Affiliate Terms of Service

I. Parties to this Agreement

BitcoinVPSHosting.com (“BVH”), a Wyoming corporation with its principal place of business at 1712 Pioneer Avenue, Ste 1774 Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001. This agreement is entered into by BWH and each of its Affiliate(s). “You”, “Your” refers to each and every affiliate or sub-affiliate of the BWH affiliate program. Participation in the program constitutes full and complete acceptance of the TOS set forth herein.

II. BWH Responsibilities

A. Affiliate URL

Upon your acceptance, BWH will provide you with an affiliate URL to specifically identify you, which will allow you to create a link to the BWH web site. You may post this link in any location, as many times as you like subject to the remaining terms of this agreement regarding acceptable links.

B. Tracking

BWH agrees to track the customers referred to BWH via the link provided to you for that purpose. BWH utilizes cookies to maintain tracking information for up to one year. BWH will pay you a commission for each such referral made in compliance with this agreement pursuant to the commission schedule and the terms set forth in this affiliate agreement.

III. Affiliate Responsibilities

A. Minimum Age

You agree that you are 18 years of age or older on the date that you first approve the terms hereof. You agree that you are in a jurisdiction where participation in the BWH affiliate program does not violate any law, ordinance, regulation or standard.

B. Operation of Affiliate Link

You agree to take full responsibility for ensuring the proper and continuing operation of your affiliate URL. You agree that you will notify BWH if your affiliate URL ceases to function or ceases to function properly.

C. Representations

You agree that you will not make any representations, promises, warranties or other statements about BWH or the BWH web site, products or policies other than as may be expressly approved in writing by BWH or as other wise provided to you by BWH for that purpose.

D. Advertising

Affiliates are not allowed to advertise on BWH’s brand keywords. Affiliates are not allowed to target BWH coupon keywords. Violations may result in the invalidation of referral commissions and/or immediate termination of affiliate account. BWH will be the sole arbitrator as to what constitutes a violation.

E. Link

You may use the affiliate URL provided by BWH via the available BWH Link Library or in any other form you wish provided that your use of the URL is not in any way disparaging of BWH or otherwise not appropriate or acceptable in BWH’s sole opinion and judgment. You may not violate any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right of BWH or any other party. You may not violate the BWH Master Service Agreement.

F. Amendments

You agree that BWH may amend this agreement at any time without notice to you. You agree to keep advised of any changes to this agreement by checking the BWH web site on a periodic basis.

G. Customers of BWH

BWH will have the sole right and responsibility to service all customers secured through your affiliate URL. All dealings with customers for web hosting and related services shall be directly and solely between customer and BWH BWH shall have the right and obligation to determine all pricing and product offerings and shall have the right to make any changes thereto without notice to affiliate. All customers of BWH, regardless of origin or referral, are the sole property and responsibility of BWH.

H. Federal Trade Commission Regulations

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires that connections between advertiser and endorsers be conspicuously disclosed. Blogs, websites, ratings and review sites, and similar must declare the compensation arrangement with the advertiser. As such, you must declare the financial relationship between you and BWH in a prominent location on your websites in order to be in compliance with the FTC. BWH retains the right to withhold payout moneys and/or cancel the your affiliate account should it be determined that you are not in compliance with applicable FTC regulations. BWH will be the sole arbitrator as to what constitutes non-compliance.

IV. Commissions

A. Commission Rate

Commissions are paid on a one-time basis for each new account purchased via your affiliate URL subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein. There will be no obligation to pay any other commission. Commissions vary in amount. Exact commission rates based on number of referrals within a given calendar month and order maturation are available within  https://affiliates.bitcoinwebhosting.net/.

NO COMMISSIONS WILL BE CREDITED FOR DOMAIN REGISTRATIONS. Commissions are paid on new accounts only (current or previous customers of the company are not eligible) and not on any subsequent renewal or subsequent signups of a referred customer. A commission is not finalized until it becomes a Qualified Commission, even after the payment of a commission has been made.

B. Qualified Commission

A “qualified commission” is one for which the new account which is the subject of the commission has remained in good standing continuously for at least 60 days from its inception. BWH shall make all decisions as to whether any commission is a “qualified commission.” If at any time after a commission has been awarded and/or paid and the related customer’s account is terminated or canceled, for any reason, this commission will be revoked and subtracted from any standing or future commissions account balance you may have.

