Home » Brighter Connect’s Affiliate Terms And Conditions BRIGHTER CONNECT’S AFFILIATE TERMS AND CONDITIONS PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT. THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN ‘THE AFFILIATE’ AND BRIGHTER CONNECT LIMITED, 1 HEADLAND STREET, NEWHALL, HARLOW, ESSEX, CM17 9RZ, UK. BY CLICKING ON THE “I ACCEPT” BUTTON AT THE END OF THESE AFFILIATE TERMS AND CONDITIONS YOU ARE AGREEING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS 0. Definitions Throughout the following document, the following definitions will apply. Brighter Connect Limited, “we”, “us”, “our” refers to Brighter Connect, 1 Headland Street, Newhall, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9RZ, UK, and its applicable subsidiaries, which is the designated operator of this affiliate program, whose terms and conditions are set out herein. Brighter Connect Affiliate Program (“Affiliate Program”) refers to the affiliate program operated by Brighter Connect Limited. Affiliate Program Manager means the individual or individual who has the legal authority from Brighter Connect Limited to manage and represent its interests in the Affiliate Program. Affiliate, “you”, “your”, “yours” means the legal entity agreeing to participate in the Program, and who will legally be bound by the terms and conditions herein. Affiliate Agreement refers to these Terms and Conditions of the Affiliate Program. Brighter Connect Website(s) refer to www.brighterconnect.com or any of its subdomains. Affiliate Dashboard- refers to the online location (https://www.brighterconnect.com/affiliate-area/) through which the Affiliate can manage the Affiliate Program and accept these Terms and Conditions. User- refers to the Affiliate website visitor who may or may not click an Affiliate link and be directed to the Brighter Connect Website to purchase products from Brighter Connect. Commission- refers to the amount earned from successful purchases on the Brighter Connect Website through referral by Affiliate (which is 10% on all sales excluding tax) Abandoned Affiliate Account means any Affiliate account whose Affiliate Dashboard has not been logged into for a period of 6 months and/or has no transactions posted during a period of six months. 1. Overview These are the complete list of Terms and Conditions for the Affiliate Program. The purpose of enrolling in the Affiliate Program is to allow you to make affiliate commissions for the sales of our online courses originating from your promotional activities in the manner set forth herein. 2.Affiliate Obligations and Rules 2.1. To enrol in our Affiliate Program, you must: 1. Be at the age of majority in your jurisdiction or the age of 18 whichever is greater; 2. Have the legal authority to enter into this Agreement and to be bound to the promises, covenants, and other duties set forth herein; 3. Complete and submit the online application through the Affiliate Dashboard; 4. Be enrolled or accepted by Brighter Connect into the Affiliate Program. 2.Affiliate Obligations and Rules 2.2 Brighter Connect may choose at their discretion to auto-approve your application. This does not imply that we will not re-evaluate your application at a later time. We reserve the right to reject your application at any point in time, at our sole discretion. This is especially true if the Affiliate’s website or promotional materials breach any of the points set out in 2.4. 2.3 In the event that Affiliate materially breaches this Agreement and Brighter Connect terminates this Agreement any accrued and payable Commissions owing to Affiliate shall be forfeited, and Brighter Connect shall not be obligated to pay such Commissions to Affiliate. 2.4 Affiliate agrees that Affiliate’s website, service or correspondence does not contain any materials that in Brighter Connect’s sole discretion are considered to: 1. Promote adult content, including nudity, sexual terms and/or images of people in positions or activities that are excessively suggestive or sexual, or provocative images in violation of legislation in your local jurisdiction; 2. Includes violent, obscene, defamatory, libellous, slanderous and/or unlawful content; 3. Promote hate speech, whether directed at an individual or a group, and whether based upon the race, sex, creed, national origin, religious affiliation, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or language of such individual or group; 4. Incorporate any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law 5. Includes “Brighter Connect” or variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name and as keywords in PPC campaigns 6. Promote politically religious agendas and/or any known associations with hate, criminal and/or terrorist activities; 7. Promote gambling, including without limitation, any online casino, sports books, bingo, or poker; 8. Contain software downloads that potentially enable diversions of commission from other affiliates in our program; 9. Make representations through code, designs, imagery, video, text or otherwise that makes your website resemble the Brighter Connect Website in a manner which leads customers to believe you are the Brighter Connect Website, business or a legal representative of Brighter Connect in any way. 10. Offer rebates, coupons, or other form of promised kickbacks from your Commission as an incentive. Adding bonuses or bundling other products with Brighter Connect, however, is acceptable, if prior permission is received from the Affiliate Program Manager. 11. Generate pop-ups, pop-unders, iframes, frames, or any other seen or unseen actions that set affiliate cookies unless the user has expressed a clear and explicit interest in activating a specific savings by clicking on a clearly marked link, button or image for that particular coupon or deal. Affiliate Program links must direct users to the Brighter Connect Website 2.4.1 User must be able to see coupon/deal/savings information and details before an affiliate cookie is set (i.e. “click here to see coupons and open a window to the Brighter Connect website” is NOT allowed). 2.4.2 Affiliate sites may not have “Click for (or to see) Deal/Coupon” or any variation, when there are no coupons or deals available, and the click opens the Brighter Connect Website or sets a cookie. Affiliates with such text will be removed from the program immediately. 