JIHOY Affiliate WEBSITE TERMS OF USE

 

These Jihoy Website Terms of Use (the "Terms of Use") explain the contractual agreement between you ("you", "your") and Jihoy ("Jihoy","we," "us," "our"), regarding your use of and access to the website located at www.jihoy.com (the "Website").

 

ACCEPTANCE

Your access to and use of this Website is subject to your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms of Use. Jihoy reserves the right to change these Terms of Use from time to time, without liability to you, and your continued use of this Website constitutes your acceptance of and agreement with any such changes.

 

USERS

Users will either access the Website as a visitor, with no ability to access services provided by Jihoy for users that have elected to become members by registering as a Jihoy(tm) Member ("Member"), or as a Member with the ability to use such Member services. Upon your completion of the Member registration, you will be deemed to have opted in to receive e-mail communication from us. Any user IDs, names or passwords associated with your membership account shall be maintained by you as confidential and should not be shared by you with anyone not authorized to have access to your personal information.

 

MEMBERSHIP ACCOUNT

Users are prohibited from selling, trading or transferring their Jihoy membership account (including, but not limited to, selling, trading or transferring e-mails associated with such account, and/or POINTS earned through such account). You agree to provide accurate and complete information about yourself when registering, and to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. Users may only have one membership account. The registration of multiple accounts by or for the same person, or any action taken to try to circumvent the membership eligibility, proper working of the POINTS system or otherwise, shall be considered a breach of these Terms of Use. Upon any such breach, Jihoy may terminate all such accounts and/or POINTS associated therewith, prohibit further use by such individual or individuals of the Website, or take other actions deemed necessary by Jihoy in its sole discretion.

 

MEMBER COMMUNICATION

The Website may provide Members with the ability to send email messages and post messages to others on the Website. Jihoy has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor, decline, edit or remove all or a portion of any postings, submissions or content. By utilizing the Website or sending e-mails to Jihoy, you consent to receive communications from Jihoy.

 

 

Jihoy Affiliate Service Disclaimer (Terms of Use)

 

This Affiliate Service Agreement (the "Agreement") is made by and between Jihoy.com, and you, as an Affiliate utilizing the Jihoy.com service ("You", "Your", "Affiliate"). 

 

You must agree to abide by the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement in order to participate. Please read this Agreement carefully before registering and using the Service as an Affiliate. By signing up for jihoy.com, you indicate Your acceptance of this Agreement and its terms and conditions. If You do not accept this Agreement, do not use the jihoy.com Service as an Affiliate. 

The following agreement is summarized as follows:

  • You place our merchants banners anywhere on your site as you see fit, or within non-spam emails.
  • We may email you concerning new merchant programs
  • We might change the service here and then
  • Adult, Hate, or other related sites are not allowed
  • You will be paid your commissions, at such time as your account balance is $10 or more.
  • Payments shall be made through PayPal.
  • All statistics are collected and calculated by Jihoy.com, and will be the only valid stats used for determining commissions.
  • Any page that contains jihoy.com links, banners, or code must be written in English.
  • As an affiliate, you can only have 1 account. You can list multiple domains in one account, but only one account is allowed. Self-referrals for affiliate or merchant accounts are strictly prohibited.
  • International affiliates (those with addresses outside of the 50 U.S. States) are paid via PayPal where possible.
  • Your physical address listed for receiving checks MUST be your actual address. Mail forwarding services, for the purpose of avoiding network demographics, are NOT allowed. For example, if you choose USA as your country, you must be in the USA. If you choose Russia as a country, you must be in Russia.
  • You won't hold us liable for anything, a link to a non-jihoy.com Web site does not mean that jihoy.com endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or the use of such Web site.
  • You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. We will terminate your account on the first offense of SPAMMING. Do not send email to lists or groups that you do not have permission to send to. We cannot stress this enough, we WILL terminate your account on the first offense.
  • You may place banners or links within your newsletters, in content of your website, or within other web related content.
  • We reserve the right to close accounts that have been inactive for more than 6 months.
  • NOT ALLOWED: All other uses of banners or links, such as banner networks, hit farms, counters, are NOT allowed.
  • NOT ALLOWED: Any placement of creative in a "Desktop" advertising scheme. This includes any and all 3rd party advertising platforms that use a desktop application to display ads in any form.
  • NOT ALLOWED: Any display of a merchant window that isn't the result of a direct click by the end-user.
  • Failure to abide by these rules could mean termination from a given merchant program, or from jihoy.com completely with a complete forfeit of commissions.
  • Fraud is a serious offense, and will be treated as such. Fraud is defined as any action that intentionally attempts to create sales, leads, or click-throughs using robots, frames, iframes, scripts, or manually "refreshing" of pages, for the sole purpose of creating commissions. ANY ATTEMPTED FRAUD OR FRAUD WILL RESULT IN MEMBERSHIP TERMINATION AND VOIDED COMMISSIONS.
  • You cannot refer yourself as a customer with Jihoy.com and receive commission. Sorry.


