AFFILIATE MARKETING AGREEMENT

Last Updated: May 15, 2024

This Affiliate Marketing Program Agreement (the “Agreement”) contains the terms and conditions that apply to Your participation as a member of  Designer Brands, Inc. affiliate program (the "Affiliate Program") for DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, Inc. www.dsw.com and the associated mobile (or mobile optimized) or tablet (or tablet optimized) website(s), if applicable, (collectively, the "DSW Website"), which are websites operated by Designer Brands, Inc. (“DSW”,  "We" or "Us" or “Our”). This Affiliate Program is administered through Impact Radius, Inc., operators of the Impact Radius network (the “Network”). In this Agreement you are referred to as "You" or "Affiliate" or with “Your”.

THIS AGREEMENT IS AND WILL BE A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT WITH EACH AFFILIATE PARTICIPATING IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM. BY CLICKING “I ACCEPT,” JOINING THIS AFFILIATE PROGRAM, OR RECEIVING AND USING LINKS TO THE DSW WEBSITE, WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST, YOU ARE THEREBY AND HEREBY CONFIRMING THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS OR CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN, YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO JOIN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM AND DSW SHALL NOT BE OBLIGATED TO PAY ANY FEES TO YOU.

1. Enrollment; Eligibility.

Notwithstanding the application of this Agreement to each Affiliate, please note that participation in the Affiliate Program further requires you to complete a participant application that is accessible through the Network. You will be notified if Your application has been accepted or rejected. If not accepted in writing, Your application will be deemed rejected. We reserve the right to reject any application in Our sole discretion for any or no reason. If we reject Your application, you may reapply at any time. Only websites with general or United States based domain name extensions (e.g. .com, .net, .org, .us, etc.) and which primarily serve a United States based audience are eligible for participation in this Affiliate Program. 

You must be at least 18 years of age (or the legal age of majority (whichever is greater) to join this Affiliate Program. By submitting an application to participate in this Affiliate Program, you represent, warrant, covenant and agree that (i) all information that you provide to us or Impact Radius in connection with Your participant application and/or in connection with Your participation in this Affiliate Program is true, complete and accurate, (ii) you (and the entity named in Your application and on whose behalf you enter or wish to enter the Affiliate Program) have all necessary rights and authority to enter into this Agreement and perform Your obligations hereunder, (iii) this Agreement will constitute a legal, binding and enforceable agreement against you (and any entity named in Your application and on whose behalf you enter or wish to enter the Affiliate Program) in accordance with the terms and conditions herein, (iv) Your execution and performance hereunder will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any other agreement, arrangement or understanding to which you are bound and (v) You are not an employee, family member of any employee of DSW, or any entities directly or indirectly owned or controlled by employees or family members of DSW or its subsidiaries, affiliates or suppliers and advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies of DSW all of which are prohibited from participating in the Affiliate Program or being Affiliates hereunder.  

2. Qualifying Links.

Your websites are not permissible or suitable and you may not participate in the Affiliate Program if any of the participating websites owned, controlled, or operated by you violate any of the following suitability restrictions. Further, you represent, warrant, covenant and agree that none of Your participating websites or any content or technology contained thereon or used therewith will, at any time during the period that you are a part of this Affiliate Program, violate any of the following suitability restrictions. In the event we believe that you have violated any of the following suitability restrictions we may, in addition to all other rights and remedies that we may have, terminate this Agreement and Your participation in the Affiliate Program without further notice. Your participating websites may not:

(a)   Links Usage. If you are accepted into the Affiliate Program, we will make available to you Qualifying Links that, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you may display on your site subject to the terms of this Agreement. 

(b)   Obtaining Links. All Qualifying Links that you will use in the Affiliate Program will be provided to you by the Network, DSW Affiliates communication, or by other means selected by us. You also agree that you will display on your site only Content including banners and images, provided by us, and you will substitute such images with any new images provided by us from time to time throughout the term of this Agreement.

(c)    Tracking of Qualifying Links. The Qualifying Link contains site-specific Network tracking information that identifies your site as a member of the Affiliate Program and will establish a link from your site to DSW’s. Only valid Qualifying Links obtained through the Network (or via an approved process if hosted outside of the Network’s platform) will be tracked for purposes of determining Payouts (as defined in Section 16 below). 

(d)     Link and Offer Terms. The terms of an Offer (e.g. special instructions, exceptions, dates valid) will be posted on the Network’s site or otherwise communicated to you in writing. In the event of any inconsistency between the communicated terms of the specific Offer and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Offer shall govern.

(e)    Offer Discontinuation. We reserve the right, at Our sole discretion, to terminate, change, modify, add or remove any promotion or Offer from time to time by (i) posting or providing notices of such changes in Impact Radius or otherwise to You. or (ii) removing, altering, or modifying any graphic or banner ad provided to you pursuant to an Offer. You agree to promptly implement any request from DSW to remove, alter or modify any Content, graphic or banner ad posted on your site.

(f)     Paid Media Placement. You may not use a Qualifying Link provided through the Affiliate Program on any paid placements made in partnership with another team at DSW (i.e. DSW marketing, DSW Media Network or any other DSW agency that is purchasing on our behalf.)

