Chip-N-Dough Affiliate Agreement

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This Agreement, made and entered by and between Chip-N-Dough, Inc. ("Chip-N-Dough" or "we"), with its principal place of business at 1943 E. Pomona St., Santa Ana, CA 92705, and you, the affiliate ("you" or "Affiliate"), contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to your participation in the Chip-N-Dough Affiliate Program (the "Affiliate Program" or "Program")

1. Enrollment in the Program

You will submit a complete Affiliate Application from our site. After we carefully review your application, we will notify you of your acceptance or rejection to the Program. We may reject your application (at our sole discretion) if we feel your site is unsuitable or inconsistent with the mission of Chip-N-Dough. If your site is accepted, Chip-N-Dough may terminate this Agreement anytime thereafter if your site is determined (at our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program. Only sites in English, and based in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, or Australia are eligible to participate in the Chip-N-Dough Affiliate Program. If we reject your application, you may reapply to the Chip-N-Dough's affiliate program at any time in the future.

2. Promotion of Our Affiliate Program

Upon your acceptance as an Affiliate Site, we will make available to you (via Chip-N-Dough's chipndoughaffiliates.com site) a variety of graphic and textual links (the "Links"), which, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, you may display as often and in as many areas of your site as you desire. The Links will serve to identify your site as a member of our Affiliate Network and will establish a link from your site to ours.

Chip-N-Dough Agrees To:

• Pay Affiliate a commission rate of seven percent (7%) of the aggregate amount actually paid to us by users of your site who purchase chipndough.com products utilizing a link to chipndough.com less discounts and/or promotions of any kind and excluding amounts collected by us for sales taxes, duties, shipping, handling, and similar charges, amounts due to credit card fraud and bad debt, and credits for returned goods. Commissions paid will be charged back as a result of customer credit card fraud, any other form of fraud (or the appearance thereof), bad debt, credits for returned goods or violation of this agreement. In addition, you will receive three percent (3%) of the aggregate amount actually paid to us by users of your subaffiliate sites who purchase chipndough.com products utilizing a link to chipndough.com less discounts and/or promotions of any kind and excluding amounts collected by us for sales taxes, duties, shipping, handling, and similar charges, amounts due to credit card fraud and bad debt, and credits for returned goods.

• Pay Affiliate commissions monthly when aggregate commissions exceed fifteen dollars ($15). If during the first month of the term of this agreement, or during any month following the payment of commissions to you, your commissions earned do not exceed fifteen dollars ($15.00), then you shall not be entitled to receive any commissions during the applicable month. Thereafter, you will be paid commissions at the end of the month during which your aggregate commissions earned during such successive period exceed fifteen dollars ($15.00). At such time, you will be paid all commissions you would have otherwise been entitled to had your commissions exceeded fifteen dollars ($15.00).

Affiliate Agrees To:

• Sign CHIP-N-DOUGH'S EMAIL COMPLIANCE AGREEMENT and return the executed copy of this Email Agreement to Shawn Collins at the following address and fax number: 39 Clark Street, Summit, NJ 07901, (908) 522-0056, prior to promoting Chip-N-Dough via e-mail.

• Adhere to Chip-N-Dough's policy of providing affiliates with promotions, offered at our discretion, to offer to your members/visitors. We will provide you with adequate notice so that you may make any and all appropriate changes to your website. Chip-N-Dough also runs periodic promotions of its own. It will be considered a breach of this agreement to utilize any promotion, promotion code or other promotional opportunity as an affiliate link that is not specifically authorized by Chip-N-Dough for the affiliate program and we reserve the right to withhold or disallow payment for violations under this section.

• Remove all links regarding promotions on the date such promotions end, and agree to forfeit any commissions earned after the end date of the promotions if you continue to post such links.

• Observe Chip-N-Dough's exclusive rights as to the advertising of our trademarked company name within all pay-for-placement and all other search engines. These names include: chip and dough, chipndough, chips n dough, chip dough, Chip-N-Dough, chipndough.com, Chip-N-Dough Cookie Company, etc and any variation of our trademarked name. Additionally, you may not claim to be Chip-N-Dough in any pay-for-placement or other search engines. Violations will be cause for affiliate's immediate termination and any unpaid commissions will be unearned, disallowed and/or charged back.

• Place Chip-N-Dough Links on your site.

• Have sole responsibility for the development, operation, and maintenance of your site and for all the materials that appear on your site.

• Ensure that all materials posted on your site are not illegal and do not infringe on the rights of any person or entity of any kind. We disclaim all liability for all materials on your site.

• Indemnify, defend, and hold us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses relating to the development, operation, and contents of your site.

