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Welcome to the Billiards Cues Affiliate Area
You may not register using the same name for your affiliate account as you use for your customer registration. If allowed, we would not be able to track your individual credits created for each account.
It's Easy... You have NO RISK...
It's Completely Free...
We pay you 5% of all sales generated...
If your web site gets a lot of hits, it will be like "making money for nothin' " We and your web site will do most of the work! All you need is an approved web site and a strong desire to make some money...
by simply placing links to us from your website or from the signature portion of your emails you can start generating real profits! Already convinced.. review our Affiliate Agreement and register.
Reasons to join our program...
1) The Billiard industry is booming and you can get in on it ...
There are literally millions of pool players in the
2) You can promote money saving prices on almost every pool cue and cue case we carry! (everyone loves to save money!)
3) We offer an unbelievable selection of high quality name brand pool Cues, pool cue cases, billiards supplies, billiards books, billiards videos, clothing and more for you to promote... at savings of 20% to 60% as well as pool table lights, collectible cues, and every billiard accessory imaginable.
There's something for nearly every customer's preference, thus increasing the likelihood of your referred customer making a purchase!
4) We offer some of the best prices on the net!
Our commitment to unsurpassed customer service... and you, our valued affiliate!
Thousands of satisfied customers (Our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee)
We adhere to and uphold "best business" practices... We are in this for the long term!
Finally, we grew at an astounding rate of 64% last year in gross sales.
How our affiliate program works....
Read our affiliate agreement and choose to sign up. We will review your web site to ensure that you do not link or promote sites listed below
- Adult content/pornography
After review and acceptance into our program, you will receive an email welcoming you to our program.
Below is how our commission payment plan is set up....
We will pay you 5% of any purchase made by a customer referred by your "affiliate link" through our banners or text links or email insertions.
Note:
The Benefits of Joining...
It's totally FREE!
You earn 5% of all net sales sent to us....
** You can even purchase our products through your own "affiliate link". You should at least purchase and/or evaluate any product/service you promote. We want to encourage that.
You receive the same 100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee as our valued customers...
you are our customer!
You can build a long-term residual income.
We handle all the details... maintain inventory, process and ship the customer's order, provide technical support, warranty protection, etc.
Your sales activity will be available to you in "real-time”. Accessible 24 hours per day and 7 days per week. It is password protected and your info is SECURE.
You will be promoting high quality products that every billiard enthusiast needs! And, helping others save money too... This is a huge and growing market!
We provide banners and text ads to get you started and some helpful "affiliate" links.
We want to help you succeed... Your success is our success!
We will in not tolerate promotion of this program by the use of SPAM (unsolicited email). It is wise to know our definition of SPAM before you start promoting. Read the affiliate agreement and stay safe. It's easy to promote our program and make money without resorting to the use of "unsolicited" promotion methods.
We require all potential affiliates to read our Affiliate Agreement before signing up.
Once you've read what we consider our fair and easy to understand affiliate agreement, simply register and you will be on your way to getting started!
** A link to the Sign-up Form is provided on the "affiliate agreement" page. **
Once you submit the completed form AND are accepted, our system will assign you the URL that you will use to promote the Hawley's BilliardStore.com Affiliate Program. This URL will come to you in an email that will also disclose your Access ID and Password with instructions for accessing your "real time" stats area.
Please proceed to the Affiliate Agreement.
AFFILIATE AGREEMENT
It is our sincere intent and promise to you to be fair and to treat you with respect. You are very important to us. We simply ask the same consideration of you. We have written the following affiliate agreement with you in mind as well as protecting our company's good name. Most of it is common sense, but just to be careful, please take a moment to read it.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate in letting us know. We are strong believers in straight-forward and honest communication.
This Agreement contains the terms and conditions that apply to a participant in the Hawley's BilliardStore.com affiliate program (the "Program"). As used in this agreement, "we"/"our/"us", means BilliardCues.com and "you"/"your" means the "affiliate/applicant", "site" refers to a World Wide Web site.