A "Qualifying Link" means a direct link (without any intervening page or advertisement) from Your website to the DSW Website using one of the URLs or graphic links provided by us (or through the Network) for use in the Affiliate Program that allows Impact Radius to track the use of such links by Your visitors. All Qualifying Links that you will use in the Affiliate Program will be provided to you from the Network or by other means selected by us, and only valid Qualifying Links generated by the Network or by us will be tracked for purposes of determining  Payout that you may be eligible to receive on sales of products generated through Your website. Affiliates cannot append Impact Radius tracking to links that are not supplied by DSW in order to make them appear as a Qualifying Link and to collect commissions from resulting sales. At DSW’s discretion, DSW may choose to withhold commissions in any month in which Affiliate is caught tagging unauthorized links or otherwise breaching this Agreement. “Offer” means communication and/or sale of DSW Content, product or promotional event provided by the Network. Within DSW’s Affiliate program, an Offer is the Content that the Qualifying Link refers to. “Content” means text links, promotional information (and all related information), images, videos, music, software, photographs, data, music, text, application updates and other graphics. All Content is owned or licensed property of Target or its suppliers or licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, or other proprietary rights.

3.     Suitability of Affiliate Websites.

a) Your websites are not permissible or suitable and you may not participate in the Affiliate Program if any of the participating websites owned, controlled, or operated by you violate any of the following suitability restrictions. Further, you represent, warrant, covenant and agree that none of Your participating websites or any content or technology contained thereon or used therewith will, at any time during the period that you are a part of this Affiliate Program, violateany of the following suitability restrictions. In the event we believe that you have violated any of the following suitability restrictions we may, in addition to all other rights and remedies that we may have, terminate this Agreement and Your participation in the AffiliateProgram without furthernotice. Your participating websites may not:

infringe on, violate, or misappropriate our or any other person's or entity's intellectual property, publicity, privacy, or other rights,

fail to state a clear online privacy policy to Your visitors, which complies with applicable laws and regulations and generally recognized industry practices,

require a username or password to access Your websites, without our prior written consent (including via email),

violate any law, rule or regulation,

contain any content that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, harmful to minors, or contains nudity, pornography or sexually explicit materials,

contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines, tools, or programming code that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or personal information,

contain material that is materially false, inaccurate, fraudulent or misleading or that promotes pyramid or similar schemes;

promote violence or any illegal or immoral activity,

promote discrimination based upon gender, race, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age,

use or promote the use of bulk email or spam,

contain software or use technology that attempts to intercept, divert or redirect Internet traffic to or from any other website, or that potentially enables the diversion of affiliate commissions from another website,

use any software that gathers information through the customer's Internet connection without his or her knowledge,

install spyware on another person's computer, or cause spyware to be installed on another person's computer, or utilize any "opt-out downloads". An "opt-out download" is any software, program, script, tool or element that would automatically download to a user's computer or that would become operative when the user accesses the Internet unless the user takes affirmative action to prevent the download, and/or

use a context-based triggering mechanism to display an advertisement that partially or wholly covers or obscures paid advertising or other content on an Internet website in a way that interferes with a user's ability to view the Internet website, or use browser-embedded contextual targeting applications or other applications which serve advertisements (pop-up ads and pop-unders, in-browser ads and highlighting of website content and redirecting to websites with similar content, regardless of whether any such advertisements are served directly by you or are provided or purchased from a third party) on DSW’s or DSW’s competitors’ websites or on any other website other than Your websites.

b) You may not:

engineer Your websites in a manner designed to director pull Internet traffic away from the DSW Website,

attempt to modify or alter the DSW Website in any way,

make any representations, either express or implied, or create an appearance that a visitor to Your website is visiting our website, e.g., “mirroring” or "framing" the DSW Website, without our prior written approval, use any “deep link,” (if unauthorized by DSW) "page scrape," “robot” or "spider" or any other automatic device, program, script, algorithm, or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual processes to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of any DSW Website or any other website for DSW Content (as defined in Section 5),

distribute any Qualifying Links to a third party shopping site (e.g., Ebay, Google, Amazon, Walmart, or other third-party marketplaces), regardless of whether or not we are already advertising Our products on that site. In addition, you are prohibited from utilizing any merchandiser data feeds to advertise via shopping ads on search engines.

manipulate Qualifying Links in any way, including (a) redirecting links to hide or manipulate their original source or (b) direct-linking, such as using your Qualifying Links as the destination URL in any paid advertisement.

post or release any information about how to work around the requirements of a coupon/promotion will result in immediate removal and termination from the Program.

attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the DSW Website or any other systems or networks connected to the DSW Website or to any server or to any of the services offered on or through the DSW Website, by hacking, password "mining," or any other illegitimate or prohibited means,

probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the DSW Website or any network connected to the DSW Website, or breach the security or authentication measures on the DSW Website or any network connected to the DSW Website,

reverse look-up, trace, or seek to trace, in a manner not authorized by DSW, any information on any other user of, or visitor to, the DSW Website,

take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the DSW Website or networks or any systems or networks connected to the DSW Website,

use any device, software, or routine to interfere with the proper working of the DSW Website or any transaction conducted on the DSW Website, or with any other person's use of the DSW Website,

forge headers, impersonate a person, or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the identity or the origin of any message, link, or transmittal sent on or through the DSW Website,

use the DSW Website to harvest or collect in a manner not authorized by DSW email addresses or other contact information, and/or

otherwise use the DSW Website in an unlawful manner or in a manner that could damage, disparage, or otherwise negatively impact Impact Radius or DSW, or any of their interests or goodwill.

