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AFFILIATE AGREEMENT
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that
apply to a party's participation as an affiliate in the Affiliate
Program (the "Program") of BBS Network, Inc. (DBA: BBS Radio),
a Nevada corporation. As used in this Agreement, "we" means BBS
Network, Inc. ("Merchant) and "you" ("Partner") means the applicant
party, (each referred to herein as a "Party" and collectively
as the "Parties").
BACKGROUND
Whereas Partner owns, licenses and provides certain services via
the Internet through a Web site owned and operated by Partner,
("Partner Site"), and Whereas, Merchant provides certain services
and sells certain products via the Internet through a Web site
owned and operated by Merchant currently located at www.BBSRadio.com.
(the "Merchant Site"); and Whereas, the Partner and Merchant each
desires to enter into a strategic affiliate relationship to promote
the Merchant Site to users of the Partner Site (the "Partner Users")
on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and
in exchange for the consideration recited herein, which shall
govern advertising and commission arrangements between Partner
and Merchant which result from their participation.
ENROLLMENT IN THE PROGRAM
You may Join
the Program to start. We may reject your application if we
determine, in our sole discretion, that your Web site is not suitable
for the Program for any reason, including but not limited to,
inclusion of content that is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening,
defamatory, obscene, harassing or racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable, which by way of example only, contains (i) sexually
explicit, pornographic or obscene content (whether in text or
graphics), (ii) speech or images that are offensive, profane,
hateful, threatening harmful, defamatory, libelous, harassing
or discriminatory (whether based on race, ethnicity, creed, religion,
gender, sexual orientation, physical disability or otherwise),
(iii) graphic violence (which may include certain types of game
sites), (iv) content related to liquor, tobacco, firearms, drugs,
gambling, crime or death, (v) politically sensitive or controversial
issues (e.g. abortion, capital punishment) or other political
content (e.g. lobbyists, political campaigns) or (vi) any unlawful
behavior or conduct. If we reject your application, you may reapply
to the Program at any time. However, we may, at our discretion,
permanently bar you from participation in the Program if your
Site or business is inconsistent with our objectives or the operation
of our Program. If we do so, we will inform you of our decision.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
In consideration of the promises set forth below, the parties
agree as follows:
1. Offers and Engagements.
1.1 At any time Merchant may with or without notice (a) change,
suspend, revoke, or discontinue any aspect of an Offer or an Engagement
or this Agreement or (b) remove, alter, or modify any graphic
or banner ad submitted by Merchant for an Offer or an Engagement.
Partner agrees to promptly implement any request from Merchant
to remove, alter or modify any graphics, trademarks, banner ads,
or logos submitted by Merchant that is being used by Partner as
part of an Engagement.
2. Partner's Responsibilities.
2.1 For the purposes of this Agreement, a "Link" shall be defined
as a hyperlink, button, banner or other user interface established
within one Web site to another Web site through which users of
the first Web site can access the second Web site. Partner will
link its site to areas within Merchant's site using Links to the
Merchant Site in accordance with the special URLs specified in
the Engagement (the "Required URLs), as may be amended from time
to time by Merchant. To the extent Merchant chooses to add a Required
URL, Partner shall add a corresponding Link to the Merchant Site
within ten (10) business days of Partner's receipt of notice thereof
from Merchant. Partner may post as many links to the Required
URLs as it likes on the Partner's Site. The position, prominence
and nature of the Links on the Partner's site shall comply with
any requirements specified in the Engagement, but otherwise will
be in the discretion of Partner. All links that you will use in
the Program will be provided to you from Merchant.
2.2. Partner agrees not to make any representations, warranties
or other statements concerning Merchant, Merchant's site, any
of Merchant's products or services, or Merchant's site policies,
except as expressly authorized by the Engagement.
2.3. Partner is responsible for notifying Merchant of any malfunctioning
of the Required URLs or other problems with Partner's participation
in the Engagement. Merchant will respond promptly to all concerns
upon notification by Partner.
3. Commissions.
3.1. Merchant agrees to pay Partner the commission specified in
the Agreement if Merchant sells to a visitor to Merchant's site
(a "Customer") a product or service that is the subject of the
Agreement and if that Customer has accessed Merchant's site and
purchased the product or service via a Qualifying Link. The Partner
Revenue Share shall not include any refunds, chargebacks, bad
debt, taxes or shipping and handling costs, which amounts shall
be automatically deducted therefrom. In no event will Partner
receive any compensation for purchases made on the Merchant Site
which do not originate directly (in each instance) through a Qualifying
Link on the Partner Site to the Merchant Site. In no event will
Partner receive any compensation for purchases made on the Merchant
Site that are rejected by Merchant due to and not limited to,
fraud or cancellations, or do not comply with the any reasonable
requirements that we established as a condition of sale. Merchant
shall only pay commissions on shipments, less taxes, shipping
and handling, to residents of the U.S., and to addresses within
the U.S. only.
