Member Terms of Service

Updated as of August 1, 2009

Original dated November 1, 2008.

By signing up and actively using the SunnySideCash  program (also known as SunnySideCash.com) you agree to all terms and conditions set forth in this agreement. SunnySideCash may, at any time, choose to edit, add and/or delete portions of this agreement and impose changes without prior notification of its members. Members will be informed of any and all changes to this policy via an e-mail to their primary contact email address provided upon signing up with SunnySideCash.

In addition, SunnySideCash may, from time to time, send transactional or relationship e-mail messages to its members regarding membership requirements (i.e. Rules and Regulations, ID Verification, Prize Notification, Request for Taxpayer Certification and other business messages). By signing up and actively using the SunnySideCash program, you agree to periodically receive transactional or relationship type email messages, and understand that said messages are exempt from the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.

If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this agreement or to file an appeal. Your continued participation in the SunnySideCash program following our posting of a change in policy notice or new agreement on our site will constitute binding acceptance to the change.

Relationship of the Parties

You and SunnySideCash are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement creates any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative or employment relationship between you and SunnySideCash. You understand that you do not have authority to make or accept any offers or make any representations on behalf of SunnySideCash. You may not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that would contradict anything in this section. You are solely responsible for the reporting and payment of any taxes for money earned while using the SunnySideCash program. For privacy and for protection of our marketing strategies no part of the site, emails, newsletters, updates, templates and promotions may be reproduced in any way without prior consent. This includes but not limited to use of our images, ideas, text, terms or any other information we consider as copyrighted material. Publishing/posting/quoting part or all of such content online or offline by any means or method is prohibited.

Limitation of Liability

SunnySideCash will not be liable for lost profits, lost business opportunities, or any other indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages arising out of or related to this Agreement or SunnySideCash program, even if SunnySideCash has been advised of the possibility of such damages. This includes, but is not limited to, the following: suspension or termination of an account, dissemination of information concerning an account, legal proceedings initiated against a member, or any damages (actual or consequential) from lawsuits, losses, judgments, litigation costs, attorneys' fees, and any other consequences. Furthermore, SunnySideCash aggregate liability arising under this Agreement will not exceed the amount of the total fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement. The provisions of this Section survive termination or expiration of the Agreement.

SunnySideCash is solely an intermediary between members and advertisers, and is neither ensuring nor endorsing products or services advertised on SunnySideCash.com. Members are solely responsible for any and all consequences of decisions made with regard to any partners' websites.

Spam

You may not promote your referral links through unsolicited emailing (i.e. SPAMMING), newsgroup postings, or any other method of mass communication. Failure to comply will result in immediate termination of your membership with SunnySideCash and may result in legal prosecution. SunnySideCash strictly enforces anti-spamming laws. Spamming is a federal crime. Any member caught spamming will not only have their account terminated immediately and lose any past, present and future earnings, but shall also be held liable for Spamming as we shall cooperate with any authorities and investigations that may arise from the Spamming incident. SunnySideCash may charge up to $5 per Spam email sent. Multiple signups shall be grounds for immediate termination of all involved accounts. Signing up multiple times from the same computer also constitutes fraud. SunnySideCash will file charges for recovery of any earnings received from multiple signups.

Activity Requirement

Your account will be marked as "inactive" if you do not login for 28 days or more. To have your account reactivated, please contact us!

If your account has been inactive for six “6” months or longer, it will be removed entirely from the site, resulting in the loss of all account earnings and referrals. We will be unable to retrieve any data once your account data has been purged from our system.

Advertisers

Advertising is a service offered to active SunnySideCash members. Meaning a member must have completed a Pad to Sign Up offer or Daily Survey offer that is not in the advertiser category within the last 30 days (Paid to click offers are "NOT" a qualifying offer). Additionally, the ad may not be for a non-incentive offer, contain illegal content, contain adult content, or for a site on the banned advertiser list. Additionally, you may not use your Signup Bonus to purchase advertising. Doing so will result in automatic account termination.

