Affiliate Program Operating Agreement
Updated: March, 2024
This Affiliate Program Operating Agreement (“Operating Agreement”) contains the terms and
conditions that govern your participation in the Affiliate Program (the “Program”). “We,” “us,” or
“our” means GoAffPro.com and Partner Website. “You” or “your” means the applicant. A “site”
means a website. “Partner Site” means the e-commerce/retail partner using the goaffpro affiliate
tracking software. “Your site” means any site(s), any software application(s) and any Mobile
Application (as defined hereinafter) that you link to the partner site. "Advertising Fees" means
commissions earned for a successful and verified sale of product on the Partner Site by a customer
using your referral link.
BY CHECKING THE BOX INDICATING THAT YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT, OR BY CONTINUING TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE,
REVISED OPERATING AGREEMENT, OR REVISED OPERATIONAL DOCUMENTATION
ON THE PARTNER WEBSITE, YOU (A) AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS OPERATING
AGREEMENT; (B) ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY
EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT
RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS
EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT; AND (C) HEREBY
REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU ARE LAWFULLY ABLE TO ENTER INTO
CONTRACTS (E.G., YOU ARE NOT A MINOR) AND THAT YOU ARE AND WILL REMAIN
IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT. IN ADDITION, IF THIS
OPERATING AGREEMENT IS BEING AGREED TO BY A COMPANY OR OTHER LEGAL
ENTITY, THEN THE PERSON AGREEING TO THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT ON
BEHALF OF THAT COMPANY OR ENTITY HEREBY REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS
THAT HE OR SHE IS AUTHORIZED AND LAWFULLY ABLE TO BIND THAT COMPANY
OR ENTITY TO THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT.
1. Description of the Program
The purpose of the Program is to permit you to advertise Products on your site and to earn
advertising fees OR commissions for Qualifying Purchases (defined in Section 7) made by your end
users. A “Product” is any item sold on the Partner Website, other than any products that are
explicitly defined as excluded products here (collectively, “Excluded Products”). Product may also
include certain services, if any, expressly included on the Affiliate Program Commissions Schedule.
In order to facilitate your advertisement of Products, we may make available to you data, images,
text, link formats, widgets, links, and other linking tools, and other information in connection with
the Program ("Content"). Content specifically excludes any data, images, text, or other information
or content relating to products offered on any site other than the Partner Site.
2. Enrollment
To begin the enrollment process, you must submit a complete and accurate Program application.
You must identify your site in your application. We will evaluate your application and notify you of
its acceptance or rejection. We may reject your application in our sole discretion including if we (a) promote or contain sexually explicit materials;
(b) promote violence or contain violent materials;
(c) promote or contain libelous or defamatory materials;
(d) promote discrimination, or employ discriminatory practices, based on race, sex, religion,
nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
(e) promote or undertake illegal activities;
(f) include any trademark of GoAffPro, its Partner Sites or its affiliates, or a variant or misspelling
of a trademark of GoAffPro, its Partner Sites or its affiliates, in any domain name, subdomain
name, or in any username, group name, or other identifier on any social networking site; or
(g) otherwise violate intellectual property rights.
If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply at any time. However, if we accept your
application and we later determine that your site is unsuitable, we may terminate this Operating
Agreement at any time in our sole discretion.
You will ensure that the information in your Program application and otherwise associated with
your account, including your email address and other contact information and identification of your
site, is at all times complete, accurate, and up-to-date. We may send notifications (if any), approvals
(if any), and other communications relating to the Program and this Operating Agreement to the
email address then-currently associated with your Program account. You will be deemed to have
received all notifications, approvals, and other communications sent to that email address, even if
the email address associated with your account is no longer current.
3. Links on Your Site
After you have been notified that you have been accepted into the Program, you may display
Special Links on your site. “Special Links” are links to the Partner Site that you place on your site
in accordance with this Operating Agreement, that properly utilize the special “tagged” link
formats we provide, and that comply with the Affiliate Program Linking Requirements Special
Links permit accurate tracking, reporting, and accrual of advertising fees.
You may earn advertising fees only as described in Section 7 and only with respect to activity on
the Partner Site occurring directly through Special Links. We will have no obligation to pay you
advertising fees if you fail to properly format the links on your site to the Partner Site as Special
Links, including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of advertising fee
amounts that would otherwise be paid to you under this Operating Agreement.
If you wish to include Special Links in a software application designed and intended for use on
mobile phones, tablets, or other handheld devices (“Mobile Application”), you must include the
name of the Mobile Application and the link to your Mobile Application in your application to the
Program. The suitability and other requirements of this Section 3 and the Mobile Application
Policy will apply to Mobile Applications. We will evaluate your application and notify you of its
acceptance or rejection. A Mobile Application that is accepted will be an "Approved Mobile
Application" for the purposes of this Agreement. Special Links displayed in Approved Mobile Applications may be served by the Affiliate API or
Partner API(“Affiliate API”) or the Product Advertising API, including any Special Links
displayed within an integrated web browser and must use the Affiliate ID we have assigned to you
expressly for your Approved Mobile Applications.