PRIVACY POLICY

Jihoy.com respects the privacy of its users and will not disclose personal information to third parties without the express permission of You and Your company. If You have any questions please contact admin@jihoy.com


 

DEFINITIONS

"Performance Marketing" occurs when individual web sites that generate their own traffic ("Affiliates") partner with online Merchants ("Merchant")'s and the Merchant pays a commission or other reward for those Visitors resulting in a measurable action such as a closed sale, lead, hit, or other action.

"Affiliate" means an individual or business generating their own traffic and thus rewarded for legitimate sales, leads, clicks, or other measurable action. Affiliates use Jihoy.com to facilitate relationships with Merchants as well as gain tracking, reporting, and receipt of commission payment. 

"Merchant" means an e-commerce entity paying a commission or bounty for legitimate sales, leads, clicks, or other measurable action by a Visitor. Merchants use Jihoy.com facilitate relationships as well as gain tracking, reporting, and issuance of commission payment. 

"Visitor" means any person, or user that clicks on a Link to a Merchant's Web site placed on an Affiliate's Web site. 

"sale commission" means the Payout the Merchant sets and agrees to pay for Visitors referred to the Merchant's Web site that results in a sale of a product or service. The sale could occur at the time of the visit or at a later time not to exceed 30 days. If a sale occurs after 30 days and the Visitor has not returned through an authorized Affiliate's site, then no Payout shall occur.

"lead commission" means the Payout the Merchant sets and agrees to pay for Visitors referred to the Merchant's Web site that results in the Visitor performing an action defined by the Merchant. Such an action could include filling out a form, joining a mailing list, or other mechanism to identify potential customers. The action could occur at the time of the visit or at a later time not to exceed 30 days. If an action occurs after 30 days and the Visitor has not returned through an authorized Affiliate's site, then no Payout shall occur.

"click commission" means the Payout the Merchant sets and agrees to pay for a valid click from an Affiliate Partner's site to the Merchant's site that results in the Merchant's Web site being viewable to the Visitor. A click is deemed valid when it meets certain criteria as defined on the Web site or in this agreement, which criteria may change from time to time. 

"Payout" means the amount of sale commission, lead commission, or click commission a Merchant agrees to pay for an individual measurable action. The Payout is defined as either a percetage of a total sale amount, or as a set bounty (flat rate) per action. 

"Commission" means the amount sale commission, lead commission, or click commission a Merchant agrees to pay for an individual measurable action. The Payout is defined as either a percetage of a total sale amount, or as a set bounty (flat rate) per action. 

"Link" means a hyperlink placed on an Affiliate's site that, when clicked on, sends a Visitor through to a Merchant website via redirection at Jihoy.com. Links take many forms including text, a product image, buttons, banners, videos or any other format acceptable to the Merchant. 

"VOID" means a reversal of a Payout previously earned for a sale, lead, or click that is later rescinded or corrected by the Merchant. Merchant's may VOID transactions that are fraudulent, or in the case of returned merchandise, duplicate transactions, or other valid reasons. 

"Your Account" means a specific account within the Service, where Commissions are credited. 


 

THE SERVICE

Jihoy.com has developed and operates a service (the "Service") which allows Affiliates to participate in Performance Marketing programs. As an Affiliate of Jihoy.com you will be establishing arrangements with third party organizations, called Merchants. All Affiliate relationships established between You, the Affiliate, and Jihoy.com Merchants, will be conducted and managed through the Service.

