Partner Certification
- Your relationship with VolaAds
- Your use of the services outlined below is subject to the following legal agreement between you and. “VolaAds” means VolaAds Inc., whose principal place of business is at N14/36, First Floor, DLF Phase 2, Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
- The services provided by VolaAds are training and educational services, including access to: an informative website about VolaAds and VolaAds’s other business products (the “Site”), training materials, tests to demonstrate what you’ve learned, sales and marketing collateral, promotional offers, and other benefits as decided by VolaAds (together the “VolaAds Partners Certification”).
- Your agreement with VolaAds concerning the VolaAds Partners Certification includes: i) these terms and conditions; and ii) VolaAds Partners Certification-related policies and FAQs as posted online by VolaAds at support. VolaAds.com/partners or made available by VolaAds to you through other means and as modified from time to time (together the “Terms”).
- Access to the VolaAds Partners Certification and any associated VolaAds products and services is granted at VolaAds’s sole discretion. In the event that you are granted access, you agree to participate in the VolaAds Partners Certification only for the benefit of the company or business (including a freelance business) which you name when registering for the VolaAds Partners Certification or which you become associated with thereafter (“Your Business”).
- Persons and/or entities restricted by export controls and sanctions Certifications are not eligible to participate.
- You will be deemed to agree to the Terms if you: (i) click to accept the Terms; or (ii) access the Site.
- By accepting the Terms, you agree that you are binding both You and Your Business (if applicable) to the Terms and you represent that You are authorized to do so. For purposes of clarity, any reference in the Terms to "You" or "Your" includes "Your Business", if applicable.
- Confidential Information” means information that one party (or an affiliate) discloses to the other party under the Terms, and that is marked as confidential or would normally be considered to be confidential information under the circumstances. It does not include information that the recipient already knew, that becomes public through no fault of the recipient, that was independently developed by the recipient, or that was lawfully given to the recipient by a third party.
- The recipient will not disclose the Confidential Information, except to affiliates, employees, agents, or professional advisors who need to know it and who have agreed in writing (or in the case of professional advisors are otherwise bound) to keep it confidential. The recipient will ensure that those people and entities use the Confidential Information only to exercise rights and fulfill obligations under the Terms, while using reasonable care to keep it confidential. The recipient may also disclose Confidential Information when required by law after giving reasonable notice to the discloser, if permitted by law.
- To register for the VolaAds Partners Certification, you must complete all required information elements on the registration web pages (“Registration Information”). You understand and agree that when you provide the Registration Information, you are registering in your own name for the purpose of enabling Your Business to benefit from the VolaAds Partners Certification, and not yourself personally.
- You must provide current, complete, and accurate information at registration and during the creation of any profile for Your Business (“Company Profile”) and maintain this information as current and accurate during your participation in the VolaAds Partners Certification.
- You agree to provide such information as VolaAds may require, including information necessary to validate your identity.
- You agree that, if you request affiliation with another Company, you will only request affiliation with one such entity at a time.
- VolaAds has full discretion to grant and withdraw your access to the VolaAds Partners Certification and any individual Certification benefits at any time.
- VolaAds has subsidiaries and affiliated legal entities around the world (“Subsidiaries” and “Affiliates”). Sometimes, these companies will provide all or part of the VolaAds Partners Certification or related VolaAds services to you on behalf of VolaAds and are third party beneficiaries to the Terms. Other than such Subsidiaries or Affiliates, there are no third party beneficiaries to the Terms.
- VolaAds will only use your information (including Registration Information) in accordance with VolaAds’s privacy policy available at www.VolaAds.com/policies/privacy/. You agree to the use of your data in accordance with VolaAds’s privacy policies.
- If you submit content to VolaAds as a part of your participation in the VolaAds Partners Certification, you retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content.
- When you upload or otherwise submit content, you give VolaAds, our Subsidiaries, and Affiliates a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from any changes to formatting or file type which we might make to allow your content to work better), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, and distribute such content. The rights that you grant in this licence are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving the VolaAds Partners Certification. This licence continues even if your participation in the VolaAds Partners Certification ends, unless you elect to remove your content from the Site before that time. You represent and warrant that you have the necessary rights to grant us this licence for any content that you submit.
- If you access training content provided by Your Business through the Site, VolaAds may share individual and aggregated statistics about your interactions with that content with the administrator of Your Business to allow them to evaluate and improve the training material and training Certifications.
- In participating in the VolaAds Partners Certification, you agree to (i) use the Site only for purposes that are permitted by the Terms and (ii) comply with all applicable laws, including without limitation, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 and the UK Bribery Act of 2010, which prohibit corrupt offers of anything of value, either directly or indirectly to anyone, including government officials, to obtain or keep business or to secure any other improper commercial advantage. “Government officials” include any: government employee; candidate for public office; and employee of government-owned or government-controlled companies, public international organizations, and political parties. Furthermore, you will not make any facilitation payments, which are payments to induce officials to perform routine functions that they are otherwise obligated to perform.
- You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Site or interferes with VolaAds’s ability to provide the VolaAds Partners Certification. Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with VolaAds, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell any material which you receive through your participation in the VolaAds Partners Certification (including Promotional Offers) for any purpose.
- You agree that you will not use any automated means or form of scraping or data extraction to access, query or otherwise collect information about the VolaAds Partners Certification or participants in it.
- If you set up any accounts for any third party advertiser while participating in the VolaAds Partners Certification, that account will be governed by the terms and conditions (www.VolaAds.com/ads/terms) including the VolaAds Third Party Policy (support.VolaAds.com/ policy/answer/152979?hl=en-GB). VolaAds will also have the right to send customer satisfaction questionnaires to advertisers and, in connection with such right, you may be required to provide customer information (e.g., account activation date, business name, email address) as requested by VolaAds (or by a third-party market research partner on behalf of VolaAds) and in the format requested by VolaAds within 30 days of such a request.
- You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that VolaAds has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which VolaAds may suffer) of any such breach.
- You agree and understand that you are responsible for access to and use of your account, including maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account that you use to access the Site. You must ensure that: (i) if you share such confidential information, you do so only with an officer, employee, agent, or representative of Your Business, and (ii) such persons are aware of the Terms and understand that by using the Site they are agreeing to abide by such Terms. You agree that Your Business will be liable for any breach of the Terms if committed by anyone using your passwords.
- If you act as an administrator for Your Business, you agree that you will be solely responsible for administrative activities including: acting as the primary point of contact for any communications from VolaAds, reviewing access requests from individual users who request affiliation with Your Business, granting or rejecting any such access requests, and revoking access for any individual users who you decide should no longer have access.
- You agree to notify VolaAds immediately of any unauthorised use of your username or password or any other breach of security regarding the Site of which you have knowledge.
- You may not call yourself (either orally or in writing, including in websites and emails) a VolaAds Partner or any similar term merely because you are participating in the VolaAds Partners Certification or accessing the Site. You agree:
- to use VolaAds’s brand features (including the words “VolaAds”) (“VolaAds Brand Features”) only in the manner and contexts permitted and described in the Site
- only in accordance with VolaAds’s brand feature use guidelines available at www.VolaAds.com/permissions/guidelines.html.
- Except as set out above, neither you nor Your Business acquires any right, title or interest in the VolaAds Brand Features. All use by you or Your Business of the VolaAds Brand Features (including any goodwill associated with that use) will inure to the benefit of VolaAds and/or its Affiliates.
- You agree not to issue any public announcement regarding the existence or content of the Terms or Your Business’ relationship with VolaAds unless such approval is explicitly given by VolaAds in the Site or in a separate written document from VolaAds.
- Participants in the VolaAds Partners Certification who meet and maintain certain minimum requirements and performance standards may, at VolaAds’s sole discretion, be granted access to additional Certification benefits, including:
- the right to refer to themselves as a VolaAds Partner (“VolaAds Partner Status”)
- access to promotional offers for Your Business to use with advertisers (“VolaAds Promotional Offers”)
- access to exclusive training content
- invitations to participate in exclusive VolaAds Partner events
- Requirements and standards for VolaAds Partner Status may include, but not be limited to, that you or Your Business:
- complete a company profile
- complete a minimum course of training in a relevant subject area
- maintain a minimum number of employees or affiliated individuals who have passed certain exams
- associate a Multi-Client Centre (“MCC”) account with your profile
- reach a minimum level of managed spend in the accounts within your MCC
- keep your customers happy and follow VolaAds best practices for advertiser account management
- maintain ongoing compliance with the Certification policies
- Businesses which are granted VolaAds Partner Status may acquire the right to additional Certification benefits such as the right to
- appear in the VolaAds Partner Search Engine or other VolaAds websites
- use a VolaAds Partner badge (subject to the restrictions below)
- make use of VolaAds Promotional Offers to help acquire new customers
- access exclusive training content and training events
- other Certification benefits which VolaAds at its sole discretion may incorporate into the Certification in the future
- Failure to meet any of these requirements may result in the immediate revocation of VolaAds Partner Status, including the removal of the ability to use the VolaAds Partner badge, and suspension from the VolaAds Partners Certification
- VolaAds may distribute VolaAds Promotional Offers to businesses that have reached VolaAds Partner Status through the Site. A VolaAds Promotional Offer is typically issued in the form of unique code number (“Promotional Code”) with an associated expiration date (“Expiration Date”). You agree to:
- distribute and promote VolaAds Promotional Offers only using such methods and channels as have been approved by VolaAds
- distribute Promotional Codes on behalf of Your Business and not permit any third party to distribute Promotional Codes or VolaAds Promotional Offers on your or Your Business’ behalf
- not request or adivccept payment for Promotional Codes or VolaAds Promotional Offers
- not use more than one Promotional Code to credit your or Your Business’ own accounts or those of its affiliates
- not post lists of Promotional Codes in any media which can be viewed by the general public
- notify customers that in order to create an account for the customer, VolaAds may require a minimum initial payment depending on the customer’s preferred billing options and billing country
- ensure that in promoting and distributing VolaAds Promotional Offers Your Business complies with any applicable laws, regulations, and industry guidelines or codes
- distribute Promotional Codes in only the following ways (or in such other ways as VolaAds expressly permits in writing, including on the Site):
- by sending a VolaAds Promotional Offer to your customer, in which case you agree to ensure that each VolaAds Promotional Offer (I) conforms in appearance with the guidance set out in the Site, and (II) incorporates the VolaAds Promotional Offers terms and conditions as made available by VolaAds, the applicable Expiration Date, and the value of the VolaAds Promotional Offer
- by inputting the Promotional Code directly into the account of a customer who has purchased a product from Your Business (provided always that you or Your Business do not open such an account without the written consent of the customer) distribute and promote VolaAds Promotional Offers only to customers whose business is located in the same country as Your Business
- You agree that should you or Your Business wish to create paper VolaAds Promotional Offers, Your Business will be responsible for the cost of printing such materials. VolaAds has no payment obligations to you or Your Business under or in connection with the Terms
- You agree (i) not to knowingly send more than one VolaAds Promotional Offer to any one person, and (ii) to implement reasonable measures to lessen the risk of any one person or entity receiving more than one VolaAds Promotional Offer
- You agree to notify VolaAds promptly upon becoming aware of any misuse or abuse (or suspected misuse or abuse) of the Promotional Codes or VolaAds Promotional Offers by any third party and to provide VolaAds with reasonable assistance to enable VolaAds to prevent or stop such misuse or abuse
- Ending your relationship with VolaAds
- You may end your participation in the VolaAds Partners Certification and stop distributing VolaAds Promotional Offers provided to you at any time. You do not need to specifically inform VolaAds if you do so
- If you want to officially terminate your legal agreement with VolaAds before the Terms expire, you may do so at any time by closing the account by which you access the Site
- VolaAds ending its relationship with you
- VolaAds is constantly innovating in order to provide the best possible experience for its users. You acknowledge and agree that the form and nature of the VolaAds Partners Certification and related services that VolaAds provides may change from time to time without prior notice to you. VolaAds may also withdraw the VolaAds Partners Certification or related services at any time without prior notice to you
- In the event that you distribute a Promotional Code in breach of the Terms (or VolaAds reasonably suspects that you have done so), VolaAds is entitled at its sole discretion to cancel and invalidate: (a) the applicable Promotional Code, and (b) the batch of Promotional Codes from which the applicable Promotional Code originated. VolaAds may at its own discretion send a replacement Promotional Code or Promotional Codes to you
- If VolaAds wants to officially terminate its legal agreement with you, it may do so at any time by (a) sending an e-mail to the e-mail address which you provide as part of the Registration Information, or (b) blocking your access to the Site. VolaAds may take that step if, for example (without limitation):
- VolaAds believes that you have breached any provision of the Terms
- VolaAds receives complaints about Your Business from advertisers or other third parties
- VolaAds is required to do so by law (for example, where the provision of the VolaAds Partners Certification to you is, or becomes, unlawful)
- VolaAds is no longer providing the VolaAds Partners Certification or related services to entities in the country in which you are resident or from which you access the Site
- the provision of the VolaAds Partners Certification to you by VolaAds is no longer commercially viable
- What happens if the Terms expire or are terminated
- Upon expiration or termination of the Terms:
- You are no longer permitted to access the Site or to have any of the benefits associated with the VolaAds Partners Certification or VolaAds Partner Status
- You and Your Business will immediately cease to promote and distribute VolaAds Promotional Offers
- VolaAds will honor VolaAds Promotional Offers that you and Your Business have already distributed in accordance with the Terms
- Exclusion of warranties
- Each party warrants to the other that it will use reasonable care and skill in complying with its obligations under the Terms
- No conditions, warranties or other terms apply to the VolaAds Partners Program or to any other goods or services supplied by VolaAds or its Affiliates under the Terms unless expressly set out in the Terms. Subject to Section 15.a and to the fullest extent permitted by law, no implied conditions, warranties or other terms apply (including, without limitation, any implied terms as to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose or conformance with description)
- Limitations of liability
- nothing in the terms will exclude or limit VolaAds’s liability for losses that may not be lawfully excluded or limited by applicable law subject to the foregoing, VolaAds, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its licensors will not be liable to you for:
- any indirect, special, exemplary, punitive or consequential losses or damages which may be incurred by you regardless of the theory or type of claim. this will include but not limited to any loss of profit (whether incurred directly or indirectly), any loss of goodwill or business reputation, or any loss of data suffered by you; or
- any loss or damage which may be incurred by you, including but not limited to loss or damage as a result of:
- any change which VolaAds may make to the VolaAds partners certification, or for any permanent or temporary cessation in the provision of the VolaAds partners certification (or any features within the VolaAds partners certification, such as the provision of VolaAds promotional offers)
- your failure to provide VolaAds with accurate registration or account information
- your failure to keep your password or account details secure and confidential and the consequent access and use of your account by another
- any fraudulent use of the VolaAds partners certification by you
- to the fullest extent permitted by law, the total liability of VolaAds, its subsidiaries and affiliates (and their licensors) will not exceed the amount that you have paid VolaAds to use the VolaAds partners certification
- the limitations on VolaAds’s liability to you will apply whether or not VolaAds has been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility of any such losses arising
- Your indemnification obligations
- You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless VolaAds, its Subsidiaries and Affiliates, agents, and licensors from any third party claim or liability arising out of or related to your participation in the VolaAds Partners Certification and breach of the Terms
- Miscellaneous
- VolaAds will not reimburse any travel, entertainment, marketing, or other expenses related to your participation in the VolaAds Partners Certification unless otherwise agreed by VolaAds in writing. In such cases your requests for reimbursement must be supported by detailed records
- You may not assign or transfer any part of the Terms without the prior written consent of VolaAds. VolaAds may subcontract, assign, or transfer any part of the Terms at its sole discretion
- The Terms set out all terms agreed between the parties and supersedes all other agreements between the parties relating to its subject matter. In entering into the Terms neither party has relied on, and neither party will have any right or remedy based on, any statement, representation or warranty (whether made negligently or innocently), except those expressly set out in the Terms. The Terms may be modified by VolaAds at any time to reflect changes in how VolaAds makes the VolaAds Partners Certification generally commercially available. The parties agree that such modification will be binding on both parties if you access and use the Site, or if made by VolaAds in writing (including by VolaAds sending an e-mail or posting a message on the Site)
- Neither party will be liable for failure or delay in performance to the extent caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control
- Neither party will be treated as having waived any rights by not exercising (or delaying the exercise of) any rights under the Terms
- The parties are independent contractors and the Terms do not create any agency, partnership, or joint venture
- The Terms do not confer any benefits on any third party unless they expressly state that they do
- If any term (or part of a term) of the Terms is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the rest of the Terms will remain in effect
- If the Terms are translated into any other language, and there is a discrepancy between the English text and the text of the other language, the English text will govern