purchase products during sessions initiated through Qualifying Links on Your websites for resale or commercial use of any kind. Such purchases may result, in our sole discretion, in the withholding of the  Payout or the termination of this Agreement.

you will not sell site inventory nor bid on site inventory or engage in an activity in collaboration with other affiliates in regard to  the use of Qualifying Links and will only use Qualifying Links on Your websites. (For Example You will not sell nor buy site inventory with such entities as RetailMeNot, CouponCause or Rakuten). 

post an Offer prior to the start and end dates indicated in the Offer terms without written consent by DSW. Early Promotion without permission may result in immediate removal and termination from the Affiliate Program. 

use any Qualifying Links, promotion codes or Offers hereunder to engage or offer in any contests, sweepstakes or giveaways. 

A breach of this Agreement including without limitation any of the restrictions in this Section 3 could in DSW’s sole discretion result in immediate removal and termination from the Affiliate Program. 

4.     Sub-affiliate Networks. 

Promoting DSW through a sub-affiliate network is permitted; provided, however, that you (i) must be completely transparent with regards to where traffic from your sub-affiliates originated, and (ii) must ensure that all sub-affiliates promoting the DSW Affiliate Program adhere to and comply with the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement or as otherwise provided to you.  This includes restrictions on advertising through toolbars, browser extensions, and through any paid placements such as a pay-per-click campaigns unless expressly authorized in writing by DSW. You shall be fully responsible to the extent that any such sub-affiliate does not adhere to or comply with such terms and conditions. Sub-affiliate networks must also receive approval prior to allowing any type of coupon sub-affiliate to promote the Affiliate Program. Sub-affiliate networks, content monetization platforms, or third party networks as classified by DSW shall not engage in any solicitation, recruitment, or other activities with prospective or current DSW affiliates by offering or exhibiting payout rates greater than those stated by DSW.

5.     Right to Use DSW Content.

(a)  Subject to the terms and conditions herein, we hereby grant to you, during the term of this Agreement, a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, non-sublicenseable, non-assignable right to (i) access the DSW Website through Qualifying Links provided by us from time to time, and (ii) use and display the DSW Content (as defined in Section 5(c) below) that we may make available to you from time to time solely as provided to you through the Network and solely for the purpose of generating the sale of DSW’s products from the DSW Website through Qualifying Links from Your website that we have approved and solely in connection with Your participation in this Affiliate Program. Any attempt to sublicense, assign or transfer this right is void. We may terminate Your rights to use the DSW Contentfor any reasonat any time in our sole and absolute discretion. You may not otherwise use DSW’s logo, name, or other intellectual property.

(b)  Except for the right to use the DSW Content provided to you by us hereunder, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement we are not granting you any rights in, and you represent, warrant, covenant and agree that you will not use, in any manner, any trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, banners, buttons, graphics, digital images, text, or other content or materials owned or controlled by us.

(c)  Upon termination of this Agreement, for any reason, you shall immediately cease using, displaying or otherwise maintaining any interest in the DSW Content or a Qualifying Link. For purposes of this Agreement "DSW Content" means any and all DSW trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, banners, buttons, digital images, graphics, text and other content and material which we may, in our sole discretion, make available to you in connection with this Affiliate Program from time to time. Such DSW Content may be, directly or indirectly, owned by us or licensed to us.

(d)  You may not track customers to DSW’s site and may not use any data related to Qualifying Links to create any segmentation of customers or to target advertisements of third parties.

6.     Promotions/Special Offers.

(a)   Modifications to Promotions. We reserve the right, in Our sole discretion, to terminate, change, modify, add or remove any promotion from time to time by posting or providing notices of such changes in Impact Radius or otherwise to You.

(b)   Promotion Code Source. You are only allowed to use DSW promotion codes that are communicated specifically to you via the Network on behalf of DSW. If you use DSW promotion codes from other sources (e.g., DSW e-mails or other partner or non-partner communications), we may recover any Payouts resulting from the use of those codes.

(c)   Offer Visibility. Coupons must be displayed in their entirety with the full offer, offer exclusions or disclaimer test, valid expiration date and code.

(d)   From time to time, we may post on or through the Network promotions, coupons or special offers("Special Offers") to pay certain members of the Affiliate Program, chosen at our sole discretion, (i) a specified referral fee on sales of certain products or (ii) an advertisement fee for certain periodic promotions. The terms of a Special Offer, as posted on the Network or otherwise communicated to such members, shall be governed by and apply to you pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. However, in the event of any inconsistency between the terms of the Special Offer and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Special Offer shall govern as they relate to such offer.

