Terms and Conditions of the Affiliates Program

This Affiliate Agreement („Agreement“) between you (hereinafter “Affiliate“ or “Publisher”) and GG.agency – a division of The Golden Goose or any other subsidiary sites owned by The Golden Goose (hereinafter „GG.agency“, “company” or “we”), are the binding terms and conditions under which the Affiliate may operate as a non-exclusive Affiliate of GG.agency.

By signing up as an affiliate, the affiliate hereby acknowledges that he/she has read and understood each of the provisions set forth herein. By submitting an application to, or by accessing the Company Platform, you are bound by the following Terms and Conditions of the Affiliate program.

  1. Affiliate
    1. GG.agency accepts an Affiliate at its sole discretion. GG.agency only accepts Affiliates with the age of at least 18 (eighteen) years.
    2. Upon acceptance as an Affiliate by GG.agency, GG.agency will set up an Affiliate´s account for administrative, legal and financial purposes. A legally binding contract is concluded between the Affiliate and GG.agency.
    3. During the term of this Agreement, GG.agency engages Affiliate as a nonexclusive Affiliate and Affiliate agrees to be engaged as such.
    4. Affiliate agrees to promote services of GG.agency in compliance with the applicable laws and these terms and conditions.
  2. Termination
    1. Either party may terminate this Agreement without cause with immediate effect at any time.
    2. If the Agreement is terminated the Affiliate must cease to use the licenses, sites and services of GG.agency immediately.
    3. GG.agency is entitled at its sole discretion to terminate its websites and services at any time without notice.
  3. Traffic, Services and Content Restrictions
    1. After being accepted as an Affiliate, the Affiliate gets access GG.agency banners, landings and tracking links.
    2. The Affiliate shall only use the provided links in accordance with the terms and conditions in this Agreement.
    3. The Affiliate shall at no time be permitted to alter, modify and/or expand the provided links or any other promotion material provided by GG.agency in any way. All promotion materials like banners and prelanders used in promotion must be approved by the owner of the product and/or service.
    4. The Affiliate shall only promote Golden Goose services on the traffic approved by GG.agency.
    5. The Affiliate shall not promote, advocate, facilitate or otherwise include any of the following in connection with GG.agency services:
      1. Any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or campaigns designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
      2. Any software, product or service that is illegal or that violates the rights of a third party including, but not limited to spyware, adware, campaigns designed to send unsolicited spamware, services that send unsolicited advertisements, campaigns designed to initiate “denial of service” attacks, mail bomb campaigns, and campaigns designed to gain unauthorized access to networks on the internet;
      4. Any content that infringes upon the intellectual property rights of any third party;
      5. Any material that otherwise infringes or is alleged to infringe upon or violate the rights of any third party including, without limitation, material may give rise to any claim of false or misleading advertising, unfair competition, invasion of rights, of publicity or privacy, violation or any anti-discriminatory law or regulation, or violation any other right of any person or entity and/or;
      6. The Publisher is expressly prohibited from using any persons, means, devices or arrangements to commit fraud, violate any applicable law, interfere with other Publishers of Company or falsify information in connection with referrals through the Advertising Materials or Links or the generation of Commissions or exceed the Publisher’s permitted access to the Affiliate Program. Such acts include, but are in no way limited to, using automated means to increase the number of Actions through the Advertising Materials or Links or completion of any required information, using spyware, stealware, cookie-stuffing and other deceptive acts or click-fraud. Company shall make all determinations about fraudulent activity in its sole discretion.
  4. Youth Protection & Guarantees
    1. The Affiliate is obliged and guarantees to maintain its traffic in compliance with applicable law, especially with respect to media laws and regulations, especially but not limited to spam-laws, protection of minor law and criminal law. The Affiliate also guarantees to keep its files and systems up to date at all times according to the communications and agreements made with GG.agency.
    2. The Affiliate will indemnify and hold harmless GG.agency, its assignees, employees, agents and officers against any claims including legal fees which are asserted against GG.agency, its assignees, employees, agents and officers and which are based on a violation of the foregoing paragraphs.
  5. Affiliate Commission
    1. The Affiliate commission is negotiated between GG.agency and the Affiliate.
    2. Upon acceptance of an Affiliate by GG.agency, GG.agency will set up an Affiliate account to acquire all commissions earned by the Affiliate.
