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Affiliate agreement

The following Affiliate agreement regulate your participation in the Paidboom(we, us, our) Affiliate Program or any of our related businesses. The Affiliate Program (the Program) enables you (the Affiliate, your) to promote Paidboom's services and earn commissions as specified in these Terms and Conditions. Our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Privacy Policy are incorporated by reference into the Terms and Conditions.

Paidboom is a part of Innerweb tech, and any agreement you sign on our site constitutes your agreement to Innerweb tech contracts/agreements. Innerweb tech is an entity registered in India with the CIN number U74999KA2021OPC152112 and the name INNERWEB TECH OPC PVT LTD.

1. Account Approval:

Registration in the Program is handled by completing the affiliate signup form on the Paidboom website (the Website). We verify all affiliate signups before deciding whether or not to accept an application. If we find that you are not suitable for the Program for any reason, we may reject your application.

If we reject your application for any reason, you are not eligible to reapply to the Affiliate Program using the same domain name/URL. An Affiliate should not reapply with a different domain/URL name and then add the previously rejected domain/URL to their affiliate account. Paidboom reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject or remove any prospective affiliate from the Affiliate Program at any time, with or without warning.

2. Your Responsibilities

When you signup, you agree to our policy by default:

  • You are responsible for supplying complete and correct account information to us, as well as keeping that information up to date. Contact information, any website URL(s) where Paidboom will be advertised, promotional techniques and means, payment details, tax information, and any other information we may request are examples of such information. We reserve the right to seek additional information about all of the websites where you promote Paidboom, as well as the promotional techniques you employ. Failure to provide accurate information may result in programme exclusion, suspension or termination of your Affiliate account, and forfeiture of any commissions.
  • You must behave in good faith when referring customers who are in good standing. Customers in good standing are hosting account users who have provided accurate contact information, are not identified for high fraud risk, have active accounts that do not violate any quotas or limitations set forth in the Paidboom Terms of Service, and use their accounts actively. Active account usage is determined at our sole discretion and may be based on any of the following factors: the number and frequency of logins into the User area and account control panel; the frequency of new content upload on the account; the number of visits to the website and the frequency of such visits; any other way that unambiguously demonstrates the user actively; and so on.
  • You should not take conduct or make recommendations to your referrals that could result in Paidboom incurring losses.
  • You should avoid incentivized initiatives and business-opportunity websites, as well as marketing methods that may be unethical or attract clients who are not in good standing.
  • You should not exploit or encourage your referrals to use copyrighted or third-party material on their Paidboom accounts unless the appropriate licences are obtained.
  • Without our prior written permission, you may not copy, edit, or modify any icons, buttons, banners, graphics, files, or anything contained in Paidboom Links, including but not limited to removing or altering any copyright or trademark notices.
  • You should not use any blackhat SEO/spam link building strategies for increasing Paidboom referrals.
  • You agree not to violate any applicable law.
  • You agree not to promote any Paidboom sales pages, and any sales made on sales pages or offer pages used for ads/emails are not eligible for commission. We shall only use these hidden pages for ads and email marketing to offset the costs of running ads or email marketing. These pages will have to be excluded from commission.
  • Any sales made outside of these pages will not receive any commission to cover the cost of running ads, email marketin or any marketing related strategies. (https://www.paidboom.com, https://www.paidboom.com/web-hosting, https://www.paidboom.com/wordpress-hosting, https://www.paidboom.com/fully-managed-wordpress-hosting, https://www.paidboom.com/hosting-addons)l You must be loyal to Paidboom, not abuse its trust, and not jeopardise its reputation.
  • You are required to disclose the affiliate relationship with Paidboom on your website.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your affiliate account and cancel all outstanding commission payments due if we find a pattern in your affiliate practises that, in our reasonable view, violates any provision of the T&C.

3. Advertising

You should only utilise promotional materials allowed by Paidboom when advertising our services. Only materials that we give in your Affiliate Area or that a Paidboom representative accepts in writing are considered approved. Approved materials may include Paidboom trade names, service marks, logos, and/or slogans for display on your Affiliate Site. We now give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to view and download such promotional materials for the sole and exclusive purpose of advertising websites owned, maintained, or controlled by Paidboom.. You agree to cooperate with us in order to establish and maintain approved promotional materials by utilizing such promotional materials.

