We are in the business of producing, marketing and promoting online
gaming services, which are accessed on the Internet through the use of
a personal computer, modem and/or direct internet access.
You wish to obtain from us and we agree to grant you, the non-exclusive
right and licence to advertise, market and promote our Services and our
Affiliate Program. We shall reimburse you for these promotional
services in accordance with the following Terms and Conditions.
Please read this Agreement carefully. We advise you to print and save a
copy of this Agreement, along with all correspondence from our
Affiliate Program.
You should not apply to our Affiliate Program if you do not agree with the following Terms and Conditions. If you have any queries about the content of this Agreement, please email us at: info@bigheartbingo.co.uk.
This Agreement shall govern our relationship with you regarding our
Affiliate Program and modifies, replaces and supercedes any previous
version of this Agreement.
1. General
The following Terms and Conditions of use, the application form provided, and any other additional terms
we provide to you via email or on our Site(s) (the "Agreement") contain
the full Terms and Conditions that apply to your participation in our Affiliate Program. We reserve
the right to modify this Agreement at any time and your participation
in our Affiliate Program is deemed acceptance of this Agreement and any
modifications to it. Please ensure that you check our Site(s) regularly
for any modification or updates to this Agreement. This Agreement
modifies, replaces and supersedes any previous version. In the event
that there is a conflict between this Agreement and any other
additional terms, this Agreement shall take precedence unless such
additional terms expressly reference variation to this Agreement.
2. Definitions
Where used in this Agreement, references to:
"you" "your", "You", "Affiliate" mean the individual or
entity which applied as the Affiliate account holder and/or as the
beneficiary of the Referral Percentage.
"We", "Our", "Us", means BigHeartBingo.co.uk Limited trading as BigHeartBingo and using the brand name BigHeartBingo.
"Player(s)", "User(s)", "Customer(s)" means any person referred to us who has not held a Player Account with us before.
"Our Service(s)" means any product or service provided to Players on our Site(s).
"Site(s)" means the Website, gaming platform, and any other online
Site(s) or platform which is owned, operated or controlled by or on
behalf of us.
"Affiliate Program" means the affiliate program offered by us pursuant to this Agreement.
"Promotion Rights" mean the non-exclusive, non-transferable right and licence to advertise market and promote our Services.
"Fraud" means traffic and financial transactions generated on our
Services through illegal means or any other action committed in bad
faith to defraud us, as determined by us in our sole discretion.
"Marketing Materials" means banners, text links and any other marketing
materials, which are made available by us, that you may use to refer
Players to our Services.
"Referral Percentage" is the amount due and payable to you, as
calculated based solely on our system's data and in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement.
"Net Revenue " is calculated as the net profit attributable to a Big
Heart Bingo, less any credits, bonus or promotional amounts given,
operation fees, processing charges, charge backs, and any other
deductions we are entitled to make in respect of that Player
"Net Rake" is calculated as the gross rake attributable to a
BigHeartBingo Player, less any credits, bonus or promotional amounts
given, processing charges, licensing fees, charge backs, and any other
deductions we are entitled to make in respect of that Player. Moreover,
a Player's contribution to the "rake" shall be determined as the number
obtained when dividing the actual amount of rake to which the Player
had contributed divided by the total number of players at the table at
the start of the hand.
"Charge back" is a payment dispute initiated by a cardholder with their
credit card issuing bank. The amount of the disputed transaction is
immediately withdrawn from the merchant's bank account.
"Commission Scheme" means the payment plan you have accepted for revenue stream generated from Players you refer to us.
"Spam" means unsolicited email of a commercial nature, sent
indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups.
"Tracking Code" means the unique affiliate tracking code that we
provide exclusively to you, through which we track your referred and
new Players' activities and calculate the Affiliate Commission.
3. Interpretation
In this Agreement (except where the context otherwise requires):
(i) The clause headings are included for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.
(ii) Any reference to "persons" includes natural persons, firms,
partnerships, companies, corporations, associations, organisations,
governments, states, governmental or state agencies, foundations and
trusts (in each case whether or not having separate legal personality
and irrespective of the jurisdiction in or under the law of which it
was incorporated or exists).
