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“Advertising Material” means banners, creatives, keywords, product/service descriptions, email subject lines, slogans, trademarks, logos, images, text, links, advertising content, video, data, or other material provided by or on behalf of CodeRed to the Affiliate.

“Affiliate” means the person or entity contracting with EC-Council and intending to be bound by this Agreement.

“Affiliate Dashboard” means the centralized hub where Affiliates may access various tools and resources and may include Advertising Materials, Commissions and Affiliate Links.

“Affiliate Lead” means a User who clicks on the Affiliate Link that we have made available to you via the Affiliate Tool.

“Affiliate Link” means the unique tracking link you place on your site or promote online on different platforms.

“Affiliate Program” means the program under which Affiliates will legally promote CodeRed Services to receive a commission based on specific commission structure, as provided further in this Agreement.

"Applicable Privacy Laws" means all applicable data protection and privacy laws applicable to the Processing of Personal Data, including, when and where applicable, (a) the GDPR; (b) the UK Data Protection Act 2018; (c) U.S. state and federal data protection laws, rules, or regulations including without limitation the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018 (“CCPA”); (d) the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) and Canadian Anti-Spam Law (“CASL”), and (e) similar laws enacted anywhere in the world addressing the protection or the use, transmission, or other processing of Personal Data, each as amended, modified, and/or supplemented by the guidance or regulatory decisions of any relevant supervisory authority or other data protection regulatory authority.

“Commission” shall mean the payment received by the Affiliate for the completed User transactions, subject to exclusions as specified within these Terms.

“Confidential Information” means any information, reports, or data such as diagrams, plans, drawings and supporting records or materials (whether in writing, orally, or by any electronic or other means), disclosed by or relating to a party, and its respective customers or suppliers including: information arising during the term of this Agreement; information about a party’s business affairs, operations, processes, plans, intentions, product information; any reports generated by the use of the Interface; information about a party’s operations, products or trade secrets, design rights, market strategy and opportunities, customer and supplier details; information about a party’s technology (including any know-how and source code), data on the network, formulae, photographs, drawings, specifications, software programs, methodologies, samples and any technical, business plans, financial or commercial information relating to a party, and any derivatives of any part of any of them and which (i) is marked or identified as confidential; or (ii) would be regarded as confidential by a reasonable business person.

"Good Industry Practice" means the exercise of that degree of skill, diligence, prudence, and foresight which would reasonably and ordinarily be expected from a skilled and experienced operator engaged in the same type of undertaking under the same or similar circumstances.

“Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person), or as that term (or similar variants, such as “personal information”) may otherwise be defined in Applicable Privacy Laws.

“User Transactions” means those transactions by Affiliate Leads that are eligible for Commission pursuant to the ‘User transactions’ section of this Agreement.

The terms, "Commission", "Controller", "Data Subject", "Member State", "Processing" and "Supervisory Authority" shall have the same meaning as in the GDPR, and their cognate terms shall be construed accordingly.

Complete your application. Prior to enrolling in our Affiliate Program, you need to complete the affiliate Application (the “Application”). You need to identify your website, describe how you plan to promote CodeRed Services on your website, and provide certain contact information, and any other KYC information which would be updated from time to time.

Application Acceptance. Upon reviewing your application, if we decide to accept it, you will receive an email notification confirming the approval. It is important to note that we reserve the right to accept or reject your application at our sole discretion. We may reject your application if any of the information provided is inaccurate or incomplete. We retain the right to reject your application based on any other reasons we deem appropriate.

Your registration request will be rejected, if it is determined that your website or other channels includes anything unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, discriminatory, or otherwise objectionable. For domain names associated with your site that are registered privately, the domain of your username/email address must match the URL submitted with your application. You will have no legal recourse against us for the rejection of your Affiliate Program application.

Access to the Affiliate Program. Once we have accepted your application, we will send you a welcome email containing your login details, which will grant you access to our Affiliate Dashboard, which may contain information courses to be promoted, Commissions etc.