    3. If not otherwise mutually agreed upon GG.agency undertakes to make payments to Affiliates 7 (seven) days after sale is made or any action that would result in GG.agency being paid.
    4. Payment is only made to Affiliates that have a minimum balance of USD 20 (twenty US Dollars) in the Affiliate account. Affiliates who do not meet the minimum balance requirements will not be eligible for payment until it has been reached. Furthermore any account that has had no payment actions for a period of 6 (six) calendar months will be deemed to be abandoned and terminated.
    5. Affiliate payments will only be made when funds are actually received by GG.agency. The Affiliate commission will be calculated without payments which are not effected (e.g. chargebacks) and less payment fees, disbursements and applicable taxes. In the event that no funds are paid to GG.agency then no payments shall be due to the Affiliate and such monies will be written off.
    6. GG.agency reserves the right to adjust payments due to the Affiliate to account for void payments as necessary.
    8. GG.agency accepts no responsibility for any errors or omissions and their consequential implications which are not notified to void payments in writing within 10 (ten) working days. This 10 (ten) day period begins on the day that the payment action which generated the commission took place.
    9. In the event of any Affiliate fraud, all transactions in the Affiliates account will be reversed. In addition GG.agency may recover any payments made before fraud has been detected. GG.agency also reserves the right to take legal or criminal action against the companies and/or individuals involved.
    10. The Affiliate will supply an invoice before payment will be made. All invoices must include full legal details including VAT number where appropriate.
    11. Any Affiliate to whom GG.agency may pay regular or one off large sums of money may be asked to provide information in compliance with money laundering regulations. Failure to comply will result in monies being withheld.
    12. The Affiliate is responsible for the payment of all tax and national insurance payable on any payments made to it by GG.agency.
    13. In the case that GG.agency suspects that the Affiliate account has been used in an invalid manner or if you have provided any information that is untrue or inaccurate, not current or incomplete, the respective account may be deactivated effective immediately and with no notice to the Affiliate pending further investigation and, without limiting obligations to make any payments due hereunder, not only restricted to those payments associated with the invalid activity.
  6. Ownership & Intellectual Property
    1. All materials, documents, data, software, information and inventions supplied to Affiliate by or on behalf of GG.agency shall be and remain the sole and exclusive property thereof. All such property shall be delivered to GG.agency by Affiliate, immediately upon demand, or destroyed, as may be requested.
    2. GG.agency owns all copyrights, trademarks, intellectual property rights, know-how or any other rights connected to the services, websites or software necessary for the execution of this Agreement.
  7. License
    1. The Affiliate is granted a revocable, non-transferable, royalty free license to display links of GG.agency services on their traffic for the strictly limited purpose of promoting GG.agency´s services and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
    2. The license also comprises the use of GG.agency´s logos, trade names and other proprietary identifying material solely in connection with and strictly limited to the purpose of promoting GG.agency´s services and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
    3. All rights granted pursuant to this section shall terminate upon the effective date of the expiration or termination of this Agreement.
  8. Non-competition
    1. The Affiliate shall not for any reason, carry on, or be engaged in, or be concerned with, or interested in, or employed by, any person or company engaged in or concerned with or interested in a business which is the same as, or substantially similar to, or in competition with, the businesses of GG.agency.
  9. Confidentiality
    1. The Affiliate commits himself, for the duration of the contractual relationship to treat the contents of this Agreement and all information obtained relating to the execution of this Agreement as confidential, and not to make this accessible to any third parties, except where this is required for the proper execution of the Agreement, which includes the approval of this Agreement by the supervisory boards of the contracting parties, or in connection with the acquisition of stock/shares in one of the contracting parties by seriously interested parties, and/or where this is required for obtaining authorizations/approvals from the authorities, or where this takes place in the scope of the normal reporting procedures within the affiliated group of companies and the affiliates are bound to confidentiality.
    2. This does not apply to information that is or subsequently becomes public knowledge, or where the contracting parties are obliged to disclose the information contained in the Agreement by applicable legislation or other regulations. Insofar as information is passed on to third parties, this passing on of information is to be limited to the minimum elements/facts required in terms of the previously mentioned exceptions, and these third parties are to commit themselves in writing to maintaining the confidentiality of the information received.
  10. Notification
    1. The parties agree that Company shall provide daily reports to Publisher as to numbers or sign ups as well as the revenue generated.
    2. In case of downtime or an other issue causing harm to campaign performance, manager has to inform other parties about the problem within 48 hours.
  11. Limitation of Liability
  12. Indemnification
    1. Affiliate agrees to fully indemnify, defend and hold GG.agency , including any of their respective affiliates, officers, directors, partners, employees, and agents, harmless from and against any proceeding, action or claim that may arise out of or relate to affiliate´s involvement in GG.agency´s Affiliate program or any breach of this Agreement by Affiliate, including, but not limited to, any and all damages, claims, losses and/or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) incurred by GG.agency arising out of any such proceeding, action or claim. GG.agency shall have the right to defend any action through counsel of its own choosing at Affiliate´s sole expense.
  13. Force Majeure
    1. GG.agency shall not be liable or responsible for any failure or inability to perform or delay caused by reason of one or more so called “force majeure” contingencies (e.g. any act of God, fire, earthquake, hurricane, natural disaster, strike, labor disturbance, civil commotion, acts of Government, any Law, action of any labor union or association affecting a Party or the industry within which the Party is engaged, delays in the delivery of materials or supplies, terrorist attack, any act of sabotage, etc.). The impacted obligation shall be extended hereunder for a period equal to the duration of any such contingencies to the extent that such contingencies interfere with or disrupt a Party’s exercise of its Rights hereunder.
  14. General
    1. All changes or amendments to this Agreement must be in writing. This requirement of the written form also applies to notifications, ancillary agreements and subsequent contractual changes, except where this is specifically stipulated otherwise for individual components. The waiver of the written form requirement must be put in writing. Insofar as the Agreement does not explicitly stipulate exceptions for individual components and statements of intent, a notification by means of telecommunication does not satisfy the requirement of the written form.
    2. There are no ancillary verbal agreements.
    3. In the event of the Affiliate becoming bankrupt or being placed in liquidation, whether voluntary or compulsory or reaching a compromise with its creditors or failing to satisfy any judgment debt, GG.agency shall be entitled, to cancel this Agreement with immediate effect without prejudice to those rights and obligations accrued prior to such bankruptcy.
    4. The Parties hereby agree that no agency, joint venture or partnership is created thereby, that no franchise agreement is created hereby and that neither Party shall allege in any proceedings that a franchise agreement is created by this Agreement or exists between the Parties, and that neither Party shall incur obligations in the name of the other party without the other Party’s prior written consent. The Parties shall act and at all times shall be independent contractors.
    5. All notices or other communications which are required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given if (a) delivered personally or (b) sent by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or (c) sent by overnight courier with a nationally recognized courier, or (d) sent via e-mail with confirmation of receipt in writing in any of the foregoing manners. If sent by registered mail, postage prepaid, notice shall be considered delivered three (3) business days after the date of mailing, and if sent by any other means set forth above, notice shall be considered delivered upon receipt thereof. Either Party may by notice to the other Party change address to which notice or other communications to be delivered or mailed.
    6. The section and paragraph headings herein are for convenience only and shall not be interpreted to limit or affect in any way the meaning of the language contained herein.
    7. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.
    8. Each person executing this Agreement in a representative capacity warrants that he or she is duly authorized by the person or entity he or she represents to enter into this Agreement on behalf of that person or entity.
    9. This Agreement is personal and may not be assigned to any third parties without the prior written consent of the other party.
    10. This Agreement is subject to the laws of Portuguese Republic, with exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the international sale of goods. This also applies to all sundry claims that are related to this contract, in particular those arising from tortious acts.
    11. Jurisdiction for all court cases arising from this contract is GG.agency´s main place of business.
    12. In the event that individual provisions of this Agreement are wholly or partially ineffective or unfeasible, or that they subsequently lose their legal validity or become infeasible, the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement will remain unaffected. In the case of the invalidity of a provision of this Agreement, the parties agree to replace this provision by a provision that most closely resembles the economic/commercial intention of the invalid provision. The same holds true should a loophole be identified in the Agreement. The contracting parties will replace the invalid provision or loophole immediately with a valid provision.