Professional Partner Agreement

WORKPLACE PRIORITIES — PROFESSIONAL PARTNER AGREEMENT

This Professional Partner Agreement ("Agreement") is between Workspace Design Magazine, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, 904 N Lexington St., Arlington, VA 22205 ("Work Design," "we," "us"), and the individual or firm applying to the Professional Partner Program ("Partner," "you"). It governs your participation in the Program and is separate from the Business Terms of Service that govern purchase and use of the Service.

1. Eligibility and acceptance. You must be a workplace strategist, designer, architect, HR consultant, facility manager, or a firm providing such services, and you must be at least 18 and authorized to bind your firm. We may accept or decline any applicant at our discretion. Your agreement to these terms takes effect upon submission of your application. Program benefits are delivered as described below; certain benefits activate upon approval or upon completing your first assessment.

2. What the Program is. The Program gives eligible workplace professionals access to the Workplace Priorities assessment at preferred rates, a complimentary assessment credit, benchmark data and annual reports, a listing in our professional partner directory, co-branded materials, and invitations to professional roundtables. The Program does not involve referral commissions or client discounts tied to Partner referrals. It does not make you our employee, agent, joint venturer, or franchisee, and it does not authorize you to bind us or make representations on our behalf.

3. Partner benefits.
(a) Complimentary assessment. Upon submission of your application, you receive a promotional code ("Free Assessment Code") for one complimentary assessment of up to 49 participants, usable for your own organization or any client. The Free Assessment Code expires 30 days from the date of your application submission. It may not be transferred or resold.

(b) Benchmark discount. Partners who opt in to contribute anonymized benchmark data receive a unique 20% discount code ("Partner Discount Code") generated upon approval of your application. The Partner Discount Code applies only to assessment purchases made directly by you — it is not transferable to clients or third parties. If you opt out of benchmark contribution at any time, your Partner Discount Code is deactivated. Re-opting in results in issuance of a new code. There are no volume thresholds, annual commitments, or minimum assessments required to access this benefit.

(c) Follow-up discount. Any Partner who has completed at least one assessment (including the complimentary assessment) is eligible for 10% off any follow-up assessment for the same organization purchased within 18 months of the prior assessment's completion date.

(d) Annual benchmark report. Partners who contribute benchmark data receive our annual Work Design Benchmark Report, compiled each year from aggregated, anonymized assessment data across all contributing organizations. Reports are provided for your professional use only.

(e) No commissions or client discounts. The Program does not include referral commissions payable to Partners, and does not include discounts to your clients tied to your Partner status or referral. All financial benefits under this Program are personal to you as the Partner.

4. Directory listing and professional roundtables. Your listing in the Work Design professional partner directory activates once you have completed at least one assessment (the Free Assessment Code counts). You may opt out of the directory at any time from your account settings; opting out does not affect your other Program benefits or your registered Partner status. Directory listings include your firm name, description, geographic area served, experience summary, and website URL. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you submit. We may edit listings for length, formatting, or accuracy, and may remove a listing upon suspension or termination of your participation in the Program.

Invitations to professional roundtables are extended to Partners who have completed at least one assessment.

5. Benchmark data contribution. Benchmark contribution is opt-in and is selected during your application. You may change your contribution preference at any time from your account settings. Contributed data is anonymized and aggregated before inclusion in any benchmark; no organization names, individual responses, or identifiable data are attributed or shared. Anonymized aggregate benchmark data provided to you as part of the annual report is for your internal professional use only. You may not resell it, publish it as a standalone dataset, or attribute any portion of it to any identifiable organization.

6. Program cost and no minimums. Participation in the Program is free. There are no minimum assessments required to apply, join, or maintain Partner status. Benefits do not expire based on assessment volume or activity levels. We may modify Program terms, benefits, and discount rates prospectively on reasonable notice; continued participation after notice constitutes acceptance of the modified terms.

7. Professional conduct and disclosure.
(a) Honest representation. You will represent the Service and its outputs truthfully. You will not make guarantees of outcomes, statistical validity, or legal or regulatory compliance. You will not present AI-generated outputs as independently validated professional advice or as a substitute for qualified workplace design, HR, or legal counsel.

