Affiliate Terms & Conditions
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AFFILIATE AGREEMENT
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THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND ASCEND SPORTSWEAR LLC.
BY SUBMITTING THE ONLINE APPLICATION YOU ARE AGREEING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH AND EVERY TERM AND CONDITION.
1. Overview
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to you becoming an affiliate in the Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Program. The purpose of this Agreement is to allow HTML linking between your web site and the Ascend Sportswear LLC web site. Please note that throughout this Agreement, “we,” “us,” and “our” will mean Ascend Sportswear LLC, and “you,” “your,” and “yours” will mean the affiliate.
2. Affiliate Obligations
2.1. To begin the enrollment process, you will complete and submit the online application at the on the Ascend Sportswear Affiliate Sign Up page. We may reject your application at our sole discretion. We may cancel your application if we determine that your site is unsuitable for our Program, including if it:
2.1.1. Promotes sexually explicit materials
2.1.2. Promotes violence
2.1.3. Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
2.1.4. Promotes illegal activities
2.1.5. Incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law
2.1.6. Includes “Ascend Sportswear LLC”, “ChristianCycleOnline” or variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name
2.1.7. Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion.
2.1.8. Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program.
2.1.9. You may not create or design your website or any other website that you operate, explicitly or implied in a manner which resembles our website nor design your website in a manner which leads customers to believe you are Ascend Sportswear LLC or any other affiliated business.
2.2. As a member of the Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Program, you will have access to the Affiliate Account Manager. At it you will be able to review our Program’s details and previously-published affiliate newsletters, download HTML code (that provides for links to web pages within the Ascend Sportswear LLC web site) and banner creatives, browse and get tracking code for our coupons and deals. In order for us to accurately keep track of all guest visits from your site to ours, you must use the HTML code that we provide for each banner, text link or other affiliate link we provide you with.
2.3. Ascend Sportswear LLC reserves the right, at any time, to review your placement and approve the use of your links and require that you change the placement or use to comply with the guidelines provided to you.
2.4. The maintenance and the updating of your site will be your responsibility. We may monitor your site as we feel necessary to make sure that your site is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes to your site that we feel should enhance your performance.
2.5. It is entirely your responsibility to follow all applicable intellectual property and other laws that pertain to your site. You must have express permission to use any person’s copyrighted material, whether it be a writing, an image, or any other copyrightable work. We will not be responsible (and you will be solely responsible) if you use another person’s copyrighted material or other intellectual property in violation of the law or any third party rights.
3. Ascend Sportswear LLC Rights and Obligations
3.1. We have the right to monitor your site at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this Agreement and to notify you of any changes to your site that we feel should be made or to make sure that your links to our web site are appropriate and to notify you of any changes that we feel should be made. If you do not make the changes to your site that we feel are necessary, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Program.
3.2. Ascend Sportswear LLC reserves the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in the Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Program immediately and without notice to you should you commit fraud in your use of the Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, Ascend Sportswear LLC shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales.
3.3. This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application, and will continue unless terminated hereunder.
4. Termination
Either you or we may end this Agreement AT ANY TIME, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice can be in the form of mail, email or fax. In addition, this Agreement will terminate immediately upon any breach of this Agreement by you.
5. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions in this agreement, at any time in our sole discretion. In such event you will be notified by email. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the payment procedures, and Ascend Sportswear LLC’s Affiliate Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only option is to end this Agreement. Your continued participation in the Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Program following the posting of the change notice or new Agreement on our site will indicate your agreement to the changes.
6. Payments, Commissions and Returns
6.1. Ascend Sportswear LLC will pay a 5% commission on all qualifying affiliate sales under the ‘Custom Sportswear’ business line and 10% commission on all qualifying affiliate sales under the ‘Retail Sportswear’ business line. Sales includes all affiliate orders that have been sold, paid in full and shipped to the visitor from your site, but does not include amounts collected for sales taxes, duties, shipping and handling fees, or credit for returned goods or similar charges.
