TERMS AND CONDITIONS
FaxForBusiness.com Fax to Email Resellers Agreement
The terms and conditions set forth herein constitute the full and
complete agreement between you (Reseller) and Newrise Corp. (doing
business as and hereinafter referred to as "FaxForBusiness.com")
with respect to your participation in the FaxForBusiness.com Reseller
Program. The terms contained herein supercede and replace any other
agreement or negotiation between you and FaxForBusiness.com whether oral,
written or otherwise including any statements made by any representative
of FaxForBusiness.com at any time. This agreement is effective and binding
upon your acceptance of this agreement as indicated by you clicking the
designated checkbox below and submitting a digital signature. You further
agree that your continued use of this service constitutes your immediate
acceptance of any changes, alterations, updates and/or amendments to
this agreement.
A. Definitions
1. "CUSTOMER INFORMATION" - The name, mailing address, telephone number
and valid email address of each customer.
2. "RESELLER PORTAL" - The web page from which your reseller account is
managed.
3. "RESELLER WEBSITE" - The web page from which the public can purchase
fax to email accounts.
4. "FAXFORBUSINESS.COM" - Newrise Corp. dba FaxForBusiness.com
5. "RESELLER CUSTOMER COMMUNICATION" - A communication issued by
FaxForBusiness.com to be distributed to your customers.
6. "RESELLER", "AFFILIATE" AND "YOU" - You and/or your company, employees,
agents and representatives.
1. Terms and Conditions
1. Reseller Eligibility. By submitting your application for a
FaxForBusiness.com Reseller account you hereby certify that you are
eligible to hold such account. Specifically eligibility requires the
following:
1.1 You must be either a person or a corporation, partnership, limited
liability company or other formal legal entity existing under the laws of
your local jurisdiction and enter into this agreement in that capacity. If
you are an individual, you must be over the age of 18 by the date that
you agree to the terms stated herein.
1.2 You may be a participant in the FaxForBusiness.com affiliate
program and remain eligible for a reseller account. However, as to any
referrals to FaxForBusiness.com, you will not be eligible to receive
any commission.
1.3 You must have and maintain resources including but not limited
to equipment and staff sufficient to allow you to comply with each of
the terms set forth herein to the prevailing standard in the industry
including but not limited to sales and customer account maintenance.
2. Reseller Rights and Obligations
2.1 Upon acceptance as a FaxForBusiness.com reseller and subject to the
terms set forth herein, you are hereby granted a limited, nonexclusive,
nontransferable, revocable license to resell fax to email accounts under
the FaxForBusiness.com reseller pricing structure for the sole purposes of
reselling such services. The accounts available for sale and the reseller
pricing structure are subject to change. The FaxForBusiness.com plans
that are available for resale at any given time are those available
at that time from the Reseller Portal. The nature and pricing of the
FaxForBusiness.com reseller accounts are subject to change and any
changes are effective immediately upon being made available on the
Reseller Portal.
2.2 Upon acceptance as a FaxForBusiness.com reseller and subject to the
terms set forth herein, you are hereby granted a limited, nonexclusive,
nontransferable, revocable license to resell FaxForBusiness.com Fax to
Email plans according to the terms set forth herein.
2.3 The FaxForBusiness.com plans available for resale are subject to
change at any time. This shall include but shall not be limited to the
type, nature, size, bandwidth, specifications, services included, and
pricing.
2.4 You will at all times maintain the confidentiality of your username
and password and agree not to disclose this information to any third
party. You assume all responsibility for any actions taken by any person
via the use of your username and password combination.
2.5 As to your customer accounts you will be solely responsible for
all account services including but not limited to account maintenance,
account management, administration and upkeep.
2.6 You agree at all times to comply with all International, Federal,
State and local laws including those related to content, copyright,
and trademark including but not limited to the DMCA.
2.7 It is your obligation to keep up to date as to the products and
services including the product specifications as to FaxForBusiness.com
plans available for resale.
2.8 You shall at all times during the course of this agreement use your
best efforts to market, promote and sell the FaxForBusiness.com plans. You
shall take no action which would cast in a bad light or otherwise harm the
FaxForBusiness.com name, brand, servers, equipment or reputation.
2.9 You shall maintain at all times accurate contact information including
name, mailing address, telephone number and email address within the
Reseller Portal which may be used for audit or any other purpose.
3. FaxForBusiness.com Rights and Obligations
3.1 Upon acceptance as a FaxForBusiness.com reseller and subject to the
terms set forth herein FaxForBusiness.com will provide you with a reseller
account. Once you have a reseller account, fax to email accounts can be
purchased by the public on the Reseller Website according to the terms
available at the time of purchase.