C. Payment Date

Payments will only be paid once your commissions account balance reaches the minimum payment threshold. BWH shall make no payment to you until this minimum balance is achieved. Commissions are not paid until a payout request is submitted by you via the BWH affiliate control panel.

D. Payment Form

Commissions can be paid three available methods: Bitcoin, through a PayPal payout or with credit applied to your BWH web hosting account. Your payment preference can be modified at anytime via your affiliate control panel – https://affiliates.bitcoinwebhosting.net.

For payments to be made with Bitcoin, you must provide your affiliate username and Bitcoin wallet address. For payments to be made through PayPal, you must provide us with your affiliate username and your PayPal ID.

E. Tax Regulation

Due to the tax laws though the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the United States Department of Treasury requires that every individual or corporation who is receiving affiliate commissions equal to or above Six Hundred Dollars ($600) within a calendar year complete the necessary forms within our affiliate section (https://affiliates.bitcoinwebhosting.net/) to provide your Social Security Number (SSN). At year end a formal 1099 IRS form will be completed and mailed to your address on file so that you may accurately declare your affiliate revenue on your personal or corporate income tax. International affiliates are not required to complete this step.

V. Ownership and Licenses

A. Property Ownership

Each party to this agreement shall retain all right, title and interest in its names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights and proprietary technology, including, without limitation, those names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights and proprietary technology currently used or which may be developed and/or used by it in the future.

B. License

BWH grants you as an affiliate a revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide License to use, reproduce and transmit the BWH logos, trademarks and service marks on your site and only your site for the sole purpose of facilitating a link between your site and BWH to accomplish the purpose and intent of this affiliate agreement. You may also use the links and images located in the link library prepared specifically for that purpose subject to the same terms and conditions. You may not otherwise use, copy, distribute, change, modify, or otherwise alter any such property. This License is neither assignable nor transferable.

C. Cease use upon Demand

You agree to immediately cease the use of any mark upon request made by BWH to the email address provided by you and maintained on file for you by BWH. You agree to immediately cease the use of any link created by you to BWH upon request by BWH to the email address provided by you and maintained on file for you by BWH.

VI. Termination

A. Effect upon Commission

Either party may terminate this agreement at any time upon notice in writing to the other party. Other than any termination under paragraph 6.B. herein, any commission which has become a qualified commission as of the date of such termination will be paid post termination. Any commission, which is not a qualified commission as of the date of notice of termination, shall not thereafter become a qualified commission.

B. Breach of this Agreement

The breach of this agreement, or any provision thereof, knowingly or otherwise, willful or otherwise, is grounds for immediate suspension or at the sole option of BWH termination of this agreement in its entirety.

C. Suspension

Suspension under this paragraph shall mean the withholding of all commission payments qualified or otherwise until such breach is cured. Suspension if not cured within a reasonable time as determined by BWH will become a termination under 6.B. as of the date of the initial suspension.

D. Survival

Upon termination of this agreement all rights and licenses granted by this agreement are immediately revoked. Sections VII shall survive such termination and remain in full force and effect.

VII. General

A. Authority

Each party represents to the other that it has full binding authority to enter into this agreement and in the case of any entity other than an individual that the parson assenting to the terms of this agreement has the full binding authority of the entity purportedly bound.

B. Non-Infringement

You agree that in the course of any performance under this agreement or otherwise with respect to any dealings between you and BWH that you will not infringe on any third party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or right of publicity or privacy.

C. Violation of Law

You vow to uphold the laws of your respective jurisdiction and that you will not violate any applicable law, ordinance, regulation or standard. You understand and accept responsibility to file any necessary paperwork or tax forms with the appropriate parties for any and all payments made as a result of this service and the terms and conditions set forth herein.

D. Terms of Service

You agree that in the course of any performance under this agreement or otherwise with respect to any dealings between you and BWH that you agree to be bound by all terms and conditions of this document and any applicable terms and conditions set forth in the BWH Terms of Service which are incorporated herein as though set forth at length herein.

E. Unsolicited Email

You agree that in the course of any performance under this agreement or otherwise with respect to any dealings between you and BWH that you will not use or otherwise permit the use of unsolicited commercial email (aka SPAM/UBE/UCE) in relation to the BWH Affiliate Program.

F. Defamation/Libel

You agree that in the course of any performance under this agreement or otherwise with respect to any dealings between you and BWH that you will not transmit any information which is or might be considered to be defamatory or libelous.

