(Effective from 1st of November, 2023)
BY SIGNING UP WITH THE AddSearch (www.addsearch.com”, “Addsearch”, “we”, “us” and “our”) PARTNER PROGRAM (“Program”), YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS (“Agreement”). YOU HEREBY AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD ALL THE CLAUSES OF THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREIN. The terms of the Agreement form the entire contract between the parties in relation to its subject matter.
YOU (“You”, “Partner”, ”Affiliate” or “Partners” “Affiliates”) AGREE THAT THIS AGREEMENT IS ENFORCEABLE LIKE ANY WRITTEN NEGOTIATED AGREEMENT SIGNED BY YOU, AND THIS AGREEMENT IS ENFORCEABLE AGAINST YOU.
This is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a legal entity), and AddSearch (a SaaS.group GmbH brand) and its authorized service provider(s), distributor(s), promoter(s), and reseller(s). This Agreement outlines the rules and regulations of the Program.
By clicking the button “Sign up” during registration on our Platform, you represent that you are over 18 years old and agree to the terms of our Privacy and Cookies Policy and this Agreement. If you are acting on behalf of a company when accepting this Agreement and the Privacy and Cookies Policy, you also hereby declare to be authorized to perform such legal actions on behalf of that company (herein the term “you” shall mean the relevant company).
AddSearch reserves the right to approve or reject any Program application at its sole and absolute discretion. Acceptance of your application to the Program is at AddSearch sole discretion and neither AddSearch nor its authorized representatives shall hold any liability to you in the event that your application is rejected.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE ACCOUNT
You may not:
You may:
Review AddSearch on your Blog and YouTube channel, add banners on your blog and share your link with your clients and social media followers PROVIDED THAT you comply at all times with the terms and conditions of any third party sites which you use for partner marketing.
If you contravene any part of this section, you will be considered to be in material breach of the Agreement which will allow us to terminate the agreement and claim damages.
As a condition to your participation in the Program, you agree that while you are an Affiliate, you will comply with all laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgements, decisions, or other requirements as well as industry specific code of conducts and guidelines (such as of IAB Europe). (collectively, “Laws”) of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, whether those Laws are now in effect or later come into effect during the time you are an Affiliate or participating in the Program, including, without limitation, during the application process. Without limiting the foregoing obligation, you agree that as a condition of your participation in the Program, you will comply with all applicable federal, state or other Laws that govern marketing email, including without limitation, the e-Privacy Directive, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and all other anti-spam laws.
Commission for Partners becomes due where a customer signs up for AddSearch products and services or the Partner signs up a client on their behalf, using your unique Affiliate link on a bona fide, arm’s length basis and does not cancel without liability within 30 days of purchase in accordance with AddSearch Terms of Use (“Commission”). The percentage of the Commission and our other rewards is as notified to you by AddSearch from time to time in writing.
Partner commissions are approved if they are considered valid after the refund period of 30 days after the sale. Payouts are then generated inside the partner dashboard after the refund period ended. This means that Commissions are typically paid out within a maximum of two months plus one week from the time the commission is generated (pending), as long as there are no issues with any of the customers that the Partner has referred. If there is any issue, we have the right to withhold the payment, run an investigation, and release the payment once we are satisfied with the investigation.
We reserve the right to have a manual review of a commission generated for products not bought on the website, prior to pay out. This may delay the payout date by a reasonable length of time. In those cases, we assess the active involvement of the Partner in working with the client to keep the subscription active. If we determine in our sole discretion that the Partners is not actively working with the customer to keep the subscription to AddSearch products and services, the Commission payments may be terminated by us without liability under this Agreement.
In case of a refund, the Commission will not be payable, and if already paid, it will be adjusted from the next payout. If there is no next payout within the next 30 days, then the Partner will be liable to pay back the Commission immediately. Failure to make payment of a Commission paid out in error will entitle us to terminate this Agreement and claim for damages. AddSearch also reserves the right to charge interest on owed payments to the maximum amount allowable by applicable law and engage debt collection agencies to retrieve such monies, the cost of which will be charged to you in addition to the debt and any accrued interest.
Our standard payout method is communicated from time to time through our marketing. The minimum payout of Commission is $50 ( Fifty US Dollars). If pay out is preferred through ACH / wire, the minimum payout is $1000 (One Thousand Dollar), if you have interest in payouts through wire, please contact our team at partners@addsearch.com to discuss the options.
Partner Commission payouts are paid for as long as the referral is a AddSearch customer, this rule is valid for all products purchased through the AddSearch website.
We reserve the right to remove abandoned Partner accounts from our system and terminate this Agreement with immediate effect if your balance is equal to or less than the minimum payout threshold, after a 6 month period of inactivity. In this case any accumulated Commissions below the minimum payout threshold will be forfeited. Abandoned Partner accounts are defined as any Partner account whose Partner dashboard has not been logged into for a period of 6 months and/or has no transactions posted during a period of six months.
Where you refer a customer who is a prior client of AddSearch, the payout of Commission will be subject to manual review and approval by us in our sole discretion.
Coupon / Rebate site(s) and Partners who would like to work with discounts, are subject to manual approval and, if accepted, earn a Commission at a % rate communicated to you by us from time to time via our marketing.
We reserve the right to withhold payments to any suspicious Partner, request KYC details and/or run through due diligence to ensure the Partner’s traffic & methods are safe for the AddSearch brand.
For the avoidance of doubt, Self-referrals will not count as a qualified “referral” and therefore will not be eligible for Commission.
