PlatinumAffiliates.com Affiliate Agreement
IMPORTANT
- READ CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT, THEN PRINT AND STORE ALONG
WITH ALL CONFIRMATION EMAILS REFLECTING YOUR TRACKERS, FEES AND PAYMENTS.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE
WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS YOU SHOULD NOT JOIN OUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM OR (IF
YOU HAVE ALREADY JOINED OUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM) EMAIL US AT affiliates@platinumaffiliates.com
TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING OUR AFFILIATE
PROGRAM OR THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS PLEASE CONTACT US AT THE SAME EMAIL
ADDRESS.
This Affiliate
Agreement together with your Affiliate Sign Up Form www.platinumaffiliates.com
and any other guidelines or additional terms we provide to you via email or our
Website (together the "Agreement") contain the complete terms
and conditions that apply to your participation in the PlatinumAffiliates
online affiliate program ("Affiliate Program"). Where used in
this Agreement, references to: (a) "you" "your"
and/or "Affiliate" mean the individual or entity which applied
as the "BENEFICIARY" for payment purposes on our sign up form
as submitted at our Website ("Affiliate Sign Up Form"), and
(b) "we", "our", "us" means
Kamay Holdings Ltd (“Kamay”).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. GENERAL_ 2
2. DEFINITIONS
AND INTERPRETATION_ 2
3. TERMS
& CONDITIONS_ 3
4. REPORTS
& PAYMENTS_ 6
5. ELECTRONIC
MARKETING RULES_ 10
6. TERM
AND TERMINATION_ 11
7. LIABILITIES_ 12
8. INDEPENDENT
INVESTIGATION_ 13
9. MISCELLANEOUS_ 13
1.1.
This Agreement shall govern our
relationship with you in relation to the Affiliate Program for the Platinum Websites
(as defined below) and modifies, replaces and supersedes the previous Version
of the PlatinumAffiliates Online Affiliate Program.
1.2.
When you indicate your acceptance of these
terms and conditions on the Affiliate Sign Up Form www.platinumaffiliates.com,
you agree to be bound by all the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement
(as amended or modified from time to time in accordance with Section 1.3
below).
1.3.
We may modify any of the terms of this
Agreement at any time, in our sole discretion, by either (i) emailing you a
change notice or (ii) by posting the new version of the Agreement on our
Website. Any such modification will only take effect 5 days after the date of
posting or sending of any such notice (whichever is the earlier). It is your
responsibility to visit the Website frequently to make sure you are up to date
with the latest version of the Agreement and its provisions. If any
modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this
Agreement. Your continued participation in the Affiliate Program following such
30 day period will be deemed binding acceptance of the modification.
1.4.
You acknowledge and agree that regulations
9(1) and 9(2) (Information to be provided by electronic means) and 11(1)
(placing of the order) of the Electronic Commerce Directive 00/31/EC shall not
apply to or have any effect on this Agreement.
In
this Agreement, references to the following words shall have the meanings set
out below:
2.1.
"Account"
means a uniquely assigned account that is created for a Player when he/she
successfully registers for the Services via a Tracker and makes an initial
deposit.
2.2.
"Affiliate Fee"
is the amount due and payable to you, as calculated based solely on our
system's data and in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the fees
and payments terms set forth in the Website (as may be changed from time to
time by us in our sole discretion).
2.3.
"Affiliate Section"
means the password-protected area of the Website that is accessible to you (by
logging on with the security code you are assigned by us when you sign up as a
participant in the Affiliate Program and associated password) and which
provides certain 'member only' functionality, including facilities to check
relevant statistics, update your profile, create additional Trackers, select
Banners and/or Text Links.
2.4.
"Marketing Materials"
means banners and text links (which includes Trackers which are made available
by us on the Affiliate Section, that you may use to connect Players to our
Services from your website) and any other marketing materials (which may
include Our Marks) that have been provided or otherwise made available to you
by us and/or pre-approved by us.
2.5.
"Our Marks"
means the words “SUPROCASINO”, "LUCKYACEPOKER", “LUCKYACECASINO”, and
“SILKBINGO” and/or any logo, mark, domain name or trade name which contains, is
confusingly similar to or is comprised of any of the aforesaid names and marks
or any other name or mark owned from time to time by us.
2.6.
"Player(s)"
means any person who has opened an Account through your Tracker who has not
held an Account with us before and makes the necessary minimum deposit in such
Account.
2.7.
"Restricted Territories"
means the following countries - Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba,
Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Palestinian Territory, Sudan,
Syria, Turkey, United States.
2.8.
"Services"
means any product or service provided to Players on the Platinum Websites.
