KC Gaming Networks Ltd (“Bet9ja”)

Affiliate Program Terms and Conditions

Effective from 14/02/2022

Date of Publication: 07/02/2022

This Bet9ja Affiliates Program Terms and Conditions (“Agreement “) contain the terms and conditions that govern your participation in the Bet9ja Affiliate Program (the “Program”).  “Bet9ja” means KC Gaming Networks Limited, with its registered office at Tomi’s House, 9 Funsho Williams Avenue, Ojuelegba Surulere Lagos, Nigeria trading as Bet9ja.

Interpretation:

“You” or “your” means the applicant and/or participant in the Program.

A “site” means a website. “Your site” means any site(s) and software application(s) that you own or operate and link to the Bet9ja site.

“Bet9ja site” means www.bet9ja.com.

“Sub- affiliate site” means any site(s) and software application(s) that is owned or operated by any of the Sub-affiliates and links to Bet9ja site via the Link.

“Sub- affiliate” means an owner or operator of a site that has been notified to Bet9ja in advance and approved by Bet9ja according to this Agreement. 

1.Description of the Program

2. The Program allows you to advertise Bet9ja services and products available on Bet9ja site (collectively the “Bet9ja Services”) on your site and the site of any approved Sub-affiliate, and to earn a commission for Acquired Customers’ use of Bet9ja Services, as described further. In order to facilitate your advertisement of Bet9ja Services, Bet9ja may make available to you some data, images, text, link formats, widgets, approved logos, links other linking tools and other information in connection with the Program (the “Links” or individually a “Link”). Program requirements

2.1 To begin the enrolment process, you will complete and submit the online application at https://webaffiliates.bet9ja.com/login.asp. We manually approve the applications and may re-evaluate your application as part of an ongoing Program participation maintenance.

2.2 You must provide accurate information about you in the Program application and correctly identify your site. We will evaluate your application and notify you of its acceptance or rejection. We may reject your application and/or suspend and/or terminate your participation in the Program if we determine that your site is unsuitable. “Unsuitable sites” include those sites that:

(a) promote or contain sexually explicit materials;
(b) promote violence or contain violent materials;
(c) promote or contain libellous or defamatory materials;
(d) promote discrimination, or employ discriminatory practices, based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
(e) promote or undertake illegal activities;
(f) violate intellectual property rights of others.

If at any time during the term of this Agreement you modify your site, you must promptly update your account information.

2.3 You will be allocated an affiliate account upon your approval for participation in the Program and will receive an Affiliate ID. It is your sole responsibility to safeguard the Affiliate ID.

2.4 You will only have one account with Bet9ja in connection with your participation in the Program and you will not, nor attempt to, open another account.

2.5 You will ensure that the information in your Program application and otherwise associated with your affiliate account, including your email address and other contact information and identification of your site, is at all times complete, accurate, and up-to-date. We may send notifications, approvals, and other communications relating to the Program and this Agreement to the email address then-currently associated with your Program affiliate account. You will be deemed to have received all notifications, approvals, and other communications sent to that email address, even if the email address associated with your account is no longer current.

2.6 You are solely responsible for any marketing initiatives you and/or any of your Sub-affiliates conduct in relation to your site and/or customers, including, without limitation, compliance of such initiatives with the applicable legal requirements. You will indemnify Bet9ja from any and all claims in relation to such activity in full.

2.7 By participating in the Program, you agree that you will, and shall procure that Sub-affiliates will, comply with the terms of this Agreement at all times and any supporting materials that Bet9ja may make available to you. You will provide Bet9ja with any information that we request to verify compliance with this Agreement. In addition to any other rights or remedies available to us, we may terminate your affiliate account, withhold our approval for any Sub-affiliate, withhold (and you agree you are not eligible for) any commissions payable to you under this Agreement, or both, if we determine that you or your Sub- affiliates have not complied with this Agreement.

2.8 In connection with your participation in the Program you will and shall procure that Sub-affiliates will comply with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, orders, licences, permits, judgments, decisions, guidelines, codes of practice, and other requirements of any governmental authority or self-regulatory body with the respective authority.   

2.9 You hereby consent to Bet9ja to send you emails related to the Program as may be necessary; record, use and disclose information about your site and visitors to your site that we obtain via the Links; crawling and otherwise investigating your site to verify compliance with this Agreement. You will enter into such an agreement with Sub-affiliates that will grant the same rights to Bet9ja in relation to Sub-affiliate site.  

3. Appointment of Sub-affiliates

3.1 You will be permitted to appoint Sub-affiliates to place the Links on Sub-affiliates’ sites subject to:

(i) advance notification to Bet9ja of the proposed Sub-affiliate,

(ii) Bet9ja’s approval of Sub-affiliate and

(iii) you entering into a written agreement with Sub-affiliates in relation to their use of Links according to the terms in Section 4 below and compliance with the terms of this Agreement. You explicitly agree that Bet9ja may withhold the approval of any Sub-affiliates at its sole discretion. and in any event, without limitations if Sub-affiliate site is deemed to qualify as unsuitable site pursuant to the provisions of Section 2 above.

3.2 You cannot authorise any third party to display the Links on their site unless such third party has been notified to and approved by Bet9ja pursuant to Section 3.1 above. An approved third party will be linked to your Affiliate ID. Bet9ja has the right to request a copy of the written agreement between you and such third party at any time and you agree to provide such agreement to Bet9ja without undue delay. In your notification to Bet9ja about the third party to be approved by Bet9ja as a Sub-affiliate, you must include accurate information about the proposed third party, including the nature of its business, the site, and contact information. For the avoidance of doubt, this agreement is between you and Bet9ja and Bet9ja will communicate only with you in relation to your participation in the Program. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Bet9ja will have the right to enforce its rights in any of the Link directly with any third party.

3.3 Bet9ja may require the removal of the Links from your or any Sub-affiliate site, for any reason and at any time, and you will ensure compliance with such request within 3 (three) calendar days from the date of receipt of the request. 

4. Links on Your Site

4.1 Bet9ja will provide you the Links, at its own cost, that you may display on your site and/or permit the approved Sub-affiliates to display the Links on their site. The Links will contain your Affiliate ID to ensure any Acquired Customers’ use of Bet9ja Services is allocated to your affiliate account.

4.2 You may use the Links solely for and during participation in the Program and in accordance with this Agreement.  You may not alter the Links in any manner, other than to ensure its placement and visibility on your site. You are solely responsible for the placement of the Link on your site and/or Sub-affiliate’s site. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you shall not alter the approved logo in any way including but not limited to, changing the proportion, colour, or font of the logo, or adding or removing any element(s) to or from the logo without Bet9ja’s prior written consent. Bet9ja will have no liability for any of the fees in the event of the Links being used contrary to the provisions of this Section 4.2.

4.3 You may not use the Links, including the logo, in any way that implies sponsorship or endorsement by Bet9ja of your site and/or your business, products or services.

4.4 You may not use the Links, including the logo, to disparage Bet9ja, its products or services, or in a manner which, in Bet9ja’s sole discretion, may diminish or otherwise damage or tarnish Bet9ja or its goodwill in the Links and/or Bet9ja’s products or services.

4.5 You acknowledge that all rights, title and interest to and in the Links (including all intellectual and proprietary rights), are the exclusive property of Bet9ja and/or its affiliated entities, suppliers or licensors, and all goodwill generated through your use of the Links, including the logo, will inure solely to the benefit of Bet9ja or its affiliated entities, suppliers or licensors.

4.6 The provisions of this Section apply to the use of Links by any Sub-affiliate and Bet9ja reserves the right to enforce its rights in relation to the use of the Links by any Sub-affiliate directly with any Sub-affiliate.

