TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF COOPERATION
These terms and conditions of cooperation (hereinafter the Partnership Agreement or Agreement) is the official and stable document governing the relations between you and the Worldwide net business Ltd (a company registered in the Seychelles under the registration number 115539). Your participation in the iGA affiliate program is defined through the access to the webmaster tools and the use of any iGA promotional material, including receiving commission, bonuses or any other income referred to in this Agreement.
When you register on the website www.i-gaming-affiliation.com and install any iGA promotional materials to your website (Internet resource), YOU AUTOMATICALY AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT IN THIS AGREEMENT (as amended or modified from time to time in accordance with Section 1.2).
This Agreement shall come into force upon your installing our marketing tools on your Internet resource. By signing up to iGA affiliate program you acknowledge that you are over 18 years old.
Any changes to this Agreement will be communicated to you in accordance with Section 1.2 of the Agreement below.
If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Agreement you should not join our affiliate program, if you have already joined it email us at to terminate this agreement.
If you have any questions regarding these terms and conditions please contact us at , general enquiries should be sent to .
Under the Agreement:
(1) "you", "your" and/or "Affiliate" mean the individual or entity that filled in Sign-up Form and installed promotional materials iGA on his Internet resource or such other individual or entity as mutually agreed between you and Us.
(2) "we", "our", "us" mean Worldwide net business Ltd, a company registered in the Seychelles with company registration number 115539 and whose registered office is Tenancy 10, Marina House, Eden Island, Mahe, Seychelles.
1. GENERAL INFO
1.1 You are providing, under this Agreement, marketing services to us, as an independent contractor. Neither party to this Agreement is an agent, representative or a partner of the other Party. You will have no right to create or enter into any agreement or make presentations on behalf of us, or incur any obligation or liability on behalf of us or to otherwise bind us. This Agreement shall not be interpreted to create an employment relationship, an association, joint venture, partnership or agency between us and you or to impose any liability attributable to such a relationship upon either party.
1.2 We may modify any of the terms of this Agreement at any time, in our sole discretion. Complements and changes will be posted as a supplement or as a new version of the Agreement on our website. Except in the case of modifications relating to fraud prevention. All modifications to the Agreement will only take effect ten (10) days after the date of posting. If any modification or amendment is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this agreement and cooperation. In case you continue cooperation following such ten (10) working days period it will be deemed binding acceptance of the modification and commitment to implement it. You hereby consent that Worldwide net business Ltd may unilaterally terminate or modify this Agreement at any time.
2. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
In this Agreement, references to the following words shall have the meanings set out below:
2.1 “Webmaster Tools” means software of Worldwide Net Business Ltd which is available to you upon registration, which provides certain functionality, including the verification of relevant statistics (such as views, clicks, registrations and the number of deposits, etc.), registration of sub-affiliates, choice of banners and/or text links, editing of the profile, correspondence with your personal manager.
2.2 "Partner" mean the company whose brands you will promote using our marketing tools.
2.2 “Marketing campaign” – hereafter “campaign”, set of conditions governing the relationship between the affiliate and our “partner”, including the remuneration (commission) payable by the “partner” to the affiliate.
2.3 "Marketing Tools" means banners, text links and other marketing materials that contain identification and bonus codes. You can get them at webmaster tools for the chosen campaigns after signing up and use to assign players to our services from your website.
2.4 "Brand" implies the corresponding brand of our "partner" which is used in online bookmaking, poker, casino, bingo, backgammon, etc.
2.5 "Commission" means money paid to you, the calculation of which is based on our system data and data received from our partners, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the type of commission you choose.
2.6 "Fraud" means creation of deposits, revenue shares or traffic generated on the Services through illegal means or any other action committed in bad faith to defraud us, regardless of whether or not it actually causes us harm, including but not limited to:
- deposits generated on stolen credit cards or created with data stolen from payment systems;
- collusion to manipulate with the service or system, bonuses or other promotional abuse;
- creation of false accounts for the purpose of generating commissions;
- unauthorized use of any third-party accounts, copyrights, trademarks and other third-party Intellectual Property Rights;
- signing up yourself and your friends, acquaintances and relatives as players through your own trackers or sub-affiliate’s trackers, in order to get commissions.