2.9.
"Spam"
means any email or other electronic communication which you send which markets,
promotes or which otherwise refers to us, the Website or our services from time
to time, or which contains any Marketing Materials, Our Marks or Trackers and
which breaches our Electronic Marketing Rules set forth in Section 5 below.
2.10.
"Tracker(s)" means
the unique Tracking URL Codes that we provide exclusively to you, through which
we track Players' and potential Players' activities and calculate Affiliate
Fees.
2.11.
"Tracking URL"
means a unique hyperlink or other linking tool for referencing the Platinum
Websites or Services through which you refer potential Players. When the
relevant Player opens their Account, our system automatically logs the Tracking
URL and records you as the Affiliate.
2.12.
"Website(s)"
means, the website located at the URL www.platinumaffiliates.com and at any URL
with which we replace such URL from time to time (and such other web addresses
including RSS feeds which are owned, operated or controlled by or on behalf of
us from time to time and which make available such website) and each of its
related pages.
2.13.
"Platinum Website(s)"
means, the websites located at the URLs www.suprocasino.com
(“SuproCasino Website”), www.luckyacepoker.com (“LuckyAcePoker
Website”), www.luckyacecasino.com
(“LuckyAceCasino Website”), and www.silkbingo.com
(“SilkBingo Website”) and at any URLs, which we shall advise you will
replace such URLs from time to time and each of its related pages.
3.1.
Identity and Disclosure. You
shall provide true and complete information to us when completing the Affiliate
Sign Up Form www.platinumaffiliates.com and promptly update
such information if all or any part of it changes. You shall also provide us
with such other information as we may reasonably request from time to time.
3.2.
Marketing Activities and
Responsibilities. You shall market to and refer potential
Players to the Platinum Websites. You will be solely liable for the content and
manner of such marketing activities. All such marketing activities must be
professional, proper and lawful under applicable rules, regulations or laws
(including any laws relation to the content and nature of any advertising or
marketing) and otherwise comply with the terms of this Agreement. You shall not
authorize, assist or encourage any third party to:
3.2.1.
place Marketing Materials on any online
site or other medium where the content and/or material on such website or
medium is libelous, discriminatory, obscene, unlawful, sexually explicit,
pornographic or violent or which is, in our sole discretion otherwise
unsuitable;
3.2.2.
develop and/or implement marketing and/or
public relations strategies which have as their direct or indirect objective
the targeting of marketing of us and/or the Website and/or the Platinum
Websites to any persons who are less than 18 years of age (or such higher age
as may apply in the jurisdiction that you are targeting), regardless of the age
of majority in the location you are marketing;
3.2.3.
Breach any of the provisions of Section 5
below.
3.2.4.
Use Marketing Materials in a manner that
may potentially confuse a Player or potential Player.
3.2.5.
place Marketing Materials on any online
site or other medium, where the content and/or material on such online site or
medium: (a) infringes any third party's intellectual property rights; (b) copies
or resembles the Platinum Websites in whole or in part; (c) disparages us or
otherwise damages our goodwill or reputation in any way; or (d) frames any page
of the Platinum Websites in whole or in part;
3.2.6.
read, intercept, modify, record, redirect,
interpret, or fill in the contents of any electronic form or other materials
submitted to us by any person;
3.2.7.
in any way alter, redirect or in any way
interfere with the operation or accessibility of the Platinum Websites or any
page thereof;
3.2.8.
register as a Player on behalf of any third
party, or authorize or assist (save by promoting the Platinum Websites and
Services in accordance with this Agreement) any other person to register as a
Player;
3.2.9.
take any action that could reasonably cause
any end-user confusion as to our relationship with you or any third party, or
as to the ownership or operation of the site or service on which any functions
or transactions are occurring;
3.2.10.
offer any so-called rake-back schemes or
similar that offer or allow a proportion of the players rake to be returned to
the Player in any form.
3.2.11.
post, serve or publish any advertisements,
communications or promotional content promoting the Platinum Websites, our
Services or Our Marks or around or in conjunction with the display of the Platinum
Websites and/or any part or page thereof (for example and without limitation
through any "framing" technique or technology or pop-up
windows or pop-under windows or interstitial);
3.2.12.
cause the Platinum Websites (or any parts
or pages thereof) to open in a visitor's browser or anywhere else used for
accessing the Services other than as a result of the visitor clicking on
banners or text links contained in or as part of any Marketing Materials;
3.2.13.
attempt to intercept or redirect (including
via user-installed software) traffic from or on any online site or other place
that participates in our Affiliate Program;
3.2.14.
use any means to promote sites which
resemble in any way the look and/or feel of the Platinum Websites whether in
whole or in part, nor utilize any such means or site to create the impression
that such sites are the Platinum Websites (or any part of the Platinum
Websites);
3.2.15.
violate the terms of use and any applicable
policies of any search engines;
3.2.16.
attempt to communicate to Players whether
directly or indirectly to solicit them to move to any online site not owned by
us or for other purposes without our prior approval, including but not limited
to via email, chat boards, or spamming our tables; or
3.2.17.
