ADVERTISERS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This Agreement shall govern participation in the Thagodz.com program. By participating in
the Program, you will be deemed to have agreed to these Terms and Conditions.
PAYMENT:
All customers are required to pay one-hundred percent (100%) of the cost of the campaign before its
activation. Thagodz.com reserves the right to set and negotiate specific payment terms on a
customer-by-customer basis.
Participation:
Thagodz.com shall have absolute discretion as to whether or not it accepts a particular
customer or site for participation in the Thagodz Network
1. Thagodz.com will not direct visitors to sites containing content that is not appropriate
for viewing by a general audience. The following are examples (including but not limited to) of the
type of sites we will not direct visitors to:
Sites with child pornography or sites that contain links to such content
Sites containing or linking to software piracy
Sites containing or linking to any form of illegal activity (i.e., how to build a bomb, hacking,
'phreaking', etc.)
Sites with gratuitous displays of violence, obscene or vulgar language, and abusive content or
content which endorses or threatens physical harm
Sites promoting any type of hate-mongering (i.e., racial, political, ethnic, religious,
gender-based, sexuality-based or personal, etc.)
Sites that participate in or transmit inappropriate newsgroup postings or unsolicited e-mail (spam)
Sites promoting any type of illegal substance or activity sites with illegal, false or deceptive
investment advice and money-making opportunities
Sites with any type of content reasonable public consensus deems to be improper or inappropriate
2. To insure compliance with these terms and conditions, any customers that change their content
after approval for membership MUST notify Thagodz.com of the changes in writing IMMEDIATELY.
If your site is changed during the campaign such that it includes inappropriate content,
Thagodz.com may stop your campaign immediately. In this case, you will not be entitled to a
refund.
Data Reporting (Stats): All Campaigns purchased on the Thagodz Network are served, tracked
and reported by Thagodz.com. For Campaigns that involve third party serving/tracking,
accounting may be beyond the control of Thagodz.com. Campaigns that use third party
serving/tracking for auditing purposes may be subject to alternate or additional controls.
Thagodz.com is the sole owner of all website, campaign, and aggregate web user data
collected by Thagodz.com. Customer only has access to website and web user data that is
collected as part of Customer's campaign.
Payment Liability: Thagodz.com reserves the right to hold Customer and any agency, broker
or other authorized representative of Customer jointly and severally liable for all amounts owed to
Thagodz.com.
GENERAL:
Representations and Warranties: Customer hereby indemnifies and holds harmless Thagodz.com
and the Publishers (including their successors, directors, officers, employees, agents, assigns)
from and against all claims, loss, liability, damage and expense of any nature (including attorneys'
reasonable fees) in connection with the Advertisement URL and its linked websites, for any actual or
alleged breach of any term of this Agreement.
Damages: In no event shall either party be liable for special, indirect, incidental, or
consequential damages, including, but not limited to, loss of data, loss of use, or loss of profits
arising there under or from the provision of services.
Limitation of Liability: Neither Thagodz.com nor the participating sites will be subject to
any liability whatsoever for (a) any failures to provide reference or access to all or any part of
the Advertisement URL due to systems failures or other technological failures of Thagodz.com
or of the Internet; (b) delays in delivery and/or non-delivery of a campaign, including, without
limitation, difficulties with a Publisher or Website, difficulties with a third-party server, or
electronic malfunction; and (c) errors in content or omissions in any Advertisement URLs provided by
Customer.
Modifications:
The Program reserves the right to change any of these terms and conditions at any time without
notice. You are responsible for complying with any changes to the terms and conditions within 10
days of the date of change.
In the Case of dispute:
Customer agrees to settle any/all dispute(s) under this agreement via binding arbitration in Columbia, South Carolina
AFFILIATES TERMS AND CONDITIONS
DEFINITIONS
"Paid Listings" - an advertisements made dynamically or statically by Thagodz.com and
provided to Client via an HTML or XML data feed for future display on Client's website or websites
related to Client.
"Net Revenue" - the earnings gathered by Thagodz.com from a Thagodz.com's
advertiser for Valid Clickthroughs coming from Paid Listings advertisements served through the
Client's sites or Client's affiliates sites.
"Valid Clickthrough" - the action of a user clicking on a text link or image link, which further
directs the user's browser to a Thagodz.com's server and finally to the web site of a
Thagodz.com's advertiser, subject to the following restrictions:
1. The action may not be started or performed involving any non-human processes including robots,
spiders, scripts (or other software), mechanical automation of clicking applied to the user's mouse
or keyboard, or any other non-human clicking agent.
2. The action may not be illegal or appear to be illegal in nature according to the reasonable
discretion of Thagodz.com and/or the Thagodz.com's advertiser, and no one else.
3. Caching of Paid Listings is not allowed.
4. In general, clickthroughs of the following nature will also be treated as invalid: multiple
clickthroughs by the same user within the same second, multiple clickthroughs by the same user on
the same link within an unreasonable period of time not more than 5 seconds, suspicious patterns of
clicking by any given user (e.g.: a user clicking on the first, second, and third link in
consecutive order and in a repetitive pattern, or a user clicking on the same position all the time,
while leaving out other positions), and clickthroughs from a previously blocked IP address( s ),
that has(have) been considered by Thagodz.com's to be a possible source of illegal activity.
5. Valid ClichThroughs coming from or routed through countries other than USA, Canada, Australia
and European Union will generally be refused.