3.2 Limited customer service will be offered to you for the administration
of your Reseller account.
3.3 FaxForBusiness.com will provide the server space and server
administration for your reseller and customer accounts. FaxForBusiness.com
will not provide any other services to your customers including but
not limited to any of the following: sales, account management or
upkeep.
3.4 All customer support issues will be handled by FaxForBusiness.com
on a best effort basis, without any guarantee of service
level. FaxForBusiness.com will do its best to handle all support inquiries
in a timely manner.
3.5 FaxForBusiness.com from time to time shall transmit information
designated Reseller Customer Communication to your customers.
3.6 FaxForBusiness.com will handle all credit card billing under the
FaxForBusiness.com brand.
4. Reseller Fees
4.1 There are no service fees charged by FaxForBusiness.com for
maintaining a reseller account. There is a setup fee which may be waived
depending on any promotion that may be available at the time the account
is setup.
4.2 FaxForBusiness.com specifically reserves the right to
institute, change, and/or increase any such fees at any time without
notice. FaxForBusiness.com further reserves the right to add additional
features, limitations, restrictions or remove such features, limitations
or restrictions without advance notice to you. FaxForBusiness.com reserves
the right to institute additional or different fees for new services
or to charge for services presently included. Any such changes become
effective immediately without advance notice by including them in the
Reseller Portal.
5. Payment of Fees - FaxForBusiness.com accepts payment by Credit Card
(American Express, Visa, and MasterCard).
5.1 Payment by Credit Card
5.1.1. Prior to activation of each of your customer accounts, the
customers credit card will be charged for the total amount of the
account type selected based upon the reseller plan chosen within the
Reseller Portal.
5.1.2. The credit card charge will appear on your customers statement
as CC-Payments.com, a white label billing solution.
5.1.3. Depending on the service term selected by the customer, their
credit card will automatically be charged on the selected intervals
based upon their selected plan.
5.1.4. Refusal or rejection of any such charge or any portion thereof is
grounds for suspension and/or termination of your resale account and/or
your customer accounts at the sole option of FaxForBusiness.com.
5.3 Refunds. There are no refunds of any kind for your customer
accounts. Notwithstanding the forgoing, FaxForBusiness.com reserves the
right to make a refund of any fee paid at any time without waiving its
right not to issue such refund at any time. Such right shall be exercised
by FaxForBusiness.com and within its sole discretion.
5.4 Chargebacks. You will be responsible for any chargebacks received,
at any time, for your customer accounts. The full amount of the
chargeback plus any service fees will be deducted from your commission
earnings balance. This balance can be viewed within the Reseller Portal.
You will be notified of such chargebacks.
6. Reseller Pricing
6.1 As a FaxForBusiness.com reseller you are free to select from the
available reseller plans on the Reseller Portal.
7. Branding
7.1 Reseller Branding. You may brand your Reseller Website as you wish
within the parameters of the FaxForBusiness.com branding capabilities,
except that you agree not to infringe upon the rights of any third
party in doing so. You further agree that you will indemnify and hold
FaxForBusiness.com harmless of and from any claim, action or other demand
for damages including but not limited to attorneys fees and costs of
any kind including expert witnesses fees which are in any way related
to your marketing, branding, advertising, publicizing or sale of your
customer accounts.
8. Required Terms of Sale
8.1 Acceptable Use Policy.
8.1.1. Any sale from the Reseller Website will be bound by the
FaxForBusiness.com Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy located
in the FaxForBusiness.com Legal portion of the website. This is intended
to stand as a minimum Acceptable Use Policy.
8.1.2. You agree to keep informed as to changes in the FaxForBusiness.com
Terms of Service and the Acceptable Use Policy.
9. Commission.
9.1. You will be eligible to receieve commission on new customer accounts
and recurring commission on existing customer accounts. These customer
accounts must be in good standing.
9.2. As your reseller account accrues commissions, you can track your
commission inside the Reseller Portal.
9.3. The commission value must exceed $250 in value and must undergo a
minimum settling period prior to being withdrawn.
9.4. The current settling period is 90 calender days.
9.5. A check will be mailed within 30 days of any request to withdrawal
commission earnings.
9.6. A check will automatically be mailed if your commission earnings
exceeds $1000.
9.7. Checks will be mailed to the mailing address provided within the
Reseller Portal.
9.8. Any chargebacks received after a commission payment has been sent
will be deducted from the existing commission earnings balance.