Attempt to market or promote our Services
(or any specified part thereof) or any of the Platinum Websites within
territories which are Restricted Territories, attempt to circumvent any
restriction which we have put in place to prevent potential players from
restricted territories from signing up as Players, or attempt to disguise the
geographical location of a Player.
If we determine, in our sole
discretion, that you have engaged in any of the foregoing activities, we may
(without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold any
Affiliate Fees and/or terminate this Agreement immediately on notice.
3.3.
Approved Marketing Materials. In
providing the marketing activities referred to in Section 3.2, you shall only
use the Marketing Materials. You shall not modify the Marketing Materials or
Our Marks in any way without our prior written consent. You shall only use the
Marketing Materials in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, any
guidelines we provide to you on our Website or otherwise from time to time and
any applicable laws. CDs and other customized promotional materials provided to
you will be at your cost and deducted from Affiliate Fees. During the term of
this Agreement, we grant you a terminable, non-exclusive, non-transferable
right to use the Marketing Materials for the sole purpose of fulfilling your
obligations under this Agreement. 2, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.10, 6.4, 7, 8 and 9
3.4.
Competitive Marketing. You
shall not be
entitled to market to potential Players (i) on any Internet site on which we
promote the Platinum Websites; (ii) on any Internet search
engine on which we promote the Platinum Websites;
and (iii) in any other manner which results in your competing with us in
relation to the promotion of the Platinum Websites.
3.5.
Non Assignment. Trackers
are for your sole use and are not to be assigned to others without our written
consent.
3.6.
Player Information. We
reserve the right to refuse service to any potential Player and to close the
Account of any Player, at any time, in our sole discretion. All data relating
to the Players shall, as between you and us, remain our exclusive property and
you acquire no right to such information except pursuant to our express written
instructions.
3.7.
Trademarks and
Domain Names. You acknowledge that Kamay Holdings Ltd. and/or its
affiliates and licensees, own all intellectual property rights comprised in any
and all of the Marketing Materials, the Website, the Platinum Websites and Our
Marks. Any use of any trade mark, domain name or trade name which contains, is
confusingly similar to or is comprised of Our Marks (other than in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement) without our prior written permission shall be
unauthorized and further shall constitute Fraud for purposes of this Agreement.
By way of example, but without limitation, you may not register or use any of
Our Marks in any part of any domain name. You agree that all use by you of Our
Marks inures to our sole benefit and that you will not obtain any rights in Our
Marks as a result of such use. You shall not register or attempt to register
any trademarks or names that contain, are confusingly similar to or are
comprised of Our Marks, and you hereby agree to transfer any such registration
obtained by you to us upon demand. You further agree not to attack ownership of
and title to Our Marks in any way.
3.8.
Contact with Players. All
Players shall be considered to be customers of Kamay only. You are expressly
forbidden from making contact and corresponding with Players, during the term
of this Agreement and at any time after the expiration or termination of this
Agreement. If in the opinion of Kamay you either try to or do make contact with
a Player, Kamay shall be entitled to immediately terminate this Agreement and
to indefinitely withhold all Affiliate Fees owing to you at such time.
4.1.
Reports. We will
track and report Money Players (as defined below) activity for purposes of
calculating your Affiliate Fees. The form, content and frequency of the reports
may vary from time to time in our sole discretion. Generally, you will receive
a monthly report with your payment indicating the total amount due to you after
any deductions or set offs that we are entitled to make under this Agreement.
In addition, daily reports will be available online for you to view new Players
per Tracker.
4.2.
Affiliate Fees. Unless
otherwise agreed and subject to the terms of this Agreement and your full
compliance with your obligations hereunder, Affiliate Fees will be paid to you
on a calendar month basis, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and
the payment plan and rates outlined on the Website and confirmed to you by
e-mail upon sign-up and/or activation of additional Trackers, and after
any deductions or set offs that we are entitled to make under this Agreement.
4.3.
Money Players.