(iii) Any reference to a statute, statutory provision, ordinance,
subordinate legislation, code or guideline ("legislation") is a
reference to that legislation and all other subordinate legislation
made under the relevant legislation as amended and in force from time
to time and to any legislation which re-enacts or consolidates (with or
without modification) any such legislation.
4. Grant of promotion and distribution licence
We grant you the Promotion Rights in accordance with this
Agreement. All other rights and licences not expressly granted to you
are reserved by us.
5. Our obligations
5.1. We shall retain the right to provide our
Services and operate our Affiliate Program in any form we deem
appropriate. We retain the right to change or cancel any part of our
Services, at any time and in any manner we deem appropriate and may
make alterations to our Affiliate Program without prior notice to you.
However, any strategic change of policy, such as the cancellation of
any part of our Services at any time, shall be made with prior notice
to you. If we wish to cancel any Promotion Rights because of any
failure or breach of this Agreement by you, we shall give you notice of
this fact in order to give you the opportunity to cure any such breach.
Cancellation shall be effective seven (7) days after notice of
cancellation to you unless the breaches have been cured and/or other
terms have been agreed between us within this seven (7) day period.
5.2. Notwithstanding the terms of this Agreement, we shall not be held
responsible or liable for any loss of income, or loss of the ability to
produce income, incurred by you even if such losses should arise from
our inability to deliver the Services and/or operate our Affiliate
Program for any reason whatsoever, whether we are at fault or whether a
third party is at fault.
6. Your obligations
6.1. You shall use reasonable endeavours to
actively and effectively advertise, market and promote our Services and
our Affiliate Program as widely as possible so as to maximise the
benefit to both of us. You acknowledge and agree that Users that
utilise the facilities and Services we provide, and all information
relating to such Users, shall remain our property at all times. You
will not during the Term of this Agreement or after its termination
assert any proprietary rights over such information.
6.2. You shall engage only in advertising, marketing and promotional
efforts which do not violate any law, and which reflect positively upon
our business reputation. In particular, you agree to market our
Services and our Affiliate Program in a manner that is consistent with
the content and style of our Services. We shall have the right to
review and approve the manner and methods of advertising, marketing and
promotion you intend to use in connection with our Services and our
Affiliate Program prior to you doing so. Our approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed.
6.3. Our approval may be withheld if we consider in our sole discretion
that your proposed activities would tend to impair or harm our goodwill
and business reputation and/or would or might expose us to any legal
liability.
6.4. Notwithstanding any approval that we give, we shall under no
circumstances be held liable for your advertising, marketing and
promotional efforts in respect of the Services.
6.5. You shall bear all costs of and expenses incurred in connection
with the advertising, marketing and promotion of our Services and/or
our Affiliate Program.
7. Application and enrolment
7.1. To become an Affiliate you must submit a
completed application form accessed from the Site(s) or requested by
email. We will evaluate your application and notify you of acceptance
or otherwise.
7.2. You shall provide accurate and complete information to us when
completing the application form and promptly update such information if
all or any part of it changes. You shall also provide us with such
other information as we may reasonably request from time to time.
7.3. We may reject your application if we determine in our sole
discretion that your website is not suitable for our Affiliate Program
for any reason, including but not limited to: inclusion of content on
your website that we consider is in any way unlawful, harmful,
threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or
otherwise objectionable. By way of example only, this may include:
1. sexually explicit, pornographic or obscene content (whether in text or graphics);
2. speech or images that are offensive, profane, hateful, threatening,
harmful, defamatory, libellous, harassing or discriminatory (whether
based on race, ethnicity, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation,
physical disability or otherwise);
3. graphic violence;
4. politically sensitive or controversial issues, or
5. any unlawful behaviour or conduct.
7.4. We shall reject your application if:
1. your website is designed to appeal to minors;
2. your website infringes or appears to infringe any intellectual property rights;
3. your website does not match the website design, architecture,
content or target standards we require of our revenue share Affiliates.
Such standards exclude, for example: confusing navigation, heavy
loading, design inconsistencies, lack of/scarce use of
written/editorial content, low traffic ratings or non gaming targeted
traffic (we may advise you to apply to our CPA network partner instead);
4. your website is under construction;
5. your website is hosted in a jurisdiction where online gaming advertising is prohibited by law, or
6. you are already a registered Affiliate on our Affiliate Program.
