| Gravee User Agreement
PLEASE READ VERY CAREFULLY
THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND THE FAQ BEFORE REGISTERING FOR THE GRAVEE
ADSHARE ONLINE PROGRAM. PARTICIPATION IN THE GRAVEE
ADSHARE ONLINE PROGRAM INDICATES THAT YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER
FOR OR PARTICIPATE IN THE GRAVEE ADSHARE ONLINE PROGRAM.
Introduction. This agreement
("Agreement") between You and Gravee, LLC. ("Gravee")
consists of these Gravee Adshare, Adshare Merchant, and Gravee Search
Affiliate (the "Program") Standard Terms and
Conditions ("Terms and Conditions"). A description
of the Program, as generally offered by Gravee, is available at URL,
located at https://www.Gravee.com/, or such other URL as Gravee may
provide from time to time. "You" or "Publisher"
or "Content Owner" means any entity identified in
an enrollment form submitted by the same or affiliated persons, and/or
any agency or network acting on its (or their) behalf, which shall also
be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
- Program Participation.
Participation in the Program is subject to Gravee prior approval and
Your continued compliance with the Program Policies ("Program
Policies"), located at https://www.Gravee.com/, or such
other URL as Gravee may provide from time to time. Gravee reserves the
right to refuse participation to any applicant or participant at any
time in its sole discretion. By enrolling in the Program, you represent
to Gravee that you are at least 18 years of age and agree that you claim
legal ownership of the website and or content which you represented
to Gravee. Furthermore, You represent that You agree Gravee
provided advertisements (such Gravee-served advertisements, collectively,
"Ads"), related Gravee queries and/or Ad search
box(es) (collectively, "Links"), that Gravee may serve
Gravee search box(es), Gravee Web and/or Site search results (collectively,
"Search Results") on and with the website or
content which you own. For the avoidance of doubt, any reference
in this Agreement or the Program Policies to an individual "Web page",
"Web site", "Web site page", "portion of content on
a Web page" or the like that is part of the Site will also mean feeds
distributed through such Web site. ("Site")Multiple
accounts held by the same individual or entity are subject to immediate
termination unless expressly authorized in writing by Gravee (including
by electronic mail).
- Implementation
and Operation of AdShare, Search Results, and Search Affiliate.
You agree to comply with the specifications provided by Gravee from
time to time to enable proper delivery, display, tracking, and reporting
of Ads, Links, Search Results, Referral Buttons, and Gravee Brand Features
(as defined in Section 12 below) in connection with Your Site(s), including
without limitation by not modifying the JavaScript or other programming
provided to You by Gravee in any way, unless expressly authorized in
writing by Gravee (including by electronic mail).
- Gravee Search
Affiliate. If You have elected to receive Search Results, You will
display on Your Site(s) a Gravee search box (a "Search Box")
in accordance with the specifications provided by Gravee. Each Web page(s)
that contains a Search Box must also contain other content related to
Your Site. Except for related Gravee queries, all search queries (including
queries entered into an Ad search box) must originate from individual
human end users inputting data directly into a Search Box (or Ad search
box, as applicable) on Your Site(s). You will send any and all queries
(without editing, modifying, or filtering such queries individually
or in the aggregate) to Gravee and Gravee will use commercially reasonable
efforts to provide You with corresponding Search Results and/or Ads,
as applicable and as available. Your users will also be re-directed
to Gravee.com following the query. Search Results and any accompanying
Ads will be displayed on Web pages hosted by Gravee (each, a "Search
Results Page"), the format, look and feel of which may
be modified by Gravee from time to time.
- Adshare.
All content and search-based Ads (and Ads served in response to end
user clicks on and queries entered into Links, if any) shall be grouped
by Gravee and displayed with Links (where applicable) to end users of
Gravee as ad units (such groups of Ads and/or Links collectively referred
to as "Ad Units") in any formats as Gravee,
as may be described on www.gravee.com. You acknowledge and agree that
Ads and/or Links: (i) shall only be displayed in connection with contents
and/or websites search results, each of which is subject to review and
approval by Gravee in its discretion at any time.
- Adshare Merchant.
