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Aurora Marine Affiliate Program
To become an Aurora Marine Affiliate you must agree to the following terms and conditions.
Read the terms and conditions then acknowledge your acceptance by selecting the link at the bottom of the Page 2.
Terms & Conditions
This Agreement ("Agreement") comprises the complete terms and conditions that apply to an individual's or an entity's participation in the AuroraMarine.com Affiliate Program (" Affiliate Program") operated by Aurora Marine Industries Inc. When used throughout this Agreement, "we" and "us" refer to Aurora Marine Industries Inc. and "you" and yours refers to the participants Website. "Website" refers to a World Wide Website which, depending on the context used in this Agreement, may refer to the AuroraMarine.com Website or a Website operated by the participant.
"Sub Affiliate" refers to Affiliates that became an AuroraMarin.com Affiliate as a direct result of signing up through a link from your Website to the AuroraMarine.com Affiliate Application Form.
1. How to sign up for the AuroraMarine.com Affiliate Program
Apply to participate in the Program by completing our on-line application. By completing and submitting an application, you acknowledge and agree to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement. We will evaluate your application and notify you by Email if you have, or have not been accepted into the Affiliate Program. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to exclude any Website that we feel is inappropriate. Websites which we consider inappropriate include, but are not limited to, Websites that contain or promote violence or sexually explicit content or products, Websites that promote illegal activities, Websites that discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, and Websites that violate intellectual property rights.
2. Linking to Auroramarine.com
You will post a link from your Website to a specific Website address ("Affiliate link") which we will supply to you upon your acceptance into the Affiliate Program. This link must conform to all standards set forth in this Agreement.
3. Order Processing
We will process all orders placed by customers who follow the Affiliate Link from your Website to the AuroraMarine.com Website. We reserve the right to reject any orders that do not comply with any requirements that we may establish from time to time. We assume responsibility for all aspects of order processing and fulfillment including, but not limited to shipping product, processing payments, order cancellations, product returns and customer service. We will track sales made to customers who purchase our products using the Affiliate Link from your Website to our Website. To ensure that you receive appropriate credit for sales that originated from your Website, it is your responsibility to correctly install the Affiliate Link between your Website and our Website. We are not responsible for errors made on your part in using the Affiliate Link.
4. Referral Commissions
We will pay you Referral Commissions for all sales which meet the following criteria:
- The customer must follow an Affiliate Link from your Website to the AuroraMarine.com Website.
- The customer must purchase a product or products within 30 days of the date they follow the Affiliate Link from your Website to the AuroraMarine.com provide that within that time the customer does not (a) click on the link of another one of our affiliates, or (b) turn off or otherwise disabled the "cookie" set when they clicked on the Affiliate Link.
- The customer must accept delivery of the products and remit full payment to us.
Referral Commissions are considered earned on the date that the order is shipped by us. If the order is shipped in more than one shipment or on more than a single day, the Referral Commissions on that order is considered earned on the date of the last shipment of that order.
You will not be paid a Referral Commission on any item, which is returned to us by the customer for a refund. If an item is exchanged, you will be paid a Referral Commission on the exchanged item rather than the item returned.
You may purchase products through the Affiliate Links on your Website for your own use. However, you may not purchase products through the Affiliate Links on your Website for resale or commercial use of any kind; such purchases may result (at our sole discretion) in the withholding of Referral Commissions or the termination of this Agreement.
5. Referral Overrides
We will pay you a Referral Override for all sales generated through your Sub-Affiliates that met the following criterions:
- The Sub-Affiliate must follow on Affiliate Link from your Website to the application form on the AuroraMarine.com Website.
- The Sub-Affiliate must agree to the term and conditions, complete and submit the application and be accepted as an Affiliate.
- We will only pay Referral Overrides on sales generated through Sub-Affiliates that sign up as a direct result of your link. We will not pay Overrides to you on sales generated through their Sub-Affiliates.
- We will pay Referral Overrides on sales generated through your Sub-Affiliates that meet all of the criteria of section 4., above.
6. Referral Commission Rate Schedule
You will earn Referral Commission based on the sale price of products sold through the AuroraMarine.com online store according to the fee schedule we establish. "Sale price" means the price shown on our Website at the time of purchase excluding shipping charges and, if applicable, sales taxes. Referral Commissions will be calculated each calendar month.
The current Referral Commission rate is 5% on all qualifying sales.
7. Referral Override Rate Schedule
You will earn Referral Overrides based on the sale price of products sold through your Sub-Affiliates. Affiliate Links according to the fee schedule we establish. "Sale price" means the price shown on our Website at the time of purchase, excluding shipping changes and, if applicable, sales taxes. Referral Overrides will be calculated each calendar month.
The Current Referral Override rate is 2% on all qualifying sales.
8. Payment of Referral Commissions and Referral Overrides
We will pay you Referral Commissions and Referral Overrides on a monthly basis. Within twenty (20) days following the end of each calendar month, we will deposit payment into your Pay Pal account for the Referral Commissions and Referral Overrides you earned during that month, less any taxes that we are required by law to withhold. If the Referral Commissions and Referral Overrides payable to you for any calendar month are less than $25.00. We will withhold those commissions and overrides until the total amount due to you is at least $25.00. If this Agreement is terminated, we will issue you payment for all Referral Commissions and Referral Overrides you earned, regardless of the amount.
If a product that generated a Referral Commission or Referral Override is returned to us by the customer, and if we have already paid to you a Referral Commission or Referral Override for the sale of that product, we will deduct the applicable commission and override from your next monthly payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we will send you a bill for the amount of the commission and override.
The number or amount of sales that are calculated by us in good faith shall be final and binding on you.
9. Affiliate Program Policies and Pricing
Customers who buy products through the Affiliate Program will be deemed to be customers of AuroraMarine.com. All rules, policies, and procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and product sales are defined exclusively by us. We reserve the right to change our products, product pricing, policies and general operating procedures at any time.
10. Affiliate Link Format Requirements
You and your Sub-Affiliates must select and use one of the approved AuroraMarine.com banners and the Affiliate Link we supply. When customers click on the banner on your Website they will be forward to our store. As an alternative you may choose to link to the AuroraMarine.com Website by using a text link. You must use the Affiliate Link we supply you with in order to forward the customer to our store.
11. AuroraMarine Assets
All rights to the AuroraMarine.com Website, including but not limited to trade names, trade marks, other intellectual property rights, and the images, product photographs and descriptions contained in the AuroraMarine.com Website, are the exclusive property of Aurora Marine Industries Inc. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-Assignable, revocable license to use the banners described in Section 10 of this Agreement solely for the purpose of identifying your Website as an Affiliate Program participant and to help you in generating product sales. You may not modify the banners or any of our images in any way without our prior express written consent.
We reserve the right to revoke this limited license at any time by giving you written or email notice.
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