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AND AGREEMENT TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS
NOTICE: An applicant to be
a UGAS.com Sales Affiliate ("Affiliate") must be
at least eighteen (18) years of age.
Please read these Policies and Agreement to the Sales Affiliate
Terms and Conditions carefully, if you agree to become a UGAS.com
Affiliate, these will constitute binding and enforceable Policies
and Terms and Conditions between UGAS.com (a service mark
of Tri-Tech Internet Services, Inc.) the participating Affiliate
("You","Affiliate").
In order for UGAS.com to agree to permit you in the Sales
Affiliate Referral Program you represent to UGAS.com and agree
as follows:
1. That you are at least eighteen (18) years of age, or 21
in any state where 21 constitutes the age of majority, and
you have the full legal capacity to enter into enter into
this Agreement.
2. That you are solely responsible for selecting and providing
any and all content, material, products, and/or services on
your site(s) which participate in the UGAS Affiliate Program;
that UGAS.com is not responsible for selecting or editing
any of the content you place on your site(s); and that you
agree to hold UGAS.com harmless and fully indemnify UGAS.com
from any and all liability that may arise, either directly
or indirectly, from any of the content on your site(s).
3.That no websites hosted on a free hosting service that
does not permit adult content will be permitted to be used
as participating referral sites in the UGAS.com Affiliate
Program.
4. Webmaster Representations and Warranties. You represent
and warrant to UGAS.com and agree as follows:
(i) that YOU shall be solely responsible for all decisions
and all liability with respect to the selection and use of
graphic, photographic, video, audio, literary content or any
other content of any kind which is displayed or disseminated
by and through YOUR Web Sites;
(ii) that YOU shall be solely responsible for all decisions
and all liability relating to compliance with all state and
federal laws and regulations governing the sale, distribution,
dissemination and advertising of adult content which is displayed,
distributed, sold or advertised in or through YOUR Web Sites,;
(iii) that YOU shall not display or include in YOUR Web Sites
any content that infringes one or more patents, copyrights,
trademarks, or other intellectual property rights (including
trade secrets), privacy, publicity or other rights of any
person or entity, or that violates any state of federal obscenity,
harmful matter, child pornography laws or card association
regulations;
(iv) that YOU shall be solely responsible for obtaining and
properly maintaining all records or information that may be
required under the Record Keeping provisions of 18 USC 2257.
4.1 You further represent and warrant to UGAS.com and agree
that your site shall not display, publish, link to, or provide
access to any images, pictures, stories, video clips or any
other media portraying any content that is deemed illegal
in the United States, or that violates the personal or property
rights, such as, without limitation, the following:
(i) any material that violates any State or Federal laws
concerning obscenity; in connection therewith you agree to
assume the sole responsibility and duty to ensure that all
material on your Web Sites shall be transmitted exclusively
to willing adults; you further agree that the content on your
Web Sites shall not contain any depictions of urination or
other excretory functions, bestiality, fisting, incest, rape,
sexual assault, actual physical violence, torture, facials
or disfigurement;
(ii) any material that is displayed or transmitted in a way
as to constitute harmful matter or indecent communications
to minors;
(iii) any material which constitutes child pornography, i.e.,
any material in which persons under the age of eighteen are
depicted in actual, simulated or suggestive sexual situations
(ANY WEBSITE FOUND TO POSSESS OR DISPLAY ANY CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
WILL BE REPORTED IMMEDIATELY TO THE APPROPRIATE LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES);
(iv) any material which involves depictions of nudity or
sexuality by an age inappropriate-looking performer (i.e.
someone who looks younger than 18 years of age regardless
of the persons actual age), or by a performer who is
portrayed or made to appear to be a person under the age of
18 years of age by virtue of the script, make-up, demeanor,
costuming, setting, etc.
(v) any photographic or other visual material that does not
fully comply with the federal labeling and record-keeping
laws, specifically 18 U.S.C section 2257;
(vi) any material which is threatening, abusive, hateful,
defamatory, libelous, slanderous, scandalous or injurious
to the reputation of any person or entity;
(vii) any material which constitutes an infringement, misappropriation
or violation of any persons intellectual property rights
such as copyrights, trademark rights, rights of publicity,
patent rights, personal property rights, privacy rights or
other rights;
(viii) any false, misleading, fraudulent or deceptive content;
(ix) any program, file, data stream or other material which
contains viruses, worms, "Trojan horses" or any
other destructive feature, regardless whether damage is intended
or unintended, which may cause damage to any computer equipment,
loss or corruption of data or programs or inconvenience to
any person.
(X) No site will be accepted if it depicts the name, image
or likeness of Alicia Silverstone, Britney Spears, Alyssa
Milano, Angelina Jolie, Anna Kournikova, Barbara Mandrell,
Caprice Bourket, Christina Aguilera, Cameron Diaz, Christina
Applegate, Christina Ricci, Cindy Crawford, Denise Richards,
or Drew Barrymore in any fashion.
5.You understand and agree that if UGAS.com or a card association
concludes, in its sole and absolute discretion, that a participating
Web Site contains content that is deemed illegal in the United
States or that violates the personal or property rights of
others, UGAS.com has reserved the right, without prior notice,
to discontinue to accept referrals from this participating
Web Site and, at UGAS.coms sole discretion, terminate
this Agreement and exclude the owner of said Web Site from
participation in the UGAS.com Affiliate Referral Program.
6. You agree that when and if your site(s) participating
in the UGAS Affiliate Program is going to be temporarily unavailable,
it is your sole responsibility to e-mail support at support@UGAS.com
with an estimated length of downtime so UGAS.com may arrange
to keep your account open during the duration of your downtime.