If You have elected to use the Gravee Adshare Merchant feature, You
will implement any Adshare Merchant Buttons on Your Site(s) in accordance
with the specifications provided by Gravee. Furthermore, you are representing
that you are an operator of a for profit website where you operate a
referral and/or affiliate program. In such a program, you are giving
commission to your partners for successful user referrals that results
in a particular "Referral Event". By electing to use
the Gravee Adshare Merchant feature, you are also agreeing to Gravee
joining your referral and/or affiliate program and paying Gravee on
a payout schedule specified in your referral or affiliate program. A
"Referral Event" will be initiated when any end user
coming from Gravee the referral requirements. Such referral requirements,
along with the payment amount applicable to the Referral Event will
be referred to Gravee from you explicitly. You agree to comply with
the specifications provided by Gravee from time to time to enable proper
tracking and reporting of Referral Events in connection with Your Site.
You shall not promote or facilitate a Referral Event by any means other
than displaying a Referral Button on the Site, unless expressly authorized
in writing by Gravee (including by electronic mail).
- General.
You agree not to display on the same Web page in connection with which
any Search Box, or Referral Button is displayed (a "Serviced
Page") any other search box that an end user of Your Site(s)
would reasonably confuse with a Gravee Link or otherwise associate with
Gravee. If You have elected to receive Search Results on any Site(s),
You agree that Gravee will be the exclusive provider of Internet search
services on such Site(s). Certain Gravee services available as part
of the Program may contain filtering capability that you agree to allow
Gravee to use at Gravee's discretion, You acknowledge and agree that:
(i) it is Your responsibility to enable such features in accordance
with the specifications provided by Gravee, and (ii) Gravee does not
and cannot commit that all results (including Ads, Links and Search
Results) will be limited to results elected by enabling such filter(s).
Gravee may also include in certain services features which are unsupported
under Gravee's then current technical documentation. Such features are
provided "as is" and Your use of them shall be undertaken
solely at Your own risk.
- Parties' Responsibilities.
You are solely responsible for the Site(s), including all content and
materials, maintenance and operation thereof, the proper implementation
of Gravee's specifications, and adherence to the terms of this Agreement,
including compliance with the Program Policies. Gravee reserves the
right to investigate, at its own discretion, any activity that may violate
this Agreement, including but not limited to any use of a software application
to access Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons or to complete
any Referral Event, or any engagement in any activity prohibited by
this Agreement. Gravee is not responsible for anything related to Your
Site(s), including without limitation the receipt of queries from end
users of Your Site(s) or the transmission of data between Your Site(s)
and Gravee. In addition, Gravee shall not be obligated to provide notice
to You in the event that any Ad, Link, Search Result, or Referral Button
is not being displayed properly to, or Referral Event is not being completed
properly by, end users of the Site(s).
- Prohibited Uses.
You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party
to: (i) directly or indirectly generate queries, Referral Events, or
impressions of or clicks on any Ad, Link, Search Result, or Referral
Button through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid
means, including but not limited to through repeated manual clicks,
the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated
search requests, and/or the unauthorized use of other search engine
optimization services and/or software; (ii) edit, modify, filter or
change the order of the information contained in any Ad, Link, Ad Unit,
Search Result, or Referral Button, or remove, obscure or minimize any
Ad, Link, Ad Unit, Search Result, or Referral Button in any way; (iii)
frame, minimize, remove or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display
of any Web page accessed by an end user after clicking on any part of
an Ad ("Advertiser Page"), any Search Results
Page, or any Referral Page; (iv) redirect an end user away from any
Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page; provide a version
of the Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page that is
different from the page an end user would access by going directly to
the Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page; intersperse
any content between the Ad and the Advertiser Page, between the page
containing the Search Box and the Search Results Page, or between the
Referral Button and the Referral Page; or otherwise provide anything
other than a direct link from an Ad to an Advertiser Page, from the
page containing the Search Box to the Search Results Page, or from the
Referral Button to the Referral Page; (v) display any Ad(s), Link(s),
or Referral Button(s) on any error page, on any registration or "thank
you" page (e.g., a page that thanks a user after he/she has registered
with the applicable Web site), on any chat page, in any email, or on
any Web page or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related,
violent, or illegal content; (vi) directly or indirectly access, launch,
and/or activate Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons through
or from, or otherwise incorporate the Ads, Links, Search Results, or
Referral Buttons in, any software application, Web site, or other means
other than Your Site(s), and then only to the extent expressly permitted
by this Agreement (e.g., while Search Results may be indirectly accessed
from Your Site(s), they may only be displayed on the appropriate Gravee-hosted
Web page); (vii) "crawl", "spider", index or in
any non-transitory manner store or cache information obtained from any
Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Events, or any part, copy, or
derivative thereto; (viii) act in any way that violates any Program
Policies posted on the Gravee Web Site, as may be revised from time
to time, or any other agreement between You and Gravee (including without
limitation the Gravee AdWords program terms), or engage in any action
or practice that reflects poorly on Gravee or otherwise disparages or
devalues Gravee's reputation or goodwill. You acknowledge that any
attempted participation or violation of any of the foregoing is a material
breach of this Agreement and that we may pursue any and all applicable
legal and equitable remedies against You, including an immediate suspension
of Your account or termination of this Agreement, and the pursuit of
all available civil or criminal remedies.
