This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an individual or entity's participation in the LaserSoft Imaging Affiliate Program (the "Program"). As used in this Agreement, "we", "us", or "our" refers to LaserSoft Imaging AG and LaserSoft Imaging, Inc.; and the term "you" refers to the applicant. "silverfast.com Site" refers to the site that has its primary home page identified by the URL www.SilverFast.com, and the word "Site" refers to a World Wide Web site. "Your site" means any site that you will link to the SilverFast.com Site (and which you will identify in your Program application). Save for our obligation to pay referral fees under Section 4, which may be performed solely by us, we may cause any of our obligations under this Agreement to be fulfilled by any of our affiliates (defined below), on our behalf.

1. Enrollment in the Program

To begin the enrollment process, you will submit a complete Program application via the SilverFast.com Site. We will evaluate your application in good faith and will notify you of its acceptance or rejection. We may reject your application if we determine (using our sole discretion) that your site is unsuitable for the Program. Unsuitable sites include, but are not limited to, those that:

• promote sexually explicit materials
• promote violence
• promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
• promote illegal activities
• breach intellectual property rights
• otherwise violate intellectual property rights.

By participating in the Program you agree that you will not engage in promoting such activities. 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 site is thereafter determined (using our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program, we may terminate this Agreement. Participation in the Program is limited to parties that lawfully can enter into and form contracts under applicable law. For example, minors are not allowed to participate in the Program.

2. Links on Your Site

Once you have been notified that your site has been accepted into the Program, we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license for the duration of the term of this Agreement, solely for purposes of facilitating referrals from your site to the SilverFast.com Site, to provide on your site one or more of the following types of links to the SilverFast.com Site:

Product Links: You may select one or more Products to list on your site. A "Product" is any product listed on the SilverFast.com Site that is fulfilled by us or on our behalf. For each selected Product, you will display on your site a short description, review, or other reference. You will be responsible for the content, style, and placement of these references. You will provide a Special Link (as defined below) from each Product reference on your site to the corresponding SilverFast.com Site entry. You may add or delete Products (and related links) from your site at any time without our approval. Special Links that individually link to specific Products as described above are referred to as "Product Links." You may not use Special Links to link to the SilverFast.com Site from references to products on your site that are not "Products" as defined above.

You may provide a general link on your site to the homepage of the SilverFast.com Site.

You may provide a link on your site that will link to any particular page on the SilverFast.com Site, provided that you properly use the special link formats provided on the SilverFast.com Site as part of the Program to create such link.

You acknowledge that, by participating in the Affiliate Program and placing any of the above links within your site, we may receive information from or about visitors to your site or communications between your site and those visitors. Your participation in the Program constitutes your specific and unconditional consent to and authorization for our access to, receipt, storage, use, and disclosure of any and all such information, consistent with the policies and procedures set forth in the Privacy Notice on the SilverFast.com Site.

Except for the license granted under this Section 2, you do not obtain any rights under this Agreement in any intellectual property, including, without limitation, any intellectual property with respect to the Special Links, link formats, technical specifications, guidelines or graphical artwork referenced above, or with respect to the SilverFast.com domain name.

You also acknowledge that we may monitor your site for the purpose of ensuring the quality and reliability of links on your site (for example, to detect links that are broken or non-functional, links to products that are out of stock or otherwise unavailable, etc.). Therefore, you agree that we and our corporate affiliates may take such actions and that you will not seek to block or otherwise interfere with such crawling or monitoring (and that we may use technical means to overcome any methods used on your site to block or interfere with such crawling or monitoring).

You also acknowledge that as a participant in the Program, we may from time to time send you email updates about the Program. By participating in the Program, you consent to our sending you these email updates.

