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Operating Agreement
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an
individual's or entity's participation in the CreateASong.com Associates Program
(the "Program"). As used in this Agreement, "we" means
Universal Bandwidth, Inc., and "you" means the applicant.
"Site" means a World Wide Web site and, depending on the context,
refers either to CreateASong.com's site located at the URL www.CreateASong.com,
or to the site that you will link to our site (and which you will identify in
your Program application).
- Enrollment in the Program
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 those that:
- Promote sexually explicit materials
- Promote violence
- Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality,
disability, sexual orientation, or age
- Promote illegal activities
- Include "CreateASong" or variations or misspellings thereof in
their domain names
- Otherwise violate intellectual property rights
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.
- Links on Your Site
Once you have been notified that your site has been accepted into the Program
we will provide you with guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking to
our home page. 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 which would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement.
- 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 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 to 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.
- Referral Fees
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.
- Referral Fee Schedule
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 qualifying products, excluding costs
for shipping, handling, gift-wrapping, taxes, service charges, credit card
processing fees, and bad debt. The current referral fee schedule is:
- $2.00 USD of Qualifying Revenues from the sale of each Create A Song
Personalized Email version
- $2.00 USD of Qualifying Revenues from the sale of each Create A Song
Personalized CD version
- Referral Fee Payment
We will pay you referral fees on a quarterly basis. Approximately 30 days
following the end of each calendar quarter, we will send you a check for the
referral fees earned on our sales of Qualifying Products that were shipped
during that quarter, less any taxes that we are required by law to withhold.
However, if the referral fees payable to you for any calendar quarter are less
than $30.00, we will hold those referral fees until the total amount due is
at least $30.00 or (if earlier) 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 quarterly payment. If
there is no subsequent payment, we will send you a bill for the referral fee.
- Policies and Pricing
Customers who buy products through this Program will be deemed to be customers
of CreateASong.com. Accordingly, all CreateASong.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.
Because price changes may affect products that you already have listed on your
site, you may not include price information in your product descriptions. We
will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but
we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.
- Identifying Yourself as an Associate
We will make available to you a small graphic image that identifies your site
as a Program participant. You must display this logo or the phrase "In
association with CreateASong.com" somewhere on your site. We may modify the
text or graphic image of this notice from time to time. In addition, we
encourage (but do not require) you to include a Special Link on your site to
the CreateASong.com home page at http://www.createasong.com. You may not make any press
release with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Program
without our prior written consent, which may be given or withheld in our sole
discretion.
- Limited License
We grant you a nonexclusive, revocable right to use the graphic image and text
described in Section 8 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.
- Responsibility for Your Site
You will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance
of your site and for all materials that appear on your site. For example, you
will be solely responsible for:
- The technical operation of your site and all related equipment
- Creating and posting Product descriptions on your site and linking those
descriptions to our site
- The accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your site
(including, among other things, all Product-related materials)
- 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)
- Ensuring that materials posted on your site are not libelous or
otherwise illegal
We disclaim all liability for these matters. Further, 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.
- Term of the Agreement
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 Universal Bandwidth, Inc. 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 Qualifying Products occurring during the
term, and referral 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.
- Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at
any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new
agreement 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 OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR NEW AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE
WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
- Relationship of Parties
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.
- Limitation of Liability
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.
- Disclaimers
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.
- 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 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.
- Miscellaneous
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the United States and the state
of Minnesota, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action
relating to this Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts
located in St. Paul, Minnesota, and you irrevocably consent to the
jurisdiction of such courts. 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
enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns.
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.
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