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Webmaster Agreement for eTotalHost.com

 

Please read the following Webmaster Agreement (the 'Agreement'). When you enroll to become a webmaster with eTotalHost.com (the 'Program'), you agree to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Please read the following terms and conditions carefully, as they form the agreement between you, the Webmaster, and the Program. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MUST NOT COMPLETE THE APPLICATION FORM TO BECOME A WEBMASTER. BY COMPLETING THE APPLICATION FORM TO BECOME AN AFFILAITE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT.

Enrollment in Program

By completing the necessary form(s) to enroll in Program, you are represent and warrant to Program that you are over the age of 18 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher ('Age of Majority'), and that you are capable of entering into this Agreement. Program reserves the right to either refuse to accept your enrollment or to immediately terminate your membership to Program, if Program, in Program's sole and absolute discretion, believes you to be under the Age of Majority. By completing such form(s) you are also certifying to Program that the laws in your jurisdiction do not in anyway prohibit you from entering into this Agreement.

You understand that your ability to perform under this Agreement is contingent upon your ability to access the Internet and that you are solely responsible for any costs associated with your responsibilities under this Agreement including, but not limited to, setting up any websites, connecting to the Internet, maintaining any websites and hosting any websites. You acknowledge and agree that while Program may offer free hosting at the time that you apply to Program and/or are accepted to Program, this free hosting service by Program may be revoked at any time and that you will be required to find and pay for hosting services for any websites you create under this Agreement.

License Granted

You are hereby granted a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and download promotional banners, videos, photographs, other promotional materials, and/or promotional materials created by you, provided that such materials are approved by Program in writing ('Promotional Items'), for use on site(s) owned by you ('Referral Sites'). Such Promotional Items are licensed to you for the limited purposes of advertising, marketing and promoting Member Sites. Any and all licenses granted to you pursuant to this agreement shall immediately cease and revert to Program upon the termination or cancellation of this agreement.

You agree not to share any of the Promotional Items with anyone in any way which is not in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and applicable law.

NO LICENSE TO USE CERTAIN ADWORDS AND CERTAIN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Although you are hereby granted a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the names of our various websites in connection with referring traffic to such websites ('Site Names' or 'Sites'), you are not, as a part of this non-exclusive, revocable license, permitted to bid on, purchase or otherwise register/use the Site Names or use the words 'Official', 'Officially' or 'Official Site' as keywords (sometimes referred to as 'AdWords') on Internet search engines, such as google.com, ask.com, yahoo.com, msn.com, etc.; use the Site Names in association with any similar or competing website or service; or register any domain name which incorporates or is a 'misspelling' of any of the Site Names. You agree that in the event you violate any part of this section of this Agreement, you will be immediately terminated from the Program, any monies earned but not yet paid will be forfeited, and that you will cooperate fully in transferring any items forbidden by this section to Program as the rightful owner.

Your Website Names

Subject to the limitations in the paragraph above and pursuant to the license granted to you herein, Program will permit you to use any and all Site Names that you may choose in connection with promoting the Sites so long as such website domain name(s) registered by you does not infringe on Program's, Program's affiliated entities' or any third party's intellectual property rights, defame, insult or otherwise harass anyone, and does not promote or suggest any illegal activity.

You agree to register with Program all domain names you use, own, create, manage and/or control in connection with this Agreement. Program will not compensate you for any referrals to the Sites, for which you would otherwise be due a payment for under this Agreement, if the referring site is not registered with Program. Should Program compensate you for any referral(s) from a site or sites not registered with the Program, you hereby acknowledge and agree that such payment is in error and that you are not in any way entitled to further payments for referrals from such site(s). You further acknowledge and agree to inform Program of any such payment error and that such erroneous payments may stop at any time with no liability to you by Program.

You affirm that payments to you are made in U.S. Dollars (USD).

Representations to Program

You hereby represent and warrant that you will put safeguards in place, including, but not limited to an 'age verification' page, so that no persons who have not yet attained the Age of Majority may view any and all Promotional Items which may contain explicit images. You further represent and warrant that you will not 'deep link' so that a person referred to the Sites does not first have to confirm that he/she is at least the Age of Majority.

You further warrant that you have all legal rights, free from any and all encumbrances and third party claims, to all images, text, script(s), applications, logos and functional elements appearing on all Referral Sites.

No Promotion in Violation of Third Party Terms

You represent and warrant that you will only advertise on services and providers which permit such advertisement. You understand and agree that if you advertise for any service or provider which does not permit such advertising, including, without limitation, Myspace, Craigslist, Facebook, LinkedIn, your account will be terminated without notice and without pay.