2.7 "Player(s)" means any person using our marketing tools installed on your Internet resource and connected to your tracker (affiliate ID)
2.8 "Real Money Player(s)" means any person who is connected to your Tracker or to your Sub-Affiliate's Tracker) who has made the Minimum Required Deposit.
2.9 "Minimum Required Deposit" means the minimum amount required to open a Player Account, an average minimum deposit is 15-20 euros.
2.10 A "Sign-up Bonus Code" is a special code that we may make available to you to provide to prospective Players.
2.11 "Sub-affiliate" means a person that has successfully joined iGA Affiliate program following your reference for sub-affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
2.12 "Sub-Fees" means the Fees to be paid to any Sub-affiliate as set out in payment plan chosen by them.
2.13 "Tracker (affiliate ID)" means the unique hyperlink or any other link reference, through which you involve prospective Real Money Players. When the relevant Player opens his Player Account and makes minimum required deposit, our system automatically logs the Tracking URL and records you as the Affiliate. Tracker also enables us to track referred by you Real Money Players' activities and calculate your Fees.
3. TERMS & CONDITIONS
Identity and Disclosure. You should 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 should also provide us with such other information as we may reasonably request from time to time.
3.1 Obligations of Worldwide Net Business Ltd
3.1.1 Worldwide Net Business Ltd provides all type of marketing services through its affiliate platform (marketing campaigns, customer support and brands advertisement).
3.1.2 We offer to all network members payment of the generated commission, bonuses for promoting our affiliates through text links, banners and other marketing tools available on the www.i-gaming-affiliation.com platform.
3.1.3 We aim to ensure the proper functioning of hardware platforms and software components, providing users full access to all services offered on the platform in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
3.1.4 In case of technical failure affecting the operation of the platform for reasons beyond our control, such as a breakdown in the communication system, a breakdown in the Internet Service Provider system or any other reason whatsoever, we are committed to inform you of the situation and solve the technical problem as quickly as possible.
3.1.5 We provide the permanent access to the statistics of your websites and promoting campaigns, such as views, clicks, sign-ups and your commissions.
3.1.6 We will regularly inform the members of our affiliate network of the launch of new marketing campaigns, providing copious information on these campaigns.
3.1.7 We reserve the right to accept or refuse any customer, willing to join the iGA affiliate network. In case of refusal, Worldwide Net Business Ltd reserves the right to provide no explanation or compensation.
3.1.8 In case of technical failure affecting the functioning of the platform for reasons beyond our control, such as a breakdown in the communication system, a breakdown in the Internet Service Provider system, or any other reason whatsoever, we are to immediately notify you about the issue and will resolve it as soon as possible. Events like this shall not affect the continuation of the contract and shall not give rise to any claim. These events must be considered as constituting force majeure.
3.1.9 We have the right to monitor your website to ensure you are complying with the terms of this Agreement.
3.1.10 We provide detailed information of the commission to be paid, the commission gets calculated based on the statistics and reports. These reports are updated on a daily basis, you can find them in webmaster tools.
3.1.11 In your webmaster tools you will have access to all the statistics of the earnings generated. These earnings will remain in standby mode till they get confirmed and paid by our affiliates. All confirmed earnings will be paid out.
3.2 Obligations of a member of the iGA affiliate program (affiliate)
3.2.1 You should promote our partners’ brands among potential real money players through marketing tools installed on your sites.
3.2.2 You shall incorporate and permanently display the latest marketing tools provided by Worldwide Net Business Ltd on every page of your website in a manner agreed between the both parties, to ensure the proper tracking of the website user’s actions such as views, clicks registrations and created deposits on the affiliate’s site. You should not change the shape and location of the marketing tools without our permission.
3.2.3 You bear sole responsibility for the content of marketing actions and their methods of implementation. All such marketing activities must be valid, legal and comply with the terms of this Agreement. You mustn’t personally or through a third party persons do the following:
3.2.3.1 Place our marketing materials on any Internet resource, if the content and/or materials on such a resource are illegal or malicious, discriminatory, obscene, pornographic, may be related to violence or are, in our opinion, unacceptable for whatever or otherwise.
