This Corporate Membership Agreement (the “Agreement”) governs the application, evaluation, activation, and administration of a commercial Corporate Membership with The Way Partners LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company operating in Memphis, Tennessee, and Sheridan, Wyoming (“The Way Partners,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). The organization beginning the process or accepting activation documents is the “Applicant” before approval and the “Corporate Partner” after activation.
Important: Paying the Corporate Membership Initiation Fee begins an application and alignment process. It does not guarantee acceptance, create an active membership, charge the ongoing membership amount, or establish automatic monthly billing.
1. Program purpose
Corporate Membership supports research, writing, editing, publishing, technology, expert engagement, free digital access, affordability, physical distribution, educational materials, and outreach connected with Bible On This, The Way Version, and related The Way Partners initiatives. The relationship is a commercial sponsorship and membership arrangement, not a charitable donation.
2. Initiation Fee
The current Corporate Membership Initiation Fee is $1,000.00 per transaction or quantity selected at the official Square checkout. Payment authorizes The Way Partners to begin follow-up, evaluation, scheduling, and onboarding. The Initiation Fee is separate from ongoing membership fees.
3. Alignment and approval
Corporate Membership is subject to mutual alignment and approval. After payment, The Way Partners will use reasonable efforts to contact the Applicant and schedule a conversation about the organization, desired participation, recognition preferences, sponsorship goals, number of memberships, subsidiaries or brands, potential expanded support, and next steps.
The Way Partners may accept or decline an application based on whether the relationship is suitable for the projects and both parties. This process is intended to establish shared expectations, not to imply a background investigation. No Corporate Membership exists unless both parties complete the required activation documents and payment arrangement.
4. Initiation refund and 30-day evaluation policy
If The Way Partners determines during the initial alignment process that the prospective partnership will not proceed, the Initiation Fee will be refunded to the original payment method where practicable. The Applicant may also request to discontinue and obtain a refund of a qualifying Initiation Fee by emailing the site contact address within 30 calendar days after the Initiation Fee transaction, provided active membership has not begun and no separate custom services have been delivered under an agreed statement of work.
Refund processing time depends on Square and financial institutions. This section does not limit non-waivable rights under applicable law. Any different treatment for a custom engagement must be disclosed in writing before that work begins.
5. Activation and active membership fees
If both parties determine there is alignment, The Way Partners will provide written activation documents or an activation order stating the number of memberships, annual membership amount, monthly payment schedule, applicable taxes, billing start date, recognition plan, and any additional agreed terms. The initiation checkout does not charge or authorize those ongoing amounts.
Each active Corporate Membership is $40,000 per year, billed monthly, including applicable taxes. The activation order will state the recurring monthly payment schedule, billing start date, and payment authorization. The initiation checkout does not establish or charge this recurring billing.
6. Multiple memberships and expanded support
An organization may activate more than one membership for a parent company, subsidiary, affiliate, operating brand, portfolio company, division, or business unit. Each membership supports the work independently and may be recognized independently where agreed. Expanded research sponsorship, publication support, distribution, or contributions above standard membership may be documented in an activation order or separate agreement. No arbitrary tier or discount applies unless agreed in writing.
7. Recognition and privacy choices
Agreed recognition may include an organization name, approved logo and link, Corporate Partner designation, website listing, qualifying publication acknowledgments, digital acknowledgment, project information, or distribution initiatives. Recognition may reasonably reflect overall support, including multiple memberships or expanded sponsorship.
Recognition is not guaranteed in a particular page, position, publication, edition, format, duration, or future release unless the activation order expressly says so. A Corporate Partner may choose private or anonymous participation. Printed materials and files already produced or distributed may not be capable of recall or revision.
8. Name and logo permission; no endorsement
The Corporate Partner grants The Way Partners a non-exclusive, revocable, limited license during the active relationship to use approved names, marks, logos, and links solely for agreed recognition and program administration. The Corporate Partner represents that it may grant that permission. Each party retains its own marks and goodwill.
Recognition describes support and does not imply that either party endorses every product, service, belief, statement, or activity of the other. Neither party may make misleading claims about the relationship.