It is your responsibility to maintain the security of your username and password information. Please note that any Advertising Materials or promotional materials being used by you must be approved by us, prior to such usage. You must also comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including FTC guidelines.

You will ensure that your information including your email address and phone number, is at all times complete, accurate and up-to-date. We may send communications to the email address associated with your account. You will be deemed to have received all notifications, approvals, and other communications sent to that email address, even if the email address associated with your account is no longer current.

Customers who buy CodeRed’s products and services through the Affiliate Program are deemed to be Users of CodeRed Services (“Users”). As such, all CodeRed’s policies and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and product and service sales shall apply.

You shall refer all questions, requests and queries regarding our products and services to us. Affiliate does not have the authority to make or accept any offer on our behalf.

The determination, alteration, or preservation of pricing for CodeRed Services remains entirely at the discretion of CodeRed. Any matters concerning these decisions are not subject to dispute.

CodeRed reserves the right to withhold Affiliate commissions and/or terminate this Agreement for Affiliates found to be in violation of this policy.

Eligibility: Except in jurisdictions in which such a transaction is not permitted, you are eligible to earn affiliate commissions on Net Receipts during the term of these Affiliate Terms, according to the calculation described below. The percentage of the commission should be provided to you by CodeRed upon approval of your Application.

Net Receipts shall mean the revenue earned by CodeRed in USD, or after conversion of any foreign currency received into USD at the prevailing exchange rate and credited to CodeRed, net of any indirect taxes or of any other taxes and net of any bank charges, handling charges, postage and packaging charges and any expenses that CodeRed has incurred in the process of the sales transaction.

Calculation of Affiliate commissions will be carried out seven (7) days after the end of each calendar quarter or upon reaching a commission threshold of USD 500, whichever occurs earlier. We reserve the right to withhold all current and future payments owed to you, including for non-compliance with the agreements, CodeRed’s Code of Conduct, or non-adherence to applicable regulations and guidelines.

Commissions will be disbursed solely upon receipt of a valid invoice from the Affiliate within the specified timeframe and subsequent approval by CodeRed. The invoice prepared by the Affiliate must contain all pertinent information, as mandated by relevant laws and regulations. CodeRed reserves the right to withhold commission for submission of inadequate invoices. Commissions will be disbursed through the mode of payment agreed between the parties, either via bank wire transfer or PayPal.

Commissions displayed on the affiliate dashboard may not be the commission paid to you, since it is subject to applicable deductions.

CodeRed reserves the right to revise the Commission from time to time.

Affiliate Commission will be paid as per CodeRed’s payment cycle.

You are not eligible to receive commission or any other compensation from us if:

• such compensation is disallowed or limited by laws or any regulations in Singapore or the laws or regulations of your jurisdiction;
• the applicable User objects to or prohibits such compensation or excludes such compensation from its payments to CodeRed;
• the commission payment has been obtained by fraudulent means, misuse of the Affiliate Link, in violation of this Affiliate Agreement, or by any other means that we deem to breach the spirit of the Affiliate Program.

Commissions will only be sent for transactions that have been successfully completed. Transactions that result in chargebacks or refunds will not be paid out, as per the refund policy.

CodeRed reserves the right to seek refund of any Commission paid to the Affiliate, if such Commission is paid for a User Transaction resulting in a chargeback or refund or any other invalid transaction. The Affiliate agrees to refund the amount within a period of 15 (fifteen) days of such notice.

User Transactions: We will compensate you with Commission, as outlined in this section, for each User who successfully completes a relevant User Transaction by enrolling for CodeRed Services subscription after clicking on an Affiliate Link provided by you. This is subject to your continued eligibility to receive Commission as stated in this Agreement and the User Transaction being recorded as a commissionable sale on the CodeRed Affiliate dashboard.

Affiliates are responsible for any and all charges, fees, taxes, exchange rates, surcharges and other expenses incurred in order to receive affiliate payments. Please check with your receiving banking institution to find out if any of these apply for your account.

