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Affiliate Program
Terms and Conditions

1. Definitions and Interpretation

  • 1.1 In these Terms and Conditions the following terms shall have the following meanings:
  • "Business Day" means any day other than Saturday or Sunday that is not a bank or public holiday;
  • "Cancellations Policy" means our cancellations policy which can be found at climateriskschool.climatographer.com/terms;
  • "Commencement Date" means the date of your acceptance;
  • "Commission Rate" means the percentage of commission paid on net sales revenue set out in Sub-clause 11.2;
  • "Cookies" are third-party Cookies that are placed by third parties that provide services to us and/or to you. Third-party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on our website, or by third parties providing analytics services to us.
  • "Direct Referral" means a sale of a Service Package to a customer who has been led to our website through your website where that customer can be tracked directly from your site to ours without any further intermediaries;
  • "Intellectual Property Rights" means any rights subsisting in a copyright work, trademark, patent, or design and shall be construed in accordance with U.S. and generally accepted international laws and regulations regarding intellectual property;
  • "Registered Email Address" means your email address as provided in your affiliate registration;
  • "Registration Data" means the information you provided when registering for enrollment as an affiliate;
  • "Service Package" means a particular set of services available from us through our website as defined in Clause 7.

2. Enrollment in the Program

  • 2.1 By enrolling in the Program you agree that, at the time of registration, you will provide accurate and complete Registration Data and that you shall inform us of any changes in your Registration Data.
  • 2.2 Upon your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, and subject to our approval and sub-clause 2.4 below, the agreement is deemed to be in effect.
  • 2.3 We may, at our sole discretion, review your website following your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. You will be informed within 10 Business Days of the outcome of your application. Following your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, you will receive further instructions and guidance to allow you to commence marketing our goods.
  • 2.4 We may, in our sole discretion, choose to reject any application for any reason. Reasons for which an Application may be rejected include, but are not limited to, content on your website that:
  • 2.4.1 is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, obscene, harassing, discriminatory, defamatory or otherwise objectionable;
  • 2.4.2 facilitates or promotes violence, terrorism, or any other criminal activity;
  • 2.4.3 is sexually explicit; or
  • 2.4.4 infringes or assists or encourages the infringement of any intellectual property rights belonging to any party.

3. Company / Affiliate Relationship

  • 3.1 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall constitute a partnership between the Parties; nor, except as expressly provided, shall it designate any Party the agent of any other Party for any purpose.
  • 3.2 Subject to any express provisions to the contrary in these Terms and Conditions, you shall have no right or authority to and shall not do any act, enter into any contract, make any representation, give any warranty, incur any liability, assume any obligation, whether express or implied, of any kind on our behalf or bind us in any way.

4. Website Links

  • 4.1 Your Affiliate Dashboard will contain materials for a hyperlink to our website. These materials will include the HTML code for the link and/or a selection of graphics files to which the HTML code should be applied.
  • 4.2 The HTML code as it appears in your Affiliate Dashboard must be copied exactly. Failure to comply with this condition may result in your receiving no credit for sales that are generated through your website.
  • 4.3 You may not modify any graphics files we provide in any way without our prior written authorization. You may not use your own graphics files to link to our site.
  • 4.4 Graphics files that we may provide for use as links may be displayed throughout your website as you deem appropriate, subject to our prior consent (which shall not be unreasonably withheld). We reserve the right to request the alteration or removal of a link from your website.
  • 4.5 You assume full responsibility to maintain all links to our website from your website.

5. Site Maintenance and Content

  • 5.1 Each Party shall be exclusively responsible for maintaining and updating its own website. Subject to the provisions of this Clause 5 and Clause 14 below, neither Party shall have any obligations to the other Party in relation to the maintenance or content of their website.
  • 5.2 Subject to Sub-clause 5.3, you may not host content that:
  • 5.2.1 is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, obscene, harassing, discriminatory, defamatory or otherwise objectionable;
  • 5.2.2 facilitates or promotes violence, terrorism, or any other criminal activity;
  • 5.2.3 is sexually explicit; or
  • 5.2.4 infringes or assists or encourages the infringement of any intellectual property rights belonging to any party.