5. Responsibility for Your Site

5.1 You will be solely responsible for your site.

5.2 Bet9ja will have no liability for any of the matters related to your site and/or any Sub-affiliate site, or for any of your and/or Sub-affiliates’ end users’ claims relating to your site or Sub-affiliate site. You hereby release and will defend, hold harmless, and indemnify Bet9ja, and/or its affiliates, directors, officers, agents, subcontractors and licensors, successors and assigns from and against any allegation or claim based on any loss, damage, settlement, cost, expense and any other liability (including but not limited to reasonable legal fees) arising from any act or omissions by you and/or Sub-affiliate, including without limitation (i) breach of this Agreement; (ii) allegation or claim of negligence, strict liability of wilful misconduct, (iii) your site or any materials that appear on your site, including the combination of your site or those materials with other applications, content, or processes; (iv) the use, development, design, manufacture, production, advertising, promotion, or marketing of your site or any materials that appear on or within your site; (v) your and Sub-affiliates’ use of the Links, whether or not such use is authorized by or violates this Agreement or applicable law; and (vi) any third party claim in relation to the use of Links by Sub-affiliate and/or third party use of the Links through the Sub-affiliate site. However, the foregoing does not apply to the extent such claim results from Bet9ja’s negligence or wilful misconduct. 

6. Commissions

6.1 You may earn commissions only as described in this Section 6 and only with respect to activity of the Acquired Customers on Bet9ja site, according to Bet9ja’s records.

6.2 Bet9ja will pay you a monthly commission comprising of the percentage  of the Monthly Net Profit as set forth in the Bet9ja Affiliates Program Participation Approval Addendum provided to you in writing  by Bet9ja  (including via email from affiliatesupport@bet9ja.com only) following the review of your application for participation in the Program. You hereby explicitly agree that you accept the Approval Addendum by your commencement of the participation in the Program.

Monthly Net Profit means the difference between (i) the total Acquired Customers Stakes and (ii) (a) total Acquired Customers Winnings, (b) bonuses paid to Acquired Customers, (c) Chargebacks, and (d) Fraud Traffic, accrued in any given calendar month.

Acquired Customer means an individual who (i) clicks through a Link on your site and/or Sub-affiliate site to Bet9ja site, (ii) does not have an operating betting account with Bet9ja at the time of referral to Bet9ja site via a Link, (iii) opens a betting account with Bet9ja and (iv) makes at least one real money Stake. 

Stake means a sum of money paid by the Acquired Customer to use any Bet9ja Services including, without limitation, money paid on sports betting, virtual products, casinos and games.

Chargeback means the amount of Stake charged back or reversed under the Acquired Customer’s betting account including, without limitation, if the transaction (a) is disputed by the Acquired Customer, (b) is reversed for any reason by a payment card association, Bet9ja payment processor, (c) was not authorized or Bet9ja has any reason to believe that the transaction was not authorized, or (d) is allegedly unlawful, suspicious, or in violation of the terms of Bet9ja General Terms and Conditions.

Fraud Traffic means deposits, revenues or traffic generated through illegal means or any other action committed in bad faith to defraud Bet9ja, at Bet9ja’s sole discretion, including, without limitation, deposits into Bet9ja betting account generated via stolen cards, misuse or manipulation of the Bet9ja Services or bonuses, creation of false Bet9ja accounts or unauthorised use of third party accounts.

6.3 Bet9ja will pay you the commission due, if any, on a monthly basis for the preceding month in the currency you select  at the time of application for Program participation, subject to the applicable to the Nigerian Naira foreign exchange rate provided by Bet9ja’s then appointed third party payment services provider on the date the payment is made, according to Bet9ja’s records and calculations. Bet9ja will pay the commission to the affiliates registered outside of Nigeria subject to the aggregate minimum commission credit under the affiliate account being US$1000.00 equivalent or above (other than in the event of termination of the affiliate account for whichever reason in which case the total final amount of commission due will be paid).

