BannerWomen Network Agreement Introduction This Agreement is a contract between you and WWWomen. The contract also incorporates all of the information contained in the Guidelines section. The BannerWomen Alliance can only accept new Affiliates with whom we have an email on file that states that proposed Affiliate has read, understood, and agrees to abide by the Agreement and Guidelines. By submitting this email acknowledgment, the member is also attesting to the validity of the email acknowledgment and its value as a legally binding method of authentification. Terms used are as follows: YOU: The Affiliate, BannerWomen Network Affiliate, you, your, Member, Affiliate, web site owner. US: WWWomen, us, The Company, BannerWomen, The Alliance, The Network, The BannerWomen Network. ADVERTISERS: Advertiser, Client, Paying Advertiser, Sponsor, Ad Agency. USER: User, visitor. Member Eligibility Eligibility is straightforward. You must be at least 18 years old and must own or have the rights over the pages you are signing up in the BannerWomen network. By having rights we mean that you must be the person who decides whether or not you can and will have advertising on the pages signed up. You are also the individual able to receive commission checks. In addition, you must make sure that, if you are working with a third party such as a University, that such a third party authorizes or allows this type of use. We will not assume any liability incurred by such conflicts with third parties in relation to this issue. Your BannerWomen Account We reserve the right to reject admission to the BannerWomen Network to any web page you propose to include, or have included, in your BannerWomen Account. We will let you know if this occurs via e-mail. By accepting this agreement now you do so for all subsequent changes made. The BannerWomen Network does not allow sites to place the HTML code we give to them on any other web page other than the one(s) they have signed up for. If you do place this code on unauthorized pages we will revoke your Affiliate ID and BannerWomen Account. Sites who violate the network in this manner will also not be paid any moneys due. This is being done to prevent sites from abusing the system and to keep it fair and effective for other affiliates and for our advertisers. Members are allowed to operate with only one affiliate ID number at a time unless the BannerWomen Network has expressly allowed you to operate with more than one. If you are operating with two ID numbers without this authorization the Network will revoke your Affiliate ID and BannerWomen Profile. Sites who violate the network in this manner will also not be paid any moneys due. For guidelines on adding, deleting and updating pages for the Network see Guidelines, and for instructions, see Join BannerWomen Network. Banner Placement To participate in the Banner Women Network, your Banner Women Pages cannot display any paid advertising banner or logo other than the banner supplied by the BannerWomen Network, within the same "screen shot" (defined as screen area viewed without any scrolling activity on a fully maximized browser screen on an average monitor screen size). All BannerWomen banners must be placed within the first top "screen shot" viewing area. This is referred to as "above the fold". No scrolling should be required to see the entire banner. The uppermost viewable area within a browser window consists of approximately 608x320 pixels. Website owners familiar with the advertising standards for online media proposed by CASIE should note that "above the fold" adheres to the dimensions of 19x10 units of 32x32 pixels. Again, this is required in order to maximize the effectiveness of the program and thus the success and effectiveness for all Affiliate Members and Sponsors, including your own banner. We retain the right to the content of the banners displayed on your BannerWomen pages. We retain the right to exclude, temporarily or permanently, any pages from participating in the BannerWomen Network that violates or does not meet the standards in our Guidelines. Site Quality Please see the Guidelines regarding the type of content that is acceptable and related information. The BannerWomen Network has the final right to approve or refuse any and all pages submitted to the Network. If a content violation is discovered we reserve the right to remove that page from the Network. WWWomen does not take responsibility for any issues related to your copyrights, trademarks or any other issues relating to property rights on your site. If an advertiser has an issue with content on your site, legal or otherwise, that is between the advertiser and you, the Affiliate. Payment and Reporting After you place the banner code we provide on your BannerWomen Page(s), we will begin to deliver banners to your page and begin to deliver your banner to other pages around the Network. The system used to calculate your barter credits and commission amounts will be the BannerWomen network system. The system will be the source in case of disputes regarding banner Impressions, Click-Throughs or Inquiries. Information from BannerWomen's system used to resolve such disputes will be considered final. Payments will be made