• Make sure that your site does not copy or resemble the look and feel of Chip-N-Dough or create the impression that your site is our site or a part of our site.

• Submit the URLs for all sites you plan to use to promote Chip-N-Dough via e-mail to affiliate@chipndough.com.

Publicity

You shall not create, publish, distribute, or permit any written material that makes reference to us without first submitting such material to us and receiving our consent.

At no time shall you describe your website as the "official," "exclusive," "preferred," or like term website of Chip-N-Dough, nor design your site so similar to Chip-N-Dough's in appearance so as to create confusion, uncertainty or misunderstanding.

Confidentiality

Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or with the consent of the other party hereto, each of the parties hereto agrees that all information, including, without limitation, the terms of this Agreement, business and financial information, customer and vendor lists, and pricing and sales information, concerning us or you, respectively, or any of our Affiliates provided by or on behalf of any of them shall remain strictly confidential and secret and shall not be utilized, directly or indirectly, by such party for its own business purposes or for any other purpose except and solely to the extent that any such information is generally known or available to the public through a source or sources other than such party hereto or its affiliates.

Limitation of Liability

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 Affiliate Network, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Affiliate Program will not exceed the total commissions paid or payable to you under this Agreement.

Limited License

We grant you a nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable right to access our site through the Links solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, for the sole purpose of linking your site to our site, solely for the purpose of identifying your site as a participant in the Program and assisting in the generation of sales for Chip-N-Dough. You may not alter, modify, or change the Links in any way. You are only entitled to use the Links to the extent that you are a member in good standing of the Chip-N-Dough Affiliate Program. We may revoke your license anytime by giving you written notice.

Disclaimers

We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Chip-N-Dough Web site or the Chip-N-Dough Affiliate Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, noninfringement, or any implied warranties arising out of course of performance, dealing, or trade usage). 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.

Termination

The terms of this Agreement will begin upon acceptance of your application. This Agreement shall commence on the date of approval of your Affiliate Program application and shall continue thereafter in full force and effect until terminated at any time by either party by giving the other party written notice of termination. Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your site, all Links to our site, and all Chip-N-Dough trademarks, trade dress, and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Program.

Modifications

We may modify any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time. You will be notified by email, and a change notice will be posted on our site. If the modifications are unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this Agreement. Your continued participation in this Affiliate Program after a change notice has been posted will constitute binding acceptance of the change.

Independent Contractors

You and Chip-N-Dough are independent contractors and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf.

Representations and Warranties

You hereby represent and warrant to us as follows:

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. The development, operation, and contents of your site do not infringe upon the copyright, trademark, or any other right of any person or entity.

Independent Investigation

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 Web sites that are similar to or compete with your Web site. You have independently evaluated the desirability of participating in the Chip-N-Dough Affiliate Program and are not relying on any representation, guarantee, or statement other than as set forth in this Agreement.

Fraud

If you commit fraud or falsify information in connection with the sales transactions at Chip-N-Dough through the Links on your site, this Agreement will be terminated immediately. In addition, you will be liable to Chip-N-Dough for any and all damages that Chip-N-Dough suffers as a result of such actions. You will also be responsible for returning to Chip-N-Dough all commissions received for fraudulent/falsified transactions, and we will not hesitate to pursue all legal causes of action against you to the fullest extent possible under the law.

Anti-Predatory Advertising Policy

Affiliates will be removed from the Chip-N-Dough Affiliate Program and forfeit any pending commissions if they are utilizing or distributing software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program.

SPYWARE AND OTHER PARASITES

Any affiliate suspected of a relationship, formal or informal, with any provider of spyware or parasitic software (as judged by any interference with the operation by design of MERCHANT and/or its partner sites) is subject to punitive actions by MERCHANT, without notice, including but not limited to: suspension of affiliate account; termination of affiliate account; withholding of payments to affiliate; and public notification of affiliate's suspected malfeasance. MERCHANT encourages affiliates to report suspicions of such relationships; and, should substantial proof, as judged by MERCHANT, be provided, MERCHANT reserves the right to assign a value equal to unpaid monies earned by the offending affiliate (or a part thereof) to the reporting affiliate as a bounty.

Assignment

This Agreement and the rights and obligations hereunder may not be assigned by you without prior written consent of Chip-N-Dough.

Reservation of Rights

Chip-N-Dough may terminate this Agreement at any time if your site is determined (at our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program, even if your site has not changed since the time that your Affiliate Program application was accepted. Chip-N-Dough also reserves the right to monitor Affiliate sites at any time to determine whether they are in compliance with this Agreement.

Governing Law

This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the United States and the State of California, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action relating to this Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts located in California, and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of such courts. 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 enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such a provision or any other provision of this Agreement.