To begin the enrollment process, you will submit a complete affiliate application form. We will evaluate your application in good faith and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection, usually within 24 hours. (you can re-apply at any time). We may reject your application if we determine, in our sole discretion, that your site is unsuitable for the program. Unsuitable sites include, for example, sites that:
- promote sexually explicit materials
We grant you a non-exclusive, revocable right to use our present banners and other such images for which we grant express permission, for the purpose of identifying your site as a program participant and linking to our site. You may not modify the banners or any of our images in any way without our express permission.
We reserve all of our rights to our trade names and trademarks and all other intellectual property rights.
SPAM
(unsolicited email)
We will not tolerate the sending of unsolicited bulk emails which promote, or make reference to Hawley's BilliardStore.com Supplies, or any of its associated companies, Partners, or employees. Other prohibited forms of advertising include postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once. In addition, Affiliates may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents their identity, their domain name or their return email address.
Any Affiliate who, in our opinion, breaches this ruling will have their affiliate status cancelled immediately and any and all outstanding commissions WILL BE FORFEITED.
Stay Safe, Don't SPAM. We will not revoke affiliate status to avoid payment of owed or future commissions.
UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
BilliardCues.com and its associated companies operate with the strictest codes of professional conduct. Any affiliate who brings BilliardCues.com or its associates into disrepute, or who promotes any form of slander, racism, or unfair business practices, will have their Affiliate status cancelled and any outstanding commissions WILL be forfeited. We reserve the right to reject any affiliate application if in our opinion, that person or company violates established laws or commonly held standards of decency. An affiliate who ignores warnings to cease and desist any activities we deem negligent, inappropriate, or harmful to BilliardCues.com and or other affiliates will be terminated.
ORDER PROCESSING
We will be solely responsible for processing every order for our products. Customers will use our secure online ordering process. Order forms, payment processing, shipping, cancellations, returns, and related customer service are our responsibility. All of our rules, operating procedures and policies regarding customer orders and accounts will apply to orders we receive through special links on your site. We reserve the right to reject any order that does not comply with our rules, operating procedures and policies. Every customer who buys a product through this program is deemed to be a customer of ours. You do not have the authority to make or accept any offer on our behalf. All our policies regarding customer orders, including product availability, pricing and problem resolution, will apply to these customers. We are not responsible for any representations made by you which contradict our policies.
** You CAN order our products for your OWN PERSONAL USE through YOUR affiliate link. (This, in effect, gives you an additional 5% "discount"!). However, the link to our site must have been from an ‘approved’ affiliate. All affiliate purchases and web sites are verified prior to completing sale.
TRACKING OF SALES
Our software will track real-time sales in your individual affiliate admin area when logged in.
Only two entities may access your stats and affiliate information. That would be you, and us (BilliardCues.com).
LINKS
We will provide you with a unique identifying URL for you to link to that will have your Affiliate ID number in it. Each sale or referral that is generated from this URL will be attributed to you through the use of cookies placed on your referred customer's computer. You will have access to your own private section to check your stats in Real Time. Your links to the unique URL can be text links or banner links, or a combination of the two, at your sole discretion. If you choose banner links, you must use our banners. We will provide you with a URL of all our banners, from which you can freely choose. You may add as many links to BilliardCues.com, or remove such links, at anytime and without prior approval from us.
** Inactive affiliates will be removed from participation in the Program. Inactive means little or no "click-throughs" via your banner/text links, as monitored via our affiliate program administrative panel, for a period of sixty (60) days. And/or, non-placement of affiliate banners/text ads. We will contact you after thirty (30) days of "inactivity". Efforts will be made to help and encourage your participation in the Program.
We will provide you with instructions on how to properly format the links. You are responsible for ensuring the links are formatted correctly. This will ensure accurate tracking of sales for credit to your account. Every effort will be made to ensure that our site is functional and available for customers referred to our site through your "affiliate link". We are also available to call at 800-938-3000 every business day to answer any questions you may have.
