Your application to join the program is considered in good faith. TheChessPiece reserves 

the right to reject any application if we deem it to be unsuitable for the program. We 

are not required to give reasons for rejection but sites deemed unsuitable for inclusion 
include those that,

1. Promote discrimination based upon race, gender, religion, disability, age or sexual 

orientation.
2. Promote illegal activities
3. Promote sexually explicit material
4. Promote violence
5. Include material that violates the international intellectual 
   property rights of TheChessPiece

Once a site has been accepted, TheChessPiece reserve the right at any time, and at our sole 

discretion, to terminate this agreement should we deem your site to be no longer suitable 

for inclusion within the affiliates program.

On acceptance into the program you will be given access to specially adapted links that will 

refer visitors to our store, or parts of our store, while at the same time allowing the 

program to accurately track those visitors and calculate referral fees due to you. You must 

ensure that each of the links between your site and our store properly use these specially 

adapted links to .asp (Active Server Pages). For example, 

www.thechesspiece.com/index.asp?PARTNER=affiliate 

Links other than those specially adapted are not accepted and simply won't work. You will 

only earn referral fees with respect to goods purchased at our store where visitors have been 

referred using these specially adapted links. 

TheChessPiece will not be liable to you in any respect due to any failure on your part to 

either properly use or correctly implement the specially adapted links, including the fact 

that such failure to use or correctly implement the specially adapted links results in a 

reduction in the referral fees that would otherwise be due.

TheChessPiece undertake to process orders placed by customers to our store who have followed 

the specially adapted links from your site. 
We reserve the right to reject any orders that do not comply with any requirements in place 

at the time of your acceptance onto the affiliates program and those requirements that we may 

periodically introduce.

TheChessPiece will undertake all aspects of order processing and order fulfilment.

TheChessPiece store software will track, record and report all sales made by customers to our 

store who have followed the specially adapted links from your site. Reports summarizing this 

sales activity and calculating referral fees due to you are available to you by logging on 

with your user name and password. We reserve the right to vary the content and form of the 

information displayed at any time and at our sole discretion.

Where a repeat customer at our store has been established as having initially come to our 

store via the specially adapted links on your site, referral fees are due on these repeat 

purchases and they will be credited to your account. If a customer who initially came to our 

store by following the specially adapted links on your site visits our store on subsequent 
occasions, using specially adapted links on the site of a third party associate to the program, 

then that customer ceases to be considered eligible for repeat referral fees to your affiliate 

account, fees then being due to the third party account. 

Referral fees are due on qualifying revenues. Qualifying revenues are determined as being 

derived from sales exclusive of taxes and shipping costs. 

Referral fees are calculated in line with the current referral fee schedule. TheChessPiece 

reserve the right to change the referral fee schedule at any time and without prior notice. 

We undertake to make the current referral fee schedule available when you log on to your account. 

Referral fees are calculated once an order has been processed and fulfilled. Should an item be 

returned by a customer then we will deduct the corresponding referral fee from you account. 

Should no subsequent payment of referral fee be due to your account we will send you a bill 

for the referral fee.

Referral fees will not be paid in the event that the referral was made as a result of an 

unsolicited message or spam or deliberate submission of linked pages to the search engines. In the event that we are notified that unsolicited mailings have been 

made by an affiliate and this is found to be proven we reserve the right to cancel that 

Affiliates account without question or any further compensation.

Should a sale be subject to a bad debt, for example if payment is subsequently reclaimed by 

our credit card payment processor or the credit card issuing bank, then we will deduct the 

corresponding referral fee from your account. Should no subsequent payment of referral fee be due to your account we will send you a bill 

for the referral fee.

Current referral fees due will be displayed when you log on to your account. 

Commission due in any given month are only calculated and displayed for that month once all 

orders placed in that month have been fulfilled by the store.

Commission will be accrued in your account until the threshold for payment has been 

reached. The threshold for payment is displayed when you log on to your account.

TheChessPiece reserve the right to alter the threshold for payment at any time and without 

prior notice. Once referral fees due exceed the threshold, check payment will be made to you. 

The Affiliates Program is a referral agreement between two commercial organizations, 

yourselves and ourselves. As a bonus to our Affiliates the account may be used to make personal 

purchases from your web site.

Customers buying product at our store will be considered to be our customers. Accordingly 

all current procedures, rules prices, and policies in operation at the store apply to those 

customers. 

TheChessPiece reserve the right to vary our policies, rules, prices and procedures at any 

time. 

