| The Terms and Conditions
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| This agreement contains the complete terms and
conditions that apply to an individual's or entity's participation in the
ROSEMASTERS.com affiliate program (the "Program"). As used in this agreement,
"we" means ROSEMASTERS.com and ROSE MASTE$RS LLC., and "you" means the
applicant. "Site" means a World Wide Web site and, depending on the context,
refers either to ROSEMASTERS.com's site located at the URL www.rosemasters.com,
or to the site that you will link to our site (and which you will identify in
your program application).
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1. Enrollment in the Program
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To begin the enrollment process, you will submit a complete 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
Program. Unsuitable sites include, but shall not be limited to, those that:
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Promote violence;
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Promote pornography and sexual content;
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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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Attempt to copy and/or assume the creative or business identity of
Growerflowers.com in any manner; and/or,
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Otherwise violate intellectual property rights.
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Utilize parasite software
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Spam
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If we reject your application, you are welcome to
reapply to the Program at any time. 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 Program, we may terminate this Agreement at any time.
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2. Links on Your Site
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Once you have been notified that your site has been
accepted into the Program, you may provide on your site one or more of the
various links to our site that will be made available to you through our
Affiliate Web Site. Growerflowers.com will occasionally change the appearance
and type of links made available to Affiliates. Growerflowers.com may change
the appearance of these links and may make changes to their appearance at any
time without your prior consent or notification.
To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and referral fee accrual, we will
provide you with special "tagged" link formats 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 utilizes such special link formats. Links to our
site placed on your site pursuant to this agreement and which properly utilize
such special link formats are referred to as "special links." You will only
earn referral fees with respect to activity on our site occurring directly
through special links. 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.
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3. Order Processing
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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 by 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.
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4. Referral Fees
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We will pay you (in accordance with Sections 5 and 6
below) referral fees on certain product sales to third parties. 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
automated ordering system, accept delivery of the product at the shipping
destination, and remit full payment to us.
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5. Referral Fee Schedule
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You will earn referral fees based on qualifying
revenues according to referral fee schedules to be established by us.
"Qualifying revenues" are revenues derived by us from our sales of our
products, excluding costs for shipping, handling, gift-wrapping, taxes, service
charges, credit card processing fees, and bad debt. The current referral fee
schedule is:
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The commission rate on all products will be equal to 10 percent (10%) of net
sales for qualifying revenues with the exception of bulk corporate orders.
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6. Referral Fee Payment
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We will pay you, as an independent contractor, referral
fees on a monthly basis. Approximately 30 days following the end of each
calendar month, we will send you a check for the referral fees earned on your
sales of Growerflowers.com products that were shipped during that month, less
any taxes that we are required by law to withhold. The parties agree the
referral fees include all applicable tax(es) chargeable, including Goods and
Service Taxes. You will remit the tax(es) as required by law.
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7. Reports of Sales
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You will be given the ability to enter a
password-protected site to receive your sales statistics on a daily basis.
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8. Policies and Pricing
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Customers who buy products through this program will be
deemed to be customers of ROSEMASTERS.com. Accordingly, all ROSEMASTERS.com
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. Your affiliate flower prices will fluctuate to reflect the base
price we are charging. All phone order pricing is subject to change at any time
at the discretion of ROSEMASTERS.com. We will use commercially reasonable
efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the
availability or price of any particular product.
It is further the policy of ROSEMASTERS.com that marketing of any of its
products by way of "SPAM" e-mail is prohibited. Any and all affiliates (and
prospective affiliates) who participate in the use of "SPAM" e-mailing for
anything pertaining to the business of selling flowers will be disqualified
from our affiliate program without notice. ROSEMASTERS.com will not accept
responsibility for any "SPAM" e-mails sent by an affiliate pertaining to
ROSEMASTERS.com. SPAM, for the purposes of this agreement is defined as the
sending of unsolicited e-mail on the internet. From the sender's point of view,
it is a form of bulk mail, often to a list culled from subscribers to a usenet
discussion group or obtained by companies that specialize in creating e-mail
distribution lists. Some apparently unsolicited e-mail is, in fact, e-mail
people have agreed to receive when they register with a site and check a box
agreeing to receive postings about particular products or interests. This is
known as both opt-in e-mail and permission based e-mail.
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9. Limited License
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We grant you a nonexclusive, revocable right to use the
graphic image and text provided for Affiliates on the Affiliates Web Site and
such other images for which we grant express permission, solely for the purpose
of identifying your site as a 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. We may revoke your license at any time by giving
you written notice. Any personally developed links must meet with full approval
of ROSEMASTERS.com and become the property of ROSEMASTERS.com before use can be
approved.
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10. Responsibility for Your Site
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You will be solely responsible for the development,
operation, and maintenance of your site and for all materials that appear on
your site. Without limiting the foregoing, 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.
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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.
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11. Term of the Agreement
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The term of this Agreement will begin upon our
acceptance of your 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, and all
ROSEMASTERS.com trademarks, trade dress and logos, and all other materials
provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the
Program. You are only eligible to earn referral fees on our sales of
ROSEMASTERS.com products occurring during the term, and referral fees earned
through the date of termination will remain payable only if the related orders
are not cancelled or returned. We may withhold your final payment for a
reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid.
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12. Modification
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We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained
in this Agreement, at any time and at our sole discretion, by changing this
agreement as posted on our site. 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 CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE
WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
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13. Relationship of Parties
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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.
ROSEMASTERS.com may cite your name or URL in connection with your participation
in the program in materials including but not limited to postings on our site,
newsletters, advertisements, and other communications.
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14. Limitation of Liability
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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 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 program will not exceed the total referral
fees paid or payable to you under this agreement.
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15. Indemnity.
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You agree to release, indemnify and hold
ROSEMASTERS.com, its contractors, agents, employees, officers, directors and
affiliates harmless from any and all liabilities, claims and expenses including
legal fees, of third parties relating to or rising under this Agreement and of
the use of images, including without limitation infringement by you or someone
else (such as your website host) of any intellectual property or other
proprietary right of any person or entity, or from the violation of any of
ROSEMASTERS operating rule or policy relating to the use of the images
provided. When ROSEMASTERS is threatened with suit by a third party,
ROSEMASTERS may seek written assurances from you concerning your promise to
indemnify ROSEMASTERS; your failure to provide that assurance may be considered
by ROSEMASTERS to be a breach of your agreement and subject to termination by
ROSEMASTERS.
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16. Disclaimers
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We make no express or implied warranties or
representations with respect to the program or any products sold through the
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.
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17. Independent Investigation
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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 PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY
REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS
AGREEMENT.
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