Commissions shall be subject to applicable withholding taxes.

If we determine that payment of affiliate commissions to you in any jurisdiction is illegal under any laws, then we may reserve the right to not pay affiliate commissions for any sales made in that jurisdiction.

We may withhold your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid to you.

If at any time there has been no substantial activity on your account for 12 months then we will have the right to withhold any accrued fee. Further, any unpaid fees in your account may be subject to escheatment under applicable law.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Terms, any dispute regarding Commissions shall be settled by CodeRed and any such settlement shall be final and binding on the parties.

You hereby grant CodeRed, a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use your names, titles, and logos in the advertising, marketing, promoting, and publicizing in any manner of our rights under these Affiliate Terms. However, we are under no obligation to advertise, market, promote, or publicize.

You will adhere to our logo usage policy found at EC-Council Legal page and the brand guidelines as shared with you.

You agree not to use our proprietary materials in any manner that is disparaging or that otherwise portrays us in a negative light. We each reserve all of our respective rights in the proprietary materials covered by this license. In addition to the license granted in these Affiliate Terms, both parties agree that they retain all rights, titles, and interests to their respective rights. No right, title, or interest is transferred from one party to the other.

You agree and acknowledge that all intellectual property created as part of the services performed under this Agreement shall vest with EC-Council.

CodeRed shall solely provide the Advertising Materials to Affiliate. The Affiliate shall use the Advertising Materials as provided by CodeRed for performing services in this Agreement and the Affiliate shall not market and advertise the business as contemplated in this Agreement in violation to the Advertising Material as provided by CodeRed.

You agree not to modify, alter, copy, misrepresent, sell, re-use, embellish, emulate, clone, distribute, or divulge in any manner the offer or the Advertising Materials or any part thereof in any way, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of CodeRed. The Affiliate shall not remove any proprietary notices, trademarks, or labels contained on or within the Advertising Materials, products and services or any graphical representation thereof.

CodeRed gives Affiliate no independent right to use EC-Council’s trademarks, service marks, names, logo, or other Intellectual Property, and reserves any rights not explicitly granted in this Agreement.

You will not use our trademarks, tradenames, brand name, company name (“Our Names”) or any variation of Our Names in your domain names or social media pages. You will not purchase any domain names that include Our Names or any misspellings or variations of Our Names to run promotions as an affiliate or otherwise. Additionally, you shall not use and include Our Names or the look and feel of Our Names on any social media pages where you run promotions as an Affiliate.

You shall place Affiliate Links on your website of your acceptance into the Affiliate Program. All promotional activities must be accepted by us prior to their use.

You will actively participate in the Affiliate Program by accessing and using promotional Affiliate Links provided by CodeRed.

You agree to be solely responsible for all costs and expenses you may incur in connection with your participation in the Affiliate Program and/or your performance under this Agreement including:

• The development, operation and maintenance of your site;
• All materials that appear on your site and the accuracy and appropriateness of such materials;
• Ensuring that any such materials do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights, are not libellous, defamatory, misleading, false, or deceptive or otherwise illegal; and
• Ensuring that your site and your business practices do not violate this Agreement.

You agree to keep your application with CodeRed updated with current and accurate information (including WHO-IS information) and, at all times, list the web sites you are using to drive traffic to us. For domain names associated with your site that are registered privately, the domain of your username/email address must match the URL submitted with your application.

You agree not to make any representations, either express or implied, or create an appearance or impression, directly or indirectly, that a visitor to your site is visiting our site, that a visitor to our site is visiting your site or that CodeRed endorses you or your site or your products and services (e.g., you are agreeing not to "frame" any pages or portions of our site).

If the Affiliate disseminates any advertising material not provided by CodeRed, then no Affiliate commissions will be paid, and the Affiliate Agreement will be terminated.

