1. GENERAL
1.1 This Agreement shall govern our relationship with you in relation to the Affiliate Program for AllTheFood.com inc.
1.2 When you indicate your acceptance of these terms and conditions on the Affiliate Sign Up Form, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT IN THIS AGREEMENT
1.3 We may modify any of the terms of this Agreement at any time, in our sole discretion, by either (i) emailing you a change notice or (ii) by posting the new version of the Agreement on our Website. Any such modification will only take effect, 30 days after the date of posting or sending of any such notice (whichever is the earlier). It is your responsibility to visit the Website frequently to make sure you are up to date with the latest version of the Agreement and its provisions. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM FOLLOWING SUCH 30 DAY PERIOD WILL BE DEEMED BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE MODIFICATION.
2. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
In this Agreement, references to the following words shall have the meanings set out below:
2.1 "Account" means a uniquely assigned account that is created for
a restaurant successfully registers with the Website, via your unique affiliate
tracking number
2.2 "Affiliate Fee" is the amount due and payable to you, as calculated
based solely on our system's data and in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
and the Payment Plan.
2.3 "Affiliate Section" means the password-protected area of the Website
that is accessible to you (by logging on with your affiliate identification
number you are assigned by us when you sign up as a participant in the Affiliate
Program and associated password) and which provides certain 'member only' functionality,
including facilities to check relevant statistics, update your profile, create
additional Trackers, select Banners and/or Text Links.
2.4 "Banners" and "Text Links " means the graphical artwork
or text, which includes Trackers and RSS feeds which are made available by us
on the Affiliate Section, that you may use to hyperlinks from your website (or
other marketing materials) to the Website.
2.5 "Email Marketing Rules"means our rules for email marketing activities.
2.6 "Marketing Materials" means Banners and Text Links and any other
marketing materials (which may include Our Marks) that have been provided or
otherwise made available to you by us and/or pre-approved by us.
2.7 "Our Marks" means the word "AllTheFood," "AtKat"
and/or any logo, mark, domain name or trade name which contains, is confusingly
similar to or is comprised of the AllTheFood.com Inc. name and mark or any other
name or mark owned from time to time by us or any company within the Group.
2.8 "Payment Plan" means the payment plan you have selected on the
affiliate sign up form, whether: (i) a plan where we pay you based on a percentage
of the monthly Gross Revenue generated by a restaurants monthly/yearly payments
while you are an Affiliate ("Percentage Payment Plan") or (ii) any
other plan offered in writing by us from time to time).
2.9 "Restaurant Owner(s) " means any person who has opened an Account
through your affiliate identification number who has not held an Account with
us before.
2.10 "Spam" means any email which you send which markets, promotes
or which otherwise refers to us, the Website or our services from time to time,
or which contains any Marketing Materials, Our Marks or affiliate identification
number and which breaches our Email Marketing Rules.
2.11 "Term " means the period from the date that you acknowledge and
accept the terms of this Agreement by indicating such acceptance on the Affiliate
Sign Up Form, until such time as this Agreement expires or is terminated in
accordance with its terms.
2.12 "Affiliate identification number (s)" means the unique Tracking
URL that we provide exclusively to you, through which we track Restaurant owners
payments on the Website and calculate Affiliate Fees.
2.13 "Tracking URL " means a unique hyperlink to the Website through
which you refer potential restaurant or food related business owners to the
Website. When the relevant business opens their Account, our system automatically
logs the Tracking URL and records you as the Affiliate.
2.14 "Website(s)" means, the website located at the URL http://www.AllTheFood.com
and at any URL with which we replace such URL from time to time (and such other
web addresses including RSS feeds which are owned, operated or controlled by
or on behalf of us from time to time and which make available such website)
and each of its related pages.
2.15 In this Agreement (except where the context otherwise requires):
2.15.1 the clause headings are included for convenience only and shall not affect
the interpretation of this Agreement;
2.15.2 any phrase introduced by the terms "including", "include"
or any similar expression shall be construed as illustrative and shall not limit
the sense of the words preceding those terms;
2.15.3 any reference to "persons" includes natural persons, firms,
partnerships, companies, corporations, associations, organizations, governments,
states, governmental or state agencies, foundations and trusts (in each case
whether or not having separate legal personality and irrespective of the jurisdiction
in or under the law of which it was incorporated or exists);
2.15.4 a reference to a statute or statutory provision is a reference to that
statute or statutory provision and to all orders, regulations, instruments or
other subordinate legislation made under the relevant statute; and
2.15.5 Any reference to a statute, statutory provision, subordinate legislation,
code or guideline ("legislation") is a reference to such legislation
as amended and in force from time to time and to any legislation which reenacts
or consolidates (with or without modification) any such legislation.
