1. Enrollment in the Joint Venture Program

To begin the enrollment process, you must submit a properly completed Program application via Our Site. We will evaluate your application in good faith and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection in a timely manner. We may reject your application if we determine, in our sole discretion, that Your Site is unsuitable for the Program for any reason, including, but not limited to, inclusion of content on your Web site that we deem is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, which by way of example only, contains (i) sexually explicit, pornographic or obscene content (whether in text or graphics), (ii) speech or images that are offensive, profane, hateful, threatening, harmful, defamatory, libelous, harassing or discriminatory (whether based on race, ethnicity, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, physical disability or otherwise), (iii) graphic violence, (iv) politically sensitive or controversial issues or (v) any unlawful behavior or conduct.

In this regard, you understand that we reserve the right to conclude that Your Site is unsuitable in accordance with our standards, and we may come to such a conclusion even if it is based upon our opinion or mere suspicion or belief, without any duty to prove that our opinion or suspicion is well-founded and even if our opinion or suspicion is proven not to be well-founded or if others' sites have been accepted despite having the same or similar characteristics as Your Site. You also understand that if we accept your application, such acceptance shall not imply that Your Site does not meet one or more of the criteria that would have permitted us to reject your application. If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Program at any time.

 

2. Promotion of Our Joint Venture  Relationship

In the event of your acceptance to the Joint Venture Program, we will make available to you, banner advertisements, button links, text links and other links as determined by Trade The Spikes which shall all link to program sites (collectively referred to hereinafter as a "Link"), which you may display on your Web site, provided you abide by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. In using the Links, you agree that you will cooperate fully with us in order to establish and maintain such Links. All Partner Web sites shall display the Links prominently throughout such sites. If during the term of this Agreement you wish to place the Links on Web sites other than the Web sites which you have previously reported to Trade The Spikes and which Trade The Spike shave approved ("Alternative Sites"), you shall be obligated to request and receive Trade The Spike's permission for the placement of the Links on Alternative Sites. You may not modify a Link, unless you have received prior written consent from Trade The Spikes to do so. We have the right, in our sole discretion, to monitor your Web site at any time and from time to time to determine if you are in compliance with the terms of this Agreement. In the event that we determine that your use of any Link is not in compliance with the terms of this Agreement, we shall be entitled to take such measures as to render inoperative the Links used by you. Further, the use of the Links is the only method by which you may advertise our sites. You may not advertise our sites in any other way including, without limitation, the use of spam e-mails. In the event that you desire to offer certain incentives to potential Registered Member s you are required to receive our prior written approval for such incentives prior to your commencement of such activity and in the event that you do not receive such approval and offer such incentives, you shall not be permitted to receive any commissions generated on account of Registered Member s who have become such in connection with the unapproved incentives.  

3. Email Spam Policies

As an partner of Trade The Spikes, you agree to comply with the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the .Act.) in its distribution of email that contains messaging regarding Trade The Spikes. More specifically, email that meets this criteria:

• May only be sent to recipients who have expressly agreed directly with Partner, in advance, to receive such communications from the Partner.
• Must clearly and conspicuously identify that the message is an advertisement or solicitation, unless recipient has given prior affirmative consent to receipt of the message. Affirmative consent means that the recipient expressly consented to receive the message either in response to a clear and conspicuous request for such consent or at the recipient's own initiative.
• Must clearly and conspicuously notify the recipient of the opportunity to decline to receive further commercial email from the Partner.
• Must provide a valid physical postal address of Partner.
• Must provide a functioning return email address or other Internet-based mechanism, clearly and conspicuously displayed, that a recipient may use to submit, in a manner specified in the commercial email, a reply email or other Internet-based mechanism a request not to receive future commercial email from Partner. The return address or Internet-based mechanism must be capable of receiving such messages for at least thirty (30) days after the transmission of the original message. Partner may not send subsequent commercial emails more than ten (10) business days after the recipient's request not to receive further emails has been received (unless there is a subsequent affirmative consent by the recipient to receive such emails.) Once Partner receives such a request, Partner may not sell, lease, exchange or otherwise transfer or release the email address of the recipient.
• May not contain materially false or materially misleading header information, or deceptive subject heading.
• May not contain sexually oriented material.

