AFFILIATE AGREEMENT

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THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND GP ACOUSTICS (UK) LTD. (DBA CELESTION, TRADING ONLINE AT CELESTIONPLUS.COM)

BY SUBMITTING THE ONLINE APPLICATION YOU ARE AGREEING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH AND EVERY TERM AND CONDITION.

  1. Overview

This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to you becoming an affiliate in Celestion’s  Affiliate Program. The purpose of this Agreement is to allow HTML linking between your web site and the Celestionplus.com web site as an affiliate of Celestion. Please note that throughout this Agreement, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Celestion, and “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to the affiliate.

  1. Affiliate Obligations

2.1. To begin the enrolment process, you will complete and submit the online application at Celestionplus.com. The fact that we auto-approve applications does not imply that we may not re-evaluate your application at a later time. We may reject your application at our sole discretion. We may cancel your application if we determine that your site is unsuitable for our Program, including if it:

2.1.1. Promotes sexually explicit materials
2.1.2. Promotes violence
2.1.3. Promotes discrimination based on (but not limited to) race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
2.1.4. Promotes illegal activities
2.1.5. Incorporates any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights, or to violate the law
2.1.6. Includes “Celestion” or variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name (typosquatting)
2.1.7. Is otherwise in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion.
2.1.8. Contains software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program.
2.1.9. You may not create or design your website or any other website that you operate, explicitly or implied in a manner which resembles our website nor design your website in a manner which leads customers to believe you are Celestion or any other affiliated business.

2.2. As a member of Celestion’s Affiliate Program, you will have access to Affiliate Account Manager. Here you will be able to review our Program’s details and previously-published affiliate newsletters, download HTML code (that provides for links to web pages within the Celestionplus.com web site) and banner creatives, browse and get tracking codes for our coupons and deals. In order for us to accurately keep track of all guest visits from your site to ours, you must use the HTML code that we provide for each banner, text link, or other affiliate link we provide you with.

2.3. Celestion reserves the right, at any time, to review your placement and approve the use of Your Links and require that you change the placement or use to comply with the guidelines provided to you.

2.4. The maintenance and the updating of your site and any relevant, related channels, will be your responsibility. We may monitor these channels as we feel necessary to make sure that it is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes that we feel should enhance your performance.

2.5. It is entirely your responsibility to follow all applicable intellectual property and other laws that pertain to your site. You must have express permission to use any person’s copyrighted material, whether it be a writing, an image, or any other copyrightable work. We will not be responsible (and you will be solely responsible) if you use another person’s copyrighted material or other intellectual property in violation of the law or any third party rights.

2.6 It is entirely your responsibility to ensure that you follow guidelines set down in European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) legislation when handling third party contact details in relation to your affiliation with Celestion.

  1. Celestion Rights and Obligations

3.1. We have the right to monitor your site (and any other channel where you might ink to celestionplus.com) at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this Agreement. We may notify you of any changes to your site that we feel should be made, or to make sure that your links to our web site are appropriate and to notify further you of any changes that we feel should be made. If you do not make the changes to your site that we feel are necessary, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the Celestion Affiliate Program.

3.2.Celestion reserves the right to terminate this Agreement and your participation in the Celestion Affiliate Program immediately and without notice to you should you commit fraud in your use of the Celestion Affiliate Program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, Celestion shall not be liable to you for any commissions for such fraudulent sales.

3.3. This Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application, and will continue unless terminated hereunder.

  1. Termination

Either you or we may end this Agreement AT ANY TIME, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice can be in the form of mail or email. In addition, this Agreement will terminate immediately upon any breach of this Agreement by you.

  1. Modification

We may modify any of the terms and conditions in this Agreement at any time at our sole discretion. In such event, you will be notified by email. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the payment procedures and Celestion’s Affiliate Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only option is to end this Agreement. Your continued participation in Celestion’s Affiliate Program following the posting of the change notice or new Agreement on our site will indicate your agreement to the changes.

  1. Referral Fees.

Referral Fee Rate Schedule: We will pay you a referral fee of the Net Sales to us by users of your site that make purchases utilizing the Special Links between your site and our site, net of amounts collected by us for sales taxes and similar charges. The default Referral Fee rate is fifteen (15) percent of the net sales amount of any product attributed to links from your site, included discounted price items (for example during promotional sales). Currently the Referral Fee rate is the same for all products on the site.

