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Sep
30
Title:Party Partners Removes Active Affiliate RuleDate:September 30, 2010 2:03 pm


Party Partners has removed the active affiliate rule. Additionally, they removed the ability to change commission structure from Revshare to CPA. These rules was removed at the request of the AGD Certification team and agreed upon by Party Gaming legal. However – High Roller negative carryover was implemented during this time.

TERMS REMOVAL – ACTIVE AFFILIATE RULE

5.5 Automatic Termination By Us If Your Account Is Inactive. If your Affiliate Cashier Account is inactive, your Agreement and participation in the Affiliate Network will automatically terminate. In this Section, Inactive ‘ ‘Inactive” means where ( i) you have not generated sufficient Affiliate Accruals to trigger requested a payment into your Affiliate Cashier Account or you have not cashed cash out any funds (through a withdrawal or a transfer to a Player’s Account) for one hundred and eighty three (183) days or more ; or ( ii) you have failed to respond to any verification mails sent to you within a reasonable timemore;. Where automatic termination occurs , we will notify you that your Affiliate Accruals will be frozen . If we do not receive any response from you within one hundred and eighty three ( 183) days, any funds remaining within your Affiliate Cashier Account will revert to us.


TERMS UPDATE – CHANGE OF COMMISSION STRUCTURE

4.2 Affiliate Accruals. Subject to Section 4.4 below, Affiliate Accruals will be paid to you on a calendar month basis in accordance with your chosen Payment Plan after you have completed the registration process and/or where we have activated additional Trackers. We may elect not to accept your selected Payment Plan choice and we may convert any . For the avoidance of doubt , where you have elected the MGR Payment Plan (and any associated Trackers provided hereunder from a Percentage Payment Plan to a Per Sign-up we have accepted this Payment Plan or vice versa or choice) , you will continue to any other receive Affiliate Accruals on that Payment Plan that we may operate from time to time , at any time , on notice to you for the Term.


TERMS UPDATE – HIGH ROLLER NEGATIVE CARRYOVER

4.4 Minimum Payment and Time of Payment. All Affiliate Accruals generated through your chosen Payment Plan will be paid into your Affiliate Cashier Account within fifteen (15) days of the close of each calendar month. We may impose reasonable restrictions on the frequency and amounts that can be cashed out of your Affiliate Cashier Account for administrative convenience and/or to protect the security of your account. At our sole discretion, we may impose a policy that if the amount due is negative or less than USD10 in any particular month, then in respect of the traffic you send to Partypoker.com , Empirepoker.com , WPTPoker.com and / or Gamebookerspoker.com (i) any negative amount will carry over and will be deducted against the following month, and (ii) any amount less than USD10 will carry over and become payable in the calendar month in which the total amount of Affiliate Accruals exceeds USD10 in accordance with this clause 4.4 ; and in respect of traffic you send to PartyCasino.com , Gamebookerscasino.com and WPTCasino.com we may impose a policy that if the amount due is negative by more than USD five thousand , any negative amount in excess of USD five thousand will carry over and will become payable against the following month.


Summary: A big thank you goes out to Party Partners for getting their terms changed through legal. High roller negative carryover appears to be added, however, since they already had negative carryover – it is not an issue.
Jan
19
Title:Party Partners Updates Payment TermsDate:January 19, 2010 1:27 pm


Party Partners have changed their minimum payment.

TERMS UPDATE, COMMISSIONS, MINIMUM PAYMENT

4.4 Minimum Payment and Time of Payment. All Affiliate Accruals generated through your chosen Payment Plan will be paid into your Affiliate Cashier Account within fifteen (15) days of the close of each calendar month. We may impose reasonable restrictions on the frequency and amounts that can be cashed out of your Affiliate Cashier Account for administrative convenience and/or to protect the security of your account. At our sole discretion, we may in impose a policy that if the amount due is negative or less than USD10 in any particular month, then that ( i) any negative amount will carry over and will be deducted against the following month , and ( ii) any amount less than USD10 will carry over and become payable in the calendar month in which the total amount of Affiliate Accruals exceeds USD10 in accordance with this clause.


