Affiliate Program Terms & Conditions

(1) These Terms & Conditions apply to participants in The Uplift Academy Partners Affiliate Program (the "Program").
(2) In these Terms & Conditions, "Company", "we", "us", and "our" means The Uplift Academy, a brand owned and operated by AgileUplift GmbH, a company registered in Germany under company number HRB 277141.
(3) In these Terms & Conditions, "Affiliate", "you" and "your" means the individual or organisation that is applying to become a participant in the Program and who will accept these Terms & Conditions upon joining the Program.
(4) By accepting these Terms & Conditions you agree to be bound by them and shall enter into a binding agreement with us (the "Agreement").

1. Definitions and Interpretation

  • 1.1 In these Terms & 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 theuplift.academy/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;
  • "Confidential Information" Third-party Cookies are not placed by Us; instead, they 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 Site, or by third parties providing analytics services to Us (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).
  • "Current Term" means the Term that the Parties may be in at any given time;
  • "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, trade mark, patent or design and shall be construed in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, Trade Marks Act 1994 and Patents Act 1977;
  • "Registered Email Address" means the email address of the Affiliate as provided in your Registration Data;
  • "Registration Data" means the information provided by the Affiliate when registering for enrolment in the Program;
  • "Service Package" means a particular set of services available from us through our website as defined in Clause 7; and
  • "Term" means the term of the Agreement, as defined in Clause 17 of these Terms & Conditions, during which you shall participate in the Program under the terms and conditions set out in the Agreement.

2. Enrolment 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 enrolling in the Program, or accessing your affiliate dashboard for the first time, or using any of your unique affiliate links and codes for the first time, subject to our approval and sub-clause 2.4 below, the agreement is deemed to be in effect and you are deemed to have accepted these Terms & Conditions. You will not be sent a signed Affiliate Agreement in hard copy.
  • 2.3 We may, at our sole discretion, review your website following your acceptance of these Terms & Conditions. You will be informed within 10 Business Days of the outcome of your application. Following your acceptance of these Terms & 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 (and are under no obligation to disclose such reasons). 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 & Conditions shall constitute, or be deemed to create, a partnership between the Parties; nor, except as expressly provided, shall it designate, or be deemed to 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 & 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 In your Affiliate Dashboard will be the requisite materials for a hyperlink to our website. 
  • 4.2 The links or HTML code as it appears in your Affiliate Dashboard must be copied exactly and not altered in any way. Failure to comply with this condition may result in your receiving no credit for sales of Service Packages that are generated through your website.
  • 4.3 Under no circumstances may any of the graphics files provided by us be modified in any way without our prior written authorisation. You may not use graphics files of your own to link to our site.
  • 4.4 All 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) which must be obtained in all cases. We reserve the right to request the alteration or removal of a link from your website.
  • 4.5 You are required to assume full responsibility to maintain all links to our website from your website.
  • 4.6 You many not present our services and offerings under any other brand than The Uplift Academy. You may not promote our links, courses and offerings as you own.

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 of these Terms & Conditions, neither Party may host any 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.
  • 5.3 Neither Party shall be under any obligation to pre-screen any content added to their website by third parties; however in the event that either Party receives from the other a written notification of any content that falls within that described in Sub-clause 5.2 of this Agreement, such content must be removed within 5 Business Days of receipt of such notice.

