Affiliation Agreement
Your consent to the terms of this
Agreement with InterLogic Ltd. ("Company") is signified by clicking
the box entitled "I have read and agreed to the Affiliation
Agreement" in our Affiliate Sign-Up Form.
IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO ACCEPT ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
OF THIS AGREEMENT,
THEN DO NOT PROMOTE THE SITE.
1. Definitions
Account: The uniquely assigned account that is created for Player when
he/she opens a player's account at any of the company'sSites
Affiliate: A person or entity that has received an email confirmation
from Company, as determined by Company at its sole discretion, that its
website(s) are included in the Program, and such website(s) are linked to the
Site(s) in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Affiliate ID: The numeric identification code assigned to each Affiliate
upon such Affiliate's confirmation by the Company as a participant in the
Program.
Affiliate Fee: The amount due and payable to Affiliate, based solely and
exclusively on InterLogic's system's data and
calculations, in accordance with the Compensation Plan selected by the
Affiliate on the Affiliate Sign Up Form when signing
up and/or activating additional Trackers.
Affiliate Section: The area of the Site(s) that is accessible to Affiliate
where Affiliate may check stats, register Sub-Affiliates, update profile, create additional Trackers, select Banners and other
functions.
Banners and Text Links: Any means of graphics, pictures, animation,
artwork or text that an Affiliate uses to hyperlink Players from Affiliate's
website to the Site(s).
Compensation Plan: CPA Plan or Revenue Sharing Plan.
Company Games: online backgammon, online pool, online chess, and any
other game as may be developed and/or added by the Company, at its sole
discretion, from time to time.
Company Marks: means registered and unregistered trademarks, service marks,
trade names, service names and logos of the Company and its suppliers placed on
the Company Games or otherwise used with respect to the Company Games or the
Sites by the Company and all similar proprietary rights, together with all
translations, adaptations, derivations and combinations thereof, all
applications, registrations and renewals in connection therewith, and all
rights to corporate names, metatags and universal
resource locators owned or used by the Company, including without limitation
the "GammonEmpire” and any other Mark as may be
used by the Company, from time to time.
Gross Revenue: The actual revenue received by the
Company from each Player as commissions from such Player less any credits,
bonus or promotional amounts given to Players, charge backs, or any
un-collectable revenue attributable to the Player. For illustration
purpose only, in the event a Player played during a calendar month a total of
1,000 games, on each game playing on $10, and from each game the Company
actually collected and was paid a commission of $1, of which $0.5 were
attributed to that Player. In the event in such calendar month the Company gave
such Player $15 in a certain promotion and a $20 bonus, the Gross Revenue of
such Player during such calendar month shall be $465 (1,000*0.5-20-15).
Fraud Traffic: Any deposits, Gross Revenue or traffic generated at the
Site(s) through illegal means or in bad faith to defraud the Company,
regardless of whether or not it actually causes harm to the Company. Fraud
Traffic includes but is not limited to spam, false advertising, deposits
generated by stolen credit cards, collusion, manipulation of the service,
system, bonuses or promotions, offers to share the Affiliate Fee directly or
indirectly with Players, and any other unauthorized use of any third party
accounts, copyrights or trademarks.
Program: Company Affiliate Program.
Qualified Player: A human user who was directed from the Affiliate's
website and identified by a Tracker assigned to such Affiliate; provided that:
(i) such Affiliate's website is confirmed by Company
as included in the Program and is linked to the Site(s) in accordance with this
Agreement, and (ii) such user has been approved by the Company and has made the
minimum real money deposit required for opening an Account. It is hereby
clarified that neither an Affiliatenor any of its affiliated parties are
eligible to become Qualified Players under such Affiliate's Tracker(s), and
should Affiliate or any of its affiliated parties do so register,Affiliate will not be eligible to receive the
applicable commission or ay other compensation whatsoever. For the purposes
hereof, the term "affiliated party" shall mean any of the following:
(i) any member of Affiliate's immediate family; (ii) any individual,
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, and any other body corporate or
unincorporated organization, directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by
or under common control with Affiliate
Real Money Player: A Player that makes a real
money deposit to his/her Account.
Referral Fees Plan or CPA Plan: An Affiliate compensation plan where
Affiliate shall be paid according to the number of Qualified Players referred
by him to the Site(s) which Qualified Players actually opened an Account with
the Company after clicking on a Tracking URL used by Affiliate or entered the
sign up bonus code assigned to Affiliate when they signed up.
Revenue Sharing Plan: An Affiliate compensation plan where the
compensation payable to Affiliate is calculated as a percentage of the Gross
Revenue attributed to such Affiliate.
