AFFILIATE AGREEMENT
THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE AFFILIATE
AND DNA BIOSCIENCE. BY CLICKING ON THE "I AGREE" BUTTON
AT THE END OF THIS AGREEMENT THE AFFILIATE IS AGREEING THAT AFFILIATE
HAS READ AND UNDERSTANDS THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT
AND THAT AFFILIATE AGREES TO BE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH AND
EVERY TERM AND CONDITION.
This Agreement contains the complete terms and
conditions that apply to Affiliate becoming a member of the DNA
Bioscience Affiliate Program. The purpose of this Agreement is to
allow linking between Affiliate's Web Site and the DNA Bioscience
Web Site. This Agreement will become effective upon DNA Bioscience
acceptance of Affiliate's completed Affiliate Program Application
(the "Effective Date"). DNA Bioscience reserves the right
to accept or reject Affiliate's application solely in DNA Bioscience
discretion.
1. Linking to DNA Bioscience
a. Links from Affiliate Web Site.
Affiliate agrees that within 30 days of the Effective Date of this
Agreement, it will include Placements that link from Affiliate's
Web Site to the DNA Bioscience Web Site.
b. Maintenance and Monitoring of Placements
i. Affiliate agrees to link only to those specific
Web pages that DNA Bioscience designates in the Placements, and
to use only the Placements provided for such purpose. Affiliate
may not modify or alter the Placements provided by DNA Bioscience
in any way. Affiliate may not "frame" or "mirror"
any part of DNA Bioscience without the prior written authorization
of DNA Bioscience.
ii. DNA Bioscience has the right to monitor the
content on Affiliate's Web Site in a commercially reasonable manner
as DNA Bioscience believes necessary to make sure that the Placements
are appropriate and to ensure that Affiliate's Web Site otherwise
complies with the terms of this Agreement. DNA Bioscience has the
right to notify Affiliate of any reasonable changes that Affiliate
needs to make to comply with the DNA Bioscience guidelines for the
use of the Placements, and to otherwise comply with the terms of
this Agreement.
iii. Affiliate agrees to cooperate with DNA Bioscience
in order to establish and maintain any Placements between the DNA
Bioscience Web Site and Affiliate's Web Site. Affiliate agrees not
to display any link pertaining to DNA Bioscience, for use as a link
or otherwise, other than the Placements that DNA Bioscience provides
to Affiliate. If DNA Bioscience updates the Placements, Affiliate
will replace the old Placements with the new ones within a 24 hour
period.
iv. Affiliate agrees that DNA Bioscience will be
allowed to place an identifying tag in each Placement that will
identify the origin of a user that arrives to the DNA Bioscience
by clicking on the Placement.
2. Payments of Referral Fees from DNA Bioscience
to the Affiliate
a. Payment of Referral Fees will be made on a monthly
basis, by Commission Junction, and in accordance with their affiliate
payment schedule. If Affiliate's unpaid, cumulative quarterly Referral
Fee earnings are less than £25.00, they will be rolled to
the following month. If this Agreement terminates, any Referral
Fee due at the time of termination will be paid at the end of the
month following termination.
b. With each payment, Commission Junction will
provide the Affiliate with reports that will contain all necessary
information as required calculating the Referral Fees due to Affiliate.
3. Compliance with Applicable Laws
Affiliate is solely responsible for the accuracy
and appropriateness of all materials posted on Affiliate's Web Site,
and for ensuring that materials posted on Affiliate's Web Site are
not defamatory, in violation of copyright laws or otherwise illegal.
DNA Bioscience disclaims all liability for these matters.
4. Press Releases and Other Publicity
a. Affiliate may not create, publish, distribute,
or permit any written or electronically transmitted publicity material
(including without limitation, advertisements and press releases)
that makes reference to the other party, or the other party's Web
Site without first submitting the material to DNA Bioscience and
receiving its consent in writing (such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld). Affiliate may not issue any public statement(s) regarding
the relationship without the prior approval of the other party.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, DNA Bioscience may issue an initial
press release regarding the relationship between the Parties.
b. DNA Bioscience prohibits certain forms of advertising.
Advertising commonly referred to as "spamming" is unacceptable
to DNA Bioscience and could damage our goodwill. Other generally
prohibited forms of e-mail include the use of unsolicited commercial
email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting
to multiple newsgroups at once. In addition, Affiliate may not advertise
in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents Affiliate's
identity, domain name, or return email address.
c. Although DNA Bioscience always requires that
its written consent be given for the uses above, DNA Bioscience
generally approves mailings so long as the recipient is already
a customer or subscriber of Affiliate's services, and recipients
have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. DNA Bioscience
generally approves newsgroup postings so long as the news group
specifically welcomes commercial messages. In all cases, Affiliate
must always clearly represent itself and its Web Site as independent
from DNA Bioscience.
5. Modification
DNA Bioscience may modify any of the terms and
conditions in this Agreement, at any time in its sole discretion.
Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the
scope of Referral Fees, payment procedures, and DNA Bioscience Affiliate
Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to Affiliate,
Affiliate shall have the right to terminate this Agreement. Affiliate's
continued participation in DNA Bioscience Affiliate Program following
the posting of the change notice or new agreement on DNA Bioscience
site will constitute Affiliate's agreement to the changes.
6. Term and Termination
The term of this Agreement will begin on the Effective
Date and will end when terminated by either party. Either DNA Bioscience
or Affiliate may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without
cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination.
Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, all licenses
granted hereunder shall immediately terminate and Affiliate will
immediately cease use of, and remove from Affiliate's site, all
links to the DNA Bioscience site, and all DNA Bioscience trademarks
and logos, and all other materials provided in connection with this
Agreement.
7. Grant of Licenses
a. Subject to the terms of this agreement, you
have the nonexclusive, non-transferable and non-sub licensable right
to use and display DNA Bioscience trademarks and service marks,
only to refer specifically to DNA Bioscience services and products
in connection with the Links, and only in the form which DNA Bioscience
provides you for such limited purposes. Such referential usage must
be truthful, fair and not misleading or disparaging. DNA Bioscience
nics trademarks, service marks and logos must not be incorporated
into your own product names, trademarks, service names, logos, company
names or dba's, and you must not adopt marks or logos that are confusingly
similar to DNA Bioscience marks or logos.
b. Affiliate grants to DNA Bioscience a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, revocable right to utilize Affiliate's name, title,
and logo in the advertising, marketing, promoting, and publicizing,
in any manner, of DNA Bioscience rights under this Agreement. DNA
Bioscience is not under any obligation to so advertise, market,
promote, or publicize.
c. Each party agrees not to use the other's proprietary
materials or intellectual property in any manner that is disparaging
or that otherwise portrays the party in a negative light. Each party
reserves all of its respective rights in the proprietary materials
and intellectual property covered by this license. Other than the
license granted in this Agreement, each party retains all right,
title, and interest to its respective rights and no right, title,
or interest is transferred to the other.
8. DISCLAIMER
DNA BIOSCIENCE PROVIDES THE DNA BIOSCIENCE WEB
SITE AND ALL INFORMATION AND SERVICES AVAILABLE THEREIN, "AS
IS" AND MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES
REGARDING DNA BIOSCIENCE OR ANY SERVICES OR INFORMATION PROVIDED
BY ANY MEMBER OF DNA BIOSCIENCE. ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE EXPRESSLY
DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED. IN ADDITION, DNA BIOSCIENCE MAKES NO REPRESENTATION
THAT THE OPERATION OF OUR SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE,
AND DNA BIOSCIENCE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY
INTERRUPTIONS OR ERRORS.
9. Representations, Warranties and Covenants
Affiliate represent and warrant that 1) It has
full right, power, and authority to enter into and be bound by the
terms and conditions of this Agreement and to perform its obligations
under this Agreement, without the approval or consent of any other
party; 2) It has sufficient right, title, and interest in and to
the rights granted to DNA Bioscience in this Agreement; 3) That
material posted on its Site does not violate or infringe upon the
rights of any third party and all applicable copyright and other
laws that pertain to it; and 4) It shall not to make any representations
or warranties regarding the services provided by DNA Bioscience
that are disparaging or that otherwise portray DNA Bioscience in
a negative light.
10. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED
IN THIS AGREEMENT, DNA BIOSCIENCE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO AFFILIATE
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 GOODWILL
OR ACTUAL OR ANTICIPATED REVENUE, PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS), EVEN
IF DNA BIOSCIENCE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
FURTHER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY
CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, IN NO EVENT SHALL DNA BIOSCIENCE CUMULATIVE
LIABILITY TO THE COMPANY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT,
WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION NEGLIGENCE
AND STRICT LIABILITY) OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, EXCEED
THE TOTAL REFERRAL FEES PAYABLE TO THE COMPANY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
11. Indemnification
Affiliate agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
DNA Bioscience and its employees, directors, representatives, agents,
and affiliates, against any and all claims, suits, actions, or other
proceedings brought against DNA Bioscience based on or arising from
any claim resulting from Affiliate's breach of the warranties and
covenants in Section 9. Affiliate agrees to pay any and all costs,
damages, and expenses, including, but not limited to, reasonable
attorneys' fees and costs awarded against or otherwise incurred
by the other party in connection with or arising from any such claim,
suit, action, or proceeding.
