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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY.
BY JOINING OUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

picLynk.com reserves the right to refuse Service to any individual or organization, for any legal, moral or ethical reasons.

Dislaimer of Warranties
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picLynk.com makes no Warranties, representations, or assurances that website client's or anyone else's equipment will be compatible with our links, banners or affiliate tracking codes. Client expressly agrees that use of the Service is at Client's sole risk. The Service is provided on an "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" basis. picLynk.com expressly disclaims all Warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied Warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or use and non-infringement.

picLynk.com makes no Warranty that the service will meet Client's requirements, or that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error free; nor does picLynk.com make any Warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Service or as to the accuracy of reliability of any information obtained through the Service or that defects in the software will be corrected.

Termination of Service
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If it is discovered and proven to our satisfaction that our services are being used for an Illegal, immoral, fraud or unethical purposes, all services shall be immediately terminated. All earnings shall be deemed forfeited and non-refundable. Illegal purpose shall include but not be restricted to, all applicable local, state and federal laws of the United States and international laws and regulations. Immoral or unethical purposes are at the sole discretion of the picLynk.com, and Client agrees that the picLynk.com determination is final, whether based on personal opinion or fact. Any method that artificially generates clicks or impressions is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to: repeated manual clicks or impressions, incentives to click or to generate impressions, using robots, automated click and impression generating tools, third-party services that generate clicks or impressions such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, autosurf, and click-exchange programs, or any deceptive software. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, and will result in suspension from our program.

Site Content
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Site may not include:

Excessive profanity
Violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organization
Hacking/cracking content
Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
Pornography, adult, or mature content
Any other content that promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others
Sales or promotion of certain weapons, such as firearms, ammunition, balisongs, butterfly knives, and brass knuckles
Sales or promotion of beer or hard alcohol
Sales or promotion of tobacco or tobacco-related products
Sales or promotion of prescription drugs
Sales or promotion of products that are replicas or imitations of designer goods

Site Functionality
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Your site must not contain broken links and must be launched, functioning, and easily navigable.

Language
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Language must be in english only.

Labeling Text Links or Banners
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Text Links or Banners may not be modified unless approved by our administrators.

Incentives
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Web pages may not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. This includes encouraging users to click on the ads or to visit the advertisers' sites as well as drawing any undue attention to the ads. For example, your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here," "support us," "visit these links," or other similar language that could apply to any ad, regardless of content. These activities are strictly prohibited in order to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs. In addition, publishers may not bring unnatural attention to sites displaying ads or referral buttons through unsolicited mass emails or unwanted advertisements on third-party websites. Publishers are also not permitted to use deceptive or unnatural means to draw attention to or incite clicks on referral buttons.

Indemnification
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Client agrees to defend, indemnify, save and hold picLynk.com harmless from any and all claims, actions demands, including reasonable attorneys fees, liabilities, judgments, damages, settlements, losses and costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of use of the Service, violation of this TOS, any copyright, trademark, trade dress, service mark, or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity. Client also agrees to extend this Indemnification to all officers, owners, employees, successors, assigns, agents and contractors of picLynk.com.

Copyright
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Copyright © 2006 picLynk.com. Images uploaded to our website are copyrighted by its respected owners.

AFFILIATE AGREEMENT

Compensation and Payment Terms
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During the Term, picLynk.com will pay Affiliate the fees set forth in the Additional Terms. Company will be entitled to withhold, deduct and set off from any payments to be made to Affiliate hereunder any sums owed by Affiliate to picLynk.com in connection with this Agreement (including any breach hereof by Affiliate) or otherwise. Affiliate is responsible for keeping its payment information up to date. Payments will be sent with the payment information located in the Affiliate's Area at the time the pay period ends. No payment information change will be accepted between the end of the pay period and the time the payment is sent. Future payments will take account of any changes made during that period.

