This Internet Referral Program Agreement ("Agreement")
contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to your participation
in the CYBERFLOWERS.COM Affiliate Program and the establishment
of links from your web site to CYBERFLOWERS.COM'S web site, "www.cyberflowers.com".
You may also be referred to herein as "PARTICIPANT", "you" or "Party".
1.The Affiliate Program:
(a) As a PARTICIPANT, we will make available to
you (via www.cyberflowers.com) a variety of graphic and textual links
(each of these links sometimes being referred to herein as "Links"
or, individually, as a "Link"), which, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, you may display as often and in as
many areas of your web site as you desire. The Links will serve
to identify your site as a PARTICIPANT of our Affiliate Program
and will establish a link from your site to www.cyberflowers.com.
You agree that you will display on your Web Site only those graphic
or textual images (indicating a Link) that are provided to you by
CYBERFLOWERS.COM
(b) To commence the process of enrolling as a
PARTICIPANT in the Affiliate Program, you will submit an Enrollment
Application via our Web Site or as otherwise authorized by CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
INC. We will evaluate your application and notify you of your acceptance
or rejection; which determination shall be in our sole discretion.
2. Term:
(a) This Agreement is conditioned upon and will
become effective on our acceptance of your Enrollment Application
and your acceptance of the terms of this Agreement. Either party
may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause
by giving the other party notice of termination. The first twelve
months following the date this Agreement becomes effective and every
twelve months thereafter that this Agreement remains in full force
and effect are each a "Term Year".
(b) PARTICIPANT is only eligible to earn commissions
on sales which are completed during the term of this Agreement,
and commissions earned through the date of termination will be payable
only if the related purchases are not canceled or returned. CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
INC. may withhold PARTICIPANT'S final payment for a reasonable time
to ensure that the correct amount is paid.
3. Commissions:
(a) A 8% commission for monthly Net Sales up to $1,999.99;
and
(b) A 10% commission for monthly Net Sales over $2,000.
(b) CYBERFLOWERS.COM will pay you or cause
you to be paid, within forty-five (45) days after the end of each calendar
month in accordance with the above mentioned commission structure
provided total commissions due you for such month exceed One Hundred
Dollars ($100). The check will be for the applicable commission (less
any taxes required to be withheld pursuant to applicable law). For
any calendar month in which your commissions do not exceed $100,
then CYBERFLOWERS.COM shall have the option to pay same or
to withhold such payment and add such commissions to the next calendar
month for which you are entitled to receive a commission check.
Furthermore, you will be given a password which will enable you
to receive your sales statistics on a reasonable basis.
4. Legal Compliance:
PARTICIPANT shall operate your Web Site and render
your services in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations,
and PARTICIPANT will be solely responsible for obtaining all required
governmental authorizations necessary for its Web Site and the full
performance of your services as provided for under this Agreement.
PARTICIPANT hereby further represents and warrants that: (a) If
a corporation, you are a corporation duly organized and validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the state of your
incorporation; (b) you have full power and authority to enter into
this Agreement and to perform your obligations hereunder; (c) you
have obtained all permits, licenses, and other governmental authorizations
and approvals required for your performance under this Agreement;
(d) the services to be rendered by PARTICIPANT under this Agreement
neither infringes nor violates any patent, copyright, trade secret,
trademark, or other proprietary right of any third party; (e) this
Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by PARTICIPANT
and constitutes your legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable
against PARTICIPANT in accordance with its terms; (f) the execution,
delivery and performance by PARTICIPANT of this Agreement, and the
consummation by you of the transactions contemplated hereby will
not, with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or
both, conflict with or violate (i) any provision of law, rule or
regulation to which you are subject, (ii) any order, judgment or
decree applicable to PARTICIPANT or binding upon its assets or properties;
(iii) any provision of PARTICIPANT'S by-laws or certificate of incorporation,
or (iv) any agreement or other instrument applicable to PARTICIPANT
or binding upon your assets or properties; (g) PARTICIPANT is the
sole and exclusive owner of PARTICIPANT'S Marks, as defined herein,
and has the right and power to grant CYBERFLOWERS.COM the license
to use PARTICIPANT'S Marks in the manner contemplated herein, and
such grant does not and will not (i) breach, conflict with, or constitute
a default under any agreement or other instrument applicable to
you or binding upon your assets or properties, or (ii) infringe
upon any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, or other
proprietary right of any person or entity; (h) no consent, approval,
authorization of, or exemption by, or filing with, any governmental
authority or any third parties is required to be obtained or made
by you in connection with the execution, delivery, and performance
of this Agreement, or the taking by you of any other action contemplated
hereby; and (i) there is not pending, or to the best of PARTICIPANT'S
knowledge, any threatened claim, action, or proceeding against PARTICIPANT,
or any affiliate of yours, with respect to the execution, delivery
or consummation of this Agreement, or with respect to your Marks,
and, to the best of your knowledge, there is no basis for any such
claim, action or proceeding.
5. Maintenance.
(a) PARTICIPANT shall monitor and periodically
test the general availability and operation of your Web Site. PARTICIPANT
represents and warrants that its Web Site will perform adequately
so that customers will be able to shop for CYBERFLOWERS.COM'S
Products.
(b) PARTICIPANT is solely responsible for the
development, operation and maintenance of its Web Site and for all
materials and content that appear on PARTICIPANT'S Web Site. Such
responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the technical
operation of PARTICIPANT'S Web Site and all related equipment; the
accuracy and propriety of all materials and content posted on PARTICIPANT'S
site; and ensuring that materials and content posted on your Web
Site will not (i) violate any laws, rules or regulations; (ii) violate
or infringe upon the rights of any third party including, without
limitation, copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other
proprietary rights or right of publicity or privacy; (iii) be lewd,
pornographic, sexually explicit, or obscene; (iv) violate any laws
regarding unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising;
(v) promote violence or contain hate speech, (vi) contain viruses,
trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other similar harmful
or deleterious program routines; or (vii) be libelous, harmful,
threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, derogatory or otherwise
illegal or objectionable to CYBERFLOWERS.COM. (viii) Site will not be a homepage or a personal website created through free webspace offered by 3rd parties.
(c) CYBERFLOWERS.COM disclaims all liability
for all matters set forth in Section 5(b). Further, PARTICIPANT
will indemnify and hold CYBERFLOWERS.COM, its parent company,
subsidiaries, affiliates and their respective officers, directors,
shareholders and employees free and harmless against and from all
claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including, without
limitation, attorneys' fees) relating to the development, operation,
maintenance, and contents of PARTICIPANT'S Web Site.
(d) CYBERFLOWERS.COM reserves the right,
in its sole discretion, to monitor PARTICIPANT'S Web Site, at any
time and from time to time, to ascertain whether PARTICIPANT is
in compliance with the terms of this Agreement.
6. Fulfillment:
CYBERFLOWERS.COM will fulfill all fully paid
orders for Products in accordance with CYBERFLOWERS.COM'S customary
business practices. CYBERFLOWERS.COM shall be solely responsible
for fulfilling all orders placed by a customer as a direct result
of the Links. CYBERFLOWERS.COM'S Products offered through the
Links will be supported by the same favorable warranty and return
policy for such Products as offered through other CYBERFLOWERS.COM'S,
channels. Customers who purchase through the Affiliate Program
are deemed to be customers of CYBERFLOWERS.COM. Accordingly,
all of CYBERFLOWERS.COM'S rules, policies, and operating procedures
concerning customer orders, customer service, and use of customer
names and information, will apply to those customers.
7. Promotion:
Any promotional activities you may wish to engage
in that requires the prior written consent of CYBERFLOWERS.COM
PARTICIPANT shall not create, publish, distribute, or permit any
written material that makes reference to CYBERFLOWERS.COM without
first submitting such material to CYBERFLOWERS.COM and receiving
written consent thereto.
8. Licenses:
(a) CYBERFLOWERS.COM grants to PARTICIPANT
a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free, revocable license
to (i) access the CYBERFLOWERS.COM Web Site through the Links
solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (ii) solely
in connection with such Links, to use CYBERFLOWERS.COM'S logos,
trade name, trademarks, service marks and similar identifying material
relating to CYBERFLOWERS.COM (collectively the "Marks"), for
the sole purpose of selling Products on your Web Site for CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
(but only in the form(s) as they appear on CYBERFLOWERS.COM.S' Web Site). You may not alter, modify, amend, or change the
Marks in any way. You are only entitled to use the Marks to the
extent that this Agreement remains in full force and effect. The
use of any such Marks requires the prior written approval of CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
INC. in all instances.