3.2.3.2 Violate any rules of email marketing.
3.2.3.3 Place marketing materials on any website or other Internet resources if the content and/or material of this website or Internet resource does the following:
- violates the intellectual property rights;
- copies our website or has similarities with our website or part of it;
- uses blocks or parts of some or all pages of the site (using "framing"technology).
3.2.3.4 Use marketing materials in a way that misleads a player or a potential player.
3.2.3.5 Modify the content, redirect, or otherwise interfere with the operation or disrupt access to our website or its pages.
3.2.3.6 Offer players rakeback schemes or similar schemes, in which the player is offered a partial refund of his rake in any form, except rakeback schemes proposed and agreed with us.
3.2.3.7 Attempt to intercept and/or redirect traffic from any website or other resource that is included into the affiliate network, or to it.
3.2.3.8 Attempt to contact (directly or indirectly) the users of our website in order to persuade them to switch to any other sites that are not owned by us.
If we decide that you participated in any of the actions listed above, we will have the right to immediately close the affiliate account and terminate this Agreement after sending you a notification.
3.2.4 Before you begin to promote our affiliates and install marketing tools on your site, it (the website) must be approved by us, and you should get a confirmation. Approval of the site means that the site meets all the criteria set by our affiliates for their campaigns. Marketing tools should be used only on an approved website. We can immediately eliminate or close affiliate account, if you install (intentionally or not) our marketing tools on the site, which is not registered in the iGA affiliate program or has not been approved by us yet.
3.2.5 In accordance with the rules of e-marketing, we declare that the email newsletters and SPAM methods are regulated. Sending a large number of e-mails containing iGA links to the recipients who have not given their consent to receive these promotional messages is prohibited. Any violation of these rules will result in reduction of the earned commissions and the affiliate will be warned of that if such actions continue, his website will be deactivated on a permanent basis.
3.2.6 The affiliate shall respect the methods of implementation of each marketing campaign in accordance with the specifications set by our partner. Any action not covered or not discribed in partner’s marketing campaign is subject to approval by the partner.
4. FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD
4.1 In the interest of all parties, all actions aimed at artificially increasing the commission owed to the publisher are prohibited.
4.2 Any action covered in section 2.6 of this Agreement aimed at generating commissions shall be considered fraudulent. Similarly, any action that does not respect the implementation methods for a marketing campaign may be deemed fraudulent without any further justification.
4.3 In the event of fraud, this Agreement will be terminated with immediate effect, without notice and without any compensation. If applicable, Worlwide Net Business Ltd will request the reimbursement of amounts unduly paid to the affiliate, and reserves the option of commencing legal proceedings against the affiliate.
5. FORCE MAJEURE
5.1 None of the parties will bear responsibility for the failures or delayed actions stated in this agreement if they are caused by a force majeure event.
5.2 Force majeure should be defined as an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties that prevents one or both parties from fulfilling part or all of their obligations under this Agreement or such circumstance that may affect the performance of the actions making it excessively onerous or difficult to be fulfilled.
5.2 As such are considered: natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, etc.), the phenomena of social life (wars, epidemics, strikes, restrictions or prohibitions on certain activities imposed by authorities or other competent state bodies , embargoes, economic blockades, etc.) including prohibitions or restrictions on gambling on the Internet.
5.4 It is agreed that the force majeure will only result in the suspension of this agreement, during the time that this extraordinary event occurs. The party that would use the force majeure as an excuse to terminate the contract will have to notify the other party in the form of a written notice sent by e-mail.
6. BILLING AND PAYMENTS
6.1 There are three types of commission in iGA affiliate program:
- CPA: You earn commission when a player opens an account and makes a minimum deposit. In this case, the required minimum deposit is about 15 euros, and in case a player pays less than that, you do not get a commission. However, in most of the campaigns of our program, the minimum required deposit is the minimum amount that a player can put on his account;
- Revenue Share: In this case, you get a percentage of the bets of the player who came to us directly from your reference link or from one of your sub-affiliates;
- Hybrid (mixed conditions CPA and Revenue Share): In this type of commission you get the best of both previous types. Advance fees for the players who have made a deposit, and then a percentage of their games. However, this plan of commission is not for everyone; you can get details from your account manager.
6.2 Worldwide Net Business Ltd will be tracking every visit to the advertiser's site. Based on the information received from advertisers the commission will be calculated and paid to the affiliates.