Offers

Offers listed in the Daily Trivia, Daily Survey, Special Survey, Paid to Click, Multi-Click or Cash Back Shopping Section of this website receive a straight commission (either cash or points) and are not eligible for referral commission. Cash Back Shopping section offers also have special restrictions regarding payment based on an advertisers return policy. See the Cash Back Shopping Section for more details.

SunnySideCash.com does not guarantee that every offer submitted to the advertiser will receive credit. The crediting of offers is at the sole discretion of the advertiser, who maintains the database that you submit your personal information.

We are unable to credit any offer that the advertiser does not pay us for. This includes reaching the success page and the system does not properly record the user information or entry well as but not limited to; maximum lead capacity, geographical area limitations and technical failures of any kind. For more information, see the FAQ Offers Questions section of this website.

Payments

SunnySideCash requires all members to successfully pass an email verification and phone verification prior to payment being issued. SunnySideCash reserves the right to request a government issued Photo Identification in certain situations like request from advertisers, trial offers and purchases. The id must have the same name and address that you used when signing up. SunnySideCash also reserves the right to verify this information electronically and/or by state agency. Falsifying your age or legal residence will be considered fraud.

Members who meet our minimum payout of $15.00 by the last day of each month will have their payment sent out Net 35. There are no exceptions to this rule. This allows us enough time to receive payment from our advertisers and to review the payments due against and advertisers reversals.

Payments for non U.S. residents are made via an verified PayPal Account only.

Special Requirements for the Cashing Out of Points

Members who meet our minimum point’s payout of 100 points by the last day of each month will have their payment sent out Net 35. In order to cash out points, a member is required to have:

1.) Completed and approved at least 15 “Cash” and/or “Points Only” offers with a cash value of at least $0.10 cents each and/or a points value of at least “4” points per offer during that month.

and/or

2.) Has either met or cashed out the minimum withdrawal requirement of $20.00 dollars within the past six months. This will enable active users to bank their points.

Privacy Policy

At SunnySideCash, we strive to develop innovative services to better serve our users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use SunnySideCash's services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.

The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address.

Data collection

SunnySideCash collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, the date and time of your access and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.

Some of our services require you to register for an account. SunnySideCash asks you for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, legal address, date of birth, telephone number, email address, verified PayPal account, password and a unique user name for your account). In addition, SunnySideCash will ask you for additional personal information in order to receive payment (typically a "state" issued picture identification such as a Driver’s License or Passport). We will use this information to provide the service.

For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we may request credit card or other payment information, which we maintain in encrypted form on our server.

Cookies

Upon your first visit to SunnySideCash, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. This cookie is a small data file containing a string of characters that is sent to

your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us. SunnySideCash does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people access our site. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some SunnySideCash features or services may not function properly without cookies.

Information sharing

We will not sell, disclose or lease our member’s personal information to any other entity.

The only “exceptions” to the discloser of a member’s personal information are the following:

1.) You or someone using your account is believed to have committed fraud

2.) as part of a criminal or civil investigation by local, state or federal law enforcement agencies.

3.) as required by a court order. 

4.) Sale or transfer of ownership of SunnySideCash as applicable to state and federal law

Please read the Fraud Policy located in this document for more information.

Fraud Policy

SunnySideCash takes the act of committing fraud against ourselves, our affiliates and their associates a serious violation of our terms and conditions.

This site implements several fraud deterrent systems in order to protect the interests of the advertisers, affiliates and our members. We currently have a state issued picture id, email and telephone verification system in place. In addition, the advertisers and affiliates also use several fraud deterrent systems and routinely provide us with reports of suspected fraudulent users.

