Agreement

By signing up to be an Affiliate in the Ontology of Value Affiliate Program (“Program”) you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Service”). Ontology of Value reserves the right to update and change the Terms of Service from time to time without notice. Any new features that augment or enhance the current Program, including the release of new tools and resources, shall be subject to the Terms of Service. Continued use of the Program after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes. Violation of any of the terms below might result in the termination of your Account and for forfeiture of any outstanding affiliate commission payments earned during the violation. You agree to use the Affiliate Program at your own risk.

Account Terms

• You must be 18 years or older to be part of the Affiliate Program.
• You must take care of paying (income or corporate) tax for your earnings from the Affiliate Program in your country of residency.
• You must be a human. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.
• You must provide your legal full name, a valid email address, and any other information requested in order to complete the signup process.
• Your login may only be used by one person – a single login shared by multiple people is not permitted.
• You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. Ontology of Value cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.
• You are responsible for all content posted and activity that occurs under your account.
• One person or legal entity may not maintain more than one account.
• You may not use the Affiliate Program for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. You must not, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).
• You may not use the Affiliate Program to earn money on your own Ontology of Value product accounts.

Links/Graphics On Your Site, In Your Emails, or Other Communications

Once you have signed up for the Affiliate Program, you will be assigned a unique Affiliate Code. You are permitted to place links, banners, or other graphics we provide with your Affiliate Code on your site, in your emails, or in other communications. We will provide you with guidelines, link styles, and graphical artwork to use in linking to Ontology of Value. We may change the design of the artwork at any time without notice, but we won’t change the dimensions of the images without proper notice. To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and referral fee accrual, we will provide you with special link formats to be used in all links between your site and the Ontology of Value. You must ensure that each of the links between your site and the Ontology of Value properly utilizes such special link formats. Links to the Ontology of Value placed on your site pursuant to this Agreement and which properly utilize such special link formats are referred to as “Special Links.” You will earn referral fees only with respect to sales on a Ontology of Value product occurring directly through Special Links; we will not be liable to you with respect to any failure by you or someone you refer to use Special Links or incorrectly type your Affiliate Code, including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of amounts that would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement. Affiliate links should point to the page of the product being promoted. You can use any materials placed in this repository for promotion purposes, as well as write your own materials. You can also ask us for a promotional code if you are in touch with a VIP who can potentially sign a larger deal or bring many new clients on board. In that case, please ask for the code by email at info@ontologyofvalue.com

The General Rules For Affiliate Marketing

Contacting Potential Clients

Ontology of Value offers B2C, B2B, and B2G products and services. Depending on the client, we strongly recommend taking the following approach to affiliate marketing: (a) B2C. If the other party is an individual customer, please include the information that the link to the product/service is an affiliate link. Our rules for integrity and transparency require that the customer has the right to make a decision about the purchase knowing that the recommending party has commercial interest in making the recommendation. An exemplary pitch: “The link to this service is as follows: … Please know that I was invited to join the affiliate program, which means that I receive a small percentage from recommending this product.” Your payment is not public, which means that you do not need (and, you are recommended not to) disclose the terms of your collaboration, i.e. the cut that you receive from your recommendations. (a) B2B / B2G. If the other party is an enterprise, please make your recommendation according to the following scheme:

1. Contact the enterprise and deliver the pitch.
2. If the enterprise expresses interest in the product/service, please contact this enterprise with Ontology of Value, e.g. using the info@ontologyofvalue.com contact email. In this case, you do not need to explicitly inform the potential client about the affiliate program, because it is a natural part of business communications.
3. The representative of Ontology of Value will get into further contact with the enterprise, share your affiliate link with them, and track the sales records to make sure that once the enterprise makes purchase, you will receive your payment (if the client makes a purchase without using your affiliate link, we will manually make the payment to your account).

