As of May2018
This Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program Terms & Conditions contains the term and conditions that govern your participation in the Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program (the “Program”). “onedotstores.com”, “We”, “us”, “our” means onedotstores.com or any of its freelance companies, including but not limited to Onedot online store. “You” or “your” means the freelance partner. A “ site” means a website. The “onedotstores.com Site” means any or all of the following sites: Onedotstores.com, Onedotonlinestore.com.ng. “Your site” or “Your app” means any site(s) or mobile application(s) that you own or operate and use to market Onedotstores.com Site.
We may update these Terms and Conditions at any time and will make the updated Terms and Conditions available by posting the updated version on our website. We will inform you of any such updates via the email you provide in your account. However, your continued involvement in the program, as defined below, shall be conclusive evidence that you have read and consented to the agreement as amended or modified and further agree on a going forward basis to comply with, and be bound by, all the terms and conditions contained within the agreement as amended or modified at that time. If at any point you do not agree to any portion of the terms of this Agreement then in effect, you must immediately stop your activity in the Program and notify us in writing of your desire to terminate your participation in the program.
- Description of Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program
The purpose of the Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program is to permit you to advertise our product to vendors (store owners) and to earn commissions for Confirmed complete registration on our site (see section 6) made by your end users on the Onedotstores.com Site. A “Product” is our multi-vendor website, Onedotstores.com Site.
- Enrollment
To begin the enrollment process, you must submit a complete and accurate Program application (available on our site career page). We will evaluate your application and notify you of its acceptance or rejection. We consider the following practices as examples of unsuitable advertising and reserve the right to reject your application or terminate your participation:
- Using Onedotstores.com brand name, or a variant or misspelling, in any domain name, subdomain name, or in any username, group name, or other identifier on any social networking site
- Using fraudulent methods such as pop-ups, pop-unders, iFrames, cookie stuffing, and automatically opening onedotstores.com pages
- Promoting our product with inappropriate materials – eg. sexually explicit, violent, libelous, defamatory, discriminatory, illegal
- Violating intellectual property rights in any manner
- Registering of fake vendors
If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply at any time. However, if we accept your application and we later observe that you are engaging in unsuitable practices, we are, at our sole discretion, entitled to terminate and/or take action against you/your freelance account at any time.
A Freelance Partner also operating as a Vendor on onedotstores.com’s Seller Center platform must indicate, when completing the sign-up form, that he/she is a onedotstores.com Vendor. Where a Freelance Partner subsequently becomes a Vendor, the Freelance Partner shall immediately send an email to freelance@onedotstores.com, notifying Onedotstores.com of his/her status as a Vendor on onedotstores.com’s Platform. The failure of the Freelance Partner to notify Onedotstores.com of his/her status as a Onedotstores.com Vendor may result in the Freelance Partner being delisted. The Freelance Partner shall also be liable to return every commission fraudulently earned during the period of his/her misrepresentation and be required to pay a penalty to Onedotstores.com.
- Freelance code
After you have been notified that you have been accepted into the Program, you would receive an email with your unique freelance code. This code is to be imputed whenever a vendor you advertised to is to register on our site. Freelance code permits accurate accrual of advertising commission.
You may earn advertising commission only as described in section 6 and only with respect to activity on the Onedotstores.com Site occurring directly through the Freelance code. We will have no obligation to pay you advertising fees if you fail to properly use the freelance code. You may not maintain a website that might give rise to a risk of confusion with the web presence of ONEDOTSTORES.COM.
- Program requirements
By participating in Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program, you agree that you will comply with the Terms & Conditions and all pages, schedules, policies, guidelines, specifications, user manuals, and supporting materials that we make available to you.
You will ensure that the information in your Program application and otherwise associated with your account, including your email address and other contact information, is at all times complete, accurate, and up-to-date. You will provide us with any additional information that we request to verify your compliance with this Terms & Conditions or any supporting materials.
- In addition, you hereby consent to us:
- Sending you emails relating to Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program from time to time
- Monitoring, and verifying your compliance with this Terms & Conditions
- Vendor Registration
We will process on a daily basis vendor registrations from your unique freelance code made on Onedotstores.com Site through the following link address: http://sellers-hub.onedotstores.com/pre-signup-agent/
We reserve the right to reject duplicate registrations on the Onedotstores.com site. We will track registrations and will make available to you reports summarizing those registrations.
