WootRecruit Partner Agreement with Non-Disclosure

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Terms

Minimum Annual Requirements to be a Strategic Partner:

  • 2 Webinars on partners platform
  • 2 Email Blasts to partners list

 

Affiliate Payouts:

  • Payouts are made monthly while affiliate status remains active.
  • Upon signed agreement, an affiliate will be active for payouts for a period of one year.
  • The affiliate with be automatically renewed annually if the minimum requirement of 2 additional businesses are referred within the previous 12 month period.
  • Payouts are made via paypal
  • For small business accounts, we pay out 15% of all revenues.
  • For enterprise accounts (Single Owner/contact with 4 or more locations), we pay out 10% to our affiliates.
  • We reserve the right to make changes to this agreement at any time

 

Referred businesses cannot be shared with other affiliated partners.

For payouts, you must have an active paypal account and provide us with the username, email, or phone number. Payouts are made within 2 weeks after the end of each month. For example, a payout for March will happen on or before April 14th.

Recitals

Each undersigned party (the “Receiving Party”) understands and acknowledges that the other party (the “Disclosing Party”) has disclosed or may disclose information relating to WootRecruit™, which to the extent previously, presently, or subsequently disclosed to the Receiving Party is hereinafter referred to as “Proprietary Information” of the Disclosing Party.

OPERATIVE PROVISIONS

  1. Definition of Confidential Information

(a) For purposes of this Agreement, “Confidential Information” means any data or information that is proprietary to the Disclosing Party and not generally known to the public, whether in tangible or intangible form, whenever and however disclosed, including, but not limited to: 

(i) Any marketing strategies, plans, financial information, or projections, operations, sales estimates, business plans and performance results relating to the past, present or future business activities of such party, its affiliates, subsidiaries and affiliated companies; 

(ii) Plans for products or services, and customer or supplier lists; 

(iii) Any scientific or technical information, invention, design, process, procedure, formula, improvement, technology or method; 

(iv) Any concepts, reports, data, know-how, works-in-progress, designs, development tools, specifications, computer software, source code, object code, flow charts, databases, inventions, information and trade secrets; and 

(v) Any other information that should reasonably be recognized as confidential information of the Disclosing Party. Confidential Information need not be novel, unique, patentable, copyrightable or constitute a trade secret in order to be designated Confidential Information. The Receiving Party acknowledges that the Confidential Information is proprietary to the Disclosing Party, has been developed and obtained through great efforts by the Disclosing Party and that the Disclosing Party regards all of its Confidential Information as trade secrets.

(b) Confidential Information shall not include information which: 

(i) Was known by the Receiving Party prior to receiving the Confidential Information from the Disclosing Party; 

(ii) Becomes rightfully known to the Receiving Party from a third-party source not known (after diligent inquiry) to be under an obligation by the Receiving Party to Disclosing Party to maintain confidentiality; 

(iii) Is or becomes publicly available through no fault of or failure to act by the Receiving Party in breach of this Agreement; 

(iv) Is required to be disclosed in a judicial or administrative proceeding, or is otherwise requested or required to be disclosed by law or regulation, although the requirements of point 4(below) hereof shall apply prior to any disclosure being made; and 

(v) Is or has been independently developed by employees, consultants or agents of the Receiving Party without violation of the terms of this Agreement or reference or access to any Confidential Information.

 

  1. Disclosure of Confidential Information

From time to time, the Disclosing Party may disclose Confidential Information to the Receiving Party. The Receiving Party will: 

(a) Limit disclosure of any such Confidential Information to its directors, officers, employees, agents or representatives (collectively “Representatives”) who have a need to know such Confidential Information in connection with the current or contemplated business relationship between the parties to which this Agreement relates, and only for that purpose; 

(b) Advise its Representatives of the proprietary nature of the Confidential Information and of the obligations set forth in this Agreement and require such Representatives to keep the Confidential Information as confidential; 

Each party shall be responsible for any breach of this Agreement by any of their respective Representatives.

 

  1. Use of Confidential Information

The Receiving Party agrees to use the Confidential Information solely in connection with the current or contemplated business relationship between the parties and not for any purpose other than as authorized by this Agreement without the prior written consent of an authorized representative of the Disclosing Party. No other right or license, whether expressed or implied, in the Confidential Information is granted to the Receiving Party hereunder. Title to the Confidential Information will remain solely in the Disclosing Party. All use of Confidential Information by the Receiving Party shall be for the benefit of the Disclosing Party and any modifications and improvements thereof by the Receiving Party shall be the sole property of the Disclosing Party. 

 

  1. Compelled Disclosure of Confidential Information

Keeping all the previous points in mind, the Receiving Party may disclose Confidential Information pursuant to any governmental, judicial, or administrative order, subpoena, discovery request, regulatory request or similar method. This can be done with the provision that the Receiving Party promptly notifies the Disclosing Party in writing of such demand for disclosure so that the Disclosing Party, at its sole expense, may seek to make such disclosure subject to a protective order or other appropriate remedy to preserve the confidentiality of the Confidential Information.

The Receiving Party agrees that it shall not oppose and shall cooperate with efforts by the Disclosing Party with respect to any such request for a protective order or other relief. 

If the Disclosing Party is unable to obtain or does not seek a protective order and the Receiving Party is legally requested or required to disclose such Confidential Information, disclosure of such Confidential Information may be made without liability.

 

  1. Term

This Agreement shall remain in effect for a two-year term (subject to a one year extension if the parties are still discussing and considering the Transaction at the end of the second year). The parties’ duty to hold in confidence Confidential Information that was disclosed during term shall remain in effect indefinitely.

 

  1. Remedies

Both parties acknowledge that the Confidential Information to be disclosed hereunder is of a unique and valuable character, and that the unauthorized dissemination of the Confidential Information would destroy or diminish the value of such information. Therefore, both parties hereby agree that the Disclosing Party shall be entitled to injunctive relief preventing the dissemination of any Confidential Information in violation of the terms hereof. Such injunctive relief shall be in addition to any other remedies available hereunder, whether at law or in equity. Further, in the event of a lawsuit relating to this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses.

 

  1. Return of Confidential Information

Receiving Party shall immediately return and redeliver to the Disclosing party, all tangible material embodying the Confidential Information provided hereunder and all notes, summaries, memoranda, drawings, manuals, records, excerpts or derivative information deriving there from and all other documents or materials (“Notes”) (and all copies of any of the foregoing, including “copies” that have been converted to computerized media in the form of image, data or word processing files either manually or by image capture) based on or including any Confidential Information, in whatever form of storage or retrieval.

The same will be effective on:

(i) The completion or termination of the dealings between the parties contemplated hereunder; 

(ii) The termination of this Agreement; or 

(iii) At such time as the Disclosing Party may so request; In such a case, the Receiving Party, with the written consent of the Disclosing Party may immediately destroy any of the foregoing embodying Confidential Information and, upon request, certify in writing such destruction by an authorized officer of the Receiving Party supervising the destruction for confirmation with the Disclosing Party.

 

  1. Notice of Breach

Receiving Party shall notify the Disclosing Party immediately upon discovery of any unauthorized use or disclosure of Confidential Information by Receiving Party or its Representatives, or any other breach of this Agreement by Receiving Party or its Representatives, and will cooperate with efforts by the Disclosing Party to help the Disclosing Party regain possession of Confidential Information and prevent its further unauthorized use.

 

  1. No Binding Agreement for Transaction

The parties agree that neither party will be under any legal obligation of any kind whatsoever with respect to a transaction by virtue of this Agreement, except for the matters specifically agreed to herein. The parties further acknowledge and agree that they each reserve the right, in their sole and absolute discretion, to reject any proposals and to terminate discussions and negotiations with respect to a transaction at any time. This Agreement does not create a joint venture or partnership between the parties. If a Transaction goes forward, the non-disclosure provisions of any applicable transaction documents entered into between the parties (or their respective affiliates) for the Transaction shall supersede this Agreement. 

  1. Warranty

Each party warrants that it has the right to make the disclosures under this Agreement.

NO WARRANTIES ARE MADE BY EITHER PARTY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WHATSOEVER. The parties acknowledge that although they shall each endeavor to include, under the Confidential Information, all information that they each believe relevant for the purpose of the evaluation of a transaction, the parties understand that either party is making no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the Confidential Information. 

Further, neither party is under any obligation under this Agreement to disclose any Confidential Information it chooses not to disclose. Neither Party hereto shall have any liability to the other party or to the other party’s Representatives resulting from any use of the Confidential Information except with respect to disclosure of such Confidential Information in violation of this Agreement.

 

  1. Miscellaneous

(a) This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding between the parties and supersedes any and all prior or contemporaneous understandings and agreements, whether oral or written, between the parties, with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement can only be modified by a written amendment signed by the party against whom enforcement of such modification is sought.

(b) The validity, construction and performance of this Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of applicable to contracts made and to be wholly performed within such state, without giving effect to any conflict of laws provisions thereof. The Federal and state courts located in shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising under the terms of this Agreement.

(c) Although the restrictions contained in this Agreement are considered by the parties to be reasonable for the purpose of protecting the Confidential Information, if any such restriction is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such provision will be modified, rewritten or interpreted to include as much of its nature and scope as will render it enforceable. If it cannot be so modified, rewritten or interpreted to be enforceable in any respect, it will not be given effect, and the remainder of the Agreement will be enforced as if such provision was not included.

(d) Any notices or communications required or permitted to be given hereunder may be delivered by hand, deposited with a nationally recognized overnight carrier, electronic-mail, or mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, in each case, to the address of the other party first indicated above (or such other addresses as may be furnished by a party in accordance with this paragraph). 

(e) This Agreement is personal in nature, and neither party may directly or indirectly assign or transfer it by operation of law or otherwise without the prior written consent of the other party, whose consent will not be unreasonably withheld. All obligations contained in this Agreement shall extend to and be binding upon the parties to this Agreement and their respective successors, assigns and designees.

(g) The receipt of Confidential Information pursuant to this Agreement will not prevent or in any way limit either party from: (i) developing, making or marketing products or services that are or may be competitive with the products or services of the other; or (ii) providing products or services to others who compete with the other.

(h) Paragraph headings used in this Agreement are for reference only and shall not be used or relied upon in the interpretation of this Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.