Terms & Conditions

Terms and Conditions

Before you can proceed with registration, please accept the terms and conditions below.

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If you wish to participate in our Affiliate program, indicate your agreement to do so by clicking the “I Agree” button below. Additionally, by accessing and utilizing any of PDM Affiliates Marketing Tools or accepting of any reward, bonus or commission whether contained in this agreement or elsewhere on our web site, you are deemed to have agreed to be bound by all the terms and conditions set out in this agreement. For purposes of clarity, the terms “we” and “us” refer to PDM Affiliates and “you” and “Member” refers to the other party to the contract formed by the acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. The term “Merchant” is defined as any company that has contracted PDM Affiliates to promote their Site(s) and/or products. The contract provides you with the non-exclusive right to direct users (“Visitors”) from your site or sites to the Merchant’s websites, in return for the payment of commissions and referral bonuses as specified below.

Enrollment

To enrol please read this Agreement and then submit a complete PDM Affiliates Member Account application to us via our Web site. We will evaluate your application and notify you whether your application was accepted. Your application will be rejected if we determine, in our sole discretion, that your site is unsuitable for any reason, including but not limited to, sites that are under construction, aimed at children, promote sexually explicit materials, promote violence, promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age, promote illegal activities, or violate intellectual property rights.

Participation in the Affiliate Programme is only permitted if you are 18 years old or above.  If you are an employee, agent or subcontractor of ours or any company in the same group of companies as us or connected in any way to a person or company which meets this definition, you will not apply nor be appointed as an affiliate on the Affiliate Programme. You shall provide true and complete information to us when completing the Affiliate Registration Form via the Platform and promptly update such information if all or any part of it changes. We shall be entitled to verify your identity, including by requesting information from you and by obtaining further information from other third party sources and data.  You agree to provide us with any verification and/or other supporting documents and information which we may request from time to time. This may include: (i) for individuals (without limitation) – a copy of a valid passport, copy of a valid driving licence, copy of a utility bill, and/or letter of reference from the individual’s bank and/or copy of a bank statement; and (ii) for a company (without limitation) – a copy of the company’s certificate of incorporation; articles of association (or equivalent document); and/or information regarding the identity of the beneficial owners and directors of the company. We also reserve the right to request certification and/or notarisation of any verification or other supporting documents and information.  You agree and acknowledge that (without prejudice to any other right or remedy we may have) we have the right to withhold payments if any verification or other supporting documents and information are not provided and/or until such time as your details have been verified to our satisfaction.

Member Agreement

During the term of this arrangement (which shall commence when you indicate your acceptance in the manner specified above, and shall end when either you or we notify the other, by email, of the termination of this Agreement), you shall display a banner or banners provided by PDM Affiliates on your site (the “Member site”) as a hyperlink to direct Visitors from the Member Site to the Merchant’s Sites, using distinct URLs supplied by PDM Affiliates exclusively for linking (the “Supplied Banners”).

The Merchant’s banners and/or text links shall be displayed on the Member site. Members can also provide descriptive information regard the Merchant Sits(s) on its websites(s). If the content on the member site is found to be inaccurate or outdated, then we may notify you of any changes to your Site(s) that we feel should be made. The relationship specified in this Agreement is non-exclusive for both parties; therefore, the Member shall be entitled to display the banners of, and provide links to, sites of other companies through the Member site, and PDM Affiliates shall be entitled to make the Merchant’s banners available through online and other services than the Member site.

You agree to notify us of any changes to the details you supply in the Registration Form, including payment details so that we always have true, complete and accurate information for you.