4. Program Requirements
By participating in the Program, you agree that you will comply with the Affiliate Program
Participation Requirements and all pages, schedules, policies, guidelines, and other documents and
materials referenced in this Operating Agreement (collectively, “Operational Documentation”).
You will provide us with any information that we request to verify your compliance with this
Operating Agreement or any Operational Documentation. If we determine that you have not
complied with any requirement or restriction described on the Associates Program Participation
Requirements page or any other Operational Documentation or that you have otherwise violated
this Operating Agreement, we may (in addition to any other rights or remedies available to us): (a)
withhold any advertising fees payable to you under this Operating Agreement,; (b) close any other
accounts you may have or may open in the future, without payment of any advertising fees; (c)
terminate this Operating Agreement, ; or (d) undertake all of the above actions.. In addition, you
hereby consent to us:
sending you emails relating to the Program from time to time;
monitoring, recording, using, and disclosing information about your site and visitors to your
site that we obtain in connection with your display of Special Links (e.g., that a particular
customer clicked through a Special Link from your site before buying a Product on the
Partner Site) in accordance with the Privacy Notice; and
monitoring, crawling, and otherwise investigating your site to verify compliance with this
Operating Agreement and the Operational Documentation.
5. Responsibility for Your Site
You will be solely responsible for your site, including its development, operation, and maintenance
and all materials that appear on or within it. For example, you will be solely responsible for:
the technical operation of your site and all related equipment;
displaying Special Links and Content on your site in compliance with this Operating
Agreement and the Operational Documentation and any agreement between you and any
other person or entity (including any restrictions or requirements placed on you by any
person or entity that hosts your site);
creating and posting, and ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness of,
materials posted on your site (including all Product descriptions and other Product-related
materials and any information you include within or associate with Special Links);
using the Content, your site, and the materials on or within your site in a manner that does not
infringe, violate, or misappropriate any of our rights or those of any other person or entity
(including copyrights, trademarks, privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or
proprietary rights);
using the Content, your site, and the materials on or within your site in a manner that is not
harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, libelous or
otherwise in any manner whatsoever;
disclosing on your site accurately and adequately, either through a privacy policy or
otherwise, how you collect, use, store, and disclose data collected from visitors, including, where applicable, that third parties (including us and other advertisers) may serve content and
advertisements, collect information directly from visitors, and place or recognize cookies on
visitors’ browsers; and
any use that you make of the Content and the GoAffPro Marks, whether or not permitted
under this Operating Agreement.
We will have no liability for these matters or for any of your end users’ claims relating to these
matters, and you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us, our affiliates and licensors, and our and
their respective employees, officers, directors, and representatives, harmless from and against all
claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) relating to (a)
your site or any materials that appear on your site, including the combination of your site or those
materials with other applications, content, or processes; (b) the use, development, design,
manufacture, production, advertising, promotion, or marketing of your site or any materials that
appear on or within your site, and all other matters described in this Section 5; (c) your use of any
Content, whether or not such use is authorized by or violates this Operating Agreement, any
Operational Documentation, or applicable law; (d) your violation of any term or condition of this
Operating Agreement or any Operational Documentation; or (e) your or your employees'
negligence or willful misconduct.
6. Order Processing
We will process Product orders placed by customers who follow Special Links from your site to the
Partner Site. We reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any requirements on the
Partner Site, as they may be updated from time to time. We will track Qualifying Purchases
(defined in Section 7) for reporting and advertising fee accrual purposes and will make available to
you reports summarizing those Qualifying Purchases.
7. Advertising Fees
We will pay you advertising fees on Qualifying Purchases in accordance with Section 8 and the
Affiliate Program Commissions Schedule. In the event any excess payment has been made to you
for any reason whatsoever, we reserve the right to adjust or offset the same against any subsequent
advertising fees payable to you under this Operating Agreement. Subject to the exclusions set forth
below, a “Qualifying Purchase” occurs when (a) a customer clicks through a Special Link on your
site to the Partner Site; (b) during a single Session that the customer adds a Product to his or her
shopping cart and places the order for that Product no later than 89 days following the customer’s
initial click-through; or (c) the Product is shipped to, and paid for by, the customer.
A “Session” begins when a customer clicks through a Special Link on your site to the Partner Site
and ends upon the first to occur of the following: (x) 24 hours elapses from that click; (y) the
customer places an order for a Product; or (z) the customer follows a Special Link to the Partner
Site that is not your Special Link.
