Affiliate Program Terms and Conditions

This Terms & Condition is an agreement that governs your participation in the Dropshiforsale Affiliate program, which is offered by or on behalf of  DropShipForSale LLC. (dropshipforsale.com). According to these Terms & Conditions, an "Affiliate" is anyone who has registered for the Program through the Affiliate Program Application form in order to refer customers to DropShipForsale.

As a DropShipforSale Affiliate, you consent to be bound by these DropShipForSale Terms & Conditions relating to the Affiliate Program that we may from time to time provide and amend.

Please carefully read the following before continuing as they contain terms and conditions that are legally binding and govern your access to and use of the Program. By using the Program, you signify that you agree to and want to be bound by these terms and conditions. Do not use the Program any longer if you do not agree with these terms of service.

I. Overview

This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to you becoming an affiliate in DropshipForSale.com's Affiliate Program. The purpose of this Agreement is to allow HTML linking between your web site and the DropshipForSale.com web site. Please note that throughout this Agreement, "we," "us," and "our" refer to Merchant.com, and "you," "your," and "yours" refer to the affiliate.

II. Affiliate Obligations

A. The Program is the provision of a referral service that allows to become an Affiliate by promoting and referring our products and services to other persons. To begin the enrollment process, you will complete and submit the online application at the Refersion server. Upon which, your account will be instantly active in our Program. 
By enrolling to the DropShipForSale Affiliate Program you agree that:
A.1. You are of legal age, and there is no law prohibits or forbids you from working as an affiliate to promote products and make revenue from these promotions;
A.2. There are no regulations that your website or promotional materials violates;
A.3. Your advertising doesn't violate anyone's rights or contain any defamatory material;
A.4. There are no infringement of copyright in your promotional materials;
A.5. You'll conduct all business operations in an ethical and legal manner.
 
B. We may cancel your application if we determine that your site is unsuitable for our Program, including if it:
    B.1. Promotes sexually explicit materials
    B.2. Promotes violence
    B.3. Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
    B.4. Promotes illegal activities
    B.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
    B.6. Includes "Merchant" or variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name
    B.7. Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion.
    B.8. Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program.
    B.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 Merchant.com or any other affiliated business.
     
    C. As a member of DropshipForSale.com's Affiliate Program, you will have access to Affiliate Account Manager. Here 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 Merchant.com web site) and banner creatives, browse and get tracking codes 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.
    D. DropshipForSale.com 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.
    E. 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 it is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes that we feel should enhance your performance.
    F. 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.

    III. Commission

    A. We will pay you commission for every successful referral transaction which will be completed at the checkout page after clicking on Affiliate unique made available by you, if you continue to be eligible to receive commission in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement
    a.1. We will pay you a commission based on the structure outlined below:
    • 40% commission for every DropshipForSale Pre-Made Stores made through your recommendation.
    • 100% commission for the first month of every monthly subscription sale, commission will not roll over for the following month.
    a.2. We will pay you a commission based on the structure outlined below:
    • $1500 sales - we can offer an additional cash reward of $50 (3.3% of revenue profit)
    • $2500 sales - we can offer an additional cash reward of $120 (4.8% of revenue profit)
    • $4000 sales up - we can offer an additional cash reward of $200 (5% of revenue profit)
    B. Cookie Time: 30 days. Cookie Time is the maximum period of time during which an Affiliate may still be rewarded for a conversion after the final click.
    C. You may not purchase our products during sessions initiated through your own referral links and will not receive commissions for such orders. We moderate each and every sale before sending you a commission and no commission will be paid for your own purchases.
    D. Affiliate commissions are approved in 30 days following the end of the month in which the referral transactions were registered. ***For instance, you will receive the affiliate commission for January no later than March 15th.
    E. We reserve the right to exclude an affiliate from the program and reject all commissions if his/her customers’ payment dispute rate exceeds 10%.
    F. The Commission Rate is subject to change from time to time, upon email notice to you and commencing the 30-days following such notice.

        IV. Payment

          A. PayPal is the sole payout option that is recognized. To be eligible for payments, all Affiliates can open a free PayPal account and must input their accurate payment address in their dashboard.

          B. The minimum payout amount required in order to receive payment is US $50. It means that once you hit minimum US $50 in unpaid revenue, you will get your money during the next payout.

          C. You are solely responsible for the accuracy of your payment details.

          D. For Pre-made products:  Affiliate commissions are approved in 10 days after the end of the calendar month in which the referral purchases were recorded. All payments are processed in 10 days after the end of the calendar month in which the referral purchases were approved. **For example, the affiliate commission for January will be paid to you not later than March, 15th.
          For Subscription-based products: Affiliate commissions are approved in 21 days after the end of the calendar month when the referral’s second subscription month has ended. All payments are processed in 21 days after the end of the calendar month in which the referral purchases were approved. **For example, the affiliate commission for January Premium Products Subscription will be paid to you not later than May, 15th.

           

          V. Promotions and Restrictions

              A. You are free to promote your own web sites, but naturally any promotion that mentions DropshipForSale.com could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort. You should know that certain forms of advertising are always prohibited by DropshipForSale.com. For example, advertising commonly referred to as "spamming" is unacceptable to us and could cause damage to our name. Other generally prohibited forms of advertising include the use of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once. In addition, you may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name, or your return email address. You may use mailings to customers to promote DropshipForSale.com so long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or web site, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. Also, you may post to newsgroups to promote DropshipForSale.com so long as the news group specifically welcomes commercial messages. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your web sites as independent from DropshipForSale.com. 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 DropshipForSale.com Affiliate Program. Any pending balances owed to you will not be paid if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.

              B. Affiliates that among other keywords or exclusively bid in their Pay-Per-Click campaigns on keywords such as DropshipForSale.com, DropshipForSale, dropshipforsale.com, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these – be it separately or in combination with other keywords – and do not direct the traffic from such campaigns to their own website prior to re-directing it to ours, will be considered trademark violators, and will be banned from DropshipForSale.com's Affiliate Program. We will do everything possible to contact the affiliate prior to the ban. However, we reserve the right to expel any trademark violator from our affiliate program without prior notice, and on the first occurrence of such PPC bidding behavior.

              C. Affiliates are not prohibited from keying in prospect’s information into the lead form as long as the prospects’ information is real and true, and these are valid leads (i.e. sincerely interested in DropshipForSale.com service).

              D. 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 DropshipForSale.com site (i.e., no page from our site or any DropshipForSale.com’s content or branding is visible on the end-user’s screen). 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 DropshipForSale.com site in IFrames, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open DropshipForSale.com’s 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.

              E. Affiliate must not use blackhat seo tactics (like coupon code websites) to refer traffic to DropshipForSale.com

                VI. 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.

                    VII. 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 MERCHANT.COM'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.

                    VIII. 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.

                    VIX. Contact Us

                    1. If you have any questions about any of these points, please contact us at support@dropshipforsale.com.