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To join the
pogo.com affiliate program, read the terms and conditions below and
click the "I Accept" button at the bottom of the page.
pogo.com Affiliate
Program Terms and Conditions
1. Agreement
By completing and sending the attached Affiliate Program application form
or by clicking on "I Accept" below, you ("The Affiliate", "you", "your")
are entering into a legal agreement with pogo.com, Inc. ("pogo.com", "we",
"our") in accordance with and governed by the terms and conditions contained
below. Clicking on "I Accept" below and submitting an Affiliate Program
application form signifies that you have read and understood these terms
and agree to be governed by them.
2. Enrollment in
the Program
To
begin the enrollment process, you must submit a complete an Affiliate
Program application via our site (http://www.pogo.com.com/affiliates/application.html)
or by clicking on "I accept" below after reading the terms and conditions.
We will evaluate your application and notify you if your site is not accepted
for participation in the pogo.com Affiliates Program. We retain the right
to terminate this agreement at any time for any reason, including if we
later determine (at our sole discretion) that your site is unsuitable
for our Affiliate Program.
3. Affiliate Eligibility
To sign up to be a pogo.com Affiliate, you must be at least 18 (eighteen)
years of age. THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SITES ARE UNSUITABLE FOR THE POGO
AFFILIATE PROGRAM:
SITES THAT CONTAIN OR PROMOTE SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIALS
SITES THAT PROMOTE VIOLENCE -SITES THAT PROMOTE ILLEGAL ACTIVITES
OR CONTAIN MATERIAL THAT VIOLATES ANY PROPERTY RIGHTS OR STATE, LOCAL,
FEDERAL OR OTHER LAWS AND REGULATIONS
SITES THAT PROMOTE DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE, RELIGION, SEX,
NATIONALITY, AGE, DISABILITY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION
You hereby agree that our acceptance of your application does not constitute
a permanent or final determination of your site's present or future suitability
for our Affiliate Program, but that we retain the right to terminate this
Agreement at any time for any reason, including if we later determine
(at our sole discretion) that your site is unsuitable for our Affiliate
Program.
4. Linking to pogo.com
If we approve your application and you become an affiliate site, we will
make available to you a variety of graphic and textual links that, subject
to the terms and conditions contained herein, you may display as often
and in as many areas on your site as you desire, subject to the restrictions
below. The links will serve to identify your site as a member of the Affiliate
Program and will establish a link from your site to ours (or to an intermediary).
We provide access to a toolkit with an HTML generator. You must use the
generator to create your links in order to meet the criteria in these
terms and conditions. You may not alter, in any manner whatsoever, the
generator, banners, logos, or other content available through the link
generator. We may modify, add or remove text or graphical images that
we make available to you from time to time at our sole discretion. It
is your sole responsibility to be aware of what links or graphics are
available to you. You may not misrepresent yourself or your site as a
part of pogo.com. We may, at our discretion, request that you alter the
presentation of our graphics or links on your site to protect our trademarks,
tradenames or images and failure to do so could result, at the minimum,
in termination of this Agreement. All links or graphics associated with
the pogo.com Affiliate Program must be placed solely on your site(s) and
may not be placed in third party areas, such as, but not limited to, newsgroups,
unsolicited emails, banner networks, chatrooms or guestbooks.
5. Ownership
pogo.com
retains the right, title and interest in and ownership to its trademarks,
tradenames, technology, ideas, know-how, images and other intellectual
property rights ("Intellectual Property Rights"). You acknowledge and
agree that such Intellectual Property Rrights shall be and remain the
sole property of pogo.com. You shall not be an owner of, or have any interest
in, the Intellectual Property Rights, but rather shall have a limited,
revocable license for use pursuant to this Agreement.
6. Term
This Agreement shall begin on the date that pogo.com receives your application
and you have agreed to these terms and conditions. This Agreement shall
remain in effect until terminated by either you or pogo.com. If you breach
any covenant, representation and/or any warranty of this agreement or
if you engage in any activity that, in pogo.com's sole discretion, reflects
poorly on pogo.com or disparages or devalues pogo.com's trademarks, tradename,
reputation or goodwill, pogo.com may terminate this agreement immediately
upon notice to you. Either party may terminate this agreement on 5 (five)
days written notice to the other party for any reason. Such notice shall
be sent to: affiliates@pogo.com. In the event that either party terminates
this Agreement, you shall immediately remove all links and any other reference
to pogo.com or pogo.com related materials from your Web Site and shall
immediately return to pogo.com all Web Site materials provided to you
by pogo.com. Any monies owed to you by pogo.com for activities before
and up to the date of termination will be paid to you, unless they are
determined to have been acquired by fraudulent means or as a result of
a breach of this Agreement.
7. Affiliate Referral
Commissions
pogo.com will pay to you a referral fee of $0.50 for each unique person
you send to our site if they meet the following requirements:
the person must register as a member of pogo.com on pogo.com's
registration site
the person must NOT have previously been a member
of pogo.com
the person must play 2 of the following games on pogo.com: Bridge,
Euchre, Hearts, Spades, Video Poker, Roulette, Backgammon, Checkers, Chess.
the
person is a unique and real person.