Product prices are at the sole discretion of Ascend Sportswear LLC and may change at any time.
All agreements relating to sales to customers shall be between Ascend Sportswear LLC and the customer.
6.2 Returns and Reversals
Ascend Sportswear LLC takes pride in our low reversal rate, however, we reserve the right to reverse orders due to order cancellations, duplicate tracking, returns, disputed charges, and program violations as outlined in these terms. Furthermore, if we request from you any clarification or additional information on any order or clicks that we feel may be in violation of our terms and conditions and you are either not forthcoming or intentionally vague or not responsive within a reasonable time period, we may reverse orders or suspend you from the program entirely.
7. Access to Affiliate Account Management Software
You will create a password so that you may enter Ascend Sportswear’s secure Affiliate Account Management software. From this site you will be able to receive your reports that will describe our calculation of the commissions due to you.
8. Promotion Restrictions
8.1. SPAM
Under no circumstances shall you send commercial electronic mail messages as defined in the new Federal spam law, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. “Spamming” is an unacceptable form of advertising and any affiliates that spam will be immediately removed from the program and all commissions reversed and forfeit.
Additionally, spam postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once, advertising in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name or your return email address is not allowed. You may post to newsgroups to promote Ascend Sportswear LLC so long as the news group specifically welcomes commercial messages. If it comes to our attention that you are spamming, we will consider that cause for immediate termination of this Agreement and your participation in the Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Program. Any pending balances owed to you will be forfeit if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.
8.2. Paid Search Marketing Restrictions:
Protected SEM Bidding Keywords: Publishers/affiliates may not bid on Ascend Sportswear LLC, Christian cycle, Christiancycle, ChristianCycleOnline, Christiancycleonlne, Christian cycle online, Christian cycle online.com, Forgiven and Fearless, Forgiven & Fearless, Forgiven Fearless, Armor of God, Sacrifice, Fearless, Trinity, Tour de Christ, ChristCard, God Propulsion, or any of Ascend Sportswear LLC’s trademark terms or any permutations or misspellings thereof.
Negative Matching: Publishers/affiliates are required to negative match any trademarked terms or derivations thereof to avoid any violation.
Display URL Restrictions: These are terms that publishers are prohibited from using in the display URLs of search marketing campaigns: Ascend Sportswear LLC or any derivation or typo of this URL.
Offical Site: You may not claim to be Ascend Sportswear LLC at any time and you are further prohibited from using the term “official site” in your ad or otherwise presenting your web site as an official site.
Direct Linking: Direct linking is allowed from paid search advertisements and is also allowed via social media such as but not limited to Twitter and Facebook
If Ascend Sportswear LLC determines, in its sole discretion, that you have purchased or attempted to make any purchase in violation of the above restrictions, then Ascend Sportswear LLC may (without limiting any other remedies available to it) pursue any or all of the following actions:
• Withhold all Payouts or other compensation otherwise payable to you for the month(s) in which you purchased the prohibited trademarked terms;
• Contact the search engine in which your ad was found to ask that these ads be removed immediately and permanently;
• Terminate these Special Terms as provided herein, and remove you from the Program permanently and immediately.
8.3. Personal Purchases
Affiliates may make purchases through their own affiliate links for personal use only.
8.4. Parasiteware and BHOs
Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “ParasiteWare™,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers from the time the consumer clicks on a qualifying link until such time as the consumer has fully exited the Ascend Sportswear LLC site. As used herein a. “ParasiteWare™” and “Parasitic Marketing” shall mean an application that (a) through accidental or direct intent causes the overwriting of affiliate and non affiliate commission tracking cookies through any other means than a customer initiated click on a qualifying link on a web page or email; (b) intercepts searches to redirect traffic through an installed software, thereby causing, pop ups, commission tracking cookies to be put in place or other commission tracking cookies to be overwritten where a user would under normal circumstances have arrived at the same destination through the results given by the search (search engines being, but not limited to, Google, MSN, Yahoo, Overture, AltaVista, Hotbot and similar search or directory engines); (c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of Merchant site in IFrames, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open the Ascend Sportswear LLC site; (d) targets text on web sites, other than those web sites 100% owned by the application owner, for the purpose of contextual marketing; (e) removes, replaces or blocks the visibility of Affiliate banners with any other banners, other than those that are on web sites 100% owned by the owner of the application.