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 such 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 Your Responsibilities: As an Affiliate of The Uplift Academy 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 all the websites where you promote our servicesand 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 should not create more than one Affiliate account.
  • 6.3.3 You should 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 should 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 Uplift Academy or AgileUplift GmbH.
  • 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 should not use on behalf of your referrals or encourage your referrals to use on their accounts with The Uplift Academy any copyrighted or third-party material without the proper licenses.
  • 6.3.8 You should not copy, alter or modify any icons, buttons, banners, graphics, files or content contained we provide to you, including but not limited to removing or altering any copyright or trademark notices, without prior written approval from us.
  • 6.3.9 You should not engage in any blackhat SEO/spam link building techniques in order to generate more referrals for The Uplift Academy.
  • 6.3.10 Post ads on offensive, illegal, hateful, pornographic, or otherwise distasteful websites.
  • 6.3.11 You agree not to violate any applicable law.
  • 6.3.12 If we detect a pattern in your affiliate practices that in our reasonable opinion violates any aspect of the T&C, 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 Uplift Academy trademark, or variations or misspellings of the trademarked term on Pay per Click or Pay per Impression campaigns on the search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Bing or others). You are not allowed to use The Uplift Academy Website(s) as display URL in PPC ads and to direct-link or redirect to our Website(s);
  • 6.4.3 Using non-unique copyright infringing content to promote The Uplift Academy;
  • 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 any other kind of incentives to obtain the sale without our prior approval;
  • 6.4.6 Offering price savings methods, including coupon(s), voucher(s), discount codes, or added value offers without our prior approval;
  • 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 our brand or service on websites and/or networks not explicitly listed in your affiliate profile and hiding that traffic source;
  • 6.4.10 Your website(s) must NOT contain lewd, obscene, illegal or pornographic material or any other material that is deemed to be objectionable. This includes, but is not limited to, bigotry, hatred, pornography, satanic materials, trademark and copyright materials, all content of an adult nature, etc. The designation of any materials as such is subject to our reasonable opinion;
  • 6.4.11 Your domain name(s), company name, logo, trademark, product(s), project(s), service(s) must NOT contain keywords and phrases containing the AgileUplift GmbH or The Uplift Academy trademark or any other variations or misspellings confusingly similar to AgileUplift GmbH or The Uplift Academy trademark, name, logo or domain name, without our prior approval;
  • 6.4.12 Your domain name(s), company name, logo, trademark, your product(s), project(s), service(s) must NOT contain keywords and phrases that contain or are confusingly similar to third-party trademarks, names, logos or domain names, unless you have been duly authorised by the trademark owner.
  • 6.4.13 The Uplift Academy 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 and cancellation of all outstanding commission payments due.

8. Customer Referral Requirements

For your referrals to be valid and eligible for affiliate commission, in addition to the terms and conditions set out in this agreement and out general terms and conditions of service, they need to meet the following criteria:
  • 8.1 The referral of customers to us should solely take place via unique referral links that are provided to you by use through your referral dashboard on The Uplift Academy website. 
  • 8.2 You are only permitted to refer end users and customers (direct referral), and any intermediaries. 
  • 8.3 Your referrals (customers you refer to us using your affiliate links) should solely sign up or log in to our system using an account they have created with The Uplift Academy, and not using external accounts, like Google or social media accounts or Single Sign On.  You are responsible for communicating this to your customers.
  • 8.4 Your customer purchases a course, service or offering which is part of the affiliate program as decided at the sole discretion of The Uplift Academy. 

9. Orders

  • 9.1 We undertake to use our best and reasonable endeavours to process and fulfil all orders for Service Packages placed by referred customers generated by affiliates.
  • 9.2 We reserve the right to reject any orders that do not comply with the customer referral requirements detailed in Clause 8 of these Terms & Conditions.
  • 9.3 It shall be our full responsibility to ensure that all orders are completed and that the provision of services is undertaken in accordance with our Service Level Agreements. We shall be responsible for order entry, payment processing, cancellations and all subsequent customer service. You shall have no further involvement with the customer or the completion of the transaction.