Site(s): one or more of the following: gammonaffiliates.com and any other website as may be added by the Company, in
its sole and absolute discretion, from time to time.
Spam or Unsolicited Promotions: Any emails or any other messages that
are circulated by Affiliate, directly or indirectly, including messages that
are posted on newsgroups, chatboards and other types
of online forums and which: (i) are directed at third
parties who have not consented in writing in advance to receiving promotional
messages from such Affiliate; (ii) contain false or misleading statements;
(iii) do not truthfully identify the source or the originating IP Address from
which it was sent; or (iv) do not provide the recipient with an option to
easily "Remove" it from receiving future mailings or promotions.
Tracker(s): The unique Tracking URL or sign up bonus codes that we
provide exclusively to you, through which we track and calculate Affiliate
Fees.
Tracking URL: A unique hyperlink to the Site(s) enabling Affiliates to
refer potential Players to the Site(s), Taken from the formal online partners website and enables Company to identify the
Affiliate that has referred such specific Player for the purpose of calculating
the Affiliate Fees.
Trademarks: All trademarks, service marks and logos displayed on the
Site(s).
2. Affiliate Program
2.1 Each Affiliate shall choose whether to sign up for the Revenue
Sharing Plan or the Referral Fees Plan and such decision shall be final. Under
no circumstances may an Affiliate change the Compensation Plan to which it has
signed up.
2.2 According to the Compensation Plan the Affiliateselected, Affiliate shall be paid on a
monthly basis the amounts to which Affiliate shall be entitled in accordance
with the provisions of the sign up form which will be confirmed to Affiliate by
e-mail.
2.3 The Company shall exert its commercially best efforts to inform each
applying affiliate whether the Company approves such affiliate's request and
the Compensation Plan chosen by him within seven (7) days of its application to
join the Affiliate Program.
2.4 All costs in whatsoever nature of Affiliate shall be borne solely by
Affiliate and the Company shall under no circumstances participate in such
costs.
2.5 By this Agreement, we grant you the non-exclusive right to direct
customers to the Site(s), in accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement. This Agreement does not grant you an exclusive right or privilege to
assist us in the provision of services arising from your referrals, and we
intend to contract with and obtain the assistance of other Affiliates to
perform services of the same or similar nature as yours. You shall have no
claims to fees for Players not referred by you.
3. Tracking; Payment
3.1 Company tracks, by the 10th of every month, Players' activity for
purposes of calculating each Affiliate's Fees. The form, content and frequency
of the reports may vary from time to time in our sole discretion. Upon
conclusion of each report Affiliate will receive a report setting forth the
number of new Qualified Players signed up that month, per Tracker (for CPA Plan
Affiliates), and/or the total amount of Monthly Gross Revenue collected from
Qualified Players that month, per Tracker (for Revenue Sharing Plan's
Affiliates). In addition, this information will be available to Affiliate
online in real time, under password protection.
3.2 The Affiliate Fee shall be calculated as follows:
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GROSS REVENUES ATTRIBUTED TO SUCH
AFFILIATE
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AFFILIATE'S REVENUE
SHARE
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Up
to US$10,000
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20%
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From
US$10,001 to US$20,000
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25%
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From
US$20,001 to US$40,000
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30%
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Over
US$40,001
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38%
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The revenue share shall be
attributed to the Affiliate whose details appeared on the confirmation notice
sent to such Affiliate upon registration to the Program.
3.2.2 In the event the Affiliate chose, and the Company
approved, Referral Fees Plan for such Affiliate, the Affiliate shall be
entitled to receive Affiliates Fees for each Qualified Player referred by him
to the Site(s), as follows٭:
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NUMBER OF QULAIFIED PLAYERS ATTRIBUTED
TO AFFILIATE
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PAYMENT PER QUALIFIED
PLAYER
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Up to 10
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US$30
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11-20
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US$60
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21-50
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US$80
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51-100
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US$100
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101-150
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US$120
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Over 151
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US$200
|
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the
above CPA table shall not apply with respect to players of any of the following
states: Turkey, China, Belarus, Georgia, and Brazil.
IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER TERMS
AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH ANYWHERE IN THIS AGREEMENT OR UNDER APPLICABLE LAW,
AFFILIATE SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE ANY PAYMENTS FOR ANY PLAYER UNLESS
AND UNTIL SUCH PLAYER HAS BEEN APPROVED AND QUALIFIED HAS A QUALIFIED PLAYER.