The commission rates and requirements are subject to change at any time,
in our sole and absolute discretion. Commission payments will be made
quarterly, on all events generated by your site that qualify for payment
during that period. If the referral fees payable to you for any quarter
are less than $25.00, we will hold those referral fees until the next
quarter's payment schedule and until total amount due is at least $25.00
or until this Agreement is terminated. If pogo.com's records show activity
from your site that we determine is inconsistent with valid user registration
and gameplay, or is otherwise unusual, then pogo.com reserves the right
to withhold payment of referral fees for a reasonable time pending an
investigation by pogo.com. pogo.com will promptly notify you in this event.
No referral fees will be paid for any activity determined to be of a fraudulent
manner or as a result of a breach of this Agreement.
8. Confidentiality
During
the term of this Agreement, you may be given certain confidential information
(non-public) by representatives of pogo.com, which a reasonable person
would consider confidential or is marked "confidential" of pogo.com. You
agree not to disclose or cause to be disclosed any confidential information
received from pogo.com and that you will not use any such information
for any purpose other than to carry out the rights and responsibilities
of this Agreement. You agree that pogo.com owns all rights to all information
that is collected or created in connection with this Agreement including
any contact information collected from any person who enters our site
from a link from your site and any information regarding click-through
rates, registrations, or game play. pogo.com grants you a revocable, royalty-free
limited license, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement
to use information such as, click-through rates, registrations or gameplay
necessary to fulfill your obligations under this Agreement and for your
internal research purposes and you agree not to disclose or cause to be
disclosed any of this information to any third party.
9. Privacy
pogo.com is committed to respecting our customers' privacy and you warrant
that you will uphold privacy policies that meet or exceed our pogo.com's
standards. If you do not currently have a formal privacy policy posted
on your site, you agree to adopt pogo.com's privacy policy as your own.
10. Warranties
pogo.com warrants that it has full power and authority to enter into this
Agreement, but pogo.com does not warrant that the links or graphics provided
to affiliates will meet all of the affiliate's requirements or that the
performance of the links or graphics will be uninterrupted or error-free.
pogo.com makes no other warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.
You warrant that you have full power and authority to enter into this
Agreement and that the content and/or technology used in connection with
your site or the means that which users access your site, are owned, validly
licensed for use by you or are in the public domain and does not infringe
or violate any copyright, patent, trademark or other intellectual property
right or rights of any person or entity and does not result in consumer
fraud, product liability or breach of contract in which you are a party
or cause of injury to a third party. You further warrant and represent
that your site meets the eligibility requirements of pogo.com's Affiliate
Program.
11. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement,
at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or
a new agreement on our site and without any obligation to provide notice
other than posting such change notice or new agreement. Modifications
may include, for example, and without limitation, changes in the scope
of available referral fees, fee schedules, payment procedures, and Affiliate
Program rules. Your continued participation now, or within thirty (30)
days following the posting notice of any changes in these terms and conditions,
will constitute a binding acceptance by you of such rules, changes or
modifications.
12. Relationship
of Parties
pogo.com and the affiliate are independent contractors, and nothing in
this agreement will create or imply any partnership, joint venture, agency,
franchise, or employment relationship between pogo.com and the affiliate.
You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations
on pogo.com's behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on your
site or otherwise, that would reasonably contradict anything in this section,
either expressly or implied.
13. Limitation of
Liability
POGO.COM WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ( INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR ANY LOSS OF REVENUE,
PROFITS, OR DATA) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE PROGRAM
UNDER ANY CAUSE OF ACTION, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING THE FAILURE
OF THE ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY. FURTHER, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY
ARISING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE PROGRAM WILL NOT EXCEED
THE TOTAL REFERRAL FEES PAID OR PAYABLE TO YOU UNDER TO THIS AGREEMENT.
14. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless pogo.com, its
shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents, and affiliates,
from and against any and all claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages
or expenses (including attorneys' fees and costs) of any nature whatsoever
("Claims") incurred or suffered by us in so far as such losses (or actions
in respect thereof) arise out of, are related to, or are based on i) the
breach of any representation, warranty, or covenant made by you herein
or in your application; ii) or any claim related to your site;, or iii)
misrepresentation of our product and services. pogo.com reserves the right
to control the defense of any such Claims.
15.
Miscellaneous
This Agreement shall be governed by the law of the State of California,
without reference to conflict of laws principles. Notwithstanding any
termination of this Agreement, the following provisions shall survive
Sections 5, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 15. All other rights and licenses granted
hereunder will cease upon termination. You may not sell, transfer, assign,
or subcontract this agreement or any right or obligation set forth herein,
without the prior written consent of pogo.com . pogo.com may assign or
transfer this Agreement at any time at our sole discretion. 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.
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