Affiliate Agreement

Affil­i­ate acknowl­edges that it may par­tic­i­pate in the Com­pa­ny Affil­i­ate Pro­gram only under the terms and con­di­tions set forth below, and that sub­se­quent to Com­pa­ny accept­ing this Agree­ment, Com­pa­ny will, in its sole dis­cre­tion, deter­mines whether or not to accept Affil­i­ate into Com­pa­ny’s Affil­i­ate Pro­gram.

By sub­mit­ting an appli­ca­tion to become an Affil­i­ate, you war­rant that you have read and under­stand this Agree­ment, and you agree to be bound by it.

To begin the enroll­ment process, you must sub­mit a com­plete Affil­i­ate Pro­gram Appli­ca­tion via the Com­pa­ny Web site. We will eval­u­ate your appli­ca­tion and noti­fy you of your accep­tance or rejec­tion. We reserve the right in our sole and absolute dis­cre­tion, to accept or reject your appli­ca­tion for any or for no rea­son what­so­ev­er.

Upon notice of accep­tance of your appli­ca­tion, this Agree­ment shall be effec­tive between you and the Com­pa­ny (“us” or ​“we”). If we reject your appli­ca­tion you will not be able to par­tic­i­pate in the Com­pa­ny Affil­i­ate Pro­gram.

1.Definitions

1.1 ​“Adver­tis­ing” or ​“Adver­tise­ments” means any and all ban­ner or box-style adver­tise­ments, pop-up or pop-under place­ments, text links or oth­er sim­i­lar solic­i­ta­tions through the Inter­net that pro­mote Com­pa­ny Prod­ucts or Ser­vices and that con­tain a Link to the Com­pa­ny Site.

1.2 ​“Affil­i­ate” means any per­son or enti­ty that has sub­mit­ted an Affil­i­ate Pro­gram Appli­ca­tion and has been accept­ed for par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Com­pa­ny Affil­i­ate Pro­gram in accor­dance with the terms of this Agreement.

1.3 ​“Agent” is defined in Sec­tion 5.

1.4 ​“Com­pa­ny Brand Fea­tures” means Com­pa­ny trade names, trade­marks, ser­vice marks and/​or logos autho­rized by Company.

1.5 ​“Com­pa­ny Prod­ucts and Ser­vices” means those pro­pri­etary prod­ucts and ser­vices cur­rent­ly offered on the Com­pa­ny Site, which cur­rent­ly con­sists of online project col­lab­o­ra­tion and project man­age­ment soft­ware, and any pro­pri­etary prod­ucts or ser­vices as may be offered at a future date on the Com­pa­ny Site dur­ing the Term of this Agree­ment. ​“Com­pa­ny Prod­ucts and Ser­vices” does not include prod­ucts and ser­vices offered by third par­ties on or through the Com­pa­ny Site.

1.6 ​“Com­pa­ny Site” means the Com­pa­ny Inter­net site cur­rent­ly locat­ed at www​.work​sec​tion​.com and work​sec​tion​.com or any page, sec­tion, sub­sec­tion or sub­di­rec­to­ry there­of, and any oth­er addi­tion­al, sub­sti­tute or suc­ces­sor site that may be des­ig­nat­ed by Com­pa­ny under this Agreement.

1.7 ​“Cus­tomer” means any per­son or enti­ty who (i) suc­cess­ful­ly pur­chas­es a Com­pa­ny Prod­uct or Ser­vice from the Com­pa­ny Site (ii) using a Link and (iii) through such Link pro­vides a valid email address and valid cred­it card infor­ma­tion to facil­i­tate such pur­chase via the Com­pa­ny Site, and (iv) pro­vid­ed that the per­son or enti­ty has not pre­vi­ous­ly pur­chased a prod­uct or ser­vice through the Com­pa­ny Site.

1.8 ​“Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Rights” means all rights in and to trade secrets, patents, copy­rights, trade­marks, know-how, as well as moral rights and sim­i­lar rights of any type under the laws of any gov­ern­men­tal author­i­ty, domes­tic or for­eign, includ­ing rights in and to all appli­ca­tions and reg­is­tra­tions relat­ing to any of the foregoing.

1.9 ​“Link” means an embed­ded graph­ic, icon or text con­tain­ing a unique hyper­text point­er to the URL address for the Com­pa­ny Site that is embed­ded in an Adver­tise­ment and that iden­ti­fies con­sumers that become Cus­tomers via the Advertisement.