(e)   Advance notice of promotions, sales and special events is Confidential Information (as hereinafter defined)of ours until such events are publicized by us or Impact Radius. From time to time you may be given prior notice of such events so that you may prepare content on Your participating websites. You hereby acknowledge and agree that the existence of such event and any DSW Content providedto you is Confidential Information and may not be disclosed by you prior to the date specified by us. You also agree, upon notice, to promptly remove any Confidential Information from Your site(s) upon our request.

7.     DSW Content Usage Restrictions.

IF YOU FAIL TO COMPLY WITH ANY OF THE RESTRICTIONS IN THIS SECTION 7, AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION YOU FORFEIT ANY COMMISSIONS OR OTHER PAYMENTS OTHERWISE PAYABLE TO YOU DURING SUCH TIME THAT YOU ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE.

        (a)  You agree that you will not, except as specifically provided for in this Agreement:

(i)     copy or obtain any images or other content relating to the DSW from the DSW Website or elsewhere, except through the Network, 

(ii)    copy or display any DSW Content,

(iii)   modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works based on the DSW Content,

(iv)   remove, delete, erase, or tamper with any copyright or other proprietary notices in any copy of any of the DSW Content,

(v)    sell, market, license, sublicense, distribute, disclose or otherwise grant to any person or entity any right or interest in the DSW Content,

(vi)   take any action which may cause deception, confusion or otherwise diminish or dilute the quality of the DSW Content or the goodwill associated with DSW Content, and/or

(vii)  use the DSW Content in any manner which disparages or portrays us in a false, competitively adverse or poor light.

(b)  No Keyword Purchasing. You agree that you will not purchase or bid for the placement of our name or trademarks or any variation or misspelling thereof within any third-party search engine or portal, including but not limited to AOL.com, Yahoo.com, ebates.com and Google.com., ask.com miva.com and bing.com.

Search Engine and Advertising Restrictions. You also agree to the following additional search engine advertising rules:

all advertisements by you must be directed to Your participating website or a page within Your participating website,

none of Your advertisements may link directly to the DSW Website or any page within the DSW Website,

you will not show the URL for the DSW Website as the URL in Your ads,

you will not use the words "official site" or words to similar effect in connection with any use of our trademarks, or otherwise suggest or imply that Your site is an (or the) official DSW Site or a partner, and

you will stop bidding on any keyword term at our request.

You are prohibited from engineering Your site in a manner that ranks for DSW or DSW owned brand keywords and product variants via search engine optimization, including misspellings 

You are will not use “DSW” Coupon or similar reference suggesting a brand partnership.

(viii)      You will not bid on any DSW brand terms listed below (“DSW References”) and will ensure complete compliance across all ad types (including Broad Match campaigns), and You must include these search terms as both “Exact Match Negatives” AND as “Phrase Match Negatives”.

[dsw]

[dsw shoes]

[dsw shoes for women]

[dsw near me]

[dsw designer shoe warehouse]

[dsw.com]

[dsw sandals]

[dsw boots]

[dsw shoe store]

[women's dsw shoes]

[dsw shoes website]

[dsw locations]

[dsw heels]

[dsw warehouse]

[dsw login]

[dsw online]

[dsw womens shoes]

[dsw shoes for women]

[dsw shoes online]

[dsw womens sneakers]

[dsw sandals women]

[dsw kids shoes]

[d sw]

[daw shoes]

[ddsw com]

[ddsw]

[design shoe warehouse]

[design shoes warehouse]

[www dws]

[www dwsshoes]

[www.dws.com]

[wwwdsw]

[desw]

[dfw shoes]

[dsq]

[dsw com shoes]

[dsw con]

[dsw shies]

[dsw shoe]

[dsw shors]

[dsw shows]

[dsw vom]

[dsw warehouse shoes]

[dsw xom]

[dswcom]

[dswdsw]

[dswh]

[dsws]

[dswshoe com]

[dswshoe.com]

[dswshoes com]

[dswshoes online]

[dswshoes]

[DSW]

[dw shoes]

[dwc shoes]

[dws com shoes]

[dws com]

[dws shoe store]

[dws shoe]

[dws shoes com]

[dws shoes.com]

[dws shoes]

[dws shos]

[dws.com]

[dws]

[dwshoes]

[dwsshoes]

[dwsw]

[shoe designer warehouse]

[shoes dsw]

[wsd shoes]

[www designershoewarehouse]

[www dsw com shoes]

[www dsw shoes warehouse]

[www dswshoes com]

[www dswshoes]

[www dswshoewarehouse com]

[www dws com]

(d) You are prohibited from executing SEM tactics that include but are not limited to the following: bidding on DSW or DSW owned brands or misspellings of the brands; using DSW or DSW owned brands in a headline; display URL or description of pay-per-click ads. In addition, you agree to add DSW brand terms and phrases as a negative to Your campaign to avoid broad/phrase matching.

(e)  You are prohibited from providing guidance, instructions or suggestions to others on how to misuse discount codes or the like provided to or accessible to You in connection with this Agreement by or through Impact Radius or otherwise. 

8.     DSW Site Modification and Asset Management.

You are prohibited from altering or modifying DSW Domains or sites in any way. In addition, you are prohibited from scraping or crawling DSW’s sites or social media for Content such as images, logos, or text, unless you have DSW’s express written consent.

9.     Site and Post Auditing. We reserve the right to audit Your site without notice to ensure compliance with this Agreement and disclosures. We reserve the right to remove you from the Affiliate Program if we determine you are not in compliance. You agree to provide DSW with unrestricted access to Your site for such purpose(s).

10.   Social Media Restrictions. 

You agree under this Agreement and with respect to any amounts that may be earned by you hereunder to the following social media advertising rules:

              (a)      none of Your advertisements may be posted on DSW’s social media properties,

              (b)      all advertisements by you must be directed to Your site or a page within Your site,

              (c)      none of Your advertisements may link directly to the DSW Website or any page within the DSW Website,

              (d)      you will not show the DSW Website URL as the URL in Your ads,

              (e)      you will not use the words "official site" or words to similar effect in connection with any use of Our trademarks, or otherwise suggest or imply that Your site is an official DSW Website or partner,

              (f)       you will stop promoting DSW links to any social platform immediately upon Our request, and

              (g)      you will not promote DSW trademarks or promotions with social media display advertisements.

11.   Trademark and Look and Feel Restrictions. 

Additionally, you agree that:

            (a)      you will not include any name, trademark, trade name, service name, logo or similar business identifier, or any variation or misspelling thereof, which is owned or controlled by us in any domain name, URL, or similar identifier used by you,

            (b)      you will not alter or attempt to alter the look, feel, content, features or functionality of the DSW Website,

            (c)      you will immediately substitute or remove any DSW Content from Your websites at Our request,

            (d)      Your websites will not in any way copy or resemble the look, feel or content of the DSW Website or create any impression that Your websites are part of the DSW Website,

            (e)      you will not purchase or contract with any other person or entity to exploit any name, trademark, trade name, service name, logo or similar business identifier, or any variation or misspelling thereof, which is owned or controlled by us for any purpose,

            (f)       you will not use any DSW Content in a manner which links or otherwise directs potential customers to any website other than the DSW Website, and

            (g)      you will not attempt to intercept or redirect potential customers from or on the DSW Website or any other website participating in this Affiliate Program.

12.    Promotion Codes & Coupons. 

You may not, without Our prior written consent, utilize any promotion, promotion code, coupon, or other promotional opportunity that is not specifically authorized for DSW's Affiliate Program and explicitly authorized for Your use and You will not take or utilize any promotion, coupon or other promotional opportunity that is not intended for You.

13.   Communications with Consumers. 

You may not, without Our prior written consent:

              (a)      generate or send any email messages or other "electronic messages" (as defined in the Impact Radius Partner Terms and Campaign Conditions, as amended)using or containing Our name or logo, or any variation thereof, or any of the Qualifying Links or URLs provided to you as part of the Affiliate Program, send any email or other "electronic messages" that in any way suggests or implies or misleads, or is likely to mislead (including without limitation, via the return address, subject heading, header information or message contents), a recipient into believing that we or any related entity was the sender or sponsor of such email or procured or induced you to send such email,

              (b)      forward, redistribute, or otherwise repurpose any email communications or newsletters or other "electronic messages" that we send to Our customers or members of the Network, and

              (c)      generate or send any unsolicited email (spam) under this Agreement or any email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 or any other applicable laws or regulations.

14.   Property Ownership Rights. 

You acknowledge and agree that we retain all rights, title and interest in and to all property rights embodied in or associated with the DSW Content. You represent, warrant, covenant and agree that you will not, and will not assist any third party to, now or in the future, (i) take any action challenging or otherwise inconsistent with Our ownership of, or other right in, the DSW Content, or (ii) register or attempt to register any trademark, service mark, logo, trade name, domain name, or similar business identifier, that contains any name, trademark, service mark, logo, trade name or other content or material owned or controlled by us or any derivation, including misspellings, thereof. All goodwill and benefits accruing from the use of the DSW Content will automatically vest in us. You agree to cooperate with us and to take any additional actions reasonably requested by us to effect, perfect or confirm Our rights, title and interest in the DSW Content.

15. Operation and Maintenance of the DSW Website.

(a)        You acknowledge and agree that we will accept or reject, in Our sole and absolute discretion, all orders by customers for merchandise placed on or through the DSW Website. You further acknowledge and agree that:

(b)        you do not have any authority to make or accept any offer or commitment on Our behalf,

(c)        we cannot and do not, guarantee the availability of any merchandise or other services offered for sale on or through the DSW Website, and

(d)        we are solely responsible for all pricing, merchandising, order processing, order fulfillment, shipping, returns and all other aspects of the DSW Website and the sale of merchandise thereunder.

(e)        Customers who access the DSW Website will be deemed Our customers. Accordingly, all of Our then applicable rules, policies and procedures concerning orders, returns, refunds, customer service, privacy and other terms of use and sale will apply to such customers. As between the parties, all information obtained through the use of the DSW Website shall be Our exclusive property. Moreover, you agree not to use the information obtained as a result of this Agreement whether through the DSW Website or Your website(s) to create segments that can be used to target Our customers. The obligation contained within the prior sentence will survive termination of this Agreement.

