1. COMPANY Affiliate Agreement

This agreement describes the terms and conditions for participation in the COMPANY affiliate program. In this agreement, the term “Affiliate” refers to you (the applicant). In this agreement, COMPANY or the term 'we' refers to the product owner and publisher, WALK THE RIDGE.

The COMPANY affiliate program is administered through our own internal affiliate system.

2. Modification

We may modify any of the terms and conditions within this Agreement at any time and at our sole discretion. These modifications may include, but are not limited to changes in the scope of available referral fees, fee schedules, payment procedures and Affiliate Program rules. If any of the modifications are UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, your only recourse is to terminate this Agreement. If you CONTINUE PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM, it will be considered as your acceptance of the change.

3. Enrollment

To enroll in the affiliate program, you must agree to the terms and condition of THIS agreement. Checking the box below, on this webpage, and then clicking the button to CONTINUE constitutes your acceptance of all terms and conditions herein.

As soon as the application is processed, the applicant will be notified of their acceptance status as soon as possible.

4. Affiliate URL

You will be issued a special URL once you become an approved member of the COMPANY Affiliate Program which will be unique to you and you only, and will allow you to be paid for affiliate referrals.

5. Commissions

Affiliate will receive 10% of the revenue as a commission for the first 50 'seats' purchased through their properly coded Affiliate link. For seats sales connected with the Affiliate beyond 50 seats, the commission rate will increase to 20% thereafter. All seat sales attributed to the Affiliate, at either 10% or 20% level will be paid by COMPANY to affiliate. Commissions may change at the discretion of the COMPANY; and commissions may increase during limited time special promotions, but they will return thereafter to the regular rate herein.

For a sale to generate a commission to an Affiliate, the customer must complete the order form and remit full payment for the product ordered through the secure order system. Word of mouth referrals will not result in an affiliate commission being generated. Commissions will only be paid on sales that are made when the customer clicks through qualified, correctly structured Affiliate links OR if the customer puts the affiliate’s name in the appropriate form field as ‘being referred by’. Properly coded links are the sole responsibility of the affiliate.

6. Payment

COMPANY pays Affiliate via a PayPal account, provided to us when a member joins. If the PayPal email changes, it is the responsibility of the Affiliate to notify us to ensure proper commission payments. We will not resend payments returned due to incorrect payment email addresses. It is the Affiliate’s responsibility to determine and communicate on any payments that are due, but not shown as paid to them.   

7. Order Fulfillment

COMPANY will be solely responsible for processing every order placed by a customer via affiliate links. Affiliate is not authorized to collect payments or sell COMPANY from other websites as a “reseller” and no “resale” rights are granted in ANY way. Affiliate is not authorized to sell any of these products on eBay or other auction sites. Affiliate is not authorized to give away copies of any of these products. COMPANY will also be solely responsible for all customer service inquires. Affiliate understands and acknowledges that no physical products will be shipped.

Customers who purchase products and services through the COMPANY Affiliate Program will be deemed to be customers of COMPANY. Accordingly, all rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders and service will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. Prices and availability of our products and services may vary from time to time. COMPANY policies will always determine the price paid by the customer.

8. Qualifying Sites

If Affiliate uses a company banner or image, provided to them by the COMPANY, on a website, they own or affiliated with, the COMPANY reserves the right to terminate their affiliate membership, based on THAT website’s content. Websites that do not qualify for the Affiliate Program include sites which:

• Promote sexually explicit materials
• Promote violence
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
• Promote illegal activities
• List coupon codes or discounts that were NOT officially provided to Affiliate by COMPANY.  
• Infringe or otherwise violate any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights of any other site.

      9.  Permitted Usage

The following are permitted uses of the COMPANY brand and marketing resources

• Affiliate is permitted to use the graphical banners and design resources provided by us.  If a specific size banner ad is not available, the affiliate may contact us at [email protected] and request a new banner graphic be added to the available resources.

     10. Prohibited Usage

The following cases prohibited and are grounds for immediate termination of the affiliate account.

