PE Affiliate Program Agreement   

This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to your participation in our Affiliate Program. As used in this Agreement, "we" or "us" refers to Protein Essentials, LLC and "you" refers to the applicant. "Site" means a World Wide Web site and, identified by exact URL (Unified Resource Locator). 

By signing up for an Affiliate Account, you are agreeing to the terms specified in this agreement. Violation of any terms and conditions included in this agreement may result in termination of your account, and possible forfeit of affiliate commissions. You must be 18 years of age or older to enter into this Agreement with us. 

1. Enrollment in the Program

To begin the enrollment process, you will submit a complete Affiliate Program Application via our web site. We will evaluate your application in good faith and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection.   We may reject your application if we determine (in our sole discretion) that you and/or your site are unsuitable for the Affiliate Program. Upon acceptance into the Affiliate Program, we will enroll you into our Affiliate email communication system.  We believe that people referring our products should be users of our products.

We reserve the right to reject your application or terminate this agreement at any time upon written notification to you. 

2. Acceptable Advertising Methods

As an affiliate, you earn revenue by generating sales of our products. You generate these sales by encouraging people to purchase our products utilizing our shopping cart. You may advertise products via:

- Text Links or endorsements on your site(s);

- Graphical Banners and Buttons on your site(s);

- Text Links or endorsements in opt-in solicited emails;

- Word of mouth

If you have any questions about whether a method of advertising is allowed, please contact us. 

3. Order Processing

We will process sales orders placed by customers solicited by you. We reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any requirements foreign and/or domestic that we may establish periodically. We will be responsible for all aspects of order processing and fulfillment. Among other things, we will process payments, cancellations, and returns, and handle customer service. We will track the sales you solicit and make by customers who purchase our products and will make available to you reports summarizing this  sales activity. The form, content, and frequency of the reports may vary from time to time in our discretion. 

5. Commissions

For a product sale to be eligible to earn a commission the purchase must have been made through a link containing your affiliate ID. We will pay commissions each month.

6. Commission Schedule

You earn 10% commission on all sales to customers you refer.

7. Non-Qualified Orders

Orders refunded at the request of the purchaser, or orders charged-back do not qualify for commission. 

8. Commission Payment

Affiliates are paid a commission based on commissions earned. Commissions will be paid by the 15th of the month, following the month they are earned. The amount due must equal or exceed $25.00 or a higher specified payout set by each affiliate. Payments are processed through PayPal Payouts. You must have a PayPal account and share it with Protein Essentials in order to get paid.

9. Term of the Agreement

The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your program application and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination. We may terminate your account if you have not earned a commission over 180 consecutive days. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your site, all links to our site and any other promotional materials that we provided to you as to an affiliate. You are eligible to earn referral fees only for Qualified Orders that occur during the term, and referral fees earned through the date of termination will remain payable only if the related orders are not canceled or returned. We may withhold your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid. 

10. Modification

We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on our site. Modifications may include, but not limited to, changes in the scope of available referral fees, referral fee schedules, payment procedures, and Program rules. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR COMMUNICATING VIA EMAIL OF SUCH A CHANGE OR NEW AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE. 

11. Relationship of Parties

You and we are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section. 

12. Limitation of Liability

We will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement. 

13. Independent Investigation

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY TIME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT. 

14. Disclaimers

We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any products sold through the Program. In addition, we make no representation that the operation of our site will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors. 

15. VENUE

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, U.S.A.  Any lawsuit arising out of this agreement must be filed in Lake County, IL.

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