TheChessPiece undertake to make all reasonable commercial efforts to ensure that the 

information held on the store is accurate but we cannot be held responsible for information 

as it applies to products displayed on the store.

TheChessPiece reserve the right to change price and product information on the store at any time. 

For this reason you must not display any product price among the information displayed on your 

site.

The product images displayed on our store are copyright of TheChessPiece and/or their respective manufacturers and 

cannot be copied or otherwise reproduced in whole or in part for use on your site.

Links to our store must be in the form of the specially adapted links available when you log in 

to your account. You may provide one or more links to our store as below.

General Link
You may provide a specially adapted link from your site to the home page of our store. 

We will provide the specially adapted link when you log in to your account.

Product Links
You may use the specially adapted links, along with a product catalog number, to link 

from your site to an individual product in our store. We will provide the specially adapted 

link and instructions on how to modify the link for each product, when you log in to your 

account. 

Search Links
You may use the specially adapted links direct to the store search engine to allow visitors 

to your site to search for products within our store. We will provide the specially adapted 

link and instructions on how to implement the search link, when you log in to your account. 

We reserve the right to remove products from our store at any time and without prior notice, 

and it is your responsibility to ensure that the specially adapted links to individual 

products are current and up to date.

We undertake to make available a number of graphic images that identify your store as a 

participant in our affiliates program and which will form part of the specially adapted 

links visitors from your site to our store. You must display at least one of these images on 

your site, or the store URL. We reserve the right to change the form and content of the 

graphical images at any time. The graphic buttons available will be displayed when you log 

in to your account.

The graphic images are made available to you under license. The images must be used solely in 

connection with this affiliates program and solely in order to identify your site as a program 

partner. You may not alter the content or form of any of the graphic images in any way. We 

reserve all rights in the graphic images, text, trademarks and trade names, and all other 

intellectual property rights. 

TheChessPiece may revoke your license to use the graphic images and, therefore, your membership 

of the program at any time by giving you written notice.

You will be solely responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of your site and 

all materials and content on your site. This particularly applies to the effective establishment 

and continued maintenance of the specially adapted links from your site to our store.

The terms of this agreement begin once you receive confirmation from us that you have been 

accepted onto the program. Either party, with or without cause, can terminate the agreement at 

any time by giving written notice. As soon as the agreement is terminated you will immediately 

stop using, and remove from your site, all links to our store and any graphic or text reference 

that link you with the affiliates program. 

Referral fees are only due on sales occurring during the period of the agreement. Any orders in 

progress at the time of the termination will be fulfilled and referral fee calculated 

and added to your final payment. Final payment may be delayed for a reasonable time to allow 

for any returns or bad debt. 

TheChessPiece reserve the right to modify the terms and conditions of this agreement at any time 

and without prior notice. Notice of changes made will be posted on our store. If you are unhappy 

with any modifications made your only recourse is to terminate this agreement. Your failure to 

provide written notice to terminate the agreement following any change to the terms and 

conditions will be taken as acceptance of those terms and conditions. 

Acceptance onto the program does not constitute any partnership, franchise, joint venture, sales 

representative or other employment relationship between yourselves and ourselves. Acceptance onto 

the program does not give you authority to accept any offers or make any representations on our 

behalf.

We reserve the right to accept web sites onto the program that may be competitive with your own 

site. Further, we reserve the right to ourselves operate web sites that are similar to, or which 

compete with, your web site.

TheChessPiece will not be liable for any direct, indirect, special or consequential damages, any 

loss of revenue, profits or data that may arise in connection with this program. This applies 

even where we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Additionally our total 

liability with respect to your participation in this program will not exceed the total referral 

fees, paid or payable, to you.

TheChessPiece make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to this 

program or with respect to any of the products sold through our store, either as a result of 

this program or separately. 

While we make every effort to ensure continuous operation and availability of the store we make 

no representation or guarantee that the operation of the store will be either uninterrupted or 

error free. 

We will not be liable for the consequences of any errors or interruptions.

By establishing a user account to join the program you expressly acknowledge that you have both 

read the terms and conditions and that you accept the terms and conditions. You accept, also, 

that we may change the terms and conditions at any time. You accept, further, that the site 

content, products, product information, product availability and prices shown on our store 

may change at any time. 

Finally, you accept that you have evaluated the information contained in these terms and 

conditions and in agreeing to become a member of the affiliates program you are not relying on 

any other information other than that which is contained in these terms and conditions.

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