We have NO responsibilities with regard to your site. Hawley's BilliardStore.com shall have no liability for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages or any loss of revenue or profits arising under or with respect to this agreement or the program. In addition, Hawley's BilliardStore.com's aggregate liability arising under or with respect to this agreement or the program shall in no event exceed total referral fees paid or payable to the affiliate under this agreement.
COMMISSION AND PAYMENT
We will pay you 5% of any and all purchases made by a customer referred by your "affiliate link" through our banners or text links (not including any applicable sales tax and shipping charge).
Minimum amount for payment is fifty dollars ($50). Any amount under this will be held in your account until the minimum for pay out is reached. (this is ongoing)
Payment will be made in the form of a bank check from us, Shooters Billiards, Inc. (BilliardCues.com is owned by Shooters Billiards, Inc.), paid in US dollars. Checks will be mailed within 40 days of the first of the month for the prior month's sales. For example, commissions for sales made during May will be sent out on or before the 10th of July. We are not responsible for paying interest to Affiliates for accrued but not yet delivered Commission payments. Payment will be made out to you and mailed, via
TERM OF THE AGREEMENT
The term of this agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your affiliate program application and your placement of our banner or textual link on your site and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this agreement at any time, by giving the other party written notice of termination. This will be in the form of "email". You can only earn referral fees on sales occurring during the term. We will never withhold any payment due. Payment of monies owed you will be payable on the same schedule as stated above for commission payment. Upon termination of this agreement, the former Affiliate must remove all Affiliate links and graphics from its web site, and refrain from publishing same in any manner whatsoever.
INCOME TAX LIABILITY
You must understand and agree that you are acting as an independent contractor and as such will be responsible for your own Income Taxes and any other tax liabilities that affect the sales of our products in your state. By law, any commissions in excess of five hundred ninty nine ($599) dollars must be reported by us on a Federal Tax form 1099 (that's why we ask for your SSN-social security number on the sign-up page). You will be sent this form and are required to sign and return to us before any 'further payment' to you can or will be made.
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 new agreement on our site. Any modifications will ALSO be notified, by email, to all participating affiliates. If any modification is unacceptable to you, you may terminate this agreement. Your continued participation in the program following notification of our new program will constitute binding acceptance of the change.
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 written here.
CONFLICTS AND DISPUTES
As with any program, a conflict or dispute may occasionally arise due to tracking, orders, commission calculation, performance issues and appeals regarding "termination for cause". Below is outlined who to contact and how to handle any such situation.
- If a concern should arise, send an email stating your full name, your affiliate ID, your address and state the specifics of your concern. Include any dates or numbers that apply. We will investigate immediately and will reply as soon as possible.
- Though we will be more than willing to settle the dispute in as fair a manner as possible we realize this situation may arise. In this case we will be open to mediation or arbitration to settle the matter.
- We have not pre-selected a mediator or arbitrator. Should one be needed we will select a non-biased, third party moderator.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Use the Contact Us form for any questions or concerns you may have.
PRIVACY POLICY
It's pretty simple... We ONLY use the information you submit to maintain your account. That is, to make your commission payments and to communicate changes in our product offerings. We will not email you with any other company's products... period. We WILL notify you of new banners and or text links to facilitate promotion of BilliardCues.com . We do not Now nor will we in the future, sell, rent or otherwise make your personal information available to anyone. This concludes the agreement. Thank you for taking the time to read it carefully. We look forward to working with you, our Valued Affiliates! By signing up for our Program, you are in effect, agreeing to the above "affiliate agreement".
After registration your application will be reviewed, and your web site links verified. Once approved you will be sent a welcome message to the email provided. You may then logon using your affiliate name and password. Once logged on you will be able to view:
Banner Statistics
Summary Statistics
Payment History
Banner HTML Code (automatically generated for you to post on your site with your affiliate ID)
Product HTML Code (you choose individual products you wish to promote and a link with your affiliate ID is automatically generated)
After logging in you will be able to see current state.
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