3.2. A "Qualifying Link" is a link from Partner's site to Merchant's
site using one of the Required URLs or any other URL provided
by Merchant for use if it is the last link to the Merchant's site
that the Customer uses during a Session where a sale of a product
or a service to Customer occurs. A "Session" is the period of
time beginning from a Customer's initial contact with Merchant's
site via a link from the Partner's site and terminating when the
Customer either returns to the Merchant's site via a link from
a site other than Partner's site or the Engagement expires or
is terminated.
3.3. Merchant shall have the sole right and responsibility for
processing all orders made by Customers. Partner acknowledges
that all agreements relating to sales to Customers shall be between
Merchant and the Customer.
3.4. All determinations of Qualifying Links and whether a commission
is payable will be made by Merchant according to the tracking
services of the Yahoo Link-Share Program and will be final and
binding on both Merchant and Partner. Prices for the products
will be set by Merchant in its sole discretion.
3.5. Merchant will not pay commissions on any orders that are
not placed through the Yahoo Shopping Cart (Yahoo Order, Processing
andTracking System) including paypal orders, online check orders
and mailed in orders.
4. Ownership and Licenses.
4.1. Each party owns and shall retain all right, title and interest
in its names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights
and proprietary technology, including, without limitation, those
names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights
and proprietary technology currently used or which may be developed
and/or used by it in the future.
4.2. Merchant grants Partner a revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide
license to use, reproduce and transmit the name, logos, trademarks,
service marks, trade dress and proprietary technology, as designated
in the Agreement, on Partner's site solely for the purpose of
creating links from Partner's site to Merchant's. Except as expressly
set forth in this Agreement or permitted by applicable law, Partner
may not copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, or create
derivative works from the same. Partner may not sublicense, assign
or transfer any such licenses for the use of the same, and any
attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer is void. Partner
shall not, without prior written authorization from Merchant,
(i) display any Web pages of the Merchant Site except as otherwise
provided in this Agreement; (ii) cache, store or copy any portion
of the Merchant Site; (iii) modify or alter any pages of the Merchant
Site, including, without limitation, by removing any proprietary
rights notices on the Merchant Site; (iv) frame any portion of
the Merchant Site in conjunction with any materials that violate
or infringe any right of any third party or in conjunction with
any materials which Merchant, in its sole discretion, deems objectionable.
Furthermore, upon Merchant's request, Partner shall immediately
remove from the Partner Site any Link to the Merchant Site which
is displayed on a page which Merchant, in its sole discretion,
deems objectionable.
5. Termination.
5.1. Either Party may terminate this Agreement at any time, for
any reason, provided that it provides at least five days' prior
written notice of such termination to the other Party.
6. Representations.
6.1. Each Party represents to the other that (a) it has the authority
to enter into this Agreement and sufficient rights to grant any
licenses granted hereby, and (b) any material which is provided
to the other party and displayed on the other Party's site will
not (i) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark,
trade secret or other proprietary rights or right of publicity
or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance
or regulation; (iii) be defamatory or libelous; (iv) be lewd,
pornographic or obscene; (v) violate any laws regarding unfair
competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising; (vi) promote
violence or contain hate speech; or (vii) contain viruses, trojan
horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other similar harmful
or deleterious programming routines.
6.2. EXCEPT FOR THE ABOVE REPRESENTATIONS NEITHER PARTY MAKES
ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES TO THE OTHER PARTY, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
7. Cross-Indemnification.
7.1. Each Party hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless
the other Party and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees
and agents, from and against any and all liability, claims, losses,
damages, injuries or expenses (including reasonable attorneys'
fees) brought by a third party, arising out of a breach, or alleged
breach, of any of its representations or obligations herein.
8. Limitation of Liability.
8.1. In no event shall either Party be liable to the other Party
for any direct, indirect, special, exemplary, consequential or
incidental damages arising from or in connection with this Agreement,
even if informed of the possibility of such damages. In no event
will the Aggregate Liability of Merchant exceed the total undisputed
commissions due and owingPartner hereunder.
9. General.
9.1. Each Party shall act as an independent contractor and shall
have no authority to obligate or bind the other in any respect.
9.2. This Agreement has been made in and shall be construed and
enforced in accordance with the laws of the state of California.
Any action to enforce this Agreement shall be brought in the federal
or state courts located in that state. If you need to send official
correspondence, send it via registered mail to Merchant's headquarters
to the attention of Merchant's legal department.
9.3. This Agreement may be agreed to in more than one counterparts,
each of which together shall form one and the same instrument.
The Parties agree that execution may be achieved in any format
convenient to the Parties.
9.4. The provisions of this Agreement are independent of and separable
from each other, and no provision shall be affected or rendered
invalid or unenforceable by virtue of the fact that for any reason
any other or others of them may be invalid or unenforceable in
whole or in part.
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