When your affiliate account is terminated, the restricted, non-exclusive permission to view and download Paidboom advertising materials is instantly revoked. Inappropriate advertising methods include, but are not limited to:

  • Using any illegal or spam method of advertising, e.g. unsolicited email, unauthorized placing of the link in forums, newsgroups, message boards etc.;
  • Bidding on keywords and phrases containing the "Paidboom" trademark, or variations or misspellings of the trademarked term on Pay per Click or Pay per Impression campaigns on the search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Bing or others) without our prior approval.
  • You are not allowed to use the Paidboom Website(s) as display URL in PPC ads and to direct-link or redirect to the Paidboom Website(s);
  • Using non-unique copyright infringing content to promote Paidboom;
  • Using traffic generated by pay to read, pay to click, banner exchanges, click exchanges, PPV advertising, pop-up/under, or similar methods;
  • Providing cash backs, rewards or any other kind of incentives to obtain the sale without our prior approval;
  • Offering price savings methods, including coupon(s), voucher(s), discount codes, or added value offers without our prior approval;
  • Using our advertising and promotional materials, trademark or name in a way which negatively affects our image;
  • Using iframes or any other techniques or technology that places your affiliate tracking cookie by any means other than an actual click-through;
  • Using link cloaking or masking techniques or technology with the goal to promote Paidboom on websites and/or networks not explicitly listed in your affiliate profile and hiding that traffic source;
  • Your website(s) must NOT contain lewd, obscene, illegal or pornographic material, or any other material that is deemed to be objectionable. This includes, but is not limited to, bigotry, hatred, pornography, satanic materials, trademark and copyright materials, all content of an adult nature, etc. The designation of any materials as such is subject to our reasonable opinion;
  • Your domain name(s), company name, logo, trademark, product(s), project(s), service(s) must NOT contain keywords and phrases containing the "Paidboom" trademark or any other variations or misspellings confusingly similar to Paidboom trademark, name, logo or domain name, without our prior approval;
  • Your domain name(s), company name, logo, trademark, your product(s), project(s), service(s) must NOT contain keywords and phrases that contain or are confusingly similar to third-party trademarks, names, logos or domain names, unless you have been duly authorised by the trademark owner.

Paidboom shall have the sole right to decide if a promotional method you use is appropriate. The use of any advertising method that we consider inappropriate may result in warning, suspension or termination of your affiliate account and and cancellation of all outstanding commission payments due.

4. Tracking Cookies

We track affiliate sales automatically by the use of cookies. The cookies are placed in the browser of the user that clicks on the affiliate link to reach our website. Each cookie is stored for 60 days. If there is a previous affiliate cookie in the same user’s browser the new cookies will overwrite it. Paidboom is not responsible for cookies intentionally deleted by users.

5. Affiliate Commissions

We shall pay you a per-sale commission for any valid sale you refer to Paidboom. For a valid sale ALL of the following are true:

The sale was made as a result of your active referral efforts. We determine that if any of the following is true:

  • At the time of order the customer has an active cookie indicating you as the last affiliate who referred them to our website, provided that the customer has not reached our website through a search engine with a search string not containing the Paidboom name;
  • You claim that you have referred a customer no later than 2 months from their order date, the customer does not object to that claim and we do not have information that attributes the sale to another advertising channel.
  • Your affiliate account must be active at the time of the sale. No commission is due for sales that were made before you registered for our Affiliate Program.
  • The customer you refer has not used our services before and has not signed up for an affiliate account with us before.
  • The customer completed their order processes without any assistance from you, including when you act on behalf of the customer.
  • The sale is for any of our web hosting plans. Sales for other services or additional account features do not qualify for commissions.
  • The sale is for any of our web hosting plans at any billing cycle. If the sale is for a shared hosting plan for more than 1 month, the item price should be more than 30 USD or the equivalent of 40 USD as per the average monthly exchange rate for any other respective currency that might be used by the customer to complete payment for their hosting account.
  • The referred customer has maintained his account active, with a domain name pointed to one of our servers and a website with user-uploaded content for the minimum required period as described below. User-uploaded content is defined as content different from any default installation via automated installation tools we provide or different from any default content you upload across the accounts you refer. The minimum required period is set to:
  • More than 30 days for accounts initially ordered with a billing term longer than one month.
  • More than 90 days for accounts initially ordered with a one-month billing term.
  • Sales of hosting accounts that are cancelled by the customer or suspended by Paidboom for any reason do not qualify for an affiliate commission.
  • The initial order payment and any related service renewal payments of the referred customer are fully processed and are not subject to refund or chargeback.

We reserve the right to mark any sale as invalid at our own discretion, without providing any explanation or justification

6. Commission Payments

Paidboom shall pay all affiliate commissions based on the structure and in the currency outlined on the Affiliate Program signup page, unless a custom agreement exists in writing. Any commissions earned for valid sales will be paid out after a holding period of 60 days. We reserve the right to extend the holding period as set out in the T&C and without prior notice for as long as is reasonably necessary in order to establish the validity of a sale.

