Affiliate Terms and Conditions
By filling out the signup form you acknowledge that you have read the terms and conditions below for the Carpet Bags Affiliate Program, understand, and agree with them.
1.
Joining the Program
By filling out the signup form you will automatically become an affiliate and
are bound by the terms of this agreement. Your participation in the program
is solely for this purpose: to legally advertise our website to receive a commission
on products purchased by your referral individuals.
2.
Payment Schedule
Eligible
payments - all affiliate monies due for orders generated as a
result of affiliate links/Web Site will be paid on a quarterly
basis. Orders are typically shipped 1-7 days after a order is placed.
This allows us ample time to compensate for returns, exchanges or canceled
orders. Payments will be calculated and payments paid directly into
your given bank account at the end of each quarter.
- affiliate payments - payment to affiliate will not be rendered for amounts less than £10.00 GBP unless requested by affiliate. Example: if you have a total of £100.00 in sales you would have £8.00 in your affiliate account, thus your account will carry over ino the next quarters cycle. When your account total reaches £10.00 or more payment will be made into your account, provided all orders associated meet the condiditons set forth in (a) above.
3.
Revocation of affilate status
Your affiliate application and status in the program may be suspended or terminated
for any of the following reasons:
- Inappropriate advertisements (False claims, misleading hyperlinks)
- Spamming (mass email, mass newsgroup posting, etc...)
- Advertising on sites containing/promoting illegal activities
- Violation of intellectual property rights.
4.
Affiliate Links
You may use graphic and text links both on your Web Site and in emails.
The site may also be advertised "offline" in classified ads, magazines,
and newpapers. You may use the graphics and text provided to you by
us, or you may create your own as long as they are approved by us first.
5.
Affiliate Tracking
When a web surfer clicks through your affiliate link, a cookie is set
in their browser that contains your affiliate username. Also, their
IP address is tracked in the database along with your affiliate name.
When this person decides to buy a product, the script will look for
this cookie and/or try to match their IP address to identify the affiliate
who will be awarded the commission. Visitors sent through your affiliate
link may make a purchase later in time and the commission will still
be awarded if the cookie is present in their browser and/or the are
using the same IP address as the one logged in the database.
6.
Terms of the agreement
These terms will begin upon your signup with the affiliate program
and will end when your affiliate account is terminated. The terms of
this agreement may be modified by us at any time. If any modification
to the terms is unacceptable to you, your only choice is to terminate
your affiliate account. Your continuing participation in the program
will constitute your acceptance of any change.
7.
Liability
We will not be liable for indirect or accidental damages
(loss of revenue, commissions) due to affiliate tracking
failures, loss of database files, and any results of "intents of harm" to
the program or our website. We do not make any expressed
or implied warranties with respect to the affiliate
program and/or products sold at this site. We make no claim that the
operation of the affiliate program and our website
will be error-free and we will not be liable for any
interruptions or errors.
Affiliate further agrees and warrants that it will
comply with all local and national laws (including,
but not limited to, the "CAN-SPAM" Act,
effective January 1, 2004) regarding the sending of e-mails.
Affiliate shall indemnify and hold Carpet Bags harmless from
any and all legal actions, damages or liabilities incurred from the
day-to-day operations of affiliates. Under no circumstances will Carpet
Bags be liable whether in tort, contract or otherwise for indirect,
incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages (including
but not limited to damages for any loss of revenue, profits, business
interruption, loss of business information or data, loss of goodwill,
work stoppage, hardware or software failure, or other pecuniary loss)
arising from or relating to any provision of this Agreement or the
program. Without limiting the foregoing, Carpet Bags aggregate
liability arising with respect to this Agreement will not exceed the
total fees paid or payable to affiliate under this agreement.
Carpet Bags will own all right, title and interest in and to all
information that is created or collected in the operation of the Carpet
Bags web site and reserves the right to amend or terminate this Agreement
at any time, with or without notice to affilate.
The laws of United Kingdom shall govern this Agreement.
By filling out the signup form you acknowledge that you have read the terms and conditions above for the Carpet Bags Program, understand, and agree with them.