Product Listing Ads (PLAs)/Shopping Ads: Affiliates are not permitted to use any data feed files, including network data feeds and shopping network data feeds, in PLAs with any of the search engines. Use of PLAs is not allowed by Affiliates under any circumstances.

Consumer Shopping Engines (CSEs): Affiliates are not permitted to use any CodeRed-brand product data feed files with CSEs. In addition, CSEs may not permit their third-party partners from participating in paid search with any of the CodeRed Materials.

Reseller, Auctions: Affiliates are not allowed to resell, auction, mask or manipulate the pricing of any CodeRed product.

Orders: All orders must be fulfilled by the User on an EC-Council-owned website. Affiliates are not allowed to take and fulfil CodeRed User orders or reorders. No link cloaking is permitted. All referred sales must have a "clicked from" URL associated with a referred sale.

CodeRed reserves the right to void and reverse commission for any order resulting from fraudulent activity, in its sole discretion. Other voided orders and commission reversals may result from orders being cancelled by the User, credit card declines, or any other situation that may result with an order not being billed and shipped.

Affiliate agrees not to use any of the Confidential Information for any purpose other than for solely enjoying its rights in this Agreement and it shall maintain all of the Confidential Information in confidence and not disclose any portion of the Confidential Information to any person or entity not authorized in this Agreement.

If EC-Council comes into the possession of the Confidential Information of Affiliate, then EC-Council will only use Confidential Information to enjoy its rights or comply with obligations in this Agreement.

The obligations of confidentiality in this Agreement will not apply to Confidential Information to the extent it:

• is in the public domain, other than as a result of a breach of this Agreement;
• can be demonstrated as having been independently developed by the receiving party;
• is required to be disclosed by law or a court order.

Notwithstanding anything contained above, EC-Council may disclose Confidential Information to its group companies.

Affiliate agrees that the Confidential Information is unique and valuable and any threatened breach or actual breach of this Agreement may result in immediate and irreparable harm, damage and/or injury to the disclosing party for which there might not be an adequate remedy at law; therefore, the Parties agree that in the event of a breach or threatened breach of this Agreement, the non-breaching Party shall be entitled to seek an injunction or any other order of a court of competent jurisdiction in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other available legal or equitable remedies.

This clause will survive termination of the Agreement.

Term: This Agreement shall be effective from the date of acceptance of your Application and shall continue unless terminated as per the provisions of this Clause.

Termination: Your Application and status in the Affiliate Program may be suspended or terminated for any of the following reasons:

• Inappropriate advertisements (false claims, misleading hyperlinks, etc.).
• Spamming (mass email, mass newsgroup posting, etc.).
• Advertising on sites containing or promoting illegal activities.
• Failure to disclose the affiliate relationship for any promotion that qualifies as an endorsement under existing Federal Trade Commission guidelines and regulations, guidelines by Advertising Standards Canada, UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing (CAP Code) provided by Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) and Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) or any applicable laws of the jurisdictions where EC-Council has its business operations.
• EC-Council will immediately terminate this Agreement with Affiliate if it comes into notice of EC-Council that the Affiliate has violated the Intellectual Property rights of EC-Council.
• Self-referrals, fraudulent transactions, suspected Affiliate fraud.
• EC-Council determines that Affiliate is acting, or have acted, in a way that has or may negatively reflect on or affect EC-Council, EC-Council’s prospects, or EC-Council’s customers.

EC-Council may modify, discontinue, or delete—or limit or revoke your access to—all or any part of the Affiliate Program for any reason at any time, with or without notice.

EC-Council may also modify or terminate this Agreement with you at any time upon notice to you and by continuing to participate in the Program after the effective day of any such modifications to this Agreement, will be your deemed acceptance to the modified terms and you agree to be bound by the modified provisions.

If any modification to the terms and conditions of this Agreement are unacceptable to you, your only choice is to terminate your Affiliate account.

Upon termination of this Agreement, all your rights and licenses granted under this Agreement will immediately terminate, you will immediately cease to use all of advertising materials and you will no longer identify yourself or hold yourself out as an EC-Council Affiliate. In addition to the foregoing, EC-Council reserves the right to terminate any Affiliate account at any time, for any violations of this Agreement.

