OK Every good deal has to have some legal stuff, so here it is. You must agree to these policies to be a Great Speaking Center Associate. After you review the deal, click on the "I Agree" button below which will take you to our sign up page so we can get on with the fun of making money on the Internet.
In this document The Great Speaking Center will be known as "GSC" and you, will be known as "The Associate."
These policies were developed to ensure the consistent delivery of products and customer service to the people who purchase from us. You can certainly understand with hundreds of associates GSC must provide a standard that the customer can learn to expect. If we allowed each associate to make their own policies, chaos would ensue and soon we would all suffer. Thanks for your cooperation.
POLICIES:
The Associate will be responsible for maintaining links to GSC.
The Great Speaking Center will be responsible for taking orders, shipping products, handling customer service inquiries, handling returns, maintaining the on line sales and ordering process, paying referral fees to The Associates, and providing sales support materials and ideas to The Associates.
The Associate agrees that all customer inquiries will be forwarded immediately to GSC. These inquiries may be with regard to product availability, customer service, GSC policies, pricing, or any other issue. The Associate is not permitted to contact or respond to customer inquiries. The Associate is, however, permitted to answer basic question posed by potential sub associates of The Associate.
Associate status will not be granted to any websites that contain sexually explicit material, promote violence or discrimination, engage in illegal activities or violate intellectual property rights. Associate status will be revoked if any of the forbidden activities are engaged in after associate status has been granted. In the event that associate status is revoked, The Associate will forfeit any monies due, but not paid by GSC.
The Associate may only use pre-approved graphics and logos provided by GSC. The graphics must be used in the size and form that GSC provides. No alteration is allowed. You must also place copyright notices on the pages where GSC's graphics and logos are used. Copyright notices are something you should probably have on your site anyway, so this should not be an inconvenience. Sample format would be "Copyright (c) 2000, (your name)"The Associate must not put GSC pricing information on their website. Prices may change at GSC and it would be impossible to ensure that all associates would make timely corrections to pricing information.
Associates may not modify GSC sales materials and are expressly forbidden to make false claims about GSC products and/or services.
Associates may not publish any material from the GSC website on their website without express written commission. Product specifications, pricing, delivery charges and sales information, bonuses, 800 numbers, sales letters, etc. change frequently and it would be impossible to keep everyone with consistent information. Associates in good standing may post approved banners and text links on their website.
The Associate is specifically prohibited from making any warranty representations or other statements concerning GSC's goods and services. All inquiries are to be forwarded to GSC as in number ???? above.
The Associate agrees that all customer or potential customer data is the sole property of GSC and that The Associate has no right to contact visitors that click through to GSC.
The Associate agrees that they are an independent contractor and not an employee or representative of GSC. The Associate also agrees that they are NOT an agent, partner, or participating in a joint venture with the Great Speaking Center.
The Associate agrees to indemnify and hold harmless from liability the Great Speaking Center for any actions against The Associate.
The Great Speaking Center reserves the right to create and operate any type of website to promote their products and services.
The Great Speaking Center reserves the right to offer other website owners different terms than are included in this standard associate agreement.
WARNING ON SPAM Associates sending unsolicited commercial email or posting to "inappropriate" newsgroups or forums will be terminated. It is against your associates agreement to advertise the Great Speaking Center via unsolicited email or spam in any way, shape or form. Some people think that associate spam email originated from us, damaging our reputation and causing us many administrative problems. DO NOT send unsolicited email to promote The Great Speaking Center, or you will be in violation of your associates agreement and your account will be immediately terminated! Any referral fees generated in the month you were terminated WILL NOT BE PAID and will be the property of The Great Speaking Center. Your cooperation and understanding is appreciated.
REFERRAL FEES
Associates earning more than $600.00 in referral fees in a calendar year
will be required to supply GSC with a Federal Tax ID number or Social Security
Number.
Referral fees due associates for off line orders from our 800 number service and mail orders may not be posted to associate's stats page for up to 36 hours. GSC guarantees that associate will get proper credit for such orders. Delay in posting is because these orders must be input manually. On line orders are handled automatically by our software and are generally posted to the associate's stats page within minutes.
Referral fees only apply to the actual sale price of a product or service. Referral fees do not apply to sales tax, shipping & handling charges, duties or other miscellaneous service and handling charges.
In a given month a check will be issued to an associate for all referral fees in excess of $50.00. Referral fees due totaling less than $50.00 will be carried over until total referral fees due exceeds $50.00. At that time a check will be issued for total referral fees due at the next normal check issuance cycle.
If products sold are returned, any referral fees paid to associate will be deducted from associate's future referral fees.
If a fraudulent credit card is used to pay for GSC products, any referral fee paid to The Associate for the fraudulent sale will be deducted from The Associate's future referral fees.
The Great Speaking Center is not liable for any unexpected website down time as a result of computer crashes, Internet trouble, power outages, act of God, or any other unexpected occurrence. Liability is limited to the referral fees actually earned in the period in question. GSC will diligently back up their information. In the case of catastrophic failure, your Email confirmation of orders may be used as evidence of referral fees owed.
AMENDMENTS
From time to time it may be necessary to amend or add to this agreement.
Changes or additions will be considered part of this agreement. Associates will
be notified of changes and/or additions at the email address they provided in
their admin page. It is the responsibility of the associate to maintain current
email addresses in their admin page.
CANCELLATION
You may cancel this agreement at any time by removing all reference to The
Great Speaking Center from your Website and notifying GSC that you have done so.
Any referral fees due will be paid at the next normal check issuance date.
The Great Speaking Center may revoke your associate status at any time when, in GSC's sole discretion, you have violated any of the terms of this agreement.
This associate agreement is being governed by laws in the State of Maryland, United States of America.
(Please print a copy of this agreement for your records) Ver. 1
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