The Client bears complete responsibility for the activities of his/her affiliate(s) concerning the
validity of clickthroughs.
GENERAL:
1. Participation in the Thagodz.com program.
To participate in the Thagodz.com program, you will submit an application through our
signup form located on our website http://www.Thagodz.com. We may reject your application in
our sole discretion, if we determine that your site(s) are unsuitable for our program for any reason.
2. Term of the Agreements.
The term of this Agreement will begin upon submitting application form located on our website
http://www.Thagodz.com 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 notice of
termination. Notice by email, to your email address in our records, is considered sufficient notice
for us to terminate this Agreement. If this Agreement is terminated because you have violated the
terms of this Agreement you will not receive any payments, even for commissions earned prior to the
date of termination. If this Agreement is terminated for any other reason, you are only eligible to
earn a commission on sales occurring during the term of the Agreement, and commissions earned
through the date of termination will remain payable only if the related orders are not canceled or
returned. We reserve the right to withhold your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that
the correct amount is paid.
3. Forms of promotion.
As the owner/operator of an affiliate website, you may use any form of promotion you choose,
compatible with the terms of this Agreement: text links, searchboxes, XML feed, but you're not
allowed to do any mass-mailing.
4. Click-through.
Users must perform a Valid Click-Through, they must click or use search box to get to search
results, all other methods considered as illegal.
5. Restrictions.
We will immediately terminate your participation in the Thagodz.com affiliate program
should you promote our program in any of the following ways:
Spamming of any sort, meaning they are not opt- in emails; IRC/ICQ/AOL/MSN mass-messaging, and/or
newsgroups;
Your website contains child pornography;
Your website contains rape;
Your website contains violence;
Your website contains illegal activities;
Your website violates intellectual property rights;
Attempts to cheat, defraud or mislead us in any way;
For any other reason deemed to be reasonable by us.
Thagodz.com reserves the right to cancel your participation in the affiliate program at any
time should your site(s) become involved in any way with the above subjects and/or, but not limited
to, mass unsolicited mailings (i.e. spamming) or association with other sites whose content goes
against our policies. Such cancellation shall result in the forfeiture of any accumulated unpaid
commission.
6. Promotion materials.
Thagodz.com grants you a license to promote our program using any of the promotional
material found in our webmaster area. You are not allowed to use this material for promotion of
other sites/products.
7. Commission.
Thagodz.com will pay you 60% of the total revenues received from our advertisers
(Thagodz.com may increase your commision at the later time). Any advertiser's refusal to pay
results in a subsequent debit from the affiliate account. Thagodz.com will pay you 10%
commision for referring new advertisers and 5% of total revenue generated by referred affiliates.
8. Commission Payment.
Payment will be made twice a month, on the ninth (9th) and twenty-forth (24th) for the previous
periods. Minimum payment is one hundred (100) US dollars. Minimum payment can be changed inside the
webmaster area. Please remember that payments are made according to our Affiliate Report. All
personal member information is kept in the strictest confidence and will not be included in the
Affiliate Report.
9. Modification.
We reserve the right to change any part of this agreement at any time and in our sole discretion.
Notices of any change will be made on this website and/or sent by e-mail which is considered
sufficient notice to you of a change to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
10. Authority.
Nothing in this agreement will serve to grant you any authority to act on our behalf. You will
remain independent of us at all times. You are an independent contractor and nothing in this
agreement is intended to or will create any form of partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise,
sales representative or employment relationship between you and Thagodz.com.You are not an
agent of the COMPANY and COMPANY expressly disclaims responsibility for any conduct by you in
violation of the terms of this Agreement.
11. Limitation of Liability.
Thagodz.com will make every effort to keep its websites operational at all times. However,
certain technical difficulties may, from time to time, result in temporary service interruptions.
The participant agrees not to hold Thagodz.com liable for indirect, special, or
consequential damages, or any loss of revenue, profits, or data, arising in connection with this
Agreement or the Affiliate Program.
12.
Should any law enforcement agency, any internet service provider or other person or entity
provide Thagodz.com with notice that you have engaged in transmission of unsolicited emails
or have engaged in otherwise unlawful conduct or conduct in violation of any internet service
provider's terms of service, we reserve the right to cooperate in any investigation relating to your
activities including disclosure of your account information.
13. Disclaimers.
Thagodz.com makes no warranties, representations or conditions with regard to the program,
whether express or implied, arising by law or otherwise, including without limitation any implied
warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement or any implied
warranty arising out of course of performance, course of dealing or usage of trade. We make no
representation that the sites operated under this program will be error-free or uninterrupted, and
will not be held responsible for any errors or interruptions.
14. Miscellaneous.
This agreement may not be assigned, by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior written
consent of Thagodz.com . Subject to the foregoing restriction, this agreement is binding
upon, insures to the benefit of and is enforceable by the parties and their respective successors
and assigns. Thagodz.com and the participant are independent contractors and nothing in this
agreement is intended to or will create any form of partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise,
sales representative or employment relationship between the parties. Users with low browser security
settings have already given you permission to install by selecting 'low'. It is their sole
responsibility as to what security settings they choose to use.
15. Daily Minimum.
** Publishers not making $5.00 a day are subject to termination.
THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND THE COMPANY. BY SIGNING UP TO OUR PROGRAM YOU AGREE TO
HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN. YOU CAN NOT PARTICIPATE IN OUR
PROGRAM UNLESS YOU HAVE ACCEPTED EACH AND EVERY TERM HEREOF.