Any kind of tax payable by the Partner on Commission is the responsibility of the Partner and we will not gross up any Commission in any circumstances.
In some cases, we may give credit to an Partner if the customer didn’t sign up through their link. If you have a case like that, contact our team at partners@addsearch.com , with the details of your referral and we will assess your case.
We reserve the right to set-off any amounts owing to us against Commission payments in cases where Commission payments have either been made erroneously or due to a misrepresentation by you. We reserve the right to counterclaim in all such circumstances.
Approved Partner will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of their site in connection with the Program and for all materials that appear on such site. By way of example, but not limited to, you will be solely responsible for:
Your Partner application and status in the Program may be suspended or terminated for any of the following reasons:
We, in our sole and absolute discretion, have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Program or any other AddSearch service for any reason at any time. Such termination will result in the deactivation or deletion of your Partner account and/or denial of access to your account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment of all potential or to-be-paid Commissions in your account earned or suspected to be earned through fraudulent or illegal sales or marketing methods, or overly aggressive, questionable sales or marketing methods, as determined by AddSearch in its sole and absolute discretion. AddSearch reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
In addition to the foregoing, AddSearch reserves the right to terminate any Partner account at any time without disclosing the reason.
AddSearch or its designees will have the right at all reasonable times to review, audit, examine, and copy the books and records of the Partner. If an audit should reveal that genuine referrals have been misrepresented in any report to AddSearch, then the Partner will immediately pay to AddSearch the amount overpaid upon demand with interest at the highest rate permitted by applicable Laws. If an audit discloses an overpayment in any report of 3% or more as a result of any Partner misrepresentation, the Partner must, in addition, reimburse AddSearch for all costs and expenses connected with the audit (including, without limitation, reasonable accounting and attorneys’ fees and costs). These remedies are in addition to any other remedies AddSearch may have at law or in equity.
You may post or advertise your participation in the Program. However, you may not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship between you and AddSearch, including, without limitation, expressing or implying that you develop the service AddSearch provides, expressing or implying you are part of AddSearch in any way, or expressing or imply any relationship or affiliation between you and AddSearch except as expressly permitted by this Agreement (including, without limitation, by expressing or implying that AddSearch supports, sponsors, endorses, or contributes money to any charity or other cause).
After signing up for the Program and approval of your application by us, you will be assigned a unique Affiliate code (“Code”). You are permitted to place links, banners, or other graphics provided with your Code on your site, in your emails, or in other communications. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, AddSearch grants Partners a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use the graphics and text links provided by us both on its website and within email messages or social media for the duration of the term of this Agreement only.
Partner may use the graphics and text provided by or on behalf of AddSearch, or may create their own as long as they are in line with the terms of this Agreement, the AddSearch branding guidelines when provided to the Partner by AddSearch, and are not otherwise deemed inappropriate by AddSearch in its sole and absolute discretion.
Customers who receive products and services through this Program will be deemed to be AddSearch 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 services sold under this Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Package prices and availability may vary from time to time.
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 AddSearch. 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 Agreement, including, without limitation, the relationship between you and AddSearch.
AddSearch uses third-party affiliate tracking software and will not be liable for indirect or accidental damages (loss of revenue, Commissions) due to affiliate tracking failures, loss of database files, or any results of intents of harm to the Program and/or to our website(s) and/or to the affiliate tracking software/marketplace’s website(s).
In addition, 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 Commissions paid or payable to you under the terms of this Agreement in the 6 month period prior to the event giving rise to such claim.
The term of this Agreement will be effective immediately upon your acceptance in the Program and will end when your Partner account is terminated.
The Agreement may be modified by AddSearch at any time. Your continuing participation in the Program will constitute your acceptance of any change.
The Agreement is an electronic contract that sets out the legally binding terms of your participation in the AddSearch Program. You indicate your acceptance of this Agreement and all of the terms and conditions contained or referenced in this Agreement by completing the Program application process. This action creates an electronic signature and binds you under a legal agreement.
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 PARTNER 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 this Agreement (including any actual or alleged breach thereof), any transactions or activities under this Agreement or your relationship with us or any of our Partners shall first be referred to AddSearch senior management and senior Partner representative for discussion and resolution. If a resolution has not been reached in 10 business days, either party shall have the right to submit the dispute to confidential arbitration, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our intellectual property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court (and you consent to non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts) or any other court of competent jurisdiction.
Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the Finnish Association. The arbitrator’s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of Finland, 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.
The failure of AddSearch to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and AddSearch, superseding any prior agreements between you and AddSearch (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of this Agreement or any other Terms and Conditions).
We reserve the legal right to update and change the terms and conditions of this Agreement from time to time without any prior notice provided that such change does not materially affect your benefits under the Agreement. We may make amendments to the Agreement which do materially adversely affect your benefits under the Program on giving you thirty 30 days’ notice (“Amendment Notice Period”) in advance prior to its effectiveness by displaying the notification in your Partner dashboard. Should you disagree with such an amendment, you may terminate this Agreement within the Amendment Notice Period, effective on its expiry by informing us in writing. In the event that you terminate the Agreement, only unpaid Commission above the minimum threshold outlined in Section 9 shall be paid out in such circumstances and only if you are not in breach of this Agreement. not be entitled to a refund of any Subscription Fees already paid but you shall be released from any further liability to pay such Subscription Fees from the expiry of the Amendment Notice Period. Should you fail to terminate before the expiry of the Amendment Notice Period, you shall be deemed to accept such amendment which shall forthwith be incorporated into the terms of this Agreement.