6. Display of Company Information

  • 6.1 As an affiliate, you are free to display pricing and other information relating to our Service Packages. It is your responsibility to keep information up-to-date through your own efforts; we will not provide pricing information updates to you.
  • 6.2 We reserve the right to alter pricing at any time in accordance with our own policies.
  • 6.3 As a The Climatographers Affiliate you agree that:
  • 6.3.1 You are responsible for providing us with full and accurate account information and for keeping that information up to date. Such information might include but is not limited to: contact details, payment details, tax information, and any other details we may require. We reserve the right to request additional data regarding websites where you promote The Climatographers and the promotional practices you use. Failure to provide accurate information may result in exclusion from the Program, suspension or termination of your Affiliate account, and forfeiture of any commissions.
  • 6.3.2 You may not create more than one Affiliate account.
  • 6.3.3 You will act in good faith to refer customers in good standing.
  • 6.3.4 You cannot refer yourself and you will not receive a commission on your own accounts. You may not use our Program to refer companies that you own or in which you have shares or other interests.
  • 6.3.5 You should not take actions or make recommendations to your referrals that result in a potential revenue loss for The Climatographers.
  • 6.3.6 You should not engage in incentivized programs and business-opportunity sites, using marketing practices that might be unethical or likely to attract customers, not in good standing.
  • 6.3.7 You shall not use on behalf of your referrals or encourage your referrals to use on their The Climatographers accounts any copyrighted or third-party material without the proper licenses.
  • 6.3.8 You may not copy, alter or modify any icons, buttons, banners, graphics, files or content contained in The Climatographers’ links, including but not limited to removing or altering any copyright or trademark notices, without prior written approval from us.
  • 6.3.9 You may not engage in any blackhat SEO/spam link building techniques in order to generate more referrals for The Climatographers.
  • 6.3.10 You may not post ads on offensive, illegal, hateful, pornographic, or otherwise distasteful websites, and you agree to not violate any applicable law.
  • 6.3.11 If we detect a pattern in your affiliate practices that in our reasonable opinion violates any aspect of these Terms and Conditions, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your affiliate account and cancel all outstanding commission payments due.
  • 6.4 Affiliate Advertising. Inappropriate ways of advertising include, but are not limited to:
  • 6.4.1 Using any illegal or spam method of advertising, e.g. unsolicited email, an unauthorized placing of the link in forums, newsgroups, message boards etc.;
  • 6.4.2 Bidding on keywords and phrases containing the The Climatographers on Pay per Click or Pay per Impression campaigns on search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Bing, or others) without our prior approval. You are not allowed to use the The Climatographers Website(s) as display URL in PPC ads and to direct-link or redirect to the The Climatographers Website(s);
  • 6.4.3 Using non-unique copyright infringing content to promote The Climatographers;
  • 6.4.4 Using traffic generated by pay to read, pay to click, banner exchanges, click exchanges, PPV advertising, pop-up/under, or similar methods;
  • 6.4.5 Providing cash backs, rewards, or other incentives without our prior approval;
  • 6.4.6 Offer price savings methods, including coupon(s), voucher(s), discount codes, or added value offers;
  • 6.4.7 Using our advertising and promotional materials, trademark, or name in a way which negatively affects our image;
  • 6.4.8 Using iframes or any other techniques or technology that places your affiliate tracking cookie by any means other than an actual click-through;
  • 6.4.9 Using link cloaking or masking techniques or technology with the goal to promote The Climatographers on websites and/or networks not explicitly listed in your affiliate profile and hiding that traffic source;
  • 6.4.10 Your domain name(s), company name, logo, trademark, product(s), project(s), service(s) must NOT contain keywords and phrases containing the The Climatographers trademark or any other variations or misspellings confusingly similar to The Climatographers trademark, name, logo, or domain name;
  • 6.4.11 The Climatographers shall have the sole right to decide if a promotional method you use is appropriate. The use of any advertising method that we consider inappropriate may result in warning, suspension, or termination of your affiliate account.