FOR THE REMOVAL OF ANY DOUBT IT
IS HEREBY CLARIFIED THAT THE COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT, AT ITS SOLE AND
ABSOLUTE DISCRETION, TO CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD OR REMOVE, AT ANY TIME, ANY OF THE
CRITERIA APPLYING TO ANY OF THE COMPENSATION PLANS, INCLUDING WITHOUT
LIMITATION, SETTING ANY BASELINE, THRESHOLD, MINUMUM DEPOSITS/EARNINGS AND/OR
OTHERREQUIREMENT(S) FOR QUALIFYING INTO
ANY OF THE COMPENSATION PLANS AND/OR FOR RECEIVING ANY AFFILATE FEES SET FORTH
HEREUNDER.
Active and Non Active account – In the event of Activity desistence, It is hereby clarified that
the Company will not have to continue and compensate the affiliate, for any
removal of dought – any affiliate that will generate
less than 8 new qualified players in the last 6 month will be considerd as non active.
3.3 Time of Payment. Affiliate Fees will be payable within fifteen (15)
days after the end of each calendar month, except that, in no event will the
Company pay to an Affiliate an amount lower than $300, and in the event such
Affiliate balance at the end of a calendar month is below $300, such balance shall
be carried over and added to the next month's Affiliate Fees. In the event, the
balance amount carried over does not total $200 within a three consecutive
calendar months, then the amount due will be voided and cancelled, and the
Company may terminate this Agreement with no liability whatsoever to Affiliate.
3.4 Holdover for Fraud Traffic. In the event of any activity deemed
suspicious by the Company at its sole determination, in your Account or in
multiple Accounts, the Company may delay payment of the Affiliate Fees to you
for up to one hundred and eighty (180) days to verify the relevant transactions
and in the event the Company determines the activity to constitute Fraud
Traffic, the Company shall recalculate or withhold your Affiliate Fees accordingly
and in its sole discretion. It is hereby clarified that in any event the
Company shall determine that Affiliate is somewhat involved, whether directly
or indirectly, in any fraudulent, deceptive, manipulative or otherwise illegal
activity connected to the Company, including without limitation to the Site(s),
Account(s), Bonus(es) and/or Qualified Players, the
Company shall have the right, in addition to any other right or remedy
available to it under this agreement or applicable law, to render the Tracking
URLs assigned to such Affiliate inoperative, and immediately block Affiliate
access to the Program, with no compensation to Affiliate. Affiliate hereby
irrevocably waives any claim or demand against the Company, its directors,
officers, shareholders, employees or against the Site(s) in respect of such
action taken by Company.
3.5 Method of Payment. All payments will be due and payable in United
States Dollars only. Payment will be made by check, wire or any other method
chosen by the Company. Charges for wires or courier charges for checks will be
covered by Affiliate and deducted from the Affiliate Fee.
3.6 Player Tracking. Affiliate represents that it is aware and agrees
that Players must link through a Tracking URL or enter a sign up bonus codes
when signing up in order for Affiliates (and Sub-Affiliates) to receive
Affiliate Fees in relation to such potential Players. In no event, shall the
Company be liable and Affiliate specifically waives any claim or demand for
failure of Affiliate or any Player to use the right Trackers or for potential
Players' failure to properly enter a sign up bonus codes. Affiliate understands
and agrees that it shall not receive credit for Sub-Affiliates unless expressly
registering them under Affiliate.
3.7 Disputes. Deposit of payment check, acceptance of payment transfer
or acceptance of other payment by Affiliate will be deemed full and final
settlement of Affiliate Fees due for the calendar month indicated. Hence, if
you disagree with the reports or amount payable, do NOT accept payment for such
amount and immediately send the Company a written notice of your dispute.
Dispute notices must be received within thirty (30) days of the end of each
month for which payment is made, or your right to dispute such report or payment
will be deemed waived and you shall have no claims in such regard.
3.8 Player Verification. Affiliate Fees in relation to new Qualified
Players will be dispatched only following Company's verification and checks
concerning all new Players.
3.9 It is Affiliate's sole responsibility to comply with any tax laws
that apply to referral fees, and Affiliate consents that to the extent required
by applicable law and regulations, Company may provide information regarding
Affiliate's fees to any government agency.
4. Additional Terms of Participation in the Program
4.1 Affiliate must provide true and complete information to the Company
at all times including but not limited to, identity, contact information,
payment instructions, nationality, residency, location and nature of marketing
activities, and any other information that the Company may request from time to
time.
4.2 Approved Marketing Materials. Without our prior written approval,
you will only use our approved banners and will not alter their appearance. The
appearance and syntax of the hypertext transfer link are designed and
designated by us and constitute the only authorized and permitted
representation of our site (collectively the "Marketing Materials").