10. Affiliate Sales Reporting

  • 10.1 We will track the following elements of all sales:
  • 10.1.1 origin;
  • 10.1.2 Service Package selected; and
  • 10.1.3 revenue generated.
  • 10.2 Full reports of all sales generated through you will be available in your Affiliate Dashboard. We reserve the right to alter the form and content of such 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 affiliate links.
  • 11.2 Commission shall be calculated on the following basis:
  • 11.2.1 Sales that result from your Direct Referrals will attract a commission of 20%.
  • 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 Commission, such a renewal will attract the same commission rate specified in sub-clause 11.2.1. 
  • 11.2.3 Cookies and IP logs will identify customers that have been referred by you. These are only valid latest for 30 days (Cookie expiration) after your customer first clicks on your unique affiliate links and as long as they use the same device, same browser, and so long as the cookies have not been removed. 
  • 11.2.4 For referrals to take affect properly sub-clause 8.3 applies.
  • 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 30 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 for any reason, no commission will be paid.
  • 11.5 Commission shall be calculated only once we have received payment in full from the customer. Only once payment has been received in full will sales be logged in your Affiliate Dashboard but will be shown as pending for 30 days after the order has been completed.
  • 11.6 Commission pay-outs will be scheduled for the 20th of every calendar month. Every affiliate will receive commissions only for subscriptions that have passed their 30-day qualifying period. 
  • 11.7 Commissions will be sent to the PayPal email address of the Affiliate or the bank account as provided in their Registration Data and specified on their Affiliate Dashboard. Existing subscribers and users of The Uplift Academy may get part of their commissions in the form of free courses or Promotional credits added to their accounts to be used for purchasing products, services or subscriptions offered by The Uplift Academy. Any subsequent commissions shall be sent to their PayPal account, as described above.
  • 11.8 In the event of any refunds issued for any reasons 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. We also reserve the right to deduct such amounts due from your next outstanding pay-out.
  • 11.9 Any and all commission paid to you shall be based on sales revenue less any taxes due; however, you may still be liable to pay tax on your commission. By accepting these Terms & Conditions you hereby acknowledge that 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 (the “Notice Period”) of any such change. You will be given the option to opt out of the Program within the Notice Period and will, on the exercise of that option, be paid any Commission due to you, notwithstanding the total commission earnings requirement set out in Sub-clause 11.6 above.

12. Trade Marks

  • 12.1 Upon your entry into the Program, we shall grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, royalty-free licence to use The Uplift Academy's logos and trademarks (our “Trade Marks”) solely for the purpose of promoting our services through The Program.
  • 12.2 You may use our Trade Marks only to the extent required to establish links and perform your obligations as an Affiliate under these Terms & Conditions.
  • 12.3 In the event that you wish to use our Trade Marks for any purposes outside of these Terms & Conditions you must not do so without prior written consent.
  • 12.4 By accepting these Terms & Conditions you hereby agree that:
  • 12.4.1 our Trade Marks shall remain the property of AgileUplift GmbH, unless and until we assign those marks to a third party;
  • 12.4.2 nothing in these Terms & Conditions shall be deemed to confer any ownership rights in our Trade Marks on you; and
  • 12.4.3 you shall not contest the validity of our trade marks.

13. Intellectual Property

  • 13.1 Unless otherwise expressly indicated we are the sole and exclusive owners of all Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”) in our website including, but not limited to: all code, text, sound, video, graphics, photographs and other images, content and materials that form a part of the site. We shall also be 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.
  • 13.2 We shall be the sole and exclusive owners of all IPRs which may subsist in all future updates, additions and alterations to our website, such material including any supporting documentation.

14. Affiliate Warranties and Indemnity

  • 14.1 In accepting these Terms & Conditions you hereby warrant and acknowledge that:
  • 14.1.1 The websites which you use to promote our services and offerings, do 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 You have ensured that all necessary authorities, consents and approvals have been obtained in respect of your obligations under these Terms & Conditions and will remain valid and effective throughout the Term;
  • 14.1.3 Your obligations under these Terms & Conditions shall constitute legal, valid and binding obligations on you. Such obligations shall be direct, unconditional and general obligations; and
  • 14.1.4 You will not refer to us in any way in any unsolicited bulk email campaigns or other spamming practices that you may conduct.
  • 14.2 By accepting these Terms & Conditions you agree that you shall indemnify us in full against all liability, loss, damages, costs and expenses (including legal expenses) awarded against or incurred or paid by us as a result of, or in connection with:
  • 14.2.1 breach of any law, copy rights, trade marks, or warranty given by you in relation to your work and your website;
  • 14.2.2 any claim that your website infringes the patent, copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights of any other person;
  • 14.2.3 any act or omission by you or your employees, agents or sub-contractors in performing your obligations under these Terms & 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 the use of our website, services and offerings or from enrolment in the Program.
  • 15.3 We make no guarantee that our website shall remain functional and accessible to all users of the internet.