Referral Fees/Commissions and Payment

(a) B2C. For a Product sale to retail customers to be eligible to earn a referral fee, the customer must click-through a Special Link from your site, email, or other communications to any subpage of https://ontologyofvalue.com. The cookie will be saved for 365 days. It means that the user who enters the page via your affiliate link can close the tab and still come back to the website and make a purchase within a year from the first visit, and you will still receive a commission from sales. We will only pay commissions on links that are automatically tracked and reported by our systems. We will not pay commissions if someone says they purchased or someone says they entered a referral code if it was not tracked by our system. We can only pay commissions on business generated through properly formatted special links that were automatically tracked by our systems. The referral earnings from retail customers will be automatically paid to the Affiliate via PayPal at the end of each month. Payments only begin once you’ve earned more than $20 in affiliate income. If your affiliate account never crosses the $20 threshold, your commissions will not be realized or paid. We are only responsible for paying accounts that have crossed the $20 threshold. We reserve the right to disqualify commissions earned through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive, questionable sales or marketing methods. (b) B2B / B2G. If the other party is an enterprise, we will request the Affiliate to prepare an invoice for the amount equal to the referral commission earned in the deal within 30 days after receiving payment from the referred client. There is no payment threshold for corporate clients. We reserve the right to disqualify commissions earned through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive, questionable sales or marketing methods.

Invoicing

As an Affiliate in the program, you have the obligation to release a joint invoice for all your affiliate commissions at the end of each month in which you collected payments from retail customers via Paypal. In case of corporate clients, you will be requested to release an invoice within 30 days from every successful deal. If releasing an invoice is not possible as you have no VAT id, we won’t be able to pay for your affiliate services in cash. In special cases, as an individual agreement, we can exchange the payment in cash with vouchers of the same value (e.g., for vouchers for Amazon). This option, however, needs to be discussed upfront.

Identifying Yourself As an Ontology of Value Affiliate

You may not issue any press release with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Program; such action may result in your termination from the Program. In addition, you may not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and you, say you develop our products, say you are part of Ontology of Value or express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this Agreement (including by expressing or implying that we support, sponsor, endorse, or contribute money to any charity or other cause). You may not purchase products through your affiliate links for your own use. Such purchases may result (in our sole discretion) in the withholding of referral fees and/or the termination of this Agreement.

Payment Schedule

As long as your current affiliate earning are over $20, you’ll be paid each month. If you haven’t earned $20 since your last payment, we’ll pay you the following month after you’ve crossed the threshold.

Customer Definition

Customers who buy products through this Program will be deemed to be our customers. Accordingly, all of our rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and product sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for products sold under this Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect Products that you have listed on your site, you should not display product prices on your site. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.

Your Responsibilities

You will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of your site and for all materials that appear on your site. For example, you will be solely responsible for: – The technical operation of your site and all related equipment – Ensuring the display of Special Links on your site does not violate any agreement between you and any third party (including without limitation any restrictions or requirements placed on you by a third party that hosts your site) – The accuracy, truth, and appropriateness of materials posted on your site (including, among other things, all Product-related materials and any information you include within or associate with Special Links) – Ensuring that materials posted on your site do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights) – Ensuring that materials posted on your site are not libelous or otherwise illegal – Ensuring that your site accurately and adequately discloses, 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 advertisers) may serve content and/or advertisements and collect information directly from visitors and may place or recognize cookies on visitors’ browsers.

Compliance with Laws

As a condition to your participation in the Program, you agree that while you are a Program participant you will comply with all laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgments, decisions or other requirements of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, whether those laws, etc. are now in effect or later come into effect during the time you are a Program participant.

Term of the Agreement and Program

The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Program application and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your site, all links to https://ontologyofvalue.com, and all of our trademarks, trade dress, and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Program. Ontology of Value reserves the right to end the Program at any time. Upon program termination, Ontology of Value will pay any outstanding earnings accrued above $20.

Termination

Ontology of Value, in its sole discretion, has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Program, or any other Ontology of Value service, for any reason at any time. Such termination of the Service will result in the deactivation or deletion of your Account or your access to your Account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment of all potential or to-be-paid commissions in your Account if they were earned through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive, questionable sales or marketing methods. Ontology of Value reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

Relationship of Parties

You and we are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. 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 otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.

Limitations of Liability

We will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement.

Disclaimers

We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, noninfringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade usage). In addition, we make no representation that the operation of the Ontology of Value will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.

Independent Investigation

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY TIME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.

Arbitration

Any dispute relating in any way to this Agreement (including any actual or alleged breach hereof), any transactions or activities under this Agreement or your relationship with us or any of our affiliates shall be submitted to confidential arbitration, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our intellectual property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court (and you consent to non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts) or any other court of competent jurisdiction. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator’s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

Miscellaneous

This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the Netherlands, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement. The failure of Ontology of Value to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The Terms of Service constitutes the entire agreement between you and Ontology of Value and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and Ontology of Value (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms of Service).