9. Editorial and research independence
Corporate Partnership supports the work while preserving the editorial and research independence of The Way Partners and its projects. A Corporate Partner does not buy or receive translation decisions, theological conclusions, editorial control, research approval, publication control, ownership of content, or approval rights over books or other materials.
10. Intellectual property and ownership
The Way Partners retains all ownership and intellectual-property rights in its research, notes, websites, books, translations or renderings, editorial materials, technology, designs, publications, and project assets. The Corporate Partner acquires no equity, ownership, copyright, license, royalty, or distribution right except an express limited recognition right in writing.
11. No charitable contribution or tax representation
The Way Partners LLC is a for-profit limited liability company. Corporate Membership payments are not represented as charitable or tax-deductible donations. Each organization is responsible for consulting its own legal, tax, and accounting advisers regarding treatment of membership or sponsorship expenses.
12. Payment processing and taxes
Square processes the Initiation Fee and may process other payments. Square's terms and privacy policy apply to its services. The Corporate Partner authorizes charges only as stated in an accepted checkout, invoice, activation order, or payment authorization. The Corporate Partner is responsible for applicable taxes identified in the controlling document, except taxes on The Way Partners' net income.
13. Term, renewal, and cancellation
The active membership term begins on the activation date. If the activation order establishes monthly recurring billing, membership renews monthly until cancelled under that order. If it establishes a fixed term, renewal occurs only as stated there. The Corporate Partner may cancel future renewal by written notice under the timing in its activation order. Cancellation does not retroactively refund fees for periods in which recognition, reserved capacity, custom work, or other benefits have begun, except as required by law or expressly agreed.
The 30-day policy in Section 4 applies to qualifying initiation-stage payments. Any refund or cancellation right for ongoing payments must be stated in the activation order. Ending one membership does not automatically end other memberships held by related entities.
14. Conduct, suitability, and termination
Each party will act lawfully and avoid materially misleading statements about the relationship. The Way Partners may pause recognition or terminate membership for nonpayment, material breach, unlawful conduct, misuse of project intellectual property, or conduct reasonably likely to cause material harm to the projects or their readers. When practical, the affected party will receive notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure a remediable breach.
Termination does not transfer intellectual property or create a right to control previously published work. Accrued payment obligations and provisions intended to survive will remain effective.
15. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
No specific audience size, sales level, publication date, placement, tax result, business return, or reputational outcome is promised unless expressly stated in a signed activation order. To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party will be liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, or business interruption arising from this Agreement.
Except for unpaid fees, misuse of the other party's intellectual property, a party's fraud or willful misconduct, or liability that cannot lawfully be limited, each party's aggregate liability will not exceed amounts paid or payable for the affected membership during the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.
16. Governing law
This Agreement is governed by Wyoming law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where another law must apply. Subject to applicable law and an activation order, disputes may be brought in courts with jurisdiction in Sheridan County, Wyoming. This Agreement does not impose mandatory arbitration or a class-action waiver.
17. General provisions
This Agreement, the accepted activation order, incorporated website terms, and any signed addendum are the entire agreement on Corporate Membership. A signed activation order controls over conflicting general website language for its membership. Changes must be in writing and accepted by authorized representatives. If a provision is unenforceable, the remainder stays effective. A waiver on one occasion is not a continuing waiver. Neither party may assign a signed activation order without the other's consent, except in a bona fide merger, reorganization, or sale of substantially all relevant assets.
18. Electronic acceptance and authority
Electronic acceptance, electronic signatures, and counterparts are permitted. The individual accepting for an Applicant or Corporate Partner represents that the individual is authorized to bind that organization. Paying the Initiation Fee accepts the initiation-stage provisions of this Agreement; active membership requires the additional activation acceptance described above.
19. Contact and notices
Questions, cancellation requests, and notices may be sent to info@bibleonthis.com, with enough information to identify the organization and transaction.
The Way Partners LLC
Memphis, TN | Sheridan, WY
30 N Gould Street, STE N
Sheridan, WY 82801