This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an individual's or entity's participation in the Bookadda.com (A unit of Ishita Technologies Pvt Ltd) Associates Program (hereafter referred to as the "Program"). As used in this Agreement, "we", "us", or "our" means Ishita Technologies Pvt Ltd or any of our affiliate companies, as the case may be, and "you" means the applicant. "Bookadda Site" means, collectively, the bookadda.com web site."Your site" means any website that you will link to the Bookadda Site (and which you will identify in your Program application). Save for our obligation to pay referral fees under Section 4, which may be performed solely by us, we may cause any of our obligations under this Agreement to be fulfilled by any of our Affiliates (defined below), on our behalf.
To begin the enrollment process, you will submit a complete Program application via the Bookadda Site. We will evaluate your application in good faith and will notify you of its acceptance or rejection. We may reject your application if we determine (in our sole discretion) that your site is unsuitable for the Program. Unsuitable sites include, but are not limited to, those that:
By participating in the Program you agree that you will not engage in any of the above mentioned activities. If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Program at any time. You should also note that if we accept your application and your site is thereafter determined (at our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program, we may terminate this Agreement. Participation in the Program is limited to parties that lawfully can enter into and form contracts under applicable Indian law. For example, minors are not allowed to participate in the Program.
Once you have been notified that your website has been accepted into the Program, we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license for the duration of the term of this Agreement, solely for purposes of facilitating referrals from your site to the Bookadda Site, to provide on your website one or more of the following types of links to the Bookadda Site:
You may select one or more Products to list on your site using a variety of formats that we make available to you, such as text link format, graphical link format, customizable "widget" format, or "product preview" link format. A "Product" is any product listed on the Bookadda Site that is fulfilled by us or on our behalf, a Digital Product (defined below), or any product sold by a third party seller on the Bookadda Site. For each selected Product, you will display on your site a short description, review, or other reference. You will be responsible for the content, style, and placement of these references. You will provide a Special Link (as defined below) from each Product reference on your site to the corresponding Bookadda Site online catalogue entry. Each such link will connect directly to a single item on our online catalogue. You may add or delete Products (and related links) from your site at any time without our approval. You may not use Special Links to link to the Bookadda Site from references to products on your site that are not "Products" as defined above.
You may provide a Bookadda Site search box on your site that will permit your site visitors to view Products that are the results of their search query within the Search Box link or view results that link directly to a page on the Bookadda Site that contains the results of their search query. We will provide you with technical specifications describing how to include a Bookadda Site search box on your site.
You may provide a general link on your website to the home page of the Bookadda Site.
You may provide a link on your site that will link to any particular page on the Bookadda Site, provided that you properly use the special link formats provided on the Bookadda Site as part of the Program to create such a link. We will provide you with guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking to the Bookadda Site home page. To permit accurate tracking, reporting and referral fee accrual, we will provide you with special ‘tagged’ link formats to be used in all links between your website and the Bookadda Site (and for purposes of this Agreement, the browser window described above that opens upon a user's clicking on a Quick-Click link is deemed a part of the Bookadda Site, and any Quick-Click link is deemed a link between your website and the Bookadda Site). You must ensure that each of the links between your website and the Bookadda Site properly utilizes such special link formats.
Links to the Bookadda Site placed on your site pursuant to this Agreement and which properly utilize such special link formats are referred to as "Special Links". You will earn referral fees only with respect to activity on the Bookadda Site occurring directly through Special Links. We will not be liable to you with respect to any failure by you to use Special Links, including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of amounts that would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement.
You acknowledge that by participating in the Associates Program and placing any of the above links within your site, we may receive information from or about visitors to your site or communications between your site and those visitors. Your participation in the Program constitutes your specific and unconditional consent to and authorization for our access to, receipt, storage, use and disclosure of any and all such information, consistent with the policies and procedures set forth in the Privacy Policy on the Bookadda Site.
Except for the license granted under this Section 2, you do not obtain any rights under this Agreement in any intellectual property, including, without limitation, any intellectual property with respect to the Special Links, link formats, technical specifications, guidelines or graphical artwork referenced above, or with respect to the Bookadda.com domain names. You also acknowledge that we (and our corporate affiliates) may crawl or otherwise monitor your site for the purpose of ensuring the quality and reliability of Special Links on your site (for example, to detect links that are broken or non-functional, links to products that are out of stock or otherwise unavailable, etc.). Therefore, you agree that we and our corporate affiliates may take such actions and that you will not seek to block or otherwise interfere with such crawling or monitoring (and that we and our corporate affiliates may use technical means to overcome any methods used on your site to block or interfere with such crawling or monitoring).
You also acknowledge that as a participant in the Program, we may from time to time send you email updates about the Program. By participating in the Program, you consent to our sending you these email updates. Further, you acknowledge and agree that you will
We will process Product orders placed by customers who follow Special Links from your site to the Bookadda Site. We reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any requirements that we periodically may establish. We will be responsible for all aspects of order processing and fulfillment. Among other things, we will prepare order forms, process payments, cancellations and returns, and handle customer service. We will track sales made to customers who purchase Products by using Special Links from your website to the Bookadda Site and will make available to you reports summarizing this sales activity. The form, content and frequency of the reports may vary from time to time at our discretion.