(f)         Prices to be charged for products sold under the Affiliate Program may be changed by us from time to time. Product availability may also vary from time to time.

16. Payout Payments.

(a)   During the term of this Agreement, as sole consideration for Your participation in the Affiliate Agreement we agree to pay you a certain amount of money (the "Payout") equal to the applicable percentage of Net Payout determined pursuant to the schedule set forth in the Affiliate Program overview/description materials posted on the Network or otherwise provide by us for the payment of the Payout  fee statement set forth in Impact Radius or otherwise provided by DSW to You. We reserve the right, at Our sole discretion, to terminate, change, modify, add or remove any portions of this Payout schedule from time to time by posting or providing notices of such changes in Impact Radius or otherwise to You. For purposes of this Agreement, "Net Payout" means all payments actually received (and excluding any redemption for coupons or credits) 

from merchandise sold in a transaction for a product from the DSW Website resulting directly from a Qualifying Link tracked by Impact Radius from Your participating website to the DSW Website in accordance with this Agreement, where the customer purchases such merchandise, less all taxes, promotions/discounts, shipping and handling charges, gift wrapping and other value-added service charges, returns and chargebacks. payout scheduling and how we credit will be in the proposal. We also do not pay a  Payout on the purchase of gift certificates or gift cards. All determinations of Qualifying Links and whether a  Payout is payable at any given time will be made by us and Impact Radius in Our sole discretion and willbe final and binding on you. You agreethat Impact Radius’calculation of Your  Payout is bindingand that paymentfrom Impact Radius to you constitutes payment from DSW. In addition to the  Payout we agree to pay you the advertising fee, if any, set forth in any Special Offer applicable to you which is not based on  Payout in accordance with the terms of such Special Offer, which will be paid by Impact Revenue on Our behalf. You agree that in the event DSW has paid Your  Payout or other fees to Impact Radiuson account of payment to you, you will look solely to Impact Radius for payment of Your Payout or other fees.

(b)    Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, we will pay Impact Radius who will remit to you the above-described  Payout on a bi-monthly basis, but subject at all times to DSW’s reversal period of ninety (90) days. Payments will be in arrears with payment due from us ninety (90) days after the end of the applicable bi-monthly period for which such Payout was earned unless otherwise expressly provided in the applicable proposal in Impact Radius or otherwise provided by DSW to Affiliate in writing. We will send, or cause to be sent, to you a check for the  Payout earned, less any taxes or other amounts that we may be required by law to withhold. Payments for Special Offers which are not Payout based shall be made in accordance with the Special Offer. No interest will be paid on any such amount held by us. If a Payout payment is made hereunder and relates to merchandise that is later returned by the customer, the applicable Payout will be deducted from the next applicable payment hereunder. If any portion of such Payout cannot be recovered through a deduction, we will invoice you for such amount and you agree to pay this amount within thirty (30) days after receipt of such invoice. Upon termination of this Agreement, we will send, or cause to be sent, to you, a check for the total amount of  Payout then owed to you as of the termination date.The final  Payout payment may be withheld by us for a reasonable period of time to ensure that the correct amount is to be paid after makingany adjustments that may be required, including, but not limited to, adjustments for returns.

17.   Impact Radius Tracking.

(a)    All  Payout shall be based on tracking of Our Qualifying Links by Impact Radius. You may not use or append tracking to links that are not supplied by us. We will track sales made by customers, who purchase products using Qualifying Links that you will obtain using Impact Radius’s technology, from Your website to the DSW Website, and reports summarizing this sales activity will be available to you also through the Network. The form, content, and frequency of the reports are limited to those reports and capabilities available through the Network and may vary from time to time in Our and Impact Radius's reasonable discretion. We are not responsible for any changes that Impact Radius may make in their reporting format, timing, or types of reports available to the members of Our Affiliate Program.To permit accuratetracking, reporting and fee accrual, you must ensure that all Qualifying Links between Your website and Our website are properly formatted. We are not responsible for improperly formatted links regardless of whether you have made amendments to the code or not. In addition, we are unable to track or provide you credit for sales from customers that are referred to us with browsers that do not have their cookies setting enabled. You hereby agree not to disclose information contained in Impact Radius reports regarding us to any third party without Our prior written consent and that such information is Our property and Our Confidential Information.

(b)    You represent, warrant, covenant, and agree that you will not bypass, modify, circumvent, impair, disable or otherwise interfere with any links, web beacons, cookies or other technology provided by us or Impact Radius. Specifically, and by way of example and not limitation, Affiliates cannot append Impact Radius tracking to links that are not supplied by DSW in order to make them appear as a Qualifying Link and to collect commissions from resulting sales. At DSW’s discretion, DSW may choose to withhold commissions, including those from Qualifying Links, in any month in which Affiliate is tags unauthorized links. In addition, you will not be entitled to Payout on any sales made using unauthorized links.