1.10 ​“Refer­ral Fee” is defined in Sec­tion 4.

1.11 ​“Term” is defined in Sec­tion 2. 

2. Term and Termination

2.1 The term of this Agree­ment (“Term”) will begin upon our accep­tance of your appli­ca­tion and will end when ter­mi­nat­ed by either par­ty in writ­ing or by email.

2.2 The Term of this Agree­ment shall be con­tin­u­ous, unless and until either par­ty prop­er­ly ter­mi­nates this Agree­ment, in accor­dance with the fol­low­ing: (i) either par­ty may ter­mi­nate this Agree­ment imme­di­ate­ly by giv­ing notice to the oth­er par­ty; or (ii) Affil­i­ate agrees and acknowl­edges that if Affil­i­ate breach­es any pro­vi­sion of this Affil­i­ate Agree­ment Com­pa­ny may imme­di­ate­ly ter­mi­nate Affil­i­ate from the Affil­i­ate Pro­gram. Upon ter­mi­na­tion of this Agree­ment, Affil­i­ate must imme­di­ate­ly remove from Affil­i­ate’s Web site(s) and cease using any Adver­tis­ing or Links. Fol­low­ing ter­mi­na­tion of this Affil­i­ate Agree­ment, Affil­i­ate agrees to refuse from any his bal­ance amounts that were earned from Com­pa­ny in breach of this Agreement.

2.3 Upon ter­mi­na­tion of this Agree­ment, Affil­i­ate shall imme­di­ate­ly cease serv­ing or using Advertisements.

2.4 No Refer­ral Fees or bonus­es shall be due with respect to Cus­tomers who reg­is­ter after the date of ter­mi­na­tion. We reserve the right to with­hold your final pay­ment for up to 60 days as nec­es­sary to cal­cu­late prop­er­ly any amount due to you.

2.5 Upon ter­mi­na­tion of this Agree­ment, all rights and oblig­a­tions of the par­ties under this Agree­ment will be extin­guished, except for those rights and oblig­a­tions that either by their express terms sur­vives or that are oth­er­wise nec­es­sary for the enforce­ment of this Agree­ment. Sec­tions 5 and 8 – 21 of this Agree­ment, inclu­sive, and the pro­vi­sions of this Agree­ment that impose oblig­a­tions on Affil­i­ate, shall sur­vive any ter­mi­na­tion of this Agreement.

2.6 Com­pa­ny may ter­mi­nate Affil­i­ate from its Affil­i­ate Pro­gram and Affil­i­ate will for­feit all monies result­ing there­fore if:

2.6.1 Affil­i­ate has become or is like­ly to become sub­ject to lit­i­ga­tion or oth­er reg­u­la­to­ry legal action that may adverse­ly affect Com­pa­ny’s business;

2.6.2 Affil­i­ate sends unso­licit­ed emails to Com­pa­ny users, pro­vides false account infor­ma­tion, or false­ly or wrong­ful­ly increas­es the amount of Refer­ral Fees payable; or

2.6.3 Affil­i­ate does not com­ply with any pro­vi­sion of this Agreement. 

3. Oblig­a­tions of Company

3.1 Upon accep­tance of your appli­ca­tion, you will have the abil­i­ty to enter the pass­word-pro­tect­ed site for the Affil­i­ate Pro­gram (“Affil­i­ate Pro­gram Site”). The Affil­i­ate Pro­gram Site will con­tain cer­tain sales reports relat­ed to your affil­i­ate rela­tion­ship with Com­pa­ny. These reports will con­tain esti­mates of (i) the num­ber of users reg­is­tered on the Com­pa­ny Site from use of Adver­tis­ing and (ii) the Refer­ral Fees payable to you pur­suant to Sec­tion 4, below. Affil­i­ate acknowl­edges that there may be delays in the report­ing of infor­ma­tion and the Refer­ral Fees paid to you, and adjust­ments for charge­back may be made after report­ing of any sale.

3.2 Com­pa­ny shall pro­vide you with all Adver­tis­ing and you shall use only Adver­tis­ing pro­vid­ed by Com­pa­ny in pro­mot­ing Com­pa­ny and/​or the Com­pa­ny Prod­ucts and Ser­vices. The Adver­tis­ing avail­able for your use will be made avail­able on the Affil­i­ate Pro­gram Site. Com­pa­ny shall be sole­ly respon­si­ble for cre­at­ing and mod­i­fy­ing all Advertising. 

4. Refer­ral Fee