ChefwareKits LLC and/or its affiliates ("ChefwareKits") provide website features to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit or shop at ChefwareKits.com, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully. In addition, when you use any current or future ChefwareKits service (e.g., Your Profile) you also will be subject to the guidelines, terms and agreements ("Terms") applicable to such service. If these conditions are inconsistent with such Terms, the Terms will control.
RETURNS
You need to request an RMA number (using our Contact Us form) prior to
returning a product. Most products we sell have a 30 day, 100%
satisfaction, return policy. Please contact us with any questions.
Products must be returned unused in the original condition to receive a
refund. We do not charge any restocking fees.
STORE CREDIT
Store credit can not be applied towards shipping.
PRIVACY
Please review our Privacy Policy which also governs your visit to ChefwareKits.com, to understand our practices.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
When you visit ChefwareKits.com or send e-mails to us, you are
communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive
communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by
e-mail. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other
communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal
requirement that such communications be in writing.
COPYRIGHT
All content included on this site, such as text and graphics, is the
property of ChefwareKits and protected by United States and
international copyright laws.
YOUR ACCOUNT (PROFILE)
If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access
to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all
activities that occur under your account or password. ChefwareKits does
sell products for children, but it sells them to adults, who can
purchase with a credit card or other permitted payment method. If you
are under 18, you may use ChefwareKits.com only with involvement of a
parent or guardian. ChefwareKits reserves the right to refuse service,
terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their
sole discretion.
REVIEWS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER CONTENT
Visitors may post reviews, comments, photos, and other content so long
as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory,
invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or
otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not
consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning,
commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of
"spam." You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person
or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other
content. ChefwareKits reserves the right (but not the obligation) to
remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted
content.
If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant ChefwareKits a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant ChefwareKits the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify ChefwareKits for all claims resulting from content you supply. ChefwareKits has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. ChefwareKits takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS
ChefwareKits attempts to be as accurate as possible. However,
ChefwareKits does not warrant that product descriptions or other content
of this site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.
If a product offered by ChefwareKits itself is not as described, your
sole remedy is to return it in unused condition.
PRICING
If an item``s correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at
our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or
cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation.
CHANGES TO THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS
We will occasionally update these Terms & Conditions to reflect
changes in our services. When we post changes to our Terms &
Conditions , we will revise the "last updated" date at the bottom of
this statement so that it is clear a change has taken place.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THIS SITE AND ALL INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS SITE ARE
PROVIDED BY CHEFWAREKITS ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, UNLESS
OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING. CHEFWAREKITS MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS
SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES
INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS SITE, UNLESS
OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF
THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, CHEFWAREKITS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CHEFWAREKITS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE; INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS SITE; THEIR SERVERS; OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SENT FROM CHEFWAREKITS ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. CHEFWAREKITS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING.
CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
AFFILIATES PROGRAM OPERATING AGREEMENT
This Affiliates Program Operating Agreement (“Operating Agreement”) contains the terms and conditions that govern your participation in the ChefwareKits Site LLC Affiliates Program (the “Program”). “We,” “us,” or “our” means ChefwareKits Site LLC or any of its affiliate companies, as the case may be. “You” or “your” means the applicant. A “site” means a website. “ChefwareKits Site” means the ChefwareKits Site.com site or any other U.S. site that is owned or operated by or on behalf of us or our affiliates and which is identified as participating in the Program in the Affiliates Program Advertising Fee Schedule, as applicable. “Your site” means any site(s) and software application(s) that you own or operate and link to the ChefwareKits Site. Note that software applications are prohibited from participating in the Program unless expressly approved pursuant to the Affiliates Program Participation Requirements.
