Lyric Mastery may offer you an opportunity to become an independent Lyric Mastery Affiliate (“Affiliate”), wherein you have the opportunity to earn additional money for Lyric Mastery products, services, and membership accounts that you sell. Lyric Mastery reserves the sole and exclusive right to determine the amount of remuneration each Affiliate will receive in exchange for the Affiliate’s efforts. Affiliate commission is further discussed herein. See also Lyric Mastery Terms of Service, which apply to you in your role as Affiliate, unless otherwise expressly provided for.

This Affiliate Agreement (“Agreement”) governs Your application for, and any subsequent participation in, Lyric Mastery’ Affiliate program. By clicking “I Accept the Terms and Conditions” and submit, You thereby accept the terms of this Agreement, You indicate that You have read and understood this Agreement, and agree that You are bound by its terms.

SECTION 1 - PARTIES All references to “Lyric Mastery” herein means and refers to Melanie Naumann, doing business as Lyric Mastery. All references to “You” and “Your” mean and refer to the person or entity who has executed this Agreement. Lyric Mastery and You are each referred to herein as a “Party,” and collectively as the “Parties.” You agree to notify us in writing if the legal name of your business or account ownership changes within twenty-four (24) hours of such change and You certify that all such information is truthful and accurate. Notice of such changes should be sent to affiliates@storiesinsongs.com.

SECTION 2 - APPLICATION You agree to provide all information requested by Lyric Mastery in connection with Your Affiliate application, and You affirm that all information that You provide is truthful and accurate. You understand and agree that Lyric Mastery retains sole and exclusive discretion to determine whether You qualify for participation in Lyric Mastery’ Affiliate program. Not everyone who applies for Lyric Mastery’ Affiliate program will qualify to participate.

SECTION 3 - CONSENT TO BE CONTACTED You expressly consent to be contacted at the email address and the phone number You provide in Your application about Your application and the Affiliate program, including through automated dialing systems, texts, and artificial or prerecorded messages, whether by Lyric Mastery or a third-party on behalf of Lyric Mastery. This consent is a material condition of this Agreement and may not be revoked except in writing by both Parties.

SECTION 4 - COMPENSATION If Your application to become an Affiliate is approved by Lyric Mastery, You will receive a unique Affiliate ID. The Affiliate ID will be incorporated within each URL which You will use to advertise Lyric Mastery. You will have the opportunity to receive a commission for each sale (“Sale”) that is registered using Your Affiliate ID.

In the event that a prospect (“Prospect”) has multiple Affiliate cookies (“Cookies”), the most recently-acquired Cookie will determine which Affiliate is credited with a Sale. There are some products and services sold that do not have trial periods.

Provided that the Sold Product (as defined below) remains in good status within thirty (30) days from the Sale, You will be paid a commission for each Sold product that generates a payment to Lyric Mastery in a month (“Commission”). Except as otherwise provided herein, Commission payments will be paid on the 1st of each month following Lyric Mastery’ receipt of payment for a Sold product, subject to the other terms of this Agreement. In the event the 1st of each month falls on a holiday, Commission payments will be paid on the business day preceding the holiday. All Commission payments are based on the amount of fees received by Lyric Mastery, less sales taxes.

(i) a Prospect purchases a Lyric Mastery product or service using Your Affiliate Link,

(ii) the one-month money-back guarantee expires (when applicable,)

(iii) the Prospect makes payment that is not rejected or disputed, and

(iv) a Sale is registered (each such product is a “Sold Product.”)

The amount of Commissions is as follows: 20% Commission

All Commissions and Legacy Bonuses are paid in U.S. Dollars (USD) or otherwise in currencies offered by the payment provider. Some payment methods may incur processing fees that may be deducted from Your Commissions or Legacy Bonus payment. Your combined Commission and Legacy Bonus must equal or exceed One Hundred and 00/100 Dollars ($100.00) (USD) before You receive a payment from Lyric Mastery. If Your combined Commissions and Legacy Bonuses in a 120-day period do not exceed $100.00 (USD) Your Commissions will not be paid and will be forfeited by You to Lyric Mastery.

Once a Commission of $100 (USD) or more is earned, You will need to register with our third-party payment provider to receive payment of Commissions. This means You are authorizing third party companies to contact You. Before You can be paid any Commission or Legacy Bonus, You must provide Lyric Mastery a completed W-8 or W-9 tax form, as instructed by Lyric Mastery, as well as any supporting documentation requested by Lyric Mastery or its third-party payment provider. You will be deemed to have permanently waived all rights to Commissions or Legacy Bonuses that were earned more than 120 days before submitting a completed W-8 or W-9 tax form or any ancillary supporting documentation that is requested to confirm the information on your tax form. If You are not a resident of the United States, Lyric Mastery may withhold tax (including without limitation VAT) where required by applicable law. You are solely responsible for complying with all tax laws in Your respective jurisdiction(s) including, but not limited to, the payment of all required taxes, and filing of all returns and other required documents with, the applicable governing body(ies).