8.5 Coupons and Coupon Use
Affiliates of Ascend Sportswear LLC may display only coupon codes approved for use in the affiliate program. This approval may come in the form of the coupons being posted in the affiliate system or in written communications with the Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Management Team. It is not in any way acceptable to post coupons and coupon codes found anywhere else on the web, in third party email newsletters or print ads or to market these offers to your users via your site, email communication, paid search or any other method. Use of unapproved codes will result in commissions being withheld and repeated violations will result in removal from the Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Program.
9. Grant of Licenses
9.1. We grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to (i) access our site through HTML links solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (ii) solely in connection with such links, to use our logos, trade names, trademarks, and similar identifying material (collectively, the “Licensed Materials”) that we provide to you or authorize for such purpose. You are only entitled to use the Licensed Materials to the extent that you are a member in good standing of Ascend Sportswear LLC Affiliate Program. You agree that all uses of the licensed materials will be on behalf of Ascend Sportswear LLC and the good will associated therewith will inure to the sole benefit of Ascend Sportswear LLC.
9.2. Each party agrees not to use the other’s proprietary materials in any manner that is disparaging, misleading, obscene or that otherwise portrays the party in a negative light. Each party reserves all of its respective rights in the proprietary materials covered by this license. Other than the license granted in this Agreement, each party retains all right, title, and interest to its respective rights and no right, title, or interest is transferred to the other.
10. Disclaimer
ASCEND SPORTSWEAR LLC MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING ASCEND SPORTSWEAR LLC SERVICE AND WEB SITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED THEREIN, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ASCEND SPORTSWEAR LLC ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED. 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.
11. Representations and Warranties
You represent and warrant that:
11.1. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by you and constitutes your legal, valid, and binding obligation, enforceable against you in accordance with its terms;
11.2. You have the full right, power, and authority to enter into and be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and to perform your obligations under this Agreement, without the approval or consent of any other party;
11.3. You have sufficient right, title, and interest in and to the rights granted to us in this Agreement.
12. Limitations of Liability
WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE OR GOODWILL OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FURTHER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, IN NO EVENT SHALL ASCEND SPORTSWEAR LLC’S CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSION FEES PAID TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
13. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Ascend Sportswear LLC, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members, and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) (any or all of the foregoing hereinafter referred to as “Losses”) insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (i) any claim that our use of the affiliate trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of any third party, (ii) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement made by you herein, or (iii) any claim related to your site, including, without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.
14. Confidentiality
All confidential information, including, but not limited to, any business, technical, financial, and customer information, disclosed by one party to the other during negotiation or the effective term of this Agreement which is marked “Confidential,” will remain the sole property of the disclosing party, and each party will keep in confidence and not use or disclose such proprietary information of the other party without express written permission of the disclosing party.
15. Miscellaneous
15.1. You agree that you are an independent contractor, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between you and Ascend Sportswear LLC. 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 any other of Your Site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
15.2. Neither party may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement to any party, except to a party who obtains all or substantially all of the business or assets of a third party.
15.3. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Kentucky without regard to the conflicts of laws and principles thereof.
15.4. You may not amend or waive any provision of this Agreement unless in writing and signed by both parties.
15.5. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between us and you, and shall supersede all prior agreements and communications of the parties, oral or written.
15.6. The headings and titles contained in this Agreement are included for convenience only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect the terms of this Agreement.
15.7. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent necessary such that the intent of the parties is effectuated, and the remainder of this agreement shall have full force and effect.