3. TERMS & CONDITIONS
3.1 Identity and Disclosure. You shall provide true and complete information
to us when completing the Affiliate sign up form and promptly update such information
if all or any part of it changes. You shall also provide us with such other
information as we may reasonably request from time to time.
3.2 Marketing Activities and Responsibilities. You shall market to and refer
potential clients to the Website. You will be solely liable for the content
and manner of such marketing activities. All such marketing activities must
be professional, proper and lawful under applicable rules, regulations or laws
(including any laws relation to the content and nature of any advertising or
marketing) and otherwise comply with the terms of this Agreement. You shall
not and shall not authorize, assist or encourage any third party to:
3.2.1 place Marketing Materials on any website or other medium where the content
and/or material on such website or medium is libelous, discriminatory, obscene,
unlawful, sexually explicit, pornographic or violent or which is, in our sole
discretion otherwise unsuitable;
3.2.2 breach the Emailing marketing rules;
3.2.3 Place Marketing Materials on any website or other medium, where the content
and/or material on such website or medium:
(a) infringes any third party's Intellectual Property Rights;
(b) copies or resembles the Website in whole or in part;
(c) disparages us or otherwise damages our goodwill or reputation in any way;
popup windows or pop-under windows or interstitial) or Our Marks;
3.2.4 cause the Website (or any page thereof) to open in a visitor's browser
other than as a result of the visitor clicking on Banners or Text Links contained
in or as part of any Marketing Materials;
3.2.5 Attempt to communicate to our users to solicit them to move to any website
not owned by us or for other purposes without our prior approval.
If We determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in any of the
foregoing activities, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies
available to us) withhold any Affiliate Fees and/or terminate this Agreement
immediately on notice.
3.3 Approved Marketing Materials. In providing the marketing activities referred
to in Section 3.2 , you shall only use the Marketing Materials. You shall not
modify the Marketing Materials or Our Brands in any way without our prior written
consent. You shall only use the Marketing Materials in accordance with the terms
of this Agreement, any guidelines we provide to you on our website or otherwise
from time to time and any applicable laws. During the term of this Agreement,
we grant you a terminable, non-exclusive, nontransferable right to use the Marketing
Materials for the sole purpose of fulfilling your obligations under this Agreement.
3.4 Competitive Marketing. You shall not market the Website and/or us or our
services or Our Brands in any way whatsoever: (i) on any website on which we
promote the Website; (ii) on or through any Internet search engine on or through
which we promote the Website; and (iii) in any other manner which results in
you competing with us in relation to the promotion of the Website or (iv) otherwise
where we request that you cease the same.
3.5 Non Assignment. You acknowledge and agree that affiliate identification
number are for your sole use and you shall not assign or sublicense (as appropriate)
the Trackers nor any Affiliate Fees to any third party without our prior written
consent.
3.6 Commercial Use Only. This marketing opportunity is for commercial use only.
You shall not register as restaurant owner or food related business through
your affiliate identification number (s) for your own personal use and/or the
use of your relatives, friends, employees, servants, agents or advisors, or
otherwise attempt to artificially increase the Affiliate Fees payable to you
or to defraud us. Violation of this provision shall be deemed to be Fraud Traffic.
3.7 Restaurant owner Information. We reserve the right to refuse service to
any potential client and to close the Account of any food related business owner,
at any time, in our sole discretion. All data relating to the participating
business shall, as between you and us, remain our exclusive property and you
acquire no right to such information except pursuant to our express written
instructions.
4. Reports & Payments
4.1 Reports. We will track and report participants activity for purposes of
calculating your Affiliate Fees. The form, content and frequency of the reports
may vary from time to time in our sole discretion. Generally, you will receive
a monthly report with your payment indicating the number of new businesses signed
up that month per Tracker and/or the total amount due to you after any deductions
or set offs that we are entitled to make under this Agreement. In addition,
daily reports will be available online for you to view new clients per Tracker.
4.2 Affiliate Fees. Subject to Section 4.4 below, Affiliate Fees will be paid
to you on a calendar month basis in accordance with the Payment Plan we have
approved by email after you have completed the registration process and/or where
we have activated additional Trackers. We may elect not to accept your selected
payment plan and we may convert any payment plan and any associated Trackers
provided hereunder from a Percentage Share Payment Plan, on notice to you by
email using the email address you provide when you sign up as an Affiliate.
4.3 Minimum Payment and Time of Payment. Affiliate Fees will be paid and sent
out to you within fifteen (15) days of the close of each calendar month, except
that, if the total amount due for all Trackers is less than or equal to US $50,
due to the costs and resources involved in administering the program and processing
payments hereunder, the balance will be carried over and added to the next month's
Affiliate Fees until the total amount is more than US $50. Further, if the amount
due is negative in any particular month, then that negative amount will carry
over and be deducted against the following month. In the event, the balance
carried over does not exceed US $50 within a consecutive three (3) month period,
then the amount due will be voided and canceled, and this Agreement will automatically
terminate.