- Termination;
Cancellation. Subject to any third party agreements You may have
with other Gravee customers (e.g., Your Web hosting company), You may
stop displaying Ads, Links, Search Boxes, or Referral Buttons on any
Site in the Program with or without cause at any time by removing the
Gravee JavaScript or similar programming from Your Sites. You may terminate
this Agreement with or without cause at any time by sending written
notice of your desire to cancel Your participation in the Program to
Adshare-support@Gravee.com. This Agreement will be deemed terminated
within ten (10) business days of Gravee's receipt of Your notice. Gravee
may investigate any activity that may violate this Agreement. Gravee
may at any time, in its sole discretion, terminate all or part of the
Program, terminate this Agreement, or suspend or terminate the participation
of any Site in all or part of the Program for any reason. In addition,
Gravee reserves the right to terminate without notice any account that
has not generated a sufficient number of valid clicks on Ads or Referral
Buttons or valid impressions of Ads (in each case as measured by Gravee)
for a period of two (2) months or more. Upon termination of participation
of any Site in the Program or termination of this Agreement for any
reason, Sections 3, 6 through 10, and 14 through 17 shall survive termination.
- Confidentiality.
You agree not to disclose Gravee Confidential Information without Gravee's
prior written consent. "Gravee Confidential Information"
includes without limitation: (a) all Gravee software, technology, programming,
specifications, materials, guidelines and documentation relating to
the Program; (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to
Site performance in the Program provided to You by Gravee; and (c) any
other information designated in writing by Gravee as "Confidential"
or an equivalent designation. However, You may accurately disclose the
amount of Gravee's gross payments to You pursuant to the Program.
Gravee Confidential Information does not include information that has
become publicly known through no breach by You or Gravee, or information
that has been (i) independently developed without access to Gravee Confidential
Information, as evidenced in writing; (ii) rightfully received by You
from a third party; or (iii) required to be disclosed by law or by a
governmental authority.
- No Guarantee.
Gravee makes no guarantee regarding the level of impressions of Ads
or clicks on any Ad or Referral Button, the timing of delivery of such
impressions and/or clicks, the completion of Referral Events, or the
amount of any payment to be made to You under this Agreement.
- No Warranty.
GRAVEE MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION
WITH RESPECT TO ADVERTISING, LINKS, SEARCH, REFERRALS, AND OTHER SERVICES,
AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS THE WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF NONINFRINGEMENT,
MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. TO THE EXTENT
ADS, LINKS, AND SEARCH RESULTS ARE BASED ON NON-GRAVEE CONTENT, GRAVEE
SHALL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISPLAY OF SUCH
ADS, LINKS, AND SEARCH RESULTS.
- Limitations of
Liability; Force Majeure. EXCEPT FOR ANY INDEMNIFICATION AND CONFIDENTIALITY
OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER OR YOUR BREACH OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
AND/OR PROPRIETARY INTERESTS RELATING TO THE PROGRAM, (i) IN NO EVENT
SHALL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL,
SPECIAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF
ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY AND (ii) GRAVEE'S AGGREGATE
LIABILITY TO PUBLISHER UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FOR ANY CLAIM IS LIMITED
TO THE NET AMOUNT PAID BY GRAVEE TO PUBLISHER DURING THE THREE MONTH
PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE OF THE CLAIM. Each party acknowledges
that the other party has entered into this Agreement relying on the
limitations of liability stated herein and that those limitations are
an essential basis of the bargain between the parties. Without limiting
the foregoing and except for payment obligations, neither party shall
have any liability for any failure or delay resulting from any condition
beyond the reasonable control of such party, including but not limited
to governmental action or acts of terrorism, earthquake or other acts
of God, labor conditions, and power failures.
- Payment.