7. Service Packages

We provide services through our website in courses, bundles, and subscriptions. Descriptions for these packages are available in climateriskschool.climatographer.com. In your Affiliate Dashboard, you will be able to view products for which you can get commissions.

8. Customer Referral Requirements

  • 8.1 Terms and Conditions relating to the referral of customers to us via links on your website can be found on our website at climateriskschool.climatographer.com/affiliate-program-terms.
  • 8.2 We reserve the right to alter the Terms and Conditions at any time.

9. Orders

  • 9.1 We undertake to use our best reasonable efforts to process and fulfill all orders for Service Packages placed by customers you refer to us.
  • 9.2 We reserve the right to reject any orders that do not comply with the customer referral requirements detailed in Clause 8.

10. Affiliate Sales Reporting

  • 10.1 We will track the following elements of all sales: origin of sales, Service Package selected by the customer, and revenue generated.
  • 10.2 Reports of sales generated through links on your website will be available in your Affiliate Dashboard. We reserve the right to alter the form and content of reports without notice.

11. Commission and Referral Fees

  • 11.1 You will be paid commission at the rates set out in Sub-clause 11.2 on the net profits of sales generated through your website.
  • 11.2 Commissions shall be calculated on the following basis:
  • 11.2.1 You will receive a 15% commission on sales resulting from Direct Referrals.
  • 11.2.2 In the event that a customer resulting from a Direct Referral renews a Service Package upon the initial sale for which you earned a Commission, you will receive a commission of 10%. If a customer does not renew a Service Package at the end of that package’s original term but reactivates that Service Package at a later time, Sub-clause 11.2.3 shall apply.
  • 11.2.3 Cookies and IP logs will identify customers that have previously been referred through your website. If this happens, you will receive a commission of 15% on sales that do not fall within Sub-clause 11.2.2 will (unless referred directly from another affiliate’s website).
  • 11.3 Sub-clause 11.2.3 shall apply only until the expiration or removal of our cookies by the customer or for a period of 60 days set on the system days after the most recent Direct Referral for a particular customer, whichever is earlier.
  • 11.4 In the event that a customer cannot be tracked, no commission will be paid.
  • 11.5 Commissions will be calculated once we have received payment in full from the customer. Once payment has been received in full, sales will show in your Affiliate Dashboard as pending for 30 days (this time period reflects the time limit set out in our Cancellations Policy).
  • 11.6 Commission payouts will be scheduled for the 20th of every calendar month. You will receive commissions only for subscriptions that have passed their 30-day limit, which reflects our refund period.
  • 11.7 Commissions will be sent to your PayPal email address or bank account as provided in your Registration Data. Existing The Climatographers subscribers may receive part of their commissions in the form of free courses or promotional credits added to their accounts, up to the sum of their monthly or yearly subscription fees payable to The Climatographers. Any subsequent commissions shall be sent to their PayPal account, as described above.
  • 11.8 In the event of refunds issued beyond the 30-day refund policy for any reason including but not limited to fraud and where such refunds are not incurred through any fault of ours, you may be contacted to arrange for the repayment of any related commission.
  • 11.9 You are solely responsible for the payment of tax on any income you may generate through your involvement in the Program.
  • 11.10 We reserve the right to modify our Commission Rates at any time. You will be given 10 Business Days’ prior written notice of any such change. You may opt out of the Program if you so choose and will, on the exercise of that option, be paid any Commission due to you.

12. Trade Marks

  • 12.1 Upon your entry into the Program, we shall grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, royalty-free license to use our logos and trademarks (our “Trade Marks”).
  • 12.2 You may use our Trade Marks only to the extent required to establish links and perform your obligations as an Affiliate.
  • 12.3 By accepting these Terms and Conditions you agree that:
  • 12.4.1 our Trade Marks remain the property of The Climatographers; and
  • 12.4.2 nothing in these Terms and Conditions confers any ownership rights in our Trade Marks to you.