Affiliate will not modify the Marketing Materials without Company's prior
written consent. AFFILIATE WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT AND
MANNER OF ITS MARKETING ACTIVITIES. ALL MARKETING ACTIVITIES MUST BE
PROFESSIONAL, PROPER AND LAWFUL UNDER APPLICABLE RULES OR LAWS.
4.3 An Affiliate and its website may not be engaged, directly or
indirectly, in conduct that Company, at its sole discretion, deems to be
illegal, improper, unfair or otherwise adverse to the operation or reputation
of any of the Sites or detrimental to other users of the Sites, including
without limitation, directly or indirectly: (a) Operation of an illegal
business, site or subscription email list; (b) Engaging in any illegal activity
of any type, including but not limited to displaying illegal content on the
Affiliate's website or in the Affiliate's subscription emails or offering any
illegal good or service through the Affiliate's website or subscription emails;
(c) Operation of a website that contains or promotes content that is libelous,
defamatory, obscene, abusive, violent, bigoted, hate-oriented, illegal, or link
to a website that does so; (d) Engaging in indiscriminate or unsolicited
commercial advertising emails; (e) Placing links to any of the Sites in
unsolicited email, spam, banner networks, counters, guest books, IRC channels
or through similar Internet resources; (f) Causing or enabling any transactions
to be made that are not in good faith, including among others by means of any
device, program, robot, hidden frames and redirects, and "bogus" traffic
(in each case without derogating from other remedies Company may have in law,
equity or otherwise); (f) Establishing or causing to be established, without
the prior written consent of an authorized officer of Company, any promotion
that provides any rewards, points or compensation for and any other activity
that Company deems at its sole discretion to be of similar nature, or that
allows third parties to place links to the Site(s); (g) Diluting, blurring or
tarnishing the value of Trademarks; or (h) Offer any player, whether directly
or indirectly, any kind of rake back deal. The Company shall have the right, in
addition to any other right or remedy available to it under this agreement or
applicable law, to render the Tracking URLs assigned to such Affiliate inoperative,
and immediately block Affiliate access to the Program, with no compensation to
Affiliate. Affiliate hereby irrevocably waives any claim or demand against the
Company, its directors, officers, shareholders, employees or against the
Site(s) in respect of such action taken by Company.
4.4 AFFILIATE MAY NOT ACTIVELY TARGET MARKETING TO ANY PERSONS WHO ARE
LESS THAN 18 YEARS OF AGE, REGARDLESS OF THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN THE LOCATION
WEHRE AFFILIATE IS MARKETING.
5. No Competitive Marketing
It is hereby clarified that you shall not be entitled to market to potential
Players (i) on any Internet site on which we promote
any of the Sites; (ii) on any Internet search engine on which we promote any of
the Sites; (iii) in any other manner which results in your competing with us in
relation to the promotion of your website(s), including but not limited to the
promotion of your website(s) through other Affiliates; and (iv) any other
online software, application, or other platform enabling online gaming similar
to and/or competitive with the Company Games. In the event that you are in
breach of the foregoing provisions, we reserve the right to render the Tracking
URLs assigned to you inoperative and you shall have no claims against the site operarors its owner or their directors, officers,
shareholders or employees in respect of such action taken by us.
6. Links; Trademarks and Logos; Data
Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Affiliate may display a link on
Affiliate's website, which website has been confirmed by Company as included in
the Program, to the homepage(s) of the Site(s) (but no other page). Company
grants to Affiliate, a nonexclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable
limited license to display on such Affiliate's website the Company Mark for the
sole purpose of providing a link from such Affiliate's site to the Site(s). No
framing of any webpage of any of the Sites is permitted. This license cannot be
sub-licensed, assigned or otherwise transferred by you. Your right to use the
Company Mark(s) is limited to and arises only out of this license to use the
banners. You and anyone on your behalf shall not assert the invalidity,
unenforceability, or contest the ownership of any of the Company Marks in any
action or proceeding of whatever kind or nature, and shall not take any action
that may prejudice our or our licensor's rights in the Company Marks, render
the same generic, or otherwise weaken their validity or diminish their
associated goodwill. The Trademarks are registered and unregistered trademarks
of Company or others. Except as explicitly permitted in this Section, nothing
in this Agreement or on any of the Sites should be construed as granting, by
implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or
right to use any Trademark. Unless otherwise approved in advance in writing by
Company, Affiliate may not promote, whether directly or indirectly, any of the
Company Marks. All Players shall be considered as customers of Company only and
an Affiliate may not contact a Player without receiving the Company written
approval for such contact. If in the Company's opinion you either try to or do
make contact with a Player without the Company's written approval, the Company
shall be entitled to immediately terminate this Agreement and to withhold all
commissions owed to you at such time. Further, if following your receipt of
Company 's written approval for your contacting or corresponding with a Player,
Company deems that such contact or correspondence is against the interests of
Company, Company shall have the right both to revoke the approval previously
granted and to terminate this Agreement and to withhold all commissions owing
to you at such time. Affiliate further agrees that Company will access
information from or about visitors to Affiliate's website, and may use such
information for any purpose.
