California LightWorks Affiliate Agreement / Terms & Conditions
California LightWorks Affiliate Agreement
This California LightWorks, Affiliate Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an individual's or entity's participation in the California LightWorks, Affiliate Program, which is operated through the Refersion Affiliate Network operated by Refersion Affiliate Marketing. This Agreement is made and entered into by MWW Inc, DBA California LightWorks, a California corporation, and you, the applicant. As used in this Agreement, "we" means
MWW Inc. DBA California LightWorks, and "you" means the applicant. "Site" means a World Wide Web site and, depending on the context, refers either to (a) the California LightWorks, site located at the URL CaliforniaLightWorks.com or such other site as California LightWorks, might designate, or (b) the site that you will link to our Site and which you have identified in your Program application.
ENROLLMENT IN THE PROGRAM
To begin the enrollment process, you need to submit a complete Program application. We will evaluate your application and will notify you through the Refersion Site of your acceptance or rejection. Employees of California LightWorks, and its affiliated or related entities are not eligible to enroll or participate in the Program. You are not eligible to enroll or participate in the Program if your Site offers rewards, points, miles, cash back or other similar incentives to customers or offers discounted California LightWorks gift cards. We may reject your application for any reason, including, but not limited to our determination, in our sole discretion, that your Site is unsuitable for the Program. Unsuitable Sites include, but are not limited to, those that: (a) contain or link to nudity or pornography or promote sexually explicit materials; (b) promote violence; (c) promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; (d) promote illegal activities; (e) infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party or otherwise violate the rights of any third party; (f) contain, in our sole judgment, material that is defamatory, fraudulent, or harassing to us or any third party; (g) promote the use of any pyramid or similar schemes; (h) contain software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commissions from other sites, (i) include "California LightWorks", or " CaliforniaLightWorks.com," or variations or misspellings thereof, in their domain names; (j) have a clear stated mission that is in part to support religious or politically active causes, as represented on the homepage or one of the key landing pages; or (k) distribute content to third parties. If a Site distributes content to third parties and is willing to give California LightWorks, a list, for approval, of all sites, which currently feature the content, and written notice upon acceptance of any new distribution partnerships, Site may be accepted into the Program.
AGREEMENTS FOLLOWING ACCEPTANCE
The following terms and conditions will be effective if and only if California LightWorks, accepts your application. By applying to be a California LightWorks, Affiliate, you agree to be bound and abide by such terms and conditions.
- Links on Your Site. To permit accurate tracking, reporting and referral fee accrual, we will authorize Refersion to give you access on the Refersion Site to 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 links between your Site and our Site properly uses such special link formats. We will not be liable to you with respect to any failure by you to use Special Links, including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of amounts that would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement. Each Special Link, as viewed by a customer, will be in the form of a California LightWorks logo, text link or product provided by us. The California LightWorks logo for each Special Link will be served by Refersion servers, which can only be accessed by using the special "tagged" link formats. You agree only to use the California LightWorks logos and images provided by us via the Refersion Site, and you further agree not to obtain or use California LightWorks logos or images from any other source. Your Site's title and other trademarks and linking logos must appear at least as prominently as the California LightWorks logo that is used to create the Special Link.
- 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 and all 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. Refersion will track sales made to customers who purchase products using Special Links from your Site to our Site and will be solely responsible for making available to you reports summarizing this sales activity through the Refersion Network. The form, content and frequency of the reports may vary from time to time at our discretion. You hereby agree not to disclose the information contained in these reports to any third party without prior written consent from California LightWorks.
- Personal Styling or Shopping Services. You may not provide personal styling or personal shopping services of any kind to customers that involve the purchase of products using Special Links from your Site. You are not eligible to earn any referral fees on such purchases, and we may remove you from the Affiliate Program and terminate this Agreement if you engage in those activities.
- Employees. Employees of California LightWorks, and its affiliated or related entities may not participate in the Program. If you become an employee of California LightWorks, or one of its affiliated or related entities, then this Agreement will automatically terminate, and you will be removed from the Program. You must immediately remove any links, California LightWorks, Marks, and other California LightWorks, intellectual property or brand features from your Site. You will only be entitled to receive referral fees that were earned prior to the commencement date of your employment. Upon termination of your employment with California LightWorks, or one of its affiliated or related entities, you may apply to re-enroll in the Program.