Two notes specific products and Positive Grid software are not included.

Your current Referral Fee rate or rate schedule, for specific or all products, may be posted in our Affiliate Program Portal, accessible via your affiliate login ID and password on our website. Any Referral Fee rate or rate schedule posted in the Affiliate Program Portal supersedes this default Referral Fee rate.

Referral Fee Requirements: For a sale to generate a Referral Fee, the customer must follow the Special Link from your site to our site, and make a purchase using our online ordering system and remit full payment to us. A Referral Fee will only be paid if the visitor to our site is tracked by our system from the time of the Special Link to the time of the sale. Referral Fees will not be paid for amounts not collected due to credit card fraud. If a customer has clicked on two or more links from different affiliates prior to making a purchase, only the provider of the last link clicked is eligible to receive a referral fee. For example,  if a visitor comes to our site once by way of a Special Link on affiliate A’s site and then later returns to our site from a link on affiliate B’s site, only affiliate B will be paid a referral fee.

The Celestion affiliate program is designed to refer customers to the celestionplus.com  web site and not to provide a discount to Affiliates (auto-referrals). You may not purchase products using the Special Links on your site for your own use, for resale or commercial use of any kind.

  1. Referral Fee Payment.

We will pay Referral Fees on a monthly basis, your balance must exceed $5/£5/5 Euro to be eligible.

  1. Linking to Our Site.

Link Formats: In order for Celestion to attribute sales to Your site, You must use special hypertext links that are uniquely coded to indicate Your site. We will provide you with special “tagged” link formats to be used in all links between your site and our site. You must ensure that each of the links between your site and our site properly utilises such special link formats. Links to our site placed on your site pursuant to this Agreement and which properly utilise such special link formats are referred to as “Special Links.” You will earn referral fees only with respect to activity on our site occurring directly through Special Links and coming from Your Site. If you do not use these Special Links, We will not pay You any referral fees. For a Special Link to be valid, the visitor referral must be verified by our site as originating the affiliate’s your domain name.

Direct & Indirect Special Links: Generally, sites will want to use a regular direct HTTP link that takes users directly to the Celestionplus.com. For sites that want to implement internal tracking, they may create an internal link to capture the clickthrough before referring the user to Celestionplus.com. Sites employing such indirect links must redirect to Our site using a HTTP status code of 301.

Representation of Links: Each Special Link connecting users of your site to our site will in no way alter the look, feel or functionality of our site. The customer must be clearly informed that the merchant is Celestion and not the affiliate. At no time may the affiliate make representations which would make it appear that Celestion is merely providing items to affiliate for resale. We have the right in our sole discretion to monitor your site at any time and from time to time to determine if you are in compliance with the terms of this Agreement.

Use of Linking Information: You acknowledge that, by participating in the Affiliate Program and placing any of the above Special Links within your site, Celestion may receive information from or about visitors to your site or communications between your site and those visitors, namely the link itself and HTTP referrer information. Your participation in the Celestion affiliate program constitutes your specific and unconditional consent to and authorisation for Celestion’s access to, receipt, storage, use, and disclosure of any and all such information, consistent with the policies and procedures set forth in Celestion’s Privacy Notice.

  1. Promotion Restrictions

9.1. You are free to promote your own web sites, but naturally any promotion that mentions Celestion or Celestionplus.com could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort and as such is not permitted. You should know that certain forms of advertising are always prohibited by Celestion. For example, advertising commonly referred to as “spamming” is unacceptable to us and could cause damage to our name. Other generally prohibited forms of advertising include the use of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once. In addition, you may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name, or your return email address. You may use mailings to customers to promote Celestion so long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or web site, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. Also, you may post to newsgroups to promote Celestion so long as the news group specifically welcomes commercial messages. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your web sites as independent from Celestion. If it comes to our attention that you are spamming, we will consider that cause for immediate termination of this Agreement and your participation in the Celestion Affiliate Program. Any pending balances owed to you will not be paid if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.

9.2. Affiliates that among other keywords or exclusively bid in their Pay-Per-Click campaigns on keywords such as Celestion.com, Celestionplus.com, Celestion, www.celestionplus, www.celestionplus.com, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these – be it separately or in combination with other keywords – and do not direct the traffic from such campaigns to their own website prior to re-directing it to ours, will be considered trademark violators, and will be banned from Celestion’s Affiliate Program. We will do everything possible to contact the affiliate prior to the ban. However, we reserve the right to expel any trademark violator from our affiliate program without prior notice, and on the first occurrence of such PPC bidding behaviour.