13. Intellectual Property

  • 13.1 Unless otherwise expressly indicated we are the sole and exclusive owners of all Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”) on our website including, but not limited to: all code, text, sound, video, graphics, photographs, and other images that form a part of the site. We are also the sole and exclusive owners of all IPRs which may subsist in any supporting documentation which shall include, but not be limited to, site plans, maps, design sketches, and other preparatory material.

14. Affiliate Warranties and Indemnity

  • 14.1 You warrant and acknowledge that:
  • 14.1.1 Your website does not and will not contain any content that:
  • a) is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, obscene, harassing, discriminatory, defamatory or otherwise objectionable;
  • b) facilitates or promotes violence, terrorism, or any other criminal activity;
  • c) is sexually explicit; or
  • d) infringes or assists or encourages the infringement of any intellectual property rights belonging to any party.
  • 14.1.2 Your website is and shall remain functional;
  • 14.1.3 All necessary authorities, consents, and approvals have been obtained in respect of your obligations under these Terms ans Conditions; and
  • 14.1.4 You will not refer to us in any way in any unsolicited bulk email campaigns or other spamming practices.
  • 14.2 You agree that you shall indemnify us against all liability, loss, damages, costs and expenses awarded against or incurred or paid by us as a result of, or in connection with:
  • 14.2.1 any claim that your website infringes the patent, copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights of any other person, except to the extent that the claim arises from compliance with any terms stipulated by us; and
  • 14.2.2 any act or omission by you or your employees, agents or sub-contractors in performing your obligations under these Terms and Conditions.

15. Disclaimers

  • 15.1 We make no warranty or representation that our website, the Program, or Service Packages sold through the Program will meet your requirements or those of your visitors, that they will be of satisfactory quality, that they will be fit for a particular purpose, that they will not infringe the rights of third parties, that they will be compatible with all systems, that they will be secure, and that all information provided will be accurate.
  • 15.2 We make no guarantee of any specific results from use of our website or from enrollment in the Program.

16. Liability

  • 16.1 We shall not be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss that you may suffer.
  • 16.2 Our entire liability to you in respect of any breach of our contractual obligations, any breach of warranty, any representation, statement or tortious act or omission including negligence arising under or in connection with these Terms and Conditions or the Agreement shall be limited to $1.

17. Term and Termination

  • 17.1 These Terms and Conditions and our Agreement with you shall come into force and become binding on the Commencement Date.
  • 17.2 Either Party may terminate the Agreement by giving 10 Business Days’ written notice to the other:
  • 17.3 Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason, you shall remove links established under these Terms and Conditions.
  • 17.5 Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason, all licenses granted shall also terminate.

18. Force Majeure

Neither Party to these Terms and Conditions shall be liable for any failure or delay in performing their obligations where such failure or delay results from any cause that is beyond the reasonable control of that Party. Such causes include, but are not limited to, power failure, Internet Service Provider failure, industrial action, civil unrest, fire, flood, storms, earthquakes, acts of terrorism, acts of war, governmental action or any other event that is beyond the control of the Party in question.

19. Severance

The Parties agree that in the event that one or more provisions of these Terms and Conditions is found to be unlawful, invalid, or otherwise unenforceable, those provisions shall be deemed severed and the remainder of the Terms and Conditions shall be valid and enforceable.

20. Notice

Unless otherwise stated in these Terms and Conditions, the Parties agree that notices served under the Agreement shall be in writing and may be sent by email to the other Party’s Registered Email Address.

21. General

  • 21.1 The Parties shall agree that no failure by either Party to enforce the performance of any provision in these Terms and Conditions shall constitute a waiver of the right to subsequently enforce that provision or any other provision of these Terms and Conditions.
  • 21.2 Both parties are free to enter into similar relationships with other parties.
  • 21.3 You may not assign any or all of your rights or obligations under these Terms and Conditions or the Agreement without our prior written consent.