Qualifying Purchases exclude, and we will not pay advertising fees on any of, the following:
any Product that, after expiration of the applicable Session, is added to a customer’s
Shopping Cart, or is streamed or downloaded by a customer, even if the customer previously
followed a Special Link from your site to the Partner Site;
any Product purchase that is not correctly tracked or reported because the links from your site
to the Partner Site are not properly formatted; any Product purchased through a Special Link by you or on your behalf, including Products
you purchase through Special Links for yourself, friends, relatives, or associates (e.g.,
personal orders, orders for your own use, and orders placed by you for or on behalf of any
other person or entity);
any Product purchased for resale or commercial use of any kind;
any Product purchased after termination of this Operating Agreement;
any Product order where a cancellation, return, or refund has been initiated; and
any Product purchased by a customer who is referred to the Partner Site through any of the
following:
a Prohibited Paid Search Placement; or
a link to the Partner Site, including a Redirecting Link, that is generated or displayed on a
Search Engine in response to a general Internet search query or keyword (i.e., in natural, free,
organic, or unpaid search results), whether those links appear through your submission of
data to that site or otherwise.
any Qualifying Purchase wherein you have offered any person or entity any consideration or
incentive (including any money, rebate, discount, points, donation to charity or other
organization, or other benefit) for using Special Links (e.g., by implementing any “rewards”
or loyalty program that incentivizes persons or entities to visit the Partner Site via your
Special Links).
any Product purchased through a Special Link in a Mobile Application that was not an
Approved Mobile Application or where the Special Link in an Approved Mobile Application
was not served by the AMA API, Product Advertising API or other linking tools that we
make available to you.
any Qualifying Purchase, which takes place in India, made through a mobile device or tablet
wherein:
Pay-Per-Click advertising is strictly prohibited.
any Qualifying purchase wherein the affiliate has posted links or their coupon code on
"coupon website" are strictly prohibited. For definition of a coupon website see below
Posting coupon offers on your website with "reveal the coupon code" or similar phrase that
stimulates visitor to click to reveal a coupon code and go to the Partner's site is prohibited.
the mobile application of the Partner Site is pre-loaded by the original equipment
manufacturer ("OEM") on the device or tablet; or
the mobile application of the Partner Site is installed through a maintenance release or
firmware update or firmware based notifications sent by the OEM or the notification partner;
or
the mobile application of the Partner Site is installed from a source other than Google Play
store or iOS App Store
"Coupon Website"
Whether you are classified as a Coupon Affiliate shall be determined by the Partner in its sole
discretion. Factors that may lead to classification as "Coupon Affiliate" include, but are not limited
1. the presence of coupon offerings, especially from many different merchants, on the Affiliate's
website, especially if such coupons represent many different merchants and/or are indexed or
are organized in a directory; 2. the presence of certain words (or variations or misspellings thereof) in the website's URL or
prominently featured in the website's content, such as "coupons," "deals" or "savings";
3. a website that is focused on other merchants and the discounts or promotions offered by
them, rather than on products, and that features little original, human- generated content.
“Prohibited Paid Search Placement” means an advertisement that you purchased through bidding
on keywords, search terms, or other identifiers (including Proprietary Terms) or other participation
in keyword auctions. “Proprietary Term” means keywords, search terms, or other identifiers that
include the word “goaffpro,” or any other trademark of GoAffPro or its affiliates, or variations or
misspellings of any of those words (e.g., "goaffpor"). “Redirecting Link” means a link that sends
users indirectly to the Partner Site via an intermediate site or webpage and without requiring the
user to click on a link or take some other affirmative action on that intermediate site or webpage.
“Search Engine” means Google, Yahoo, Bing, or any other search engine, portal, sponsored
advertising service, or other search or referral service, or any site that participates in any of their
respective networks.
8. Advertising Fee Payment
We will pay you advertising fees on a monthly basis for Qualifying Purchases shipped, streamed, or
downloaded (as applicable) in a given month, subject to any applicable withholding or deduction
described below. We will pay you approximately 60 days following the end of each calendar month,
but we may accrue and withhold advertising fees until the total amount due to you is at least
INR1000 in case of NEFT transfers.
The advertising fee payable to you is inclusive of all taxes including applicable service tax or goods
and services tax or other tax or levy that you may be required to remit in connection with such
services for which you will raise a valid invoice under applicable law(s) and regulations and report
it in the returns within the prescribed time limit so that Partner Site can take input tax credit of the
taxes paid. You undertake to comply with any of the applicable provisions of such law including
but not limited to:
timely issuance of GST compliant invoices;
making the invoices available to Partner Site;
depositing applicable taxes on a periodic basis; and
correctly reporting them to the government under tax laws.
If at any time credit of taxes is denied or payment of taxes is sought from Partner Site or GoAffPro,
due to, but not limited to, issuance of a deficient invoice, default in payment of taxes, inappropriate
reporting in the returns filed or non-compliance of applicable laws and regulations by you, you
shall indemnify Partner Site and GoAffPro against any denied credits or taxes recovered as well as
any interest and penalties imposed on Partner Site and GoAffPro. If required by applicable Indian
tax law, we may deduct or withhold taxes, levies or any similar amounts from the advertising fees
payable to you. If you are an Indian resident, advertising fees payable to you will be subject to
income tax withholding at the rate stipulated under applicable law. If you are not an Indian resident
or have not provided us your PAN (Permanent Account Number), the rate of tax withholding
applicable to you will vary. Further, if you are a non-resident, you agree to provide necessary
documentation, as may be required, for Partner Site and GoAffPro to satisfy any reporting or any
obligations with respect to the advertising fee payable to you