This Agreement describes the entire terms and conditions for participation in
the NumberCruncher.com, Inc. Affiliates Program. In this agreement,
NumberCruncher.com, Inc is referred to as "NumberCruncher".
In this agreement, the term "Affiliate" refers to you (the applicant), and
"sponsoring Web site" refers to the Web site from which you will link to
NumberCruncher. Wherever the agreement refers to "you" or "your", it means "the
Affiliate"; "we" or "our" refer to NumberCruncher.
You guarantee that
- You are 18 years of age or over the age of majority in your jurisdiction
and will submit proof of your age if requested.
- You are entering this Agreement as an Independent Contractor.
- You are solely responsible for selecting and providing any and all
content, material, products, and/or services for your marketing efforts to
promote the sites of NumberCruncher .
- The content, images, design, URL/Domain, text and domains on your
promotion pages do not infringe on the rights of others including, but not
limited to, copyrights, patents, trademarks, domain names and any other
intellectual property rights of others.
- You are not using, supplying, publishing or transferring, in any way,
programs, files, data, viruses, worms, e-mail acquisition programs, "Trojan"
viruses or any other monitoring or destruction program on the pages you use to
promote any of NumberCruncher's sites or partner site or directly to members
of any of those sites.
You Agree to
NumberCruncher Referral Fee Percentage
The commission rate you are receiving may vary depending on the product that
is sold as follows:
- NumberCruncher Software: 10%
- NumberCruncher services: 10%
- Third party software: 0%
- Hardware: 0%
Commissions are payable on the gross revenue on from new or existing customers
that were referred to NumberCruncher from your site. Gross revenue only
includes cash collected via credit card and does not include sales tax charges
or shipping.
The affiliate program may change at any time and without prior notice.
Fee Payment
NumberCruncher will send out payments, by Check on a quarterly basis. Payments
with a value higher than the minimum amount of $100 will be sent. If the
payment amount is less than the set minimum, the payment will carry over to the
next pay period until it passes the minimum amount.
Refunds, Chargeback
If a sales is later refunded to the customer or charged back by the customer,
the referral fee will be deducted from the next weekly payment sent to the
Affiliate. If there is no next regular payment, the Affiliate will be billed.
Subscription Payment Processing
NumberCruncher will be solely responsible for processing every subscription
order placed by a customer on the Affiliates Pages. Payment processing, renewal
payment processing, cancellations and refund processing, and related customer
service are the responsibility of NumberCruncher.
NumberCruncher reserves the right to reject any sale that does not comply with
our rules, operating procedures and policies.
Using our Links
As an affiliate site, you have access to banner advertisements, button links,
text links and several other promotional tools such as newsletter and articles
to our sites. These promotional tools carry our name or that of our partners so
the use of each has to abide by this agreement. As an Affiliate Site, you shall
display Links throughout your site as you see fit. You may not alter, modify or
expand the Links in any way; provided, a Link may be modified and/or expanded
with our written consent. Each Link connecting users of your site to our site
may not alter the look, feel or functionality of our site. We may monitor your
site at any time and from time to time to determine if you are in compliance
with the terms of this Agreement. We will be responsible for providing all
information necessary to allow you to make appropriate Links from your site to
our site. However, we reserve the right to approve and to prohibit all Links.
Tracking of Subscription Sales
NumberCruncher will be solely responsible for tracking sales. Statements of
sales activity will be provided to the Affiliate. To protect NumberCruncher's
customer privacy, the names or other personal information about specific
customers will never be provided to the Affiliate.
Prices and availability
The price charged for product and services sold under this program will be
determined by NumberCruncher according to our own pricing policies. Prices may
vary from time to time. NumberCruncher policies will always determine the price
paid by the customer.
Sites that Do Not Qualify for the Affiliates Program include
- Sites that promote violence.
- Sites that promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national
origin, physical disability, sexual orientation or age.
- Sites that promote illegal activities.
Restrictions on personal use
This program is intended for commercial use only, that is paying referral fees
for subscriptions sold to third parties coming from a link from your sponsoring
Web site to the Affiliate Pages.
Web Site service interruption:
NumberCruncher will make every effort to keep its Web site operational. However,
certain technical difficulties may, from time to time, result in temporary
service interruptions. The Affiliate agrees not to hold NumberCruncher liable
for any of the consequences of such interruptions.
Term of the Agreement
The Affiliate may receive payments on orders that are placed during the term of
this agreement. This term will begin on the date of signup, and shall end when
canceled by either party as provided below.
E-mail advertisement
All mailing lists should be opt-in lists. Affiliate is responsible for
maintaining their own email lists.
The agreement may be modified
NumberCruncher reserves the right to change any of the terms and conditions in
this agreement, at any time and in its sole discretion, by posting a new
agreement on our Web site. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, referral fee schedules and all other provisions of this agreement are
subject to change without notice other than posting such information on our Web
site.
Cancellation of this agreement
Either NumberCruncher or the Affiliate, acting in their sole discretion, may
choose to cancel this agreement at any time by written notice of cancellation to
the other.
Warranty Disclaimer
NumberCruncher makes no warranties, representations or conditions in regards to
the program or, as expressly set forth in NumberCruncher current sales policies,
any product or service sold there under, whether express or implied, arising by
law or otherwise, including without limitation any implied warranty of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement or any
implied warranty arising out of course of performance, course of dealing or
usage of trade.
Limitation of Damages
NumberCruncher shall have no liability for any indirect, incidental, special or
consequential damages or any loss of revenue or profits arising under or with
respect to this agreement or the program, even if NumberCruncher has been
advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, NumberCruncher's aggregate
liability arising under or with respect to this agreement or the program shall
in no event exceed the total referral fees paid or payable by NumberCruncher to
Affiliate under this agreement.
Miscellaneous
Affiliate and NumberCruncher are independent contractors and nothing in this
agreement is intended to or will create any form of partnership, joint venture,
agency, franchise, sales representative or employment relationship between the
parties. Affiliate shall not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or
otherwise, without the prior written consent of NumberCruncher. Subject to the
foregoing restriction, this agreement is binding upon, insures to the benefit of
and is enforceable by the parties and their respective successors and assigns.
Fraud Policy:
As an affiliate you will not be entitled to a Commission from us for any sale,
that we determine or reasonably suspect is the result of fraudulent activity. We
reserve the right to block any payment or account that we feel not authentic. We
have the right, in its sole and exclusive discretion, at any time to expand or
modify what constitutes possible fraudulent activity. Without limiting the
foregoing, possible fraudulent activity shall include:
- Any attempt to put through a credit card with a bin number that is listed
in a negative bin number database;
- Where there have been sequential or multiple attempts to create sales from
a credit card using the same bin number and sequential or multiple number
strings to complete the credit card number; and
- Where numerous transaction have been processed through the same IP.
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