18.   Responsibility for Your Websites and Your Participation.

(a)    You will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of all participating websites that are linked to the DSW Website hereunder and for all content, technology and other materials that appear on such websites. You acknowledge that by entering into this Agreement, DSW does not assume and should not be exposed to the business and operational risks associated with Your business, or any aspects of the operation or content of Your website(s). You acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for, and may not delegate responsibility for, complying with all of the terms and conditions hereof and all applicable laws, rules and regulations. You represent, warrant, covenant, and agree that:

        (i)    you will not state or imply that we sponsor, endorse, sanction or otherwise approve Your website or any of Your products or services,

        (ii)    you will not state or imply that you are Our affiliate, associate, partner or agent or otherwise take any action that could reasonably cause customers confusion as to Our relationship with you except as expressly permitted in this Agreement 

        (iii)   you will not take any action that could reasonably cause customers confusion as to the website on which any data collection, purchase transaction or other functions are occurring,

        (iv)   you will make no false or deceptive representations regarding the association of Impact Radius with us or you,

        (v)   at all times during and after the term of this Agreement, you will protect all of Our and Impact Radius's Confidential Information (as defined below)that you obtain or otherwise have access to with at least the same degree of care that you use to protect Your own confidential and proprietary information but in no event less than a reasonable standard of care,

        (vi)   you will only use Our and Impact Radius's Confidential Information to the extent necessary to perform Your obligations hereunder,

        (vii)  you will not use or display any trademark, service mark, logo or other content of Impact Radius or infringe any of Impact Radius's technology rights, and

        (viii) you will promptly notify us and Impact Radius of any malfunctioning of the Qualifying Links or other problems with Your participation in the Affiliate Program.

        (ix) We disclaim all liability for all such matters.

For purposes of this Agreement, "Confidential Information" means all non-public information provided or obtained by you about us, including, without limitation, all customer information, and all business and sales information related to transactions through this Affiliate Program.

19.   Reseller Policy. 

You agree not to buy products or services from DSW Sites for subsequent resale, or to aid or abet any third party in doing so. You will engage in and utilize all Web best practices in the operation of you site and the presentation of Qualifying Links, included but not limited to refraining form catching our site or otherwise altering the functionality or ease of navigation of our site and will not engineer your site in a manner to divert traffic from dsw.com to your site. You will not engage in spidering or scaping our site for content, images, etc.

20.   Reversals

(a)  Reselling. We have the right to forfeit, cancel or withhold (and not pay You) any Payouts or fees for orders or actions during any monthly period in which any violation of the terms of this Agreement including without limitation with the intent to resell and/or produce sales or actions that are made through fraudulent or illegal means.

(b) Cancellations. We reserve the right to reverse orders or Qualified Actions due to cancellations, duplicate tracking, returns, disputed charges, and Affiliate Program violations as outlined in this Agreement.

(c) Violations. If a violation of this Agreement occurs we reserve the right to reverse orders, set your  Payout Rate to 0% and/or suspend you from the program for the period or orders in question.

21. Violation of Terms and Affiliate Indemnification.

              (a)      Violation of any of the terms, conditions or prohibitions contained in this Agreement will result in the immediate termination of this Agreement, which shall not limit any other rights or remedies available to us, including, without limitation, the commencement of an action by us against you for such violation seeking, without limitation, injunctive relief, and the recovery of actual, statutory and punitive damages.

(b)      You, at Your own cost and expense, will indemnify, defend and hold harmless, us, Our parent, subsidiaries and company affiliates, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, successors and assigns against any claim, suit, action, judgment, liability, loss, cost, expenses and other damages (even if such claims are groundless, fraudulent or false), including reasonable attorneys’ fees, based upon or in connection with:

(i)       any breach or alleged breach of Your representations, warranties, covenants agreements, or obligations hereunder,

(ii)       Your websites or related business, or any content, technology or other materials displayed or contained thereon, including but not limited to with respect to claims of misappropriation or infringement,

(iii)      Your failure or alleged failure or Your websites failure to comply with any applicable law, rule or regulation,

(iv)      claims for unsolicited email, spamming or violation of the CAN-SPAMAct of 2003, or any other federal, state or local law, rule or regulation,

(v)      Your misuse, unauthorized modification or unauthorized use of the services or materials provided by us or Impact Radius hereunder,

(vi)      Your failure to comply with Our privacy policy, and/or any actual or alleged wrongful or negligent act or omission by you.

22. Term and Termination. 

(a)      This Agreement shall automatically terminate on the date on which we no longer maintain, or you are no longer a member of, the Affiliate Program contemplated hereunder. Additionally, either party may terminate this Agreement at any time and for any reason by providing notice (including via email) to the other party. We may also terminate this Agreement immediately, without notice, if we determine, in Our sole discretion, that you have breached this Agreement or that Your website(s) is unsuitable to participate in this Affiliate Program. Either party may terminate a Special Offer at any time by deleting its acceptance through the Network, and such termination of a Special Offer shall not be deemed a termination of this Agreement or any other Special Offers. 

(b)      all provisions of this Agreement that may reasonably be interpreted as surviving termination or expiration of this Agreement) will survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement including without limitation all restrictions on the use of DSW Content and IP and Sections 20, 21,22(b) and (c) 24, 25 -34.

(c)      Upon termination of this Agreement, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from Your website, all links to our website and the DSW Website and all DSW Content.