6.4 Without prejudice to Bet9ja’s rights hereunder, including the right of termination, Bet9ja reserves the right to reduce the commission, by providing 30 (thirty) calendar days’ notice to you, in the event of:

- substantial reduction of the number of the Acquired Customers in any given 30 days period; or

- the negative Monthly Net Profit (for any 30 days’ period); or

- the changes of the legal requirements with respect to the Program or any element thereof, Bet9ja Services or Bet9ja site.

The substantial reduction shall be determined at Bet9ja’s sole discretion in consideration of the total number of the Acquired Customers in the 6 (six) calendar months preceding the then current Acquired Customers total number giving raise to Bet9ja’s right to reduce the commission according to this Section 6.4.

6.5 We are required by law to apply a 10% Withholding tax (WHT) on any commission payable, subject to change due to legal requirements. This WHT will be deducted from the total commission due to you for the respective period.

6.6 If the total Monthly Net Profit is negative for a given calendar month, the negative balance will be rolled to the next month, until a positive balance is achieved. Any negative balance will be set-off against the positive Monthly Net Profit generated in the following calendar month.

6.7 For the avoidance of doubt, Bet9ja’s payment liability for the commission due and payable, is solely to you and no other third party.

7. Limited Licence

7.1 Subject to the terms of this Agreement and solely for the limited purposes of participating in the Program, Bet9ja hereby grants you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to (a) copy and display the Links on your site and on Sub-affiliate site; and (b) use only those of Bet9ja logos that are made available to you as part of Links in accordance with this Agreement.

7.2 Other than the limited licences expressly set forth above, Bet9ja reserves all right, title and interest (including all intellectual property and proprietary rights) in and to, and you do not, by virtue of your participation in the Program or being party to this Agreement, acquire any ownership interest or rights in or to, the Links, any domain name owned or operated by Bet9ja or any of its affiliated entities, suppliers or licensors, and any other intellectual property and technology that Bet9ja provides or uses in connection with the Program. If you provide Bet9ja or any of its affiliated entities, suppliers or licensors, with suggestions, reviews, modifications, data, images, text, or other information or content about Bet9ja Services or in connection with this Agreement,  or your participation in the Program, or if you modify any Links in any way (collectively “your modifications”) you hereby irrevocably assign to Bet9ja all right, title, and interest in and to your modifications and grant Bet9ja, paid-up royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, freely transferable, for the maximum duration of protection available under applicable law right and licence to use, reproduce, perform, display, adapt, modify, re-format, use, distribute and sub-license your modifications in any manner and for any purpose and to sublicense the foregoing rights to any other person or entity. 

8. Termination

8.1 Either you or Bet9ja may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party at least 7 (seven) days’ written notice of termination.

8.2 In addition, Bet9ja may terminate this Agreement immediately at any time for Cause by email. “Cause” means any of the following: (a) you are in material breach of this Agreement or you are in minor breach of this Agreement but you do not remedy it within 3 (three) days; (b) Bet9ja believes that it may face potential claims or liability in connection with your participation in the Program and/or use of the Links by any Sub-affiliate; (c) Bet9ja believes that its brand or reputation may be tarnished by you or in connection with your participation in the Program and/or use of the Links by any Sub-affiliate; or (d) Bet9ja has terminated the Program for whichever reason.

8.3 Upon termination of this Agreement, any and all licences and rights hereunder will automatically terminate and you will immediately stop using and remove from your site, and delete or otherwise destroy all of the Links and Bet9ja logos provided or made available under this Agreement or in connection with the Program and will cause all Sub-affiliates to do the same.

8.4 Bet9ja may withhold accrued unpaid commissions for a reasonable period of time following termination to ensure that the correct amount is paid and/or until your compliance with the provisions of Section 8.3 above.

8.5 Termination of this Agreement will not affect the accrued rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities of the parties existing at termination.