7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY, ITS SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR
SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR DATA, OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITES, COMPANY'S
SERVICES, COMPANY GAMES, OR THIS AGREEMENT (HOWEVER ARISING, INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE), AND INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION AS A RESULT OF ANY FAILURE OR
MALFUNCTION OF ANY SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY OR OTHER
SYSTEM. COMPANY'S LIABILITY, AND THE LIABILITY OF COMPANY'S SUBSIDIARIES,
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS, TO AFFILIATE OR ANY THIRD
PARTY(IES) IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT OF
THE FEES PAID BY COMPANY TO AFFILIATE IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION
GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, AND (B) $100.
8. NO WARRANTIES; INDEMNIFICATION
THE FOLLOWING DISCLAIMERS APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER
APPLICABLE LAW: NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY, COMPANY DISCLAIMS ALL
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALL IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF NON- INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE PROGRAM, THE SITE(S), LINKS IN THE SITE(S), OR THE
SITE(S) BEING ACCESSIBLE OR FREE OF ERRORS, VIRUSES OR SECURITY THREATS.
Affiliate agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Company and its
subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees and suppliers from and against any
and all liability, claims, costs, expenses, injuries and losses, including
reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, arising directly or indirectly in
connection with Affiliate's operations or website or out of any disputes
between Affiliate and any other party relating to this Agreement, the Site(S)
or to services provided by Company.
9. 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 (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY)
SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN
THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE OR CONTRACT WITH WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR
COMPETE WITH YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY
OF PARTICIPATING IN THIS AFFILIATION PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY
REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS
AGREEMENT.
10. Miscellaneous
Company and Affiliate are independent contractors, and nothing this Agreement
creates any partnership, joint venture or agency relationship between them,
grants to Affiliate authority to make any representation on Company' behalf or
make public any information regarding Company, or prohibits Company' from
operating websites that are similar to or compete with Affiliate's website.
This Agreement comprises the entire agreement between Affiliate and Company,
supersedes all prior oral and written agreements pertaining to this Agreement's
subject matter, and applies in addition to any other term or condition of the
Site(s) (such as Company Privacy Policy), unless expressly provided otherwise
in this Agreement. Company may modify any of the terms of this Agreement
(including without limitation the terms of the referral fees) at any time(s)
and in its sole discretion, upon posting notice on the Site(s). Affiliate's
sole remedy if such modification is not acceptable to it, is to terminate this
Agreement. Company may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without
cause, by giving the other party a seven day prior written notice by email (or
by posting a notice on the Site(s) by Company if Company terminates this
Agreement with all of its Affiliates), except if Affiliate violated any of the
terms of this Agreement, in which case termination will be effective
immediately. Affiliate may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or
without cause, by giving the Company a six (6) months prior written notice
(such written notice may be provided by facsimile or email). Upon termination
of this Agreement for any reason, Affiliate will immediately cease use of, and
remove from Affiliate's website, all links to the Site(s). Any domain which
contains any of Company Marks shall be immediately transferred to Company, at
cost, upon termination of this agreement with Affiliate for whatsoever reason.
Affiliate shall pay Company US$1,000 for each day such domain is not
transferred to Company. Sections 4, 5 and 6 of this Agreement shall survive
such termination and the enforceability of the terms and conditions of this
Agreement as they related to acts and omissions during the period before such
termination shall survive such termination. This Agreement shall be governed by
the laws of the State of Israel without giving effect to its conflict of law
principles. Affiliate agrees to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue
of the courts in Tel Aviv, Israel for any dispute arising from or relating to
this Agreement. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or
unenforceable, such provision shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to
reflect the original provision and the other provisions remain in full force
and effect. A party's failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of
this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The
section titles in this Agreement are used solely for convenience and may not be
used in the interpretation of this Agreement. Company may assign this Agreement
to any party at any time.