Affiliate - Terms and conditions

PLEASE READ THIS QIKIFY AFFILIATE AGREEMENT (This “Agreement”) CAREFULLY.

This is a contract between you (the “Affiliate”) and us (“Qikify”). By accepting this agreement or signing up for the Qikify Affiliate Program (the “Affiliate Program”), you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions which are controlled by Qikify. Please note that all these terms and conditions are so important to us, that we cannot have you in our Affiliate Program unless you are willing to follow this Agreement.

If you are registering as a Qikify Affiliate in your individual capacity, then the terms “Affiliate” or “you” in this document refer to you. If you are registering as a Qikify Affiliate on behalf of another individual or organization, you should note that you are agreeing to this Agreement for that other individual or organization; and that you are representing to Qikify that you have the authority to bind that individual or organization to this Agreement (in which case, the terms “Affiliate” or “you” in this document refer to that individual or organization).

We periodically update these terms. We might even replace or change the entire terms in accordance with the modifications or updates of the Affiliate Program without prior notifications - See the Modification sub-section (in Section IX).

“Qikify Affiliate” means an individual or organization agreed to join Qikify Affiliate Program in order to promote Qikify’s products and services in exchange to receive commissions.

“Qikify Affiliate Program” means Qikify marketing affiliate program as described to promote Qikify products and services.

“Qikify Affiliate Agreement” means the legal document that includes terms and conditions required to be followed by Qikify and the Affiliate.

“Affiliate Link” means the unique referral link that we provide to each Affiliate.

“Affiliate Lead” means a merchant who has clicked on the Affiliate Link makes an install of our app.

“Affiliate Conversion” means an Affiliate Lead who has made an upgrade to a paid plan of Qikify app.

“Shopify merchant”, and “Merchant” means Shopify’s store owners, also known as Qikify targeted consumers.

“Affiliate Share” means the commissions that Affiliate can receive from a qualified Affiliate Conversion.

“Commission Rate” means the percentage of revenue of one app that is used to calculated Affiliate Share.

“Affiliate Application”, and “Application” means the signing up form where individual or organization provide to Qikify the information to be assessed.

“Qikify Assets” means the information, including our apps, text, graphics, trademark and related materials, which is all rights reserved by us.

“We”, “us”, “our”, and “Qikify” means Qikify Co.

“You”, “your”, and “Affiliate” means the party, other than Qikify, agreeing to this Agreement and participating in the Affiliate Program.

We need an overall assessment to make sure that you are eligible with this Affiliate Program. Thus, we need you to complete the Affiliate Application truthfully. We guarantee that these information will be kept confidential; it won’t be shared or opened to any other third-party.

We have affiliate programs corresponding to all our apps. You would need to submit an application form to each affiliate program in order to sign up. After we receive your application, the assessing process will occur in 07 days. We will assess your application based on the foregoing criterion. After 07 days (since the day you sign up), we will send you an approval email when you are accepted. Please note that if you are not approved to become our Affiliate, we will not send out a response. The approval email will include a generated unique link - the Affiliate Link - that you would use to attach on your media platforms in order to promote the correspondent app in a program.

Once you are accepted into the Affiliate Program, this Agreement will come to effect immediately. 

Please note that Qikify is the only party who has the right to make modifications to this Agreement, and we reserve the right to make changes anytime. Both parties may terminate this Agreement anytime, with or without cause, with warning periods or prior notifications - See the Section IX below.

As a Qikify Affiliate, you will have the right to get paid from all qualifying Affiliate Conversion. This means that the more merchants making upgrades of Qikify apps, the more money you can receive from us. You will be able to request us a payout according to our Payment Policy - See the Section V below.

Also, as an Affiliate, you have the right to promote our products and services. You have the permission to use our provided Assets for affiliate promoting purpose. You have the right to request us for more assets, content, or related materials (if necessary) in order to promote our apps and services (as long there aren’t any violation to promotional restrictions of this Agreement - See the Promotion Restrictions (Section VIII) below).

As a Qikify Affiliate, you would need to obligate to these following obligations:

• To comply with Qikify Affiliate Agreement and any other applicable laws and regulations (copyright, intellectual property, etc.);
• To not associate our products or services with any non-suitable content - See the Promotion Restrictions (Section VIII) below;
• To disclose the information that you will be used to promote our products or services, including Qikify Assets and other affiliate related materials;
• To be truthful in providing clients (merchants) to us as we will not accept any false merchants or upgrades;
• To not stimulate by providing wrong or fake reviews information to us;
• To not request us for benefits or rights that are excluded from this Agreement;
• To not violate any behavior and practice that it is considered to be condemned and penalized by International Trade Regulations.

As the owner of this Affiliate Program, we would need you to understand that we have the right to carry out actions toward this Agreement and our Affiliate. We will have the right to monitor how you promote our products and services. Also, we will be able to modify our Program Agreement whenever we consider the modification is an appropriate and necessary action to be made. And, we will take measures against Affiliates who do not comply with this Agreement. This means that we can terminate the Agreement immediately and, maybe, retain any Affiliate Share they may have generated through fraudulent activities.

Along with our rights, we commit to obligate as the following:

• To pay Affiliate on time according to agreed Payment Policies (in case there are no agreement breaches or fraudulent activities);
• To provide clear information about our products and services' features & pricing plans;
• To prepare adequate assets for promotion activities;
• To not violate any behavior and practice that it is considered to be condemned and penalized by International Trade Regulations.

