Affiliate banners and Affiliate links within non-spam
emails.
What Is Not Permitted
You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. We
will terminate your account on the first offense of SPAMMING.
Do not send email to lists or groups that you do not have
permission to send to. We cannot stress this enough, we
WILL terminate your account and VOID COMMISSIONS on the
first offense.
Affiliate Account Termination
Huffs List management may reserve the right to revoke
an Affiliate account at any time. Either party can terminate
an Affiliate account at will without cause, without notice,
and without recourse. Either party can terminate if they
are in default of the terms of this Agreement. All rights
not specifically granted under this Agreement are reserved
to Huffs List.
An abandoned Affiliate account is defined
as any account that has expired due to non-payment of the Affiliate's
Member Subscription fees. Affiliate accounts
that become abandoned (become non-paying subscribers to HuffsList.com)
will immediately be removed from our affiliate system.
Remedy for Default
In the event of default of terms of this Agreement, Huffs
List management will notify Affiliates by email or
in writing that there is a default. Affiliates
have one calendar month in which to renew their subscription
to HuffsList.com in order to reinstate their Affiliate account
and Downline payments in good order. If the Affiliate does
not comply and remedy the situation within the stated time
period, then the Affiliate status will be immediately revoked
(see Effect of Termination).
Effect of Termination
DOWNLINE PAYMENTS—Affiliates will not receive commissions
on any subscription fees paid by Downline Members during
any time period in which the Affiliate account is abandoned
and in default.
COMMISSIONS—If an abandoned Affiliate account has
a commission balance that is less than $50, a $25 fee will
be assessed once per calendar month, until the balance is
equal to zero dollars - and is closed. At no time will an
Affiliate ever owe monies to HuffsList.com, Inc. based on
fees - the account will simply be closed.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Huffs
List against all claims, liability, damages, costs and expenses,
including reasonable legal fees and expenses, arising out
of or related to (1) a breach of this Agreement, (2) the
use of this site in any manner different than its intended
use, (3) any jobs found through this site either
alone or in combination with any other material, (4) your
failure to abide by any restriction regarding the use of
this site, or (5) any claim by a third party related to the
use, hiring, and/ contracting of any lister's services
found on this site, alone or in combination with any other
material.
Limitation of Liability
HUFFS LIST PROVIDES YOU WITH ITS SITE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS.
HUFFS LIST MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
REGARDING ANY LISTER, ITS SITE, THE ACCURACY OF ANY INFORMATION,
OR ANY RIGHTS OR LICENSES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-FRINGEMENT,
OR THAT THE SITE OR ANY SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR
ERROR-FREE.
EXCEPT FOR ANY LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BY LAW BE EXCLUDED
OR LIMITED, NEITHER HUFFS LIST, HUFFSLIST.COM,
NOR ANY HUFFSLIST.COM AFFILIATE SHALL BE LIABLE
TO YOU OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY CLAIMING THROUGH IT FOR DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF, OR RELATING TO THE USE OF ANY LISTER FOUND THROUGH
HUFFS LIST, WHETHER FRAMED AS A BREACH OF WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT, UPON
ANY LEGAL THEORY, IN TORT, CONTRACT, FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL
PURPOSE, OR OTHERWISE. IN NO EVENT SHALL HUFFS LIST'S
OR HUFFSLIST.COM'S OR ITS AFFILIATES' LIABILITY
FOR YOUR USE OF ANY LISTING PROVIDED
HEREUNDER EXCEED THE GREATER OF (1) THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU
FOR MEMBERSHIP, OR (2) $120.
Choice of Law / Jurisdiction / Attorneys' Fees
Any dispute regarding this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the
State of Colorado and applicable U.S. Federal law, including Title 17 of the
U.S. Code, as amended. The parties agree to accept the exclusive jurisdiction
of the state and federal courts located in Colorado , USA. Arbitration. The
parties hereto confirm that it is their wish that this Agreement as well as
any other documents relating hereto, including notices, has been and shall
be written in the English language.
In any dispute between Huffs List and you, Huffs List
shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys' fees,
legal expert fees, and other legal expenses from you.
No Waiver / Severability
No action of Huffs List or HuffsList.com, other
than an express written Waiver or Amendment, may be construed
as a waiver or amendment of this Agreement. Should any clause
of this Agreement be found unenforceable, wherever possible
this will not affect any other clause and each will remain
in full force and effect.
Acknowledgements
You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement and understand it, and agree
to be bound by all its terms and conditions. This document constitutes the
entire Agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof
and merges all prior and contemporaneous communications. This Agreement will
inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties, their successors and
assigns, except that you may not assign or transfer this Agreement.
Huffs List reserves the right to change this Agreement from
time to time at its sole discretion, and your use of the
site will be subject to the most current version posted on
the site at the time of your use. Account holders will be
notified of changes as they occur.