(d)      You are only eligible to earn a Payout on sales of products occurring during the term of this Agreement, and Payouts earned through the date of termination will remain payable only if the related orders are not canceled or returned by a customer. In addition, we may invoice you for a Payout that was paid to you prior to termination if those  Payouts relate to products that are subsequently canceled or returned by a customer. In the event an overpayment is made by us, you agree to promptly remit such overpayment to us upon notification by us. We may withhold Your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid.

23.   Modification of Agreement. 

We reserve the right to modify this Agreement, at any time in Our sole discretion, by posting or sending a communication to you regarding a change of notice or a new agreement on or through the Network or the DSW Website (or by direct communication to you). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY MODIFICATION, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOUR SOLE RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. FURTHER, YOU AGREE THAT NEITHER WE NOR IMPACTRADIUS SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY MODIFICATION OR CESSATION OF THEAFFILIATE PROGRAM. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE DSW CONTENTOR PARTICIPATION IN THIS AFFILIATE PROGRAMFOLLOWING ANY SUCH MODIFICATION OF THIS AGREEMENT SHALL CONSTITUTE ACCEPTANCE TO ANY MODIFICATION OR NEW AGREEMENT. ACCORDINGLY, PLEASE REVIEW THE AGREEMENT FOUND AT THIS LOCATION ON A PERIODIC BASIS.

24.   Warranty Disclaimer. 

NEITHER WE NOR IMPACT RADIUS MAKES ANY WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS, OR GUARANTEES, WITH REGARD TO THE AFFILIATEPROGRAM, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES SOLD THROUGH THE DSW WEBSITE, OR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE DSW WEBSITE OR THE NETWORK, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARISING BY LAW OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIEDWARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, COURSE OF DEALING, OR USAGE OF TRADE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION THAT THE OPERATION OF THE DSW WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

25.   Limitation of Damages. 

NEITHER WE NOR IMPACT RADIUS WILL HAVE ANY LIABILITY (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY) FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY LOSS OF REVENUE, DATA OR PROFITS ARISING UNDER OR WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM, EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FURTHER, OUR AND IMPACT RADIUS’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING UNDER OR WITH RESPECTTO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM WILL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE TOTAL REVENUE SHARE PAID OR PAYABLE BY US TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENTDURING THE PRECEDING TWELVE-(12) MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO THE DATE SUCH LIABILITY AROSE. ALL CLAIMS MADE HEREUNDER BY YOU AGAINST US SHALL BE MADE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR OF THE ACT OR OMISSION THAT FORMS THE BASIS OF SUCH CLAIM(S).

26.   FTC Disclosure Requirements. 

You shall include a disclosure statement within any and all pages, blog/posts, or social media posts where Qualifying Links are posted as an endorsement or review, and where it is not clear that the link is a paid advertisement. This disclosure statement should be clear and concise, stating that we are compensating you for Your review or endorsement. If you received the product for free from us or from Impact Radius for review, this also must be clearly stated in Your disclosure. We reserve the right to audit affiliate sites without notice for disclosure compliance and to remove you from the Affiliate Program if we determine you are not in compliance.

        (a) Disclosures must be made as close as possible to the claims, and may not appear solely in a “Terms of Use”, “Legal”, “About Us” or other linked paged.

        (b) Disclosures must be made at each instance of a sponsored link. A single statement on the site, or a separate page with Your general disclosure statement is not sufficient.

        (c) Disclosures should be placed above the fold; scrolling should not be necessary to find the disclosure. (e.g., disclosure should be visible before the jump).

        (d) Pop-up, hover state and button disclosures are prohibited.

        (e) Disclosure policy applies to all social media, even when space is restricted (e.g., tweets).

27.   Independent Contractors. 

We, you, and Impact Radius are each independent contractors and nothing in this Agreement or in any Impact Radius Affiliate Program documents is intended to or will create any form of partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship.

28.   Governing Law. 

This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of Ohio excluding its conflict of laws principles. Any lawsuit relating to this Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts located in Franklin County, Ohio. Each party waives the right to trial by jury. You agree that you may only bring claims in Your individual capacity and not as a member of any class action.

29.   Press Release; Publicity. 

You agree that you will not issue any press release or make any other similar public announcement that in any way makes any reference to us without Our prior written consent, which consent may be withheld in Our sole discretion.

30.   Force Majeure. 

Our performance under this Agreement shall be excused to the extent that such performance is hindered, delayed or made commercially impractical by causes beyond Our reasonable control.

31.   Headings. 

The titles and headings of the various sections and paragraphs in this Agreement are intended solely for convenience of reference and are not intended for any other purpose whatsoever, or to explain, modify, or place any construction upon or on any of the provisions of this Agreement.

32.   Assignment. You may not assign this Agreement or any of Your rights or delegate any of Your obligations under this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without Our prior written consent, and any such attempted assignment shall be void. Subject to such restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns.

33.   Waiver & Severability. 

Our failure to enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of its right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement. If any part of this Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and the liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most clearly matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in effect.

34.   Entire Agreement. 

This Agreement and the Payout schedule represent the complete agreement and understanding between us and you and supersedes any other oral or written communications or understandings between us and you regarding the subject matter hereof. No amendment or modification to this Agreement will be binding upon us unless agreed to by Our authorized representative.