In addition, before distribution of email that contains messaging regarding Trade The Spikes, Partner agrees (1) to send the email addresses of all intended recipients of such email to Trade The Spikes, or a third-party designated by Trade The Spikes, so that Trade The Spikes may identify those individuals who have notified Trade The Spikes that they do not want to receive emails from or about Trade The Spikes, and (2) to suppress the email addresses of those individuals, as identified by Trade The Spikes

Partners may not initiate or assist in the transmission of commercial email using an email address: (1) that was collected through automated means, from a third party web site in violation of that third party's posted privacy policy, or (2) that was generated through automated means by combining names, letters or numbers into numerous permutations. Partners may not conduct fraudulent activities related to electronic mail, including but not limited to the material falsification of header or transmission information, the unauthorized use of someone else's computer to send bulk commercial email, and the registration of an email account that materially falsifies the identity of the actual registrant.

Upon Trade The Spike's request, the Partner shall provide Trade The Spikes with documentation demonstrating that the recipients consented to receive the email at issue.

In addition, in the event of a breach of this Email/Spam Agreement by the Partner and/or a third party or licensee, in addition to all other remedies available to it, Trade The Spikes Partners shall have the right to refuse to make payments to Partner and remove the partner from the program as a result of Partner's efforts promoting Trade The Spikes, which efforts cannot be verified by the Partner as having complied with the terms and conditions of this Email/Spam Agreement.

Partner agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Trade The Spikes harmless from any cost, expense or liability arising out of any breach or alleged breach of your obligations under this Email/Spam Agreement.   

4. Our Responsibilities

We will be responsible for providing all information necessary to allow you to make appropriate Links from Your Site to our site. We will track the number of Registered Members. A "Registered Member€� is defined as a new user without a prior account with Trade The Spikes 's programs (which includes an account with any of the entities operated by Trade The Spikes ) who accesses our site through the Links placed on your Web site, opens a new user account and makes the required minimum deposit in such account.

5. Referral Fees

a. Subject to clause (b) below, we will pay you referral fees only on sign-ups that have made purchases from Trade The Spikes . Your entitlement to a referral fee will accrue only if the customer (I) accesses our sites through the use of an authorized Link on Your Site or your email contact; (II) before exiting our sites registers and performs a purchase; (III) does not issue a chargeback.

b. All referral fees are paid within 60 days from the date of purchase minus a 15% fraud holding fee. This holding fee will be paid with-in 90 days of the purchase price provided there are no fraud related credit card usage directly related your referrals.  

6. Reports of Sales

You will use your pre-selected username and password and have the ability to enter a password-protected web site to receive your sales statistics on a daily basis.       

7. Licenses and Use of the Trade The Spikes Logos and Trademarks

a. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right (I) to access our sites through the Links solely in accordance with the terms of this agreement and (ii) solely in connection with such Links, to use our logos, trade names, trademarks and similar identifying material relating to us (collectively, the "Licensed Materials"), for the sole purpose of establishing a Link to our sites so users of Your Site can subscribe to Trade The Spikes or any of the entities operated by Trade The Spikes . You may not alter, modify or change the Licensed Materials in any way.

b. Other than establishing a Link from Your Site to our sites, you shall not make any use of any Licensed Materials without first obtaining our prior written consent. You shall not use the Licensed Materials in any manner that is disparaging or that otherwise portrays us in a negative light. We reserve all of our rights in the Licensed Materials and of our other proprietary rights. We, in our sole discretion, may revoke cancel your Partner agreement at any time, by giving you written notice.        

8. Publicity

You shall not create, publish, distribute, or permit any written material that makes reference to us without first submitting such material to us and receiving our prior written consent, which we agree shall not be unreasonably withheld.         

9. Obligations Regarding Your Web Site

You will be solely responsible for the technical operation of your Web site and the accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your Web site. You agree that your Web site will not, in any way, copy or resemble the look and feel of Our Site nor will you create the impression that your Web site is Our Site or any part of Our Site. You also agree that your Web site will not contain any content of Our Site or any materials which are proprietary to Trade The Spikes , except (i) with our prior permission, or (ii) materials obtained by you via the Partner Program information site in accordance with the provisions hereof or the policies or instructions therein. You will indemnify and hold Trade The Spikes harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses (including, without limitation, attorney's fees and expert witness fees) relating to the development, operation, maintenance, and contents of your Web site or any materials, products or services linked to therein. You hereby acknowledge that your conduct as an Partner shall reflect on Trade The Spikes and has the potential to cause substantial damage to Trade The Spikes 's reputation and goodwill and that you shall at all times consider the goodwill and reputation of Trade The Spikes and Trade The Spikes 's name.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that the content of Your Site and your products and services that you offer from Your Site comply with all applicable copyright and other laws. You must have express permission to use another party's copyrighted or other proprietary material. We will not be responsible if you use another party's copyrighted or other proprietary material on Your Site in violation of the law or any agreement, and your indemnity, below; will protect us if you do so.          

