Flidge Terms of use

Acceptance of terms

Flidge™ is an online platform that connects people who own a site or blog and who want (i) to have their site or blog promoted by others by offering paid for links on Flidge (“Link Offerer”) and/or (ii) to earn money by publishing links to sites or blogs of another person in return for clicks and visits (“Link Publisher”). Our services include the hosting of links that are offered and made available for publication, payment services, email services and other related services ("the Service").

By using the Service in any form, you are accepting and agreeing to comply with the following terms of use, including the rules and guidelines which are hereby incorporated by reference (together, the “Terms of Use”). If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, you may not use or access our Service. We may amend the Terms of Use at any time by posting the amended Terms of Use on the site. You must review the Terms of Use on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes.

Failure to comply with the Terms of Use may lead to your account being disabled.

Registration

Registration on Flidge is free to all persons who can enter into legally binding contracts. If you are registering as a business, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity to the Terms of Use. You also represent that you don’t have any litigation or investigation running against you in relation to your advertising or other online activities.

When registering a user account on Flidge, you have to provide personal information (usually an email address) and a password. You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for all actions taken under your user account and password and you shall only use the site using your own user account and password. You must use every effort to keep your password safe and should not disclose it to any other person.

Links and Related Content

You understand that all personal information, offered and posted links, actual links, site or page descriptions, pricing, any other text, links to any target site, or any other materials (collectively, the “Content") posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Service, are the sole responsibility of the user from whom such Content originated. Each user is entirely responsible for each individual item of Content that he or she posts, emails or otherwise makes available via the Service.

You acknowledge and accept that Flidge does not control, pre-screen, approve Content posted by users and that Flidge is not responsible for Content made available through the Service. Flidge shall have the sole right, but not the obligation, to refuse or delete any Content that is available via the Service that violates the Terms of Use or for any other reason.

You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content or link to or promote a site or page:

that violates any laws, rules or regulations, third party rights or is otherwise unlawful, harmful, hazardous, dangerous, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory or invasive of another's privacy;
that is false, inaccurate, irrelevant, deceptive or misleading;
that infringes any copyright, trademark or any other proprietary rights of any party;
that constitutes or contains junk mail, spam or any other unsolicited commercial advertisement;
that contains software, viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Site or any other equipment;
that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Service.

It is strictly prohibited to impersonate any other person, entity or site when using the Service.

Prohibited sites

You represent and warrant that your activities and your site are at all times legal and in compliance and do not violate any laws, rules or regulations or otherwise infringe any copyright, trademark or any other proprietary rights of any party.

Sites related to any of the following activities or having any of the following content available (in whole or in part) are excluded from using the Service:

Pornography, adult, or mature content
Hacking or cracking content
Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
Excessive profanity
Gambling, betting or casino-related content
Content regarding programs which compensate users for clicking on ads or offers, performing searches or surfing websites
Sales or promotion of weapons or any type of ammunition
Sales or promotion of beer or hard alcohol
Sales or promotion of tobacco or tobacco-related products
Sales or promotion of prescription drugs
Sales or promotion of products that are replicas or imitations of designer goods
Any content that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity or age.

Flidge is only a venue

Flidge operates only as a venue or online platform where Link Offerers and Link Publishers can get in contact with each other. Flidge itself is not a broker or an agent that interacts, represents or mediates on behalf of any user. The site only operates as a neutral, independent, technological platform.

All interactions or dealings between users, including online and offline communications, payment, link offers or link publications, are solely between the users. Flidge is not a party to or involved in any interactions or dealings between the relevant parties. We have no control over and do not guarantee the quality, accuracy, safety or legality of links offered or sites or pages being promoted. Flidge does not provide any endorsement for you, your links and sites or pages, communications, or your services. Flidge cannot and will not guarantee the ability of users to complete payment for any of the provided services.

Obligations of users

Due to the difficulty of individual authentication online, Flidge cannot guarantee authentic verification or confirmation of the identity of the users. Any user should therefore make whatever independent investigation necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction.

You are not authorized to use the Service fraudulently.

As a Link Offerer, you must provide a valid, accurate, virus-free link and an accurate description of the destination site or page, provide a clear pricing for your offered link(s), and comply with all laws, regulations and other requirements that may apply.

As a Link Publisher, you can only request one approval per unique link offered by the Link Offerer. You may not request that users click the links on your site or rely on deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks. Any method that artificially generates clicks on your published links is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to repeated manual clicks, using robots, automated click generating tools, third-party services that generate clicks, or any deceptive software. Clicking on Flidge links that you have published yourself is prohibited.

