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There are no costs to join the MovieGoods Affiliate Program. After reviewing the Affiliate Agreement below, click on the "I Agree" button at the bottom of the page to complete the application process.
This Agreement contains
the complete terms and conditions that apply to an individual or entity's participation
in the MovieGoods Affiliate Program. As used in this Agreement,
"we" means MovieGoods Inc. and "you" means the applicant (affiliate).
1. Enrollment in the
MovieGoods Affiliate Program
To begin the enrollment
process, you will submit a complete MovieGoods Affiliate Program application
via our site.
We will evaluate your
application in good faith and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection.
We may reject your application if we determine (at our sole discretion) that
your site is unsuitable for the MovieGoods Affiliate Program.
Unsuitable sites include
those that:
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Promote sexually explicit
materials,
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Promote violence,
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Promote discrimination
based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation,
or age,
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Promote illegal activities,
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Include "MovieGoods"
or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names, OR
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Otherwise violate
intellectual property rights.
You should also note
that if we accept your application and your site is thereafter determined
(at our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the MovieGoods Affiliate
Program, we may terminate this Agreement.
2. Links on Your Site
Once you have been notified
that your site has been accepted into the MovieGoods Affiliate Program,
you may provide on your site one or more of the following types of links
to our site.
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General link
to MovieGoods home page: You may provide a general link on your
site to the home page. We will provide instructions and text for links
to the MovieGoods home page, and you may only use the specific text
or graphical artwork that we provide for these links.
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Theme Page Links:
From time to time, we may designate one or more "theme pages" or subsidiary
pages at our site, to which you may create direct web links. We will
provide instructions and text for links to these pages, and you may
only use the specific text or graphical artwork that we provide for
these links. In addition, we may designate specific restrictions on
links to these theme pages (including beginning and/or expiration dates)
which you must honor.
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Search box link:
You may provide a MovieGoods Search Box on your site that will permit
your site visitors to enter a search term and then link directly to
a page on our site that contains the results of their search queries.
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Category or Search
Term Links: You may include links to any specific movie title, director,
actor, actress, or movie genre, following our specific instructions
and using our designated text or graphical artwork for these links.
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Image Links:
You may include graphical image links to our site, following our specific
directions and honoring the specific restrictions we provide. You may
not place copies of any MovieGoods images (including advertisements
and product images) on your own web server or directory; instead, you
must use HTML code to load the images directly from the MovieGoods.com
server. In addition, your image links may not be directly to image files
on the MovieGoods web site, but instead must be in the form of "redirect"
image references so that we may substitute different (identically-sized)
images when appropriate.
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Direct Product
Links: You may include text or image links to specific products
or movie titles, but only following the specific directions and honoring
the specific restrictions we provide. You may not include specific pricing
or other product-information, except as we permit using special links
and image references.
To permit accurate
tracking, reporting, and Advertising Fee
accrual, we will provide you with special "tagged" link formats ("Special
Links") to be used in all links between your site and our site. You
must ensure that each of the Special Links between your site and our
site properly utilizes this special link format. Modification or omission
of the correct link tags will prevent us from properly tracking and
crediting sales and Advertising Fees.
You agree not to
change any link text or images which are provided by us, and you may
not include additional sales or product-related text or images on your
site regarding MovieGoods. If you make any changes to any link text
or images, or if you include any non-approved text or images regarding
MovieGoods, you will be responsible for any obligations or liabilities
incurred because of such text or images, and we may also terminate this
agreement.
3. Order Processing
We will process product
orders placed by customers who follow Special Links from your site to our site.
We reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any requirements
that we periodically may establish. We will be responsible for all aspects of
order processing and fulfillment. Among other things, we will prepare order
forms; process payments, cancellations, and returns; and handle customer service.
We will track sales made to customers who purchase products using special links
from your site to our site and will make available to you reports summarizing
this sales activity. The form, content, and frequency of the reports may vary
from time to time at our discretion.
