NAUGHTY AMERICA TERMS AND
CONDITIONS
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to your
participation as a member of the Naughty America Affiliate Program (the
"Program") operated by La Touraine, Inc. (hereinafter,
"Company," "we" or "us).
As used in this Agreement, "you" or "your" means the
applicant/participating affiliate.
THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND COMPANY. BY CLICKING ON THE
"ACCEPT" BUTTON AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT YOU ARE AFFIRMATIVELY
STATING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH
HEREIN AND ARE AFFIRMATIVELY INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AFFILIATE
PROGRAM AGREEMENT AND YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS HERE OF. YOU CANNOT
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM UNLESS YOU HAVE ACCEPTED EACH AND
EVERY TERM HEREOF. Enrollment in this Program.
To begin the enrollment process, you will submit a completed Program
Application through our website http://www.naughtyamerica.com. We will evaluate
your application in good faith and will notify you of your acceptance or
rejection. We will reject your application if we determine that you have
provided inaccurate or incomplete signup information, determine that you are
under 18 years of age (21 in some jurisdictions) or determine that your site is
unsuitable for the Program for any reason, including, but not limited to, if
your site incorporates images or content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene,
harassing or otherwise objectionable, such as sites that facilitate illegal
activity or promote violence or promote or assist others in promoting copyright
infringement (collectively, "Content Restrictions"). Again, you must
be at least eighteen (18) years of age (or older if legal age of majority is
more than 18) to participate in this Program. Posting of
Statistics on Various Webmaster Boards.
Upon agreeing to these terms and conditions, you hereby grant naughtyamerica staff the right to post your username and
daily join totals on various webmaster boards for the purpose of contest
statistics. If you do not wish to have your username and/or stats displayed,
please notify ace@naughtyamerica.com. We will use only username and stats for
statistics displays. To enroll in any contest, give-away, or bonus plan, you
must agree to these terms. Utilizing Links on Your Site.
Affiliate License Granted:
As an affiliate website of COMPANY ("Affiliate Site"), you are granted a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and download promotional banners, videos, photographs, other promotional materials, and/or promotional materials created by you, provided that such materials are approved by Program in writing ("Promotional Items"), for use on site(s) owned by you ("Referral Sites") in order to refer traffic to websites owned, controlled and/or operated by us (the "Sites" or "Site Names"). Promotional Items are licensed to you for the limited purposes of advertising, marketing and promoting Member Sites. Any and all licenses granted to you pursuant to this agreement shall immediately cease and revert to Program upon the termination or cancellation of this agreement. you may use any form of promotion you choose, consistent with the terms of this Agreement however, you cannot employ deceptive language or misleading URL's in the Links, and you CANNOT MARKET BY SENDING UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAILS!!! (As used herein, UCE, or "Spam" refers to the transmission of unsolicited commercial e-mails, i.e., not derived from a verifiable opt-in program or sent absent a prior business relationship with the recipient). Any activity by you or on your behalf that we determine or reasonably suspect to be the result of an unsolicited commercial e-mail program will result in your immediate termination from the Program and your forfeiting of monies otherwise due you hereunder. (For further guidelines on this topic, please see Section 5, below.)
As an affiliate website of
COMPANY, you may use the softcore content provided
and any promotional materials provided for you hosted or not hosted by said
COMPANY in any form of promotion you choose, consistent with the terms of this
Agreement. However, content of a sexually explicit nature cannot be used for
promotion or any other means unless you are granted access by said COMPANY
after signing a contract stating that you will make reasonable attempts to
download and keep 18 USC Section 2257 ("2257") records provided by
said COMPANY. It is also required that you provide a hyperlink on your root
domain that is solely stated as and links solely to a 2257 Documentation
statement page, where you as an affiliate state that all models under your
website domain are 18 years of age or older. With the provisions above
satisfied you are able to proceed with promotions of sexually explicit material
by the COMPANY, consistent with the terms in this agreement.
License Restrictions.