9.3. Affiliates are not prohibited from keying in prospect’s information into the lead form as long as the prospects’ information is real and true, and these are valid leads (i.e. sincerely interested in Celestion’s service).

9.4. Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “Parasiteware™,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers from the time the consumer clicks on a qualifying link until such time as the consumer has fully exited Celestionplus.com (i.e., no page from our site or any Celestion’s content or branding is visible on the end-user’s screen). As used herein a. “Parasiteware™” and “Parasitic Marketing” shall mean an application that (a) through accidental or direct intent causes the overwriting of affiliate and non-affiliate commission tracking cookies through any other means than a customer initiated click on a qualifying link on a web page or email; (b) intercepts searches to redirect traffic through an installed software, thereby causing, pop ups, commission tracking cookies to be put in place or other commission tracking cookies to be overwritten where a user would under normal circumstances have arrived at the same destination through the results given by a standard internet search via commercially available search-engine; (c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of Celestionplus.com in IFrames, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open Celestionplus.com; (d) targets text on web sites, other than those web sites 100% owned by the application owner, for the purpose of contextual marketing; (e) removes, replaces or blocks the visibility of Affiliate banners with any other banners, other than those that are on web sites 100% owned by the owner of the application.

  1. Grant of Licenses

10.1. We grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to (i) access our site through HTML links solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (ii) solely in connection with such links, to use our logos, trade names, trademarks, and similar identifying material (collectively, the “Licensed Materials”) that we provide to you or authorize for such purpose. You are only entitled to use the Licensed Materials to the extent that you are a member in good standing of Celestion’s Affiliate Program. You agree that all uses of the Licensed Materials will be on behalf of Celestion and the good will associated therewith will inure to the sole benefit of Celestion.

10.2. Each party agrees not to use the other’s proprietary materials in any manner that is disparaging, misleading, obscene or that otherwise portrays the party in a negative light. Each party reserves all of its respective rights in the proprietary materials covered by this license. Other than the license granted in this Agreement, each party retains all right, title, and interest to its respective rights and no right, title, or interest is transferred to the other.

  1. Disclaimer

CELESTION MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING CELESTIONPLUS.COM SERVICE AND WEB SITE OR THE PRODUCTS PROVIDED THEREIN, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF CELESTION ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED. 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.

  1. Representations and Warranties

You represent and warrant that:

12.1. 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;

12.2. You have the full right, power, and authority to enter into and be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and to perform your obligations under this Agreement, without the approval or consent of any other party;

12.3. You have sufficient right, title, and interest in and to the rights granted to us in this Agreement.

  1. Limitations of Liability

WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE OR GOODWILL OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FURTHER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, IN NO EVENT SHALL CELESTION’S CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSION FEES PAID TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.

  1. Indemnification

You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless GP Acoustics (UK) Ltd, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members, and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable fees relating to legal action) (any or all of the foregoing hereinafter referred to as “Losses”) insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (i) any claim that our use of the affiliate trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, licence, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of any third party, (ii) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement made by you herein, or (iii) any claim related to your site, including, without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.

  1. Confidentiality

All confidential information, including, but not limited to, any business, technical, financial, and customer information, disclosed by one party to the other during negotiation or the effective term of this Agreement which is marked “Confidential,” will remain the sole property of the disclosing party, and each party will keep in confidence and not use or disclose such proprietary information of the other party without express written permission of the disclosing party.

  1. Miscellaneous

16.1. You agree that you are an independent contractor, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between you and Celestion. 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 any other of Your Site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.

16.2. Neither party may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement to any party, except to a party who obtains all or substantially all of the business or assets of a third party.

16.3. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the England without regard to the conflicts of laws and principles thereof.

16.4. You may not amend or waive any provision of this Agreement unless in writing and signed by both parties.

16.5. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between us and you, and shall supersede all prior agreements and communications of the parties, oral or written.

16.6. The headings and titles contained in this Agreement are included for convenience only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect the terms of this Agreement.

16.7. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent necessary such that the intent of the parties is effectuated, and the remainder of this agreement shall have full force and effect.