You shall receive a payment related to the number of valid clicks on
Ads, valid impressions of Ads, valid completions of Referral Events
initiated through Referral Buttons displayed, and/or any other variable
in connection with your registered Site(s) surfacing in a search result
served and hosted by Gravee, in each case as determined by Gravee for
its participants in the Program. Unless otherwise agreed to by the parties
in writing (including by electronic mail), payments to You shall be
sent by Gravee within approximately thirty (30) days after the end of
each calendar month that you have registered your website or content
with Gravee with ads running next to your search result surfacing, or
that Ads are running on Search Results Pages if Your earned balance
is $100 or more. In the event the Agreement is terminated, Gravee shall
pay Your earned balance to You within approximately ninety (90) days
after the end of the calendar month in which the Agreement is terminated
by You (following Gravee's receipt of Your written request, including
by email, to terminate the Agreement) or by Gravee. In no event, however,
shall Gravee make payments for any earned balance less than $20. Gravee
will have the sole discretion the method which the payment will be sent
to You. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Gravee shall not be liable for
any payment based on: (a) any amounts which result from invalid queries,
invalid Referral Events, or invalid clicks or impressions on Ads generated
by any person, bot, automated program or similar device, as reasonably
determined by Gravee, including without limitation through any clicks
or impressions (i) originating from Your IP addresses or computers under
Your control, (ii) solicited by payment of money, false representation,
or request for end users to click on Ads, or (iii) solicited by payment
of money, false representation, or any illegal or otherwise invalid
request for end users to complete Referral Events; (b) Ads or Referral
Buttons delivered to end users whose browsers have JavaScript disabled;
(c) Ads benefiting charitable organizations and other placeholder or
transparent Ads that Gravee may deliver; (d) Gravee advertisements for
its own products and/or services (excluding payments based on completed
Referral Events); or (e) clicks co-mingled with a significant number
of invalid clicks described in (a) above, or as a result of any breach
of this Agreement by You for any applicable pay period. Gravee reserves
the right to withhold payment or charge back Your account due to any
of the foregoing or any breach of this Agreement by You, pending Gravee's
reasonable investigation of any of the foregoing or any breach of this
Agreement by You, or in the event that an advertiser whose Ads are displayed
in connection with Your Site(s) defaults on payment for such Ads to
Gravee. In addition, if You are past due on any payment to Gravee in
connection with any Gravee program (including without limitation the
Gravee AdWords program), Gravee reserves the right to withhold payment
until all outstanding payments have been made or to offset amounts owed
to You in connection with the Program by amounts owed by You to Gravee.
To ensure proper payment, You are solely responsible for providing and
maintaining accurate contact and payment information associated with
Your account. You agree to pay all applicable taxes or charges imposed
by any government entity in connection with Your participation in the
Program. Gravee may change its pricing and/or payment structure at any
time. If You dispute any payment made under the Program, You must notify
Gravee in writing within thirty (30) days of any such payment; failure
to so notify Gravee shall result in the waiver by You of any claim relating
to any such disputed payment. Payment shall be calculated solely based
on records maintained by Gravee. No other measurements or statistics
of any kind shall be accepted by Gravee or have any effect under this
Agreement. Gravee reserves the right to adjust and re-allocate payment
based on estimates made internally by Gravee for any reason.
The payments made under this Agreement are for use by You only and may
not be transferred or in any manner passed on to any third party (i.e.,
distributed to Sites managed by You that require separate payments)
unless expressly authorized in writing by Gravee (including by electronic
mail).
- Publicity.
You agree that Gravee may use Your name and logo in presentations, marketing
materials, customer lists, financial reports, Web site listings of customers,
Search Results Pages, and Referral Pages. If You wish to use Gravee's
trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other
distinctive brand features ("Brand Features"),
You may do so, so long as such use is in compliance with this Agreement
and in compliance with Gravee's then current Brand Feature use guidelines,
and any content contained or referenced therein, which guidelines may
be found at the following URL: http://www.Gravee.com (or such other
URL Gravee may provide from time to time).