Allowable promotional links may contain
COMPANY's trade names, service marks, and/or logos for display on your
Affiliate Site. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, you are granted a
limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and download such
Links and other designated promotional materials for placement on your
Affiliate Site for the sole and exclusive purpose of promoting websites owned,
operated or controlled by COMPANY. In utilizing the Links, you agree that you will
cooperate fully with us in order to establish and maintain such Link or Links.
A Link may only be visually modified with our consent.Although
you are hereby granted a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to
use the Site Names in connection with referring traffic to the Sites, you are
not, as a part of this non-exclusive, revocable license, permitted to bid on,
purchase or otherwise register/use the Site Names or use the words
"Official", "Officially", "Official Site" or
similar language in connection with the Site Names as keywords (sometimes
referred to as "AdWords") on Internet search engines, such as google.com,
ask.com,
yahoo.com,
msn.com,
etc.; use the Site Names in association with any similar or competing website
or service; or register any domain name which incorporates or is a
"misspelling" or "typo" of any of the Site Names. You agree
that in the event you violate any part of this section of this Agreement, you
will be immediately terminated from the Program, any monies earned but not yet
paid will be forfeited, and that you will cooperate fully in transferring any items
forbidden by this section to Program as the rightful owner. The license granted
to you hereunder permits you to post portions of videos, hosted on Programs
servers, which have been provided to you by Program for promotional purposes.
You are not permitted to use any portions of trade-marked site videos which
have not been provided to you by Program that are not hosted on Programs
servers. Posting by you, pursuant to this license, must be done in compliance
with the applicable Terms of Use for the service/website on which such clips
are posted.
Commission:
The Program currently pays on an initial and recurring rev-share basis. Terms
are as follows:
60/40: We will pay you a
commission equal to 60% (sixty percent) of the initial sign up minus applicable
processing fees or other fees associated with the transaction. 100% of the sale
minus processing fees is given to the COMPANY, 13.5% is currently removed by
processing company and is subject to change on any day without prior notice by
the COMPANY. Of the remaining 86.5% from the sale you will be paid 60% of the
86.5% from the Company, totaling 51.9% for every trial, initial and or re-bill
for the life of the membership. COMPANY retains 34.6% of the sale. This is the
standard payout, and will be paid for all account creating, in a pay period, an
average of $50 in commissions is required before submission to be paid on
account.
The Commission Rate is subject to change from time to time, upon e-mail notice
to you and commencing the 30-days following such notice or sooner. Note that a
commission will only be paid if the visitor to our site can be tracked by the
system from the time of the Link to the time of the sale. No commission will be
paid if the visitor's payment to our site cannot be tracked directly to your
site by our system or if the customer does not make full payment for services
to us. No commission will be paid for signups by you or anyone within your
organization. Commission Payment.
Commissions due and owing to you under the Program will be paid to you directly
by the COMPANY. Affiliate Checks are mailed every week on Monday, accounts have
a 2 week review period after having met the sufficient minimum monetary payout
limit, prior to being paid out by the COMPANY. The billing period starts on Sunday,
ends on Saturday, and is paid 14 days later. The minimum check amount per
period is $50.00 and is subject to change by the COMPANY. Payments due and
owing to you for a pay period of less than $50.00 will be rolled over into
subsequent payment periods until at least $50.00 is reached, at which time you
will receive payment. Payments will be in the form of a check in US dollars or
whatever form of payment hereby granted on account payable to you, as
identified in your application, and will be mailed to the street address
indicated in your application. Processors Payment.
Payment is made to the COMPANY from the processor and is disbursed at the
COMPANY's sole discretion as set forth above. You are hereby notified that the
COMPANY currently accepts processing from our main processor Epoch
Systems/Paycom, and secondary processors, CCbill,
NYT, and Local Billing. You as an affiliate of the COMPANY are paid by the
revenue accepted by our primary main processor according to the standard
commissions set above, which is subject to change at the discretion of the
COMPANY.