We process commission payouts often depending on your preferences. Affiliate commissions are paid out via PayPal and you are responsible for any transaction fees, unless a custom agreement applies.

You are solely responsible for keeping all your information up to date including postal and email addresses, name, payment information, tax information and any other personal information that will impact our ability to process a commission payout. We will suspend commission payouts until we have all required details, including your tax information. Payout on suspended commissions can be claimed up to 6 months from the date they would have been originally due for payment.

We may suspend your commission payouts at any time and for any period, if we suspect fraudulent or other improper activity or a potential violation of this Agreement by you or any customer you refer.

We reserve the right to deduct from your current and future commissions any and all commissions paid out for sales that are fraudulent, questionable, or canceled. Where no current and future commissions are due, we will send you a bill for the balance of such refunded purchase upon termination of the program or termination of the referred customer account.

7. Invoicing

We shall provide you with a statement of commissions due in you Affiliate Area.

If applicable for your country of residence, we will issue self-billing invoices for all commission payouts, including applicable taxes. The Affiliate Program Terms and Conditions will be considered a valid Self-billing Agreement between you and Paidboom that shall continue until termination of your Affiliate account. By signing up for our Affiliate Program you agree to accept self-billing invoices raised by Paidboom on your behalf, not to raise any sales invoices for the commission payouts you receive from Paidboom and to notify us immediately if you change your name, company details or tax registration status.

8. Relationship of the Parties

Both Paidboom and the Affiliate agree that they enter into this Agreements as independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between them. The Affiliate has no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on the behalf of Paidboom. The Affiliate cannot make any statement, whether on the Affiliate website or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this section.

9. Account Termination

You can cancel and terminate your affiliate account at any time by contacting us through your Affiliate Area. We will send you written confirmation that your account has been terminated.

Paidboom can terminate an affiliate account:

  • With a seven-day prior notice without explanation.
  • Immediately with no prior notice, if you or your affiliate account violate the Affiliate Program Terms and Conditions.
  • Immediately with no prior notice, if you have not generated any sales for a period longer than 6 months.

Once an affiliate account is terminated, we will no longer track the sales associated with the affiliate and you will not qualify for future affiliate commissions. Any commissions due at the time of termination will be paid to the Affiliate after any holding period and in accordance with a regular payout cycle. No outstanding commission payments will be due if we terminate your account because of violation of this T&C and an administrative fee of 20 USD, or the equivalent in the currency listed in your Affiliate Area, shall be due by the Affiliate.

Upon termination of the Affiliate account, the Affiliate is obliged within 3 business days to remove all promotional materials, trademarks, links, logos and slogans of Paidboom from his  web site. This provision shall survive the termination of the Agreement. After the termination of this Agreement, the Affiliate shall not have the right to use Paidboom trademark(s), logo and slogans and shall refrain from any actions which may directly or indirectly adversely affect the image and reputation of Paidboom, as well the business relations with its current and potential clients.

Upon termination of the affiliate account, this Agreement shall be automatically terminated.

10. Limitation of Liability

YOU AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, HOLD US OR OUR LICENSORS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS AND/OR THIRD PARTY VENDORS LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, COST SAVINGS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, DATA OR USE, OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS BY YOU OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS APPLY WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY AND APPLY EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE TO YOU IN THE AGGREGATE WITH RESPECT TO ANY AND ALL BREACHES, DEFAULTS, OR CLAIMS OF LIABILITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR UNDER ANY OTHER DOCUMENT FOR AN AMOUNT GREATER THAN THE FEES ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO US DURING THE ONE MONTH PERIOD PRECEDING A CLAIM GIVING RISE TO SUCH LIABILITY. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. YOU AGREE THAT IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS, OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

This provision shall survive termination of the Agreement.

11. Governing law

Any dispute, controversy or claim arising under this Agreement shall be resolved in accordance with the legislation in the jurisdiction where the Paidboom entity servicing your Affiliate account is located.

12. Changes to the Affiliate Program Terms

We may alter this Agreement and any policies or provisions incorporated by reference at any time. The amendments and/or supplements of the Agreement shall be effective immediately upon posting to the website of Paidboom. The current T&C is always available on Paidboom’s website. If you do not agree to any amendments, you must terminate your Affiliate account within 10 business days of the date of the amendment. Only a Paidboom officer may alter this T&C. No agent of, or person employed by or under contract with, Paidboom has any authority to alter or vary this T&C in any way. No oral explanation or oral information given by any party shall alter the interpretation of this T&C.