- Advertising Commissions
We will pay you advertising commission per shop/vendor registered by you only on complete registrations. Subject to the terms set forth below,
- A “complete registration” occurs when a vendor(a) visits Onedotstores.com site, then (b) clicks the vendor registration on our seller page (c) completes the form p[including attaching all relevant documents] (d) submits the registration form by clicking submit button.
- ₦500.00 (five hundred Naira only) per vendor registered on our platform
- Advertising Commissions Payment
We will pay you advertising commissions on a monthly basis for complete registrations that were made within a given month. The default payment method is direct deposit on your bank account provided by you. If you have not selected one of the payment methods, we will withhold any unpaid accrued advertising commission until you have done so.
- Policies and Pricing
Vendors who register through this Program are our customers with respect to all activities they undertake in connection with Onedotstores.com. Accordingly, as between you and us, all pricing, terms of sale, rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer service, and product sales set forth on Onedotstores.com will apply to those customers, and we may change them at any time.
- Identifying yourself as a freelance partner
You will not issue any press release or make any other public communication with respect to this Terms
& Conditions, your use of the Content, or your participation in the Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program. You will not misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and you, (including by expressing or implying that we support, sponsor, endorse, or contribute to any charity or other cause), or express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this Terms & Conditions.
- Limited License
Subject to the terms of this Terms & Conditions and solely for the limited purposes of advertising our Product(s), and directing vendors to, the Onedotstores.com Site in connection with Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program, we hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sub licensable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to (a) copy and display the Content solely on your site; and (b) use only those of our trademarks and logos that we may make available to you as part of Content solely on your site or other media. The license set forth in this Section will immediately and automatically terminate if at any time you do not timely comply with any obligation under this Terms & Conditions or any Operational Documentation, or otherwise upon termination of this Terms & Conditions. In addition, we may terminate the license set forth in this Section in whole or in part upon written notice to you. You will promptly remove from your site and delete or otherwise destroy all of the Content and Onedotstores.com Trademark with respect to which the license set forth in this Section is terminated or as we may otherwise request from time to time.
- Reservation of Rights; Submissions
Other than the limited licenses expressly set forth in Section 10, we reserve all right, title and interest (including all intellectual property and proprietary rights) in and to, and you do not, by virtue of this Terms & Conditions or otherwise, acquire any ownership interest or rights in or to, Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program, freelance code, Content, any domain name owned or operated by us or our freelances, Operational Documentation, our and our freelances’ trademarks and logos (including the Onedotstores.com Trademark), and any other intellectual property and technology that we provide or use in connection with Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program (including any application program interfaces, software development kits, libraries, sample code, and related materials). If you provide us or any of our freelances with suggestions, reviews, modifications, data, images, text, or other information or content about a product or in connection with this Terms & Conditions, any Content, or your participation in onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program, or if you modify any Content in any way, (collectively, “Your Submission”), you hereby irrevocably assign to us all right, title, and interest in and to Your Submission and grant us (even if you have designated Your Submission as confidential) a perpetual, paid-up royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, freely transferable right and license to (a) use, reproduce, perform, display, and distribute Your Submission in any manner; (b) adapt, modify, reformat, and create derivative works of Your Submission for any purpose; (c) use and publish your name in the form of a credit in conjunction with Your Submission (however, we will not have any obligation to do so); and (d) sublicense the foregoing rights to any other person or entity. Additionally, you hereby warrant that: (y) Your Submission is your original work, or you obtained Your Submission in a lawful manner; and (z) our and our sublicenses’ exercise of rights under the license above will not violate any person’s or entity’s rights, including any copyright rights. You agree to provide us such assistance as we may require documenting, perfect, or maintaining our rights in and to Your Submission.
- Compliance with Laws
In connection with your participation in Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program you will comply with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgments, decisions, and other requirements of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, including laws that govern marketing email.