(b) PARTICIPANT shall not make any specific use
of any Marks of CYBERFLOWERS.COM for purposes other than selling
Products on PARTICIPANT'S Web Site for CYBERFLOWERS.COM, without
first submitting a sample of such proposed use to CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
INC., and obtaining the prior written consent of CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
INC. PARTICIPANT agrees not to use the Marks in any manner that
is disparaging or otherwise portrays CYBERFLOWERS.COM in a
negative light. CYBERFLOWERS.COM reserves all of its rights
in the Marks and all of their other proprietary rights. No right,
property, license or interest in any Marks is intended to be given
to or acquired by PARTICIPANT by the execution or the performance
of this Agreement. CYBERFLOWERS.COM may revoke this license
at any time, by giving you written notice. PARTICIPANT may not alter,
modify, or change the Marks in any way.
(c) All intellectual and proprietary property
and information, supplied or developed by CYBERFLOWERS.COM
shall be and remain the sole and exclusive property of CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
INC. Upon termination of this Agreement, PARTICIPANT shall return
to CYBERFLOWERS.COM any and all such property and information
it received from CYBERFLOWERS.COM and immediately cease use
of CYBERFLOWERS.COM'S Marks. Participant agrees not to contest
or challenge CYBERFLOWERS.COM'S Marks or to use any confusingly
similar marks.
(d) PARTICIPANT grants to CYBERFLOWERS.COM
a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to access
the PARTICIPANT Web Site through the Links; and (ii) use PARTICIPANT'S
trade name, titles, logos, trademarks, service marks, products and
similar identifying material relating to PARTICIPANT (the "PARTICIPANT'S
Marks"), to advertise, market, promote and publicize in any manner
this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereunder or CYBERFLOWERS.COM
.S' rights hereunder; provided, however, that CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
shall not be required to advertise, market, promote or publicize,
in any manner, this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereunder,
or PARTICIPANT'S Marks.
9. Confidentiality:
Pursuant to this Agreement, the Parties may disclose
to one another certain information ("Information") which is considered
by the disclosing party to be proprietary or confidential information,
including, without limitation, the term of this Agreement, business,
marketing and financial information, customer and vendor lists,
and pricing and sales information. All such Information shall remain
the sole property of the disclosing party, and its confidentiality
shall be maintained and protected by the receiving party with the
same degree of care as the receiving party uses for its own confidential
and proprietary Information and the receiving party shall not disclose
such Information to any third party without the consent of the disclosing
party. The restrictions of the use or disclosure of any Information
shall not apply to any information: (i) after it has become generally
available to the public without breach of this agreement by the
receiving party; (ii) is independently developed by receiving party;
(iii) is rightfully in the receiving party's possession prior to
disclosure to it by the disclosing party; (iv) is rightfully received
by receiving party from a third party without duty of confidentiality;
or (v) is disclosed under operation of law or pursuant to legal
or regulatory process.
10. LIABILITY:
CYBERFLOWERS.COM SHALL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY
HEREUNDER FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF PROFIT OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES,
WHETHER OR NOT CYBERFLOWERS.COM, KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT
SUCH DAMAGE MIGHT BE INCURRED. FURTHERMORE, CYBERFLOWERS.COMS'
AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE
TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR
ANY OTHER THEORY OF RECOVERY SHALL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSIONS
PAID OR PAYABLE TO PARTICIPANT UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
11. Indemnification:
PARTICIPANT agrees to indemnify, defend and hold
harmless CYBERFLOWERS.COM, its parent company, subsidiaries,
affiliates, successors and assigns and their respective officers,
directors, shareholders and employees, from and against any and
all losses, liabilities, damages, actions, claims, expenses and
costs including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees,
which result or arise from or are based on (i) the negligence of
PARTICIPANT, its agents, servants and/or employees, (ii) PARTICIPANT'S
breach of this Agreement or any of the terms hereunder, (iii) any
misrepresentation of a representation or warranty, or breach of
a covenant or agreement made by PARTICIPANT herein, or in the Enrollment
Application, (iv) any claim that CYBERFLOWERS.COMS' use of
PARTICIPANT'S Marks infringe on any trademark, trade name, service
mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary
right of any third party, or (v) any claim related to PARTICIPANT'S
Web Site, including, without limitation, content therein not contributed
directly by CYBERFLOWERS.COM
12. Independent Parties:
Nothing contained herein shall imply any partnership,
joint venture or agency relationship between the Parties and neither
Party shall have the power to obligate or bind the other in any
manner whatsoever, except to the extent herein specifically provided.
