TERMS & CONDITIONS
ExamsOnline.com Alliance Partnership
This Agreement contains the complete terms and
conditions that apply to an individual's or entity's participation in the
ExamsOnline.com Alliance Partnership Program (the "Program"). As used
in this Agreement, "we" means ExamsOnline.com, and "you"
means the applicant. "Site" means a World Wide Web site and, depending
on the context, refers either to ExamsOnline.com's site located at the URL
www.ExamsOnline.com, or to the site that you will link to our site (and which
you will identify in your Program application).
To begin the partnership process, you will submit
a complete Program application via our site. We will evaluate your application
in good faith and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection. We may reject
your application if we determine (at our sole discretion) that your site is
unsuitable for the Program.
- You may provide a general link on your site to
our home page at http://www.ExamsOnline.com. We will provide you with
guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking to our home page.
Identifying yourself as an Alliance Partner
We will make available to you a small
graphic image that identifies your site as a Alliance Partner. You must display
this logo or the phrase "Silver / Gold Partner ExamsOnline.com"
somewhere on your site. We may modify the text or graphic image of this notice
from time to time. In addition, we encourage (but do not require) you to include
a Special Link on your site to the ExamsOnline.com home page at http://www.ExamsOnline.com.
You may not make any press release with respect
to this Agreement or your participation in the Program without our prior written
consent, which may be given or withheld in our sole discretion. In addition, you
may not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and
you, or express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us and you or
any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this Agreement
(including by expressing or implying that ExamsOnline.com supports, sponsors,
endorses or contributes money to any charity or other cause).
We reserve all of our rights in the graphic image
and text, any other images, our trade names and trademarks, and all other
intellectual property rights. We may revoke the Alliance Partnership at any time
by giving you written notice.
Rules Regarding Alliance Communications and
Promotion
The following rules apply to any
press release or other communication that you may want to issue in connection
with your participation in the ExamsOnline Alliance Partnership Program, as well
as to any other promotion of your site.
Press Releases and Other Communications
(Including All Communications on Your Web Site or Via Other Media)
Any communication must accurately identify that
you are participating in the "ExamsOnline Alliance Partnership
Program."
Any communication must clearly and accurately
describe the nature of your participation in the ExamsOnline Alliance
Partnership Program: your communication must not create confusion or
misrepresent the nature of your or any other participant's participation in
the ExamsOnline Alliance Partnership Program.
You may, without our prior consent,
say the following in any communication: that you have become an ExamsOnline
Alliance Partner, and/or that you have joined or become a member of the
ExamsOnline Alliance Partnership Program.
You must obtain our prior written consent to
use any other description of your participation in the ExamsOnline Alliance
Partnership
Program or of the program itself, which we may give or withhold at our sole
discretion. If you seek such consent, please submit the entirety of
your proposed press release to us by email at webmaster@examsonline.com
for review.
Note that in seeking such consent, we will
not approve, and you may never in any event issue, any communication which,
in the context of describing the ExamsOnline Alliance
Partnership
Program or your relationship with such program or ExamsOnline.com:
- Uses any of the following words:
"network," "affiliate," "reseller," or
"relationship agreement," or any other words which may lead one
to confuse the ExamsOnline Alliance Program with any other selling
initiatives or which could otherwise be misleading;
- States that ExamsOnline (or any of
ExamsOnline 's affiliated companies) will be selling or promoting your
products or services, or that there will be any linking from the
ExamsOnline site (or any of ExamsOnline 's affiliated companies' sites) to
your site; or
- Otherwise misrepresents, embellishes, or
aggrandizes the business terms of the ExamsOnline Alliance Program or your
or your sites' relationship with ExamsOnline or any of its affiliated
companies.
INACCURATE OR MISLEADING CONTENT IN PRESS
RELEASES OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS MAY BE MATERIALLY MISLEADING UNDER UNITED
STATES SECURITIES LAWS AND THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION. ACCORDINGLY, ExamsOnline.com MAY COOPERATE WITH OR
NOTIFY THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OF INACCURATE OR MISLEADING
CONTENT IN PRESS RELEASES PERTAINING TO ExamsOnline ALLIANCE PARTNERSHIPS.
Other Web Site Promotion
- To protect the integrity of the reputation of
ExamsOnline Alliance Partnership as well as the ExamsOnline.com brand name,
you may not promote your site via certain forms of indiscriminate
advertising, commonly referred to as "spamming." Accordingly, you
may not promote your site via unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), postings
to non-commercial newsgroups, or cross-postings to multiple newsgroups at
once. In addition, you may not promote your site in any way that effectively
conceals or misrepresents your identity, domain name, or return e-mail
address.
- Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may promote
your site via mailings to recipients who are already customers or
subscribers to your site's services, provided that the recipients have the
option to remove themselves from future mailings. Further, you may promote
your site via newsgroup postings to newsgroups that specifically welcome
commercial messages (when in doubt, consult the newsgroup FAQ or moderators
to be sure that such a message is acceptable in that newsgroup).
- In all promotion, you must clearly represent
yourself and your site as entities independent from ExamsOnline, ExamsOnline
's affiliated companies, the ExamsOnline site, and any of ExamsOnline 's
affiliated companies' Web sites.
- Generally, in any forum or media, you must
honor the advertising practices and restrictions that are commonly
considered acceptable by its readers.
ExamsOnline.com reserves the right at its sole
discretion to modify the foregoing rules at any time and from time to time.
ExamsOnline.com reserves the right to take action against any person or entity
that does not conform to these rules.
The term of this Agreement will begin upon our
acceptance of your Program application and will have to be renewed at the end of
every calendar year. The Partnership will end when terminated by either party.
Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without
cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination. Upon the
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 ExamsOnline.com
trademarks and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to
you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Program.
Revenue Disbursement
ExamsOnline.com shall pay to Alliance
Partner upto twenty percent (20%) of the gross fees paid to and received by
ExamsOnline.com from Alliance Partner’s customers and/or students generating
revenue on the ExamsOnline.com Web Site directly as a result of the Interface
with the Alliance Partner Web Sites. Compensation due Alliance Partner shall
only be computed on fees actually received by ExamsOnline.com from Alliance
Partner customers and/or students. Said compensation will be paid from
ExamsOnline.com to Alliance Partner on a quarterly basis.
Relationship of Parties
You and we 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. You will not make
any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that reasonably would
contradict anything in this Section.
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 Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Disclaimers
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the
Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without limitation,
warranties of fitness, merchantability, non-infringement, or any implied
warranties arising out of a 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.
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
PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER
THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.
Miscellaneous
This Agreement will be governed by
the laws of the United States and the state of Illinois, 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 Chicago, Illinois 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 provision or any other provision of this Agreement.