G. Decency

You agree that in the course of any performance under this agreement or otherwise with respect to any dealings between you and BWH that you will not transmit any information which is or might be considered to be lewd, pornographic or obscene.

H. Unfair Competition

You agree that in the course of any performance under this agreement or otherwise with respect to any dealings between you and BWH that you will not violate any laws regarding unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising or the BWH Terms of Service.

I. Damage to BWH

You agree that in the course of any performance under this agreement or otherwise with respect to any dealings between you and BWH that you will not take any action that would in any way damage BWH or otherwise compromise its servers or equipment including utilize or otherwise transmit at any time contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines.

J. No Automatic Links

You agree not to utilize any link that is or can be initiated automatically without the user clicking on the link.

K. Coupon Websites

BWH must approve all coupon websites prior to any BWH affiliate information being advertised.

L. Warranty Disclaimer

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT ANY SERVICES OR MATERIALS PROVIDED BY BWH PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT ARE PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS AND AS AVAILABLE, AND THAT BWH MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS, ON ITS OWN BEHALF ON AND BEHALF OF ITS SUPPLIERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND LICENSORS, ANY WARRANTIES AS TO THE USEFULNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY OR EFFECTIVENESS OF ANY SERVICES OR MATERIALS PROVIDED HEREUNDER OR THAT THE SERVICES PROVIDED HEREUNDER WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR FREE OR AVAILABLE THROUGH ANY PARTICULAR METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION, OR THAT ANY SERVICES OR MATERIALS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT WILL WORK WITH EVERY INTERNET BROWSER, OR THAT DEFECTS HAVE BEEN OR WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT SUCH SERVICES OR MATERIALS WILL MEET THE NEEDS OF ANY PARTY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, AND EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED HEREIN, BWH DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT WILL BWH BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY SERVICE FAILURE, DISRUPTION, DOWNTIME OR INCORRECT LINKAGE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.

M. Limitation of Liability

IN NO INSTANCE SHALL BWH BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR LOST PROFITS OR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE), ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT WHETHER OR NOT BWH HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COMMISSIONS AGREED UPON IN THIS AFFILIATE AGREEMENT ARE BASED IN PART UPON THESE LIMITATIONS, AND THAT THESE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY REMEDY. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this section shall not limit either party liability to the other for (i) willful or malicious misconduct; (ii) gross negligence; (iii) indemnification under Section 7.M. or (iv) either party’s liability for death or personal injury or their own acts of fraud.

N. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless BWH and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents, harmless of and from any and all liability, losses, damages, injuries or expenses (including attorney.s fees and expert witness charges) arising out of any claimed or alleged action or inaction toward any third party whether such claimed or alleged action or inaction arises out of a claim of misuse of copy written materials, License violation, domain misuse, trademark misuse or any active or passive negligence.

O. Independent Contractors

Each party shall act as an independent contractor and shall have no authority to obligate or bind the other in any respect.

P. Choice of Venue

The internal laws of the State of Wyoming (irrespective of its choice of law principles) will govern the validity of this agreement, the construction of its terms, and the interpretation of the rights and duties of the participating parties, provided that the internal laws of the State of Wyoming shall govern the validity of this agreement with respect to the Wyoming Regulations. Any party may seek to enforce its rights under this agreement in any court of competent jurisdiction located within the judicial district, Cheyenne County, WY, in which the company has its principal place of business.

Q. Severability

The provisions of this Agreement are independent of and separable from each other, and no provision shall be affected or rendered invalid or unenforceable by virtue of the fact that for any reason any other or others of them may be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part.

R. Integration

This agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties and revokes and super cedes any and all prior agreements and is intended to be a full and complete expression of the agreement between the parties. This agreement shall not be modified except in writing by the posting of a new agreement by BWH on the BWH web site.

S. Use Constitutes Full Acceptance and Signature

Your agreement to the terms set forth herein is manifested by any participation in the BWH affiliate program including the submission of the affiliate application form and the collection of any commission under this agreement. This agreement may be modified, amended, altered or otherwise changed by BWH without notice to any other party other than changing the agreement itself made available by BWH to the affiliates on the BWH web site.

T. Questions

Questions regarding this document should be presented to the BWH Affiliate department via the [email protected] email address or via the Affiliate Program option in the BWH helpdesk prior to accepting its terms.