Affiliate Zim Affiliate Program Terms of Service

1.Agreement

By signing up to be an Affiliate in the Affiliate Zim Program (“Program”) you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Service”).

Affiliate Zim reserves the right to update and change the Terms of Service from time to time without notice. Any new features that augment or enhance the current Program, including the release of new tools and resources, shall be subject to the Terms of Service. Continued use of the Program after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.

Violation of any of the terms below will result in the termination of your Account and forfeiture of any outstanding affiliate commission payments earned during the violation. You agree to use the Affiliate Zim Program at your own risk.

2.Account Terms

  • You must be 18 years or older to be part of this Program. (Be ready with proof on request).
  • An individual below 18years can only apply after signed approval from a proven legal guardian willing to participate in regulating the partnership. Certain conditions will be implemented to protect the young affiliate.
  • You must have a bank account to receive your commission. All payments are done in compliance with the current laws of Zimbabwe.
  • You must be a human. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.
  • You must provide your legal full name, a valid email address, your phone number and any other information requested in order to complete the signup process.
  • Your login may only be used by one person – a single login shared by multiple people is not permitted.
  • You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. Affiliate Zim cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.
  • You are responsible for all content posted and activity that occurs under your account.
  • One person or legal entity may not maintain more than one account.
  • You may not use the Affiliate Program for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. You must not, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).
  • A business or organisation can become an affiliate but the responsibility remains with the 

3.Links/graphics on your site, in your emails, or other communications

Once you have signed up for the Affiliate Zim Program, you will be assigned a unique Affiliate ID/link. You are permitted to place links, banners, or other graphics we provide with your Affiliate ID on your site, in your emails, or in other communications. We will provide you with guidelines, link styles, and graphical artwork to use in linking to Affiliate Zim. We may change the design of the artwork at any time without notice, but we won’t change the dimensions of the images without proper notice.

To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and referral fee accrual, we will provide you with special link formats to be used in all links between your site and Affiliate Zim. You must ensure that each of the links between your site and Affiliate Zim properly utilizes such special link formats. Links to Affiliate Zim placed on your site pursuant to this Agreement and which properly utilize such special link formats are referred to as “Special Links.” You will earn referral fees only with respect to sales on an Affiliate Zim product or service occurring directly through Special Links.

Where you are using offline platforms, then tracking will be done using the Affiliate ID to associate the sale with the affiliate who did the referral. Printable promotional material will be provided to the affiliate to promote off-line at cost price at Affiliate’s cost, unless the client supplies the printed promotional material. Our promotional material cannot be duplicated unless it is approved.

Special conditions will be outlined in making a valid referral to protect the brands of the products and services the affiliate is promoting. You will only earn from sales placed using your Affiliate ID after the refund period has lapsed where applicable.

We will not be liable to you with respect to any failure by you or someone you refer to incorrectly quote your Affiliate ID, including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of amounts that would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement.

4. Referral fees/commissions and payment

For a Product or Service sale to be eligible to earn a referral fee, the customer must click-through a Special Link from your site, email, or other communications to https://affiliate.co.zw and complete an order for a product during that session if you are using online platforms OR the customer uses your Affiliate ID when placing an order to https://affiliate.co.zw.

We will only pay commissions on links or orders that are automatically tracked and captured by our systems. We will not pay commissions if someone says they purchased or someone says they entered a referral code if it was not tracked by our system. We can only pay commissions on business generated sales through properly formatted special links that were automatically tracked by our systems or properly filled orders clearly stating the Affiliate ID.

We reserve the right to disqualify commissions earned through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive, questionable sales or marketing methods.

Payments only begin once you’ve earned US$15 or more in affiliate income. We will pay accounts that have crossed the  US$15 threshold twice a month on Thursdays. Where a special request is done to pay less than US$15 the affiliate will incur all the costs to process the payment.

5. Identifying yourself as an Affiliate Zim Affiliate

You may not issue any press release with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Program. All Affiliate announcements are done in-house. Where you want to create your own announcement, send your article and site links to hello@affiliate.co.zw. Affiliates are free to share the official welcome artwork with their network and on social media.

In addition, you may not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and you, say you develop our products, say you are part of Affiliate Zim or express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this Agreement (including by expressing or implying that we support, sponsor, endorse, or contribute money to any charity or other cause).

This includes creating websites, social media platforms or projects using the name Affiliate Zim in the naming of the platform. This will be considered as a key violation of the Affiliate Agreement and will result in termination of the agreement because of impersonating the brand. All affiliates are independent from Affiliate Zim. 

You may not purchase products through your affiliate links for your own use. Such purchases may result (in our sole discretion) in the withholding of referral fees and/or the termination of this Agreement.

6. Payment schedule

As long as your current affiliate earnings are over US$15 you’ll be paid. If you haven’t earned more than US$15 since your last payment, we’ll pay you the following pay period after you’ve crossed the threshold.

7. Customer definition

Customers who buy products through this Program will be deemed to be our customers. Accordingly, all of our rules, policies and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and product sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for products sold under this Program in accordance with our own pricing policies.

Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect Products that you have listed on your site, you should not display product prices on your site. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.

8. Your responsibilities

You will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of your site and for all materials that appear on your site or that you distribute. For example, you will be solely responsible for:

– The technical operation of your site and all related equipment
– Ensuring the display of Special Links on your site does not violate any agreement between you and any third party (including without limitation any restrictions or requirements placed on you by a third party that hosts your site)
– The accuracy, truth, and appropriateness of materials posted on your site (including, among other things, all Product-related materials and any information you include within or associate with Special Links)
– Ensuring that materials posted on your site do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights)
– Ensuring that materials posted on your site are not  illegal
– Ensuring that your site accurately and adequately discloses, either through a privacy policy or otherwise, how you collect, use, store, and disclose data collected from visitors, including, where applicable, that third parties (including advertisers) may serve content and/or advertisements and collect information directly from visitors and may place or recognize cookies on visitors’ browsers.
– Not sponsoring adverts in the name of Affiliate Zim.

Responsibilities for off-line promoting:
-Promoting only in areas that are legal and approved by Affiliate Zim.
-Sharing only the approved promotional material printed in high quality.
-Promoting in a way that does not bring the Affiliate Zim or its clients to disrepute.
-Affiliate to be presentable and respectful at all times.

9. Compliance with Laws

As a condition to your participation in the Program, you agree that while you are a Program participant you will comply with all laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgments, decisions or other requirements of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, whether those laws, etc. are now in effect or later come into effect during the time you are a Program participant. Without limiting the foregoing obligation, you agree that as a condition of your participation in the Program you will comply with all applicable laws that govern marketing email – including anti-spam laws and material distribution.

10. Term of the Agreement and Program

The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Program application and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your site, all links to https://affiliate.co.zw, and all of our trademarks, trade dress, and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Program. Affiliate Zim reserves the right to end the Program at any time. Upon program termination, Affiliate Zim will pay any outstanding earnings accrued above US$20.

11. Termination

Affiliate Zim, in its sole discretion, has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Program, or any other Affiliate Zim service, for any reason at any time. Such termination of the Service will result in the deactivation or deletion of your Account or your access to your Account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment of all potential or to-be-paid commissions in your Account if they were earned through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive, questionable sales or marketing methods. Affiliate Zim reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

12. Relationship of Parties

You are an independent contractor, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.

13. Limitations of Liability

We will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement.

14. Disclaimers

We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, noninfringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade usage). In addition, we make no representation that the operation of the Affiliate Zim will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.

15. Independent Investigation

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY TIME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEBSITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR WEBSITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.

16. Arbitration

Any dispute relating in any way to this Agreement (including any actual or alleged breach thereof), any transactions or activities under this Agreement or your relationship with us or any of our affiliates shall be submitted to confidential arbitration, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our intellectual property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state court (and you consent to non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts) or any other court of competent jurisdiction. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the Zimbabwean Law. The law official’s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

17. Miscellaneous

This Agreement will be governed by the laws of Zimbabwe, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement.

The failure of Affiliate Zim to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The Terms of Service constitutes the entire agreement between you and Affiliate Zim and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and Affiliate Zim (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms of Service.