Terms and conditions

• "2Checkout or Avangate" means Verifone Payments B.V. (formerly known as Avangate B.V.), a Dutch corporation dba 2Checkout.
• "2Checkout Site" means the internet site of 2Checkout with the internet address: https://www.avangatenetwork.com and/or http://www.2checkout.com.
• "2Checkout platform" means the system used for the electronic trading, accessible through the 2CHECKOUT Site.
• "Item-s" means any software or digital products e-traded through 2CHECKOUT platform.
• "Client" means any person or business company purchasing software products through the 2Checkout platform.
• "Merchant" means any person or business company that sells products and/or services through the 2Checkout platform.
• "Merchant Site" means the internet site of the Merchant as it is shown on the 2Checkout Affiliate Program.
• "Affiliate" means any person or business company who understands and approves to have read and fully agrees with the terms and conditions mentioned below and it is shown on the 2Checkout Affiliate Program as Affiliate.
• "Affiliated site" means the internet site of the Affiliate as it is shown on the 2Checkout Affiliate Program.
• "Link" means the internet URL generated only through the 2Checkout platform in the Affiliate Account that will connect the description on the Affiliate site to the corresponding Item category on the 2Checkout platform.
• "Chargeback" means an amount of money:
  • which has been deemed to have been refunded by or returned by 2Checkout to a Client based on a Link which has been voided, retracted, subject to returns;
  • been reversed due to fraud, or otherwise rescinded for any reason;
  • which has been retrieved from, reserved against and/or charged against 2Checkout accounts under the terms of any applicable credit card Merchant account agreements or because of government actions including but not limited to embargo, court order, reclamation.

• 2.2.1 Opening an account

  The Affiliate must fill the application form accessible on the 2Checkout Site and accept the conditions of 2Checkout Affiliate Program. At the reception of the application 2Checkout will analyze the application, allocate an ID to the Affiliate (sole identification number in the 2Checkout Affiliate Program) and shall communicate to the Affiliate via e-mail the login data of his account. The Affiliate will have an account accessed anytime through the 2Checkout site (secure pages) using his e-mail and Password. The account allows the Affiliate to benefit from various functions of the 2Checkout platform, explained below.

  The information provided herein is subject to further verification and 2Checkout may request proof of account ownership and additional documents before making any commission payments, as part of the KYC & AML regulations. As an organization that facilitates global eCommerce, 2Checkout is required to obtain certain information from its business partners as part of its Know Your Customer ("KYC") and Anti-Money Laundering ("AML") obligations in multiple jurisdictions throughout the world.

  The information we collect or store either from you or other available legitimate sources we may opt for, may include personal data of shareholders, ultimate beneficiaries, directors, representatives, employees etc. It is your obligation to notify all these categories of persons that their personal information may be disclosed or otherwise collected by us for our legitimate purposes. It will also be your responsibility to channel any and all requests these persons might have in respect of their personal data, solve them pursuant to your legal obligations or communicate them to us, should you not be able to settle them independently. It will be our discretion and based on our interpretation of the applicable law, how to deal with such requests from your part. For the avoidance of any doubt, requests received from these categories of persons will be directed to you.

• 2.2.2 The approval

  The Affiliate must choose from his account the Software Merchant and the Items he wishes to promote, having to receive the consent or refusal for the promotion of the chosen Item. A commission percentage will also be set and allocated to the Affiliate for each sale of his products through the 2Checkout platform. The commission will be visible in the Affiliate personal account.

  Only after the reception of the approval the Affiliate may promote on his site (Affiliate Site) the Items for which he received approval and has the right to receive the related commission. The Affiliate shall promote the Items approved only by use and maintenance of links generated in his 2Checkout account.
  Should the Affiliate want to subsequently promote other Items as well, he must follow once more the procedure provided above for the prior obtainment of the approval.