10. Suspension and Termination
10.1 Suspension - At the sole option of FaxForBusiness.com for any
reason set forth herein or in the event that you breach any term of this
agreement, FaxForBusiness.com may suspend your account by deactivating
any access by you to your reseller account and/or access by web users to
any information contained on the FaxForBusiness.com servers related to
your reseller account including your customer accounts while maintaining
the information and data related to your account and your customer's
accounts upon the FaxForBusiness.com servers for a reasonable period of
time. Suspension may specifically include the disabling of your reseller
account, any fax to email accounts, your customer accounts and/or any
access to information or data related thereto. In the event of any such
suspension, subject to paragraph 10.4, you may be notified and may be
given an opportunity to correct such breach. If notified and/or given
an opportunity to correct such breach, and such breach is not corrected
within ten (10) days the account may be terminated under paragraph
10.2. Service charges will continue to accrue on suspended accounts as
if they were not suspended. You will remain responsible for the payment
of any such charges during any such period of suspension.
10.2 Termination - This agreement and all of its terms shall remain in
full force and effect until it is terminated. Termination may include
the removal of any and all of your information from the FaxForBusiness.com
servers. Such information or data may or may not be made available to
you by FaxForBusiness.com after any such termination. This agreement
may be terminated (a) at FaxForBusiness.com's sole discretion after a
period of suspension as set forth in paragraph 10.1 or (b) by either
party upon 15 days notice.
10.2.1. Upon any termination of this agreement, any customer accounts
initially established by you under your FaxForBusiness.com resale account
under this agreement shall at the time of such termination become the
sole and exclusive property of FaxForBusiness.com. FaxForBusiness.com
shall have the right but shall not have any obligation to provide and
or continue to provide fax to email services to such customers. Nothing
contained in this paragraph shall reduce or otherwise affect the Rights
of FaxForBusiness.com under this agreement including but not limited to
the right to recover any and all reseller fees under this agreement.
10.3 In the event of termination under paragraph 10.2(a) there will be
no refund provided to you of any reseller or other fee. In addition,
FaxForBusiness.com may charge you an additional early termination fee
not to exceed $100.00 at its sole option. The assessment of this early
termination fee shall not affect the rights of FaxForBusiness.com to
recover from you losses, damages, indemnity, defense costs, expert costs,
collection costs and/or attorney's fees or other costs of any kind as
may be applicable under this agreement or otherwise under Florida Law.
10.4 A correct DNS (Domain Name Service) configuration is a requirement
to providing functional service to customer accounts. It is considered a
breach if your reseller domain name lapses, expires or changes ownership
without maintaining a correct DNS configuration. FaxForBusiness.com
reserves the right to waive any notification or provide an opportunity
to correct such breach, and the account may be terminated under paragraph
10.2.
11. OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; CONFIDENTIALITY
11.1 It is understood and agreed that during the term of this agreement
and thereafter you may come into possession of information which is the
confidential and proprietary information of FaxForBusiness.com including
but not limited to the FaxForBusiness.com reseller service tools, customer
service tools and maintenance tools. You acknowledge that all right and
title to any such FaxForBusiness.com intellectual property shall remain
the sole property of FaxForBusiness.com and that you have no right,
title or interest therein. You further agree not to provide access to
the FaxForBusiness.com reseller services to any third party. You agree
that you will not yourself and you agree that you will not to assist
any third party in any way to translate, decompile, reverse engineer,
disassemble, modify, reproduce, rent, lease, lend, license, distribute,
market or otherwise dispose of any portion of the FaxForBusiness.com
Reseller Service or any other aspect of the FaxForBusiness.com Fax to
Email or other services. Any and all right or title to any engineering,
coding, programming or customer service work around or other modification
of the FaxForBusiness.com service shall also remain the sole property
or FaxForBusiness.com.
11.2 During the term of this agreement you may have access to certain
information and materials relating to the FaxForBusiness.com business,
customers, software technology and marketing which FaxForBusiness.com
treats as confidential (hereinafter "Confidential Information:). You
agree to at all times during the term of this agreement and otherwise as
set forth herein: (i) hold in confidence, and not disclose or reveal
to any person or entity, any Confidential Information without the
express prior written consent of FaxForBusiness.com; and (ii) not use
or disclose any of the Confidential Information for any purpose at any
time, other than pursuant to your rights under this agreement for the
purpose intended. These obligations shall continue indefinitely for so
long as the Confidential Information is a trade secret under applicable
law and shall continue for three (3) years following termination of this
Agreement with respect to Confidential Information, which does not rise
to the level of a trade secret.
