1. Definitions
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an
individual's or entity's participation in the mBox Partner Program (the
"Program").
As used in this Agreement, "we" (and "us" and "our") means mBox, associated web
sites and companies, and "you", "your" and "Partner" means the applicant.
"Site" means a World Wide Web site and, depending on the context, refers either
to our site at www.mbox.com.sg, or to your site. Save for our obligation to pay
fees under Section 6, which may be performed solely by us, we may cause any of
our obligations under this Agreement to be fulfilled by any of our associates
on our behalf.
"Business Day" means Monday to Friday in the state of Western Australia,
excluding Public Holidays).
2. Process for enrolling in the mBox Partner Program
To begin the enrolment process you must submit the online application on the
Partner Registration page. Upon receipt of your
application we will evaluate it and notify you of its acceptance or
rejection.
Affiliate partner applicants will be provided with a Partner ID and Password
within 1 business day of submitting the application.
Campaign and Wholesale applicants will be contacted to organise a phone
conference or other meeting to discuss your requirements. During this
conference we will evaluate your application. If your application is accepted
you will be required to complete and sign two copies of
the agreement.
The agreement will not come into operation until signed by an mBox
representative.
Although we hope your application will be successful, we reserve the right to
reject or cancel applications for any or no reason. For example, we may reject
or cancel your application or current subscription if we determine that your
site is unsuitable for the Program, including if it:
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Promotes sexually explicit materials
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Promotes violence
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Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability,
sexual orientation, or age
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Promotes illegal activities
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Incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any
copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or to violate the
law
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Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene,
harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole
discretion.
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Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission
from other partners in our program.
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Utilizes Pop-Up, Pop-Under, or automatic Redirects to link to our site. Any
method that automatically plants an partner cookie is strictly prohibited. The
use of our Full Page Creative is fine, however, any method that automatically
redirects the customer to mBox's website by execution of an partner link is in
violation of the mBox Partner Program Agreement. The customer must click on a
mBox partner link to set the partner cookie.
Our employees are not eligible to become Partners.
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.
Partners who are terminated from the Program are forbidden to reapply at any
time in the future. Any such attempts to do so will result in commissions not
being issued.
3. Links on Your Site
We grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license
for the duration of the term of this Agreement, solely for purposes of
facilitating referrals from your site to our site, to establish and maintain
lists, links and search boxes as detailed below:
3.1 Product Links
You may promote any product in the mBox product offering using supplied links
that draw information from the mBox website. Offers may be withdrawn at any
time.
You may display on your site a short description, review, or other reference
for product promotion. You will be responsible for the content, style and
placement of these references. Suggested graphics and descriptive texts may be
made available to you and you are encouraged to use them. You will provide a
special link (as defined below) from the Product reference on your site to the
corresponding mBox Partner URL defined below.
The link we provide will connect directly to the mBox web site, using a special
link format that we give you (a "special" link). You may add or delete Products
(and related links) from your site at any time without our approval.
The content and embedded images from the mBox web site may be used for
reference purposes only. Partners are not allowed to spider the mBox site to
obtain our content and contextual images. Any partner who attempts to do so
will be revoked from the program and any outstanding commissions will also be
forfeited. Only materials provided via our partner services area may be used
for product promotion. The primary product image from the mbox.com.sg web site
may be used as well.
3.2 General Link to mBox Homepage
You may provide a general link on your site to our homepage. We will provide
you with guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking to the mBox
homepage.
Except for the license granted under this Section 3, you do not obtain any
rights under this Agreement in any intellectual property, including, without
limitation, any intellectual property with respect to the Special Links, link
formats, technical specifications, guidelines or graphical artwork referenced
above, or with respect to the mBox domain name.
4. Order Processing
We will process signup orders placed by customers who follow Special Links
from your site to the mBox 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. Among other things, we will
hold and store end user customer details, process payments and cancellations
and handle customer service. We will track sales made to customers who signup
for the mBox service using Special Links from your site to our site and will
send you reports summarising sales activity. The form, content and frequency of
the reports may vary from time to time at our discretion. To permit accurate
tracking, reporting and fee accrual, you must ensure that the Special Links
between your site and our site are properly formatted. We will not be liable
for paying referral fees on customer subscriptions that are not correctly
tracked and reported because the links between your site and our site are not
properly formatted.