(b) Partnership disclosure. Because you receive Program benefits (including complimentary and discounted assessments and benchmark data) in connection with recommending or using the Service, you should clearly disclose your status as a Work Design Professional Partner when recommending the Service to clients, consistent with applicable professional conduct rules and the FTC Endorsement Guides. An acceptable form of disclosure is: "I am a Work Design Professional Partner and use the platform at preferred rates." You are responsible for determining and meeting any additional disclosure obligations that apply to your professional role or jurisdiction.

(c) General compliance. You will comply with all applicable laws and professional-conduct rules governing your practice. You will not use spam, false claims, trademark-infringing advertising, or bid on our trademarks in paid search.

8. Co-branding and brand use. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use our name and marks solely to co-brand approved reports and materials and to identify yourself as a Work Design Professional Partner, following any brand guidelines we provide. Co-branded reports must carry the line: "Prepared using Work Design Workplace Priorities in collaboration with [Partner Firm]." You may build your own analysis, workshops, and consulting work around the results. No white labeling: you may not remove or obscure our branding, present the platform or its methodology as your own product, or resell access as if it were yours. All goodwill arising from use of our marks inures to us.

9. Intellectual property. The Service, survey instrument, question libraries, scoring methods, taxonomies, Physical·Operational·Cultural attribution framework, AI prompts and outputs, report formats, benchmark compilations, and all related intellectual property remain ours. You receive only the limited rights expressly stated in this Agreement. You own your own client deliverables, analysis, and consulting work product, excluding our underlying materials and benchmark data.

10. Client data and confidentiality. When you run an assessment for a client, the client is the responsible party for its participant data. You must have the client's authorization to run the assessment on its behalf, provide required participant notices, and honor any confidentiality obligations owed to the client. You must not disclose another organization's results without that organization's authorization. Survey results, partner records, and client information are confidential; we restrict access to you and do not expose your data to other users or partners. Each party will protect the other's confidential information and use it only as necessary for the Program.

11. Independent contractor; no authority. You act as an independent contractor. You have no authority to enter contracts, make promises, or accept obligations on our behalf, and you are solely responsible for your own taxes, professional fees, and business expenses.

12. Term, changes, and termination. Either party may terminate this Agreement for convenience on written notice. We may suspend or terminate immediately for breach of this Agreement, misuse of our brand or the Service, conduct that creates reputational or legal risk for us, or mishandling of client or participant data. We may modify Program terms and benefits prospectively on reasonable notice; continued participation constitutes acceptance. On termination, your directory listing, Partner Discount Code, and license to use our marks end immediately, and you must stop representing yourself as a Partner. Benefits earned or received prior to termination are not retroactively clawed back except where earned through fraud or breach. Sections 7–10, 13, and 14 survive termination.

13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability. The Program and any materials, reports, and benchmark data are provided "as is" and without warranty. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising out of the Program, even if advised of the possibility. Our total liability to you arising out of or related to this Agreement will not exceed the greater of (i) the total amounts paid by you for assessment purchases in the twelve (12) months before the claim arose, or (ii) USD $295. Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

14. Indemnification. You will defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless against third-party claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from: (i) your representations about the Service that exceed or contradict what we state; (ii) your failure to make required disclosures about your Partner status when recommending the Service; (iii) your violation of applicable law or professional conduct rules; (iv) your use of our marks outside the scope of this Agreement; or (v) your collection, handling, or disclosure of client or participant data.

15. General. This Agreement, with any documents it references, is the entire agreement between the parties on the subject of the Partner Program. It is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force. You may not assign this Agreement without our written consent; we may assign it to an affiliate or successor without consent. Notices may be sent to the email addresses on file. The parties agree that electronic acceptance (checking the acceptance box on the application form) constitutes a legally binding signature.

By submitting a partner application and checking the acceptance box, you agree to this Agreement on behalf of yourself and, if applicable, your firm.