12. Information Usage
12.1 You hereby consent and agree that as to any information which
FaxForBusiness.com may collect from you and/or maintain with respect
to you, including but not limited to your account information, dates
of service, billing address, billing records, usage statistics, site
statistics, services purchased, fax to email purchases, correspondence
to or from FaxForBusiness.com concerning you or your account, or other
information which in FaxForBusiness.com sole judgment is reasonable,
FaxForBusiness.com may disclose such information to public or private
third parties as applicable law may require or permit. The decision
as to whether to disclose such information as may be required,
permitted or otherwise reasonable shall be within the sole discretion
of FaxForBusiness.com and may include but shall not be limited to
(1) compliance with court order or subpoena of any State or Federal
government, (2) compliance with the Electronic Communications Decency Act,
(3) compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (3) compliance
with the FaxForBusiness.com Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy or
other policies.
13. NOTICE
13.1 Any notice under this agreement shall be given by FaxForBusiness.com
to you via email at the address provided by you to FaxForBusiness.com
at the commencement of this agreement or as FaxForBusiness.com is
subsequently advised. Notice to you at this address is deemed sufficient
regardless of your receipt of such email. If you wish to update your
email address you should do so within the Reseller Portal.
13.2 Any notice by you under this agreement is effective only upon receipt
by FaxForBusiness.com and shall be made only in writing containing proper
security information either via email to resellers@FaxForBusiness.com
or via United States Mail. Notice sent Via United States Mail shall be
sent to the following Address:
Newrise Corp. d/b/a FaxForBusiness.com
5379 Lyons Road, #153
Coconut Creek, FL 33073
14. Survival
14.1 Sections 1, 4, 5, 8 - 22 inclusive, of this agreement shall survive
the termination of this agreement and shall remain in full force and
effect after any such termination.
15. Warranties and Limitations
15.1 FaxForBusiness.com makes every reasonable effort to maintain
operation of the FaxForBusiness.com Resale service however because as many
events and circumstances are beyond the control of FaxForBusiness.com,
FaxForBusiness.com does not in any way warrant or otherwise guarantee
the availability of the FaxForBusiness.com Resale system or fax to
email servers and is not responsible for any delay or loss of data,
lack of connection, slow connection, communication errors or any
other such issues whether due to the active or passive negligence of
FaxForBusiness.com.
15.2 THE FAXFORBUSINESS.COM SERVICE IS PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN "AS
IS" BASIS, AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
15.3 In general, FaxForBusiness.com has no control over information
contained on the Internet. Information obtained by you from
the Internet may be inaccurate, offensive or in some cases even
illegal. FaxForBusiness.com accepts no responsibility for any information
which you receive from the Internet. You accept full responsibility to
verify the truth and accuracy, legality and ownership of the information
that you obtain from the Internet as well as the reputation of the
individuals with whom you may deal. FaxForBusiness.com provides no
warrantee for any goods or services which you obtain over the Internet
nor the compatibility of any such services with the FaxForBusiness.com
system.
15.4 You specifically hereby waive any claim for damages of any kind
whether direct, indirect, special, exemplary, punitive, incidental or
consequential, loss of profits or loss of business as the result of any
action taken in response to any claim of copyright infringement without
regard to whether or not the material claimed to have been infringing
is later found to be infringing.
15.5 THE TOTAL SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AVAILABLE TO YOU AS THE RESULT
OF ANY BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY ACTION OR FAILURE TO
ACT WHETHER INTENTIONAL OR OTHERWISE SHALL BE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SERVICE
FEES PAID BY YOU TO FAXFORBUSINESS.COM IN THE THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY
PROCEEDING ANY ALLEGATION OF ENTITLEMENT TO SUCH REMEDY. IN NO EVENT
SHALL FAXFORBUSINESS.COM BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS
OF BUSINESS AS THE RESULT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR INACTION WITHOUT REGARD
TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES.
16. Indemnity
16.1 Use of Service. You agree to fully defend and indemnify and hold
harmless FaxForBusiness.com of and from any and all third party claims,
causes of action, demands, costs, damages including both direct and
consequential damages, specifically including attorneys fees and costs,
expert fees and costs and mediation and/or arbitration fees and costs
incurred (whether paid or not) as the result of or in any way in relation
to your marketing to, resale to or support of your customers with respect
to the FaxForBusiness.com fax to email services and/or any breach or
claim of breach of this agreement or your negligence whether active or
passive or any negligence of FaxForBusiness.com in any way related to
your use of the FaxForBusiness.com resale program, FaxForBusiness.com
Fax to Email services or any other aspect thereof.