16. Liability

  • 16.1 We shall not be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss that you may suffer even if such loss is reasonably foreseeable or if we have been advised of the possibility of such loss being incurred.
  • 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 & Conditions or the Agreement shall be limited to $1.

17. Term and Termination

  • 17.1 These Terms & Conditions and The Agreement shall come into force and become binding on the Commencement Date and shall continue to be in force.  
  • 17.2 Either Party may terminate the Agreement at any time by giving 10 Business Days’ prior written notice to the other; or
  • 17.2.1 at any time where the other Party has committed a material breach of these Terms & Conditions or the Agreement and such breach has remained unremedied 10 Business Days after receiving written notice of that breach; or
  • 17.3 Either Party may request the termination of the Agreement at the end of the Current Term for any reason provided that written notice is given at least 10 Business Days before the end of the Current Term.
  • 17.4 We reserve the right to terminate this agreement without notice if your affiliate account has been inactive for longer than 6 months or if you have not generated any leads for longer than 3 months.  
  • 17.4 Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason, you shall remove the links established under these Terms & Conditions, as well as all references, materials, trade marks related to The Uplift Academy and this Agreement.
  • 17.5 Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason, all licenses granted shall also terminate and you will cease to have access to your affiliate dashboard.
  • 17.6 In the event that we terminate the Agreement in accordance with Sub-clause 17.2.1, any Commission owed to you at that time shall be forfeited.

18. Confidentiality

  • 18.1 Each Party (a “Receiving Party”) shall keep the Confidential Information belonging to the other Party (a “Supplying Party”), including but not limited to terms of this Agreement, website content, financial data, plans, etc.  confidential and secret and shall not use or disclose or make the Confidential Information available, directly or indirectly, to any person other than its officers and employees who need the Confidential Information to enable the Receiving Party to perform its obligations under these Terms & Conditions and provided that such officers and employees are also obliged to keep such Confidential Information confidential and secret. The foregoing obligations shall not apply to any information acquired by the Receiving Party which:
  • 18.1.1 at the time of its acquisition was in the public domain; or
  • 18.1.2 at a later date comes into the public domain through no fault of the Receiving Party.
  • 18.2 Each Party hereby agrees and undertakes:
  • 18.2.1 that all Confidential Information shall be and shall remain at all times the sole and exclusive property of the Supplying Party;
  • 18.2.2 that its right to use Confidential Information shall wholly cease upon the termination of the Agreement; and
  • 18.2.3 to return to the Supplying Party on termination of the Agreement all material embodying Confidential Information (including information stored on digital media) or any part thereof and all copies thereof.

19. Force Majeure

Neither Party to these Terms & 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.

20. Severance

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

21. Notice

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

23. General

  • 23.1 No Waiver - The Parties shall agree that no failure by either Party to enforce the performance of any provision in these Terms & Conditions shall constitute a waiver of the right to subsequently enforce that provision or any other provision of these Terms & Conditions. Such failure shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach and shall not constitute a continuing waiver.
  • 23.2 Non-exclusivity - The relationship between the Parties shall be and shall remain non-exclusive. Both parties are free to enter into similar relationships with other parties.
  • 23.3 Non-assignment - You may not assign any or all of your rights or obligations under these Terms & Conditions or the Agreement without our prior written consent.
  • 23.4 These Terms & Conditions and the Agreement shall be governed by the laws of Germany.