on the 15th of the month occurring after BannerWomen has received payment from client for those members who accrued amount of commissions exceed $50. WWWomen may change the terms of the payment and will give all Network sites 30 days notice of such changes via e-mail. Affiliates found to have falsely inflated impressions, click-throughs and/or inquires will be removed from the network and will forfeit any moneys due. Partial Months: BannerWomen will pay out for sites in the program for less than a month if they joined the program mid-month. If sites quit the program or take any of their registered page(s) down during a month they will forfeit payment owed to them for that month. If sites are asked to leave the program by BannerWomen (or WWWomen) but have not violated any of the terms of this agreement they will be paid for the moneys that have accrued on months for their registered page(s) up to that point and including partial months. This may occur for sites which appeared to be a good match for the network, but consistent poor page performance would indicate the page(s) were not good candidate submission(s) for a female demographic after all. If we make changes to the Agreement and Guidelines and you decide not to continue, if you give us 5 days notice that you wish to terminate your participation, you will receive payment for the partial month. Taxes: WWWomen will send a 1099 form to any affiliate who receives $600 or more during the year. Affiliates are required to report this money on their taxes. We may be required to withhold 30% of commissions for affiliates located outside the U.S. for tax purposes. Additional Information We are both operating independently. In performing the obligations contained in this Agreement, we and you each have exclusive control over the means, methods and details of meeting the respective obligations. We and you are, at all times, acting independently and not as an employee or agent of the other. Proprietary Rights. All proprietary rights, including but not limited to, trademarks and service marks and rights relating to BannerWomen, WWWomen and Sponsors are and will continue to be the sole property of us or our Sponsors. Liabilities & Indemnification. WWWomen will not be responsible for any claims or liabilities arising from your signing of this agreement and your receipt of commissions. You are responsible for abiding by the laws in your city, county, state and country or, if involved with a third party, are solely responsible for arrangements, commitments or obligations made with or to them. We will not acquire ownership of any of your properties and, in turn, you will not acquire ownership of any of our, or our sponsor's properties. You will indemnify us for any suit or claim alleging that association with the BannerWomen network to any degree constituted an infringement of any proprietary rights. In turn, WWWomen will indemnify you for any suit or claim alleging that our association with you infringed upon any proprietary rights, provided that you have not breached the terms of this agreement or of the Guidelines. You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless WWWomen if you have breached this contract or the Guidelines. Indemnified parties will be reimbursed for all liabilities. The party applying for reimbursement must provide detailed information on specific costs to the indemnifying party. If BannerWomen or WWWomen is sold or moved to another entity, rights to this program may be transferred to a new party. We require re-registration of an Affiliate's registered page(s) if it has been assigned new ownership. You acknowledge that this is a non-exclusive agreement for both you and WWWomen. WWWomen can add other members and you can participate in other programs or sell banners yourself. This is subject to the Guidelines requiring that the BannerWomen banner be placed in the first screenshot of the page. Term and Termination This agreement shall be effective once your BannerWomen Account has been accepted. We retain the right to terminate this agreement at any time via e-mail. You may terminate this agreement with 5 days notice to us by e-mail. Accepting this Agreement BannerWomen must have an email acknowledgment on file for each registered Affiliate that they have read, understood, and agree to abide by the terms of this Agreement and Guidelines. You can email your statement of acknowledgment by including your real name, real email address (the name and email that will match the registered Affiliate information), and the sentence: "I have read, understood, and agree to abide by the terms of the BannerWomen Agreement and Guidelines." Your Full Name....... Your Email Address. Site Title.... Site URL... Your Acknowledgment Statement Should be Typed in Here: Please now... BannerWomen will delay any proposed Affiliate application until an email Acknowledgment is on file. You can send your email acknowledgment at any time during the application process. [ Guidelines ] | [ Return to Steps to Join ] Home | Affiliates | Advertisers | Join the Network | FAQ | Contact Us © Copyright 1996-1998. BannerWomen and WWWomen. All Rights Reserved. BannerWomen and WWWomen are trademarks of the WWWomen Inc. company.