4.4 Holdover for Fraud Traffic. In the event we suspect any Fraud Traffic, then
we may delay payment of the Affiliate Fees to you for up to one hundred and
eighty (180) days while we investigate and verify the relevant transactions.
We are not obligated to pay Affiliate Fees in respect of Players who, in our
sole discretion, are not verifiably who they claim to be or are otherwise involved
with Fraud Traffic. In the event that we determine any activity to constitute
Fraud Traffic, or to otherwise be in contravention of this Agreement, then in
our sole discretion we may: (i) pay the Affiliate Fees in full, (ii) recalculate
them in light of such suspected Fraud Traffic and/or (iii) your future Affiliate
Fees in respect of Fraud Traffic will be forfeited (as appropriate).
4.5 Method of Payment. All payments will be due and payable in United States
Dollars or such other currency as we will determine. Payment will be made by
check, wire, ACH or any other method as we in our sole discretion decide; however
we will use reasonable endeavors to accommodate your preferred payment method.
Charges for wires or courier charges for checks will be covered by you and deducted
from your Affiliate Fees. For the avoidance of doubt, we have no liability to
pay any currency conversion charges or any charges associated with the transfer
of monies to your bank account.
4.6 New Clients. You understand and agree that potential clients must link through
using your Tracker in order for you to receive Affiliate Fees. In no event,
are we liable for your failure to use Trackers or for potential clients' failure
to properly enter valid Sign Up Codes. Notwithstanding any other provision herein,
we may at any time and in our sole discretion alter our tracking system and
reporting format. We reserve the right to render any clients that become inactive
(meaning that they make no payments) for any period of 30 days or more invalid
as clients for the purpose of any Affiliate Fees due to you hereunder to the
extent that they become active again after such 30 day period.
4.8 Disputes. If you disagree with the monthly reports or amount payable, do
NOT accept payment for such amount and immediately send us written notice of
your dispute. Dispute notices must be received within thirty (30) days of our
making available your monthly report or your right to dispute such report or
payment will be deemed waived and you shall have no claims in such regard. Further,
deposit of payment check, acceptance of payment transfer or acceptance of other
payment from us by you will be deemed full and final settlement of Affiliate
Fees due for the month indicated. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any overpayment
is made in the calculation of your Affiliate Fees we reserve the right to correct
such calculation at any time and to reclaim from you any overpayment made by
us to you.
5. TERM AND TERMINATION
5.1 Term and Termination. This Agreement will take effect when you indicate
your acceptance of these terms and conditions on the Affiliate sign up form
and continue until terminated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
5.2 Termination By You. You may terminate this Agreement, with or without cause,
immediately upon written notice to us which you may send by email to affiliates@AllTheFood.com
marked "Termination".
5.3 Termination By Us. We may terminate this Agreement, without cause at any
time, upon written notice to you which we may send by email to such email address
you have provided to us or by fax to such fax number you may have provided to
us. In the event we terminate, we shall be entitled to automatically render
such Trackers inoperative.
5.4 Automatic Termination without notice. This Agreement shall be deemed automatically
terminated without notice where:
a. The total cumulative balance of Affiliate Fees due to you is less than $50
for three (4) consecutive calendar months; or
b. You do not have any clients, business or restaurant owners who qualify as
such in any sixty (90) day period.
5.5 Effect of Termination. The following will apply where we terminate:
a. You shall stop promoting the Website and all rights and licenses given to
you under this Agreement will terminate immediately;
b. You shall return all confidential information and cease use of any of Our
Marks and the Marketing Materials;
c. We may leave open, redirect or deactivate any affiliate identification number
in our sole discretion without any obligation to pay you for new businesses
who subsequently become AllTheFood.com inc. members;
d. Provided that we have paid or do pay to you such sums as are due at the date
of termination which shall be subject to any rights we have to make deductions
hereunder, we will have no further liability to pay you any further sums.
6. LIABILITIES
6.1 No Warranties. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS (WHETHER EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED BY LAW, STATUTE OR OTHERWISE) WITH RESPECT TO THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM,
OUR WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES AVAILABLE THEREIN OR RELATED
THERETO OR THAT OUR WEBSITE, SYSTEM, NETWORK, SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE (OR THAT
PROVIDED TO US BY THIRD PARTIES) WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED OR WITH
RESPECT TO THE QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR SUITABILITY
OF ALL OR ANY OF THE FOREGOING. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED OTHERWISE IN THIS
AGREEMENT, ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS AND IMPLIED TERMS AND CONDITIONS
ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. FURTHERMORE, NEITHER
WE (NOR OUR PROVIDERS OR UNDERLYING VENDORS) ARE REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN REDUNDANT
SYSTEM(S), NETWORK, SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE.
6.2 Liability Limitations. Our obligations under this Agreement do not constitute
personal obligations of the owners, directors, officers, agents, employees,
vendors or suppliers of the Website other than as provided under this Agreement.
Other than as expressly provided in this Agreement, in no event will we be liable
for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive loss,
injury or damage of any kind (regardless of whether we have been advised of
the possibility of such loss) including any loss of business, revenue, profits
or data. Our liability arising under this Agreement, whether in contract, tort
(including negligence) or for breach of statutory duty or in any other way shall
only be for direct damages and shall not exceed the revenues generated and payable
hereunder over the previous twelve months at the time that the event giving
rise to the liability arises. However, nothing in this Agreement will operate
to exclude or limit either party's liability for death or personal injury arising
as a result of that party's negligence or for fraud.
6.4 Indemnification. You shall defend, indemnify and hold us and our officers,
directors, employees and representatives harmless on demand from and against
any and all claims, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, costs and expenses
(including reasonable legal fees) resulting or arising (directly or indirectly)
from your breach of this Agreement.
6.5 Set off. Without prejudice to any other rights or remedies available to
us under this Agreement or otherwise, we shall be entitled to set off any payments
otherwise payable by us to you hereunder, against any liability of you to us,
including any claims we have against you resulting from or arising from, your
breach of this Agreement.
7. INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION
7.1 Independent Investigation. YOU WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED
THE DESIRABILITY OF MARKETING THE WEBSITE.
8. MISCELLANEOUS
8.1 Notices. All notices pertaining to this Agreement will be given by email
as follows: to you at the email address provided by you on the Affiliate Sign
Up Form (or as subsequently updated by you to us in the event of change), and
to us at affiliates@AllTheFood.com
8.2 Relationship of Parties. There is no relationship of exclusivity, partnership,
joint venture, employment, agency or franchise between you or us under this
Agreement. Neither party has the authority to bind the other (including the
making of any representation or warranty, the assumption of any obligation or
liability and/or the exercise of any right or power), except as expressly provided
in this Agreement.
8.3 Non-Exclusive. You understand that we may at any time (directly or indirectly),
enter into marketing terms with other Affiliates on the same or different terms
as those provided to you in this Agreement and that such Affiliates may be similar,
and even competitive, to you. You understand that we may redirect traffic and
users from the Website to any other website that we deem appropriate in our
sole discretion, without any additional compensation to you.
8.4 Confidentiality and Non Disclosure. As an Affiliate, you may receive confidential
information from us, including confidential information as to our marketing
plans, marketing concepts, structure and payments. This information is confidential
to us and constitutes our proprietary trade secrets. You shall not disclose
this information to third parties or use such information other than for the
purposes of this Agreement without our prior written consent, save as expressly
required by law (provided that any such disclosure is only to the extent so
required).
8.5 Press. You may not issue any press release with respect to this Agreement,
Our Brands or your participation in this Affiliate Program without our prior
written consent, except as required by law or by any legal or regulatory authority.
8.6 Assignment. Except where you have received our prior written consent, you
may not assign at law or in equity (including by way of a charge or declaration
of trust), sublicense or deal in any other manner with this Agreement or any
rights under this Agreement, or subcontract any or all of your obligations under
this Agreement, or purport to do any of the same. Any purported assignment in
breach of this clause shall confer no rights on the purported assignee.
8.7 Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement will be
interpreted in such a manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law
but, if any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable
in any respect, such provision will be ineffective only to the extent of such
invalidity, or unenforceability, without invalidating the remainder of this
Agreement or any other provision hereof.
8.9 Entire Agreement. This Agreement embodies the complete agreement and understanding
of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes
any prior agreement or understanding between the parties in relation to such
subject matter. Each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that in entering
into this Agreement, it has not relied on any statement, representation, guarantee
warranty, understanding, undertaking, promise or assurance (whether negligently
or innocently made) of any person (whether party to this Agreement or not) other
than as expressly set out in the Agreement. Each party irrevocably and unconditionally
waives all claims, rights and remedies which but for this clause it might otherwise
have had in relation to any of the foregoing. Nothing in this Section shall
limit or exclude any liability for fraud.
8.10 Default Interest. Subject to Section 6.5 , if we fail to pay you by the
due date any amount payable by us under this Agreement, you shall be entitled
but not obliged to charge us interest on the overdue amount.
AllTheFood.com Inc.