10. Term of this Agreement and Termination

The term of this Agreement will begin when you complete the sign-up procedure and create a unique link to our sites and will be continuous unless and until either party notifies the other in writing that it wishes to terminate the Agreement, in which case this Agreement will be terminated immediately. TERMINATION IS AT WILL, WITH OR WITHOUT REASON, BY EITHER PARTY. For purposes of notification of termination, delivery via e-mail is considered a written and immediate form of notification.          

11 Consequences

Upon termination you must remove all of our banners/icons from your site(s) and disable all links from your site(s) to ours. All rights and licenses given to you in this Agreement shall immediately terminate. You will return to us any confidential information and all copies of it in your possession, custody and control and will cease all uses of our Marks.           

12. Modification

We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement at any time and in our sole discretion. You will be notified by email and a change notice will be posted on/at Trade The Spikes. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the scope of available referral fees, referral fee schedules, payment procedures and Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this Agreement. Your continued participation in the Program following our posting of a change notice or new Agreement on Our Site will constitute binding acceptance of the change.            

13. Continued Promotion

You shall incorporate and prominently and continually display the most up to date links provided by us on all pages of your website in a manner and location agreed by us and you shall not alter the form, location or operation of the links without our prior written consent.             

14. Relationship of Parties

You and Trade The Spikes and any of the entities it represents are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative or employment relationship between the parties. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on Your Site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Article.             

15. Representations and Warranties

Except as otherwise stated in this Article 16, we make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any Trade The Spikes Services sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability or non-infringement, or any implied warranties arising out of course of performance, dealing or trade usage). In addition, we make no representation that the operation of Our Site will be uninterrupted or error free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.

Each of us (the "Warrantor") hereby represents and warrant to the other party as follows:

a. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by the Warrantor and constitutes its legal, valid, and binding obligation, enforceable against the Warrantor in accordance with its terms.

b. The execution, delivery, and performance by the Warrantor of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not, with or without giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, conflict with or violate (i) any provision of law, rule or regulation to which the Warrantor is subject, (ii) any order, judgment or decree applicable to or binding upon the Warrantor's assets, (iii) any provision of the Warrantor's by-laws or certificate of incorporation, or (iv) any agreement or other instrument applicable to or binding upon the Warrantor's assets.

c. No consent, approval, authorization of, exemption by or filing with any governmental authority or any third party is required to be obtained or made by the Warrantor in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or the taking by the Warrantor of any other action contemplated hereby.

d. There is no pending or, to the best of the Warrantor's knowledge, threatened claim, action, or proceeding against Warrantor with respect to the execution, delivery or consummation of this Agreement, or with respect to the Warrantor's trademarks, and, to the best of the Warrantor's knowledge, there is no basis for any such claim, action, or proceeding.

You hereby represent and warrant to us that you are the sole and exclusive owner of the Partner Trademarks and have the right and power to grant to us the license to use your trademarks in the manner contemplated herein, and such grant does not and will not (i) breach, conflict with or constitute a default under any agreement or other instrument applicable to you or binding upon your assets or properties, or (ii) infringe upon any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright or other proprietary right of any other person or entity.             

16. Confidentiality

During the term of this Agreement, you may be entrusted with confidential information relating to our business, operations, or underlying technology and/or the Partner Program (including, for example, Referral Commissions earned by you under the Partner Program). You agree to avoid disclosure or unauthorized use of any such confidential information to third persons or outside parties unless you have our prior written consent and that you will use the confidential information only for purposes necessary to further the purposes of this Agreement. Your obligations with respect to confidential information shall survive the termination of this Agreement.             

17. Limitation of Liability.

We will not be liable for indirect, special or consequential damages, or any loss of revenue, profits or data arising in connection with this Agreement or the Partner Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Partner Program will not exceed the total commissions paid or payable to you under this Agreement.             

18. Indemnification

You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Trade The Spikes , the entities it represents and Partners, and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees), and costs (any or all of the foregoing hereinafter referred to as "Losses") insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (i) any claim that our use of the Partner Trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of any third party, (ii) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement made by you herein, (iii) the development, operation, maintenance and content of Your Site and products and services offered from Your Site, or (iv) any claim related to Your Site, including, without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.             

19. Notification

All notices to us in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed given as of the day they are received either by email.

20. Independent Investigation

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY TIME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.             

21. Construction

If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of this Agreement, or portion thereof, to be unenforceable, that provision of the Agreement will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to affect the intent of the parties, and the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such a provision or any other provision of this Agreement.             

22. Governing Law

This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the United State, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action relating to this Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts located in Las Vegas Nevada, and you irrevocably consent to the personal and subject matter jurisdiction of such courts. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns.             

23. Entire Agreement

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior communications.