BY SIGNING UP FOR AN AFFILIATES ACCOUNT, AS APPLICABLE, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT, OR BY CONTINUING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE, REVISED OPERATING AGREEMENT, OR REVISED OPERATIONAL DOCUMENTATION ON THE CHEFWAREKITS.COM SITE, YOU (A) AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT; (B) ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT; AND (C) HEREBY REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU ARE LAWFULLY ABLE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS (E.G., YOU ARE NOT A MINOR) AND THAT YOU ARE AND WILL REMAIN IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE Affiliates PROGRAM PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS. IN ADDITION, IF THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT IS BEING AGREED TO BY A COMPANY OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY, THEN THE PERSON AGREEING TO THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF THAT COMPANY OR ENTITY HEREBY REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT HE OR SHE IS AUTHORIZED AND LAWFULLY ABLE TO BIND THAT COMPANY OR ENTITY TO THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT.
1. Description of the Program
The purpose of the Program is to permit you to advertise Products on
your site and to earn advertising fees for Qualifying Purchases (defined
in Section 7) made by your end users. A “Product” is any item sold on
the ChefwareKits Site, other than any product that is listed on this
page (collectively, “Excluded Products”). A Product may also include
certain services, if any, expressly included on the Affiliates Program
Advertising Fee Schedule. In order to facilitate your advertisement of
Products, we may make available to you data, images, text, link formats,
widgets, links, and other linking tools, and other information in
connection with the Program (“Content”). Content specifically excludes
any data, images, text, or other information or content relating to
products offered on any site other than the ChefwareKits Site.
2. Enrollment
To begin the enrollment process, you must submit a complete and accurate
Program application. You must identify your site in your application.
We will evaluate your application and notify you of its acceptance or
rejection. We may reject your application if we determine that your site
is unsuitable. Unsuitable sites include those that:
(a) promote or contain sexually explicit materials;
(b) promote violence or contain violent materials;
(c) promote or contain libelous or defamatory materials;
(d) promote discrimination, or employ discriminatory practices, based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
(e) promote or undertake illegal activities;
(f) are directed toward children under 13 years of age, as defined by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 6501-6506) and any regulations promulgated thereunder;
(g) include any trademark of ChefwareKits or its affiliates, or a variant or misspelling of a trademark of ChefwareKits or its affiliates, in any domain name, subdomain name, or in any username, group name, or other identifier on any social networking site (see the Trademark Guidelines for examples); or
(h) otherwise violate intellectual property rights.
If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply at any time. However, if we accept your application and we later determine that your site is unsuitable, we may terminate this Operating Agreement.
You will ensure that the information in your Program application and otherwise associated with your account, including your email address and other contact information and identification of your site, is at all times complete, accurate, and up-to-date. We may send notifications (if any), approvals (if any), and other communications relating to the Program and this Operating Agreement to the email address then-currently associated with your Program account. You will be deemed to have received all notifications, approvals, and other communications sent to that email address, even if the email address associated with your account is no longer current.
3. Links on Your Site
After you have been notified that you have been accepted into the
Program, you may display Special Links on your site. “Special Links” are
links to the ChefwareKits Site that you place on your site in
accordance with this Operating Agreement, that properly utilize the
special “tagged” link formats we provide, and that comply with the
Affiliates Program Linking Requirements. Special Links permit accurate
tracking, reporting, and accrual of advertising fees.
You may earn advertising fees only as described in Section 7 and only with respect to activity on the ChefwareKits Site occurring directly through Special Links. We will have no obligation to pay you advertising fees if you fail to properly format the links on your site to the ChefwareKits Site as Special Links, including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of advertising fee amounts that would otherwise be paid to you under this Operating Agreement.
4. Program Requirements
By participating in the Program, you agree that you will comply with the
Affiliates Program Participation Requirements and all pages, schedules,
policies, guidelines, specifications, user manuals, and supporting
materials that we make available to you, and other documents and
materials referenced in this Operating Agreement (collectively,
“Operational Documentation”).