In this Agreement a "Casino Money Player"
shall mean a Player who earns 20 "comp points" in relation to the
LuckyAceCasino Website or who earns 20 "comp points" in relation to
the SuproCasino Website, and a "Poker Money Player"
shall mean a Player who earns 20 "status points" in relation to the LuckyAcePoker Website, and “Bingo Money
Player” shall
mean a Player who bets US$20 in relation to the SilkBingo Website (the Casino
Money Players together with the Poker Money Players and the Bingo Money Players,
the “Money Players”). For the foregoing purpose, the terms "comp
point" and “status points” shall have such definition and shall be earned
by Money Players in accordance with the guidelines as shall be set from time to
time by Kamay.
4.4.
Eligibility. Neither you nor
your friends, employees, servants, agents, advisors or relatives are eligible
to become Players or Money Players and should you or they do so, you will not
be eligible to receive the relevant Affiliate Fees. For this purpose, the term
"relative" shall mean any of the following: spouse, partner, parent,
child or sibling. The number of Players per individual household computer is
strictly limited to one. You shall not register as a Player or make deposits to
any Account (directly or indirectly) through your Tracker(s) for your own
personal use and/or the use of your relatives, friends, employees, servants,
agents or advisors. Violation of this provision shall be deemed to be Fraud for
purposes of this Agreement.
4.5.
Measurements and Calculations.
Kamay’s measurements and calculations in relation to the number of Casino,
Poker, or Bingo Money Players and the relevant Poker, Casino or Bingo Net
Gaming Revenue figures shall be the sole and authoritative tool and shall not
be open to review or appeal. Kamay shall make the number of Casino, Poker and
Bingo Money Players and the relevant Poker, Casino, and Bingo Net Gaming
Revenue figures available to you through the Website. To permit accurate
tracking, reporting, and Affiliate Fees accrual, you must ensure that the
Trackers are properly formatted throughout the term of this Agreement.
4.6.
Poker Net Gaming Revenue. In
this Agreement, the term "Poker Net Gaming Revenue" shall mean
the sum total of all Poker Money Players’ contributions to "rakes"
the Poker Money Players were involved in while playing at the LuckyAcePoker
Website, less any credits, bonus or promotional amounts given to Poker Money
Players, chargebacks (including amounts paid as a result of credit card abuse
or fraud, or paid to a Poker Money Player to settle a claim involving the
allegation of credit card or other abuse or fraud) or any uncollectible revenue
attributable to the Poker Money Players. A Poker Money Player's contribution to
a "rake" shall be determined by multiplying the quotient obtained
when dividing the actual amount to a hand contributed by the Poker Money Player
by the total bet of each hand, by the total "rake" of the hand in
question.
4.7.
Casino Net Gaming Revenue. In this
Agreement, the term "Casino Net Gaming Revenue" shall mean the
sum total of all of a Casino Money Player’s bets while playing at the
LuckyAceCasino Website or the SuproCasino Website, less the winnings of a Casino
Money Player, less any credits, bonus or promotional amounts given to a Casino
Money Player, less any chargebacks (including amounts paid as a result of
credit card abuse or fraud, or paid to a Casino Money Player to settle a claim
involving the allegation of credit card or other abuse or fraud) or any
uncollectible revenue attributable to a Casino Money Player.
4.8.
Bingo Net Gaming Revenue. In this
Agreement, the term "Bingo Net Gaming Revenue" shall mean the
sum total of all of a Bingo Money Player’s bets while playing at the SilkBingo
Website, less the winnings of a Bingo Money Player, less any credits, bonus or
promotional amounts given to a Bingo Money Player, less any chargebacks
(including amounts paid as a result of credit card abuse or fraud, or paid to a
Bingo Money Player to settle a claim involving the allegation of credit card or
other abuse or fraud) or any uncollectible revenue attributable to a Bingo
Money Player.
4.9.
Change of Affiliate Fees Scheme. Kamay
hereby retains the right to convert the Affiliate Fees scheme by which you
shall be paid and the Casino and/or Poker and/or Bingo Money Players
qualification criteria as Kamay shall see fit.
4.10.
Payment Terms. All
Affiliates Fees shall be paid to you on a monthly basis, within approximately
30 days following the end of each month.
4.11.
Fraud. Kamay
retains the right to review all Affiliate Fees for possible Fraud, where such
Fraud may be on the part of the Player or on your part. During the period of
time in which Kamay shall review Affiliate Fees for possible Fraud, where such
review period shall not to exceed 180 days, Kamay shall have the right to
withhold any Affiliate Fees accrued in your favor until such time as the review
has been concluded. Any incidence of Fraud on your part constitutes a breach of
this Agreement, and Kamay retain full authority to terminate this Agreement
immediately in the event of such breach. Further, in the event that Kamay deems
that Fraud has occurred, either on your part or on the part of a Player, you
shall not be entitled to receive any Affiliate Fees which have accrued to your
benefit at such time whether such Affiliate Fees were generated through Fraud
or otherwise. Kamay retains the right to set-off from future Affiliate Fees
payable to you any amounts already received by you which can be shown to have
been generated by Fraud.