Examples of fraudulent member activity may include:

1. Having more than one “1” account per household.

2. Signing up for the site using fake information

3. Misrepresenting their age and/or being under the age of “18”.

4. Having more than “1” account on the same IP address.

5. Using an internet connection that uses a proxy server.

6. Sharing a PayPal or other Online Banking account.

7. Using fake, temporary or disposable E-mail Addresses to complete offers.

8. Using other people's physical addresses and/or phone numbers to complete offers. This includes using fake addresses, commercial or business address and phone numbers.

9. Teaching other members to commit fraud.

10. Using “Auto Fill” or other forms of software to complete offers.

11. Repeating the same offer on this site or any other website.

12. Immediately canceling a trial offer or software download.

13. Multiple signups from the same computer, IP or physical address.

14. Completed offers which were not open to their country.

15. Using your "Sign Up Bonus" to purchase advertising.

16. Intentionally clicking on any Anti-Bot Fraud Links or Banners.

17. Excessive Bad Clicks

Excessive Bad Clicks

This is when a members excessively selects the wrong security code (CAPTCHA) when clicking on either a paid to click or paid to sign up offer. The most common reason for repetitive Bad Clicks is the use of automated click software or bots. Members are required to manually select the proper security code and to actively read each advertisement in order to receive credit.

Members are subject to either being blocked from completing certain offers and/or being having their membership terminated for excessive bad clicks. The determination of what constitutes an excessive number of bad clicks is at the sole discretion of either SunnySideCash.com  and/or the Advertiser's Affiliate Network.

Fraudulently Generated Clicks

Any method that artificially and/or fraudulently generates clicks is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to: repeated manual clicks, incentives to click, using robots, automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs.

As part of SunnySideCash.com  fraud deterrent systems, we have implemented several clearly visible,  English written, Anti-Bot Fraud Links and Banners that if clicked, will deduct a preset amount out of your account.

It will also provide you with an instruction page to notify the staff to have your account restored. This system is designed to catch users that are using automated bots or deceptive software to defraud the advertisers. Any member that intentionally clicks or tries to circumvent these links will be subject to termination. The decision to reinstate an account is at the sole discretion of SunnySideCash.com.

Termination

SunnySideCash reserves the right to ban any members account at any time. Termination of a member's account constitutes forfeiture of the privilege to create a new account. Accounts will be banned due to “ANY” form of fraud or if the member has a history of fraud at other websites.

Any member caught committing fraud will not only have their account terminated immediately and lose any past, present and future earnings, but shall also be held liable for said fraud as we shall cooperate with any authorities and investigations that may arise from the fraud incident (s). We reserve the right to disclose any and all pertinent information to law enforcement, affiliates, advertisers and their associates (including GPT Site Owners) to prevent present and future acts of fraud.

SunnySideCash also reserves the right to ban any members account at any time if a member:

• uses or promotes vulgarity, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group, individual or employee

• uses harassment, defamation, stalking, spamming or makes threaten statements of any kind against any group, individual or employee; of SunnySideCash

• uses or distributes any information obtained from SunnySideCash in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person or entity, or attempting to do the same

• impersonates or attempts to impersonate SunnySideCash or a SunnySideCash employee, administrator or moderator, another Member, or person or entity (including, without limitation, the use of email addresses associated with or of any of the foregoing).

SunnySideCash.com, our affiliates and their associates also reserves the right to file charges for recovery of any earnings received from committing fraud. In addition, we also reserve the right to aggressively pursue in court any slanderous activity as a result of a members termination due to fraudulent activity or violations of the Terms of Service. This includes protection the reputation of SunnySideCash, our affiliates and advertisers by aggressively defending any members slanderous statement in any forum, blog or public venue by releasing pertinent details of the fraudulent activity up to and including reversed offers, usernames, aliases or any other information as we see fit to defend our company's reputation.

Failure to comply will the Terms of Service, the Fraud Policy and any of the Rules and Regulations of SunnySideCash.com can result in immediate termination of your membership with SunnySideCash.com and may result in legal prosecution.

Changes to this Document

Please note that the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, the Fraud Policy and any of the Rules and Regulations will change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice on our News Page. Each version will be noted at the top of the page.