Delivery & Display of Banners, Copy & Promotional Material

As a Member, you will have access through PDM Affiliates’ site to a variety of graphic and textual links (each of these links sometimes being referred to herein as “Links” or, individual, as a “Link”.) PDM Affiliates and the Merchant hereby grants to the Member the non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable (except as provided below) rights, during the term of this Agreement, to use (which shall include the right to copy, transmit, distribute, display and perform both privately and publicly): PDM Affiliates’ and the Merchant’s banners, name, site name, and other related textual and graphic material are made available by PDM Affiliates and/or the Merchant to the Member for the express purpose of inclusion on the Member’s site from time to time (collectively, the “Merchant’s Material”) and for the specific purposes authorized above. PDM Affiliates and the Merchant authorize the Member to advertise and promote their respective promotional material. The copywriting of promotions may not be modified nor misrepresented by the Member. PDM Affiliates and the Merchant also authorizes the Member to refer, in the Member’s advertising and promotions, to the fact that the PDM Affiliates and Merchant’s sites are accessible through the Member site, provided that any such statement:

(a) does not include any trademarks, service marks, design marks, symbols and/or other indicia of origin of PDM Affiliates or the Merchant other than PDM Affiliates or the Merchant’s Site(s) name and/or site names in a non-distinctive typeface (specifically, not the typeface used in the logo design of any of PDM Affiliates’ or the Merchant’s mark);

(b) does not state, suggest, or imply, by the wording or prominence of such statement or otherwise, that the Merchant sponsors, authorizes, and/or is the source or origin of the Member site; and

(c) does not disparage PDM Affiliates or the Merchant, its products, services, or members. All use of the PDM Affiliates or Merchant’s Materials hereunder shall inure to the benefit of the Merchant and shall not create any rights, title or interest in them for the Member. No other use of the PDM Affiliates or Merchant’s names, trademarks, service marks, design marks, symbols and/or other indicia of origin or other designations confusingly similar to any of the foregoing may be made by the Member for any purpose without the prior written approval of PDM Affiliates or the Merchant. As between the Merchant and the Member, the Merchant owns, and shall continue to own exclusively, all right title and interest (including without limitation, all rights provided under the law of copyright and trademark) in and to the Merchant’s Materials and all names, trademarks, service marks, design marks, symbols and/or other indicia of origin therein throughout the world and in perpetuity, subject to the permissions granted in this Agreement.

Mandatory Instructions for all Ads Targeting UK Customers

All the Marketing communications must state all significant limitations and terms and conditions.

Online ads must direct customers to an additional link where all the terms and conditions of the promotion are stated, which must be no further than one click away from the advertisement itself in cases where there is space and time limitation.

When anything stated as “Bonus” or “Free” is advertised (i.e. Free spins, free play etc.), the main terms and conditions and the commitments that requirements for the customers to take advantage of such an offer must be stated in the advertisement itself.

No advertising or other marketing information must appear on any primary web page/ screen, or micro-site providing advice or information on responsible gambling.

Any source towards Email Campaigns, must have these subscribers that have double opted in and any form of the marketing material must be inclusive of an Unsubscribe link.

You are obligated to use Age-Gating wherever the marketing space provides you with an option to do so. “Age-Gating” means applying ‘minimum 18’ age restrictions to your marketing content.

Displayed advertisement must have a warning sign of 18+ symbolising to target that the advertisement is targeted for customers above the age limit only.

Affiliate must not engage in SMS Marketing, Advertorial style marketing or Pop Unders.

Affiliate Requirements

We require you to disclose all traffic sources that you will promote our brands.

Your site(s) must include an 18+ age disclaimer and a link to a responsible gambling body (e.g. https://www.begambleaware.org/). For social media affiliates, we require this information to be in the about/bio section of your profile, and in every post you may make in future that features our brands.

If your site is not targeting the UK, we will require a link to a country-appropriate responsible gambling body.

Your site must abide by the CAP code (especially the gambling section), mainly:

The website must not be designed to appeal to children.

Gambling must not be promoted as a way to get guaranteed profits, generating income, or becoming wealthy.

Your site must not offer incentivised traffic.

If you are running an affiliate network, we will require full disclosure of traffic sources so that we can ensure compliance.

If you are media buying, you must evidence to us that you are working with appropriate traffic sources and have proper controls in place to ensure compliance with UK Gambling Regulations.

We do not allow direct marketing (email/SMS/phone/post) for new affiliates. If this is something you are interested in, we will only consider this once you have established a relationship with us, and after we confirm your methods are fully compliant.