4. Advertising Fees
We will pay you (in
accordance with Sections 6 and 7 below) Advertising
Fees based on certain Product sales to third parties. You will
earn an Advertising Fee for each sale which
occurred after the following events occur: (a) the Customer follows a
Special Link from your site to our site, (a) the Customer selects and
purchases one or more Products using our automated ordering system, (c)
the Customer accepts delivery of the Product at the shipping destination,
and (d) the Customer remits full payment to us, and the payment is not
refunded or repudiated.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, we will not pay you an Advertising Fee
(and sales are not Qualifying Revenues) if
any of the following occurs: (a) if the Customer follows another Special
Link from another affiliate site before making a purchase; (b) if the
Customer takes some action, or some other event occurs, that precludes
our tracking the Customer's prior link from your site (for example, if
the Customer refuses or erases our "cookie" from the Customer's computer
hard disk, or the Customer utilizes different computers or user accounts
for the Special Link and the subsequent purchase), or (c) more than 30
days elapse between the time the consumer first used a Special Link from
your site. If any Customer refuses or returns an order that generated
Qualifying Revenue, resulting in a refund or adjustment, then the Advertising
Fees and Referral Fees arising from
such orders shall be adjusted appropriately. We do not pay any Advertising
Fees for items sold through our eBay auctions, only for Product
sales that occur on our web site.
5. Advertising Fee Schedule
You will accrue Advertising
Fees based on Qualifying Revenues,
according to Advertising Fee schedules to
be established by us.
"Qualifying
revenues" are revenues derived by us from our sales of qualifying
products, excluding charges for shipping, handling, gift-wrapping,
taxes, and service charges.
MovieGoods pays an 18% Advertising Fee on all Qualifying
Revenues referred by your web site.
6. Commission Payments
We will pay you Commission
Fees for each calendar month by writing and mailing a check to you within 60 days after the
end of the quarter, if you have accrued at least $50 in Fees in your account. (You
may elect to set a higher accrual threshhold, if you are subject to bank
charges or currency exchange expenses on small checks.) If you have not yet
accrued $50 (or your designated threshhold), then your earned Fees will
carry forward into the next quarter, and a check will be mailed after the
quarter in which your accrued Fees exceed the $50 threshold.
Our payments will be in
United States dollars, drawn on a U.S. bank.
7. Policies and
Pricing
Customers who place
orders with MovieGoods will be deemed to be customers of MovieGoods.
Accordingly, all of MovieGoods rules, policies, and operating procedures
concerning customer orders, customer service, and product sales will apply
to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures
at any time.
For example, we will determine
the prices to be charged for products sold under this MovieGoods Affiliate Program
in accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability
may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect products that you
already have listed on your site, you may not include price information
in your product descriptions. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to
present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price
of any particular product.
8. Identifying Yourself
as an Affiliate
We will make available
to you a small graphic image that identifies your site as a MovieGoods
Affiliate Program participant. You may display this logo or the phrase
"An affiliate of MovieGoods" somewhere on your site. We may modify the
text or graphic image of this notice from time to time. In addition, we
encourage you to include a special link on your site
to the MovieGoods.com home page.
You may not produce
any press release or public announcement with respect to this Agreement
or your participation in the MovieGoods Affiliate Program without our
prior written consent, which may be given or withheld in our sole discretion.
In addition, you may not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship
between our company and 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. We may announce or publish the names of some or all
of our current affiliates, at our discretion.
9. Limited License
We grant you a nonexclusive,
revocable right to use the graphic image and text described in Sections
2 and 9 and such other images for which we grant express permission, solely
for the purpose of identifying your site as a MovieGoods Affiliate Program
participant and to assist in generating product sales. You may not modify
the graphic image or text, or any other of our images, in any way. We
reserve all of our rights in the graphic image and text, any other images,
our trade names and trademarks, and all other intellectual property rights.
You agree to follow our Trademark Guidelines, as those guidelines may
change from time to time. We may revoke your license at any time by giving
you written notice.