6.3 In case of failure to pay out (non-payment of the debt) by the advertiser, the Advertiser’s debt to Worldwide Net Business Ltd will be charged through amicable agreement or lawsuit.
6.4 Worldwide Net Business Ltd processes payments to its affiliates on a monthly basis, using the payment information filled in the affiliate’s account. Worldwide Net Business Ltd pays its affiliates 30 to 45 days after a given month. For example, the payments related to the May activity will be paid out in the beginning of July. Earnings have to meet the minimum payment threshold of 50 Euro (this data can be modified and is ranged between 50 - 400 Euro). Earnings below the minimum payment threshold will be carried over to the next month's payment period.
6.5 Payments will be made once the advertiser has made a detailed check on the quality of the traffic sent by each affiliate. After this check a report is generated, which can be found in webmaster tools, based on this report we make payments. Worldwide Net Business Ltd is not responsible in any way for any delay in the payment of the commission.
6.6 Payments to sub-affiliates. In accordance with this Agreement, you will receive commission from the income of your sub-affiliates. After one (1) year from the date of successful registration of your Sub-affiliate by you commissions from your Sub-affiliate's income will be reduced to zero (0).
6.7 Method of Payment. All payments to you will be calculated and paid in United States Dollars or such other currency as we will determine, regardless of the currency players assigned to your Tracker may have played in. Payment can be made by a bank transfer, through the payment systems Moneybookers, Neteller, Webmoney or any other method as we in our sole discretion decide; however, we will use reasonable endeavours to accommodate your preferred payment method. Transfer fees will be covered by you and deducted from your Fees. We have no liability to pay any currency conversion charges or any charges associated with the transfer of money to your Affiliate Cashier Account.
7. TERM AND TERMINATION
7.1 Term and termination. This Agreement shall come into force upon your installing our marketing tools on your Internet resource and continue until terminated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
7.2 Termination By You. You may terminate this Agreement at your discretion upon written notice to us by sending an email marked «Termination of Agreement» at . Termination of the Agreement will end your participation in the iGA affiliate program. You must withdraw all monies in your Affiliate Cashier Account within thirty (30) days after sending the termination of the Agreement email. If such monies are not withdrawn by such time they will be detained for the benefit of Worldwide net business Ltd.
7.3 Termination By Us. We may terminate this Agreement or agreements on any specific campaign without terminating this Agreement as a whole, without cause at any time, upon written notice to you that we may send by email at such email address which you provide to us. In the event we terminate the Agreement as a whole, we shall be entitled to automatically deactivate all your sites and subscribed campaigns. Upon termination of this Agreement you will no longer receive any Commission. If we terminate a certain campaign, you will no longer receive any commission from this campaign; however, your remaining campaigns will not be affected.
7.4 Suspension By Us. In any circumstance where we are entitled to terminate this Agreement or agreements on any specific campaign, we may at our sole discretion suspend this Agreement or any specific campaign. During the period of any suspension, we may withhold the payment of any Commission that relate to any affected campaign. Payment of any withheld commissions will be made to you on the lifting of the suspension.
8. LIABILITY
8.1 We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the iGA affiliate program or to payment arrangements (including, without limitation, their functionality, warranties of fitness, merchantability, legality, or any implied warranties arising out of work conditions or a collaborative use). Moreover, we make no representation that the operation of our site will be uninterrupted or error free and will not be responsible for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.
8.2 We will not be responsible for direct, special or consequential losses (or any loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising from this Agreement or operation of the iGA affiliate program, even if we were warned of the possibility of such loss. In addition, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and Program will not exceed the total referral customers’ fees paid to you under this Agreement.
8.3 Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed so as to provide any rights, remedies or benefits to any person or entity with respect to this Agreement. Our obligations under this Agreement do not constitute personal obligations of our directors, officers or shareholders. Any liability arising within this Agreement shall be met solely by remuneration for marketing activities and shall be limited by direct losses.
9. ASSIGNATION AND TRANSACTION OF RIGHTS
9.1 You cannot transfer the rights for this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Taking this limitation into account, the present Agreement shall be binding, will act on the territory of the Russian Federation, and is enforceable against you and us and our successors and assigns.