8. Commissions
8.1. Your compensation ("Referral
Percentage") shall be defined as the compensation due to you based on a
percentage of Net Revenue generated by the Players who have been
identified as having used our Services as a result of having first been
referred to our Services by you. The referral percentage on Net Revenue
generated by the Players referred to our Services by you is detailed
below:
Monthly Net Revenue Commission 50%
8.4. In the event that you carry a negative commission balance at the
end of a month, your negative balance will be reset to zero at the
beginning of the following month.
8.5. We shall pay you your Referral Percentage each month one month in
arrears. Payment shall be made between the first and the fifteenth day
of each month. If the Referral Percentage for any one month is less
than £50, we shall pay that amount to you when the accumulated amount
is greater than £50. If the balance carried over remains below our £50
payment limit for a period of six (6) consecutive months, we reserve
the right to withhold the amount indefinitely and terminate the
Agreement. Our tracking system shall be the sole method for determining
the basis of the calculation of the Referral Percentage. In the absence
of manifest error, our calculations shall be binding on you. The
available payment options for commission payments are currently bank
transfer and cheques.
8.6. We shall have the right to withhold any and all payments to you if you are in breach of this Agreement.
9. Term and Termination
9.1 This Agreement shall take effect when you
indicate your acceptance of its terms on the Affiliate application form
and shall continue until terminated in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement.
9.2 You may terminate this Agreement, with or without cause, upon 7 days notice to us which you should send by email to: info@bigheartbingo.co.uk.
9.3 We may terminate this Agreement, with or without cause at any time,
upon written notice to you, which we may send by email to such email
address as you have provided to us. We have the right to cancel
Promotion Rights with immediate effect if you are in material breach of
this Agreement. Such breach includes, but is not limited to, situations
when you engage in advertising, marketing, distribution and promotional
efforts that would tend to impair or harm our goodwill and business
reputation and/or would or might expose us to any legal liability. In
the event we cancel your Promotion Rights, we shall be entitled to
disable your tracking code(s) with immediate effect.
The following consequences of termination will apply where we terminate this Agreement:
- You shall stop promoting our Services and all rights and licences given to you under this Agreement will terminate immediately.
- You
shall return to us any and all materials, over which we have a
proprietary right, that are in your possession or control and/or
including the possession or control of your agents, servants,
directors, employees or sub-contractors over which you have control.
You shall also immediately remove any hyperlinks and materials, over
which we have a proprietary right, from your website(s) and/or the
websites of your agents over which you have control.
- Provided
that we have paid or do pay to you such sums as are properly due and
owing at the date of termination which shall be subject to any rights
we have to make deductions whether under this Agreement or otherwise,
we shall have no further liability to pay you any further sums.
- Clauses
22 - 34 inclusive and all other clauses which are capable of, or by
implication are intended to survive termination of this Agreement,
shall survive such termination.
- Users that utilise the
facilities and Services we provide, and all information relating to
such Users, shall remain our property at all times.
10. Account Statements
10.1. All payments to you shall be made in
accordance with clause 8.5 above. Payment shall be accompanied by a
written statement that specifies the calculation of the sum to be paid
to you. In addition, statements may be adjusted by us from time to time
to reflect overpayments, customer chargebacks and/or credits or
underpayments.
10.2. You shall have the ability to monitor the Referral Percentage and
payments in real time on a secure website through the use of an online
monitoring system.
12. Marketing Activities and Responsibilities.
You agree not to:
- promote us in any manner that may confuse potential players;
- promote us in any manner that could potentially cause any player confusion as to our relationship with you or any third party;
- violate the terms of use and/or any applicable policies of any search engines;
- modify the marketing material provided for the promotion of our Services once approved by us;
- unless
otherwise agreed, attempt to communicate with our players or attempt to
solicit them, including but not limited to via email, message boards,
blogs, and
- promote us through any online and/or offline channel that we use to market our Services without our prior written approval.
13. Customised Material
Any CD and/or customized promotional material provided to you
for the purpose of advertising our Services will be at your cost and
shall be deducted from your Percentage Referral. Any such deduction
shall appear on your statement.
