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Partner Program Agreement |
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THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (THE "PARTNER") AND Traveltosaigon.
BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE Traveltosaigon PARTNER PROGRAM REQUIRES YOU TO AGREE
TO BE LEAGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH AND EVERY TERM AND CONDITION. PLEASE READ
THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU ENROLL TO BE A PARTNER.
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This partner program agreement was produced and posted on
Traveltosaigon.com on April 22nd 2002. Traveltosaigon
reserves the right to modify or amend this partner program agreement at
any time and for any reason. If there is any change, Traveltosaigon
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OVERVIEW |
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This Partner Program Agreement (this "Agreement") contains the complete terms
and conditions that apply to your becoming a member of the Traveltosaigon
Partner Program. The purpose of this Agreement is to allow you to publish travel
services on Traveltosaigon website, subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement. Please note that throughout this Agreement, "Traveltosaigon," "we,"
"us," "our," and "ours" will mean the
Traveltosaigon.com, and "you," "your," and
"yours" will mean the Partner.
This Agreement will be associated with a contract (which we will send to you
after your application has been accepted). The termination of this
Agreement also means the termination of the associated contract.
You may have third-parties providing travel services to you (called
"service provider"). You and your service providers expressly agree to abide by all of the terms and conditions of use
related to each of our web sites, including the Traveltosaigon Operating Center.
You warrant that you and your service providers possess the legal authority to
enter into this Agreement and to use this website in accordance with all the terms
and conditions herein.
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO? |
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Access Right on Operating Center |
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As a member of the Traveltosaigon Partner Program, you will have access to the
Traveltosaigon Operating Center (the URL address will be provided after you
become our partner) by
using log-in account provided by Traveltosaigon (you can change your password
whenever you'd like). At
this site you will be able to modify services, change prices, upload your
own logo and modify your own information.
You may have third-parties providing travel services for you (called "service
provider"). On Operating Center, you are allowed to create maximum 10 service provider
accounts by default (you can require more if necessary).
Traveltosaigon doesn't reserve the right to manage these service provider
accounts, you and only you are able to manage them. You may
delegate every service to every service provider, enable your service provider
to manage travel services online under your control. Service providers are
allowed to
use their accounts to log in Operating Center and manage delegated services.
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Identify Yourself as a Partner |
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We will make available to you a small logo that identifies yourself as
a member of the Traveltosaigon Partner Program located at
http://www.Traveltosaigon.com/partners. You may also display
Traveltosaigon logo on your website if you would like. This logo contains a
hyperlink back to the above address.
We will send you the HTML code that contains
the logo and hyperlink after you become our partner.
Even though you are a member of the Traveltosaigon Partner Program,
you may not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship between you
and us, nor may you express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us
and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this
Agreement (including by expressing or implying that the USA Group, Inc. or the
Traveltosaigon web site supports, sponsors, endorses or contributes money to
any charity or other cause).
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Maintain Your Services on Operating Center |
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The maintenance and updating of your services will be your
and your service providers' responsibility. Since the information within
Traveltosaigon is updated often, if you become a member of the Traveltosaigon
Partner Program it will be necessary for you to update the content of your
services on a regular basis to maintain consistency and accuracy for customers.
Maintaining your services online by using Operating Center. If
you need to create service entity (i.e. package, lodging, rental car), we will
create them first. After that you can modify, delegate it to your service
provider(s). All the changes on Operating Center will be reflected on
Traveltosaigon website immediately except for pricing changes. For security, we
must validate your or your service providers' changes on pricing (i.e. value
added for cars/lodging; ticket for packages). The new price will be available
only if we accept the change within one business day. You don't need to inform
the pricing changes, we are able to know your changes. Additionally, when you
delete any pricing-related entity (i.e. value added or ticket), the customer
will not see that entity any more on Traveltosaigon website but it still exist
in the database and will be deleted completely by our operator.
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Notice on Updating Information on Operating Center |
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Using the Operating Center, you and your service providers must warrant that you
and your service providers will not put any identification information (such as
telephone number, fax number, email address, website URL, address...) except required. For
example, when update an entity, you can fill telephone number in
the field "Phone" (or "Telephone" or "Phone Number" or "Telephone Number") as
required. But you CAN NOT insert phone number in other fields such as "Description",
"Name", "Detail", "Information"...
All of
identification information (if required by us) will be invisible to the
customers (except for address, if needed) and we only use these information to
contact you.
Any violation
of identification
information regulations will terminate this Agreement. We will terminate the
contract between you and Traveltosaigon after we inform you. You will not be
our partner any more (as showed in the contract we send you). You and your
service providers will not be able access the Operating Center after the
termination.
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND |
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We Can Monitor Your Services Published on Traveltosaigon |
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You agree that we have the right to monitor your services published on
Traveltosaigon at any time and from time
to time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this
Agreement and to notify you of any changes to your site that we feel should be
made.
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We Determine the Policies for the Bookings and
Purchases |
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Customers who purchase travel services (which provided by you and your service
providers) on Traveltosaigon website will be considered customers of the
Traveltosaigon. You agree that all of our
rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer
service, and ticket bookings, order cancellation, return and refund policy will apply to those customers. We may, in our sole
discretion, change our policies and operating procedures at any time and from
time to time upon notice to you.
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You Cannot Send Out Publicity Without Our Consent |
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You shall not create, publish, distribute, or permit any written, electronically
transmitted or other form of publicity material that makes reference to us
without first submitting the material to us and receiving our consent. We agree
that our consent will not be unreasonably withheld. If you fail to comply with
this requirement, we may terminate the contract upon notice to you.
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Agreement and Associated Contract Termination |
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Either you or Traveltosaigon may terminate this Agreement (and the associated
contract) AT ANY TIME, with or without
cause, by giving the other party written notice. Written notice can be in the
form of mail, email or fax. At the point of time termination, your services will
be removed completely from Traveltosaigon website. You and your service
providers will not be enabled to log in Operating Center any longer.
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WHAT YOU RECEIVE |
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Earn More Revenue |
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Traveltosaigon is one of the first online travel
"one-stop shop" with e-commerce features: secured transactions, online payment
using credit card enabled. Becoming our partner, you can target a blooming
success on a large, promising online market with your travel services.
Many travel services can be published on Traveltosaigon:
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Airfare: including domestic flights and international flights
to Vietnam.
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Lodging: including hotels, resorts, residences, villas.
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Car rental
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Packages: city tours, programmed package tours, customized
package tours, vacations.
After a customer book some service provided by you (or
your service providers), our payment system will update your partner payment
account (indicating how much you have earned by selling your services through Traveltosaigon). The payment amount indicated by your partner payment
account within a calendar quarter will be transferred at the end of next quarter.
The payment will be transferred to your banking account directly via your credit
card.
If this Agreement (and associated contract) is terminated, we
will transfer your partner payment account at the end of that calendar quarter.
If a customer disputes or rejects a purchased ticket, and we
have already paid you for the services based on the sale of that ticket, we will
deduct the same amount as the rate of the purchased ticket from your next
quarterly partner payment account.
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You Will Be Given a Password to Access Operating Center |
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If you become a member of the Partner Program, you will be given a password so
that you may enter our Operating Center (we will let you know the URL address
after becoming our partner). From
this site you will be able to view, add, modify your services and pricing. You
are able to control your service providers (if any).
Your service provider(s) will be provided access account
issued by you. By accessing Operating Center using these accounts, your service
provider(s) are able to manage the services on behalf of you under your control.
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MORE FOR BETTER USE
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Confidentiality |
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Except with the consent of the other party, each party agrees that all
information concerning the other party, including, without limitation, the terms
of this Agreement, business and financial information, customer and vendor
lists, and pricing and sales information, will remain confidential and will not
be utilized, directly or indirectly, by such party for any purpose except and to
the extent
(a) necessary to complete obligations under this Agreement or
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that any such information is known or available to the public through a source
or sources other than such party or any Partner of such party.
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Disclaimer |
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WE MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING THE
Traveltosaigon WEB SITE OR ITS PERFORMANCE, AVAILABILITY OR FUNCTIONALITY. ANY
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT FROM THE USA GROUP, INC. ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED. IN
ADDITION, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY 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.
Like many leading websites on Internet, although this website has been tested
carefully many times before posting, we are not sure it's error-free. It may contain some bugs we have not discovered,
it may sometimes meet failure because of your
browser error, inaccuracies errors or typographical errors.
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Representations and Warranties
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You represent and warrant that:
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You, if you are a company, are duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing, and are qualified and/or licensed to do
business in all jurisdictions to the extent necessary to carry out your
obligations under this Agreement.
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You, or if you are a company, the person entering into this
Agreement on your behalf are an adult of at least 18 years of age.
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This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and
delivered by you and constitutes your legal, valid, and binding obligation,
enforceable against you in accordance with its terms.
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You have the full right and authority to enter into and be
bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and to perform your
obligations under this Agreement, without the approval or consent of any other
party.
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You and your service providers possess the
legal authority to enter into this Agreement and to use this website in
accordance with all terms and conditions herein.
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Miscellaneous
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Each party will at all times be deemed to be an independent contractor
with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement, and nothing contained in
this Agreement will be deemed or construed in any manner as creating any
partnership, joint venture, employment, agency, fiduciary or other similar
relationship.
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You may not assign your rights or obligations under this Agreement to any
party.
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You have independently evaluated this Agreement and are not relying on any
representation, guarantee, or statement from us or anyone else, other than as
expressly set forth in this Agreement.
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Between you and your service providers (if any) maybe agree
with each other a different policy but you must warrant that your service
providers abide by this Agreement.
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If you have many service providers and each service
provider agree to provide the services with different prices and different
commission, Traveltosaigon and you will sign each contract for each service
provider.
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If you agree to abide by this Agreement and submit the
partner application form to us, we will send you the contract(s). At the
time you sign the contract(s), this Agreement is effected.
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This Agreement represents the entire agreement between us and you and
supersedes all prior agreements and communications we may have had, oral or
written.
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The headings and titles contained in this Agreement are included for
convenience only, and will not limit or otherwise affect the terms of this
Agreement.
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