**Due to the minimal amount of sales in relation to charge backs from secondary
processors, commissions are currently not deducted and paid out to you from
payment accepted by the COMPANY from secondary processors; however this policy
is subject to change at the COMPANY's discretion. Responsibility
for Your Site.
Your Website:
You will be solely responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of your site and for all materials that appear on your site. You are not COMPANY's agent, and we shall have no responsibility for the development, operation and maintenance of your site and for all materials that appear on your site. You shall also be responsible for ensuring that materials posted on your site do not violate or infringe upon any laws, including but not limited to 2257, or the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights), and ensuring that materials posted on your site are not libelous or otherwise illegal. You are also required to adhere to the above requirements using our sexually explicit material set forth above. You must have express permission to use another party's copyrighted or other proprietary material.We will not be responsible if you use another party's copyrighted or other proprietary material in violation of the law. In addition to the foregoing, we will immediately terminate your participation in the Program if we believe you have engaged in any of the following:
Subject to the limitations in the paragraph
above and pursuant to the license granted to you herein, Program will permit
you to use any and all Site Names that you may choose in connection with
promoting the Sites so long as such website domain name(s) registered by you
does not infringe on Program's, Program's affiliated entities' or any third party's
intellectual property rights, defame, insult or otherwise harass anyone, and
does not promote or suggest any illegal activity. Again, you understand and
agree that the limited, revocable license granted herein is limited by the
conditions set forth above including, without limitation, the limitation that
you are not permitted to register or use any domain names that are
substantially similar to the Site Names or any website names belonging to any
of our affiliated entities.
You agree to register with Program all domain
names you use, own, create, manage and/or control in connection with this
Agreement. Program will not compensate you for any referrals to the Sites, for
which you would otherwise be due a payment for under this Agreement, if the
referring site is not registered with Program. Should Program compensate you
for any referral(s) from a site or sites not registered with the Program, you
hereby acknowledge and agree that such payment is in error and that you are not
in any way entitled to further payments for referrals from such site(s). You
further acknowledge and agree to inform Program of any such payment error and
that such erroneous payments may stop at any time with no liability to you by
Program.
Representations to Program
You hereby represent and warrant that you
will put safeguards in place, including, but not limited to an "age
verification" page, so that no persons who have not yet attained the Age
of Majority may view any and all Promotional Items which may contain explicit
images. You further represent and warrant that you will not "deep
link" so that a person referred to the Sites does not first have to
confirm that he/she is at least the Age of Majority.
You further warrant that you have all legal
rights, free from any and all encumbrances and third party claims, to all
images, text, script(s), applications, logos and functional elements appearing
on all Referral Sites.
You represent and warrant that you will only
advertise on services and providers which permit such advertisement and that
you will not advertise our Sites on any website or service which promotes any
activity or which may be covered under the section of this Agreement entitled
"Termination". You understand and agree that if you advertise for any
service or provider which does not permit such advertising, including, without
limitation, Myspace and Craigslist, you may be
terminated if you do not immediately remove such advertisement after being
notified that such advertisement is not permitted.
Non-Exclusive Limited License and Use of Affiliate Logos and Trademarks.
You grant us a non-exclusive license to utilize your names, titles and logos, trademarks (collectively the affiliate Trademarks), to advertise, market, promote and publicize in any manner our rights hereunder. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, we shall not be required to so advertise, market, promote or publicize. You hereby represent and warrant that 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 same in the manner contemplated herein, and such grant does not or will not (i) breach, conflict with or constitute a default under any agreement or other instrument applicable to you or binding upon you, or (ii) infringe upon any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, or other proprietary right of any other person or entity. This license shall terminate upon the effective date of the expiration or termination of this Agreement.
Procedure Relating to Alleged or Actual Third Party Rights Infringement by a Participating Webmaster.