5. Referral Fees
For a customer subscription to generate a referral fee, the customer must
follow a Special Link (in the format specified by us) from your site to the
mBox site; signup on the mBox site (or co-branded site) using our automated
subscriber registration system, accept our End User Terms and Conditions of
service (and any other Agreements prevailing from time to time) and remit full
payment to mBox.
We will pay referral fees for subscriptions arising from any hyperlink from
your site linking to the mBox site, unless the customer comes to the mBox site
through another affiliate or link tracked directly by mBox marketing,
advertising, or search engine optimisation.
Products that are entitled to earn referral fees under the rules set forth above
are hereinafter referred to as "Qualifying Products". The currently available
Qualifying Products are:
Changes to the available Qualifying Products will be notified in writing to the
Partner. Each Partner will belong to a particular Partner Level:
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Affiliate Partner
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Campaign Partner
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Wholesale Partner
In addition, you may not directly or indirectly offer any person or entity any
consideration or incentive (including, without limitation, payment of money or
awarding of any benefits) for using Special Links on your site to access our
site (eg: by implementing any "rewards" Program for persons or entities who use
Special Links on your site to access our site). If we determine, in our sole
discretion, that you have offered any person or entity any such consideration
or incentive, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available
to us) withhold any referral fees otherwise payable to you under this
Agreement.
"Session" shall mean the period beginning upon a visitor's entry to our site
via a Tagged Link (regardless of whether the visitor leaves and then returns to
the site) and ending 14 days thereafter if the visitor accepts "cookies" from
our site (see explanation below).
Any Session in progress will automatically terminate upon the expiration or
termination of this Agreement or upon the visitor deleting our cookie.
Note regarding "Cookies": To keep track of the Session, we use a small text
file called a "cookie" that is placed on the hard drive of the visitor's
computer. Some web browsers permit users to elect not to receive cookies. Only
visitors who accept cookies can be tracked for referral fees. You understand
that no referral fee can be paid for any purchase made by a visitor who does
not accept "cookies" or who has deleted our "cookies" during or after a
session.
6. Fee Payment
Affiliate Partners, we will pay you referral fees on a monthly basis when you have met the minimum
requirement of S$50.00. Approximately 30 days following the end of each
calendar month, we will send you payment for the referral fees earned on
Qualifying Products for which mBox received payment during that month, less any
taxes that we are required by law to withhold. However, if the fees payable to
you for any calendar month are less than S$50.00, we will hold those fees
until the total amount due is at least S$50.00 or (if earlier) until this
Agreement is terminated. If a Product that generated a referral fee is
cancelled by the customer and the fee refunded, we will deduct the
corresponding fee from your next payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we
will send you an invoice for the fee.
Campaign Partners, we will pay you referral fees on a monthly basis when you have met the minimum
requirement of 50 active referrals. Approximately 30 days following the end of each
calendar month, we will send you payment for the referral fees earned on
Qualifying Products for which mBox received payment during that month, less any
taxes that we are required by law to withhold. However, if the fees payable to
you for any calendar month are less than S$50.00, we will hold those fees
until the total amount due is at least S$50.00 or (if earlier) until this
Agreement is terminated. If a Product that generated a referral fee is
cancelled by the customer and the fee refunded, we will deduct the
corresponding fee from your next payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we
will send you an invoice for the fee.
Wholesale Partners, we will pay you referral fees on a monthly basis. Approximately 30 days
following the end of each calendar month, we will send you payment for the referral fees earned on
Qualifying Products for which mBox received payment during that month, less any
taxes that we are required by law to withhold. However, if the fees payable to
you for any calendar month are less than S$50.00, we will hold those fees
until the total amount due is at least S$50.00 or (if earlier) until this
Agreement is terminated. If a Product that generated a referral fee is
cancelled by the customer and the fee refunded, we will deduct the
corresponding fee from your next payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we
will send you an invoice for the fee.