You will provide us with any information that we request to verify your compliance with this Operating Agreement or any Operational Documentation. In addition to any other rights or remedies available to us, we may terminate this Operating Agreement, withhold (and you agree you are not eligible for) any advertising fees payable to you under this Operating Agreement, or both, if we determine that you or other persons that we determine are affiliated with you or acting in concert with you (whether in respect to any existing or previously terminated Affiliates account):
have not complied with any requirement or restriction described
in the Affiliates Program Participation Requirements page or any other
Operational Documentation or have otherwise violated this Operating
Agreement;
have violated the Product Advertising API License Agreement (“License Agreement”);
have violated any requirement or restriction described in the
applicable agreements governing participation in any other Affiliates
Program offering provided by any of our affiliates.
In addition, you hereby consent to us:
sending you emails relating to the Program from time to time;
monitoring, recording, using, and disclosing information about your
site and visitors to your site that we obtain in connection with your
display of Special Links (e.g., that a particular ChefwareKits customer
clicked through a Special Link from your site before buying a Product on
the ChefwareKits Site) in accordance with the ChefwareKits.com Privacy
Notice; and
monitoring, crawling, and otherwise investigating your site to
verify compliance with this Operating Agreement and the Operational
Documentation.
5. Responsibility for Your Site
You will be solely responsible for your site, including its development,
operation, and maintenance and all materials that appear on or within
it. For example, you will be solely responsible for:
the technical operation of your site and all related equipment;
displaying Special Links and Content on your site in compliance with
this Operating Agreement and the Operational Documentation and any
agreement between you and any other person or entity (including any
restrictions or requirements placed on you by any person or entity that
hosts your site);
creating and posting, and ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and
appropriateness of, materials posted on your site (including all Product
descriptions and other Product-related materials and any information
you include within or associate with Special Links);
using the Content, your site, and the materials on or within your
site in a manner that does not infringe, violate, or misappropriate any
of our rights or those of any other person or entity (including
copyrights, trademarks, privacy, publicity or other intellectual
property or proprietary rights);
disclosing on your site accurately and adequately, either through a
privacy policy or otherwise, how you collect, use, store, and disclose
data collected from visitors, including, where applicable, that third
parties (including us and other advertisers) may serve content and
advertisements, collect information directly from visitors, and place or
recognize cookies on visitors’ browsers.
We will have no liability for these matters or for any of your end users’ claims relating to these matters, and you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us, our affiliates and licensors, and our and their respective employees, officers, directors, and representatives, harmless from and against all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) relating to (a) your site or any materials that appear on your site, including the combination of your site or those materials with other applications, content, or processes; (b) the use, development, design, manufacture, production, advertising, promotion, or marketing of your site or any materials that appear on or within your site, and all other matters described in this Section 5; (c) your use of any Content, whether or not such use is authorized by or violates this Operating Agreement, any Operational Documentation, or applicable law; (d) your violation of any term or condition of this Operating Agreement or any Operational Documentation; or (e) your or your employees`` negligence or willful misconduct.
6. Order Processing
We will process Product orders placed by customers who follow Special
Links from your site to the ChefwareKits Site. We reserve the right to
reject orders that do not comply with any requirements on the
ChefwareKits Site, as they may be updated from time to time. We will
track Qualifying Purchases (defined in Section 7) for reporting and
advertising fee accrual purposes and will make available to you reports
summarizing those Qualifying Purchases.
7. Advertising Fees
We will pay you advertising fees on Qualifying Purchases in accordance
with Section 8 and the Affiliates Program Advertising Fee Schedule.
Subject to the exclusions set forth below, a “Qualifying Purchase”
occurs when (a) a customer clicks through a Special Link on your site to
the ChefwareKits Site; (b) during a single Session that customer either
(i) adds a Product to his or her shopping cart and places the order for
that Product no later than 89 days following the customer’s initial
click-through; and (c) the Product is shipped to, and paid for by, the
customer.
A “Session” begins when a customer clicks through a Special Link on your site to the ChefwareKits Site and ends upon the first to occur of the following: (d) 24 hours elapses from that click; or (e) the customer follows a Special Link to the ChefwareKits Site that is not your Special Link.