Upon COMPANY's receipt of a proper notice of alleged copyright, trademark, service mark or publicity rights violation by Your participating website. The COMPANY will notify You and ask that You provide written documentation of your right to use the allegedly infringing material in your website. That documentation must be: (a) a license of the rights; (b) consent from the rights holder or their agent; or (c) a written statement from You or Your attorney (in either email or fax form) explaining Your claim to have a lawful right, or a legal defense, to display the allegedly infringing material.
If You do provide COMPANY with appropriate rights documentation (a, b or c, above), COMPANY will forward that documentation to the rights holder or their agent, as appropriate. Should the rights. holder/agent not be satisfied, COMPANY will provide the rights holder/agent with Your contact information in order that they may contact You and pursue any remaining dispute with You directly.
If you fail to provide the COMPANY an appropriate written response (a, b or c, above), You will have ten (10) days from the date of COMPANY's original notification to You to remove the complained of content. Should you fail to remove said content within ten days, the referring URL containing the complained of content will be blocked and any funds otherwise due and payable to You relating to the referring URL will be forfeited, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS YOU PROVIDE AN APPROPRIATE WRITTEN RESPONSE. You will also be placed in an infringer database, and should repeated complaints be made against you for rights violations, COMPANY has the right to permanently terminate You from the Naughty America program.
4.) Term of the Agreements.
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
we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving
the other party notice of termination. Notice by e-mail, to your e-mail address
on our records, is considered sufficient notice for to terminate this
Agreement. If this Agreement is terminated because you have violated the terms
of this Agreement you are not eligible to receive any commissions
payments, even for commissions earned prior to the date of termination. If this
Agreement is terminated for any other reason, you are only eligible to earn a
commission on sales occurring during the term of the Agreement, and commissions
earned through the date of termination will remain payable only if the related
orders are not canceled or returned. We reserve the right to withhold your
final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid. Modification.
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at
any time and in our sole discretion. Notice of any change by e-mail, to your
address on our records, or the posting on our site of a change notice of a new
agreement, is considered sufficient notice for notifying you of a modification
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Modifications may include, but
are not limited to, changes in the scope of available commission fees,
commission schedules, payment procedures, and Affiliate Program rules. All such
modifications shall take effect 48 hours after we serve notice as provided
above, unless we indicate otherwise. 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. Relationship of Parties.
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. You will not make any statement, whether on your
site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
You are not an agent of the COMPANY and the COMPANY expressly disclaims
responsibility for any conduct by you in violation of our terms of agreement. Limitation of Liability.
We will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages, or any
loss of revenue, profits, or data, arising in connection with this Agreement or
the Affiliate 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 Affiliate Program will not exceed the total commissions paid
or payable to you under this Agreement. Disclaimers.
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the
Affiliate Program or any COMPANY services or other items sold through the
Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability,
non-infringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course of
performance, dealing, or trade usage). 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. Representations and Warranties.
You hereby represent and warrant to us that 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; and
that the execution, delivery and performance by you of this Agreement are within
your legal capacity and power; have been duly authorized by all requisite
action on your part; require the approval or consent of no other persons; and
neither violate nor constitute a default under the (i)
provision of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree to which you
are subject or which is binding upon you, or (ii) the terms of any other
agreement, document or instrument applicable to you or binding upon you. Should
any law enforcement agency or internet service provider provide COMPANY with
notice that you have engaged in transmission of unsolicited bulk e-mails or
have otherwise engaged in unlawful conduct or conduct in violation of said
service provider's terms of service, we reserve the right to cooperate in any
investigation relating to your activities including disclosure of your account
information in connection therewith. Confidentiality.
