1.
Program Enrollment
Potential
Unity Electronics Affiliates must submit a completed an online Affiliate
Program Application. By submitting a Program Application, you agree
to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
We will
review your Application and will notify you of its acceptance or rejection.
We may reject your application if we determine, in our sole discretion,
that your site is not suitable for our Program. Unsuitable sites include,
but are not limited to: sites that are pornographic or promote sexually
explicit materials, violence or illegal activities; sites that promote,
condone or in any way encourage discrimination based on age, race, sex,
marital status, sexual orientation, religion, nation origin or disability;
and sites that infringe on intellectual property and/or trademark rights.
Participation also is limited to parties that can lawfully enter into
contracts under applicable law.
Should
your Application be rejected, you may reapply; however, you may not
link to our site until your Application is approved. Should your Application
be accepted and your website later deemed unsuitable, in our sole discretion,
we may terminate the Agreement.
2.
Links on Your Site
If approved
for participation in the Program, we will notify you by email and will
instruct you on how to create links to our site from your site. You
will create one or more of the following types of special links, which
will include special tags to track your referrals:
Product
Links: You may select one or more products on our site to list on your
site. A product is any individual product listed for sale on our site.
To identify a product when browsing our site, you will notice "product-product_id/x"
in the URL. For each selected product, you will display on your site
a short description, review or other reference, with a special link
from each product on your site to our site. You will be responsible
for the content, style and placement of these references. You may add
or delete products from your site at any time without our approval.
Category
Links: You may select one or more product categories on our site to
list on your site. A product category is any group of products listed
on our site. To identify a product when browsing our site, you will
notice "category-category_id/x" in the URL. For each selected
product category, you will display on your site a short description,
review or other reference, with a special link from each product category
on your site to our site. You will be responsible for the content, style,
and placement of these references. You may add or delete product categories
from your site at any time without our approval.
General
Link to Unity Electronics Home Page (www.unityelectronics.com): You
may provide a general link on your site to our home page of www.unityelectronics.com.
You may
provide as many special links to our site from your site as you wish.
Sales commissions are paid based on tracking from these special links.
We are not in any way responsible or liable for the payment of commissions
for sales referrals not made through the special links developed on
our site.
By participating
in the Agreement, you consent to our sending you email updates from
time to time, and you acknowledge and agree that you will NOT: (a) use
the name Unity Electronics or UnityElectronics.com, trademarks, logos,
copyrights or service marks, except as expressly authorized in this
Agreement; (b) use the name Unity Electronics, or any variation thereof,
in any meta tags, hidden text or source code on your web site, or in
any part of your URL; (c) seek to purchase or register any keywords,
search terms or other identifiers that include the name Unity Electronics,
or any variation thereof; (d) use any data, images, text, or other information
obtained by you from us except in a lawful manner and only in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement; (e) use unauthorized links or coupon
codes not specifically given to you, or generated by this Program, for
use in this Program; or (f) use any of our web site content in a manner
intended to send sales to any site other than UnityElectronics.com
3.
Order Processing
We will
process and track product orders placed by customers who follow special
links from your site to UnityElectronics.com. To permit accurate tracking,
reporting, and fee accrual, you must ensure that the special links between
your site and ours are properly formatted, and we will not be responsible
for payment of sales commissions for orders not tracked through the
special links.
We will
be responsible for all aspects of order processing and fulfillment,
including process order forms, payments, cancellations and returns,
and we will handle Customer Service. We reserve the right to reject
orders that do not comply with any requirements that we periodically
may establish. We will publish and make available to you online reports
summarizing sales activity related to your participation in the Program.
The form, content, and frequency of the reports may vary from time to
time in our discretion.
4.
Commissions
We will
pay you commissions by check for referrals on product sales to third
parties. For a product sale to be eligible to earn a commission, the
customer must click-through a special link, specified by us, from your
site or email to our web site, and purchase the product using our automated
ordering system, remit full payment to us and accept delivery of the
product at the address specified when placing the order. We will also
pay commissions for the first purchase made up to thirty (30) days after
the initial referral from the special link on your site, even if the
customer returns directly to our site. Orders adjusted by customer service
or placed by telephone are not tracked and do not qualify for commissions.
Further, we will not pay referral fees on any products that are added
to a customer's shopping cart after the customer has reentered the site
after (30) days (other than through a special link from your site),
even if the customer previously followed a link from your site to our
site.
You may
not purchase products during sessions initiated through the links on
your site for your own use, for resale or commercial use of any kind,
and you may not attempt to circumvent the referral fee schedule or artificially
increase your referral fees.