Qualifying Purchases exclude, and we will not pay advertising fees on any of, the following:
any Product that, after expiration of the applicable Session, is
added to a customer’s Shopping Cart, even if the customer previously
followed a Special Link from your site to the ChefwareKits Site;
any Product purchase that is not correctly tracked or reported
because the links from your site to the ChefwareKits Site are not
properly formatted;
any Product purchased through a Special Link by you or on your
behalf, including Products you purchase through Special Links for
yourself, friends, relatives, or Affiliates (e.g., personal orders,
orders for your own use, and orders placed by you for or on behalf of
any other person or entity);
any Product purchased after termination of this Operating Agreement;
any Product order that is canceled or returned; and
any Product purchased by a customer who is referred to the ChefwareKits Site through any of the following:
a Prohibited Paid Search Placement; or
a link to the ChefwareKits Site, including a Redirecting Link,
that is generated or displayed on a Search Engine in response to a
general Internet search query or keyword (i.e., in natural, free,
organic, or unpaid search results), whether those links appear through
your submission of data to that site or otherwise.
“Prohibited Paid Search Placement” means an advertisement that you purchased through bidding on keywords, search terms, or other identifiers (including Proprietary Terms) or other participation in keyword auctions. “Proprietary Term” means keywords, search terms, or other identifiers that include the word “chefwarekits,” “threadingjig,” or any other assocaited ChefwareKits term or its affiliates, or variations or misspellings of any of those words. “Redirecting Link” means a link that sends users indirectly to the ChefwareKits Site via an intermediate site or webpage and without requiring the user to click on a link or take some other affirmative action on that intermediate site or webpage. “Search Engine” means Google, Yahoo, Bing, or any other search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service, or other search or referral service, or any site that participates in any of their respective networks.
8. Advertising Fee Payment
We will pay you advertising fees in these forms outlined below based on
Qualifying Purchases which are shipped, subject to any applicable
withholding or deduction described below.
(a) Payment by ChefwareKits Online Credit. We will send you an email for each qualified purchase in the amount of the advertising fees you earn, redeemable for products on chefwarekits.com, but we may accrue and withhold advertising fees until the total amount due to you is at least $10. All chefwarekits.com online credit is subject to our then-current terms and conditions.
(b) Payment by Paypal. If you are approved you may request payment by Paypal, we will send you a Paypal in the amount of the ChefwareKits Online Credit you have accumulated from advertising fees you earn, but we may accrue and withhold advertising fees until the total amount due to you is at least $100. We may deduct a processing fee in the amount of $10 from the total amount due for each Paypal we send to you.
If you have not earned any advertising fees in the 1 years prior to any given calendar month, then on the first day of that calendar month we may charge you an account maintenance fee that will be deducted from your unpaid accrued advertising fees. That account maintenance fee will be the lesser of $10 or the amount of unpaid accrued advertising fees in your account. Further, any unpaid accrued advertising fees in your account may be subject to escheatment under state law. We may be obligated by law to obtain tax information from you if you are a U.S. citizen, U.S. resident, or U.S. corporation, or if your business is otherwise taxable in the U.S. If we request tax information from you and you do not provide it to us, we may (in addition to any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold your advertising fees until you provide this information or otherwise satisfy us that you are not a person from whom we are required to obtain tax information.
9. Policies and Pricing
Customers who buy products through this Program are our customers with
respect to all activities they undertake in connection with the
ChefwareKits Site. Accordingly, as between you and us, all pricing,
terms of sale, rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning
customer orders, customer service, and product sales set forth on the
ChefwareKits Site will apply to those customers, and we may change them
at any time.
10. Identifying Yourself as an Associate
You will not issue any press release or make any other public
communication with respect to this Operating Agreement, your use of the
Content, or your participation in the 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 Operating Agreement. You must, however,
clearly state the following on your site: “`{`Insert your name`}` is a
participant in the ChefwareKits Site LLC Affiliates Program, an
affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to
earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to `{`insert the
applicable site name (chefwarekits.com, or threadingjig.com)`}`.”
11. Limited License
Subject to the terms of this Operating Agreement and solely for the
limited purposes of advertising Products on, and directing end users to,
the ChefwareKits Site in connection with the Program, we hereby grant
you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable,
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
and in accordance with the Affiliates Program Trademark Guidelines.
The license set forth in this Section 11 will immediately and automatically terminate if at any time you do not timely comply with any obligation under this Operating Agreement or any Operational Documentation, or otherwise upon termination of this Operating Agreement. In addition, we may terminate the license set forth in this Section 11 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 with respect to which the license set forth in this Section 11 is terminated or as we may otherwise request from time to time.
12. Reservation of Rights; Submissions
Other than the limited licenses expressly set forth in Section 11, 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 Operating Agreement or otherwise, acquire any ownership interest
or rights in or to, the Program, Special Links, link formats, Content,
any domain name owned or operated by us or our affiliates, Operational
Documentation, our and our affiliates’ trademarks and logos, and any
other intellectual property and technology that we provide or use in
connection with the Program (including any application program
interfaces, software development kits, libraries, sample code, and
related materials). If you provide us or any of our affiliates with
suggestions, reviews, modifications, data, images, text, or other
information or content about a product or in connection with this
Operating Agreement, any Content, or your participation in the 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, re-format,
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 sublicensees’ 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 to document, perfect, or maintain our rights in and to Your
Submission.
13. Compliance with Laws
In connection with your participation in the 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
(federal, state, or otherwise) that govern marketing email (e.g., the
CAN-SPAM Act of 2003).
14. Term and Termination
The term of this Operating Agreement 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 Operating Agreement at any time,
with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of
termination. Upon any termination of this Operating Agreement, any and
all licenses you have with respect to Content will automatically
terminate and you will immediately stop using the Content and promptly
remove from your site and delete or otherwise destroy all links to the
ChefwareKits Site, all other Content, and any other materials provided
or made available by or on behalf of us to you under this Operating
Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Program. We may withhold
accrued unpaid advertising fees for a reasonable period of time
following termination to ensure that the correct amount is paid (e.g.,
to account for any cancelations or returns). Upon any termination of
this Operating Agreement, all rights and obligations of the parties will
be extinguished, except that the rights and obligations of the parties
under Sections 5, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, together
with any accrued but unpaid payment obligations of us under this
Operating Agreement, will survive the termination of this Operating
Agreement. No termination of this Operating Agreement will relieve
either party for any liability for any breach of, or liability accruing
under, this Operating Agreement prior to termination.
15. Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this
Operating Agreement (and any Operational Documentation) at any time and
in our sole discretion by posting a change notice, revised agreement, or
revised Operational Documentation on the chefwarekits.com site or by
sending notice of such modification to you by email to the email address
then-currently associated with your Affiliates account (any such change
by email will be effective on the date specified in such email and will
in no event be less than two business days after the date the email is
sent). Modifications may include, for example, changes to the Affiliates
Program Advertising Fee Schedule, Affiliates Program Participation
Requirements, payment procedures, and other Program requirements. IF ANY
MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE
THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM
FOLLOWING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF ANY MODIFICATION (E.G., THE DATE OF OUR
POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE, REVISED OPERATING AGREEMENT, OR REVISED
OPERATIONAL DOCUMENTATION ON THE CHEFWAREKITS.COM SITE OR THE DATE
SPECIFIED IN ANY EMAIL TO YOU REGARDING SUCH MODIFICATION) WILL
CONSTITUTE YOUR BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
16. Relationship of Parties
You and we are independent contractors, and nothing in this Operating
Agreement or the Operational Documentation will create any partnership,
joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment
relationship between you and us or our respective affiliates. You will
have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our
or our affiliates’ 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 Operating Agreement, you will be deemed to have taken the action
yourself.