For the purpose of this Agreement and by way of example
only the term "Fraud" shall include, but shall not be limited to,
actual or attempted (i) bonus abuse on the part of the Casino, Poker, or Bingo
Money Players, (ii) the encouragement by you or a third party of bonus abuse on
the part of the Money Players, (iii) a chargeback executed by a Money Player in
relation to their initial deposit, (iv) collusion on the part of the Money
Player with any other player on the Platinum Websites, (v) the opening of an
Account in breach of the terms of this Agreement, (vi) the offering or
providing by you or any third party of any unauthorized incentives (financial
or otherwise) to potential Money Players, (vii) any attempt by you to
artificially increase the Affiliate Fees payable to you, (viii) deposits,
revenues or traffic generated on the Services through illegal means, and (ix)
any other act by you or by a Money Player which is reasonably understood to
have been committed in bad faith against us or to defraud us (as determined by
us in our sole discretion) regardless of whether or not such action has
resulted in any type of harm or damage to us (including without limitation
deposits generated on stolen credit cards, collusion, manipulation of the
service or system, bonuses or other promotional abuse, and unauthorized use of
any third party accounts, copyrights, trademarks and other third party
intellectual property rights (which for the avoidance of doubt includes our
intellectual property rights).
4.12.
Notwithstanding anything stated to the
contrary in this Agreement, in accordance with the provisions of the Affiliate
Program, we will no longer pay you or any other Affiliate any Affiliate Fees in
relation to Money Players resident in China and Switzerland.
4.13.
For the avoidance of doubt, it is agreed by
the Parties that the Affiliate Fees, which we shall pay to you shall relate
solely to the casino, poker or bingo products. We shall have no obligation
whatsoever in relation to other or future products or services provided to
Money Players by us or any of our affiliated entities.
4.14.
Minimum Payment and
Time of Payment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if for any calendar
month the total amount of Affiliate Fees due to you is less than or equal to US
$50, due to the costs and resources involved in administering the program and
processing payments hereunder, the balance will be carried over and added to
the next month's Affiliate Fees until the total amount is more than US $50.
Further, if the amount of Affiliate Fees due is negative in any particular
month, then we may, at our sole discretion, elect that negative amount will
carry over and be deducted against the following month.
4.15.
Method of Payment. All
payments will be due and payable in United States Dollars or such other
currency as we will determine. Payment will be made by cheque or wire transfer
or any other method as we in our sole discretion decide; however we will use
reasonable endeavors to accommodate your preferred payment method. Charges for
wires or courier charges for cheques will be covered by you and deducted from
your Affiliate Fees. For the avoidance of doubt, we have no liability to pay
any currency conversion charges or any charges associated with the transfer of
monies to your bank account.
4.16.
Player Tracking and
Active Players. You understand and agree that potential Players must
link and make deposits through using your Tracker in order for you to receive
Affiliate Fees. In no event, are we liable for your failure to use Trackers.
Notwithstanding any other provision herein, we may at any time and in our sole
discretion alter our tracking system and reporting format.
4.17.
Disputes. If you
disagree with the monthly reports or amount payable, do NOT accept payment for
such amount and immediately send us written notice of your dispute. Dispute
notices must be received within thirty (30) days of our making available your
monthly report or your right to dispute such report or payment will be deemed
waived and you shall have no claims in such regard. Further, deposit of payment
cheque, acceptance of payment transfer or acceptance of other payment from us
by you will be deemed full and final settlement of Affiliate Fees due for the
month indicated. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any overpayment is made in
the calculation of your Affiliate Fees we reserve the right to correct such
calculation at any time and to reclaim from you any overpayment made by us to
you.
4.18.
Money Laundering. You
shall comply with all applicable laws and any policy notified by us through our
Website or otherwise in relation to money laundering and/or the proceeds of
crime.
4.19.
Taxation. All
taxes due in connection with any payments to you are your sole liability. You
are responsible for complying with the rules, if any, for registering for and
paying income tax and similar taxes in respect of your income from or in
relation to this Agreement and for collecting and paying the income tax and
social security contributions in respect of your staff, if you have any staff.
If Value Added Tax (VAT) or any other sales tax or turnover tax is chargeable,
you are responsible for complying with the rules, if any, for registering for
the tax and collecting and paying tax in the country where the services are
provided and you acknowledge that the payments that you receive shall be deemed
to include all VAT or sales tax or turnover tax.