- Representations
and Warranties. You represent and warrant that (a) all of the information
provided by You to Gravee to enroll in the Program is correct and current;
(b) You are the owner of each Site and/or Content registered with Gravee
or that You are legally authorized to act on behalf of the owner of
such Site(s) and or Content for the purposes of this Agreement and the
Program; (c) You have all necessary right, power, and authority to enter
into this Agreement and to perform the acts required of You hereunder;
and (d) You have complied and will continue to comply with all applicable
laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations (including without limitation
the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and any relevant data protection or privacy
laws) in Your performance of any acts hereunder. You further represent
and warrant that each Site and any material displayed therein: (i) comply
with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations; (ii)
do not breach and have not breached any duty toward or rights of any
person or entity including, without limitation, rights of intellectual
property, publicity or privacy, or rights or duties under consumer protection,
product liability, tort, or contract theories; and (iii) are not pornographic,
hate-related or otherwise violent in content.
- Your Obligation
to Indemnify. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Gravee, its
agents, affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, and
applicable third parties (e.g. relevant advertisers, syndication partners,
licensors, licensees, consultants and contractors) (collectively "Indemnified
Person(s)") harmless from and against any and all third
party claims, liability, loss, and expense (including damage awards,
settlement amounts, and reasonable legal fees), brought against any
Indemnified Person(s), arising out of, related to or which may arise
from Your use of the Program, the Site(s), and/or Your breach of any
term of this Agreement.
- Gravee Rights.
You acknowledge that Gravee owns all right, title and interest, including
without limitation all Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below),
in and to the Program (including Gravee's ad serving technology, search
technology, referral technology, and Brand Features, and excluding items
licensed by Gravee from third parties), and that You will not acquire
any right, title, or interest in or to the Program except as expressly
set forth in this Agreement. You will not modify, adapt, translate,
prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble
or otherwise attempt to derive source code from any Gravee services,
software, or documentation, or create or attempt to create a substitute
or similar service or product through use of or access to the Program
or proprietary information related thereto. You will not remove, obscure,
or alter Gravee's copyright notice, Brand Features, or other proprietary
rights notices affixed to or contained within any Gravee services, software,
or documentation (including without limitation the display of Gravee's
Brand Features with Ads, Links, Search Boxes, Search Results, and/or
Search Buttons, as applicable). "Intellectual Property Rights"
means any and all rights existing from time to time under patent law,
copyright law, semiconductor chip protection law, moral rights law,
trade secret law, trademark law, unfair competition law, publicity rights
law, privacy rights law, and any and all other proprietary rights, as
well as, any and all applications, renewals, extensions, restorations
and re-instatements thereof, now or hereafter in force and effect worldwide.
- Information
Rights. Gravee may retain and use, subject to the terms of the Gravee
Privacy Policy (located at http://www.Gravee.com/, or such other URL
as Gravee may provide from time to time), all information You provide,
including but not limited to Site demographics and contact and billing
information. You agree that Gravee may transfer and disclose to third
parties personally identifiable information about You for the purpose
of approving and enabling Your participation in the Program, including
to third parties that reside in jurisdictions with less restrictive
data laws than Your own. Gravee may also provide information in response
to valid legal process, such as subpoenas, search warrants and court
orders, or to establish or exercise its legal rights or defend against
legal claims. Gravee disclaims all responsibility, and will not be liable
to You, however, for any disclosure of that information by any such
third party. Gravee may share non-personally-identifiable information
about You, including Site URLs, Site-specific statistics and similar
information collected by Gravee, with advertisers, business partners,
sponsors, and other third parties. In addition, You grant Gravee the
right to access, index and cache the Site(s), or any portion thereof,
including by automated means including Web spiders or crawlers.
- Miscellaneous.
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of California, except for
its conflicts of laws principles. Any dispute or claim arising out of
or in connection with this Agreement shall be adjudicated in Santa Clara
County, California . The parties specifically exclude from application
to the Agreement the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the
International Sale of Goods and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions
Act. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof. Any modifications to this
Agreement must be made in a writing executed by both parties, by Your
online acceptance of updated terms, or after Your continued participation
in the Program after such terms have been updated by Gravee. The failure
to require performance of any provision shall not affect a party's right
to require performance at any time thereafter, nor shall a waiver of
any breach or default of this Agreement constitute a waiver of any subsequent
breach or default or a waiver of the provision itself. If any provision
herein is held unenforceable, then such provision will be modified to
reflect the parties' intention, and the remaining provisions of this
Agreement will remain in full force and effect. You may not resell,
assign, or transfer any of Your rights hereunder. Any such attempt may
result in termination of this Agreement, without liability to Gravee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Gravee may assign this Agreement to any
affiliate at any time without notice. The relationship between Gravee
and You is not one of a legal partnership relationship, but is one of
independent contractors.
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