In addition, we grant
you a nonexclusive, worldwide right to reproduce and use all graphic images
and other materials provided to you, solely for the purpose of creating
Links connecting your site to the MovieGoods site and promoting Products.
These product images must be served by MovieGood's website and cannot
be used in any form other than the form provided by MovieGoods.
Further, certain data
at the MovieGoods web site, which is used to generate search results and
listings, is based upon directory information and other materials licensed
from VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2001, which is created and maintained
by Gale Publishing. You may not re-use or modify any of this information,
and you must not remove or obscure the copyright notices included in any
text or image link provided through the MovieGoods Affiliate Program.
10. Responsibility
for 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. For example, you will
be solely responsible for:
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The technical
operation of your site and all related equipment
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The accuracy and
appropriateness of materials posted on your site (including, among
other things, all Product-related materials)
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Ensuring that
materials posted on your site do not violate or infringe upon the
rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks,
privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights)
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Ensuring that
materials posted on your site are not libelous or otherwise illegal
We disclaim all
liability for these matters. Further, you will 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.
In addition, you
hereby agree that your site will not, in any way, copy or resemble
the "look and feel" of our site nor will you create the impression
that your site is our site or is a part of our site, nor will you
"frame" any page from the MovieGoods Site for viewing within your
site.
11. Term of the
Agreement
The term of this
Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your MovieGoods Affiliate
Program application and will end when terminated by either party. Either
you or we 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, you will immediately
cease use of, and remove from your site, all links to our site, product
images from our database, and all MovieGoods.com trademarks, and logos.
You are only eligible to earn Advertising Fees
on our sales of Qualifying Products occurring during the term, and Advertising
Fees earned through the date of termination will remain payable
only if the related orders are not canceled or returned. We may withhold
your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct
amount is paid.
12.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. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the
scope of available Advertising Fees, Advertising
Fee schedules, payment procedures, and MovieGoods Affiliate Program
rules. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE
IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE
MOVIEGOODS AFFILIATE PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE
OR NEW AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE
CHANGE.
13. Relationship of Parties
You and we are independent
contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership,
joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment
relationship between the parties. 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.
14. Limitation of Liability
We will not be liable
for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue,
profits, or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the MovieGoods
Affiliate Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of
such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect
to this Agreement and the MovieGoods Affiliate Program will not exceed
the total Advertising Fees paid or payable
to you under this Agreement.
You hereby agree
to indemnify and hold harmless MovieGoods and its subsidiaries and affiliates,
and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners,
members, and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands,
liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses
(including reasonable attorneys' fees) (any or all of the foregoing
hereinafter referred to as "Losses") insofar as such Losses (or actions
in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (a) any claim that
our use of the Affiliates Trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade
name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other
proprietary right of any third party, (b) any misrepresentation of a
representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement made
by you herein, or (c) any claim related to your site, including, without
limitation, content therein not attributable to us.
15. Disclaimers
We make no express
or implied warranties or representations with respect to the MovieGoods
Affiliate Program or any products sold through the MovieGoods Affiliate
Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability,
noninfringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course of
performance, dealing, or trade usage). 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.
16. Independent Investigation
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY TIME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) 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 MOVIEGOODS AFFILIATE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING
ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH
IN THIS AGREEMENT.
17. Miscellaneous
MovieGoods, Inc.
is a Delaware corporation, whose primary office is located at 6850 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89119. The applicant's
legal name, taxpayer identification number, mailing address, and contact
information are as stated in the affiliate application.
This Agreement
will be governed by the laws of the United States and the state of
Nevada, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any
action relating to this Agreement (or between the parties to this
Agreement) must be brought in the federal or state courts located
in Las Vegas, Nevada and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction
of such courts. 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 enforceable against the parties and their respective successors
and assigns. 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.
I represent
that I am at least 18 years of age and that I am authorized to execute
this agreement on behalf of the Applicant (Affiliate), and I agree
to the terms of this agreement.
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