Our affiliates are important to us. We will treat you with utmost fairness and respect, and in return, we ask for the same consideration from you.
We have put together the following agreement with you in mind and to protect our company’s reputation.
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THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND GR KOMPLETE PRODUCTIONS, LLC. (DBA LIBRARY.GORANGROOVES.COM AND GORANGROOVES.COM)
BY SUBMITTING THE ONLINE APPLICATION, YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH AND EVERY TERM AND CONDITION.
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to you becoming an affiliate in library.gorangrooves.com’s Affiliate Program. The purpose of this Agreement is to allow HTML linking between your website and the library.gorangrooves.com website. Please note that throughout this Agreement, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to library.gorangrooves.com, and “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to the affiliate.
2.1. To begin the enrollment process, you must complete and submit the online application at the library.gorangrooves.com. We will promptly evaluate your application and inform you of our decision. We may reject your application at our sole discretion. We may cancel your application if we determine that your site is unsuitable for our Program, including if it:
2.1.1. Promotes sexually explicit materials
2.1.2. Promotes violence
2.1.3. Promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
2.1.4. Promotes illegal activities
2.1.5. Incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law
2.1.6. Includes “GoranGrooves” or variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name
2.1.7. Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion.
2.1.8. Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our Program.
2.1.9. You may not create or design your website or any other website that you operate, explicitly or implied in a manner that resembles our website, nor design your website in a manner that leads customers to believe you are GoranGrooves.com or any other affiliated business.
2.2. As a member of library.gorangrooves.com’s Affiliate Program, you will have access to the Affiliate Portal. There you will be able to track referrals you bring in and sales that result from them, your commissions, download HTML code (that provides for links to web pages within the library.gorangrooves.com website) and banner creatives, browse and get tracking codes for our coupons and deals. For us to accurately track all guest visits from your site to ours, you must use the HTML code that we provide for each banner, text link, or other affiliate links we provide you with.
2.3. library.gorangrooves.com reserves the right, at any time, to review your placement and approve the use of Your Links and require that you change the placement or use to comply with the guidelines provided to you.
2.4. The maintenance and the updating of your site will be your responsibility. We may monitor your site as we feel necessary to ensure that it is up-to-date and notify you of any changes that we feel should enhance your performance.
2.5. It is entirely your responsibility to follow all applicable intellectual property and other laws that pertain to your site. You must have express permission to use any person’s copyrighted material, whether it be a writing, an image, or any other copyrightable work. We will not be responsible (and you will be solely responsible) if you use another person’s copyrighted material or other intellectual property in violation of the law or any third-party rights.
3.1. We have the right to monitor your site at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this Agreement, to ensure that your links to our website are appropriate, and inform you of any changes that we think should be made concerning our creatives supplied to you. If you do not make the changes to your site that we feel are necessary, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the library.gorangrooves.com Affiliate Program.
3.2. library.gorangrooves.com reserves the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in the library.gorangrooves.com Affiliate Program immediately and without notice to you should you commit fraud in your use of the library.gorangrooves.com Affiliate Program or should you abuse this Program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, library.gorangrooves.com shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales. In addition, we may choose to take legal action against you to recover any funds already paid to you that resulted from fraudulent activity.
3.3. This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application and will continue unless terminated hereunder.
Either you or we may end this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice shall be in the form of an email. In addition, this Agreement will terminate immediately upon any breach of this Agreement by you.
We may modify any of the terms and conditions in this Agreement at any time at our sole discretion. In such an event, we will notify you by email. Modifications may include but are not limited to changes in the payment procedures and library.gorangrooves.com’s Affiliate Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only option is to end this Agreement. Your continued participation in library.gorangrooves.com’s Affiliate Program following the change notice or new Agreement posting on our site will indicate your Agreement to the changes.
library.gorangrooves.com uses an affiliate system integrated into the platform to handle all tracking and payment. You will be paid for all referrals that convert into sales at commission rates agreed on a per-product category basis or per-product basis, or any combination thereof.
If you hold a US bank account, you can elect to be paid directly to your bank account or via PayPal. For bank payments, we use Zelle and there is no transfer fee to you. If you do not have a US bank account, all payouts will be done via PayPal.
We send out PayPal payments as “personal” payments to avoid unnecessary fees for both you and us. If you are in the US, you won’t pay a fee to receive money. If you are outside of the US, the PayPal transfer fee will be deducted from your earnings prior to sending you the payment. It is usually not more than $5. With that in mind, you can choose a minimum payout amount before any payment is made to you.
Payments are made monthly and paid out 3 weeks after the months’ close. We reserve the right to reverse the payment for any orders for which commission was paid should the sale result in a chargeback, and such protracted reversal may be deducted against future payments due.
Your commission rate will be 20% on all Virtual Instruments product category and 20% on all MIDI Drum Loops product category. The commission is calculated on net earnings after any discounts or coupons are applied and after payment processing fees (3%) are deducted. The effective commission rate will therefore be lower on the gross sale amounts.
Cookies- when a referral visits our website, a tracking cookie is placed on their computer and is valid for 30 days. You will be credited for any purchase they make within this time period. The 30-day time frame is reset every time the user clicks on your affiliate links.