You agree that Flidge shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any interactions or dealings between users. If there is a dispute between users, you understand and agree that Flidge is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with a user, you hereby release Flidge, its parent, directors, employees, officers, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages arising out of or in any way related to such disputes or the Service.

Fees and Money to Earn

As a Link Offerer, you determine the price of the links that you offer for publication. You can determine the price per link, the number of required clicks per link and the number of total links that you make available to Link Publishers on Flidge. Payment can be made with PayPal, your account balance, or any other payment method that Flidge makes available.

As a Link Offerer, you accept the risk of having invalid clicks generated by third parties. Your exclusive remedy is a reset of the invalid click reported to an uncounted click.

As a Link Publisher, you can earn the value of your published link only when and if all the required independent third party clicks, as determined by the Link Offerer, have actually occurred, are properly recorded and accepted in the Flidge system. The money you have earned will be shown in your account balance.

You have the option to have the balance of your account paid out to you, provided you have reached a minimum balance of USD 10 or its currency equivalent. The minimum amount to be paid out is USD 10. When we pay out the balance to you, Flidge will retain a service commission fee of 20%, plus taxes if applicable, of the amount to be paid out. Payout will only be made with PayPal to the email address you provided as part of your user registration.

Flidge may change it service commission fees at any time, and any change will be effective after the expiry of 7 days following the date of announcement on the Flidge site (or such later date as we may notify). However, Flidge may choose to temporarily change its fees for promotional events and such changes will be effective when they are announced on the site.

Your privacy

By using Flidge, you agree to the collection, transfer, storage and use of your personal information by Flidge, which is operated by Pacific Ventures bvba (the “data controller”), on servers located in the United States and in the European Union.

We collect and store the following personal information:

email address, contact information, and sometimes financial information;
login data, timestamps, statistics, traffic to and from Flidge;
other information, including IP addresses of users, for linking trafficking reasons.

You can access and modify the information you provided Flidge by logging-in to your account.

Flidge may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, login data, timestamps and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, enforce our Terms of Use, respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third parties, respond to claims that contact information of a third party has been used without their consent, protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Flidge, its users or the general public.

You agree to receive marketing communications from Flidge unless you tell us that you prefer not receive such communications.

Termination of Service

You agree that Flidge, in its sole discretion, has the right, but not the obligation, to delete or deactivate your offered links, postings, user account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service, immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, if Flidge believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms of Use. You agree that Flidge shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to the Service. Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after said termination.

We reserve the right to discontinue the Service (in whole or in part) at any time without any notice and any liability to you or any third party.

Proprietary rights

The Flidge site and the Service are protected to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws and international treaties. Any reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site or any portion thereof is prohibited. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the Flidge site and the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Service.

Flidge® is an internationally registered trademark, trademark and brand in different countries. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

Although Flidge does not claim ownership of Content that its users post, by posting Content on the site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Flidge an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content to provide the Service to the general public.

You agree, and hereby assign any rights automatically to that effect, that Flidge is free to use, without notice and compensation, any ideas, feedback or suggestions that you send us.

Disclaimer of warranties and Limitations of liability

You agree that use of the Flidge site and the Service is entirely at your own risk. You accept the sole responsibility for the legality of your actions when using the Service.

The Flidge site and the Service are provided “as is” and as and when available, without any warranties of any kind. Flidge disclaims any warranties for the security, reliability, accuracy of the Flidge site and the Service to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Under no circumstances shall Flidge be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential damages or any other economic losses resulting from any aspect of your use of the Flidge site or the Service. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of incidental or consequential damages, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. If, for whatever reason, we are declared liable to you by court, you agree that our liability will be limited to the specific fee you paid in relation to that specific event you reported.

You agree to indemnify and hold Flidge, its parent, directors, employees, officers, agents and successors in rights, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees and court costs, made by yourself or any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post or make available through the Service, your use of the Service, your violation of the Terms of Use or any other law or the rights of a third party.

General

Flidge is owned and operated by Pacific Ventures, a privately held company based in Belgium, Europe.

The Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Flidge and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and Flidge. No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by the Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use and the relationship between you and Flidge shall be governed by the laws of Belgium and you agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Belgium. You agree that the Terms of Use and your relationship with Flidge may be automatically assigned by Flidge, in our sole discretion, to a third party in the event of a merger or acquisition or any other event.

The failure of Flidge to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of Use remain in full force and effect.

Feedback

Please report any violations or abuses of the Terms of Use by email to: abuse (at) Flidge.com.