7. You understand and agree that if UGAS.com concludes you
have broken or violated any of these policies, UGAS.com reserves
the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to terminate
your affiliation to the UGAS.com program or network. Upon
termination, you will lose all claim or right to any reoccurring
commissions to which you might otherwise be entitled as an
affiliate Webmaster of the UGAS.com program or network and
all such commissions will be forfeited and automatically become
the sole and exclusive property of UGAS.com.
8. Limitation of Liability. NEITHER PARTY SHALL
BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER PARTY (OR TO ANY PERSON CLAIMING RIGHTS
DERIVED FROM THE OTHER PARTYS RIGHTS) FOR INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES OF
ANY KIND, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, OR OTHER
ECONOMIC DAMAGE, AND FURTHER INCLUDING INJURY TO PROPERTY,
AS A RESULT OF BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY OR OTHER TERM OF THIS
AGREEMENT, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE PARTY ALLEGEDLY LIABLE
WAS ADVISED, HAD OTHER REASON TO KNOW, OR IN FACT KNEW OF
THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF. EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT
THE FOREGOING PROVISIONS REFLECT AN INFORMED, VOLUNTARY ALLOCATION
BETWEEN THE PARTIES OF THE RISKS (KNOWN AND UNKNOWN) THAT
MAY EXIST IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, THAT SUCH VOLUNTARY
RISK ALLOCATION WAS A MATERIAL PART OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN
THE PARTIES, AND THAT THE ECONOMIC AND OTHER TERMS OF THIS
AGREEMENT WERE AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN RELIANCE ON SUCH
VOLUNTARY RISK ALLOCATION
9. Either party shall be excused from delays in performing
or from its failure to perform hereunder to the extent that
such delays or failures result from causes beyond the reasonable
control of such party, including, without limitation, acts
of God, nature, any government agency(ies), war, civil disturbance,
labor disputes or shortages, electrical or mechanical breakdowns,
inability or refusal of a common carrier to provide communications
capabilities, or any other cause beyond either partys
direct control, including but not limited to, the issuance
of an order by any regulatory, administrative, judicial or
legislative prohibiting or interfering with either party from
carrying on its day-to-day operations as contemplated under
this Agreement.
10. Nothing in this Agreement shall constitute or be construed
to constitute or tending to create an agency, partnership,
joint venture, master-servant or employer-employee relationship
between UGAS.com and You, in any respect, any other provision
of this Agreement notwithstanding. This Agreement defines
a Sales Affiliate relationship only.
11. No delay or omission by either party hereto to exercise
any right or power occurring upon any noncompliance or default
by the other party with respect to any of the terms of this
Agreement shall impair any such right or power or be construed
to be a waiver thereof. The terms and conditions of this Agreement
may be waived or amended only in writing and only by the party
that is entitled to the benefits of the term(s) or condition(s)
being waived or amended. A waiver by either of the parties
hereto of any of the covenants, conditions, or agreements
to be performed by the other shall not be construed to be
a waiver of any succeeding breach thereof or of any covenant,
condition, or agreement herein contained (whether or not the
provision is similar).
12. Arbitration Provision, Governing Law, Consent To
Jurisdiction & Venue. Any controversy or claim arising
out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach thereof,
shall be settled by arbitration in Los Angeles in accordance
with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration
Association, and judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrator(s)
may be entered in any court of the State of California having
jurisdiction thereof. This Agreement shall be governed
by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State
of California, without reference to the choice of law provisions
thereof. All aspects of all actions brought relating to the
subject matter of this Agreement shall be governed by California
law, without reference to the choice of law provisions thereof.
13.1In the event that any claim or controversy regarding
this Agreement is litigated in court, the parties hereto hereby
consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the United
States District Court for the Central District of California
or the Superior Court of Los Angeles County for any action
that may be brought in connection with this Agreement other
than a cross-claim for indemnification brought in response
to a claim of infringement filed in another court. In the
case of a cross-claim for indemnification, Webmaster agrees
to be subject to the jurisdiction and venue of the court in
which the infringement claim is brought, provided that is
also subject to jurisdiction and venue in that court.
14. Each party to this Agreement acknowledges that this Agreement
constitutes the entire Agreement of the parties with regard
to the subject matters addressed in this Agreement, that this
Agreement supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements,
discussions, or representations, whether oral or written,
with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement, and
that this Agreement cannot be varied, amended, changed, waived,
or discharged except by a writing signed by all parties hereto.
Each party to this Agreement further acknowledges that no
promises, representations, inducements, agreements, or warranties,
other than those set forth herein, have been made to induce
the execution of this Agreement by said party, and each party
acknowledges that it has not executed this Agreement in reliance
on any promise, representation, inducement, or warranty not
contained herein.
15. You shall not send any unsolicited e-mail or documents
(Spamming) to a recipient that you do not have an existing
business or personal relationship with, or who did not consent
to or request for such an e-mail. Any complaints of receiving
unsolicited e-mail or documents will result in deactivation,
termination of your website(s) from the UGAS.com Program and
assistance will be provided to any investigation.
16.If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is held
to be unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be
reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable.
17. You may notify or contact UGAS.com by email at legal@UGAS.com
or telephonically at 1(818) 548-8882.
18. We are not accepting any NEW Affiliate applications from
the following countries
Russia, Indonesia, Armenia,
Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Libya, Jordan, Ukraine, Belarus,
Romania, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Netherlands,
Yugoslavia, Belgium, Philippines, Czech Republic, Estonia,
Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Bosnia/Herzegovina,
Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Albania, India, Kuwait, Moldova, Slovak
Republic, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Equador, Lativa, Slovakia,
Estonia and Vietnam.
19. AFFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT. You hereby acknowledge
and affirm that you have read this entire agreement and that
your act of clicking on the I AGREE button below constitutes
your electronic signature and AGREEMENT to be bound by all
of these Terms and Conditions.
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