17. 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 OPERATING AGREEMENT, THE
PROGRAM, OPERATIONAL DOCUMENTATION, THE ChefwareKits Site, OR THE
SERVICE OFFERINGS (DEFINED BELOW), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF THOSE DAMAGES. FURTHER, OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING
IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT, THE PROGRAM, THE
ChefwareKits Site, AND THE SERVICE OFFERINGS WILL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL
ADVERTISING FEES PAID OR PAYABLE TO YOU UNDER THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT
IN THE TWELVE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE ON WHICH THE EVENT
GIVING RISE TO THE MOST RECENT CLAIM OF LIABILITY OCCURRED.
18. Disclaimers
THE PROGRAM, THE CHEFWAREKITS SITE, ANY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFERED ON
THE CHEFWAREKITS SITE, ANY SPECIAL LINKS, LINK FORMATS, OPERATIONAL
DOCUMENTATION, CONTENT, CHEFWAREKITS.COM DOMAIN NAME, THREADINGJIG.COM
DOMAIN NAME, OUR AND OUR AFFILIATES’ TRADEMARKS AND LOGOS), 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 AFFILIATES OR LICENSORS IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROGRAM (COLLECTIVELY
THE “SERVICE OFFERINGS”) ARE PROVIDED “AS IS.” NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF
OUR AFFILIATES 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 AFFILIATES 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 AFFILIATES OR LICENSORS
WARRANT 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 AFFILIATES 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 THE PROGRAM, CONTENT, OPERATIONAL DOCUMENTATION, THE
CHEFWAREKITS Site, WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS
OPERATING AGREEMENT. FURTHER, NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF OUR AFFILIATES 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
OPERATING AGREEMENT OR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM, OR (Z) ANY
TERMINATION OF THIS OPERATING AGREEMENT OR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE
PROGRAM.
19. Disputes
Any dispute relating in any way to the Program or this Operating Agreement will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in small claims court if your claims qualify. The Federal Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law and the laws of the state of Washington, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern this Operating Agreement and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and us.
There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is limited. However, an arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court (including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages), and must follow the terms of this Operating Agreement as a court would.
To begin an arbitration proceeding, you must send a letter requesting arbitration and describing your claim to us.
We each agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be
conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated
or representative action. If for any reason a claim proceeds in court
rather than in arbitration, we each waive any right to a jury trial. We
also both agree that you or we may bring suit in court to enjoin
infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Operating Agreement, we
may seek injunctive or other relief in any state, federal, or national
court of competent jurisdiction for any actual or alleged infringement
of our or any other person or entity’s intellectual property or
proprietary rights. You further acknowledge and agree that our rights in
the Content are of a special, unique, extraordinary character, giving
them peculiar value, the loss of which cannot be readily estimated or
adequately compensated for in monetary damages.
20. Miscellaneous
You acknowledge and agree that we and our affiliates may at any time
(directly or indirectly) solicit customer referrals on terms that may
differ from those contained in this Operating Agreement or operate sites
that are similar to or compete with your site. You may not assign this
Operating Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our
express prior written approval. Subject to that restriction, this
Operating Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and be
enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and
assigns. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision
of this Operating Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right
to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of this
Operating Agreement. In the event of any conflict between this Operating
Agreement and the Operational Documentation, the Affiliates Program
Excluded Products page will control over this Operating Agreement, which
will control over the remainder of the Operational Documentation. If
you are enrolled to use the Product Advertising API and in the event of
any conflict between this Operating Agreement and the License Agreement,
this Operating Agreement will control except that the License Agreement
will control with respect to your use of the Product Advertising API,
Data Feed, and Product Advertising Content (each as defined in the
License Agreement). Whenever used in this Operating Agreement, the terms
“include(s),” “including,” “e.g.,” and “for example” mean,
respectively, “include(s), without limitation,” “including, without
limitation,” “e.g., without limitation,” and “for example, without
limitation.” Any determinations or updates that may be made by us, any
actions that may be taken by us, and any approvals that may be given by
us under this Operating Agreement, may be made, taken, or given in our
sole discretion.
(Last Updated 02/03/2015)