2.4.3 Affiliates may not bid on or use phrases, such as Brighter Connect Coupon(s), Brighter Connect Discount(s) or other phrases implying coupons are available. Any misspellings of our brand name in combination with coupon/deal/savings or any synonyms or similar alterations of these words are also strictly prohibited. 2.4.4 Affiliates may not use misleading text on affiliate links, buttons or images to advertise anything besides currently authorised deals to the specific affiliate. The commercial purpose of the Affiliate’s marketing efforts must be clearly identifiable. The Affiliate shall not disguise its affiliate marketing efforts as consumer recommendations or as similar non-commercial messages. 2.5. As a member of the Affiliate Program, you will be granted access to the Affiliate Dashboard. Here you will have an option to review the details of our Affiliate Program including our promotional materials, such as affiliate links to web pages within the Brighter Connect Website and banner creatives. You will be free to browse and get tracking codes for our deals if and when they are available. In order for us to accurately keep track of all guest visits from your site to the Brighter Connect Website, you must use the affiliate link that we provide for each banner, text link, HTML code or any other promotional material listed. 2.6. Brighter Connect reserves the right, at any time, to review your link placement and either approve or disapprove the use of your affiliate links and require that you change the placement of links or ask you to comply with these guidelines. 2.7. The Affiliate is solely responsible for the maintenance and information updates on your site. For example if Brighter Connect’s pricing policy changes, it will be up to the Affiliate to update this information. We may monitor your site as we feel necessary to make sure that it is up-to-date and to notify you of any changes that we feel should enhance your performance. 2.8. It is your sole responsibility to follow all applicable laws, regulations, government decrees, authorities’ decisions and the like relating to: 1) protection of intellectual property; 2) marketing of goods and services; 3) unfair business practices; and 4) any other similar field of regulation That pertain to your website or any promotional materials on your website. If you violate any such rules of law or any third party presents any allegations or claims that pertain to information you place on your website and promotional materials you use, you will indemnify and hold Brighter Connect harmless for any and all costs arising out of any such violations, allegations or claims. 2.9 As an affiliate, you can only create and use one (1) account. You can list multiple domains within one account, but only one account is allowed. 2.10 Self-referrals for affiliate purchases are strictly prohibited. This means that you cannot refer yourself, your immediate family or the company you work for by using your affiliate link. You will not receive a Commission on any purchases by yourself for your own use, your immediate family members or the company you work for. 2.11. We reserve the right to remove Abandoned Affiliate Accounts from our system if their balance is equal to or less than £50 after a 6 month period of inactivity. In this case any accumulated commissions below £50 (minimum pay-out threshold) will be forfeited. 3. Brighter Connect Rights and Obligations 3.1. We reserve the right to monitor your site at any time to determine whether you are following these Terms and Conditions. We may inform you of any changes to your site that we feel you should make, or to ensure that your affiliate links to the Brighter Connect Website are placed appropriately and to notify you of any other changes that we feel should be made. Failure to make the changes to your site that we feel are necessary within reasonable time (no longer than 30 days) constitutes a material breach of this Affiliate Agreement. 3.2. Brighter Connect reserves the right to terminate your participation in the Affiliate Program immediately and without prior notice to you if you commit fraud or abuse this Affiliate Program in any way (including material breaches of section 2.4 of this Affiliate Agreement). If such fraud or abuse is detected, Brighter Connect shall not be liable to you for any Commissions for any fraudulent sales/sales based on abuse. 3.3. These Terms and Conditions will begin to apply to you upon our acceptance of your Affiliate application, and their application will continue indefinitely unless terminated hereunder. 4. Termination 4.1 Either the Affiliate or Brighter Connect may end this Affiliate Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice can be sent by email to either party, or through any appropriate mechanism in the Affiliate Dashboard. 4.2 If the Affiliate Agreement is terminated by either party in accordance with section 4.1, 3.2 or 4.3, Brighter Connect shall not be liable to pay any Commission to you after the termination of the Affiliate Agreement. 4.3 This Affiliate Agreement will terminate immediately without notice upon any material breach of the Terms and Conditions by the Affiliate. 5. Modification We may modify, add or remove any of these Terms and Conditions at any point in time. In such event, you will need to comply with a revised version of these Terms and Conditions when prompted to do so in the Affiliate Dashboard. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only option is to end your association with the Affiliate Program by closing your account. Continued participation in the Affiliate Program will indicate your agreement to the changes and your adherence to any modified Terms and Conditions. 6. Commission Payment 6.1. Commissions are earned from authorised referrals that generate purchases via your affiliate links. 6.2. Commission amounts per product/service sold may be changed by Brighter Connect at any time. This information is available to you in the Affiliate Dashboard. You are solely responsible for determining if the Commission amount for an affiliate link you have placed on your website has changed or been discontinued. 