8.1. You are free to promote your own websites, but naturally, the public or the press could perceive any promotion that mentions GoranGrooves.com as a joint effort. You should know that GoranGrooves.com always prohibits certain forms of advertising. For example, advertising, commonly referred to as “spamming,” is unacceptable to us and could cause damage to our name. Other generally prohibited forms of advertising include the use of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups, and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once. In addition, you may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name, or your return email address. You may use mailings to customers to promote library.gorangrooves.com so long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or websites, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. Also, you may post to newsgroups to promote library.gorangrooves.com so long as the newsgroup specifically welcomes commercial messages. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your websites as independent from library.gorangrooves.com. If it comes to our attention that you are spamming, we will consider that cause for immediate termination of this Agreement and your participation in the library.gorangrooves.com Affiliate Program. We will not pay any pending balances owed to you if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.
8.2. Affiliates that among other keywords or exclusively bid in their Pay-Per-Click campaigns on keywords such as library.gorangrooves.com, gorangrooves, www.gorangrooves, www.gorangrooves.com, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these – be it separately or in combination with other keywords – and do not direct the traffic from such campaigns to their own website prior to redirecting it to ours, will be considered trademark violators and will be banned from library.gorangrooves.com’s Affiliate Program. We will do everything possible to contact the affiliate before the ban. However, we reserve the right to expel any trademark violator from our affiliate program without prior notice and on the first occurrence of such PPC bidding behavior.
8.3. Affiliates are not prohibited from keying in prospect’s information into the lead form as long as the prospects’ information is real and true, and these are valid leads (i.e. sincerely interested in Merchant’s service).
8.4. Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “Parasiteware™,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers from the time the consumer clicks on a qualifying link until such time as the consumer has fully exited library.gorangrooves.com’s site (i.e., no page from our site or any library.gorangrooves.com’s content or branding is visible on the end-user’s screen). As used herein a. “Parasiteware™” and “Parasitic Marketing” shall mean an application that (a) through accidental or direct intent causes the overwriting of affiliate and non affiliate commission tracking cookies through any other means than a customer initiated click on a qualifying link on a web page or email; (b) intercepts searches to redirect traffic through an installed software, thereby causing, pop ups, commission tracking cookies to be put in place or other commission tracking cookies to be overwritten where a user would under normal circumstances have arrived at the same destination through the results given by the search (search engines being, but not limited to, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, MSN, Yahoo, Overture, AltaVista, Hotbot and similar search or directory engines); (c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of GoranGrooves site in iFrames, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open library.gorangrooves.com’s site; (d) targets text on web sites, other than those web sites 100% owned by the application owner, for the purpose of contextual marketing; (e) removes, replaces or blocks the visibility of Affiliate banners with any other banners, other than those that are on web sites 100% owned by the owner of the application.
9.1. We grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to (i) access our site through HTML 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 (collectively, the “Licensed Materials”) that we provide to you or authorize for such purpose. You are only entitled to use the Licensed Materials to the extent that you are a member in good standing of library.gorangrooves.com’s Affiliate Program. You agree that all uses of the Licensed Materials will be on behalf of library.gorangrooves.com, and the goodwill associated therewith will inure to the sole benefit of library.gorangrooves.com.
9.2. Each party agrees not to use the other’s proprietary materials in any manner that is disparaging, misleading, obscene, or that otherwise portrays the party in a negative light. Each party reserves all of its respective rights in the proprietary materials covered by this license. Other than the license granted in this Agreement, each party retains all right, title, and interest to its respective rights, and no right, title, or interest is transferred to the other.
MERCHANT.COM MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING LIBRARY.GORANGROOVES.COM SERVICE, AND WEBSITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED THEREIN, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF LIBRARY.GORANGROOVES.COM ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED. 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.
You represent and warrant that:
11.1. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by you and constitutes your legal, valid, and binding obligation, enforceable against you in accordance with its terms;
11.2. You have the full right, power, and authority to enter into and be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and to perform your obligations under this Agreement without the approval or consent of any other party;
11.3. You have sufficient right, title, and interest in and to the rights granted to us in this Agreement.
WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE OR GOODWILL OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FURTHER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, IN NO EVENT SHALL LIBRARY.GORANGROOVES.COM’S CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSION FEES PAID TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless GR KOMPLETE PRODUCTIONS, LLC, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members, and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) (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 affiliate trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights of any third party, (ii) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and Agreement made by you herein, or (iii) any claim related to your site, including, without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.
All confidential information, including, but not limited to, any business, technical, financial, and customer information disclosed by one party to the other during negotiation or the effective term of this Agreement which is marked “Confidential,” will remain the sole property of the disclosing party. Each party will keep in confidence and not use or disclose such proprietary information of the other party without express written permission of the disclosing party.
15.1. You agree that you are an independent contractor, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between you and library.gorangrooves.com. 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 any other of Your Site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
15.2. Neither party may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement to any party, except to a party who obtains all or substantially all of the business or assets of a third party.
15.3. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida without regard to the conflicts of laws and principles thereof.
15.4. You may not amend or waive any provision of this Agreement unless in writing and signed by both parties.
15.5. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between you and us, and shall supersede all prior agreements and communications of the parties, oral or written.
15.6. The headings and titles contained in this Agreement are included for convenience only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the terms of this Agreement.
15.7. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent necessary such that the parties’ intent is effectuated, and the remainder of this Agreement shall have full force and effect.