We will pay according to the following scale. Revenue per Calendar Month from
Qualifying Products Percentage:
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Affiliate Partner 10 %
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Campaign Partner 20 % (50 Active Referrals for Payment Commencement)
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Wholesale Partner Up to 45% of RRP
7. GST
Where the Partner is an Australian entity, the fee forwarded to the Partner
will be inclusive of GST and mBox will issue a recipient generated Tax Invoice
for the amount of the fee including GST. The Tax Invoice will be forwarded
electronically to the accounting email contact address of the Partner following
transfer of the fee amount to the Partner's nominated bank account.
8. Policies and Pricing
For the avoidance of doubt, customers who buy Products through the
Affiliate or Campaign Levels of the Program will be customers of mBox.
Accordingly, all mBox rules, policies and operating procedures concerning
customer orders, customer service and Product sales will apply to those
customers. Such policies and operating procedures may be changed at any time.
For example, mBox will determine the prices to be charged for Products sold
under this Program in accordance with its 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 must not include price
information in your Product descriptions. mBox will use commercially reasonable
efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the
availability or price of any particular Product. Customers who purchase mBox
services through the Wholesale level of the Program will be and remain
customers of the Partner.
9. Identifying Yourself as an
Partner
We will make available to you a link to small graphic image that identifies
your site as a Program participant. You may display this logo or the phrase
"mBox Partner" somewhere on your site. We may modify the graphic image from
time to time. In addition, we encourage (but do not require) you to include a
link to the mBox website at http://www.mbox.com.sg
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. You must e-mail
mailto:partners@mbox.com.sg if you wish to get written consent.
10. Limited License
We grant you a nonexclusive, revocable right to use the materials described
in Section 3 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 icon or any of our
images in any way. We reserve all of our rights in the icon, 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.
11. 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 the mBox catalogue using Special Links and
special link formats provided by us; 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
breach 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 defamatory or 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, legal fees) relating to the development, operation, maintenance and
contents of your site.
12. 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. You are only eligible to earn
referral fees on sales of Qualifying Products occurring during the term and
fees earned up to the date of termination will remain payable only if the
related orders are not cancelled or returned. We may withhold your final
payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid. Upon
termination of this Agreement, you must promptly return to us, or at our
request, destroy any and all of our intellectual or proprietary property,
information and/or materials in your possession and, subject to receiving
written consent to the contrary from us, remove all hypertext links to our site
from your site.
13. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at
any time and at 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, 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.
14. 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 or our respective Associates.
You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations,
guarantees or warranties on our or our associates' behalf, including with
respect to our or our associates Products or services. You will not make any
statement or representation, whether on your site or otherwise, that you are
connected or affiliated with us or our site, other than for the purpose of
referring users to our site as defined under this Agreement, or that otherwise
reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
15. Limitation of Liability
Neither we, nor any of our associates, will 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, or any of our
associates, have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, to
the fullest extent permitted by law, our and our associates' collective
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
at the time the act or omission giving rise to the liability occurred.
16. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither we nor any of our
associates makes any 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, non-infringement or
any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or
trade usage), and the same are hereby excluded. In addition, neither we, nor
any of our associates, make any representation that the operation of our site
will be uninterrupted or error-free and none of us will be liable for the
consequences of any interruptions or errors.
17. Independent Investigation
You acknowledge that you have read this agreement and agree to all its
terms and conditions. You understand that we or any of our associates 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.
18. Governing Laws
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Western Australia.
19. Warranty
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, non-infringement 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
or the links or Tagged Links will be uninterrupted or error-free, or will not
be re-routed or "black holed." As a result, we might temporarily be unable to
capture information regarding Tagged Links. We will not be liable for the
consequences of any such interruptions or errors. The Program is intended for
commercial use only. 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 or maintain partners 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.
20. Notices
Notices to you are effective if provided in writing to the postal addresses,
electronically to the e-mail address set forth in the application or if posted
on our website. Notice to us may be given in writing to:
mBox Partner Program
mBox
Level 5, 10 William St
Perth, Western Australia
or by e-mail at
partners@mbox.com.sg