- Referral Fees. We will pay you referral fees on the sale of all SolarSystem, SolarXtreme and SaniPure line of products available for sale on our website. The GH Pro (Greenhouse Professional) line of products are excluded from these referral fees. For a product sale to be eligible to earn a referral fee, the customer must follow a Special Link from your Site to our Site, select and purchase the product using our online ordering system, accept delivery of the product at the shipping destination, and remit full payment to us ("Qualifying Purchase"). We will not, however, pay referral or other fees on any products that are subsequently purchased after the customer has reentered the CaliforniaLightWorks.com Site other than through a Special Link from your Site, even if the customer previously followed a Special Link from your Site to the CaliforniaLightWorks.com Site. Purchases of California LightWorks Gift Cards are not eligible to earn referral fees.You may not purchase products during sessions initiated through the Special Links on your Site for your own use, resale, or commercial use of any kind. This includes orders for customers or on behalf of customers or orders for products to be used by you or your friends, relatives or associates in any manner. Such purchases may result, in our sole discretion, in the withholding of referral fees or the termination of this Agreement.
- Referral Fee Schedule.You agree and acknowledge that the referral fees you earn will be in amounts established by us and posted on the Refersion Site together with the application materials. The Referral Fee Schedule is incorporated into this Agreement by reference. We reserve the right to modify the Referral Fee Schedule at any time in our sole discretion upon prior notice to you. Referral fees shall be limited to a maximum of 5% per item unless otherwise provided in the Referral Fee Schedule.The referral fees shall be calculated as a percentage of "qualifying revenues," which are revenues derived by us from Qualifying Purchases, excluding revenues derived from and costs associated with shipping, handling, gift-wrapping, taxes, service charges, credit card processing fees, bad debt and promotional discounts as advertised.
- Referral Fee Payment. We will pay referral fees on a monthly basis. Approximately 45 days following the end of each calendar month, Refersion will pay via check of PayPal your referral fees earned on net sales of products that were shipped during that month, less any taxes that we are required by law to withhold. However, if the referral fees payable to you for any calendar month are less than $25, we will hold those referral fees until the total amount due is at least $25 or until this Agreement is terminated. If a product that generated a referral fee is returned by the customer, we will deduct the corresponding referral fee from your next monthly payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we will send you a bill for the returned product referral fee.
- Policies and Pricing. Customers who buy products through this Program will be deemed to be our customers. Accordingly, all California LightWorks, 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 Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.
- California LightWorks, Marks. The trademarks, trade names, designs and logos made available to you through the Refersion Site, that are used or owned by MWW Inc, DBA California LightWorks, or their wholly owned subsidiaries ("California LightWorks, Marks") are proprietary marks of California LightWorks, Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, California LightWorks, grants you a limited non-exclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to use the California LightWorks, Marks during the term of this Agreement. You will not (a) modify the California LightWorks, Marks, or (b) cause any act or thing that would impair our rights in the California LightWorks, Marks or damage the reputation for quality inherent in the California LightWorks, Marks. Further, you acknowledge (a) your use of California LightWorks, Marks does not convey to you any right, title or interest in or to the CaliforniaLightWorks.com Marks; (b) California LightWorks, ownership of the California LightWorks, Marks, (c) you may not contest the California LightWorks, Marks, register or attempt to register in any jurisdiction any California LightWorks, Mark or any confusingly similar mark or trade name; (d) you agree to identify the California LightWorks, Marks by including appropriate symbols and notices reasonably requested by us; (e) you may not obtain or use the California LightWorks, Marks except as provided in these Terms and Conditions; and (f) your use of the California LightWorks, Marks, including all goodwill associated with such use, shall inure solely to California LightWorks.
- Customer and Sales Information. We will own all right, title and interest (including all intellectual property rights) in and to all information that is created or collected in connection with this Agreement, including, without limitation, (a) any contact information collected from any customer who enters the CaliforniaLightWorks.com Site from a link from your Site ("Affiliate Customers") and (b) any information regarding click-through rates or product purchases by Affiliate Customers ("Sales Information"). Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, CaliforniaLightWorks.com grants you a limited worldwide, non-exclusive royalty-free license to use the Sales Information to the extent necessary to fulfill your obligations under this Agreement or for your internal research purposes. You agree not to disclose any Sales Information or Affiliate Customer contact information to any third party without California LightWorks, prior written approval. You agree not to send Affiliate Customers email communications promoting your Site as an affiliate of California LightWorks, LLC or otherwise unless granted previous approval by California LightWorks, LLC. You agree to maintain and adhere to Your privacy policy, as posted and updated on your site.