• A. Promotes material with explicit sexual content.
• B. Promotes violence.
• C. Promotes race, sex, gender, religion, nationality, physical disability, sexual orientation or age discrimination.
• D. Promotes illegal activities.
• E. Contains materials infringing or supporting third parties to infringe copyrights, mark or other forms of intellectual property or the applicable laws.
• F. Includes "2Checkout or Avangate" or their derivations or typing errors in the domain name.
• G. Is in any way illegal, damaging, libelous, obscene, aggressive, racist or not corresponding to our principles.

• A. use non-requested email (spam), pop-ups, pop-under, exit pages as well as any other techniques obviously or secretly driving Clients to the 2Checkout platform;
• B. replace, intercept, interfere with, hinder, disrupt or otherwise alter a Client access, view or usage of Affiliate site, a Link or a Merchant web site, including without limitation any click-through or track-based transaction.
• C. advertise the 2Checkout Merchant products or services employing cookie stuffing techniques including, but not limited to, pop-ups, frames, images, Javascript or stylesheets.
• D. place Links in any manner which may (intentionally or unintentionally) mislead any Client.
• E. cause any use of a Link in bad faith or through fraudulent means, including, but not limited to, using any device, program, robot, inline frames, hidden frames, or redirects.
• F. use automatic redirection to 2Checkout site or any automatically method for saving a cookie of an Affiliate.
• G. use outbound / unsolicited calling techniques, can only promote / sell services through inbound calls.
• H. sell services / products other than the object of the eCommerce transaction he is sending to 2Checkout as referral.
• I. promote services through scare-ware sales tactics.
• J. place live-orders through the 2Checkout platform with customer/end-user payment credentials (card, paypal, etc), this requirement applies only if Affiliate is not PCI DSS Compliant; if Affiliate is PCI DSS Compliant, Affiliate will provide 2Checkout with their AOC.
• K. Use unapproved descriptions or other references, as well as images, graphic representations or texts for promoting products from the 2Checkout Affiliate Network.
• L. Use misleading advertising or fraudulently use any public figures names, pictures, brands, materials of any kind that may be under copyright infringement or for which it does not have written approval from the copyright owner/ entity.

3.4 2Checkout shall pay the commission to the Affiliate in 20 days from the end of the reporting period for which the commission is due, by bank transfer or any other means agreed. The Reporting Periods are: monthly, bi-weekly and weekly.

2Checkout may pay the Affiliate, at his own discretion, according to the Reporting Periods, as follows:

• 3.4.1 Monthly, if the Affiliate commission is higher than the minimum amount of 100 US Dollars / EURO / GBP in the reporting period.
• 3.4.2 Bi-weekly or weekly, if the Affiliate commission is higher than the minimum amount of 4000 US Dollars / EURO / GBP in the reporting period. This reporting periods are available on request and if the volume is reached for three consecutive months.

3.5 The commission is paid by 2Checkout in order to satisfied payment obligations to the Affiliate.

Should an order that had generated a commission for the Affiliate have a Chargeback this commission shall be deducted from the commission that was not paid by 2Checkout or in case 2Checkout already paid the commission to the Affiliate the Chargeback will be deducted from the following commission owed by the Affiliate. The Affiliate will remain responsible to 2Checkout for any negative balances which arise out of any Chargeback and will have to pay 2Checkout the value of the negative balance in maximum 60 days from the negative balance.

The clients that buy products through this 2Checkout Affiliate Program become 2Checkout's and consequently any terms and conditions applied shall be imposed to such clients.

The value of the commission granted to the Affiliate is confidential, and the infringement of this obligation by the Affiliate may lead to compensations according to damage.

4.3 The participation of an Affiliate on the 2Checkout Affiliate Program may be terminated

• without any reason by 2Checkout with a written request send by e-mail with at least 1 day notice. The commission earned and due will be paid within maximum 6 months from the termination.
• due to one or more serious violations of our policies (see above). The most common cause for this is that some of the transactions made through your account might involve fraudulent activity.

As a result, we will not accept any affiliate applications from you in the future and we may also disable any accounts you have open with us. If you had any unpaid affiliate commissions, they will be postponed or removed until further notice.