Further, you acknowledge and agree that you will: (a) use any data, images, text, or other information obtained by you from us or the SilverFast.com Site in connection with this Agreement ("Content") only in a lawful manner and only in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (b) not use any Content relating to any Excluded Merchant or any product sold by any Excluded Merchant; (c) not modify or alter any Content that consists of a graphic image, other than to resize it; (d) not edit any Content that consists of text, other than to shorten its length; (e) not sell, redistribute, sublicense or transfer any Content; (f) not use any Content in a manner intended to send sales to any site other than the SilverFast.com Site; and (g) promptly delete any Content that is no longer displayed on the SilverFast.com Site or that we notify you is no longer available for your use.

3. Order Processing

We will process Product orders placed by customers who follow links from your site to the SilverFast.com Site. 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 returns, and handle customer service. We will track sales made to customers who purchase Products by using links from your site to the SilverFast.com Site 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 as a result of the use of our discretion.

4. Referral Fees

We will pay you (in accordance with sections 5 and 6 below) referral fees on certain Product sales to third parties. For a Product sale to be eligible to earn a referral fee, the customer must click-through a link from your site to the SilverFast.com Site, and order the Product for packaged delivery or purchase the Product via our online sales system. The session ends upon one of the following events: (a) 30 days elapses from the customer's initial click-through, (b) the customer orders or buys online the Product. We will only pay referral fees on eligible Products after order, payment and/or shipping have occurred.

To permit accurate tracking, reporting and fee accrual, you must ensure that the Links between your site and the SilverFast.com Site are properly formatted. We will not be liable for paying referral fees on purchases that are not correctly tracked and reported as a result of the improper formatting of the links between your site and the SilverFast.com Site.

We will not, however, pay referral fees on any Products that are ordered or purchased online after the customer has reentered the SilverFast.com Site (other than through a Link from your site), as determined by us, even if the customer previously followed a link from your site to the SilverFast.com Site.

In addition, you may not: (a) read, intercept, record, redirect, interpret, or fill in the contents of any electronic form or other materials submitted to us by any person or entity; (b) in any way modify, redirect, suppress, or substitute the operation of any button, link, or other interactive feature of the SilverFast.com Site; (c) take any action that could reasonably cause any customer confusion as to our relationship with you, or as to the site on which any functions or transactions (e.g., search, order, browse, and so on) are occurring; (d) attempt to circumvent the referral fee schedule or artificially increase your referral fees (e.g. by intentionally featuring, purchasing or requesting or encouraging any third party to purchase low-price items offered on the SilverFast.com Site (as determined by us) for the purpose of exceeding any referral fee threshold or by causing any page of the SilverFast.com Site to open in a customer's browser other than as a result of the customer clicking on a Link on your site); (e) attempt to intercept or re-direct (including, without limitation, via user-installed software) traffic from or on, or divert referral fees from, any website that participates in the Program; or (f) seek to purchase or register any keywords, search terms or other identifiers that include the word "silverfast" or variations thereof (for example "slvrfast", "silver-fast", etc.) for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service. From time to time we may request that you cause any applicable Web search provider to exclude Proprietary Terms from keywords used to display your advertising content in association with query results, assuming the provider of such Web search engine offers such exclusion capabilities. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in any of the foregoing activities or, as the case may be, refused promptly to comply with a request from us to exclude Proprietary Terms from any keyword as mentioned above, 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.

5. Referral Fee Schedule

During each calendar quarter, for Qualifying Products sold during sessions initiated through Links on your site, you will earn (subject to the other terms of this Agreement) referral fees. The quarterly deadline for choosing a fee structure, however, is 11:59 PM on the last day of that quarter, and you will earn (subject to the other terms of this Agreement) referral fees for the entire quarter.

Fee Structure

Subject to the other terms of this Agreement, you will earn 20% of "Qualifying Revenues" (revenues derived by us from sales of Qualifying Product units sold during sessions initiated through Links on your site, excluding costs for shipping, handling, gift-wrapping, taxes, service charges, credit card processing fees, returns and bad debt).