6.3. Accrued commissions will be paid on the 10th date of the month following the transaction that generated the commission. No commission payment shall be made unless the total accrued unpaid commissions exceed the minimum threshold of £50. The commission due are calculated in accordance with the statistics and balance that are collected, calculated and displayed on the Affiliate Dashboard. The only valid statistics used for determining Commissions will be those displayed in the Affiliate Dashboard. 6.4. For an Affiliate to receive a Commission, the Affiliate account must remain active for a minimum of seven (7) days after the payment date. For this reason, the Commissions generated on any date will be displayed as “Pending Approval” in the Affiliate account for seven (7) days. If the purchaser does not request refunds within this timeframe, and if the commission was not a result of a self-referral and doesn’t breach any other terms of this Affiliate Agreement, you will see payment amounts in “Current Commissions” as “Approved – Pending Payment”. 6.5. Affiliate is responsible for any and all charges, fees, taxes, exchange rates, surcharges and other expenses arising out of the Affiliate relationship with Brighter Connect including those incurred in order to receive affiliate payments. 6.6. Available payment options for Commissions are described in the Affiliate Dashboard, any other payment options may be declined for use at our discretion. Our primary pay-out option is PayPal. However, if you are planning on generating a large volume of sales, wire transfers can also be arranged. Qualifications for wire transfer payments are reviewed and decided by Brighter Connect on a case by case basis. Please email us at affiliates@brighterconnect.com, if you wish to discuss this payment option. 6.7. Payments will only be sent for affiliate purchases that have been successfully completed. Transactions that result in chargebacks or refunds will be void. 7. Affiliate Promotional Materials 7.1. You are free to promote what you deem appropriate on your own website(s), but any promotion that mentions Brighter Connect and any associated trademarks may be perceived by the press or the public as a joint effort. You should therefore note that certain forms of advertising are always prohibited by Brighter Connect. Any promotions by Affiliates should never contravene promotional laws in their location. Advertising commonly known as “spamming” is inappropriate and unacceptable to us and constitutes a material breach of this Affiliate Agreement. Other prohibited forms of advertising include the use of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once. Additionally, you may not advertise in any way that effectively hides or misrepresents your own identity, your domain name, or your email address. You may use emails or other messages to customers to promote Brighter Connect services if the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or website, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings and such emails or other messages are otherwise sent in compliance with the laws applicable to them. In any direct marketing messages sent by the Affiliate, the Affiliate must identify itself and its contact details. Where the Affiliate processes personal data relating to identified or identifiable individuals, the Affiliate undertakes to provide to data subjects any information required in the applicable data protection legislation (including but not limited to information referred to in Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679). The Affiliate shall especially provide to the data subjects information on how to exercise their rights under the applicable data protection legislation. Also, you may only post to newsgroups to promote Brighter Connect subscription if the news group specifically welcomes commercial messages. You must always clearly represent yourself and your websites as independent from Brighter Connect. 7.2. Affiliates that exclusively bid in their pay-per-click campaigns on keywords such as brighterconnect.com, Brighter Connect coupons, Brighter Connect Discounts, Brighter Connect, www.brighterconnect, www.brighterconnect.com, Data Grabber and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these – be it separately or in a combination with any other keywords – and do not direct the traffic from such campaigns to their own website prior to redirecting it to our website, will be considered to be in material breach of the Affiliate Agreement. Using “doorway pages” in such instances or overall as part of Brighter Connect promotional activities is also strictly prohibited. 7.3. Affiliate shall not transmit any so-called “interstitials,” “Parasite-ware,” “Parasitic Marketing,” “Shopping Assistance Application,” “Toolbar Installations and/or Add-ons,” “Shopping Wallets” or “deceptive pop-ups and/or pop-unders” to consumers from the time the consumer clicks on a qualifying link until such time as the consumer has fully exited the Brighter Connect Website (i.e., no page from our site or any Brighter Connect’s content or branding is visible on the end-user’s screen). As used herein a “Parasite-ware” and “Parasitic Marketing” shall mean an application that (a) through accidental or direct intent causes the overwriting of affiliate and non-affiliate commission tracking cookies through any other means than a customer initiated click on a qualifying link on a web page or email; (b) intercepts searches to redirect traffic through an installed software, thereby causing, pop ups, commission tracking cookies to be put in place or other commission tracking cookies to be overwritten where a user would under normal circumstances have arrived at the same destination through the results given Internet search and directory engines (services referred here as examples include, but are not limited to, Google, MSN, Yahoo, Overture, AltaVista, Hotbot); (c) set commission tracking cookies through loading of Brighter Connect site in IFrames, hidden links and automatic pop ups that open brighterconnect.com’s site; (d) targets text on websites, other than those sites 100% owned by the application owner, for the purpose of contextual marketing; or (e) removes, replaces or blocks the visibility of Affiliate banners with any other banners, other than those that are on websites 100% owned by the owner of the application. Contact Us If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us on affiliates@brighterconnect.com Brighter Connect's Affiliate Terms and Conditions of www.brighterconnect.com