- Responsibility for Your Site. You are solely responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of your Site and for all materials that appear on your Site, including, but not limited to (a) the Special Links; (b) ensuring all banners, text links, individual product links and search box ads (hereinafter the "Creatives") are up to date with what is offered in the California LightWorks Create Links page of Refersion requires customers to login first; (c) ensuring all Creatives work effectively and link directly to CaliforniaLightWorks.com, unless your Site requires otherwise; (d) the accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your Site (including but not limited to all product-related materials), (e) ensuring that materials posted on your Site do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including, but not limited to, copyrights, trademarks, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights); (f) ensuring that materials posted on your Site are not libelous or unlawful, or do not violate any provision of this Agreement, and (g) compliance with all applicable national, state, regional and local laws and regulations. We disclaim all liability for the matters stated in this Section 9. Further, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, damages and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys' fees) relating to the content development, operation, maintenance and contents of your Site or any breach of your obligations under this Agreement.
- You may not use the CaliforniaLightWorks.com or the California LightWorks, name, or any variation thereof, in any manner not expressly authorized by this Agreement. In particular, you may NOT post California LightWorkssales, promotions or coupons on your site without our prior written consent; you may NOT purchase domain names that have California LightWorks variations or misspellings in them which are solely intended to direct traffic away from the CaliforniaLightWorks.com; you may NOT create sub-affiliate accounts under the original approved affiliate account, unless each such sub-account is approved and review by California LightWorks; you may NOT promote CaliforniaLightWorks.com in emails/newsletters without prior written approval of the placement; you may NOT use CaliforniaLightWorks.com name, or any variation thereof, in subject lines of emails/newsletters; you may NOT use CaliforniaLightWorks.com name, or any variation thereof, in hidden text or source code; you may NOT use CaliforniaLightWorks.com name, or any variation thereof, in your domain or sub-domain; you may NOT engineer your site in such a manner that pulls Internet traffic away from CaliforniaLightWorks.com; you may NOT engineer your site in such a manner that would be considered "keyword stuffing," such as using terms in hidden or live text that is meant to attract search engine spiders in order to determine higher relevancy to CaliforniaLightWorks.com; you may NOT purchase any keywords on search sites related to California LightWorks or any variation thereof. California LightWorks strongly discourages You from the use "coupon" terminology when promoting CaliforniaLightWorks.com; as an alternative, the use of "event" or "sale" is highly recommended. You may not launch the CaliforniaLightWorks.com site directly from search engine listings or from your site unless the visitor clicks through a California LightWorks banner, logo or product. California LightWorks may, in its sole discretion, suspend Your account and/or withhold referral fees if, it in its sole judgment, it determines You are in violation of any of the prohibitions or conditions contained herein. In addition to the Termination provisions set forth below, violation of the forgoing prohibitions may result in the immediate termination of this Agreement.
- You may NOT utilize in connection with your Site or the promotion of our Site: (a) any framing technology that frames CaliforniaLightWorks.com; (b) any software that gathers information through the customer's Internet connection without his or her knowledge; (c) any software or action that violates any applicable federal, state or local laws, including without limitation, laws which prohibit a person or company from (i) installing spyware on another person's computer, (ii) causing spyware to be installed on another person's computer, or (iii) using a context based triggering mechanism to display an advertisement that partially or wholly covers or obscures paid advertising or other content on an Internet website in a way that interferes with a user's ability to view the Internet website, or (d) browser-embedded contextual targeting applications or other applications which serve "Advertising" on California LightWorks's competitors Sites or on any other Site other than your Site. "Advertising" means (i) pop-up ads and pop-unders, (ii) in-browser ads, and (iii) highlighting of Site content and redirecting to Sites with similar content, regardless of whether any such Advertising is served directly by you or is provided or purchased from a third-party purchaser;(e) any "opt-out downloads". An "opt-out download" is any software, program, script, tool or element that would automatically download to a user's computer or that would become operative when the user accesses the Internet unless the user takes affirmative action to prevent the download.
