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Nov
30
Title:Vegas Affiliates Adds French ExclusionDate:November 30, 2010 5:52 am
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Yet another French Exclusion due to recent (semi-recent) law.

TERMS UPDATE - TERRITORY EXCLUSION
3.7 Restricted Territories You may not actively target customers residing in France or French territories ( Guadeloupe , Martinique , French Guiana , Runion , French Polynesia , Mayotte , New Caledonia , Saint Barthelemy , Saint Martin , Saint Pierre and Miquelon , Wallis and Futuna ) via means including but not limited to online and offline advertising as well as direct marketing . Vegas Affiliates are unable to permit you to actively promote our merchant brands to players using web sites from a . fr based domain .


Summary: Simple territory exclusion due to recent regulation.
Nov
3


Vegas Affiliates, on September 26th, 2009, added an ‘Inactive Affiliate’ clause which allows termination. Today, November 2, 2009, they have added an effective date to their quota which ensures that this term is not retroactive.

TERMS UPDATE, TERMINATION, INACTIVE AFFILIATE

c. the The Member has received no notice of such invasion, violation or infringement of rights.

d.The Member shall not deploy or use any Unsolicited Mass Communications, also known as spam. Should it become evident to Vegas Affiliates that the Member does not adhere to this obligation, Vegas Affiliates shall have the right to terminate this Agreement immediately in addition to other remedies available to Vegas Affiliates at law. Moreover, should the Member use spam, Vegas Affiliates will close all account(s) of the Merchant Company and withhold funds immediately.

TERM AND TERMINATION The term of this Agreement will begin when you download a banner and link it to our site or the Merchant’s Site(s) and will be continuous unless and until either party notifies the other in writing that it wishes to terminate the Agreement, in which case this Agreement may be terminated immediately. TERMINATION IS AT WILL, FOR ANY REASON, BY EITHER PARTY. For purposes of notification of termination, delivery via e-mail is considered a written and immediate form of notification.

Upon termination : The Affiliate is to remove any and all material related to the Merchant Site(s). Should there be no reasonable marketing activity on the part of the Member for over sixty days this Agreement will be deemed to have been terminated by the Member. (Applicable only to new member accounts created after 1st September 2009)


Summary:While this is a predatory term that Vegas Affiliates has implemented, the new addition to it (effective date) ensures that the term is not Rogue.
Sep
26
Title:Vegas Affiliates Terms Change – SpamDate:September 26, 2009 11:22 am


Vegas Affiliates have added a new spam clause to their terms and conditions. This term is intended to keep spammers from promoting their properties

TERMS UPDATE, Termination, Spam

The Member shall not deploy or use any Unsolicited Mass Communications, also known as spam. Should it become evident to Vegas Affiliates that the Member does not adhere to this obligation, Vegas Affiliates shall have the right to terminate this Agreement immediately in addition to other remedies available to Vegas Affiliates at law. Moreover, should the Member use spam, Vegas Affiliates will close all account(s) of the Merchant Company and withhold funds immediately.


Summary:It is good to see more and more programs implementing solid spam terms to keep the folks that are destroying the industry out.


May
22
Title:Vegas Affiliates Terms UpdateDate:May 22, 2009 10:15 pm


Vegas Affiliates have changed their terms and conditions to add

NEW TERMS, Commissions, Casino Player Accounts

CASINO PLAYER ACCOUNTS All Vegas Affiliates webmasters are allowed to register and play at any of our Merchant casinos or poker rooms. However, it should be noted that the following restrictions apply: No Vegas Affiliates webmaster is allowed to earn commission as a result of wagering on their personal gaming account/s at any of our Merchant casinos and poker rooms. Should you receive your commission payments, in the form of gaming credits, made into your casino or poker account, these payments will not be deemed as a deposit, and will thus not be eligible for any casino or poker related bonuses that may be on offer at any given time.



Summary:This term is necessary to spell out what happens when commissions are paid into a casino account. Nothing out of the ordinary here.
Dec
14


Vegas Affiliates has added a brand new term to their Terms and Conditions which makes it improper to use your own affiliate links to sign up at a casino and receive earnings.

Change #1 – Category: Commissions

NEW
CASINO PLAYER ACCOUNTS All Vegas Affiliates webmasters are allowed to register and play at any of our Merchant casinos or poker rooms. However, it should be noted that the following restrictions apply: No Vegas Affiliates webmaster is allowed to earn commission as a result of wagering on their personal gaming account’s at any of our Merchant casinos and poker rooms. Should you receive your commission payments, in the form of gaming credits, made into your casino or poker account, these payments will not be deemed as a deposit, and will thus not be eligible for any casino or poker related bonuses that may be on offer at any given time.

OUR SUMMARY: This is a standard for all affiliate programs, so is really no surprise. They must have been finding this to be a problem across their affiliate backend and decided to elimate the profit leak :)


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