If you plan to promote the Platinum
Websites through email marketing, then your email practices must comply with
the following:
5.1.
You have clear and specific consent from
the proposed recipient(s) before you send any such communications. The consent
must have been given to you by way of an opt-in consent mechanism. Any such
tick box must not be pre-populated;
5.2.
The communication makes it clear that it is
marketing the Platinum Websites and/or Services;
5.3.
If such communication includes any
promotional offers (for example, the payment of free tickets to prospective
Players) or any promotional competitions or games, that the promotion,
competition or game is clearly identified as such and that any conditions which
the prospective Player must meet in order to qualify for the promotion,
competition or game are set out clearly and unambiguously in the communication;
5.4.
You do not send any such communications to
persons under the age of 18 or (if higher), the age of majority in the country
of the proposed recipient(s) of any such communication;
5.5.
You do not use any viral marketing
techniques as part of your electronic marketing activities;
5.6.
Any such communications only promotes us,
our Services and/or the Platinum Websites (and not any third parties, third
party services and/or third party sites) and shall not include any content
other than our Marketing Materials;
5.7.
You include a true name in the
communication (e.g. the "From" line of any email) and not a sales
pitch or marketing message. Any such communication must clearly identify you as
the sender of the communication and you shall not falsify or otherwise attempt
to hide your identity;
5.8.
You do not mislead the recipient(s) with
regard to the content and purpose of the communication;
5.9.
You provide an adequate, functioning and
conspicuous "opt-out" or "unsubscribe" option in every
communication;
5.10.
The communication must include a valid
address to which the recipient can respond to opt out/unsubscribe of future
marketing communications. The reply address must be active for at least thirty
days after sending the communication. You also include a physical business
address in any such communication;
5.11.
You honor expeditiously any opt
out/unsubscribe request made by any communication recipient. You must not send
any further marketing communications to any person who indicates (by whatever
means) that they do not wish to receive any further marketing communications;
5.12.
You include a link to your privacy policy
in any such communication;
5.13.
You do not send any such communications to
any person who has registered on any applicable register of persons who do not
wish to receive any marketing communications;
5.14.
You must include the following notice, or similar wording in any email message or text or
mobile communication:
"Please
note that you have received this email from an affiliate marketer of PlatinumAffiliates.com
If you feel you have received this email in error, been misled by this
affiliate or your previous opt-out request was not honored by this affiliate,
please immediately report this affiliate by forwarding this entire email
message to PlatinumAffiliates.com's SPAM HOTBOX at support@platinumaffiliates.com.
5.15.
Further, you are responsible for ensuring
that your communications practices comply with all applicable laws and codes of
practice, including: (i) European Directives 95/46 on the Protection of
Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data and 2002/58 on
Privacy and Electronic Communications and any applicable local enactments thereof in relation to electronic marketing in the
European Union; and (ii) the United States CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Public Law
108-187) in relation to any electronic marketing in the United States.
6.
TERM AND
TERMINATION
6.1.
Term and Termination. This
Agreement will take effect when you indicate your acceptance of these terms and
conditions on the Affiliate Sign Up Form at www.platinumaffiliates.com
and continue until terminated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
6.2.
Termination By You. You may
terminate this Agreement, with or without cause, immediately upon written
notice to us that you may send by email marked "Termination PlatinumAffiliates"
to affiliates@platinumaffiliates.com. For the avoidance of doubt, termination
of the Agreement will end your participation in the Affiliate Program as a
whole. You may not terminate any Platinum Website in isolation.
6.3.
Termination By Us. We may
terminate this Agreement or without terminating this Agreement as a whole, any
specific Trackers, without cause at any time, upon written notice to you that
we may send by email to such email address you have provided to us or by fax to
such fax number you may have provided to us. In the event we terminate the
Agreement as a whole, we shall be entitled to automatically render any Trackers
inoperative. For the avoidance of doubt, on termination of this Agreement you
will no longer receive any Affiliate Fees. If we terminate a specific Tracker,
you will no longer receive any Affiliate Fees through that Tracker; however,
your remaining Trackers will not be affected.
6.4.
Suspension By Us. In any
circumstance where we are entitled to terminate this Agreement or terminate any
specific Tracker, we may at our sole discretion and without prejudice to our
further rights and remedies, suspend the Agreement or any specific Tracker.
During the period of any suspension, we may withhold the payment of any
Affiliate Fees that relate to any affected Trackers. Payment of any withheld
Affiliate Fees will be made to you on the lifting of the suspension.
6.5.
Automatic Termination without notice. This
Agreement shall be deemed automatically terminated without notice where: (a)
the total cumulative balance of Affiliate Fees due to you is less than $50 for
six (6) consecutive calendar months; or (b) you do not have any persons
qualifying as Money Players in any one hundred and eighty (180) day period.
6.6.
Effect of Termination. The
following will apply upon termination of this Agreement: (a) you shall stop
promoting the Platinum Websites and all rights and licenses
given to you under this Agreement will terminate immediately; (b) you shall
return all confidential information and cease use of any of Our Marks and the Marketing
Materials; (c) we may leave open, redirect or deactivate any Trackers in our
sole discretion without any obligation to pay you for new Players who
subsequently become Players or Money Players; and (d) provided that we have
paid or do pay to you such sums as are due at the date of termination which
shall be subject to any rights we have to make deductions hereunder, we will
have no further liability to pay you any further sums.
6.7.
Sections 2, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.10, 6.4,
7, 8 and 9 and such other provisions as are necessary for the interpretation or
enforcement of this Agreement shall survive any termination or expiry of this
Agreement.
7.1.
No Warranties. WE MAKE NO
WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS (WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED BY LAW, STATUTE OR
OTHERWISE) WITH RESPECT TO THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM, OUR WEBSITE, THE PLATINUM
WEBSITES, OR ANY CONTENT, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES AVAILABLE THEREIN OR RELATED
THERETO OR THAT OUR WEBSITE OR THE PLATINUM WEBSITES, SYSTEM, NETWORK, SOFTWARE
OR HARDWARE (OR THAT PROVIDED TO US BY THIRD PARTIES) WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR
UNINTERRUPTED OR WITH RESPECT TO THE QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR
PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR SUITABILITY OF ALL OR ANY OF THE FOREGOING. EXCEPT AS
EXPRESSLY STATED OTHERWISE IN THIS AGREEMENT, ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS
AND IMPLIED TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW. FURTHERMORE, NEITHER WE (NOR OUR PROVIDERS OR UNDERLYING
VENDORS) ARE REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN REDUNDANT SYSTEM(S), NETWORK, SOFTWARE OR
HARDWARE.
7.2.
Billing and Collection Limitations. We may,
in our sole discretion, use any available means to block or restrict certain
Players, deposits or play patterns or reject the applications of potential
Players and/or Affiliates so as to reduce the number of fraudulent,
unprofitable transactions or for any reason. We do not guarantee, represent or
warrant the consistent application and/or success of any fraud prevention
efforts.
7.3.
Liability Limitations. Our
obligations under this Agreement do not constitute personal obligations of the
owners, directors, officers, agents, employees, vendors or suppliers of the
Website or Services or the Platinum Websites. Other than as expressly provided
in this Agreement, in no event will we be liable for any direct, indirect,
special, incidental, consequential or punitive loss, injury or damage of any
kind (regardless of whether we have been advised of the possibility of such
loss) including any loss of business, revenue, profits or data. Our liability
arising under this Agreement, whether in contract, tort (including negligence)
or for breach of statutory duty or in any other way shall only be for direct
damages and shall not exceed the revenues generated and payable hereunder over
the previous twelve months at the time that the event giving rise to the
liability arises. However, nothing in this Agreement will operate to exclude or
limit either party's liability for death or personal injury arising as a result
of that party's negligence or for fraud.
7.4.
Indemnification. You
shall defend, indemnify and hold us and our officers, directors, employees and
representatives harmless on demand from and against any and all claims,
demands, liabilities, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable
legal fees) resulting or arising from your breach of this Agreement.
7.5.
Set off. Without prejudice
to any other rights or remedies available to us under this Agreement or
otherwise, we shall be entitled to set off any payments otherwise payable by us
to you hereunder, against any liability of you to us, including any claims we
have against you resulting from or arising from, your breach of this Agreement.
8.1.
Independent Investigation. YOU
WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF MARKETING THE
PLATINUM WEBSITES OR SERVICES.
9.1.
Notices. All notices
pertaining to this Agreement will be given by email as follows: to you at the
email address provided by you on the Affiliate Sign Up Form (or as subsequently
updated by you to us in the event of change), and to us at affiliates@platinumaffiliates.com.
Any notice sent by email shall be deemed received on the earlier of an
acknowledgement being sent or 24 hours from the time of transmission.
9.2.
Relationship of Parties. There
is no relationship of exclusivity, partnership, joint venture, employment,
agency or franchise between you or us under this Agreement. Neither party has
the authority to bind the other (including the making of any representation or
warranty, the assumption of any obligation or liability and/or the exercise of
any right or power), except as expressly provided in this Agreement.
9.3.
Non-Exclusive. You understand
that we may at any time (directly or indirectly), enter into marketing terms
with other Affiliates on the same or different terms as those provided to you
in this Agreement and that such Affiliates may be similar, and even
competitive, to you. You understand that we may re-direct traffic and users
from the Platinum Websites to any other online site that we deem appropriate in
our sole discretion, without any additional compensation to you.
9.4.
Confidentiality and Non Disclosure. As an
Affiliate, you may receive confidential information from us, including
confidential information as to our marketing plans, marketing concepts,
structure and payments. This information is confidential to us and constitutes
our proprietary trade secrets. You shall not, during the term of this Agreement
and at any time after the termination or expiration thereof, disclose this
information to third parties or use such information other than for the
purposes of this Agreement without our prior written consent, save as expressly
required by law (provided that any such disclosure is only to the extent so
required).
9.5.
Press. You may not issue
any press release or other communication to the public with respect to this
Agreement, Our Marks or your participation in this Affiliate Program without
our prior written consent, except as required by law or by any legal or
regulatory authority.
9.6.
Assignment. Except where you
have received our prior written consent, you may not assign at law or in equity
(including by way of a charge or declaration of trust), sub-license or deal in
any other manner with this Agreement or any rights under this Agreement, or sub-contract
any or all of your obligations under this Agreement, or purport to do any of
the same. Any purported assignment in breach of this clause shall confer no
rights on the purported assignee.
9.7.
Governing Law. This
Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
United Kingdom without giving effect to conflicts of law principles. You
irrevocably agree to submit, for the benefit of us, to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the courts of London, United Kingdom, for the settlement of any
claim, dispute or matter arising out of or concerning this Agreement or its
enforceability and you waive any objection to proceedings in such courts on the
grounds of venue or on the grounds that proceedings have been brought in an
inconvenient forum.
9.8.
Severability. Whenever possible,
each provision of this Agreement will be interpreted in such a manner as to be
effective and valid under applicable law but, if any provision of this
Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such
provision will be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity, or
unenforceability, without invalidating the remainder of this Agreement or any
other provision hereof.
9.9.
Entire Agreement. This
Agreement embodies the complete agreement and understanding of the parties
hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any prior
agreement or understanding between the parties in relation to such subject
matter. Each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that in entering into this
Agreement, it has not relied on any statement, representation, guarantee
warranty, understanding, undertaking, promise or assurance (whether negligently
or innocently made) of any person (whether party to this Agreement or not)
other than as expressly set out in the Agreement. Each party irrevocably and
unconditionally waives all claims, rights and remedies which but for this
clause it might otherwise have had in relation to any of the foregoing. Nothing
in this Section shall limit or exclude any liability for fraud.
9.10.
Third Party Rights. Except
insofar as this Agreement expressly provides that a third party may in their
own right enforce a term of this Agreement, a person who is not a party to this
Agreement has no right under local law or statute to rely upon or enforce any
term of this Agreement, but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third
party which exists or is available apart from under that local law or statute.
PlatinumAffiliates.com
This Agreement is Version 2, as released and posted October 22, 2009
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INDEX
A
Account_____________________________________ 2
Affiliate Fee__________________________________ 2
Affiliate Fees_________________________________ 6
Affiliate Section______________________________ 2
B
Bingo Money Player___________________________ 7
Bingo Net Gaming Revenue____________________ 8
C
Casino Money Player__________________________ 7
Casino Net Gaming Revenue___________________ 7
D
Disputes_____________________________________ 9
E
ELECTRONIC MARKETING RULES
eMail Campaigns__________________________ 10
F
Fraud________________________________________ 8
G
Governing Law______________________________ 14
M
Marketing Activities___________________________ 4
Marketing Materials________________________ 2, 5
Minimum Payment___________________________ 9
Money Laundering___________________________ 10
Money Players_______________________________ 7
O
Our Marks___________________________________ 3
P
Payment Method_____________________________ 9
Payment Terms______________________________ 8
Platinum Website(s)__________________________ 3
Player_______________________________________ 3
Player Information____________________________ 6
Player Tracking_______________________________ 9
Poker Money Player__________________________ 7
Poker Net Gaming Revenue____________________ 7
R
Reports______________________________________ 6
Restricted Territories_________________________ 3
S
Services_____________________________________ 3
Spam________________________________________ 3
T
Taxation____________________________________ 10
TERM_______________________________________ 11
TERMINATION______________________________ 11
Tracker(s)"___________________________________ 3
Tracking URL_________________________________ 3
Trademarks__________________________________ 6
W
Website(s)___________________________________ 3