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Affiliate Agreement
By creating a KidzSearch™ Affiliate Account, you are agreeing to the terms specified in this agreement.  Violation of any restrictions or terms included herein may result in cancellation of your account.
Acceptable Advertising Methods
As a KidzSearch affiliate, you earn revenue by sending us traffic.  You generate these by encouraging web users to visit the KidzSearch website. You may advertise using:
  • Graphical Banners and Buttons on your site(s)
  • Text Links or endorsements on your site(s)
  • Descriptions and Links placed in "opt-in" mailing lists and newsletters

    Affiliate shall not engage in any of the Prohibited Practices: (1) framing the Company's Web Sites; (2) "mousetrapping" visitors to the Affiliate's Web Site or otherwise interfering with web users ability to close any browser window containing any of the Promotional Assets; (3) distorting or altering the Promotional Assets; (4) copying all or any portion of the Company's Web Sites; (5) registering, transferring, trafficking in, or offering for sale, any domain name that is similar to or contains any of the Company's Marks; (6) using the Promotional Assets (including the Company Marks) in a manner that implies or suggests that the Company or the KidzSearch endorses or sponsor the Affiliates Web Site or any products or services of the Affiliate or any third party; (7) using the Promotional Assets (including the Company Marks) in any manner that tarnishes, blurs or dilutes the Company Marks or that is likely to do so; (8) displaying the Promotional Materials on any web pages that contain any infringing, illegal, immoral, offensive, controversial or pornographic content, which shall be determined by the Company in its sole discretion;  (9) engaging in any illegal, unethical or unfair or deceptive trade practices; (10) sending unsolicited commercial e-mail messages (excluding messages to recipients with whom you have an existing relationship or who consent to receipt of such messages); (11) concealing, misstating, or "spoofing" the originating or return e-mail address for any unsolicited commercial e-mail messages containing any of the Promotional Assets; (12) using any e-mail address containing any of the Company Marks; (13) engaging in any conduct that would be detrimental to the status of the Company, or its affiliated and related entities, as licensed gaming entities;  (14) any other practice that the Company designates or concludes is prohibited in its sole discretion; (15) Generating automated or fake clicks; (16) Linking directly to our Web search results.

    If you have any questions about whether a method of advertising is allowed, please ask us first.
   
Getting Paid
Affiliates are paid a commission, based on USD dollar amounts set by us as an overall CPM. CPM rates vary based on the quality of your traffic, but typical values are $1-$3 CPM. High quality unique traffic can generate much better CPM rates. If an affiliate account balance is less than $150 USD, the balance will be held until it is over $150.  In other words, you won't get paid until you have earned over $150. Payments are made using Paypal.

Customers are defined as having a unique IP address and will remain in our system for a period of 2 (two) years. Payment is based on our set CPM and is independent of actual ad revenue generated from our advertising partners. Fraudulent traffic will be carefully monitored and any detected will result in immediate termination of your account. Payment is only made for valid traffic. Invalid traffic can include clicking on your own links, encouraging or asking other people to click on your links, getting link clicks by deception, bot traffic, etc.
 

 
  Tracking
  We offer you the benefit of IP address tracking on any referral you send us. If a customer uses our site after being sent to us from your site, or the customer later comes back to our site and clicks on any ads within 2 years, you will get full credit for the ad clicks as a percentage of overall traffic ad clicks.


 
  Content Links
  You can link to any section of our site for affiliate credit with the following important exceptions:

You cannot get affiliate credit linking directly to our search results, or using a search box form. Linking to our search results using hard-coded search terms is prohibited and can get you blocked from sending us any traffic.
 
KidzSearch Responsibilities
KidzSearch will be responsible for tracking your customers. We will provide you with an affiliate center login for reporting. It is agreed that all disputes shall be settled by arbitration before a proper arbitrator located within the city and county of Los Angeles, state of California. The rules of California shall apply.


 
Affiliate Policy
All accounts may be terminated at will by either party with 72 hours written notice. Payment shall then be made to the affiliate under the normal terms of the agreement.
This agreement is non-exclusive.

The Affiliate shall keep confidential the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

The relationship of the Affiliate to the Company shall be that of an independent contractor. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to create a partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties.