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Affiliate
Agreement
Note: This is an English translation of the Affiliate Terms
and Conditions of Corona Ltd. The Spanish version of the Affiliate Terms
and Conditions must be considered the original and valid ones. In the case of
any discrepancy or possibility difference in interpretation the Spanish version
prevails.
HAVING NOTED THAT:
- Corona Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Casino Claro’) has entered
into an Agreement for the Shared Conduct of a Gaming Business with Euro Gaming
NV (hereinafter referred to as Euro Gaming) for the operation and provision of
online gaming services under the “Casino Claro” and “Casino
La Sal” brands through the websites casinoclaro.com and casinolasal.com;
- Euro Gaming is responsible for the management of the affiliate program through
which affiliates can easily promote the Services provided on the websites casinoclaro.com
and casinolasal.com to their visitors;
- the Affiliate has indicated that he/she wants to make use of the affiliate program;
- Euro Gaming and the Affiliate wish to determine their mutual obligations and
responsibilities with regard to the affiliate program by means of this agreement
THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN AGREED:
1. Definitions
The following terms shall have the meanings defined below, both in the singular
and the plural, when written with a capital letter.
Affiliate Site: the Affiliate's website(s), from where a link
has been placed with permission from Euro Gaming, as duly authorized by Casino
Claro;
Services: the various services in the field of online gaming
available on the websites casinoclaro.com and casinolasal.com, including the provision
of online games of chance on the websites casinoclaro.com and casinolasal.com;
Link: a link or any other electronic connection that directs
Internet users (when they click through) to the casinoclaro.com or casinolasal.com
website, including any promotional text on the Affiliate Site;
Gaming Result: deposits made minus transaction costs, withdrawals
and change of balance in player’s account.
Agreement: this agreement.
2. Appointment as an Affiliate
2.1 Euro Gaming, as duly authorized by Casino Claro, hereby names the Affiliate
as one of her Affiliates, and the Affiliate accepts this appointment.
2.2 Euro Gaming, as duly authorized by Casino Claro, will make the Link available
that the Affiliate can place on his/her Affiliate Site. Visitors to the Affiliate
Site can use this Link to get only to the casinoclaro.com or casinolasal.com websites.
2.3 The Affiliate shall always make it clear that he/she is acting as an independent,
separate party. This Agreement shall not be deemed to create any form of legal
relationship that goes beyond the rights and obligations that the Parties accept
with respect to each other within this Agreement. In particular, although not
limited to these, this Agreement shall not be deemed to create any joint venture,
agency or employment relationship.
2.4 The Affiliate is not authorized to make agreements on behalf of Euro Gaming
and/or Casino Claro or to accept or take on obligations or liabilities on their
behalf with respect to third parties.
3. Rights of use
3.1. Insofar as required for the purposes of carrying out this agreement, Euro
Gaming, as duly authorized by Casino Claro, grants the Affiliate a non-exclusive
and non-transferable right to use the Link and the ”Casino Claro”
and/or “Casino La Sal” name, including the associated logos, for the
duration of the Agreement. The only rights that are granted to the Affiliate are
those inherent to this contract. It is prohibited to the Affiliate to sub-license
third parties.
3.2. When making use of the said rights, the Affiliate shall take into account
all instructions, directions and regulations given by Euro Gaming.
4. Affiliate's obligations
4.1. The Affiliate is responsible for placement and presentation of the Link.
4.2. The Affiliate shall do his/her utmost to draw attention actively and effectively
to the Link and to the Services.
4.3. If the Affiliate places information about the Services on the Affiliate Site,
he/she shall ensure that such information agrees with the information on the casinoclaro.com
and/or casinolasal.com websites.
4.4. The Affiliate shall refrain from statements and behavior that could be disadvantageous
for the reputation of and the good will towards Euro Gaming, Casino Claro, casinoclaro.com
and/or casinolasal.com websites.
4.5. The Affiliate shall bear all costs associated with his/her own promotional
activities for the Services.
4.6. The Affiliate shall not place any unlawful, criminal, illegal or immoral
information on the Affiliate Site and shall not engage in advertising that:
- implies that remote gaming promotes or is required for social acceptance, personal
or financial success or the resolution of any economic, social or personal problems;
- contains endorsements by well-known personalities that suggest remote gaming
contributed to their success;
- is specifically directed at individuals under eighteen years of age;
- exceeds the limits of decency.
4.7. The Affiliate shall not participate in any activities that infringe the intellectual
property rights or other rights of third parties, or that are unlawful or punishable
by law. This includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:
- infringement of copyright on protected works or other activities incompatible
with the intellectual property rights of third parties;
- publication or distribution of child pornography;
- publication or distribution of offensive, violent, discriminatory or otherwise
illegal content.
4.8. If the Affiliate receives username and password as part of the affiliate
program of Casino Claro, then he/she should keep these safe and use them carefully.
If theft of the username and password is suspected, the Affiliate must report
this immediately to Euro Gaming, so that Euro Gaming can cancel the Affiliate's
account or take other appropriate measures. The Affiliate is responsible for all
damages suffered by Euro Gaming and/or Casino Claro, resulting from misuse or
theft of the username and the password.
5. Rights and obligations of Euro Gaming
5.1. Euro Gaming reserves the right to offer the Services, in collaboration with
Casino Claro, in any form and to modify or cease to provide (part of) its Services
at any moment it sees fit without prior permission from the Affiliate.
5.2. Euro Gaming shall inform the Affiliate if it decides to make strategic alterations
to its policy.
5.3. Euro Gaming cannot guarantee unrestricted accessibility for the casinoclaro.com
and/or casinolasal.com websites, nor that it shall be possible to make uninterrupted
used of the Services.
6. Remuneration and Payment
6.1. The remuneration for the Affiliate is based on a percentage of the Gaming
Result achieved from customers using the Services who have arrived at casinoclaro.com
or casinolasal.com via the Link on the Affiliate Site concerned.
6.2. A customer is regarded as having been provided through the Link on the Affiliate
Site if they arrived at the casinoclaro.com or casinolasal.com website through
the Link on the Affiliate Site during the 24 hours preceding their registration
and if they did not arrive at the casinoclaro.com or casinolasal.com website concerned
in the intervening period by means of a link on a site belonging to other Euro
Gaming affiliates.
6.3. The actual remuneration consists of a percentage of the monthly Gaming Result
from the customers concerned, who use the Services and arrived by means of the
Link on the Affiliate Site concerned.
6.4. This percentage can rise through a series of bands to a maximum of 35% of
the Gaming Result as stated in clause 6.8 of this Agreement.
6.5. The total remuneration owed by Euro Gaming to the Affiliate shall be calculated
on a monthly basis and shall be paid within 6 weeks of the end of that month.
If the remuneration is less than € 50 per month, the payment shall be held
back until it has accumulated to more than € 50.
6.6. A detailed specification shall be provided along with the remuneration, based
on the Gaming Result from the customers attracted, corrected by charge backs and/or
credits to casinoclaro.com and/or casinolasal.com customers.
6.7. The remunerations as covered in this article shall be calculated based upon
the payments that Euro Gaming and Casino Claro have actually received from their
clients.
6.8 In the registration process, the Affiliate will have to choose between the
remuneration calculation methods that are displayed. This choice cannot be modified
during the duration of this Agreement.
Method A: The remuneration is calculated as a percentage of
the monthly Gaming Result generated by the customers who have arrived at casinoclaro.com
or casinolasal.com via the Affiliate Site concerned since the beginning of the
Agreement.
Remuneration scheme for method A:
| Gaming Result |
| Applicable remuneration
percentage |
|
| On the Gaming Result up to 10.000 € |
22% |
| On the Gaming Result from 10.001 € to 50.000 € |
25% |
| On the Gaming Result from 50.001 € to 100.000 € |
30% |
| On the Gaming Result higher than 100.001 € |
|
Method B: The remuneration percentage for a certain month
is determined by the number of New Players generated by the Affiliate in that
month, this percentage is applied to the monthly Gaming Result generated by the
customers who have arrived at casinoclaro.com or casinolasal.com via the Affiliate
Site concerned since the beginning of the Agreement.
Remuneration scheme for method B:
| Number of New Players in
that month |
| Applicable remuneration
percentage |
|
| 0 |
10% |
| Between 1 and 3 |
22% |
| Between 4 and 10 |
25% |
| Between 11 and 50 |
30% |
| 51 or more |
35% |
“New Players” are defined as those customers that have registered
at casinoclaro.com or casinolasal.com during the month on which the calculation
is made, and have received a welcome bonus that has not been reclaimed by Casino
Claro. Notwithstanding its other rights, Casino Claro can reclaim a bonus after
the calculation for a certain month has been made.
New Players, customers and/or Gaming Revenue belong to the original account
of the Affiliate and cannot be passed on, or transferred by any means.
7. Changes to terms and conditions and to rates
Euro Gaming retains the authority to change the terms and conditions of this agreement
and the remunerations. Euro Gaming shall not bring such changes into effect less
than two months after having informed the Affiliate about them in writing or by
email. If the Affiliate does not agree to any such change, he/she has the right
to terminate this Agreement, either in writing or by email, from the date that
the change comes into effect.
8. Intellectual property rights and domain names
8.1. All intellectual property rights (taken to include but not to be limited
to the brand name, rights of authorship, databank rights with respect to the Link,
the casinoclaro.com and casinolasal.com websites and/or anything else related
to the Services in any way) shall reside with Euro Gaming and/or Casino Claro,
as the case may be, and/or its suppliers and license providers. Nothing in this
Agreement shall be deemed to involve any form of transfer of any intellectual
property rights to the Affiliate.
8.2. The Affiliate is not permitted to delete or alter any indications concerning
the intellectual property rights mentioned in the previous paragraph.
8.3. The Affiliate shall refrain from directly or indirectly registering or requesting
legal protection for the intellectual property rights mentioned in paragraph 1
of this article or for any rights deriving from them such as domain names, and
shall also refrain from any other activities that could be damaging to the said
intellectual property rights and/or the Services.
9. Confidentiality
The parties acknowledge that they will acquire confidential information about
each other as part of this Agreement. The parties will not disclose these confidential
details. The parties shall not make these details publicly available and/or reproduce
them at any time during the lifetime of this Agreement or after termination of
this Agreement without the prior written permission of the other party.
10. Liability
10.1. The Affiliate is entirely responsible and liable for the content, development,
and maintenance and functioning of the Affiliate Site.
10.2. The Affiliate declares that he/she possesses all the permits, licenses,
etc. required for the normal and lawful running of the business and that he/she
is compliant with all the legal stipulations for exploiting his/her website and
carrying out his/her obligations deriving from this Agreement.
10.3. The Affiliate absolves Euro Gaming of all claims made against Euro Gaming
relating to obligations that could reasonably be seen as being related to this
Agreement that result from shortcomings on the part of the Affiliate or any third
party acting on his/her behalf.
10.4. Euro Gaming is never liable for direct and/or indirect damages as a result
of the casinoclaro.com, casinolasal.com and/or anything related in any way to
the Services or the Link not working properly and/or without interruptions. Such
damages shall be taken to include consequential damages and loss of revenue due
to the net returns being less than anticipated or zero.
10.5. Euro Gaming is only liable for direct damages as a result of deliberate
action or gross negligence on its part. The total liability can never exceed the
total amount that the Affiliate has received up to that point from Euro Gaming
deriving from this Agreement, with a maximum of € 25,000 (twenty-five thousand
Euros).
The following are considered to be “direct damages”:
a) reasonable cost to determine the cause and size of the damage;
b) reasonable cost, already paid, in order to answer to the possible poor performance
of Euro Gaming and/or Casino Claro;
c) reasonable cost, made to prevent or limit the direct damages, to the extent
that the Affiliate can proof that these costs has led to limiting the direct damage;
all other damage, which is not subject to the above mentioned definition of direct
damage, will be considered as “indirect damage”.
11. Duration and termination
11.1. The Agreement comes into effect from the moment that Euro Gaming has accepted,
through e-mail or any other written means, the request of the Affiliate to participate
in the Affiliate program and will have a minimal duration of one year. With exception
of the reasons mentioned in clause 11.3, cancellation at intermediate points within
the period of the first year is not possible. After this period, the Agreement
shall be automatically extended with a period of one year after the ending of
each year, unless one of the Parties terminates the Agreement by registered letter,
allowing for a notice period of three months.
11.2. Notwithstanding its other rights, Euro Gaming has the right to terminate
the Agreement if the Affiliate, after having received a proper written notice
of default allowing for a reasonable period for correction of the shortcoming,
can be held accountable for shortcomings in the actual obligations deriving from
this agreement.
11.3. Euro Gaming has the right to cancel the Agreement partially or in its entirety
with immediate effect and without a written notice of default if:
- the Affiliate has requested a suspension of payments;
- bankruptcy has been requested or declared for the Affiliate;
- the Affiliate's activities have a negative effect on the good will or reputation
of Euro Gaming, Casino Claro, casinoclaro.com and/or casinolasal.com;
- the Affiliate is no longer promoting the Services using the Link or by any other
means;
- the Affiliate is in any way involved with the (unrequested) initiation of any
form of commercial communication (spam) by means of email, fax, SMS, MMS, post
or other means.
11.4. When the Agreement is cancelled on grounds other than those covered by paragraphs
2 and 3 of this article, the Affiliate shall receive the remuneration described
in article 6 of this Agreement for a period of 4 months.
11.5. When the Agreement is cancelled for any reason whatsoever, the legal rights
of use as described in article 3 are terminated. The Affiliate shall remove the
Link and the casinoclaro.com and/or casinolasal.com brand name(s), including associated
logos, from the Affiliate Site without delay.
12. Miscellaneous
12.1. The Agreement contains the correct and complete version of the agreements
made between the Parties and replaces all earlier agreements made in any way whatsoever
with respect to the Affiliate program.
12.2. All modifications and additions to the Agreement can be made through e-mail,
as long as they have been accepted by both Parties.
12.3. If any stipulation from the Agreement is deemed to be unlawful, invalid
or otherwise unenforceable, then the Parties shall by mutual agreement produce
a new stipulation that approximates the content and intention of the old stipulation
insofar as this is possible, without itself being unlawful, invalid or otherwise
unenforceable.
12.4. The Affiliate is not authorized to transfer any of his/her rights or obligations
deriving from the Agreement to a third party without prior written permission
from Euro Gaming.
12.5 In the event of the termination of the Agreement for the Shared Conduct of
a Gaming Business in place between Euro Gaming and Casino Claro, Euro Gaming shall,
immediately with effect from the date of termination of the said Agreement for
the Shared Conduct of a Gaming Business (hereinafter the “Relevant Date”),
transfer the rights arising thereto in terms of this Agreement to Casino Claro
which, in consideration there for, will assume the obligations arising to Euro
Gaming in terms of this Agreement. The Affiliate hereby irrevocably consents to
the said assignment of rights and obligations by Euro Gaming to Casino Claro and
undertakes to recognize Casino Claro as the new counterparty to this Agreement
with effect from the Relevant Date.
13. Applicability in law and jurisdiction
13.1. The Agreement and any disputes arising from it shall be handled under Maltese
law.
13.2. All conflicts arising from the Agreement or related to it shall be dealt
with exclusively by the competent legal authorities in Malta in the case that
the Affiliate decides to make a claim to Euro Gaming.
13.3 In the case that Euro Gaming decides to make a claim to the Affiliate, Euro
Gaming has the choice of making the claim in the Maltese jurisdiction or in the
country of residence of the Affiliate.
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