We do not allow promotion on:

–       Adult Networks

–       Illegal Streaming Sites

–       Pop-under or pop-up campaigns

–       ‘Advertorial’ style marketing

–       Snapchat, Whatsapp, Telegram, Youtube (or other video services), Twitch (or other streaming services)

Maintaining the Links

You agree to fully cooperate with us in order to establish and maintain the Links between Your Site and the PDM Affiliates Site or the Merchant’s Site(s). The maintenance and updating of Your Site will be your responsibility. The graphics and/or text associated with the Links to the PDM Affiliates Site or the Merchant’s Sites will be updated periodically and it will be necessary for you to update the content of Your Site accordingly on a regular basis. Please be aware that we have the right to monitor Your Site at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this Agreement and to notify you of any changes to Your Site that we feel should be made. You are not permitted to mask the destination URL information or use any other technique that may mask or hide the PDM Affiliates or the Merchant site URLs.

SMS Marketing

You are not permitted to promote your own copy for SMS marketing that has not been signed off by PDM Affiliates. You are responsible for the contents of your text messages and the consequences thereof. You agree not to use Mobile SMS Marketing to send any text messages without prior PDM Affiliates written permission. You agree not to use Mobile SMS Marketing to send any text messages that are not based in customer opt-in or material that are unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or may otherwise constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature or that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, regulation or court order. PDM Affiliates reserves the right to terminate your account without prior notice if PDM Affiliates becomes aware of and determines, in its sole discretion, that you are violating any of the foregoing guidelines.

Communication to Members

By signing up to PDM Affiliates you agree to receive a variety of material from PDM Ltd and its partners. If you choose to opt out of our communications PDM Affiliates and its Merchants will not be responsible for any damages that may occur from members opting out of communications.

Good Faith

You will not knowingly benefit from known or suspected traffic not generated using accepted Internet marketing practices whether or not it causes PDM Affiliates or the Merchant harm. Should fraudulent activity, knowingly or otherwise, arise from a person directed to Merchant’s site via your link, we retain the right to retract the commissions paid to you at any time. Our decision in this regard will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. We reserve the right to retain all amounts due to you under this Agreement if we have reasonable cause to believe that such traffic has been caused with your knowledge.

Commission

You shall be entitled to a commission as outlined below:

£30 CPA for each fully qualified player per brand.

CPA is triggered with a minimum £10 deposit and wager from every new player referred and tracked on your unique tracking link.

A qualifying CPA player will be deemed as a player who has registered via an affiliate tracking link. Has never registered to the brand before. Is not self-excluded within the bingo network the brand is operated on. Has made the appropriate wagering requirements and has been referred through a form of advertising accepted by PDM Affiliates.

Please note that fraudulent players will be excluded from payment. In these cases we will provide additional information for complete transparency.

Commission is subject to change at the discretion of the merchants. In case of any change, a prior notice would be given to the Members (affiliates).

Commission payments are made by the 30th of every month for previous month’s commission. If an error is made in the calculation of commission, we reserve the right to correct such error at any time and (as appropriate) to either:

–       increase the payment to you (where we have underpaid you); or

–       reclaim from you any overpayment.

Please note that commission payments are subject to minimum payment threshold depending of the method of payment chosen by you. The minimum thresholds for commission payment are as below:

UK same day Bank Transfer: £250

Electronic Transfer: £500*

International bank transfers will incur a process charge of £25.

In case, the Member (affiliate) does not reach the minimum threshold as required by the method of payment chosen by the Member in any particular month, the commission amount will then be rolled over to the following month until the minimum threshold is reached.

Payment

Payment will be made per brand. Brands within PDM Affiliates are not owned by the same owner and therefore in some cases cannot be grouped for payment. 

PDM will issue payments on behalf the brand owners and where possible will group payments. 

Groupings are as follows;

Group 1 – Katies Bingo, Zoes Bingo, Dazzle Bingo, Quizingo
Group 2 – Safari Bingo, Lazerlight Bingo, Prize Land Bingo
Group 3 – Majestic Bingo

Your contract for payment is with the brand owner of the brand you promote and not PDM Affiliates. PDM Affiliates are the company who manage the affiliate programme and work on behalf of the brand owners. 

Payment Process

1. Raise an invoice for each individual grouping of brands
2. Email all invoices to invoicevalidation@pdm-ltd.com
3. Once approved your invoices will be paid by the 30th of the month following the invoice period. 