Affiliates will not be paid any Commissions or Legacy Bonuses for payments made on Affiliate’s own user account(s). Affiliates are not permitted to open a Lyric Mastery account under the name of another person or entity, under a fictitious name, or under any name merely for the purpose of obtaining Commissions, Legacy Bonuses or any other compensation. Affiliates may not pay for another person’s or entity’s account. Affiliates are not permitted to offer cash rebates or other monetary incentives to obtain Sales or Legacy Sales.

Commissions and Legacy Bonuses are paid only for transactions that actually occur between Lyric Mastery and a Sale or a Legacy Sale and in which payment is received by Lyric Mastery. If payment for a Sold product later results in a refund or chargeback, and if a Commission was paid to You for that Sold Product payment, then the Commission or Legacy Bonus will be deducted from Your future Commissions and/or Legacy Bonuses.

If Lyric Mastery determines, in its sole and exclusive discretion, that any Sale or Legacy Sale was procured fraudulently or as a result of any violation of this Agreement or applicable law, no Commission or Legacy Bonus will be paid for such Sale or Legacy Sale and, for past sales, such payment amounts shall be deducted from Your future Commissions and Legacy Bonuses, and Lyric Mastery may terminate this Agreement immediately, without notice, and without Lyric Mastery having any liability to You.

SECTION 5 - TERM AND TERMINATION The term of this Agreement will begin the earlier of (i) when You click “I accept the Terms and Conditions” and submit; or (ii) Your participation in the Affiliate program is approved. Your participation in the Lyric Mastery Affiliate program will continue month-to-month until terminated. Either Party may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other Party thirty (30) days’ written notice of termination. If, in our sole discretion, You fail, or we suspect that You have failed, to comply with any term or provision of the Agreement or the Terms of Service, or violated any law, whether in connection with Your use of Lyric Mastery or otherwise, Lyric Mastery may take any action that it deems necessary, including without limitation to terminating the Agreement or suspending Your access to the Affiliate website (“Website”) at any time without notice to You. In addition, if, based on our data, you have a dispute rate greater than 2%, we may terminate this Agreement or suspend your access to the Website at any time without notice to You. In such instances as described above, and in our sole discretion, we may terminate our relationship and suspend any accounts owned/controlled by You. For the avoidance of doubt, and without limitation for purposes of the foregoing, any violation of the required disclosure will be deemed a material breach of this Agreement. See Appendix A, Section 2, Disclosure. In the event this Agreement is canceled due to Your breach, You immediately forfeit all Commissions, Legacy Bonuses, and any other payments owed to You or that may in the future be owed to You without any further liability by Lyric Mastery to You. This Agreement will terminate automatically if You earn no (zero) Commissions over a 12 month period.

If this Agreement is terminated or canceled, then all provisions that, by their nature, should survive, will survive, including, but not necessarily limited to, all limitations of liability, disclaimers of warranties, indemnity obligations, mandatory arbitration and class action waiver provisions, and exceptions to arbitration. All representations and warranties undertaken by You shall also survive termination or cancellation of this Agreement and/or Your Lyric Mastery account.

SECTION 6 - ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES In addition to Your other representations and warranties herein, You further represent and warrant that there are no prior or pending government investigations or inquiries of, or prosecutions against You by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), any other federal or state governmental agency, or any industry regulatory authority, anywhere in the world, nor any prior or pending private lawsuits against You which relate to alleged intentional torts or alleged violation of any consumer protection or advertising laws. If You become the subject of such an investigation, inquiry, prosecution, or lawsuit any time after this Agreement is executed, You are required to notify Lyric Mastery of the same within 24 hours. Lyric Mastery, in its sole and exclusive discretion, may immediately terminate Your participation in Lyric Mastery’ Affiliate program, as well as immediately terminate this Agreement, based on any investigation, proceeding, or lawsuit identified pursuant to this paragraph.

SECTION 7 - ENTIRE AGREEMENT This Agreement, Appendix A below, along with Lyric Mastery’ standard Terms of Service, represents the entire agreement between the Parties and supersedes any other written or oral agreement between the Parties as pertaining to Your Affiliate application and, if approved, Your rights and responsibilities as an Affiliate.

Appendix A

Additional Terms of the Affiliate Agreement and Advertising Rules

These Advertising Rules apply to all activities of Affiliate:

General Compliance. Affiliate shall publish or otherwise distribute advertisements in strict compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation, laws prohibiting deceptive and misleading advertising and marketing, email marketing laws (including the federal CAN-SPAM Act (15 U.S.C. § 7701)), data protection laws (including but not limited to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, U.K. Data Protection Act, California Consumer Privacy Act, and Brazilian General Data Protection Regulation), laws governing testimonials (including the FTC’s Revised Endorsements and Testimonials Guides (16 CFR Part 255 of the Code of Federal Regulations)), and all guidelines issued by the FTC. Affiliate is solely responsible for ensuring Affiliate’s compliance with all laws. Affiliates are strictly prohibited from making claims concerning the products and services offered by Lyric Mastery that are inconsistent with, or beyond the scope of marketing materials produced and made available by Lyric Mastery on Lyric Mastery website, www.Lyric Mastery.com. Affiliate is prohibited from publishing or otherwise distributing advertisements by telemarketing, fax, or text messaging in any form to any device. Affiliate shall not offer monetary incentives, such as rewards points, cash, or prizes to Prospects in return for their response to an advertisement. Affiliate may, however, offer Prospects information and materials of tangible value including, but not limited to, website templates, information about e-commerce, website design, and online marketing, for reduced or no charge, but only so long as Affiliate accurately describes and delivers such information and materials to the Prospect. Lyric Mastery retains the sole and exclusive discretion to determine whether Affiliate’s advertising and conduct is in compliance with all laws (but Lyric Mastery shall not be required to advise Affiliates on such matters).

Disclosure. On any website that Affiliate advertises any Lyric Mastery service or product, Affiliate must plainly display (i.e., not in a link, or in small font) disclaimer language, such as:
Disclosure: I am an independent Lyric Mastery Affiliate, not an employee. I receive referral payments from Lyric Mastery. The opinions expressed here are my own and are not official statements of Lyric Mastery or Melanie Naumann.

Non-Disparagement. Affiliate is not permitted to comment negatively about or disparage the products or services of Lyric Mastery or any other person or entity, including without limitation the products or services of a Lyric Mastery competitor. Affiliate is not permitted to engage in any unlawful or deceptive actions with respect to search engine optimization, including, but not limited to, using any technique that generates paid search results based on any logos of Lyric Mastery, any brand name of Lyric Mastery, or based on the logos or brand name of any competitor of Lyric Mastery, or any other third party. Affiliate shall not direct link to a Lyric Mastery’ sales page from any paid advertising.

Social Media. If Affiliate advertises on Instagram or YouTube, then each post must comply with all of the following:
Each post must contain @Stories.in.Songs or #StoriesinSongs.
Each post must contain #ad in a clear and conspicuous location before the text of the description and in all events before the “More” button.
Each Instagram post must use Instagram’s “Paid Partnership” tool.
Each YouTube post must contain the word “Ad,” “Advertisement,” “Promotion,” or “Paid Partnership” within the video itself in a font size that is clearly recognizable to the viewer and which appears persistently throughout the length of the video in the top right hand portion of the video.
If Affiliate is advertising on other forms of written social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter), Affiliate must comply with the above disclosure restrictions as applicable to each form of social media. Affiliate must also comply with all rules of each social media platform that Affiliate uses.

Income and Business Opportunity Claims. Affiliates are expressly prohibited from making any claims that use of Lyric Mastery will guarantee that the user will make money. If Affiliate’s recruiting efforts include claims related to income Affiliate has made from using Lyric Mastery or as an Affiliate, the following guidelines must be adhered to:
(a) Affiliate’s statements must be completely true and accurate and supported by evidence of Affiliate’s experience; and

(b) Affiliate’s statements must be accompanied by the following disclaimer in clear and conspicuous font and placement: “These were my results. Your results will vary based on a variety of factors including Your education, effort, and market factors. There is no guarantee You will make any money.”

Affiliate is also expressly prohibited from making any express or implied claims that Lyric Mastery is or provides a business opportunity, franchise opportunity, a “business-in-a-box,” or an assisted marketing plan.

Lyric Mastery’ logos. No logo, tagline, logo, trade name, or trade dress (collectively, the “Lyric Mastery logos”) owned by Lyric Mastery may be used, copied, or reproduced by any Affiliate except as set forth below. No Lyric Mastery intellectual property (or any mark confusingly similar to any Lyric Mastery intellectual property) is to be registered as a logo in any country or registered as a domain name by Affiliate in any way in any country.

Subject to the restrictions below, approved Affiliates are granted a limited, revocable, non-transferrable, and non-assignable license to use the “Lyric Mastery” logo, to advertise Lyric Mastery online.”. Affiliate may not use “Lyric Mastery” or other Lyric Mastery’ logos as part of any URL, domain or website name.

Lyric Mastery retains exclusive ownership of all Lyric Mastery’ logos and other intellectual property and all of its rights therein. Affiliate shall not promote or provide services to any other business or person that is infringing any of Lyric Mastery’ intellectual property.

Complaint Notification. Affiliate must notify Company of any complaint received by Affiliate regarding any advertisements within twenty-four (24) hours of receiving such complaint. Notice should be sent to affiliates@storiesinsongs.com.

Independent Contractor. Affiliates are independent contractors of Lyric Mastery. It is the express understanding and intention of the Parties that no relationship of master and servant nor principal and agent shall exist between Lyric Mastery and You by virtue of this Agreement. You have no right to act on behalf of or bind Lyric Mastery in any way, nor share in the profits or losses of Lyric Mastery. The only compensation available to You is set forth in this Agreement. You are solely and exclusively responsible and liable for all of Your acts or omissions.

NO WARRANTY; NO LEADS. Lyric Mastery does not promise, guarantee or warrant Your business success, income, or sales. You understand and acknowledge that Lyric Mastery will not at any time provide sales leads or referrals to You. You understand and agree further that this is not a business opportunity, a franchise opportunity, a “business-in-a-box,” or an assisted marketing plan. You are responsible for procuring and paying for any and all materials and resources necessary to operate as an Affiliate as You determine in Your sole discretion.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE INAPPLICABLE OR PROHIBITED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL Lyric Mastery OR ANY OF ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS, AND/OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES, FEES, COSTS OR CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE PRIVACY POLICY, THE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS, YOUR OR A THIRD PARTY’S USE OR ATTEMPTED USE OF THE WEBSITE OR ANY SOFTWARE, SERVICE, OR PRODUCT, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER Lyric Mastery HAS HAD NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, FEES, COSTS, OR CLAIMS. THIS INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS, OR ANY OTHER INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR OTHER DAMAGES. THIS APPLIES REGARDLESS OF THE MANNER IN WHICH DAMAGES ARE ALLEGEDLY CAUSED, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT LIABILITY), WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE.
IN NO EVENT SHALL Lyric Mastery’ LIABILITY TO YOU OR YOUR BUSINESS EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF THREE (3) TIMES THE PAYMENTS PAID BY YOU TO Lyric Mastery FOR THE MONTH PRECEDING THE DATE IN WHICH THE FACTS GIVING RISE TO A CLAIM AGAINST Lyric Mastery OCCURRED OR TWO-THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,000), WHICHEVER IS GREATER.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION BY MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION, CLASS ACTION WAIVER, & GOVERNING LAW.

As explained in Lyric Mastery’ Terms of Service, any controversy or claim arising out of or related to this Agreement or Your relationship with us that cannot be resolved through negotiation within 120 days shall be resolved by binding, confidential arbitration administered by Germany, and judgment on the award rendered may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The sections of the Terms of Service entitled “DISPUTE RESOLUTION BY MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER,” “Lyric Mastery’ ADDITIONAL REMEDIES,” and “GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE” are expressly incorporated herein by reference. Please review the Terms of Service for more information.

Indemnity. You agree to protect, defend, indemnify and hold harmless Lyric Mastery, its officers, directors, employees, owner(s), and parent company(ies) and assigns from and against all claims, demands, and causes of action of every kind and character without limitation arising out of Your conduct, acts, or omissions related to Your application and/or performance of this Agreement including, but not limited to, any breach of this Agreement. Your indemnity obligation includes, but is not limited to, any third party claim against Lyric Mastery for liability or payments for damages caused by, or other liability relating to, You. This provision expressly survives the termination of this Agreement.
Severability. In the event any provision of this Agreement is inconsistent with or contrary to any applicable law, rule, or regulation, the provision shall be deemed to be modified to the extent required to comply with the law, rule, or regulation, and this Agreement and the Terms of Service, as so modified, shall continue in full force and effect.

Modification/Amendments. This Agreement and Lyric Mastery’ standard Terms of Service may be modified by Lyric Mastery at any time, with or without prior notice to You. Amendments or modifications to this Agreement or the Terms of Service will be binding on You when they are sent to You via email, or are posted in the affiliate center. No amendment to this Agreement or the Terms of Service shall be valid unless prepared or signed by Lyric Mastery. Your continued acceptance of Commission or Legacy Bonus payments constitutes Your acceptance to any modifications or amendments to this Agreement and the Terms of Service.