Warranties
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Affiliate represents and warrants that (a) Affiliate is 18 years or older and has full power and authority to enter into this Agreement; (b) the content on Affiliate's Site(s), and/or the technology and/or content (including, without limitation all images, photographs, closed captioning, data and music) used by Affiliate in connection with this Agreement is and will continue during the term hereof to be owned or legally licensed for use as contemplated by this Agreement by Affiliate; (c) Affiliate Site(s) do not violate applicable law or regulations, including without limitation 18 USC 2257 US Federal Law, and do not infringe or violate any copyright, patent, trademark or other similar right, or otherwise violate or breach any duty toward, or rights of, any person or entity, including without limitation rights of publicity or property, or rights or rights or duties under consumer protection, product liability, tort or contract theories and (d) the content on Affiliate’s Site(s) does not violate the Criminal Code provisions in relation to child pornography or obscenity.

AFFILIATE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE TOOLS AND PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "WITH ALL FAULTS, DEFECTS AND ERRORS." NEITHER COMPANY NOR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS WILL HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY ERROR, OMISSION OR DEFECT IN ANY PRODUCT, ANY INABILITY TO USE A TOOL OR PRODUCT OR ANY LOSS OF DATA. COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARISING BY LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING THE TOOLS OR PRODUCTS, THEIR PERFORMANCE OR SUITABILITY FOR INTENDED USE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT.

Distribution
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Affiliate shall provide the possibility to display picLynk.com's banners from Affiliate Site(s) to end-users of Affiliate's Site(s) only and not to subdistributors or any other third parties.

Payout Rates
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picLynk.com payout rates are subject to change at anytime. You will be notified if any changes take place. picLynk.com pay out is based on valid clicks. Current rate is $0.03 per click. Payments are sent out 10 days after the end of the pay period. Each pay period is 1 full month.

No Spam
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picLynk.com does not support any form of spam. Spamming will cause the responsible Affiliate account to be terminated.

No Fradulent Clicks
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Affiliate shall not generate or facilitate fraudulent or artificially created clicks, including, without limitation, clicks generated through (i) forced, automated, mechanical or electronic means (including hitbots, multiple clicking scripts, hidden links, incentivizing surfers or any other similar activity), or (ii) unsolicited emails, electronic data mining, harvesting or other similar means of generating artificial activity (e.g., transfers generated by a bot, macro program, internet agent or other similar device). Unless pre-approved by Company, in writing, Affiliate may not send traffic to Company by any type of automatic clicks, browser exploits, viruses, bots or by any other means, even if otherwise legitimate.

Indemnification for Violations of the Code of Conduct
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If any claim is made, or any action or proceeding is instituted, against picLynk.com that alleges or is based upon or arises out of Affiliate’s breach of any representation, warranty or obligation arising under this Code of Conduct, Affiliate shall indemnify and hold Company harmless from all damages, awards, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) associated therewith. Such indemnity is in addition to any other indemnity (either in the Affiliate Agreement or otherwise) made by Affiliate.

picLynk.com is committed to protecting your privacy.

What We Collect and Use
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By accessing our website, picLynk.com may place cookies on your hard drive. These cookies are used to enable to to sign into certain services and to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web Server. Some cookies are used only to assist you with your session on picLynk.com. Cookies can only be accessed or read by the domain that placed them. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.

In addition, in order to sign up for picLynk.com affiliate program you may be asked to provide certain personal information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, paypal e-mail address, AIM user ID, phone number, city and state. Any information we collect from you will not be shared with others.

IP Addresses
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Your use of picLynk.com website will involve the transmission of your Internet protocol address (“IP Address”) to our servers. This IP Address is necessary for communication with you via the Internet and may be used and stored on our servers. With the cooperation of your Internet service provider, it is possible for your IP Address to be used to identify you personally, however, picLynk.com that it will not use it for this purpose, unless required to by law. We do use IP Addresses to determine the general geographic locations of our users, but this does not involve the collection of any personally identifiable information.

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