14. Fraud Limitations
We reserve the right to remove and/or discount referred
Players or Net Revenue amounts from your Affiliate account, or reject
the applications of new referred Players so as to protect our
operations from Fraud. We also reserve the right to refuse or terminate
the provision of our Services to any potential or existing referred
Player, at any time, and in our sole discretion. For the avoidance of
doubt, any such data relating to your referred Players shall remain our
exclusive property.
15. Usage Restrictions
You, your directors, employees, consultants, contractors and
agents, and their relatives and friends shall not register as a Player
on our Services or contribute to any player account (directly or
indirectly) through your own Affiliate account, unless specifically
authorised to do so by us. Any breach of this restriction shall be
considered Fraud.
16. Spam
If we are aware or reasonably believe that you are using any
form of Spam, we shall be entitled to close your account and withhold
the Referral Percentage (or any portion of it) that might otherwise be
due to you. Immediately on demand from us, you must pay any costs or
expenses that we incur in dealing with any Spam which we are aware or
reasonably believe emanates from you. Suspected spam should be reported
to this address: info@bigheartbingo.co.uk
17. Press
You agree not to issue any press release or other
communication to the public with respect to this Agreement, your
participation in the Affiliate Program without our prior written
consent, except as required by law or by any legal or regulatory
authority.
18. Good Faith and Compliance with Applicable Laws
You agree not to knowingly benefit from traffic that you know
or suspect is not generated using accepted internet marketing practices
whether or not it causes us harm. You acknowledge that the promoting or
soliciting of bets is subject to legal restrictions or prohibition in
some countries. You have made your own enquiries as to the legality or
otherwise of participating in the Affiliate Program in any particular
jurisdiction and hereby expressly agree to comply with any applicable
laws relating to the participation in online gaming and not to promote
our services exclusively to jurisdictions where it is not legal for
residents to access internet gaming, deposit funds or play at an online
casino, an online bingo or an online poker room.
Cash player registrations from the following countries are not accepted by BigHeartBingo: Malta and the USA.
In addition, you must at all times comply with all applicable laws
relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, including but not
limited to, data protection, online marketing, e-commerce, gaming and
licensing.
19. Independent Investigation
You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement, have had an
opportunity to consult with your own legal advisors if so desired, and
agree to all its Terms and Conditions.
You have independently evaluated the desirability of participating in
the Affiliate Program and are not relying on any representation,
guarantee, or statement other than as set forth in this Agreement.
20. Exclusivity
You agree, understand and acknowledge that we may enter into
agreements of this type with third parties to promote our Services or a
similar version thereof. We may re-direct traffic and Users to any
other online website in our sole discretion, without any additional
compensation to you.
21. Intellectual Property
21.1 Gaming Ventures Plc owns all intellectual property rights in the BigHeartBingo brand, which
includes its associated logos, domain names and trade marks. We
consent to your use of the BigHeartBingo brand solely in the links on
your website which are placed for the purposes of promoting our
Services during the term of this Agreement. You shall not: (i) register
or attempt to register any domain names or trade marks that contain the
name BigHeartBingo or anything confusingly similar to it; [(ii) imitate
the look and feel of our website or a website of any other Gaming Ventures Plc.
21.2 Subject to clause 21.1, we own the intellectual property rights in
the Marketing Materials and our Services. You shall not: (i) alter,
modify or change the Marketing Materials in any way whatsoever, save as
approved by us in our absolute discretion; (ii) use the Marketing
Materials for purposes other than promoting our Services pursuant to
this Agreement.
21.3 Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as giving you any
right, title or interest in the name BigHeartBingo or any other related
brands, logos, domain names or trade marks of Gaming Ventures Plc Group.
22. Limitation of Liability
We shall not be liable to you (or to any person claiming
rights derived from you) for any incidental, indirect, consequential,
special, punitive or exemplary damages of any kind, including loss of
revenue or profits, loss of business, or loss of data arising out of or
in connection with this Agreement regardless of whether we have been
advised of the same, had other reason to know, or in fact knew of the
possibility of such damage. Our total liability arising out of or in
connection with this Agreement shall not exceed the total Referral
Percentage paid or payable by us to you in any twelve (12) month period
pursuant to this Agreement.
23. Disclaimers
We make no express or implied warranties or representations
with respect to our Affiliate Program, our Services or the Site(s)
including without limitation warranties of fitness, satisfactory
quality, non-infringement, 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 our Site(s) will be uninterrupted
or error-free and shall not be liable for the consequences of any
interruptions or errors.
24. Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure
As part of your participation in our Affiliate Program, we may
disclose to you certain information which is by its nature
confidential. You must treat all such information as strictly
confidential and secret and shall not use it, directly or indirectly,
for your own business purposes or for any other purpose except pursuant
to this Agreement unless with our prior written consent or such
information is generally known or available to the public or if the
same is required by law or legal process.
25. Representations and Warranties
You hereby represent and warrant that:
- this Agreement has been duly and validly executed by you
and that it constitutes a legally valid and binding obligation,
enforceable against you in accordance with its terms;
- the
execution, delivery and performance by you of this Agreement will not
conflict with or infringe any provision of law, rule, regulation or
agreement to which you are party; and
- you are operated by an adult of at least 18 years of age.
You further warrant that you have evaluated the laws relating to this
Agreement and the activities it envisages and that you are satisfied
that you can enter this Agreement and fulfil your obligations without
violating any applicable law.
26. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless
(including our shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents,
successors and assigns) from and against any and all claims, losses,
liabilities, damages or expenses (including legal fees and
disbursements) of any nature whatsoever incurred or suffered by us in
so far as such losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or
are based on (i) any breach of this Agreement by you; (ii) any claim
related to the development, operation, maintenance, and contents of
your website (including that of any agent) or any materials, products
or services linked to it; or iii) any claim related to your
advertising, marketing or promotional efforts pursuant to this
Agreement.
27. Assignment and Dealing
This Agreement and all our rights and obligations under it may
be assigned, transferred, novated or otherwise dealt with by us and
shall inure to the benefit of our successors and assigns and you shall
(at our expense) do all things necessary to facilitate such assignment,
transfer, novation or dealing. You shall not assign, transfer or
otherwise deal with any of your rights under this Agreement without our
prior written consent which we may withhold in our absolute discretion.
28. No Partnership or Agency
You acknowledge that we are independent contractors. Nothing
in this Agreement shall be construed as making us partners or joint
venturers or render either of us liable for any of the debts or
obligations of the other. You shall in no way be considered as being
our agent or representative in any dealings you may have with any third
party. You shall not act for or make any representation on our behalf
in any such dealings nor represent yourself as being our partner, agent
or representative and shall have no power to contract on our behalf.
29. Waiver
No failure, delay or indulgence on the part of either of us in
exercising any power or right under this Agreement shall operate as a
waiver of such power or right. No single or partial exercise of any
power or right by either of us shall preclude any other or further
exercise of any other power or right under this Agreement.
30. Fraud Limitations
We reserve the right to remove and/or discount referred
Players or Net Revenue amounts from your Affiliate account, or reject
the applications of new referred Players so as to protect our
operations from Fraud. We also reserve the right to refuse or terminate
the provision of our Services to any potential or existing referred
Player, at any time, and in our sole discretion. For the avoidance of
doubt, any such data relating to your referred Players shall remain our
exclusive property.
31. Entire Agreement and Modification
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between us and
supersedes all prior agreements between us relating to the subject
matter of this Agreement. Each of us waives any right it may have to
rescind this Agreement for the breach of any warranty or representation
not included in this Agreement unless such representation or warranty
was made fraudulently. No variation, modification, alteration or waiver
of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be binding unless
evidenced in writing and signed by a duly authorised director or
employee of both of us.
32. Severability
If at any time any provisions of this Agreement are held
invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect by any court under any
law they shall be deleted from the Agreement and the validity, legality
and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall
not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
33. Language
In case of any discrepancy between the meanings of any
translated version(s) of this Agreement, the meaning of the English
Language version shall prevail.
34. Law and Jurisdiction
This Agreement shall be governed and construed in all respects
in accordance with English law and shall take effect as an agreement
made in England. The parties hereby submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the Courts of England. Nothing in this clause shall
prevent either party from applying to any appropriate court for any
injunction or other like remedy to restrain the other party or any
third party from committing any breach or anticipated breach of this
Agreement and for consequential relief.
Our mission is to create and maintain a fair and rewarding gaming
affiliate partnership. If you have any questions or concerns about this
Agreement, please email us at: info@bigheartbingo.co.uk.
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