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Affiliate Program Terms and Conditions
The
MetaPros affiliate program has been designed
to
offer people a chance to gain financial reward
for the promotion of our products and services. To
protect the reputation of MetaPros, its
clients and affiliates, the following terms and
conditions have been implemented
Membership
Requirements:
Applicants
must
operate and maintain a website. The website
may be hosted with MetaPros or it may be
hosted elsewhere. Regardless of where it
is hosted, the website must remain within
the guidelines of MetaPros' own terms and
conditions
for websites hosted at MetaPros.
All
pornographic content and sex-related merchandising
is prohibited on all MetaPros servers. This
includes sites that may infer sexual content
or links to adult content elsewhere. MetaPros
will be the sole arbiter in determining violations
of this provision.
Also
prohibited are sites that promote any illegal
activity or present content that may be damaging
to MetaPros servers or any other server on
the
Internet. Links to such materials are
also prohibited.
Examples
of unacceptable content or links:
-Pirated
software
-Copyright violation
-Unauthorized usage
of trademark or service mark.
-Hacker programs or archives
-Warez sites
-Racist or hate related material
-Information related to the misuse of credit
cards, phones, or computers.
MetaPros
will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes
a violation of this provision.
Advertising:
Affiliates may take reasonable efforts to advertise
the MetaPros affiliate program on their website,
newsletters or any other form as long as the
efforts do not involve 'spam' or unsolicited
commercial mail, or deceptive practices. Any
affiliate
found in violation of this condition will have
their affiliate account terminated and all
payments
outstanding or owed to them will be cancelled. MetaPros
considers spam unacceptable in any form and
will not condone its use by either its direct
customers, or affiliates.
Commission
Payment:
Commissions on trackable on-line sales are
accrued
on actual sales of hosting accounts made through
affiliate link
click-throughs to MetaPros website
and through the MetaPros' hosting account
order form. The
browser used to place the order must be configured
to accept and
process a cookie from the MetaPros website.
Our
cookies have an expiration date of 12 months,
so repeat visits that do not come directly from
your site will still count towards your commissions
if the cookie is not otherwise removed.
You understand you are
acting as an independent contractor and as
such
are responsible for your own taxes and any
other
liabilities. You agree that you are not
authorized
to act on our behalf other than marketing our
products and services as an independent contractor
for a commission.
Payments are only issued
when an account
balance
exceeds
$50.00. Payments to the affiliates
are issued by check, PayPal, or a credit to
an active MetaPros
hosting
account. Payments will only be issued to the
affiliate on record.
Commissions
are paid:
- on gross sales payments for hosting accounts
that are actually
collected from clients, and
- on payments that are made on time
and in full (for example, late payments or
those incurring a manual collection effort may
not generate a commission), and
- on payments for services covering periods in
increments of one full month (for example, a
prorated partial month payment will not generate
a commission).
If a sales payment incurs a charge-back or
is
returned,
the commission will be voided or reversed.
If commissions have already been paid and a
charge-back or return occurs, the paid
commission amount will be deducted from the
affiliate account balance.
To request a payment, the Affilaite must properly
complete the Affiliate Account
Payment
Request Form. Upon
receipt of the results of the Affiliate Account
Payment
Request
Form, MetaPros will place the account under
review. Unpaid
and invalid
commissions
will
be removed from the affiliate
account
and the payment amount will be adjusted accordingly. MetaPros
has 30 days to complete the review and respond
to the Payment
Request.
MetaPros does not pay interest
on
any commissions or affiliate account balance.
Checks
are mailed via USPS to the affiliate address
on record. It
is the
responsibility of the affiliate to maintain
a correct mailing address. MetaPros makes
reasonable
effort to ensure our affiliates receive the
payment, but we accept no liability for lost
or misdirected checks. Any "stop
payment" fees incurred by MetaPros due to
the affiliate failing to maintain correct
account information will be deducted from the
affiliate
account.
Affiliate account payments are not issued to
any party that is in
debt
to MetaPros exclusive of the affiliate account
balance (i.e. when a hosting account
is past due).
Account termination:
Affiliate accounts that are inactive for more than 1 year will be terminated.
Inactive accounts are those with
no
new referral sales and
no
new
affiliate link click-throughs
to
MetaPros'
websites.
The affiliate link will be voided upon account termination and cannot be used
to generate new referral sales or commissions (a new affiliate account signup
is required).
Any
accrued
commissions due at account termination must be claimed within one year. Unpaid
commissions from
a terminated affiliate account that remain unclaimed for longer than one year
will
be
voided.
Disclaimer:
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to
the affiliate program or any MetaPros products sold through the affiliate program
(including, without limitation,
warranties of fitness, merchantability, non-infringement,
or any implied warranties arising out of 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.
Change
of Conditions:
MetaPros retains the right to discontinue
the
program at any time and without prior
notification. MetaPros retains the right
to alter and amend
the terms and conditions of the program as required
and without
notification.
All changes to this page will be applicable
to previous versions. Where information regarding
the terms and conditions of MetaPros become
relevant this page will hold precedence over
any other version, either printed, electronic
or verbal. In the event of a conflict
this page
will considered valid above others.
Agreement:
By checking 'I agree' in the application and
payment request forms,
you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions
of this agreement. You also agree that
MetaPros
is the sole arbiter of what constitutes
a violation
of this agreement, and that you have read
and
understand the terms and conditions of this
agreement.
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