8.6 Without prejudice to the generality of Section 8.5, termination of all or part of this Agreement shall not affect the continuance in force of the provisions of Sections 2.6, 5, 7.2, 11, 12, 13 and 14. 

9. Modifications

9.1 Bet9ja may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, including, without limitation, the commission, at any time and in its sole discretion by, at least 7 (seven) days prior to the effective date of the modification, by email and/or by posting a change notice or revised agreement on Bet9ja site. You may, during that 7-day period, as your sole recourse, notify us in writing of your objections to the modifications and, if you do so, your account will automatically terminate on the effective date of the modification to which you objected.

9.2 IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT IN WRITING. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE MODIFICATION WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE MODIFICATION. 

10. Relationship of Parties

You and Bet9ja are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between you and Bet9ja or its affiliated entities, suppliers or licensors. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on Bet9ja’s behalf. 

11. Limitation of Liability

BET9JA WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING ANY LOSS OF REVENUE, PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, OR DATA) ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, THE PROGRAM, BET9JA SITE, EVEN IF IT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THOSE DAMAGES. FURTHER, BET9JA’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT AND THE PROGRAM WILL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL COMMISSION PAID OR PAYABLE TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IN THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE ON WHICH THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE MOST RECENT CLAIM OF LIABILITY OCCURRED.

NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL OPERATE TO EXCLUDE ANY LIABILITY WHICH MAY NOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER THE APPLICABLE LAW. 

12. Disclaimers

THE PROGRAM, BET9JA SITE, ANY BET9JA SERVICES, ANY LINKS, LINK FORMATS, CONTENT, BET9JA DOMAIN NAMES AND LOGOS, AND ALL TECHNOLOGY, MATERIALS, DATA, IMAGES, TEXT, AND OTHER INFORMATION AND CONTENT PROVIDED OR USED BY OR ON BEHALF OF BET9JA OR ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROGRAM ARE PROVIDED “AS IS.”

NEITHER BET9JA NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE WITH RESPECT TO THE ABOVE.

NEITHER BET9JA NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR (A) ANY ERRORS, INACCURACIES, OR SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS, INCLUDING POWER OUTAGES OR SYSTEM FAILURES; OR (B) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF, OR DELETION, DESTRUCTION, DAMAGE, OR LOSS OF, YOUR SITE OR ANY DATA, IMAGES, TEXT, OR OTHER INFORMATION OR CONTENT. 

13. Governing Law and Disputes

13.1 The laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws, will govern this Agreement.  The courts of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will have an exclusive jurisdiction to settle any claims in relation to or arising out of the Program and/or this Agreement

13.2 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Bet9ja may seek injunctive or other relief in any state or national court of competent jurisdiction for any actual or alleged infringement of Bet9ja’s or any other person or entity’s intellectual property or proprietary rights. 

14. Miscellaneous

14.1 You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without Bet9ja’s express prior written approval.

14.2 Unless you have otherwise notified Bet9ja, you hereby authorise Bet9ja to process any personal data we obtain in connection with this Agreement and the Program in compliance with applicable law and our privacy policy.

14.3 If any provision of this Agreement is determined by any court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, the parties intend that this Agreement be enforced as if the unenforceable provisions were not present and that any partially valid and enforceable provisions be enforced to the extent that they are enforceable.

14.4 The rights and remedies of the parties under this Agreement are cumulative, and either party may enforce any of its rights or remedies under this Agreement or other rights and remedies available to it at law or in equity.  The section headings of this Agreement are for convenience only and have no interpretive value.

14.5 Bet9ja’s failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement or participation in the Program will not constitute a waiver of Bet9ja’s right to subsequently enforce this provision or any other provision of this Agreement.

 

14.6 All non-public information provided by Bet9ja in connection with the participation in the Program and/or this Agreement, including, without limitations, the commission, is considered confidential information, and you will maintain the same in strict confidence and not disclose the same to any third party or use the same for any purpose other than your performance under Agreement and participation in the Program.