6. Referral Fee Payment

We will pay your referral fees on a quarterly basis. Approximately 14 days following the end of each calendar quarter, we will directly deposit the referral fees earned into your bank account. (Please note that you will have to provide us with your bank data). We will accrue and withhold referral fees until the total amount due is at least $50.00 / €50,00. Referral Fees earned in $ will get paid separately from fees earned in €. The direct deposit to foreign coutries may cause some banking charges, which will be divided equally between you and us. If you have to pay taxes on your earned referral fees, you will have to provide us your tax information. If we believe you are a Program participant from whom we are obligated to obtain tax information and you do not provide this information to us after we have requested it, we may withhold your referral fee payments until you provide this information or otherwise satisfy us that you are not a person from whom we are required to obtain tax information.

7. Policies and Pricing

Customers who buy products through this Program will be deemed to be our customers. Accordingly, all of our rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and product 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 products sold under this Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. If you choose to display prices for any Product on your site in any "comparison" format (including through the use of any price-comparison tool or engine) together with prices for the same or similar products offered through any web site or other outlet other than the SilverFast.com Site, you must display both the lowest "new" price and, if we provide it to you, the lowest "used" price at which the Product is available on the SilverFast.com Site. You may not otherwise include price information in your Product descriptions. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.

8. Identifying Yourself as an Affiliate

You may not issue any press release with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Program; such action may result in your termination from the Program. We may will make available to you a small graphic image that identifies your site as a Program participant. You must display this logo or the phrase "In association with LaserSoft Imaging" somewhere on your site. We may modify the text or graphic image of this notice from time to time. 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 we support, sponsor, endorse, or contribute 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 text or images for which we grant express permission, solely for the purpose of identifying your site as a Program participant and to assist in generating Product 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. You agree to follow our Trademark Guidelines, as those guidelines may change from time to time. We may revoke your license at any time by giving you written notice.

10. Responsibility for Your Site

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

• the technical operation of your site and all related equipment
• creating and posting Product descriptions on your site and linking those descriptions to the SilverFast.com Site catalog
• the accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your site (including, among other things, all Product-related materials)
• ensuring that materials posted on your site 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 site are not libelous or otherwise illegal
• ensuring that your site accurately and adequately discloses, either through a privacy policy or otherwise, how you collect, use, store, and disclose data collected from visitors, including, where applicable, that third parties (including advertisers) may serve content and/or advertisements and collect information directly from visitors and may place or recognize cookies on visitors' browsers.

We disclaim all liability for these matters. Further, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys' fees) relating to the development, operation, maintenance, and contents of your site.

11. Compliance with Laws

As a condition to your participation in the Program, you agree that while you are a Program participant you will comply with all laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgments, decisions or other requirements of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, whether those laws, etc. are now in effect or later come into effect during the time you are a Program participant. Without limiting the foregoing obligation, you agree that as a condition of your participation in the Program you will comply with all applicable laws (federal, state or otherwise) that govern marketing email, including without limitation, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and all other anti-spam laws.

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 site, all links to the SilverFast.com Site, and all of our 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 eligible to earn referral fees only on sales of Qualifying Products that occur during the term, and referral 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 the SilverFast.com Site. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope of available referral fees, referral fee schedules, payment procedures, and Program rules.
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 THE SilverFast.com SITE 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 site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.

15. Limitation of Liability

We will not be liable for 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. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement.

16. Disclaimers

We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any products 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 the SilverFast.com Site 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 WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR WEB SITE. 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. Arbitration

Any dispute relating in any way to this Agreement (including any actual or alleged breach hereof), any transactions or activities under this Agreement or your relationship with us or any of our affiliates shall be submitted to confidential arbitration, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our intellectual property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief (and you consent to non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts) or any other court of competent jurisdiction. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

19. Miscellaneous

This Agreement will be governed by the German laws, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. 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 be 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.

20. Google Adwords and similar Advertising Systems

Commissions that are generated using Google Adwords, can not be granted. The same restriction applies to similar systems from other search engines like Bing advertising or Yahoo.