Ok, here goes.
I was in correspondence with someone from Gammon regarding these, and was assured they would be changed and ecouraged to join. But with the experiences we have had here of late, I figured I’d wait.
2.1 Each Affiliate shall chose whether to sign up for the Revenue Sharing Plan of the Referral Fees Plan and such decision shall be final. Under no circumstances may an Affiliate change the Plan for which Such Affiliate have signed up.
I personally have no problem with this – but as a heads up, this will come back to bite you when you encounter fraudulent CPA deals.
2.2 According to the Plan the Affiliate have chose, Affiliate shall be paid on a quarterly basis the amounts to which Affiliate shall be entitled in accordance with the provisions of the sign up form which will be confirmed to Affiliate by e-mail.
I don’t like quarterly payments, and I doubt anyone else does.
3.4 Time of Payment. Affiliate Fees will be payable within fifteen (15) days after the end of each calendar quarter, except that, in no event will the Company pay to an Affiliate an amount lower than $150, and in the event such Affiliate balance at the end of a calendar quarter is below $150 such balance shall be carried over and added to the next quarter’s Affiliate Fees. In the event, the balance amount carried over does not total $150 within a three consecutive calendar quarters, then the amount due will be voided and cancelled, and the Company may terminate this Agreement.
I don’t like that either. People will get discouraged waiting for 6 months or longer and drop you, and you get to never pay anyone who doesn’t have a big volume.
5. No Competitive Marketing
It is hereby clarified that you shall not be entitled to market to potential Players (i) on any Internet site on which we promote the Site; (ii) on any Internet search engine on which we promote the Website; and (iii) in any other manner which results in your competing with us in relation to the promotion of the Website. In the event that you are in breach of the foregoing provisions, we reserve the right to render the Tracking URLs assigned to you inoperative and you shall have no claims against #siteurl#, its owner or their directors, officers, shareholders or employees in respect of such action taken by us
This one is downright silly. We can’t promote on any search engine where you promote? That about means no one can ever promote you.
All Players shall be considered as customers of Company only and an Affiliate may not contact a Player without receiving the Company written approval for such contact. If in the Companys opinion you either try to or do make contact with a Player without the Company’s written approval, the Company shall be entitled to immediately terminate this Agreement and to withhold all commissions owed to you at such time. Further, if following your receipt of Company ‘s written approval for your contacting or corresponding with a Player, Company deems that such contact or correspondence is against the best interests of Company, Company shall have the right both to revoke the approval previously granted and to terminate this Agreement and to withhold all commissions owing to you at such time.
Affiliate further agrees that Company will access information from or about visitors to Affiliates website, and may use such information for any purpose
I have contact with many of my players and intend to continue to do so. They write to me and I write to them, often.
And accessing info about visitors to my site? Over my dead body. I have a privacy policy. I have email addresses for many of my visitors, they trust me with them. No one but me will see these, ever. And no one sees my stats either unless I voluntarily and for my own reasons make them available.
These are just the points that jumped out at me. Gammon had agreed to change these but I haven’t seen the changes and it’s been a long time. With this very strong statement in the beginning:
IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO ACCEPT ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, THEN DO NOT PROMOTE THE SITE.
That means we better get all these things straightened out first.