TERMS OF OUR SERVICE
Gem Gyms Affiliate Program Terms of Service
Agreement
By signing up to be an Affiliate in
the Gem Gyms Affiliate Program (“Program”) you are agreeing to be
bound by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Service”).
Gem gyms reserves the right to update and change the Terms of
Service from time to time without notice. Any new features that augment or
enhance the current Program, including the release of new tools and resources,
shall be subject to the Terms of Service. Continued use of the Program after
any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.
Violation of any of the terms below
will result in the termination of your Account and for forfeiture of any
outstanding affiliate commission payments earned during the violation. You
agree to use the Affiliate Program at your own risk.
Account
Terms
- You must be 18 years or older to be part of this
Program.
- You must live in the United States to be an Affiliate.
- You must be a human. Accounts registered by
“bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.
- You must provide your legal full name, a valid email
address, and any other information requested in order to complete the
signup process.
- Your login may only be used by one person – a single
login shared by multiple people is not permitted.
- You are responsible for maintaining the security of
your account and password. gemgyms cannot and will not be liable
for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security
obligation.
- You are responsible for all Content posted and activity
that occurs under your account.
- One person or legal entity may not maintain more than
one account.
- You may not use the Affiliate Program for any illegal
or unauthorized purpose. You must not, in the use of the Service, violate
any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright
laws).
- You may not use the Affiliate Program to earn money on
your own gemgyms product accounts.
Links/graphics
on your site, in your emails, or other communications
Once you have signed up for the
Affiliate Program, you will be assigned a unique Affiliate Code. You are
permitted to place links, banners, or other graphics we provide with your
Affiliate Code on your site, in your emails, or in other communications. We
will provide you with guidelines, link styles, and graphical artwork to use in
linking to gemgyms. We may change the design of the artwork at any time
without notice, but we won’t change the dimensions of the images without proper
notice.
To permit accurate tracking,
reporting, and referral fee accrual, we will provide you with special link
formats to be used in all links between your site and the gemgyms. You
must ensure that each of the links between your site and the gemgyms properly utilizes such special link formats. Links to the gemgyms placed
on your site pursuant to this Agreement and which properly utilize such special
link formats are referred to as “Special Links.” You will earn
referral fees only with respect to sales on a gemgyms product occurring
directly through Special Links; we will not be liable to you with respect to
any failure by you or someone you refer to use Special Links or incorrectly
type your Affiliate Code, including to the extent that such failure may result
in any reduction of amounts that would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to
this Agreement.
Affiliate links should point to the
page of the product being promoted.
Referral
fees/commissions and payment
For a Product sale to be eligible to
earn a referral fee, the customer must click-through a Special Link from your
site, email, or other communications to https://gemgyms.com and
complete an order for a product during that session.
We will only pay commissions on
links that are automatically tracked and reported by our systems. We will not
pay commissions if someone says they purchased or someone says they entered a
referral code if it was not tracked by our system. We can only pay commissions
on business generated through properly formatted special links that were
automatically tracked by our systems.
We reserve the right to disqualify
commissions earned through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive,
questionable sales or marketing methods.
Payments only begin once you’ve
earned more than $50 in affiliate income. If your affiliate account never
crosses the $50 threshold, your commissions will not be realized or
paid. We are only responsible for paying accounts that have crossed the $50 threshold.
Identifying
yourself as a gemgyms Affiliate
You may not issue any press release
with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Program; such
action may result in your termination from the Program. In addition, you may
not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and
you, say you develop our products, say you are part of gemgyms or
express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us and you or any
other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this Agreement
(including by expressing or implying that we support, sponsor, endorse, or
contribute money to any charity or other cause).
You may not purchase products
through your affiliate links for your own use. Such purchases may result (in
our sole discretion) in the withholding of referral fees and/or the termination
of this Agreement.
Payment
schedule
As long as your current affiliate
earning are over $50, you’ll be paid each month. If you haven’t earned $50 since your last payment, we’ll pay you the following month after you’ve crossed
the threshold.
Customer
definition
Customers who buy products through
this Program will be deemed to be our customers. Accordingly, all of our rules,
policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer
service, and product sales will apply to those customers. We may change our
policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine
the prices to be charged for products sold under this Program in accordance
with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary from
time to time. Because price changes may affect Products that you have listed on
your site, you should not display product prices on your site. We will use
commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot
guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.
Your
responsibilities
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
– Ensuring the display of Special Links on your site does not violate any
agreement between you and any third party (including without limitation any
restrictions or requirements placed on you by a third party that hosts your
site)
– The accuracy, truth, and appropriateness of materials posted on your site
(including, among other things, all Product-related materials and any
information you include within or associate with Special Links)
– Ensuring that materials posted on your site do not violate 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 libelous or otherwise
illegal
– Ensuring that your site accurately and adequately discloses, either through a
privacy policy or otherwise, how you collect, use, store, and disclose data
collected from visitors, including, where applicable, that third parties
(including advertisers) may serve content and/or advertisements and collect
information directly from visitors and may place or recognize cookies on
visitors’ browsers.
Compliance
with Laws
As a condition to your participation
in the Program, you agree that while you are a Program participant you will
comply with all laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses,
permits, judgments, decisions or other requirements of any governmental
authority that has jurisdiction over you, whether those laws, etc. are now in
effect or later come into effect during the time you are a Program participant.
Without limiting the foregoing obligation, you agree that as a condition of
your participation in the Program you will comply with all applicable laws
(federal, state or otherwise) that govern marketing email, including without
limitation, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and all other anti-spam laws.
Term
of the Agreement and Program
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. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will
immediately cease use of, and remove from your site, all links to https://gemgyms.com,
and all of our trademarks, trade dress, and logos, and all other materials
provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the
Program. gemgyms reserves the right to end the Program at any time. Upon
program termination, gemgyms will pay any outstanding earnings accrued
above $50.
Termination
gemgyms, in its sole discretion, has the right to suspend or
terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the
Program, or any other gemgyms service, for any reason at any time. Such
termination of the Service will result in the deactivation or deletion of your
Account or your access to your Account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment
of all potential or to-be-paid commissions in your Account if they were earned
through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive, questionable sales or
marketing methods. gemgyms reserves the right to refuse service to
anyone for any reason at any time.
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. 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 otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
Limitations
of Liability
We will not 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 have been
advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our 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.
Disclaimers
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, noninfringement, 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 the gemgyms will be uninterrupted
or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any
interruptions or errors.
Independent
Investigation
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 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.
Arbitration
Any dispute relating in any way to
this Agreement (including any actual or alleged breach hereof), any
transactions or activities under this Agreement or your relationship with us or
any of our affiliates shall be submitted to confidential arbitration, except
that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate
our intellectual property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate
relief in any state or federal court (and you consent to non-exclusive
jurisdiction and venue in such courts) or any other court of competent
jurisdiction. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the
rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator’s
award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of
competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no
arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving
any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration
proceedings or otherwise.
Miscellaneous
This Agreement will be governed by
the laws of The United States, without reference to rules governing choice of
laws. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise,
without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement
will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable against the
parties and their respective successors and assigns. Our failure to enforce
your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute
a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other
provision of this Agreement.
The failure of gemgyms to
exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not
constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The Terms of Service
constitutes the entire agreement between you and gemgyms and govern your
use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and gemgyms (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms of Service).