16.2 Copyright. You agree to fully defend and indemnify and hold harmless
FaxForBusiness.com of and from any and all third party claims, causes of
action, demands, costs, damages including both direct and consequential
damages, specifically including attorneys fees and costs, expert fees and
costs and mediation and/or arbitration fees and costs incurred (whether
paid or not) as the result of any violation or claimed violation of any
copyright or other intellectual property right of any third party which is
in any way related to your use of the FaxForBusiness.com resale program,
FaxForBusiness.com Fax to Email, or any other aspect thereof. Choice of
counsel remains exclusively that of FaxForBusiness.com
16.3 Password. You agree to fully defend and indemnify and hold harmless
FaxForBusiness.com of and from any and all third party claims, causes of
action, demands, costs, damages including both direct and consequential
damages, specifically including attorneys fees and costs, expert fees
and costs and mediation and/or arbitration fees and costs incurred
(whether paid or not) as the result of or in any way in relation to the
disclosure of your confidential User ID and Password information. Choice
of counsel remains exclusively that of FaxForBusiness.com.
16.4 Customer Support. You agree to fully defend and indemnify and hold
harmless FaxForBusiness.com of and from any and all third party claims,
causes of action, demands, costs, damages including both direct and
consequential damages, specifically including attorneys fees and costs,
expert fees and costs and mediation and/or arbitration fees and costs
incurred (whether paid or not) as the result of providing or the failure
to provide any account maintenance, account management, customer support,
billing, administration and upkeep or any other aspect thereof. Choice
of counsel remains exclusively that of FaxForBusiness.com.
16.5 Personal/Financial Information. You agree to fully defend and
indemnify and hold harmless FaxForBusiness.com of and from any and all
third party claims, causes of action, demands, costs, damages including
both direct and consequential damages, specifically including attorneys
fees and costs, expert fees and costs and mediation and/or arbitration
fees and costs incurred (whether paid or not) as the result of or in
any way in relation to any failure to comply with paragraph 2.9 herein
relating to the protection of personally identifiable information and the
protection of customer financial information including but not limited
to credit card and bank account data.
16.6 Required Terms of Sale. You agree to fully defend and indemnify
and hold harmless FaxForBusiness.com of and from any and all third party
claims, causes of action, demands, costs, damages including both direct
and consequential damages, specifically including attorneys fees and
costs, expert fees and costs and mediation and/or arbitration fees and
costs incurred (whether paid or not) as the result of or in any way in
relation to any failure on your part or on the part of your customers
to comply with the required Terms of Sale set forth in paragraph 8
herein.
17. Force Majeure
17.1 Either party to this agreement shall be excused from any delay or
failure in performance hereunder caused by reason of any occurrence or
contingency beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited
to, acts of God, earthquake, labor disputes and strikes, riots, war,
and governmental requirements. The obligations and rights of the party
so excused shall be extended on a day-to-day basis for the period of
time equal to that of the underlying cause of the delay.
18. Assignment
18.1 This agreement and the rights hereunder are not assignable or
transferable except that FaxForBusiness.com may assign its rights
hereunder to any person or entity who shall become a principal owner,
or shareholder of FaxForBusiness.com. Any other attempted transfer or
assignment of rights hereunder shall be null and void ab initio.
19. Severability
19.1 If any term, clause or provision hereof is held invalid or
unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity
shall not affect the validity or operation of any other term, clause or
provision and such invalid term, clause or provision shall be deemed to
be severed from the Agreement.
20. Choice of Law
20.1 This Agreement shall be interpreted under the laws of the State of
Florida without regard to any conflict of laws provisions. Any action
between the parties to this agreement for the breach of this agreement
or any action or claim in any way otherwise relating to this agreement
shall be venued in the Superior Court of the State of Florida, County
of Broward. The parties to this agreement hereby consent to jurisdiction
in that court and agree to accept service of process by mail and hereby
waive any defense of any kind related to jurisdiction or venue.
21. No Agency
21.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of this agreement,
FaxForBusiness.com is not your agent, partner or joint venturer in
any respect.
22. Amendment
22.1 FaxForBusiness.com may without advance notice amend this Agreement
from time to time, and will do so by posting the new Agreement on the
Reseller Portal in place of the old. Each and every such amendment shall
be become effective immediately upon posting for all pre-existing and
future accounts. It is your obligation to check this page often for
updated agreements.
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