5.
Commission Schedule and Payment
For products
sold during sessions initiated through special links on your site during
each calendar quarter, you will earn commissions of 4.5% on all net sales.
Net sales are defined as gross sales and exclude amounts collected by
us for sales taxes, duties, gift-wrapping, shipping, handling, and similar
charges, amounts due to credit card fraud and bad debt, and credits
for returned goods ("Net Sales").
We will
pay you referral fees on a quarterly basis based on Net Sales received
by us (less any taxes required to be withheld under applicable law).
We will send you your referral fees within approximately 45 days after
the end of each calendar quarter. If during any calendar quarter, commission
fees do not exceed thirty dollars ($30.00), the commission fees earned
during that calendar quarter will be accrued and added to the commission
fees earned in subsequent calendar quarters. Payment will be made in
the first calendar quarter in which the total amount due is greater
than $30.00. If a product that generated a referral fee is returned
by the customer, we will deduct the corresponding fee from your next
quarterly payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we will send you
a bill for the fee. Product categories and commission rates may be modified
by us at any time. Checks are mailed to the contact indicated on the
Affiliate Application.
6.
Policies and Pricing
Customers
who buy products through this Program will be deemed to be customers
of Unity Electronics, and all of our standard policies and operating
procedures concerning customer orders, service and product sales will
apply to those customers. We may change our policies and procedures,
including our pricing policies, at any time. Product availability may
likewise vary from time to time and we cannot guarantee the availability
or price of any particular product.
7.
Identifying Yourself as Our Affiliate/Associate
We will
provide you a graphic image that identifies your site as one of Unity
Electronics' affiliates. You must display this logo or the phrase "In
association with Unity Electronics" (or "In affiliation with
Unity Electronics") somewhere on your site. We may modify the text
or graphic image of this notice from time to time, and you are responsible
for updating the text or image on your site.
You may
not in any manner misrepresent or embellish our relationship with you,
or express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us and you
or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this
Agreement.
8.
Limited License
If your
web site is approved for participation in the Program, you will receive
email notification and we shall grant you a non-exclusive, revocable
license, effective for the duration of the term of this Agreement, solely
for the purpose of facilitating referrals from your site to ours. We
allow you to use the graphic image and text we provide solely for the
purpose of identifying your site as a Program Affiliate. We will not
grant you any rights in any intellectual property, link formats, technical
specifications, guidelines or graphical artwork, or with respect to
the UnityElectronics.com domain name, service marks or trademarks.
9.
Operation of Your Site
You will
be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance
of your site and for all materials that appear on your site, including,
for example, the following: (a) the technical operation of your site
and all related equipment; (b) creating and posting product descriptions
on your site and linking those descriptions our site using the special
links provided under this Agreement; (c) the accuracy and appropriateness
of materials posted on your site; (d) ensuring that materials posted
on your site are not libelous or otherwise illegal; and (e) ensuring
that materials posted on your site do not violate or infringe upon the
rights of any third party. You also agree you will comply with all relevant
laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgments,
decisions or other requirements of any governmental authority that has
jurisdiction over you.
We disclaim
all liability for these matters and you agree to indemnify and hold
us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses, including, without
limitation, attorneys' fees, relating to the development, operation,
maintenance, and contents of your site.
10.
Agreement Term
This Agreement
will begin upon our approval of your Program Application and will end
when terminated by either party. Either party may terminate this Agreement
at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written
notice of termination. Upon termination, you will promptly remove from
your site all links to our site and all of our trademarks, service marks
and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to
you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Program. Sales commissions
earned through the date of termination will remain payable only if the
related orders are not canceled or returned. In this connection, we
may withhold your final payment for a reasonable time, determined by
us, to ensure that the correct amount is paid.
11.
Modification of Agreement
We may
modify 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. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE
IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE
PROGRAM WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
12.
Parties are Independent Contractors
All parties
to this Agreement are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement
will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales
representative, or employment relationship between us and the Affiliate.
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.
13.
Limitation of Liability
Our aggregate
liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will
not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this
Agreement. We will not be liable for any special, indirect or consequential
damages, such as any loss of Unity Electronics, profits, or data, arising
in connection with this Agreement.
14.
Disclaimers
We make
no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to
the Program or any products sold through or by us through the Program,
and 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 such interruptions or errors.
15.
Agreement to Terms
BY PARTICIPATING
IN OUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT
AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. WE MAY AT ANY TIME SOLICIT
CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN
THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH
YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF
PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION,
GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.
16.