 

LINK PLACEMENT 

As an Affiliate of the Service, you may place and remove Merchant Links on Your site and in acceptable locations. 

  • You place our merchants banners anywhere on your site as you see fit, or within non-spam emails.
  • Adult, Hate, or other related sites are not allowed
  • Any page that contains jihoy.com links, banners, or code must be written in English.
  • You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. We will terminate your account on the first offense of SPAMMING. Do not send email to lists or groups that you do not have permission to send to. We cannot stress this enough, we WILL terminate your account on the first offense.
  • Affiliate accounts that are left inactive will be removed from our system if their balance is equal to or less than $25. If an abandoned affiliate account has a balance between $25 and $50, a $25 fee will be assessed once per calendar month, until the balance is equal to zero dollars - and is closed. At no time will an affiliate ever owe monies to Jihoy.com, Inc. based on fees - the account will simply be closed. An abandoned affiliate account is defined as any account that has not been logged in to for a period of 6 months, nor have any transactions been posted to that account. If one or the other of those conditions are true - the account will remain in an active state.
  • NOT ALLOWED: All other uses of banners or links, such as newsgroups, chat rooms, ICQ, message boards, banner networks, hit farms, counters, or guest books etc. are NOT allowed.
  • NOT ALLOWED: Any placement of creative in a "Desktop" advertising scheme. This includes any and all 3rd party advertising platforms that use a desktop application to display ads in any form.
  • NOT ALLOWED: Any display of a merchant window that isn't the result of a direct click by the end-user.


AFFILIATE PAYMENT 

You will receive a Commission for sending a Merchant authorized sales, leads, and/or clicks via Your Links. In order to place Links, You must first be approved by a Merchant to become an Affiliate of that Merchant's program. You understand that the Payout amount may be changed at any time. This information is also available to You at the jihoy.com Member's Area. You are responsible for determining if the Payout for a Link You have placed on Your site has changed or been discontinued. You receive the Commission from jihoy.com. Payments are made automatically on the twentieth (20th) day of each month when Your account balance reaches $50 or more for the previous months' transactions. Money credited to Your Account does not accrue interest. In the event of a VOID by a Merchant, jihoy.com may recover from You the corresponding Commission previously credited to Your Account. The VOID Commission will be immediately deducted from Your Account balance. In the event that Your Account balance is less than the VOID Commission, the VOID Commission will be deducted against Your future earnings. You will NEVER be asked to send money to jihoy.com.

 

PRIVACY

You agree to be bound by the terms of our Privacy Policy.

 

 

OWNERSHIP

This Website and the content and all intellectual property rights included in or associated with the Website, including, but not limited to patents, copyrights, trademarks, service marks and logos (collectively "Content"), are owned or licensed by us, and all right, title and interest in and to the Website and Content remains with us. Except as ordinarily occurs when a website is downloaded to your computer in the normal course of viewing such website, Content may not be utilized, copied, distributed, re-published, uploaded, posted, modified, reverse-engineered, or transmitted in any manner inconsistent with these Terms of Use, including, but not limited to, use of such Content for commercial purposes (e.g., sale of merchandise with the Jihoy logo on it). Certain Content may be licensed from third parties and all such third-party content and intellectual property rights related to such Content belongs to the respective third parties. In any event, you may not remove any copyright, trademark, logo or other intellectual property or proprietary notice or legend contained on the Website or in the Content.

 

USER FEEDBACK AND SUBMISSIONS

Jihoy welcomes your feedback, but if you send us your feedback, creative or original concepts or ideas, or any confidential, proprietary or other information ("Submissions"), Jihoy will be free to use or not use any such Submissions. Jihoy shall not be required to compensate you for any such Submissions, and any such Submissions and shall not be considered confidential upon submission to Jihoy. Further, by providing Submissions to Jihoy via the Website or otherwise, you: a) represent that you own or have the right to utilize and disclose such Submissions; b) automatically grant Jihoy a perpetual, worldwide, unlimited, irrevocable, transferable, assignable, sublicense able, royalty-free license to use the Submissions, and exercise all copyright, publicity and other rights with respect to any such Submissions; and c) subject to existing laws, waive any moral rights you or your licensors have in any such Submissions."