13. Binding Effect; Benefit:
This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and
be binding upon the Parties hereto and their respective successors
and assigns. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, is
intended to confer on any person or entity other than the Parties
hereto or their respective successors and assigns, any rights, remedies,
obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this Agreement.
14. Severability:
If any provision of this Agreement shall be declared
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, void or unenforceable,
all other provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected and
shall remain in full force and effect.
15. Notices:
Any notices required or permitted under this Agreement
shall be sent electronically to you at your Web Site, or to CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
INC. at www.cyberflowers.com and shall be deemed duly made and received
when sent.
16. Force Majeure:
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this
Agreement, CYBERFLOWERS.COM shall not be liable for any breach
of this Agreement or for any delay or failure of performance resulting
from any cause beyond such Party's reasonable control, including
without limitation, the weather, strikes or labor disputes, war,
terrorist acts, riots or civil disturbances, government regulations,
acts of civil or military authorities, or acts of God.
17. Entire Agreement:
This Agreement constitutes (a) the binding agreement
between the Parties; (b) represents the entire agreement between
the Parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes
all prior agreements; and (c) may not be modified or amended except
in writing signed the Parties. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, CYBERFLOWERS.COM may modify and change any
of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, at any time in its
sole discretion. PARTICIPANT will be notified by E-mail. Modifications
and changes may include, without limitation, changes in the scope
of available commission fees and payment procedures. If any modification
or change is unacceptable to PARTICIPANT, PARTICIPANT'S only recourse
is to terminate this Agreement. Your continued participation in
the Program following the sending of the above E-mail, or a new
agreement, will constitute binding acceptance of the modification
or change.
18. Governing Law:
The Service is controlled and operated from its offices within the Province of Ontario, Canada. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
In the event of any dispute concerning the Service, or any matter related to
this Agreement, You agree that the litigation shall be in province or federal courts in the city of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. In the event that any of the provisions of this
Agreement shall be held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction
to be unenforceable, such provisions shall be limited or eliminated to the
minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement shall otherwise remain in full
force and effect and enforceable.
19. INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION.
PARTICIPANT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS READ THIS
AGREEMENT AND AGREES TO ALL OF ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND
THAT CYBERFLOWERS.COM MAY AT ANY TIME, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY,
SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS AND ENTER INTO SIMILAR AGREEMENTS ON
TERMS THAT MAY BE THE SAME, SIMILAR OR DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED
IN THIS AGREEMENT OR ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH COMPETITORS OF
PARTICIPANT, OR MAY OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE
WITH PARTICIPANT'S WEB SITE. PARTICIPANT HAS INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED
THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED
HEREUNDER AND IT IS NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE,
OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SPECIFICALLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.
20. NO GUARANTEE.
CYBERFLOWERS.COM MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO THE TRANSACTIONS
AND SERVICES CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY,
NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF PERFORMANCE,
DEALING, OR TRADE USAGE. IN ADDITION, CYBERFLOWERS.COM MAKES
NO REPRESENTATION THAT THE OPERATION OF CYBERFLOWERS.COMS'
WEB SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, AND CYBERFLOWERS.COM,
INC. WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES WHATSOEVER OF ANY INTERRUPTIONS
OR ERRORS. FURTHERMORE, CYBERFLOWERS.COM MAKES NO REPRESENTATION,
WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE AS TO THE AMOUNT OF COMMISSIONS TO BE PAID
TO PARTICIPANT HEREUNDER, OR AS TO ANY ASSET OR PROFITABILITY, IF
ANY, OR OTHER BENEFIT PARTICIPANT MAY DERIVE HEREUNDER, IF ANY.
21. Survival:
Sections 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20 and 21
of this Agreement shall survive the termination or expiration of
this Agreement.
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