12. Confidentiality
In connection with the activities contemplated
by this Agreement, each party may be permitted at the discretion
of the other access to confidential and proprietary technical or
business information of the other party, including without limitation
(i) proposals, ideas or research related to possible new products
or services; (ii) financial statements and other financial information;
(iii) any reporting information required by the Agreement; and (iv)
the terms of this Agreement and the relationship between the Parties
(collectively, "Confidential Information"). Confidential
Information may include, without limitation business or technical
information, such as business, financial, marketing, and product
development plans, forecasts, strategies, techniques, and information;
business operation and systems; names, expertise, and other information
concerning employees; customers, consultants; and/or vendors; trade
secrets; discoveries; ideas; inventions (whether patentable or not);
improvements; research; development, know-how, designs, products,
compositions, prototypes, computer programs, code, algorithms, formulas,
processes, and schematics. Each party will take reasonable precautions
to protect the confidentiality of each of the other party's Confidential
Information, which precautions will be at least equivalent to those
taken by such party to protect its own Confidential Information.
Except as required by law or as necessary to perform under this
Agreement, no party will knowingly disclose the Confidential Information
of any other party or use such Confidential Information for its
own benefit or for the benefit of any third party. Each party's
obligations in this Section with respect to any portion of another
party's Confidential Information shall terminate when the party
seeking to avoid its obligation under such Section can document
that: (i) it was in the public domain at or subsequent to the time
it was communicated to the receiving party ("Recipient")
by the disclosing party ("Discloser") through no fault
of Recipient; (ii) it was rightfully in Recipient's possession free
of any obligation of confidence owed to the Discloser at or subsequent
to the time it was communicated to Recipient by Discloser; (iii)
it was developed by employees or agents of Recipient independently
of and without reference to any Confidential Information communicated
to Recipient by Discloser; (iv) it was communicated by the Discloser
to an unaffiliated third party free of any obligation of confidence;
or (v) the communication was in response to a valid order by a court
or other governmental body or was otherwise required by law. Upon
the termination or expiration of this Agreement, each party shall
return upon the other's request or otherwise destroy all Confidential
Information of the other party in its possession.
13. Miscellaneous
a. Entire Agreement. This Agreement
constitutes and contains the entire agreement between the Parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any prior
oral or written agreements. This Agreement may not be amended except
in writing signed by the Parties. Each party acknowledges and agrees
that the other has not made any representations, warranties or agreements
of any kind, except as expressly set forth herein. All exhibits
attached to this Agreement are incorporated hereby and shall be
treated as if set forth herein.
b. Relationship of Parties. Each
party shall be deemed to be independent contractors with respect
to the subject matter of this Agreement, and nothing contained in
this Agreement shall be deemed or construed in any manner as creating
any partnership, joint venture, employment, agency, fiduciary, or
other similar relationship. The Affiliate shall be responsible for
all taxes due on Referral Fees or other payments paid to the Affiliate
under this Agreement.
c. Assignment. Affiliate may not
assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement to any party.
d. Applicable Law. This Agreement
shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws
of the State of California without regard to the conflicts of laws,
rules and principles thereof.
e. Severability. If any provision
of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision
shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent necessary such
that the intent of the Parties is effectuated, and the remainder
of this agreement shall have full force and effect.
f. Survival. Sections 8-13 shall
survive termination of this Agreement.
g. Notices. Any notice required
under this Agreement may be given by email, fax or written letter.
14. General Conditions
DNA Bioscience reserves the right, at its full
discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering
with the Qualifying process or the operation of the affiliate program
or to be acting in violation of this agreement. If we determine,
in our sole discretion that the this affiliate program is compromised
by virus, bug, robot entries, or other corruption of the administration,
security or proper management of the program, then at our sole discretion,
we can cancel this program. In the event of your non-compliance
with any requirement stated herein, your commission may be forfeited.
AFFILIATE HAS READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY AND
UNDERSTANDS AND ACCEPTS THE OBLIGATIONS WHICH IT IMPOSES UPON AFFILIATE
WITHOUT RESERVATION. AFFILIATE HAS ALSO TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT THE LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY AND WARRANTY DISCLAIMER PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT
PRIOR TO ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT. NO PROMISES OR REPRESENTATIONS
HAVE BEEN MADE TO AFFILIATE TO INDUE AFFILIATE TO SIGN THIS AGREEMENT.
AFFILIATE AGREES TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT VOLUNTARILY AND
FREELY.
Exhibit A
Definitions
Definitions. As used in this Agreement,
the terms set forth below shall have the following meanings:
1. "Company Site" means the Internet
Site operated by the Company.
2. "DNA Bioscience Marks" means the trademarks,
trade names, service marks and logos of DNA Bioscience that may
be delivered by DNA Bioscience to the Company hereunder.
3. "DNA Bioscience Site" means the Internet
Site operated by DNA Bioscience located at http://www.DNA Bioscience.com.
4. "Placements" means (i) graphical links,
text links, logos and other promotions that are offered by DNA Bioscience
now or in the future that link directly from the Company Site to
the DNA Bioscience Site and (ii) other promotions that are offered
by the Company now or in the future and link directly to the DNA
Bioscience Site.
"User Data" means data regarding a user provided by such
user on the DNA Bioscience Site, including without limitation the
user's name, e-mail address, telephone number and other information
about the user.
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