 

POINTS

Jihoy Points(tm)("Jihoy POINTS"),are not redeemable for cash and have no cash value. Points are purely promotional in nature, are only for use on the Website, and do not constitute a property right or interest. POINTS may be redeemed immediately or accrued over time, up to 12 months. POINTS will expire on a rolling monthly basis if not redeemed within 12 months. Jihoy may discontinue the Points program or revise the Points program terms and conditions at any time. All POINTS terminate upon any termination of your membership. Please see the official POINTS Rules for additional terms applicable to acquiring and using POINTS.

 

TERMINATION

Jihoy shall have the right to terminate your use of the Website and/or your Membership privileges any time for any reason, including, but not limited to, you're breach of these Terms of Use or your breach of the POINTS Rules. Following any such termination, Jihoy shall have no further obligations, responsibilities, or liabilities to you. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the event that Jihoy terminates your use rights, Jihoy shall in no way be precluded from pursuing any and all of its additional rights and remedies, either at law or in equity, for any claims, damages, awards, costs and liabilities occasioned by your breach of these Terms of Use or the POINTS Rules.

 

PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not create fake or temporary emails for any purpose in conjunction with sending invites or earning POINTS on Jihoy. You may not sell or purchase Member accounts and/or associated e-mail addresses or POINTS, and you may not sell invitations for membership (via an e-mail invitation website or otherwise). You may not use any device, software or routine intended to damage or interfere with the proper working of the Website or to surreptitiously interceptor expropriate any system, data, images or other multimedia elements or personal information from the Website. You may not take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, including but not limited to denial of service attacks, auto-generation techniques, "spam" or any other such unsolicited overload technique.

 

Remember, pigs get fat - hogs get slaughtered. It's a community- of your friends, our friends and friends you've yet to make. So if you cheat the POINTS system (including, but not limited to, assisting others in cheating the POINTS system), you cheat the community, and for that you will lose your membership.

 

LINKING AND THIRD PARTY CONTENT

The Website may contain links to third-party websites not under our control or operation. We provide any such links only as a convenience and do not endorse and are not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. The Website may contain news, advertisements, content and information published by various third-party providers. Use of any such third-party content may be conditioned upon such third party's terms and conditions.

 

ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Additional terms and/or conditions (e.g. purchase and return policy terms and use of Points) may apply to specific areas of the Website or to Member services or Website functionality, and you agree to abide by such other terms and conditions.

 

LAWS AND REGULATIONS

You agree to comply with all, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding: (i) use of the Website and its Content and (ii) release of information to and retrieval of information from the Website. To the extent that any applicable taxes apply to your use of the Website, you are responsible for the payment of such taxes. We reserve the right to report any wrongdoing, if and when we become aware of it, and disclose any information contained in the Website, as applicable, to any applicable government agencies, all without liability to us.

 

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, save, defend, reimburse and hold us harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, costs, liabilities, losses and damages of any kind(including attorneys' fees), etc. resulting from: (i) your use of the Website; (ii) your breach of any provision of these Terms of Use; (iii)the illegality, reliability, appropriateness, originality or copyright of any Submission; and/or (iv) any intentional wrongdoing by you whether by action or omission.

 

COMPATIBILITY

Jihoy is not responsible for your software or browser compatibility with the Website and access to the Website and its features may depend on your software or browser capability and functionality.

 

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

JIHOY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ORWARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULARPURPOSE, OR MERCHANTABILITY, REGARDING YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED HEREIN OR THE AVAILABILITY OF THIS WEBSITE OR THEACCURACY OF RESULTS OBTAINED THROUGH YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE.

 

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

JIHOY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU, AND YOU SHALL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE, FOR THE SELECTION, USE, AND SUITABILITY OF THE WEBSITE AND THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MERCHANDISE AND EXPERIENCESPROVIDED VIA THE WEBSITE. JIHOY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIALOR ANY OTHER DAMAGES IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, OR PURCHASE OR USE OF PRODUCTS, MERCHANDISE, OR EXPERIENCES VIA THE WEBSITE(INCLUDING VIA REDEMPTION OF POINTS), INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO DATA OR LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO INFORMATION, PERSONAL INJURYOR PROPERTY DAMAGE, HOWEVER CAUSED, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, WARRANTY, OR OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF JIHOY HAS BEEN INFORMED INADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND/OR SUCH DAMAGES COULD HAVE BEEN REASONABLY FORESEEN BY JIHOY. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANYREMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OR OTHERWISE, JIHOY' TOTAL LIABILITY, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, SHALL NOT EXCEED $50.

 

GOVERNING LAW

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of San Jose, California, without regard to its conflicts of laws principles. All disputes arising out of or with respect to these Terms of Use shall be heard exclusively in the state and federal courts located in the state of California, and each of the parties hereto expressly consents and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts. Some jurisdictions do not allow excluding or limiting implied warranties or limiting liability for incidental or consequential damages, and some jurisdictions have special statutory consumer protection provisions which may supersede the foregoing disclaimers and limitations. As a result, these disclaimers and/or limitations may not apply to you if prohibited by law.

 

AGE VERIFICATION

By registering as a Affiliate member, you certify that you are 18 years of age or older. Children under the age of 18 may not become a Member, and parents or legal guardians may not agree to these Terms of Use on their behalf. If you are a resident of a state, province or country that imposes additional or different age requirements for disclosure of personally-identifiable information, by registering as a Member, you hereby represent that your registration as a Member, the provision of your personally-identifiable information to us, and our use of such personally-identifiable information as stated in our Privacy Policy, does not violate the applicable laws or regulations of such state, province or country.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Members or other recipients of free or purchased merchandise from Jihoy are responsible for all applicable taxes and duties (including, but not limited to, country-specific import duties and taxes). To learn more about country-specific duties and taxes, go to http://www.fedex.com/us/international/irc/profiles/?link=2. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. You agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable materials. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical or other data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside. These Terms of Use, and any web pages or other documents incorporated by reference, set forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof. If you have any problems, questions, suggestions or complaints about these Terms of Use or the Website, please contact us by email at admin@jihoy.com.

 

POINTS Rules

1.           POINTS will be awarded for purchases, participation in site activities, charitable donations, and as otherwise determined by Jihoy, as specified at www.jihoy.com

2.           POINTS may only be redeemed at www.jihoy.com in accordance with the specific POINTS-redemption offer.

3.           Jihoy may, without prior notice and in its sole discretion, alter, limit, or modify program rules, regulations, POINTS earning structure, POINTS redemption levels, or any other feature of the POINTS Place program at any time.

4.           Members may only earn and use POINTS via one membership account. The creation of multiple membership accounts by or for one individual, the transfer or sale of any such accounts, and the use of POINTS earned by or awarded to such accounts is prohibited. Jihoy reserves the right to void the membership and/or redemption privileges of any person(s) who have wrongfully earned POINTS (whether by circumvention, transfer, purchase, deception, forgery, fraud, or otherwise), or have breached these POINTS Place Program Rules or the Website Terms of Use.

5.           Only the individual member who makes the purchase or engages in the POINTS-generating activity may earn and use POINTS. POINTS are not transferable from one Jihoy account to another. POINTS may not be reproduced, are not redeemable for cash, and are good for one-time use only. POINTS will be deducted from the member's account at the time of redemption.

6.           Credits for merchandise returns and other financial adjustments made by Jihoy will be deducted from the POINTS balance.

7.           Members are solely responsible for determination of any tax or other fees, service charges or liability arising out of earning or redeeming POINTS.

8.           Members are subject to and shall comply with any additional terms, conditions and restrictions that apply to specific redemptions.

9.           POINTS may be redeemed immediately or accrued over time, up to 12 months. Points will expire on a rolling monthly basis if not redeemed within 12 months.

10.        JIHOY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES) TO A MEMBER OR ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING FOR PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH A MEMBER'S REDEMPTION OF POINTS FOR MERCHANDISE, EXPERIENCES OR OTHERWISE.