Enrollment with Program

Program endeavors to evaluate every application to us in good faith and as quickly as possible. Program reserves the right to deny an application for any reason, including but not limited to:

         1. You supply us with inaccurate or incomplete data, and

         2. You are attempting to register from one of the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Cost Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Moldova, Pakistan, Poland, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Yugoslavia.

Ownership of Promotional Items

You hereby acknowledge and agree that all rights to the Promotional Items belong solely to Program and/or Program's licensor(s). You further acknowledge and agree that any Promotional Item(s) created by you and approved by Program are a specially ordered and commissioned "work made for hire" within the meaning of the 1976 Copyright Act for the compensation provided according to the terms of the payout agreement agreed upon by you and Program.

Emails

From You

Program does not permit email marketing or promotion of the Sites. You acknowledge and agree that any email marketing by you will be grounds for immediate termination from Program, without pay.

From Program

You acknowledge and agree that it may be necessary for Program to email you with information regarding your account with Program and changes to Program. You further acknowledge and agree that while Program has the right to send such emails to you, Program is under no obligation to do so regardless of any emails Program may have sent in the past or may send in the future.

Necessary Information

If you are a citizen or resident of the United States, you will be required to supply Program with the Federal Tax ID number or the Social Security Number which corresponds to the name you provide to us as the payee under this Agreement.

You acknowledge and agree that if you fail to provide us with accurate and complete information with respect to your Federal Tax ID or Social Security Number, you will not be entitled to any payments from Program and all monies earned prior to you supplying Program with this required information will be forfeited by you to Program.

You understand and agree that you are required by this Agreement to supply Program with a valid email address and other contact information, a failure to do so may result in the termination of your membership with Program.

Independent Entities

Nothing in this Agreement is intended by you or Program to constitute a joint venture or collaboration between you and Program. You acknowledge that you are in no way an agent, employee or similarly situated employment like relationship. You further acknowledge that you are only an affiliate of Program and have no authority to act on Program's behalf or bind Program to any debt or agreement.

Program Benefits

Program pays out on a monthly basis. Payouts are based upon the amount of valid referrals from sites registered by you with Program based upon our ability to track such referrals, which valid referrals result in a valid subscription to any of the Sites ('Valid Subscriptions'). Payouts levels will be dependent upon not only the amount of Valid Subscriptions, but also the type of subscriptions selected. Please see our page regarding payout levels, dates and other details by clicking here <insert link>. You acknowledge and agree that these payout levels may be changed at any time and that the posting of such change at least ten (10) days prior to such change taking effect shall be deemed adequate notice to you. You understand and agree that all payouts by Program to you, must be cashed within ninety (90) days of such payout's issuance or such will be deemed forfeited by you to Program.

Change to Payment Information

You agree to notify Program of any change in your payment information at least five (5) days before the close of any pay period. No changes to your information are valid until you have received written confirmation from Program.

Invalid Subscriptions

You acknowledge and agree that you shall not be entitled to any compensation from Program for and subscription if Program determines or believes, in Program's sole discretion, that such subscription is the result of possibly fraudulent activity. Following is a list of what Program deems to constitute fraudulent activity:

  • Multiple subscriptions coming from the same I.P. address within a short period of time;
  • Multiple or sequential subscriptions with credit cards which have the same bin number;
  • Multiple subscriptions from the same credit card number;
  • Subscriptions which are cancelled within twenty-four (24) hours of sign-up;
  • Credit card used for subscription is in a 'negative' database;
  • Credit card with a bin number which is listed in the 'negative' database; and
  • A sudden surge in subscriptions from any or all of your sites, when such site(s) suddenly has a drastic increase in subscriptions.

You acknowledge and agree that the foregoing list is not an exhaustive list of all conduct which may constitute fraudulent activity, for which you will not be compensated. You further acknowledge and agree that the foregoing list may be changed at any time, as Program may deem necessary.

Suspension or Termination

Program reserves the right to either terminate or suspend your status with Program in the event that referrals from your sites are subject to a high rate of 'chargebacks' or cancellations of accounts. Program further reserves the right to terminate or suspend your account with Program if you have a high rate of fraudulent activity with respect to referrals as such are outlined in the immediately preceding section.