Group 1 Invoice Details:

PDM LTD
Unit 7 The Court House
72 Moorland Road
Stoke on Trent
UK
ST6 1DY

Group 2 Invoice Details:

Black Spark Media Ltd
c/o Aspire Accounting & Financial Management Ltd
40 Chester Road
Heswall
Wirral
CH60 3SB

Confidential Information

As used herein, “Confidential Information” shall mean all oral or written information, of whatever kind and in whatever form, relating to past, present or future products, software, research, development, inventions, processes, techniques, designs or other technical information and data, and marketing plans (including such information of third parties that a party hereto is obligated to hold as confidential), provided that such information has been reasonably identified as or could be reasonably considered to be proprietary or confidential, that either party:

(a) may have received prior to the date of this Agreement, whether directly from the other or indirectly from third parties; or

(b) may receive hereunder from the other. Each party agrees that, with respect to its receipt of Confidential Information of the other party, it shall:

(i) use the same care and discretion to prevent disclosure of such Confidential Information as it uses with similar Confidential Information of its own that it does not desire to disclose, but in no event with less than a reasonable degree of care;

(ii) accept such Confidential Information and use such Confidential Information only for the purposes permitted hereunder; and

(iii) restrict disclosure of Confidential Information solely to those of its employees and agents who have a need to know and are obligated not to disclose such Confidential Information to any third parties.

The foregoing restrictions shall not apply to information that:

(a) is or hereafter becomes part of the public domain through no wrongful act, fault, or negligence on the part of the recipient;

(b) the recipient can reasonably demonstrate is already in its possession and not subject to an existing agreement of confidentiality;

(c) is received from a third party without restriction and without breach of this Agreement;

(d) was independently developed by the recipient as evidenced by its records; and

(e) the recipient is required to disclose pursuant to a valid order of a court or other governmental body; provided, however, that the recipient shall first have given notice to the disclosing party and shall give the disclosing party a reasonable opportunity to interpose an objection or obtain a protective order requiring that the Confidential Information so disclosed be used only for the purposes for which the order was issued. The termination of this section 4 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

Liability

The Member acknowledges that PDM Affiliates does not advocate or endorse the purchase or the use of any services offered by the Merchant through the Merchant’s sites or through its software, nor does it guarantee the quality, fitness, or results of any such service or compliance with any law or regulation. The Merchant represents and warrants that:

(a) The Merchant has the right to enter into this Agreement and to grant the rights and licenses granted herein; and

(b) The Merchant’s software, and the reproduction, distribution, transmission, public performance and public display of the Merchant’s Material in connection with the Member site, do not:

(i) invade the right of privacy or publicity of any third person; or

(ii) contain any libellous, obscene, indecent or otherwise unlawful material.

The Member represents and warrants that:

1. The Member has the right to enter into this Agreement;
2. The Member site does not, and the reproduction, distribution, transmission, public performance and public display of the Member Materials as permitted herein, do not:

(i) invade the right of privacy or publicity of any third person,

(ii) contain any libellous, obscene, indecent or otherwise unlawful material, or

(iii) infringe any patent, copyright or trademark right in any jurisdiction; and

1. the Member has received no notice of such invasion, violation or infringement of rights

Terms and Termination

The term of this Agreement will begin when you download a banner and link it to our site or the Merchant’s Site(s) and will be continuous unless and until either party notifies the other in writing that it wishes to terminate the Agreement, in which case this Agreement may be terminated immediately. TERMINATION IS AT WILL, FOR ANY REASON, BY EITHER PARTY. For purposes of notification of termination, delivery via e-mail is considered a written and immediate form of notification. Upon termination:

* You must remove the PDM Affiliates or Merchant’s banner/s from your site and disable any links from your site to ours and theirs.

* All rights and licenses given to you in this Agreement shall immediately terminate.

* You will be entitled only to those unpaid referral fees, if any, earned by you on or prior to the date of termination. You will not be entitled to referral fees occurring after the date of termination.

* If you have failed to fulfil your obligations and responsibilities, we will not pay you the referral fees otherwise owing to you on termination.

* We may withhold your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid.

