Latalata Affiliate Program Terms & Conditions
This Terms & Conditions govern your participation
in the Latalata Affiliate Program (the “Program”).
The words “Latalata”, “We”, “us”, “our” means LATALATA
and KISHERS LIMITED or any of its affiliate companies, including but not
limited to Latalata. “You” or “your” means the affiliate partner. The word “site”
means a website. “Latalata Site” means any or all of the following sites: latalata.ng,
foodstuff.latalata.ng and other sub-domains we may activate in the future. “Your
site” or “Your app” means any website(s) or mobile application(s) that you own
or operate and wish to link or have linked to the Latalata Site.
Whenever we update these Terms and Conditions, we
will post the updated version on our website and inform you via the email
address you provide in your affiliate account. However, your continued participation
in the program shall be conclusive evidence that you have read and consented to
the agreement as amended or modified and you shall, on a going forward basis, comply
with, and be bound by, all the terms and conditions contained within the
agreement as amended or modified at that time. If at any point you do not agree
to any portion of the terms of this agreement then in effect, you must
immediately stop your activity in the Program.
1. Description of Latalata Affiliate Program
The purpose of the Latalata Affiliate Program is to
permit you to advertise our products on your site and to earn advertising
commissions for confirmed purchases made by your end users on the Latalata
Site. A “Product” is any item sold on the Latalata Site.
2. Enrolment
You must submit a complete and accurate Program application,
including a clear identification of your site(s) or other sources of traffic.
We will evaluate your application and notify you of its acceptance or
rejection. Your application may be rejected if we determine that your source of
traffic or your site is unsuitable. The following sites and practices, in our
opinion, are examples of unsuitable sources of traffic:
(a) Using voucher or coupon codes websites
(b) Using any type of online paid ads, especially display or
search pay-per-click ads on major platforms like Facebook ads or Google
display/search networks or other search engine(s) web ads
(c) Using Latalata brand name, or a variant or misspelling,
in any domain name, subdomain name, or in any username, group name, or other
identifier on any social networking site
(d) Using fraudulent methods such as pop-ups, pop-under,
iframes, cookie, stuffing, and automatically opening Latalata pages
(e) Trying to get advertising commissions on an order placed
as an employee or external sales agent of Latalata
(f) Promoting inappropriate materials- e.g. sexually
explicit, violent, libelous, illegal, defamatory, discriminatory
(g) Violating intellectual property rights in any manner
(h) Bidding on keywords (PPC) related to Latalata brand and
any variant and misspelling by running search engine marketing campaigns.
If we reject your application, you are welcome to
reapply at any time. However, if we accept your application and we later
observe that you are engaging in unsuitable practices, we are, at our sole
discretion, entitled to terminate and/or take action against you/your affiliate
account at any time.
A merchant or key contact person to a merchant who
wants to enrol as an Affiliate Partner must indicate so when completing the registration
form and send us an email to affiliate@latalata.ng.
An existing Affiliate Partner who has become a
merchant or key contact person to a merchant shall immediately send an email to
affiliate@latalata.ng notifying Latalata
of his/her new status.
Affiliate Partner who fails to notify Latalata of
his/her current status(es) as described above may be delisted. The Affiliate
Partner shall also be liable to return every commission fraudulently earned
during the period of his/her misrepresentation and shall be required to pay a
penalty to Latalata.
3. Tracking Links on Your Site
After your application has been reviewed and approved,
you will be notified via email. Afterwards, you must display Tracking Links on
your site in accordance with this Terms & Conditions, and which must properly
utilize the special link formats we provide. Tracking Links permit accurate
tracking, reporting, and accrual of advertising fees. Such fees may be earned
as described in section 7 and only with respect to activity on the Latalata
Site occurring directly through such Tracking Links. We will have no obligation
to pay you any fees if you fail to properly format the links on your site. You are
to ensure your site and its configurations do not give rise a risk of confusion
with the web presence of Latalata.
4. Program Requirements
By participating in Latalata Affiliate Program, you
agree to comply with all the Terms & Conditions and all pages, schedules,
policies, guidelines, specifications, user manuals, and supporting materials
that we make available to you. You will ensure that the information in your
Program application and otherwise associated with your account, including your
email address and other contact information and identification of your site, is
at all times complete, accurate, and up-to-date. You will provide us with any
additional information and/ or any supporting materials that we may request to
verify your compliance with this Terms & Conditions
In addition, you hereby consent to us:
● Sending you emails
relating to Latalata Affiliate Program from time to time
● Monitoring,
recording, using, and disclosing information about your site and visitors to your
site that we obtain in connection with your display of Tracking Links
● Monitoring, crawling, and investigating your site to verify
compliance with this Terms & Conditions
5. Participation in Other Schemes
You may not participate in any other sales scheme
being operated by Latalata, including but not limited to Latalata Referral
Reward Scheme, or any other present or future sales schemes not operated under Latalata
Affiliate Program. Where you are found to be in breach of this Paragraph, Latalata
shall be entitled to summarily terminate this Agreement. You would also be
required to pay liquidated damages which shall be equivalent to the sum of all
commissions earned under the other Sales Scheme operated by Latalata. You shall
not be entitled to earn a commission on any order which is also placed via any
sales scheme operated by Latalata.
6. Responsibility for Your Site
You will be solely responsible for your site,
including its development, operation, and maintenance and all materials that
appear on or within it. For example, you will be solely responsible for:
● The technical
operation of your site and all related equipment
● Displaying Tracking
Links and Content on your site in compliance with this Terms & Conditions
and any agreement between you and any other person or entity (including any restrictions
or requirements placed on you by any person or entity that hosts your site)
● Creating and posting, and ensuring the accuracy,
completeness, and appropriateness of, materials posted on your site (including
all Product descriptions and other Product related materials and any
information you include within or associate with Tracking Links)
● Using the Content,
your site, and the materials on or within your site in a manner that does not
infringe, violate, or misappropriate any of our rights or those of any other
person or entity (including copyrights, trademarks, privacy, publicity or other
intellectual property or proprietary rights)
● Disclosing on your
site accurately and adequately, 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 us and other
advertisers) may serve content and advertisements, collect information directly
from visitors, and place or recognize cookies on visitors' browsers
● Any use that you
make of the Content and the Latalata Trademark, whether or not permitted under
this Agreement
We will have no liability for these matters or for
any of your end users' claims relating to these matters. You agree to defend,
indemnify, and hold us, our affiliates and licensors, and our associates and their
respective employees, officers, directors, and representatives, harmless from
and against all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses
(including attorneys' fees) relating to:
(a) your site or any materials that appear on your site,
including the combination of your site or those materials with other
applications, content, or processes;
(b) the use, development, design, manufacture, production,
advertising, promotion, or marketing of your site or any materials that appear
on or within your site, and all other matters described in this Section 6;
(c) your use of any Content, whether or not such use is
authorized by or violates this Terms & Conditions, any Operational
Documentation, or applicable law;
(d) your violation of any term or condition of this Terms
& Conditions or any Operational Documentation; or
(e) your or your employees' negligence or wilful misconduct.
7. Order Processing
We will process on a daily basis Product orders placed
by customers who follow Tracking Links from your site to Latalata Site. We
reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any requirements on
the Latalata site. We will track Confirmed Purchases for reporting and
advertising fee accrual purposes and will make available to you reports
summarizing those Confirmed Purchases.
8. Advertising Commissions
We will pay you advertising fees only on Confirmed
Purchases. Subject to the exclusions set forth below, a "Confirmed
Purchase" occurs when a customer
(a) clicks through a Tracking Link on your site to Latalata
site, then
(b) adds a Product to his or her shopping cart and places the
order for that Product no later than 7 days following the customer's initial
click-through, then
(c) the Product is shipped and paid for by the customer, and
finally
(d) confirmation of no return by the customer as per the Latalata
Return Policy has been granted.
Confirmed Purchases exclude any of the following:
● Any Product purchased through a Tracking Link that violates
the terms of this Agreement, especially those stated in section 2
● Any Product that, after expiration of the 7-days window, is
purchased via the Latalata site, even if the customer previously followed a
Tracking Link from your site to our site
● Any Product purchase that is not correctly tracked or
reported because the links from your site to Latalata site are not properly
formatted
● Any Product purchased through a Tracking Link by you or on
your behalf, including Products you purchase through Tracking Links for
yourself, friends, relatives, or Affiliate (e.g. personal orders, orders for
your own use, and orders placed by you for or on behalf of any other person or
entity)
● Any Product purchased for resale or commercial use of any
kind
● Any Product purchased after termination of this Terms &
Conditions
● Any Product order that is cancelled or returned
● Making bulk orders (orders with a big quantity of the same
items. Latalata has the right to reject the commission on such bulk orders.
● Making a large number of orders buying the same item
(buying items in bulk over many orders). Latalata has the right to reject the
commissions of such orders.
9. Advertising Commissions Payment
We will pay you advertising commissions on a monthly
basis for Confirmed Purchases that were validated in a given month. Unless
specifically otherwise agreed, we will generate “self-billed” invoices, which
shall be inclusive of value added tax. This self-billed invoicing process will
follow the principles of the article 224 of the European Union COUNCIL
DIRECTIVE 2010/45/EU of 13 July 2010, amending Directive 2006/112/EC on “the
common system of value added tax as regards the rules on invoicing” (as
referenced here and here). Therefore, you will not need to send us any invoice,
and we will be able to pay you in less than 14 days following the end of each
calendar month. We shall also be required to deduct withholding tax or any other
taxes as may from time to time be required by the
relevant tax laws or regulations.
The default payment methods are cheque issuance or
direct deposit on your bank account. We may however, allow mobile payments in
some specific African countries where we believe it is relevant. If you have not
selected one of the payment methods, we will withhold any unpaid accrued
advertising fees until you have done so.
If you are situated in Nigeria, your commission will
only become payable after you have met a minimum threshold of N10,000 (Ten
Thousand Naira) worth of commission approved in the past months from each
offer. Where the amount is yet to meet the minimum threshold, your commission will
be rolled over to the subsequent months. If you are situated outside Nigeria, your
commission will only become payable after you have met a minimum threshold of $50
(Fifty United States Dollars) worth of commission approved in the past months. Where
the amount is yet to meet the minimum threshold, your commission will be rolled
over to the subsequent months.
If you are based outside Nigeria, you can only be
paid if you are able to provide us with valid company details; Company name,
Company Address, Company Registration Number, VAT ID, Tax ID.
Regulations in certain countries, example being Morocco,
require that you provide us, on a monthly basis, with your Company’s tax
invoice indicating the ICE Number and VAT ID of your Company and wish to be
paid via bank transfer. This invoice shall be sent to us via email to affiliate@latalata.ng.
If you're unable to send us an invoice, we will send you a Latalata voucher
with the commission amount.
9. Policies and Pricing
Customers who buy products through this Program are
our customers with respect to all activities they undertake in connection with Latalata.
Accordingly, as between you and us, all pricing, terms of sale, rules, policies,
and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and
product sales set forth on Latalata will apply to those customers, and we may
change them at any time.
10. Identifying Yourself as An Affiliate Partner
You will not issue any press release or make any
other public communication with respect to this Terms & Conditions, your
use of the Content, or your participation in the Latalata Affiliate Program. You
will not misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and you,
(including by expressing
or implying that we support, sponsor, endorse, or
contribute to any charity or other cause), or express or imply any relationship
or affiliation between us and you or any other person or entity except as
expressly permitted by this Terms & Conditions.
11. Limited License
Subject to the terms of this Terms & Conditions
and solely for the limited purposes of advertising Products on, and directing
end users to, the Latalata Site in connection with Latalata Affiliate Program,
we hereby grant you a limited, revocable,
non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to:
(a) copy and display the Content solely on your site; and
(b) use only those of our trademarks and logos that we may
make available to you as part of Content solely on your site.
The license set forth in this Section will
immediately and automatically terminate if at any time you do not timely comply
with any obligation under this Terms & Conditions or any Operational Documentation,
or otherwise upon termination of this Terms & Conditions. In addition, we
may terminate the license set forth in this Section in whole or in part upon
written notice to you. You will promptly remove from your site and delete or
otherwise destroy all of the Content and Latalata Trademark with respect to
which the license set forth in this Section is terminated or as we may
otherwise request from time to time.
12. Reservation of Rights; Submissions
Other than the limited licenses expressly set forth
in Section 11, we reserve all right, title and interest
(including all intellectual property and proprietary
rights) in and to, and you do not, by virtue of this Terms & Conditions or
otherwise, acquire any ownership interest or rights in or to, Latalata
Affiliate Program, Tracking Links, link formats, Content, any domain name owned
or operated by us or our affiliates, Operational Documentation, our and our
affiliates' trademarks and logos (including the Latalata Trademark), and any
other intellectual property and technology that we provide or use in connection
with Latalata Affiliate Program (including any application program interfaces,
software development kits, libraries, sample code, and related materials). If
you provide us or any of our affiliates with suggestions, reviews,
modifications, data, images, text, or other information or content about a
product or in connection with this Terms & Conditions, any Content, or your
participation in Latalata Affiliate Program, or if you modify any Content in
any way, (collectively, "Your Submission"), you hereby irrevocably
assign to us all right, title, and interest in and to Your Submission and grant
us (even if you have designated Your Submission as confidential) a perpetual,
paid-up royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, freely transferable
right and license to:
(a) use, reproduce, perform, display, and distribute Your
Submission in any manner;
(b) adapt, modify, reformat, and create derivative works of
Your Submission for any purpose;
(c) use and publish your name in the form of a credit in
conjunction with Your Submission (however, we will not have any obligation to
do so); and
(d) sublicense the foregoing rights to any other person or
entity.
Additionally, you hereby warrant that:
(a) Your Submission is your original work, or you obtained
Your Submission in a lawful manner; and
(b) our and our sublicenses' exercise of rights under the
license above will not violate any person's or entity's rights, including any
copyright rights. You agree to provide us such assistance as we may require to
document, perfect, or maintain our rights in and to Your Submission.
13. Compliance with Laws
In connection with your participation in Latalata
Affiliate Program you will comply with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules,
regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgments, decisions, and other requirements
of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, including laws
that govern
marketing email.
14. Term and Termination
The term of this Terms & Conditions will begin
upon our acceptance of your Program application and will end when terminated by
either you or us. Either you or we may terminate this Terms & Conditions at
any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of
termination by email.
Upon any termination of this Terms & Conditions,
any and all licenses you have with respect to Content will automatically
terminate and you will immediately stop using the Content and Latalata Trademark
and promptly remove from your site and delete or otherwise destroy all links to
Latalata Site, all Latalata Trademark, all other Content, and any other
materials provided or made available by
or on behalf of us to you under this Terms &
Conditions or otherwise in connection with Latalata Affiliate Program. We may withhold
accrued unpaid advertising commissions for a reasonable period of time
following termination to ensure that the correct amount is paid (e.g. to
account for any cancellations or returns). Upon any termination of this Terms
& Conditions, all rights and obligations of the parties will be extinguished,
except that the rights and obligations of the parties under Sections 5, 9, 10,
12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, together with any accrued but unpaid
payment obligations of us under this Terms & Conditions, will survive the
termination of this Terms & Conditions. No termination of this Terms &
Conditions will relieve either party for any liability for any breach of, or
liability accruing under, this Terms & Conditions prior to termination.
15. Relationship of Parties
You and we are independent contractors, and nothing
in this Terms & Conditions will create any partnership, joint venture,
agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between you
and us or our respective affiliates. You will have no authority to make or
accept any offers or representations on our or our affiliates' behalf. You will
not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that contradicts or
may contradict anything in this section. If you authorize,
assist, encourage, or facilitate another person or entity
to take any action related to the subject matter of this Terms &
Conditions, you will be deemed to have taken the action yourself.
16. Limitation of Liability
We will not be liable for indirect, incidental,
special, consequential, or exemplary damages (including
any loss of revenue, profits, goodwill, use, or data)
arising in connection with this Terms & Conditions and the Latalata
Affiliate Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of those damages.
Further, our aggregate liability arising in
connection with this Terms & Conditions and the Latalata Affiliate Program
will not exceed the total advertising commissions paid or payable to you under this
Terms & Conditions in the twelve months immediately preceding the date on
which the event giving rise to the most recent claim of liability occurred.
17. Disclaimers
Latalata Affiliate Program, Latalata Site, any
products and services offered by Latalata, any tracking links, link formats,
operational documentation, content, Latalata domain name, our and our affiliates'
trademarks and logos (including the Latalata
trademark), and all technology, software, functions, materials, data, images,
text, and other information and content provided or used by or on behalf of us
or our affiliates or licensors in connection with Latalata Affiliate Program
(collectively the "service offerings") are provided "as
is." Neither we nor any of our affiliates or licensors make any representation
or warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise with
respect
to the service offerings. Except to the extent
prohibited by applicable law, we and our affiliates and licensors disclaim all
warranties with respect to the service offerings, including any implied warranties
of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose,
non-infringement, and quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising out of any
course of dealing, performance, or trade usage. We may discontinue any service
offering, or may change the nature, features, functions, scope, or operation of
any service offering, at any time and from time to time. Neither we nor any of our
affiliates or licensors warrant that the service offerings will continue to be
provided, will function as described, consistently or in any particular manner,
or will be uninterrupted, accurate, error free, or free of harmful components.
Neither we nor any of our affiliates or licensors will be responsible for:
(a) any errors, inaccuracies, or service interruptions,
including power outages or system failures; or
(b) any unauthorized access to or alteration of, or deletion,
destruction, damage, or loss of, your site or any data, images, text, or other
information or content. No advice or information obtained by you from us or
from any other person or entity or through Latalata Affiliate Program, content,
operational documentation, Latalata, or the affiliates or Latalata site will
create any warranty not expressly stated in this Terms & Conditions.
Further, neither we nor any of our affiliates or
licensors will be responsible for any compensation, reimbursement, or damages
arising in connection with
(a) any loss of prospective profits
or revenue, anticipated sales, goodwill, or other benefits,
(b) any investments, expenditures, or commitments by you in
connection with this Terms & Conditions or your participation in Latalata Affiliate
Program, or
(c) any termination of this Terms & Conditions or your
participation in Latalata Affiliate Program.
18. Disputes
1. If any dispute
arises out of or in connection with this Agreement, it shall be referred to and
finally resolved by binding arbitration as set out below, under the authority
of an arbitration body in Nigeria. If the affiliate partner is not located in Nigeria,
then Latalata will chose an arbitration body of its convenience. The party
wishing to commence arbitration shall send a copy of the Request for
Arbitration to the other party.
2. The number of
arbitrators shall be one. The parties to the arbitration shall seek to agree on
a sole arbitrator to be nominated. The arbitration proceedings shall be
conducted in the English language and the award shall be in English.
3. The tribunal shall
have power to make such directions and any provisional, interim or partial award
as it considers just and desirable. Judgment upon the award rendered by the
tribunal may be entered by any court having jurisdiction thereof or having
jurisdiction over the relevant party or its assets. The arbitration award shall
be final and binding on the parties.