We may disclose to you certain information as a result of your participation as
part of the Program, which information we consider to be confidential (herein
referred to as "Confidential Information"). For purpose of this
Agreement, the term "Confidential Information" shall include, but not
be limited to, any modifications to the terms and provisions of this Affiliate
Program Agreement made specifically for your site and not generally available
to other members of the Affiliate Program, website, business and financial
information relating to COMPANY, customer and vendor lists relating to COMPANY
and any members of the Affiliate Program, other than you. Confidential
Information shall also include any information that we designate as
confidential during the term of this Agreement. You agree not to disclose any
Confidential Information and that such Confidential Information shall also
include any information that we designate as confidential during the term of
this Agreement. You agree not to disclose any Confidential Information and that
such Confidential Information shall remain strictly confidential and secret and
shall not be utilized, directly or indirectly, by you for your own business
purposes or for any other purpose except and solely to the extent that any such
information is generally known or available to the public or if same is
required by law or legal process. Should you received a court notice, complaint
or subpoena requesting or seeking to compel disclosure of Confidential
Information, you shall immediately inform COMPANY and COMPANY shall have the
right, and be given the opportunity, to obtain a protective order to prevent
disclosure of such Confidential Information. We make no warranty, expressed or
implied, with respect to any information delivered hereunder, including implied
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or freedom from
patent, trademark or copyright infringements, whether arising by law, custom or
conduct, or as to the accuracy or completeness of the information and we shall
not have any liability to you or to any other person resulting from your or
such third person's use of the information. Indemnification.
You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless COMPANY, its
shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, successors
and assigns, from and against any and all claims, losses, liabilities, damages
or expense (including attorneys' fees and costs) of any nature whatsoever
incurred or suffered by us (collectively the "Losses"), in so far as
such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (i) any claim or threatened claim that our use of the Affiliate
Trademarks infringes on the rights of any third party; (ii) the breach of any
promise, covenant, representation or warranty made by you herein; or (iii) or
any claim related to your site. Miscellaneous.
Terminated accounts cannot later apply to the Program without our express
written consent. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or
otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this
Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and enforceable against
the parties and their respective successors and assigns. 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.
Any dispute or claim arising under or with respect to this Agreement which is
incapable of resolution will be resolved by arbitration before one (1)
arbitrator in Los Angeles, California in accordance with the Rules for
Commercial Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association
["AAA"]. The appointing agency shall be the AAA and the arbitrator
shall apply California law to both interpret this Agreement and fashion an
award.
Each party shall have the right to take no more than two (2) depositions of
potential witnesses, and each shall have the right to serve no more than two
(2) sets of interrogatories, none of which shall include more than twenty (20)
Interrogatories. Additional discovery shall be in the discretion of the
arbitrator. All discovery shall be completed within
three (3) months after the selection of the arbitrator, unless this period of
time is extended by the arbitrator for good cause.
The decision or award of the arbitrator shall be final and binding upon the
parties. Any arbitral award may be entered as a judgment or order in any court
of competent jurisdiction.
NOTICE: YOU ARE AGREEING TO HAVE ANY DISPUTE ARISING OUT OF THE MATTERS
INVOLVING THIS AGREEMENT TO BE DECIDED BY NEUTRAL ARBITRATION AS PROVIDED BY
CALIFORNIA LAW AND YOU ARE GIVING UP ANY RIGHTS YOU MAY POSSESS TO HAVE THE
DISPUTE LITIGATED IN A COURT OR JURY TRIAL. IN SO AGREEING YOU ARE ALSO GIVING
UP YOUR JUDICIAL RIGHTS TO DISCOVERY AND APPEAL. IF YOU REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO
ARBITRATION AFTER AGREEING TO THIS PROVISION, YOU MAY BE COMPELLED TO ARBITRATE
UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE CALIFORNIA CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE. NEVERTHELESS
YOUR AGREEMENT TO THIS ARBITRATION IS VOLUNTARY.
Should either of us institute any legal action or administrative proceeding
regarding any dispute or matter (other than enforcement of any arbitration
award or relief) covered by this Agreement by any method other than
arbitration, the responding party shall be entitled to recover from the other
party all costs, expenses and attorneys' fees incurred as a result of such
action. The prevailing party shall be entitled to recover from the other party
all costs, expenses and attorneys' fees incurred in any legal action or
administrative proceeding to enforce any arbitration award or relief.