Termination Without Cause: EC-Council may terminate this Agreement, without cause, in EC-Council’s sole discretion by providing Affiliate with a written notice of thirty (30) days.

Role: The parties acknowledge that in connection with the Affiliate Program, each party may provide or make available to the other party User’s Personal Data. To the extent that any personal data is shared or processed under this Agreement, the terms set forth in this clause shall apply.

Each party shall process the copy of the Personal Data in its possession or control: (i) as an independent controller (not as a joint controller with the other party); (ii) will individually determine the purposes and means of its processing of Personal Data under the scope and for the purposes described in this Agreement or as may otherwise be permitted under Applicable Data Protection Law; and (iii) will comply with obligations applicable to it under GDPR or UK Data Protection Act regarding the processing of Controller Personal Data.

For the avoidance of doubt and without prejudice to the foregoing, EC-Council shall be an independent controller or processor of any Personal Data that it receives or shares with the Affiliate.

Security: In accordance with Good Industry Practice and Applicable Privacy Laws, Affiliate shall implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures (including maintaining appropriate security controls) to ensure an appropriate level of security for Personal Data in Affiliate’s possession or control that is appropriate to the risk presented by the Processing.

Information provided to Data Subjects: Prior to sharing any Personal Data with EC-Council, Affiliate shall provide all notifications required by Applicable Privacy Laws to the relevant Data Subject with respect to the sharing of their Personal Data with EC-Council.

Notifications as to inquiry, audit, etc.: To the extent permitted by law, Affiliate shall promptly provide a written notification to EC-Council of any third party complaint, audit, investigation or enquiry concerning possible non-compliance with any Applicable Privacy Laws in connection with Personal Data maintained by Affiliate for EC-Council.

Personal Data Breaches: The Affiliate is aware that Applicable Privacy Laws may impose a duty on a party to inform the Supervisory Authority and the Data Subject in the event of personal data breach affecting their Personal Data. Accordingly, the Affiliate shall immediately notify the Data Subject and EC-Council of any technical, organizational, or other incidents which have resulted or may threaten to result in a Personal Data Breach.

Notification of breach: Affiliate’s notification of a Personal Data Breach to the Data Subject and EC-Council must be comprehensive and include any information required by Applicable Privacy Laws.

Data Subject Requests: Each party will provide the other party with reasonable assistance in complying with any Data Subject Request.

Requirements as to personnel: Affiliate shall ensure that all personnel involved in the Processing of Data Subject’s Personal Data are properly qualified and trained and have committed themselves to keep such Personal Data confidential or are under an appropriate statutory obligation of confidentiality in accordance with Applicable Privacy Laws.

Privacy Policy: Affiliate will maintain a publicly accessible privacy policy on its website that is in compliance with Data Privacy Laws.

You shall indemnify and hold EC-Council as well as its subsidiaries, officers, directors, agents, representatives, employees and third-party licensors harmless from any and all claims, liabilities, losses, expenses or demands, including reasonable legal fees, based on, arising from, or otherwise related to (a) your breach or violation of any of the provisions of this Agreement; (b) your act or omission; (c) breach of applicable laws, including data privacy laws; (d) any infringement or misappropriation by you of any intellectual property or other rights of EC-Council or any third party; (e) or any activity, whether intentional or otherwise, that may result or intends to harm to the Affiliate Program and/or to our website(s), CodeRed services.

The Affiliate agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless EC-Council, its subsidiaries, group companies, employees, agents, and representatives from any losses, damages, claims, or expenses arising from a Data Security breach, including any infringement committed by its legal representatives, subcontractors, employees, or other agents.

Additionally, the Affiliate commits to indemnify EC-Council, its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, agents, and representatives against any claims made by third parties resulting from or related to any infringement by the Affiliate of the rights of such third party.