Termination

In addition to reasons for termination mentioned previously herein, Program reserves the right to immediately terminate your account with Program, without notice to you, if at any time:

  • you purchase or attempt to purchase any of our Site Names as a Google AdWord or any similar advertising device;
  • you advertise on any service or website (such as Myspace or Craigslist) in a way which is not permitted by such service or website’s Terms of Use;
  • Program has previously terminated you;
  • any of your sites making referrals to Program has content which does not conform with the laws of the State of Florida and/or the United States;
  • the inclusion of any defamatory, obscene, harassing, or content which is otherwise contrary to law;
  • any of your sites making referrals to Program promotes, aids or abets the sale, re-sale or trading of Program passwords;
  • any Referral Site promotes, aids, abets or constitutes an infringement, misappropriation or violation of any person's or entity's intellectual property rights including, but not limited to, copyrights, trademark rights, right of publicity, patent rights, personal property rights, privacy rights or other rights;
  • participating in any activities that may be harmful to the reputation, image, goodwill and/or reputation of Program and/or the Sites;
  • permitting access to or sharing the Promotion Materials to individuals under the Age of Majority;
  • attempting to circumvent Program's and/or the Site's age verification pages;
  • the inclusion of any language suggesting that the models appearing on the Sites are under the age of 18 and/or that such models appear to be doing any act which is not in conformity with Florida or United States law;
  • a Referral Site has references to; photographs or video depicting; promotes; or in any way suggests Program or the Sites contain or endorse: child pornography, incest, scat, coffins, defecation, urination, genital mutilation, sacrilegious, teen modeling, actual or simulated rape, sexual violence, menstruation, obscenity, and/or bestiality;
  • the inclusion of any links or advertisements promoting any activity which does not conform to the laws of Florida and/or the United States, including, without limitation, promoting drugs, violence, hate speech, and/or violence;
  • any material, date, file(s), program or other material which contains viruses, Trojan Horses or any other destructive script or program on any of your sites promoting the Sites. Program may immediately terminate this Agreement and all monies owed to you by Program will be deemed forfeited by you.

Cancellation

Either party may terminate this Agreement by delivering to the other written notice of cancellation. An email sent by Program to the email address associated with your account shall be deemed adequate notice to you, whether or not you actually read such email.

Effect of Termination or Cancellation

Immediately upon termination or cancellation any and all licenses granted to you herein cease and revert to Program. You agree to immediately remove from any and all websites owned, controlled, managed, and/or maintained by you and destroy all copies of the Promotional Items. If at the time of termination or cancellation you manage, own, operate or otherwise control a website which incorporates the Site Names or misspellings thereof, you agree to transfer such websites to the Program within twenty (20) days of termination or cancellation. Upon the request of Program, you agree to mail to Program written confirmation that all Promotional Items have been removed and destroyed. You understand that your failure to comply with this section will result in irreparable harm to the Program and the intended third party beneficiary. Program reserves the right to take any and all legal actions necessary to enforce the provisions of this section against you including, without limitation, monetary damages, injunctions, and actions for specific performance.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice

NOTICE OF CLAIMED INFRINGEMENT

Program respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. We observe and comply with the United States' Digital Millennium Copyright Act ('DMCA'). If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide Program's Designated Copyright Agent the following information:

  • an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
  • description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
  • a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Sites or Referral Sites;
  • your address, telephone number, and email address;
  • a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

You may send your Notice of Claimed Infringement to the address at the bottom of this page.

NOTICE AND TAKEDOWN PROCEDURES

Program hereby implements, and you consent to, the following 'notice and takedown' procedure upon receipt of any notification of claimed copyright infringement. Program reserves the right at any time to disable access to, or remove any material or activity accessible on or from Program or any Promotional Materials claimed to be infringing or based on facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent. It is the firm policy of Program to terminate the account of repeat copyright infringers, when appropriate, and Program will act expeditiously to remove access to all material that infringes on another's copyright, according to the procedure set forth in 17 U.S.C. 512 of the DMCA.

It is important to understand that knowingly making a material misrepresentation concerning alleged copyright infringement may result in significant civil penalties including damages, costs and attorneys fees incurred by the alleged infringer or Program member. In the event your Referral Site is taken down pursuant to the DMCA, re-bills attributed to the noticed ND will be suspended during the 'take down' period. Any repeat violators of the DMCA will be terminated and banned from the Program.