Arbitration
Any dispute
arising under or relating in any way to this Agreement shall be submitted
to confidential arbitration in Alameda County, CA, except that, to the
extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our
intellectual property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate
relief in any state or federal court in California, and you consent
to non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts, or any other
court of competent jurisdiction. Arbitration under this agreement shall
be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration
Association. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered
as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest
extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement
shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject
to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or
otherwise.
17.
Assignment
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 be enforceable against
the parties and their respective successors and assigns.
18.
Enforcement
This Agreement
will be governed by the laws of California without reference to rules
governing choice of laws. 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.
Unity
Electronics Email Compliance Agreement
Unity Electronics’s
Email Compliance Agreement ("Email Agreement") is made and
entered by and between Unity Electronics, Inc., ("Unity Electronics"
or "we"), a California Corporation, with its principal place
of business at 30083 Ahern Ave, Union City, CA 94587, and you, the affiliate
("you" or "Affiliate"), and contains an addendum
to the Unity Electronics Affiliate Operating Agreement, consisting of
the terms and conditions that apply to your participation in the Unity
Electronics Affiliate Program.
For good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is
hereby acknowledged, Affiliate agrees to comply with the requirements
of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the "Act") in its distribution
of email that contains messaging regarding Unity Electronics. More specifically,
email that meets this criteria:
- May
only be sent to recipients who have expressly agreed directly with
Affiliate, in advance, to receive such communications from Affiliate.
- Must
clearly and conspicuously identify that the message is an advertisement
or solicitation, unless recipient has given prior affirmative consent
to receipt of the message. Affirmative consent means that the recipient
expressly consented to receive the message either in response to a
clear and conspicuous request for such consent or at the recipient's
own initiative;
- Must
clearly and conspicuously notify the recipient of the opportunity
to decline to receive further commercial email from Affiliate;
- Must
provide a valid physical postal address of Affiliate;
- Must
provide a functioning return email address or other Internet-based
mechanism, clearly and conspicuously displayed, that a recipient may
use to submit, in a manner specified in the commercial email, a reply
email or other Internet-based mechanism a request not to receive future
commercial email from Affiliate. The return address or Internet-based
mechanism must be capable of receiving such messages for at least
thirty (30) days after the transmission of the original message. Affiliate
may not send subsequent commercial emails more than ten (10) business
days after the recipient's request not to receive further emails has
been received (unless there is a subsequent affirmative consent by
the recipient to receive such emails.) Once Affiliate receives such
a request, Affiliate may not sell, lease, exchange or otherwise transfer
or release the email address of the recipient.
- May
not contain materially false or materially misleading header information,
or deceptive subject heading.
- May
not contain sexually oriented material.
In addition,
before distribution of email that contains messaging regarding Unity
Electronics, Affiliate agrees (1) to send the email addresses of all
intended recipients of such email to Unity Electronics, or a third-party
designated by Unity Electronics, so that Unity Electronics may identify
those individuals who have notified Unity Electronics that they do not
want to receive emails from or about Unity Electronics, and (2) to suppress
the email addresses of those individuals, as identified by Unity Electronics.
Affiliate
may not initiate or assist in the transmission of commercial email using
an email address: (1) that was collected through automated means, from
a third party web site in violation of that third party's posted privacy
policy, or (2) that was generated through automated means by combining
names, letters or numbers into numerous permutations. Affiliate may
not conduct fraudulent activities related to electronic mail, including
but not limited to the material falsification of header or transmission
information, the unauthorized use of someone else's computer to send
bulk commercial email, and the registration of an email account that
materially falsifies the identity of the actual registrant.
Upon Unity
Electronics's request, Affiliate shall provide Unity Electronics with
documentation demonstrating that the recipients consented to receive
the email at issue. In the event of a breach of this Email Agreement
by Affiliate and/or a third party or licensee and, in addition to all
other remedies available to it, Unity Electronics shall have the right
to refuse to make payments to Affiliate as a result of Affiliate's efforts
promoting Unity Electronics, where those cannot be verified by Affiliate
as having complied with the terms and conditions of this Email Agreement.
Affiliate
agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Unity Electronics harmless from
any cost, expense or liability arising out of any breach or alleged
breach of the obligations contained in this Email Agreement. All terms
and conditions of the Unity Electronics Affiliate Operating Agreement
remain in full force and effect.
Agreement
to Terms
BY PARTICIPATING
IN OUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT
AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. WE MAY AT ANY TIME SOLICIT
CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN
THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH
YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF
PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION,
GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.