• Affiliate MAY NOT use the COMPANY logo, logo marks or other COMPANY website/branding imagery in a header graphic or in any was as to indicate they are officially affiliated or partnered with COMPANY.
• Affiliate MAY NOT use the term “WALK THE RIDGE” or “WALKING THE RIDGE” in ANY variation in their site URL ex. (walkingtheridgeaffiliate.com, walktheridgeaffiliate.net, etc).
• Affiliate MAY NOT promote coupons that were not provided to them personally by us. You may NOT promote coupon codes you may have found elsewhere online. Doing so can result in the termination of your affiliate account and withholding of affiliate payments for violating our affiliate agreement.
• Affiliate MAY NOT host or promote “coupon stacking” sites where customers may combine coupons to receive additional discounts.

     11. COMPANY Anti-Spam Policy

COMPANY strictly prohibits Affiliate from using spam e-mail and other forms of Internet abuse (including spamming forums, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets) to seek sales. Spam is defined as including, but not limited to, the following:

• Electronic mail messages addressed to a recipient with whom the sender does not have an existing business or personal relationship or is not sent at the request of, or with the express consent of, the recipient through an opt in subscription;
• Messages posted to Usenet, forums, Twitter, Facebook and message boards that are off-topic (unrelated to the topic of discussion), cross-posted to unrelated newsgroups, posted in excessive volume, or posted against forum/message board rules. Be conscious of forum rules! If a forum owner or moderator complains that Affiliate has spammed, the affiliate account may be permanently terminated after investigation.
• Content posted on free blog websites for the sole purpose of keyword spamming, or comments posted to legitimate blogs that violate the comment policy of the blog owner.
• Solicitations posted to chat rooms, or to groups or individuals via Internet Relay Chat or “Instant Messaging” system;
• Certain off-line activities that, while not considered Spam, are similar in nature, including distributing flyers or leaflets on private property or where prohibited by applicable rules, regulations, or laws.

COMPANY, may undertake, at its sole discretion and with or without prior notice, the following enforcement actions:

Account Termination: Upon the receipt of a credible complaint, the COMPANY may investigate the complaint, and if necessary, will then terminate the affiliate account of the individual implicated in the abuse. Termination results in the immediate closure of the member and affiliate account, the loss of all referrals, and the forfeiture of any unpaid money on account. At COMPANY discretion, termination may not only result in being banned from the affiliate program, but also being banned from ANY other internal affiliate programs.

If you wish to report a violation of our Anti-Spam Policy, please forward all relevant evidence to our customer service department at [email protected] 

12. Relationship of Parties

Affiliate is an independent contractor, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. Affiliate has no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. Affiliate will not make any statement, whether on their site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict this statement.

    13. No Exclusivity

Affiliate does not carry any exclusivity or selling rights to any organization, company, subsidiaries or divisions of companies assigned to them - even if they have been credited with a prior purchase to such.

    14. Responsibility for partners

If Affiliate chooses to use partners, employees, other companies, or other connected parties to assist with their affiliate efforts to COMPANY, the Affiliate assumes all responsibility for any actions made by such parties that conflicting with terms in this Agreement, as if they did so themselves.

      15. Term and Termination

The term of this Agreement will begin when you accept and will end when terminated by either party. Either COMPANY or the Affiliate may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, all licenses granted hereunder shall immediately terminate and you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your Web Site or online account(s), all links to the COMPANY websites, and all COMPANY trademarks and logos, other COMPANY marks and all other materials provided in connection with this program. 

     16. Limitation of Liability

COMPANY will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits, expenditures or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total commissions paid or payable to the Affiliate under to this Agreement.

     17. Disclaimers

We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Affiliate Program or an Affiliate’s potential to earn income from the Affiliate Program. In addition, we make no representation that the operation of the websites or the Affiliate links will be uninterrupted or error-free, and COMPANY will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.

     18. Miscellaneous

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 provision or any other provision of this Agreement.

If any of the provisions of this Agreement are determined by a court to be unenforceable, they shall be severed from this Agreement, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

By signing up with the COMPANY Affiliate Program, you acknowledge that you have read this agreement and agree to all its terms and conditions. You have independently evaluated this program and are not relying on any representation, guarantee or statement other than as set forth in this agreement.