2. Affiliate Obligations
2.1 To begin the enrolment process, an online
application must be completed and submitted at the siegus.com web site.
Rejected applications may be appealed via contacting
info@siegus.com.
Approved applications does not imply that the application may not be re-evaluated at a later time and rejected at the company's sole discretion, especially if it is determined that an affiliate's behaviour is unsuitable for our Program. Unsuitable behaviours may consist of, but is not limited to,:
Grounds of cancellation or rejection may consist of, but not limited to,:
ancel your application if we determine that your site is unsuitable for our Program, including if it:
2.1.1 Promotes sexually explicit materials.
2.1.2 Promotes violence.
2.1.3 Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
2.1.4 Promotes illegal activities.
2.1.5 Incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law.
2.1.6 Includes "siegus", variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name or names of its products: BRE8K, R8IN, S8N, Z8P,and names of any future applications, goods and/or services.
2.1.7 Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion.
2.1.8 Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program.
2.1.9 You may not create or design your site or any other site that you operate, explicitly or implied in a manner which resembles our site nor design your site in a manner which leads customers to believe you are siegus.com or any other affiliated business.
2.2 siegus.com reserves the right, at any time, to review your placement and approve the use of Your Links and require that you change the placement or use to comply with the guidelines provided to you.
2.3 The maintenance and the updating of your site will be your responsibility. We may monitor your site as we feel necessary to make sure that it is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes that we feel should enhance your performance.
2.4 The maintenance and the updating of your site will be your responsibility. We may monitor your site as we feel necessary to make sure that it is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes that we feel should enhance your performance.
3. siegus.com Rights and Obligations
3.1 We have the right to monitor your site at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this Agreement. We may notify you of any changes to your site that we feel should be made, or to make sure that your links to our web site are appropriate and to further notify you of any changes that we feel should be made. If you do not make the changes to your site that we believe are necessary, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the SIEGUS® Affiliate Program.
3.2 siegus.com reserve the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in the SIEGUS® Affiliate Program immediately and without notice to you should you commit fraud in your use of the siegus.com Affiliate Program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, siegus.com shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales.
3.3 This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application, and will continue unless terminated hereunder.
4. Termination
Either you or we may end this Agreement AT ANY TIME, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice can be in the form of mail, email or fax. In addition, this Agreement will terminate immediately upon any breach of this Agreement by you.
5. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions in this Agreement at any time at our sole discretion. In such event, you will be notified by email. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the payment procedures and siegus.com's Affiliate Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only option is to end this Agreement. Your continued participation in siegus.com's Affiliate Program following the posting of the change notice or new Agreement on our site will indicate your agreement to the changes.
6. Payment
affiliates are offered a (negotiable) commission rate of eight percent (8%). siegus uses a third party to handle all sales tracking and payment. The third party is the payhip.com affiliate platform. The payment will be made in the GBP currency via Paypal, post 35 days from the payment of the customer, minimum payment threshold is 300 GBP.
7. Access to Affiliate Onboarding
You must create a password to access payhip.com’s secure affiliate account interface.
From their site you shall receive reports of any commission due.
8. Promotion Restrictions
8.1 You are free to promote your own web sites, but naturally any promotion that mentions siegus.com and its products could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort. You should know that certain forms of advertising are always prohibited by siegus.com. For example, advertising commonly referred to as "spamming" is unacceptable to us and could cause damage to our name. Other generally prohibited forms of advertising include the use of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once. In addition, you may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name, or your return email address. You may use mailings to customers to promote siegus.com as long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or web site, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. Also, you may post to newsgroups to promote siegus.com as long as the news group specifically welcomes commercial messages. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your web sites as independent from siegus.com. If it comes to our attention that you are spamming, we will consider that cause for immediate termination of this Agreement and your participation in the siegus.com Affiliate Program. Any pending balances owed to you may not be paid if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.
8.2 Affiliates that among other keywords or exclusively bid in their Pay-Per-Click campaigns on keywords such as siegus.com, siegus, shop.siegus, www.siegus, www.siegus.com, SIEGUS, clubSIEGUS, BRE8K, R8IN, S8N, Z8P, names of any future applications/brands/goods/services, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these – be it separately or in combination with other keywords – and do not direct the traffic from such campaigns to their own site prior to re-directing it to ours, will be considered trademark violators, and will be banned from SIEGUS’ Affiliate Program. We shall attempt to notify the affiliate prior to the ban. However, we reserve the right to expel any copyright violator from our affiliate program without prior notice, and on the first occurrence of such PPC bidding behavior.
8.3 Affiliates are not prohibited from keying in prospect’s information into the lead form as long as the prospects’ information is real and true, and these are valid leads (i.e. genuinely interest to work with SIEGUS®).
8.4 Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “Parasiteware™,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers from the time the consumer clicks on a qualifying link until such time as the consumer has fully closed the SIEGUS® web site (i.e., no page from our site or any siegus.com branding/content is visible on the end-user’s screen). As used herein a. “Parasiteware™” and “Parasitic Marketing” shall mean an application that (a) through accidental or direct intent causes the overwriting of affiliate and non affiliate commission tracking cookies through any other means than a customer initiated click on a qualifying link on a web page or email; (b) intercepts searches to redirect traffic through an installed software, thereby causing, pop ups, commission tracking cookies to be put in place or other commission tracking cookies to be overwritten where a user would under normal circumstances have arrived at the same destination through the results given by the search (search engines being, but not limited to, Google, MSN, Yahoo, Overture, AltaVista, Hotbot and similar search or directory engines); (c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of hidden links and automatic pop ups which lead to siegus.com’s web site; (d) targets text on sites, other than those sites 100% owned by the application owner, for the purpose of contextual marketing; (e) removes, replaces or blocks the visibility of Affiliate banners with any other banners, other than those that are on web sites 100% owned by the owner of the application.
9. Disclaimer
SIEGUS.COM MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING SIEGUS.COM SERVICE AND SITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED THEREIN, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF SIEGUS.COM ABILITIES, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED. 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.
10. Limitations of Liability
SIEGUS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE OR GOODWILL OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FURTHER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, IN NO EVENT SHALL 4KDOWNLOAD.COM'S CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSION FEES PAID TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