- Term of the Agreement; Termination. The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Program application and will end when terminated by either of us. Either you or California LightWorks, may terminate this Agreement at any time and for any reason, with or without cause, by giving the other party written or electronic notice of termination. If you don't generate at least 50 click-throughs or at least one sale per month through affiliate links, you may be removed from the program. You are only eligible to earn referral fees on sales occurring during the term of this Agreement, and 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. Upon termination of this Agreement, (a) all licenses hereunder shall terminate, (b) you will immediately remove any links, California LightWorks, Marks, and other California LightWorks, intellectual property or brand features from your Site, (c) California LightWorks, shall immediately remove any of your logos, marks, and brand features from the CaliforniaLightWorks.com site, and (d) Sections 7 through 25 will survive such termination. California LightWorks may withhold referral fees at termination if California LightWorks, in its sole discretion, believes explicit provisions of this Agreement have been breached and such referral fees were earned in violation of this Agreement. In addition to the right to terminate this Agreement, California LightWorks shall be entitled, in addition to any and all remedies of law, to seek damages for breach of this agreement, including, injunctive relief, punitive damages, and/or refund of the fees and other payments made pursuant to the terms of this agreement.
- Modification. We reserve the right to change or modify the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and in our sole discretion. Any changes or modifications will be effective upon posting of the revisions and notice of such changes to the Site. California LightWorks may deliver notice by any of the following methods: (a) by posting a change notice or a new agreement on the Refersion Site; (b) changing the date of this Agreement on the Refersion Site; or (c) by giving you notice of the change or modification through the Refersion Network. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope of available referral fees, referral fee schedules, payment procedures, and Program rules. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR NEW AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
- Relationship of Parties. Both of us are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between us. 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.
- Limitation of Liability. We will not be liable for indirect, special or consequential damages arising in connection with this Agreement, the Program or Refersion, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, 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. All claims made hereunder by you against us shall be made within 120 days of the act or omission, which forms the basis of such claims.
- Disclaimers. We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to Refersion, the Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, non-infringement, 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 or termination of any services, products or this Agreement.
- 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 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.
- Assignment and Successors. 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.
- Scope of Agreement. This Agreement and the Referral Fee Schedule constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between us with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous written or oral agreements or representations between us.
- Injunctive Relief. You expressly agree that your violation of Sections 1, 7, 8, 10 or 11 will cause irreparable harm to California LightWorks, and that a remedy at law would be inadequate. Therefore, in addition to any and all remedies available at law, California LightWorks, will be entitled to seek an injunction or other equitable remedies in all legal proceedings in the event of any threatened or actual violation of any or all of the provisions hereof.
- Attorneys' Fees. In the event any action is commenced to construe or enforce any provision of this Agreement, the prevailing party, in addition to all other amounts such party shall be entitled to receive from the other party, shall be entitled to receive its reasonable attorneys' fees and costs incurred in bringing such action.
- Notices. Any notices required or permitted by this Agreement shall be delivered to the other party through the Refersion Network. Notice shall be deemed given one business day after such notice was sent via the Refersion Network by the sending party.
- Governing Law, Jurisdiction, and Venue. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the United States and the State of California, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action relating to this Agreement must be brought only in the federal or state courts located in Los Angele, California, and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of such courts.
- Waiver. 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. The failure of either party to enforce any right or remedy shall not be deemed a waiver of said right or remedy.
- Publicity. We do not permit you to utilize media releases of any kind to publicize your business relationship with Us. You shall not use any California LightWorks, Mark, trademark, service mark, logo or any other information which identifies California LightWorks in Agency's sales, marketing and publicity activities and/or materials, including, but not limited to interviews with representatives of any written publication, television station or network, or radio station or network, and publication in any Internet Web site, digital media, print, video or audio media.
- Refersion Required Provisions. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Refersion and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all liability, claims, losses, damages, injuries or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) directly or indirectly arising from or relating to any other matter related to this Agreement or any related dispute. In the event of any dispute between the parties, the parties agree that to the extent the parties contact and involve Refersion, Refersion may consult with and use counsel of its own choice in connection with such dispute. You acknowledge and agree that the nature of the Program is such that in its normal operation it may access and download elements of software data from resources that are external to the computer or device running the Program, such as Program. You also acknowledge that Refersion has not undertaken to provide such external resources or servers and specifically disclaims any representation or warranty as the availability, quality or performance of such resources or whether they may contain any defects which may affect the performance of the Program. Refersion shall not be responsible for provision of any communications facilities or the costs associated with such communications.
- Applicable taxes You are not an employee of California LightWorks, but rather a W9 employee. Therefore, all responsibility for payment of taxes is your responsibility. California LightWorks, will require a 1099 application when your payment reaches $500 in one calendar year. We will not be able to make payments to you until the proper tax documents are completed.