We will pay you (in accordance with Sections 5 and 6 below) referral fees on certain Product sales to third parties. For a Product sale to be eligible to earn a referral fee, the customer must click through a Special Link on your website to the Bookadda Site and during a single session, add the Product to his or her shopping cart. The session begins when the customer clicks through a Special Link on your website to the Bookadda Site and ends upon the first to occur of the following events:
We will only pay referral fees on eligible Products after order, payment and final delivery of the product to the customer. To permit accurate tracking, reporting and fee accrual, you must ensure that the Special Links between your website and the Bookadda Site are properly formatted. We will not be liable for paying referral fees on purchases that are not correctly tracked and reported because the links between your website and the Bookadda Site are not properly formatted. We will not, however, pay referral fees on any Products that are added to a customer's Shopping Cart after the customer has re-entered the Bookadda Site (other than through a Special Link from your site), as determined by us, even if the customer previously followed a link from your site to the Bookadda Site. In addition, we will not pay referral fees for any purchases made by customers referred to us through Special Links generated or displayed in response to general Internet search queries or keywords. For avoidance of doubt, the Search Box Link, which searches the Bookadda Product catalogue, or searches product databases that include Bookadda Products, such as shopping comparison engines, are still eligible for referral fees. You may not purchase products during sessions initiated through the links on your site for your own use, for resale or commercial use of any kind. This includes orders for customers or on behalf of customers or orders for products to be used by you or your friends, relatives, or associates in any manner. Such purchases may result (at our sole discretion) in the withholding of referral fees and/or the termination of this Agreement. In addition, you may not:
During each calendar month, for Qualifying Products sold during sessions initiated through Special Links on your site, you will earn (subject to the other terms of this Agreement) referral fees in accordance with the "Fee Structure" described below. Fee Structure.
Subject to the other terms of this Agreement, you will earn 3% of Qualifying Revenues (revenues derived by us from customers as a result of sales of Qualifying Product units sold during sessions initiated through Special Links on your website, excluding costs for shipping, handling, gift wrapping, taxes separately stated and charged to the customer, service charges, rebates, credit card processing fees, returns and bad debt) which corresponds to the number of such Qualifying Product units sold during sessions initiated through Special Links on your site.
We will pay you referral fees on a monthly basis for Qualifying Products shipped in the applicable month. Approximately 30 days following the end of each calendar month, we will send you a cheque for the referral fees earned. We will accrue and withhold referral fees until the total amount due is at least Rs 1,000.
Customers who buy products through this Program will be deemed to be our customers. Accordingly, all of our rules, policies and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service and product sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for products sold under this Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect Products that you have listed on your website, your website may only show prices when we serve the link in which those prices are displayed. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.
You may not issue any press release with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Program. Such action may result in your termination from the Program. You may not, in any manner, misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and you, or express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this Agreement (including by expressing or implying that we support, sponsor, endorse or contribute money to any charity or other cause).
We grant you a non-exclusive, revocable right to use the graphic image and text described in Section 8 and such other text or images for which we grant express permission, solely for the purpose of identifying your site as a Program participant and to assist in generating Product sales. You may not use such image or text in an offline promotion or other offline manner (e.g., in any printed material, mailing or other document). You may not modify the graphic image or text, or any other of our images, in any way. We reserve all of our rights in the graphic image and text, any other images, our trade names and trademarks, and all other intellectual property rights. You agree to follow our Trademark Guidelines, as those guidelines may change from time to time. We may revoke your license at any time by giving you a written notice.
You will be solely responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of your site and for all materials that appear on your website. For example, you will be solely responsible for:
As a condition to your participation in the Program, you agree that while you are a Program participant you will comply with all laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgments, decisions or other requirements of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, whether those laws, etc. are now in effect or later come into effect during the time you are a Program participant. Without limiting the foregoing obligation, you agree that as a condition of your participation in the Program you will comply with all applicable laws (federal, state or otherwise) that govern marketing emails, including without limitation, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and all other anti-spam laws.
The terms of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Program application and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party a written notice of termination. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of and remove from your website, all links to the Bookadda Site, and all of our trademarks, trade dress and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Program. You are eligible to earn referral fees only on sales of Qualifying Products that occur during the term, and referral fees earned through the date of termination will remain payable only if the related orders are not cancelled or returned. We may withhold your final payment for 30 Working Days to ensure that the correct amount is paid.
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and at our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on the Bookadda Site. Modifications may include, for example, 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 the Bookadda site will constitute binding acceptance of the change.
You and we 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 website or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
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 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 Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement.
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, 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 the Bookadda Site will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.
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 websites that are similar to or compete with your website. 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.
Any dispute relating in any way to the Program or this Agreement in which the aggregate total claim for relief sought on behalf of one or more parties exceeds Rs 1,00,000 will be adjudicated in any state or federal court in Bangalore, Karnataka, and you hereby consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in those courts. You further acknowledge and agree that our rights in the Content are of a special, unique, extraordinary character, giving them peculiar value, the loss of which cannot be readily estimated and may not be adequately compensated for in monetary damages.
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the Indian Republic and the state of Karnataka, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. 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. 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 provision or any other provision of this Agreement.