In Qikify Affiliate Program, we use the “Pay-per-Upgrade” payment model. It means that with every Affiliate Conversion is made, you will receive a corresponding Affiliate Share.

Cookie Life is the period that a qualifying Affiliate Lead can be tracked.

Cookie Life is regulated to represent a 45-day cycle since the Affiliate link is clicked. After your merchant clicks on the link, a cookie will be added to his (or her) browser and expire in 45 days. Within these 45 days, wherever your merchant installs the correspondent app, you will get an Affiliate Lead. Please note that an Affiliate Lead cannot be tracked if the cookie has expired. In that case, your merchant would need to re-access the Affiliate Link to renew the cookie and install app only after that. Your merchant also needs to use the browser containing the cookie on purpose so that your Affiliate Lead can be counted.

Your Affiliate Share is dependent on the value of an app’s upgrade and is calculated based on the commission rate. The commission rate represents the percentage of net revenue of one app upgrade that you can receive. 

The monthly commission will be calculated as: Commission rate x Net Revenue (Net Revenue = Subscription price - Shopify Fee)

The commission rate is fixed for all plans, and all apps; so the higher plan your merchant upgrades, the more money you will get paid. Commission rate is also different on each affiliate level as correspondent to the below table; the more upgrades your merchants make, the higher rate you can get.

* Commission is only for monthly subscription, it does not include usage charge.

For example, if you have 1 upgrade of a $10/month subscription, our net revenue for this subscription (after deducting Shopify fee 3%) would be $10 x 97% = $9.7. So your first-month affiliate share will equal to: $9.7 x 30% = $2.91. And your recurring month share will be $57.23 x 15% = $1.45.

It indicates that the higher and the more plan your recommended merchants upgrade, the higher value of Affiliate Share you will receive.

Free plan and free trial are excluded. All upgrades must be a paid subscription and pass the trial time to be counted as one conversion.

Transaction fee or usage charge is excluded. Only monthly subscription is counted.

If there's any refund for an upgrade, we will also deduct your commission from that subscription.

Affiliate conversion from the previous month is added to your account within the first 5 days of the next month.

You can request to withdraw your affiliate share anytime when you reach a threshold of $50. Your request will be handled within 7 working days. We might contact you via email if there’s anything we need to verify.

We currently support PayPal and Payoneer for payment.

Due to the high cost of PayPal cross-border fee (PayPal charges $5 per payment), both parties will share 50% of the fee. The shared fee will be deducted directly from the total payouts. For example, if your Affiliate Share of a month is $50, you will receive $47.5 after subtracting $2.5 of the shared PayPal fee.

If you register to be paid via Payoneer, you will receive your share monthly as usual. Because Payoneer doesn’t charge any transaction cost, so there is no need for fee sharing.

Qikify Affiliates are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. Affiliate has no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. As a result, Affiliate will not make any statement, whether on its sites or otherwise, since that would contradict the foregoing.

Also, this Agreement does not create an exclusive relationship between you and us. Both parties will have the right to recommend similar products and services of third parties, and to work with other parties in connection with the design, sale, installation, implementation and use of similar services and products of third parties.

Our property rights of Qikify Assets are protected by intellectual property laws. Qikify Assets belongs to and is the property of us or our licensors (if any). We retain all ownership rights in the Qikify Assets. You agree not to copy, rent, lease, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Qikify Assets, or related materials in whole or in part, by any means, except as expressly authorized in writing by us. Qikify, Qikify Apps Design, Qikify logos (including apps' logo), and other marks that we use from time to time are our trademarks and you may not use them without our prior written permission, except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement. The only exceptions allowed are instances where such information is requested by the authorities, already disclosed, necessary for accounting or other legal purposes, or subject to lawfully obtained disclosure rights.

You grant to us a nonexclusive, nontransferable, royalty-free right to use and display your trademarks, service marks and logos (“Affiliate Assets”) in connection with the Affiliate Program and this Agreement.

During the term of this Agreement, in the event that we make our trademark available to you, you may use our trademark as long as you follow the usage requirements, as the following:

• To use the images of our trademarks that we make available to you, without modifying them in any way;
• To use our trademarks in connection with the Affiliate Program and this Agreement;
• To comply instantly if we request to discontinue using it.  

• To use our trademark in a misleading or disparaging way;
• To use our trademark in a way that implies we endorse, sponsor or approve of your services or products;
• To use our trademark in violation of applicable law or in connection with an obscene, indecent, or unlawful topic or material.

• To use the term "Qikify" in any variation in its site URL (e.g., qikify.net, shopifyqikify.com, qikify.plugins.com, etc);
• To promote discount codes that were not provided to Affiliate by Qikify;
• To host or to promote "coupon stacking" sites where customers may combine coupons to receive additional discounts;
• To not include our trademarks on any advertising platform (e.g., Facebook ads, Google adwords, etc.) that you use to increase traffic or to generate referrals;
• In connection with its activities: (i) violate or infringe any common law or statutory rights of any person or other entity (including, without limitation, proprietary rights, copyright rights, trademark, service mark or patent rights, or any rights of privacy or publicity); (ii) violate any law, rule or regulation; (iii) use any material or information that is obscene, pornographic, libelous, defamatory, slanderous; or (iv) use any false or deceptive material, or otherwise engage in any consumer or other fraud.