Summary: This is a new change by Party Partners, but let’s not forget that they have the same inactivity clause as AffClub (AffClub is a PartyPartners site)
Dec
7
Title:Party Partners Sign Up Codes and CDsDate:December 7, 2009 9:27 am


Party Partners have removed the term relating to Sign Up Bonus codes and distributable CD’s.

TERMS UPDATE, BONUSES CODES, DISTRIBUTED CD’S

2.22 A ”Sign-up Bonus Code” is a unique alphanumeric code that we may make available to you to provide to prospective Players. When entered, the system automatically logs the Sign-up Bonus Codes and records you as the Affiliate in relation to the relevant Player. Further , Sign-up Bonus Codes may automatically be entered/logged by our system with some CDs that we may provide to you and that may be used for installation of our software by any prospective Player .


Summary: We can only assume that Party Partners no longer distributes CDs with bonus codes embedded. Hopefully that is a help to affiliates and will not allow CD’s to steal previously referred players.
Oct
15


Party Partners have re-implemented their exclusion of persons associated with Party Gaming from promoting through the affiliate program.

TERMS UPDATE, AFFILIATE ACCEPTANCE, PARTY EMPLOYEES

3.10 No Group Employees. If you are an officer, director, employee, consultant or agent of the Group or one of its subsidiary parent or associated companies, or suppliers or vendors, you are not permitted to participate in the Affiliate Network or to use directly or indirectly any of the Sites, other than in the course of your employment as a Group employee. Similarly, ´relative´ of Group employees are not permitted to participate in the Affiliate Network or to use directly or indirectly any of the Sites. For these purposes, the term relative shall include (but not be limited to) any of a spouse, partner, parent, child or sibling.


Summary:This term was removed in September, but looks to have been an accidental removal.
Oct
5


Russian Players, at Party Partners, are required to meet a minimum level for a CPA affiliate to collect earnings.

TERMS UPDATE, Commissions, CPA Requirement

Players from Russia have to make a minimum cumulative deposit of $25 and earn 250 PartyPoints to qualify as RMP. (Note: This is applicable to CPA payment option only)


Summary:It appears that Party Partners are having problems with Russian players from this new CPA requirement. If you are a CPA affiliate, watch your stats.


Sep
22
Title:Party Partners Changes TermsDate:September 22, 2009 4:16 am


Party Partners removes a term which excludes direct employees from entering into their affiliate marketing program.

TERMS UPDATE, Registration, Affiliate Accounts

3.10 No Group Employees. If you are an officer, director, employee, consultant or agent of the Group or one of its subsidiary parent or associated companies, or suppliers or vendors, you are not permitted to participate in the Affiliate Network or to use directly or indirectly any of the Sites, other than in the course of your employment as a Group employee. Similarly, ´relative´ of Group employees are not permitted to participate in the Affiliate Network or to use directly or indirectly any of the Sites. For these purposes, the term relative shall include (but not be limited to) any of a spouse, partner, parent, child or sibling.


Summary:Surprising that this term is removed. It does not truly affect current affiliates, most likely, unless you were an affiliate (and employee, in some regards of Party Gaming) flying under the radar.


May
19
Title:Party Partners Negative Carryover UpdateDate:May 19, 2009 1:32 am


Party Partners Updates the Negative Carryover clause… but why? This is the same alert as Affclub, of course, but for Party.

UPDATED TERMS, Commissions, Negative Carryover

4.4 Minimum Payment and Time of Payment. All Affiliate Accruals generated through your chosen Payment Plan will be paid into your Affiliate Cashier Account within fifteen (15) days of the close of each calendar month. We may impose reasonable restrictions on the frequency and amounts that can be cashed out of your Affiliate Cashier Account for administrative convenience and/or to protect the security of your account. Further At our sole discretion, we may in impose a policy that if the amount due is negative in any particular month, then that negative amount will carry over and be deducted against the following month.


Summary:(Same as Affclub Alert): It is difficult to tell from the new language if there is ‘no negative carryover’ except in special situations…. or if it is just stricter language.

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