Affiliate Program Agreement
To be an authorized affiliate of OPTe Inc. (together with its affiliated companies – “OPTe” “OPTe.io” or the “Company” or “we” or “our”), you (“Affiliate”) agree to abide by the terms and conditions contained in this agreement. Please read this agreement carefully before registering and signing on as an affiliate.
By signing up for the OPTe Affiliate Program, you are agreeing to accept this Affiliate Program Agreement and its terms and conditions. If you sign up on behalf of a company, organization, or other entity, then (a) “you” includes you and that entity, and (b) you represent and warrant that you are an authorized representative of the entity with the authority to bind the entity to this Agreement, and that you agree to this Agreement on the entity’s behalf.
This Affiliate Program Agreement (Agreement”) is subject to change at any time, without prior notice. You are responsible for reviewing this Agreement on a regular basis. Any changes that are made to this Agreement will not apply retroactively and will not apply to disputes or events occurring before the change is published.
PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY TO ENSURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND EACH PROVISION. THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS A MANDATORY INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER PROVISION THAT REQUIRES THE USE OF ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO RESOLVE DISPUTES, RATHER THAN JURY TRIALS OR CLASS ACTIONS.
The following agreement is summarized as follows:
- You place our banners anywhere on your site as you see fit, or within non-spam emails.
- We may email you concerning new programs
- We might change the service here and then
- Adult, Hate, or other related sites are not allowed
- You will be paid your commissions, at such time as your account balance is $100 or more.
- All sales are tracked using visitor IP and/or cookies. All statistics are collected and calculated by OPTe, and will be the only valid stats used for determining commissions.
- You should make sure that you disclose upfront that you receive a percentage of each sale made. In addition, all endorsements must reflect the honest opinions or experiences by you.
- As an affiliate, you can only have 1 account. You can list multiple domains in one account, but only one account is allowed.
- International affiliates (outside of the United States) without a Paypal account are paid via bank wire or alternative money transfer provider where possible.
- Your physical address listed for receiving payouts MUST be your actual address. Mail forwarding services, for the purpose of avoiding network demographics, is NOT allowed. For example, if you choose the USA as your country, you must be in the USA. If you choose Russia as a country, you must be in Russia.
- You won’t hold us liable for anything, a link to a non-opte.io Web site does not mean that opte.io endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or the use of such Web site.
- You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. We will terminate your account on the first offense of SPAMMING. Do not send email to lists or groups that you do not have permission to send to. We cannot stress this enough, we WILL terminate your account on the first offense.
- You may place banners or links within your plugin dashboard, newsletters, in content of your website, or within other web related content.
- Affiliate accounts that are left inactive will be removed from our system if their balance is equal to or less than $25. If an abandoned affiliate account has a balance between $25 and $50, a $25 fee will be assessed once per calendar month, until the balance is equal to zero dollars – and is closed. At no time will an affiliate ever owe monies to OPTe Inc. based on fees – the account will simply be closed. An abandoned affiliate account is defined as any account that has not been logged in to for a period of 6 months, nor have any transactions been posted to that account. If one or the other of those conditions are true – the account will remain in an active state.
- NOT ALLOWED: All other uses of banners or links, such as newsgroups, chat rooms, ICQ, message boards, banner networks, hit farms, counters, or guestbooks etc. are NOT allowed.
- NOT ALLOWED: Any placement of creative in a “Desktop” advertising scheme. This includes any and all 3rd party advertising platforms that use a desktop application to display ads in any form.
- Failure to abide by these rules could mean termination with a complete forfeit of commissions.
- Affiliate shall comply with any and all regulations, statutes and applicable laws of the United States or any other state, country or jurisdiction in which he acts related to Email, and/or electronic communications. It is Affiliate’s responsibility to be aware of all such regulations, statutes and laws.
- You must familiarize yourself and be compliant with the Federal Trade Commission which requires that affiliates disclose to their readers when they endorse a product and have a “material connection” to the seller of that product.
- Fraud is a serious offense, and will be treated as such. Fraud is defined as any action that intentionally attempts to create sales, leads, or click-throughs using robots, frames, iframes, scripts, or manually “refreshing” of pages, for the sole purpose of creating commissions. ANY ATTEMPTED FRAUD OR FRAUD WILL RESULT IN MEMBERSHIP TERMINATION AND VOIDED COMMISSIONS.
- You cannot refer yourself as a subscriber with opte.io and receive commission. Sorry.