NO WARRANTIES

YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR PERFORMANCE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND USE OF THE PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS ARE AT YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE RISK. ALL MATERIALS AND SERVICES PROVIDED BY PROGRAM ARE ON 'AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS' AND 'AS AVAILABLE' BASES. PROGRAM EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. PROGRAM MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR EXPECTATIONS, OR THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE; NOR DOES PROGRAM MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES OR THAT DEFECTS IN ANY SOFTWARE, HARDWARE OR THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY USE YOU MAKE OF ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF PROGRAM IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL AND/OR DATA. YOU ALSO AGREE TO BE SOLELY LIABLE TO PROGRAM FOR THE LOSS OF ANY DATA AND/OR MATERIALS PROVIDED TO YOU BY PROGRAM, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGE CAUSED AS A RESULT OF HACKING AND/OR VIRUSES.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, defend, and hold Program and its affiliates, successors, assigns, officers, employees, agents, directors, shareholders and attorneys, harmless from and against any and all claims and liabilities, including reasonable attorneys' and experts' fees, related to or arising from (a) any breach by you of this Agreement; (b) your use (or misuse) of Program's services and/or Promotional Materials; (c) all conduct and activities occurring using your account and/or Referral Sites; (d) any item or service sold or advertised in connection with your Referral Sites; (e) any defamatory, libelous or illegal material(s) contained within your Content or material(s) or your information and data; (f) any claim or contention that any of your Referral Sites contain any information, data or other materials which infringes any third party's patent, copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights or violates any third party's rights of privacy or publicity; (g) third party access or use of the Promotional Materials provided to you information and data; (h) any claim related to your website(s); (i) any costs incurred on your behalf as a result of your failure to comply with local or Federal United States Law; and/or (j) any violation of this Agreement. Program reserves the right, at its own expense, to participate in the defense of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification from you, but shall have no obligation to do so and Program is permitted by this Agreement to later seek indemnification from you. You shall not settle any such claim or liability without the prior written consent of Program, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. You understand that Program will take any and all measures to protect itself from any legal or civil litigation including, but not limited to, removing your website(s) from its servers and/or canceling your account, in Program's sole discretion. You also understand that Program will charge, on an hourly basis, for any and all time spent responding to any third party complaints, disputes, copyright claims or actions involving you or your Referral Sites.

Notice and Account Information

Notice

Any notice or payment required by or in furtherance of this Agreement may be provided by email to the email address on file for the party to be noticed, or personal delivery by commercial carrier such as FedEx or Airborne. You agree to keep current email and address information on file with Program for this purpose.

Notice shall be deemed effective upon receipt by the other party, except as provided for herein. Notices delivered by overnight carrier (e.g., United States Express Mail or Federal Express) shall be deemed delivered on the business day following mailing. Notices mailed by United States Mail, postage prepaid, registered or certified with return receipt requested, shall be deemed delivered five (5) days after mailing. Notices delivered by any other method shall be deemed given upon receipt. Notices by email and facsimile transmission, with confirmation from the transmitting machine that the transmission was completed, are acceptable under this Agreement provided that they are delivered one (1) hour after transmission if sent during the recipient's business hours, or 9:00 a.m. (recipient's time) the next business day.

In the event that any correctly addressed notice that is refused, unclaimed, or undeliverable, because of an act or omission of the party to be notified shall be deemed effective as of the first date that said notice was refused or deemed undeliverable by the postal authorities, messenger, facsimile machine, email server, or overnight delivery service.

Waiver of Liability

You hereby waive any and all damages, including interest, on any monies not received by you as a result of your violation of this section.

Jurisdiction and Costs

You hereby agree that all disputes arising out of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of and governing Miami-Dade County, Florida, excluding its conflict of law provisions. You and Program hereby agree that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is specifically excluded from application to this Agreement. You and Program hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts Miami-Dade County, Florida for resolution of all disputes. Exclusive venue for any litigation permitted under this Agreement shall be with the state and federal courts located in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

In the event either you or Program shall commence any claims, suits, or formal legal action to interpret and/or enforce the terms and conditions of this Agreement, or relating in any way to this Agreement, including without limitation asserted breaches of representations and warranties, the prevailing party in any such action or proceeding shall be entitled to recover, in addition to all other available relief, its reasonable attorneys' fees and costs incurred in connection therewith, including attorney's fees incurred on appeal.

Non-Transferable or Assignable

You agree and acknowledge that you are not permitted to assign this Agreement to any third party and any attempt to do so will be deemed as your notice of termination.

No Waiver

Program's failure to enforce any and all remedies shall not be construed as a waiver thereof.

Headings

Headings are used herein for ease of reference purposes and shall not be used in interpreting, construing and/or enforcing this Agreement.

Severability

The invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of any part of this Agreement or any of its terms, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall not affect the validity or operation of any other term, clause or provision and such invalid term, clause or provision shall be deemed to be severed from this Agreement.

Entirety of Agreement

Except where expressly stated to the contrary herein, this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between you and Program, and revokes and supersedes all prior agreements between the parties and is intended as a final expression of their Agreement. This Agreement shall take precedence over any other documents which may conflict with this Agreement.

Binding Agreement

You and Program acknowledge the legally binding nature of this Agreement. By checking the box next to the 'I agree to the conditions outlined in the terms of service agreement,', you are acknowledging and affirmatively stating that you have read and understood the terms of this Agreement and that you agree to be bound by this Agreement. You hereby adopt the /s/ mark appearing on the signature line below as your electronic signature on this document.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto, intending to be legally bound hereby, have each signed this document electronically pursuant to the E-SIGN Act.

_/s/______________________

 

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