* If we continue to permit activity (generation of revenue) from customers after termination, this will not constitute a continuation or renewal of this Agreement or a waiver of termination.

* You will return to us any confidential information, and all copies of it in your possession, custody and control and will cease all uses of any trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos and other designations of our Merchants.

* You and we will be released from all obligations and liabilities to each other occurring or arising after the date of such termination, except with respect to those obligations which by their nature are designed to survive termination, as set out in this Agreement. Termination will not relieve you from any liability arising from any breach of this Agreement which occurred prior to termination

WE MAY TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT IF WE DETERMINE (IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION) THAT YOUR SITE IS UNSUITABLE.

PDM Affiliates may choose to cancel an affiliate’s participation in the program, at its absolute discretion, if the affiliate is in breach of this contract or if it reasonably believes the affiliate to have behaved in such a manner contrary to the terms or intent of the program. If the affiliate ceases to be a member of the affiliate network, PDM Affiliates reserves the right to terminate this agreement.

Unsuitable sites may include those that: are aimed at children, promote sexually explicit materials, promote violence, promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age, promote illegal activities, or violate intellectual property rights.

For the avoidance of doubt, termination of the agreement will cease any commission payment that may be earned by the Member from net gaming revenue generated post the termination of the agreement.

Risk Allocation

Neither party will be liable to the other party (nor to any person claiming rights derived from the other party’s rights) for incidental, indirect, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary damages of any kind — including lost revenue or profits, loss of business, or loss of data — arising out of this Agreement (including without limitation as a result of any breach of any warranty or other term of this Agreement), regardless of whether the party liable or allegedly liable was advised, had other reason to know, or in fact knew of the possibility thereof.

Acknowledgement of No Warranty

Except as expressly provided herein, neither party warrants that their respective websites will perform in the manner expected or without interruption, error, or defect, or that any revenue to either party will result from the activities contemplated by this Agreement. Except as expressly set forth in this agreement, neither party makes any warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or warranties against infringement of any intellectual property rights not specifically enumerated.

Assignment

Except as otherwise provided herein, neither PDM Affiliates nor the Member may assign this Agreement or any of its rights or delegate any of its duties under this Agreement, without the prior written consent of the other. Any purported assignment or delegation without such required consent shall be null and void.

Governing Law

This Agreement, its interpretation, performance or any breach thereof, shall be construed in accordance with, and all questions with respect thereto shall be determined by, the internal substantive laws of United Kingdom.

Single Account

The Member agrees to operate a single Member site with the Merchant’s Site(s). If PDM Affiliates should discover, using information it deems appropriate in the circumstances, that the Member is operating more than one Member account, this Agreement shall terminate and the Member will forfeit all rights to commissions and referral bonuses. Several sites may be registered to the one account; however, the placement of any site banner on a new site, under the PDM Affiliates Members Program, MUST be reported by the Member and cleared by the PDM Affiliates Support Team beforehand, and failure to do so may result in the termination of the Member’s account. The Member will also forfeit all rights to commissions and referral bonuses.

Independent Contractors

PDM Affiliates and the Member are independent contractors under this Agreement, and nothing herein shall be construed to create a partnership, joint venture, or agency relationship between PDM Affiliates and the Member. Neither party has the authority to enter into Agreements of any kind on behalf of the other party.

Disclaimer

It is the Member’s responsibility to declare taxes from their Member’s profits, according to their country’s regulations. It is the merchant’s responsibility to pay its members and PDM Affiliates will not be held responsible for the actions of its merchants in regards to the payment of its members. PDM Affiliates is also not responsible for the way cookies are tracked on the Merchants site or on the member’s site. The maintenance of the cookie/tracking code is the responsibility of the Merchant. PDM Affiliates is strictly a housing software that displays the results of the tracking for its members

Waiver

No waiver of any breach of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.

Modifications

PDM Affiliates may modify any of the Terms and Conditions set forth in this Agreement by posting the modified Terms of Use at: www.pdmaffiliates.com or at another site it chooses, and by notifying the Member of the modifications via email notice. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope of available referral fees, fee schedules, payment procedures, commission structure, payment threshold and referral program rules. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR NEW AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE