Terms & Conditions

This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an individual's or entity's participation in the AtootRishtey.com Affiliates Program (the "Program"). By signing up for AtootRishtey.com program as delineated below you agree to be bound and to comply with the terms and conditions as set about hereunder.

As used in this Agreement, "we" means AtootRishtey.com, and "you" means the applicant. "Website" means a World Wide Website and, depending on the context, refers either to AtootRishtey.com's Website located at the URL http://www.AtootRishtey.com , or to the Website that you will link to our Website (and which you will identify in your Program application).

1. Enrollment In The Program:
To begin the enrollment process, you will submit a complete Program application via our Website. 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 (at our sole discretion) that your Website is unsuitable for the Program. Unsuitable sites include those that:

   Promote violence
   Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, or age
   Promote illegal activities
   Include "AtootRishtey" or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names
   Otherwise violate intellectual property rights
   If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Program at any time. You should also note that if we accept your application and your Website is thereafter determined (at our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program, we may terminate this Agreement without notice to you.

2. Links On Your Website:
Once you have been notified that your Website has been accepted into the Program, you may provide on your Website one or more of the following types of links to our Website:
   Text links
   Search Box Link
   General Link To AtootRishtey.com Home Page

We will provide you with guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking to our home page. To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and commission fee accrual, we will provide you with special "tagged" link formats to be used in all links between your Website and our Website. You must ensure that each of the links between your Website and our Website properly utilizes such special link formats. Links to our Website placed on your Website pursuant to this Agreement and which properly utilize such special link formats are referred to as "Special Links." You will only earn commission fees with respect to activity on our Website occurring directly through Special Links (The term Special Links means a link which contains your affiliate id in the URL ): we will not be liable to you with respect to any failure by you to use Special Links, including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of amounts which would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement. You will, however, earn commission fees with respect to all Membership purchases on our Website once from the above mentioned ?tagged? link.

In addition, you may not:

(a) Purchase or register search engine keywords, AdWords, search terms or other identifying terms and domain names that include the word "AtootRishtey" or any variations thereof for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service. Specifically, this policy prohibits You from bidding on:

   AtootRishtey.com's trademark, "AtootRishtey", AtootRishtey.com and any keyword string that includes this term. For example, "AtootRishtey", "AtootRishtey Singles", "AtootRishtey and marriage", ;

   Variations of AtootRishtey.com? trademark: for example "AtootRishtey", "www.AtootRishtey.com", "www.AtootRishtey", "wwwAtootRishtey.com", etc.

   Variations of our affiliate/subsidiary portals: for example www.AtutRishtey.com; www.AtootRishta.com etc

(b) Dilute, blur or tarnish the value of AtootRishtey.com trademark, and/or Membership and services. (For example, you are not allowed to say that you offer better and/or more promotions, Membership and services than AtootRishtey.com)

(c) Misrepresent AtootRishtey.com brand including URL, logos, trademarks and tradenames.

(d) Engage in indiscriminate or unsolicited commercial and/or advertising emails.

(e) Cause or enable any sales to be made that are not in good faith, including, but not limited to, by means of any device, program, robot, Iframes, hidden frames, and redirects.

(f) Establish or cause to be established any promotion that provides any rewards, points or compensation for sales, or that allows third parties to place Links to the AtootRishtey.com Web site or Web site content, without such AtootRishtey.com's prior written permission.

(g) Use all existing or future software Membership and services (including without limitation any computer programming code that is an add-on or bundled with any browser or other host application) that will replace, intercept, interfere, hinder, disrupt or otherwise alter in any manner the Web user's access, view or usage of, or other aspect of the Web user's experience at any AtootRishtey Affiliate Websites in a manner that causes or otherwise results in a different experience from what was otherwise intended by AtootRishtey Affiliates;

(h) Use all existing or future software Membership and services that will block, alter, direct, redirect, substitute, insert, append itself to, or otherwise intercept or interfere in any manner with any click through or other traffic-based transaction that originated from AtootRishtey Affiliates with the result of reducing any compensation or other payment earned by or owing to AtootRishtey Affiliates.

If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in any of the foregoing activities, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold any referral fees otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement.

3. Order Processing:
We will process orders placed by customers who follow special links from your Website to our Website. We reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any requirements that we periodically may establish. We will be responsible for all aspects of order processing and fulfillment. Among other things, we will prepare order forms; process payments, cancellations, and refunds; and handle customer service. We will track membership sales made to customers who purchase membership using special links from your Website to our Website 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 at our discretion.

4. Commission Fees
We will pay you (in accordance with Sections 5 and 6 below) commission fees on certain Membership sales to third parties. For a Membership sale to be eligible to earn a commission fee, the customer must follow a Special Link from your Website to our Website, select and purchase the Membership using our automated ordering system, accept delivery of the Membership at the shipping destination, and remit full payment to us.

5. Commission Fee Schedule
You will earn commission fees based on qualifying revenues according to commission fee schedules to be established by us. " ?Qualifying revenues? do not include shipping & handling, gift-wrapping, taxes, and service charges.

AtootRishtey.com pays monthly commissions on a sliding scale. At the end of each month we will add all of your sales together for that month and arrive at your commission percentage for the month according to this commission fee schedule:

   Total Sales/Month Commission Percentage
   Each time you refer a visitor to AtootRishtey.com and they complete a purchase, you earn commission on that sale. If the visitor does not purchase immediately, but comes back within 10 days and purchases, we still credit you with the sale.
   Affiliates that sign-up for the AtootRishtey.com Affiliates Program must have a valid URL that they are responsible for.
   Affiliates may not directly or indirectly offer any person or entity any consideration or incentive to sign up Websites to the AtootRishtey.com Affiliates Program.
   If we determine, at our sole discretion, that you are abusing the system in the manner stated above, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withdraw your participation and withhold any commission fees payable to you for Websites you recruit.

6. Commission Fee Payment
We will pay you commission fees on a monthly basis. 30 days following the end of each calendar month, we will send you a check for the commission fees earned on your sales of Qualifying Membership that were sold during that month, less any taxes that we are required by law to withhold. However, if the commission fees payable to you for any month are less than Rs. 500.00 for domestic affiliates and $25.00 USD for International affiliates, we will hold those commission fees until the total amount due is at least Rs.500.00/$25.00 (USD) or (if earlier) until this Agreement is terminated. If a Membership that generated a commission fee is returned by the customer, we will deduct the corresponding commission fee from your next monthly payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we will send you a bill for the commission fee.

7. Policies And Pricing
Customers who buy Membership through this Program will be deemed to be customers of AtootRishtey.com. Accordingly, all of AtootRishtey.com?s rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and Membership sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for Membership sold under this Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Membership prices and availability may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect Membership that you already have listed on your Website, you may not include price information in your Membership descriptions. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular Membership

8. Affiliate Identity:
You may not make any press release, advertising / identifying yourself as an affiliate of AtootRishtey.com. For a press release of this type, you must obtain written permission from the staffs. In addition, you may not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and you, or 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 AtootRishtey.com supports, sponsors, endorses or contributes money to any charity or other cause).

9. Limited License:
We grant you a nonexclusive, revocable right to use the graphic image and text described in Section 8 and such other images for which we grant express permission, solely for the purpose of identifying your Website as a Program participant and to assist in generating Membership sales. You may not modify the graphic image or text, or any other of our images, in any way. We reserve all of our rights in the graphic image and text, any other images, our trade names and trademarks, and all other intellectual property rights. We may revoke your license at any time by giving you written notice.

In addition, we grant you a nonexclusive, worldwide right to reproduce and use all graphic images and other materials provided to you, solely for the purpose of creating Links connecting your Website to the AtootRishtey.com Website and promoting Membership for sale. These Membership images must be served by AtootRishtey.com?s Website and cannot be used in any form other than the form provided by AtootRishtey.com.

10. Responsibility For Your Website:
You will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of your Website and for all materials that appear on your Website. For example, you will be solely responsible for:

   The technical operation of your Website and all related equipment
   The accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your Website (including, among other things, all Membership-related materials)
   Ensuring that materials posted on your Website do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights)
   Ensuring that materials posted on your Website are not libelous or otherwise illegal

11. Resale And Special Incentive Restrictions:
You may not purchase Membership during sessions initiated through the links on your Website for resale or commercial use of any kind. This includes orders for customers or on behalf of customers. Such purchases may result (in our sole discretion) in the withholding of commission fees or the termination of this Agreement. Membership that are eligible to earn commission fees under the rules set forth above are referred to as "Qualifying Membership."

In addition, you may not:

(a) directly or indirectly offer any person or entity any consideration or incentive (including, without limitation, payment of money (including any rebate), or granting of any discount or other benefit) for using Special Links on your Website to access our Website (e.g., by implementing any "rewards" program for persons or entities who use Special Links on your Website to access our Website). If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have offered any person or entity any such consideration or incentive, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold any commission fees otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement.

12. 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. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your Website, all links to our Website, Membership images from our database, and all AtootRishtey.com trademarks, trade dress and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Program. You are only eligible to earn commission fees on our sales of Qualifying Membership occurring during the term, and commission 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.

13. 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 Website. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope of available commission fees, commission fee schedules, payment procedures, and Program rules. In the event of substantive changes to the terms of this agreement, you will be contacted by Email. Substantive changes include changes in the commission schedule. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this agreement. Your continued participation in the program following our posting of a change notice or new agreement on our Website will constitute binding acceptance of the change.

14. 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 Website or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.

15. Limitation Of Liability :
We will not be liable for direct or 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.

You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless AtootRishtey.com and its subsidiaries and affiliates, franchises and their directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, partners, members, and other owners, against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) (any or all of the foregoing hereinafter referred to as "Losses") insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on

   (a) any claim that our use of the Affiliates Trademarks infringes on any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of any third party,
   (b) any misrepresentation of a representation or warranty or breach of a covenant and agreement made by you herein, or
   (c) any claim related to your Website, including, without limitation, content therein not attributable to us.

16. Disclaimers :
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any Membership sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, noninfringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade usage). In addition, we make no representation that the operation of our Website will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.

17. 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 WEBSITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR WEBSITE. 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.

18. Miscellaneous
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the India and the state of Tamilnadu, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action relating to this Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts located in Chennai, Tamil nadu, and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of such courts. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement. Rules Regarding Affiliates Communications And Promotion The following rules apply to any press release or other communication that you may want to issue in connection with your participation in the AtootRishtey.com Affiliates Program, as well as to any other promotion of your Website. Press Releases And Other Communications (Including All Communications On Your Website Or Via Other Media)

Any communication must accurately identify that you are participating in the "AtootRishtey.com Affiliates Program."

Any communication must clearly and accurately describe the nature of your participation in the AtootRishtey.com Affiliates Program: your communication must not create confusion or misrepresent the nature of your or any other participant's participation in the AtootRishtey.com Affiliates? Program.

You may, without our prior consent, say the following in any communication: that you have become a AtootRishtey.com Affiliate, and/or that you have joined or become a member of the AtootRishtey.com Affiliates Program.

You must obtain our prior written consent to use any other description of your participation in the AtootRishtey.com Affiliates Program or of the program itself, which we may give or withhold at our sole discretion. If you seek such consent, please submit the entirety of your proposed press release to us by Email at mail@AtootRishtey.com for review. Other Website Promotion

To protect the integrity of the reputation of AtootRishtey.com Affiliates as well as the AtootRishtey.com brand name, you may not promote your Website via certain forms of indiscriminate advertising, commonly referred to as "spamming." Accordingly, you may not promote your Website via postings to non-commercial newsgroups or cross-postings to multiple newsgroups at once.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may promote your Website via mailings to recipients who are already customers or subscribers to your Website's services, provided that the recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings. Further, you may promote your Website via newsgroup postings to newsgroups that specifically welcome commercial messages (when in doubt, consult the newsgroup FAQ or moderators to be sure that such a message is acceptable in that newsgroup).

In all promotion, you must clearly represent yourself and your Website as entities independent from AtootRishtey.com, AtootRishtey.com's affiliated companies, the AtootRishtey.com Website, the bhartmatrimony.com's franchisees and any of AtootRishtey.com's affiliated companies' Websites.

Generally, in any forum or media, you must honor the advertising practices and restrictions that are commonly considered acceptable by its readers.

AtootRishtey.com, Inc., reserves the right at its sole discretion to modify the foregoing rules at any time. AtootRishtey.com, Inc., reserves the right to take action against any person or entity that does not conform to these rules.

Guidelines For Using The AtootRishtey.com? Trademark and the subsidiary trademarks such as www.tamilmatrimony.com; www.assammatrimony.com etc

These guidelines apply to your use of AtootRishtey.com? (The "Trademark") in materials which have been approved in advance by AtootRishtey.com, Inc.

You may use the Trademark solely for the purpose authorized by AtootRishtey.com, Inc.

You may not alter the Trademark in any manner. For example, you may not change the proportion, color, or font of the Trademark.

You may not display the Trademark in any manner that implies sponsorship, endorsement by AtootRishtey.com, Inc. outside of your involvement in the Affiliates Program.

You may not use the Trademark to disparage AtootRishtey.com, its Membership or services, or in a manner which, in AtootRishtey.com, Inc.'s reasonable judgement, may diminish or otherwise damage AtootRishtey.com, Inc.'s goodwill in the Trademark.

The Trademark must appear by itself, with reasonable spacing (at least the height of the Trademark) between each side of the Trademark and other graphic or textual elements.

You acknowledge that all rights to the Trademark are the exclusive property of AtootRishtey.com, Inc., and all goodwill generated through your use of the Trademark will inure to the benefit of AtootRishtey.com, Inc.

Editorial Guidelines for Paid Search Listings
Many of our affiliates are now using paid search to generate commission. Here are the editorial guidelines to help you stay compliant with the AtootRishtey.com operations agreement:

Correct representation of AtootRishtey.com brand. Use www.AtootRishtey.com URL for the visible URL in your listings if you are linking directly to AtootRishtey.com website. You are not allowed to dilute blur or tarnish the value of AtootRishtey.com trademark, and/or Membership and services. (For example, you are not allowed to say in the copy of your ads, that AtootRishtey.com does not offer discounts, Membership or services that your website is offering.)

If you are going to use the number of Membership that AtootRishtey.com in your copy, you must use 300,000. Any updates in Membership count will be communicated to affiliates via email.

If you are linking directly to AtootRishtey.com site, you must place AtootRishtey.com URL as the visible URL in your ad.

Keywords involving AtootRishtey.com's trademark "AtootRishtey" and variations thereof. You shall not purchase or register search engine keywords, AdWords, search terms or other identifying terms that include the word "AtootRishtey" or any variations thereof for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service. Specifically, this policy prohibits You from bidding on:

   AtootRishtey.com's trademark, "AtootRishtey", ?AtootRishtey.com? and any keyword string that includes this term. For example, "AtootRishtey marriages", "AtootRishtey singles"

   Variations of AtootRishtey.com? trademark: for example "barat matrimony", "bhart matrimony", "www.AtootRishtey.com", "AtootRishtey", "bharat matrimony", "www.AtootRishtey", etc.,

   If AtootRishtey.com determines, in its sole discretion, that You have purchased or attempted to purchase "AtootRishtey" or one of the two cited examples above, then AtootRishtey.com may (without limiting any other remedies available to it) pursue any or all of the following actions:

Withhold, or cancel any and all compensation otherwise payable to You beginning with the date on which You purchased the prohibited trademarked terms;

   Remove You from the AtootRishtey.com affiliate Program permanently.
   Correct representation of AtootRishtey.com features and promotions. All promotions or claims must be accurate at any time that the ad is running.

If You breach any of these AtootRishtey.com guidelines, You may be removed from the Program immediately and/or permanently. AtootRishtey.com also reserves the right to withhold, or cancel any and all compensation for transactions not in compliance with these Terms and Conditions.

AtootRishtey.com, Inc. reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify these guidelines at any time.

AtootRishtey.com, Inc. reserves the right to take action against any use that does not conform to these guidelines.