- Term and Termination
The term of this Terms & Conditions will begin upon our acceptance of your Program application and will end when terminated by either you or us. Either you or we may terminate this Terms & Conditions at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination by email. Upon any termination of this Terms & Conditions, any and all licenses you have with respect to Content will automatically terminate and you will immediately stop using the Content and Onedotstores.com Trademark and promptly remove from your site and delete or otherwise destroy all links to Onedotstores.com Site, all Onedotstores.com Trademark, all other Content, and any other materials provided or made available by or on behalf of us to you under this Terms & Conditions or otherwise in connection with Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program. We may withhold accrued unpaid advertising commissions for a reasonable period of time following termination to ensure that the correct amount is paid and you comply with sections 13 of this Terms & Conditions. Upon any termination of this Terms & Conditions, all rights and obligations of the parties will be extinguished, except that the rights and obligations of the parties under Sections 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, and 17 together with any accrued but unpaid payment obligations of us under this Terms & Conditions, will survive the termination of this Terms & Conditions. No termination of this Terms & Conditions will relieve either party for any liability for any breach of, or liability accruing under, this Terms & Conditions prior to termination.
- Relationship of Parties
You and we are independent contractors, and nothing in this Terms & Conditions will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between you and us or our respective freelances. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our or our freelances’ behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that contradicts or may contradict anything in this section. If you authorize, assist, encourage, or facilitate another person or entity to take any action related to the subject matter of this Terms & Conditions, you will be deemed to have taken the action yourself.
- Limitation of Liability
We will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages (including any loss of revenue, profits, goodwill, use, or data) arising in connection with this Terms & Conditions and the Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of those damages.
Further, our aggregate liability arising in connection with this Terms & Conditions and the Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program will not exceed the total advertising commissions paid or payable to you under this Terms & Conditions in the twelve months immediately preceding the date on which the event giving rise to the most recent claim of liability occurred.
- Disclaimers
Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program, Onedotstores.com Site, any products and services offered by Onedotstores.com, freelance code, operational documentation, content, Onedotstores.com domain name, our and our freelances’ trademarks and logos (including the Onedotstores.com trademark), and all technology, software, functions, materials, data, images, text, and other information and content provided or used by or on behalf of us or our freelances or licensors in connection with Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program (collectively the “service offerings”) are provided “as is.” neither we nor any of our freelances or licensors make any representation or warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise with respect to the service offerings. Except to the extent prohibited by applicable law, we and our freelances and licensors disclaim all warranties with respect to the service offerings, including any implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising out of any course of dealing, performance, or trade usage. We may discontinue any service offering, or may change the nature, features, functions, scope, or operation of any service offering, at any time and from time to time. Neither we nor any of our freelances or licensors warrants that the service offerings will continue to be provided, will function as described, consistently or in any particular manner, or will be uninterrupted, accurate, error free, or free of harmful components. Neither we nor any of our freelances or licensors will be responsible for (a) any errors, inaccuracies, or service interruptions, including power outages or system failures; or (b) any unauthorized access to or alteration of, or deletion, destruction, damage, or loss of, your site or any data, images, text, or other information or content. No advice or information obtained by you from us or from any other person or entity or through Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program, content, operational documentation, Onedotstores.com, or the freelances.Onedotstores.com.com site will create any warranty not expressly stated in this Terms & Conditions. further, neither we nor any of our freelances or licensors will be responsible for any compensation, reimbursement, or damages arising in connection with (x) any loss of prospective profits or revenue, anticipated sales, goodwill, or other benefits, (y) any investments, expenditures, or commitments by you in connection with this Terms & Conditions or your participation in Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program, or (z) any termination of this Terms & Conditions or your participation in Onedotstores.com freelance marketing Program.
- Disputes
- If any dispute arises out of or in connection with this Agreement, it shall be referred to and finally resolved by binding arbitration as set out below, under the authority of an arbitration body in the Nigeria. The party wishing to commence arbitration shall send a copy of the Request for Arbitration to the other party.
- The number of arbitrators shall be one. The parties to the arbitration shall seek to agree on a sole arbitrator to be nominated. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in the English language and the award shall be in English.
The tribunal shall have power to make such directions and any provisional, interim or partial award as it considers just and desirable. Judgment upon the award rendered by the tribunal may be entered by any court having jurisdiction thereof or having jurisdiction over the relevant party or its assets. The arbitration award shall be final and binding on the parties