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UNITED
ONLINE, INC.
2010
EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
I. PURPOSE OF
THE PLAN
This Employee Stock Purchase Plan is intended to
promote the interests of United Online, Inc., a Delaware corporation, by
providing eligible employees with the opportunity to acquire a proprietary
interest in the Corporation through participation in an employee stock purchase
plan designed to qualify under Section 423 of the Code.
The Plan shall serve as the successor to the
Corporation’s 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and no additional offering
periods shall commence under that Predecessor Plan after December 31,
2009. The Predecessor Plan shall
terminate upon the earlier of (i) the last business day in April 2011
or (ii) the completion of the last of the offering periods in effect under
the Predecessor Plan on December 31, 2009.
Capitalized terms herein shall have the meanings
assigned to such terms in the attached Appendix.
II. ADMINISTRATION
OF THE PLAN
The Plan Administrator shall have full authority to interpret
and construe any provision of the Plan and to adopt such rules and
regulations for administering the Plan as it may deem necessary in order to
comply with the requirements of Code Section 423. Decisions of the Plan Administrator shall be
final and binding on all parties having an interest in the Plan.
III. STOCK
SUBJECT TO PLAN
A. The stock
purchasable under the Plan shall be shares of authorized but unissued or
reacquired Common Stock, including shares of Common Stock purchased on the open
market. The number of shares of Common
Stock reserved for issuance over the term of the Plan shall be limited to
4,500,000 shares. Such reserve shall be
in addition to the shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the
Predecessor Plan with respect to offering periods that commenced under such
plan on or before December 31, 2009.
B. Should any
change be made to the Common Stock by reason of any stock split, stock
dividend, recapitalization, combination of shares, exchange of shares, spin-off
transaction or other change affecting the outstanding Common Stock as a class
without the Corporation’s receipt of consideration or should the value of
outstanding shares of Common Stock be substantially reduced as a result of a
spin-off transaction or an extraordinary dividend or distribution, then
equitable adjustments shall be made by the Plan Administrator to (i) the
maximum number and class of securities issuable under the Plan, (ii) the
maximum number and class of securities purchasable per Participant during any
offering period and on any one Purchase Date during that offering period, (iii) the
maximum number and class of securities purchasable in total by all Participants
under the Plan on any one Purchase Date and (iv) the
number and class of securities and
the price per share in effect under each outstanding purchase right. The adjustments shall be made in such manner
as the Plan Administrator deems appropriate, and such adjustments shall be
final, binding and conclusive.
IV. OFFERING
PERIODS
A. Shares of
Common Stock shall be offered for purchase under the Plan through a series of
successive offering periods until such time as (i) the maximum number of
shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the Plan shall have been
purchased or (ii) the Plan shall have been sooner terminated.
B. Unless
otherwise specified by the Plan Administrator prior to the start of the
applicable offering period:
(i) each
offering period shall have a duration of twenty-four (24) months, and
(ii) offering
periods shall commence on the first business day of May and the first
business day of November each year.
C. The terms
and conditions of each offering period may vary, and two or more offerings
periods may run concurrently under the Plan, each with its own terms and
conditions. In addition, special offering periods may be established
with respect to entities that are acquired by the Corporation (or any
subsidiary of the Corporation) or under such other circumstances as the Plan
Administrator deems appropriate. In no
event, however, shall the terms and conditions of any offering period
contravene the express limitations and restrictions of the Plan, and the
participants in each separate offering period shall have equal rights and
privileges under that offering in accordance with the requirements of Section 423(b)(5) of
the Code and the applicable Treasury Regulations thereunder.
D. Unless
otherwise specified by the Plan Administrator prior to the start of the
applicable offering period, each offering period shall be comprised of four
successive Purchase Intervals. Purchase Intervals shall run from the first
business day in May to the last business day in October each year and
from the first business day in November each year to the last business day
in April in the following year, unless otherwise specified by the Plan
Administrator prior to the start of the applicable offering period.
E. The initial
offering period under the Plan shall commence on May 3, 2010, shall have a
duration of twenty-four (24) months, and shall have four successive six-month
Purchase Intervals. The Purchase
Intervals in such initial offering period shall run from the first business day
in May each year to the last business day in October in that year and
from the first business day in November each year to the last business day
in April in the following year.
However, the purchase rights granted to Participants in the initial
offering period shall be subject to stockholder approval of the Plan at the
2010 Annual Stockholders Meeting. If such
stockholder approval is not obtained, then (i) the initial offering
period, together with the Plan, shall immediately terminate, (ii) all
payroll deductions collected from Participants in that offering period shall be
promptly refunded, and (iii) no further offering periods shall commence
under the terminated Plan.
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F. Should the
Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock on any Purchase Date within an
offering period be less than the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock on
the start date of that offering period, then the individuals participating in
that offering period shall, immediately after the purchase of shares of Common
Stock on their behalf on such Purchase Date, be transferred from that offering
period and automatically enrolled in the
offering period commencing on the next business day following such
Purchase Date, provided and only if the Fair Market Value per share of Common
Stock on the start date of that new offering period is lower than the Fair
Market Value per share of Common Stock on the start date of the offering period
in which they were currently enrolled.
V. ELIGIBILITY
A. Each
individual who is an Eligible Employee on the start date of an offering period
under the Plan may enter that offering period only on such start date. However, an Eligible Employee may participate
in only one offering period at a time.
B. The date an
individual enters an offering period shall be designated his or her Entry Date
for purposes of that offering period.
C. Each
corporation that becomes a Corporate Affiliate after May 3, 2010 shall
automatically become a Participating Corporation effective as of the start date
of the first offering date coincident with or next following the date on which
it becomes such an affiliate, unless the Plan Administrator determines
otherwise prior to the start date of that offering period.
D. To
participate in the Plan for a particular offering period, the Eligible Employee
must complete the enrollment forms prescribed by the Plan Administrator
(including a stock purchase agreement and a payroll deduction authorization or
other authorized form of contribution
allowable for that offering period) and file such forms with the Plan
Administrator (or its designate) on or before his or her scheduled Entry
Date. However, unless sooner enrolled in
the Plan in accordance with the foregoing, any Participant enrolled in any
offering period outstanding under the Predecessor Plan on the Effective Date
shall automatically, following the completion of that offering period, be
enrolled upon the same terms and conditions in effect for that offering period,
including the authorized rate of payroll deduction, on the start date of the
first offering period under the Plan thereafter that incorporates those same
terms and conditions.
VI. PAYROLL
DEDUCTIONS
A. For each
offering period, the Plan Administrator may allow contributions to the Plan to
be effected in the form of periodic payroll deductions or one or more other
forms specified by the Plan Administrator prior to the start date of the
applicable offering period. However, all
contributions, whether in the form of payroll deductions or other mode, shall
be made solely on the basis of the Participant’s Cash Earnings for the offering
period. Unless the Plan Administrator
determines otherwise prior to the start of the applicable offering period:
(i) Participant
contributions for each offering period shall be solely in the form of payroll
deductions, and
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(ii) the payroll
deductions that each Participant may authorize for purposes of acquiring shares
of Common Stock during an offering period may be in any multiple of one percent
(1%) of the Cash Earnings paid to that Participant during each Purchase
Interval within such offering period, up to a maximum of fifteen percent (15%),
unless the Plan Administrator establishes a different maximum percentage prior
to the start date of the applicable offering period.
B. The rate of
payroll deduction or other permitted form of contribution so authorized shall
continue in effect throughout the offering period, except to the extent such
rate is changed in accordance with the following guidelines:
(i) The Participant may, at any time during
the offering period, reduce the rate of his or her payroll deduction or other
permitted form of contribution to become effective as soon as administratively
possible after filing the appropriate form with the Plan Administrator. The Participant may not, however, effect more
than one (1) such reduction per Purchase Interval.
(ii) The Participant may, at any time during
the offering period, increase the rate of his or her payroll deduction or other
permitted form of contribution (up to the maximum percentage limit for that
offering period) to become effective as soon as administratively possible after
filing the appropriate form with the Plan Administrator. The Participant may not, however, effect more
than one (1) such increase per Purchase Interval.
(iii) The
Participant may at any time reduce his or her rate of payroll deduction under
the ESPP or other form of permitted contribution to 0%. Such reduction shall become effective as soon
as administratively practicable following the filing of the appropriate form
with the Plan Administrator. The Participant’s existing payroll deductions or
other permitted contribution for the Purchase Interval in which such reduction
occurs shall be applied to the purchase of shares of Common Stock on the next
scheduled Purchase Date.
C. Payroll
deductions shall begin on the first pay day administratively feasible following
the Participant’s Entry Date into the offering period and shall (unless sooner
terminated by the Participant) continue through the pay day ending with or immediately
prior to the last day of that offering period. To the extent the Plan
Administrator authorizes other forms of contributions for an offering period,
those permitted contributions shall be collected in the manner specified by the
Plan Administrator for that offering period.
The payroll deductions or other permitted forms of contribution so
collected shall be credited to the Participant’s book account under the Plan,
but no interest shall be paid on the balance from time to time outstanding in
such account, unless otherwise required by the terms of that offering period.
Unless the Plan Administrator determines otherwise prior to the start of the
applicable offering period, the amounts collected from the Participant shall
not be required to be held in any segregated account or trust fund and may be
commingled with the general assets of the Corporation and used for any
corporate purpose.
D. Payroll
deductions or other permitted form of contribution shall automatically cease
upon the termination of the Participant’s purchase right in accordance with the
provisions of the Plan.
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E. The
Participant’s acquisition of Common Stock under the Plan on any Purchase Date
shall neither limit nor require the Participant’s acquisition of Common Stock
on any subsequent Purchase Date, whether within the same or a different
offering period.
VII. PURCHASE
RIGHTS
A. Grant of Purchase Right. A Participant shall be granted a separate
purchase right for each offering period in which he or she participates. The purchase right shall be granted on the
Participant’s Entry Date into the offering period. Unless the Plan Administrator determines
otherwise prior to the start date of the applicable offering period and subject
to the limitations of Article VIII below, each purchase right granted for
an offering period shall provide the Participant with the right to purchase up
to 3,750 shares of Common Stock on each Purchase Date within that offering
period for a maximum of 15,000 shares of Common Stock for an offering period
comprised of four Purchase Intervals. The Participant shall execute a stock
purchase agreement embodying such terms and such other provisions (not
inconsistent with the Plan) as the Plan Administrator may deem advisable.
Under no circumstances shall purchase rights be
granted under the Plan to any Eligible Employee if such individual would,
immediately after the grant, own (within the meaning of Code Section 424(d))
or hold outstanding options or other rights to purchase, stock possessing five
percent (5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes
of stock of the Corporation or any Corporate Affiliate.
B. Exercise of the Purchase Right. Each
purchase right shall be automatically exercised in installments on each
successive Purchase Date within the offering period, and shares of Common Stock
shall accordingly be purchased on behalf of each Participant (other than
Participants whose payroll deductions or other contributions have previously
been refunded pursuant to the Termination of Purchase Right provisions below)
on each such Purchase Date. The purchase
shall be effected by applying the Participant’s payroll deductions or other
form of contribution for the Purchase Interval ending on such Purchase Date to
the purchase of whole shares of Common Stock at the purchase price in effect
for the Participant for that Purchase Date.
C. Purchase Price.
The purchase price per share at which Common Stock will be
purchased on the Participant’s behalf on each Purchase Date within the offering
period will be established by the Plan Administrator prior to the start of that
offering period, but in no event shall such purchase price be less than
eighty-five percent (85%) of the lower of (i) the
Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock on the Participant’s Entry Date
into that offering period or (ii) the Fair Market Value per share of
Common Stock on that Purchase Date.
D. Number of Purchasable Shares. The number of shares of Common Stock
purchasable by a Participant on each Purchase Date during the offering period
shall be the number of whole shares obtained by dividing the amount collected
from the Participant through payroll deductions or other permitted form of
contribution during the Purchase Interval ending with that Purchase Date by the
purchase price in effect for the Participant for that Purchase Date. However, the maximum number of shares of
Common Stock purchasable per Participant on any one Purchase Date shall not
exceed 3,750 shares, subject to periodic adjustments in the event of
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certain changes in the Corporation’s
capitalization. In addition, the maximum
number of shares of Common Stock purchasable in total by all Participants on any
one Purchase Date shall not exceed 900,000 shares, subject to periodic
adjustments in the event of certain changes in the Corporation’s
capitalization. However, the Plan
Administrator shall have the discretionary authority, exercisable prior to the
start of any offering period under the Plan, to increase or decrease the
limitations to be in effect for the number of shares purchasable per
Participant (and the corresponding maximum number of shares purchasable per
Participant for that offering period) and in total by all Participants on each
Purchase Date within that offering period.
E. Excess Payroll Deductions/Contributions. Any payroll
deductions or other permitted form of contribution not applied to the purchase
of shares of Common Stock on any Purchase Date because they are not sufficient
to purchase a whole share of Common Stock shall be held for the purchase of
Common Stock on the next Purchase Date.
However, any payroll deductions or other permitted form of contribution
not applied to the purchase of Common Stock by reason of the limitation on the
maximum number of shares purchasable per Participant or in the aggregate on the
Purchase Date shall be promptly refunded.
F. Suspension of Payroll Deductions/Contributions. In the event
that a Participant is, by reason of the accrual limitations in Article VIII,
precluded from purchasing additional shares of Common Stock on one or more
Purchase Dates during the offering period in which he or she is enrolled, then
no further payroll deductions or other form of contribution permitted for that
offering period shall be collected from such Participant with respect to those
Purchase Dates. The suspension of such
deductions or contributions shall not terminate the Participant’s purchase
right for the offering period in which he or she is enrolled, and payroll
deductions or other permitted form of contribution shall automatically resume
on behalf of such Participant once he or she is again able to purchase shares
during that offering period in compliance with the accrual limitations of Article VIII.
G. Termination of Purchase Right. The following provisions shall govern the
termination of outstanding purchase rights:
(i) A Participant may withdraw from the
offering period in which he or she is enrolled by filing the appropriate form
with the Plan Administrator (or its designate) at any time prior to the next
scheduled Purchase Date in that offering period, and no further payroll
deductions or other permitted form of contribution shall be collected from the
Participant with respect to the offering period. Any payroll deductions or other permitted
contributions collected during the Purchase Interval in which such withdrawal
occurs shall, at the Participant’s election, be immediately refunded or held
for the purchase of shares on the next Purchase Date. If no such election is made at the time of
such withdrawal, then the payroll deductions or other permitted form of
contribution collected with respect to the Purchase Interval in which such
withdrawal occurs shall be refunded as soon as possible.
(ii) The Participant’s withdrawal from the
offering period shall be irrevocable, and the Participant may not subsequently
rejoin that offering period. In order to
resume participation in any subsequent offering period, such individual must
re-enroll in the Plan (by making a timely filing of the prescribed enrollment
forms) on or before his or her scheduled Entry Date into that offering period.
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(iii) Should
the Participant cease to remain an Eligible Employee for any reason (including
death, disability or change in status) while his or her purchase right remains
outstanding, then that purchase right shall immediately terminate, and all of
the Participant’s payroll deductions or other permitted contributions for the
Purchase Interval in which the purchase right so terminates shall be
immediately refunded. However, should
the Participant cease to remain in active service by reason of an approved
unpaid leave of absence, then the Participant shall have the right, exercisable
up until the last business day of the Purchase Interval in which such leave
commences, to (a) withdraw all the payroll deductions or other permitted
contributions collected to date on his or her behalf for that Purchase Interval
or (b) have such funds held for the purchase of shares on his or her
behalf on the next scheduled Purchase Date.
In no event, however, shall any further payroll deductions or other
permitted form of contribution be collected on the Participant’s behalf during
such leave. Upon the Participant’s return to active service (x) within
three (3) months following the
commencement of such leave or (y) prior to the expiration of any longer
period for which such Participant is provided with reemployment rights by
statute or contract, his or her payroll deductions or other permitted form of
contribution under the Plan shall automatically resume at the rate in effect at
the time the leave began, unless the Participant withdraws from the Plan prior
to his or her return. An individual who
returns to active employment following a leave of absence which exceeds in
duration the applicable (x) or (y) time period will be treated as a
new Employee for purposes of subsequent participation in the Plan and must
accordingly re-enroll in the Plan (by making a timely filing of the prescribed
enrollment forms) on or before his or her scheduled Entry Date into the
offering period.
H. Change in Control. Each outstanding purchase right shall
automatically be exercised, immediately prior to the effective date of any
Change in Control, by applying the payroll deductions or other permitted
contributions of each Participant for the Purchase Interval in which such
Change in Control occurs to the purchase of whole shares of Common Stock at the
purchase price per share in effect for that Purchase Internal pursuant to the
Purchase Price provisions of Paragraph C
of this Article VII. However, the applicable limitation on the number of
shares of Common Stock purchasable per Participant shall continue to apply to
any such purchase, but not the limitation applicable to the maximum number of
shares of Common Stock purchasable in total by all Participants.
The Corporation shall use reasonable efforts to
provide at least ten (10)-days prior written notice of the occurrence of any
Change in Control, and Participants shall, following the receipt of such
notice, have the right to terminate their outstanding purchase rights prior to
the effective date of the Change in Control.
I. Proration of Purchase Rights. Should the total number of shares of Common
Stock to be purchased pursuant to outstanding purchase rights on any particular
date exceed the number of shares then available for issuance under the Plan,
the Plan Administrator shall make a pro-rata allocation of the available shares
on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis, and the payroll deductions or other
permitted form of contribution of each Participant, to the extent in excess of
the aggregate purchase price payable for the Common Stock pro-rated to such
individual, shall be refunded.
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J. ESPP Broker Account.
The shares purchased on behalf of each Participant shall be deposited
directly into a brokerage account which the Corporation shall establish for the
Participant at a Corporation-designated brokerage firm. The account will be known as the ESPP Broker
Account. Except as otherwise provided
below, the deposited shares may not be transferred (either electronically or in
certificate form) from the ESPP Broker Account until the later
of the following two periods: (i) the end of the two (2)-year period
measured from the Participant’s Entry Date into the offering period in which
the shares were purchased and (ii) the end of the one (1)-year measured
from the actual purchase date of those shares.
Such limitation shall apply both to transfers to different accounts with
the same ESPP broker and to transfers to other brokerage firms. Any shares held for the required holding
period may be transferred (either electronically or in certificate form) to
other accounts or to other brokerage firms.
The
foregoing procedures shall not in any way limit when the Participant may sell
his or her shares. Those procedures are designed
solely to assure that any sale of shares prior to the satisfaction of the
required holding period is made through the ESPP Broker Account. In addition, the Participant may request a
stock certificate or share transfer from his or her ESPP Broker Account prior to the satisfaction of the required
holding period should the Participant wish to make a gift of any shares held in
that account. However, shares may not be
transferred (either electronically or in certificate form) from the ESPP Broker
Account for use as collateral for a loan, unless those shares have been held
for the required holding period.
The foregoing procedures
shall apply to all shares purchased by the Participant under the Plan, whether
or not the Participant continues in Employee status.
K. Assignability.
The purchase right shall be exercisable only by the Participant and
shall not be assignable or transferable by the Participant.
L. Stockholder Rights. A Participant shall have no stockholder
rights with respect to the shares subject to his or her outstanding purchase
right until the shares are purchased on the Participant’s behalf in accordance
with the provisions of the Plan and the Participant has become a holder of
record of the purchased shares.
VIII. ACCRUAL
LIMITATIONS
A. No
Participant shall be entitled to accrue rights to acquire Common Stock pursuant
to any purchase right outstanding under the Plan if and to the extent such
accrual, when aggregated with (i) rights to purchase Common Stock accrued
under any other purchase right granted under the Plan and (ii) similar
rights accrued under other employee stock purchase plans (within the meaning of
Code Section 423) of the Corporation or any Corporate Affiliate, would
otherwise permit such Participant to purchase more than Twenty-Five Thousand
Dollars ($25,000.00) worth of stock of the Corporation or any Corporate
Affiliate (determined on the basis of the Fair Market Value per share on the
date or dates such rights are granted) for each calendar year such rights are
at any time outstanding.
B. For purposes
of applying such accrual limitations to the purchase rights granted under the
Plan, the following provisions shall be in effect:
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(i) The right to acquire Common Stock under
each outstanding purchase right shall accrue in a series of installments on
each successive Purchase Date during the offering period on which such right
remains outstanding.
(ii) No right to acquire Common Stock under
any outstanding purchase right shall accrue to the extent the Participant has
already accrued in the same calendar year the right to acquire Common Stock
under one or more other purchase rights at a rate equal to Twenty-Five Thousand
Dollars ($25,000.00) worth of Common Stock (determined on the basis of the Fair
Market Value per share on the date or dates of grant) for each calendar year
such rights were at any time outstanding.
C. If by reason
of such accrual limitations, any purchase right of a Participant does not
accrue for a particular Purchase Interval, then the payroll deductions or other
permitted form of contribution which the Participant made during that Purchase
Interval with respect to such purchase right shall be promptly refunded.
D. In the event
there is any conflict between the provisions of this Article VIII and one
or more provisions of the Plan or any instrument issued thereunder, the
provisions of this Article VIII shall be controlling.
IX. EFFECTIVE
DATE AND TERM OF THE PLAN
A. The Plan
shall become effective for the offering period commencing on the Effective
Date; provided, however, that (i) the purchase rights for that initial
offering period shall be subject to the provisions of Paragraph E of Article IV
and (ii) no purchase rights granted under the Plan shall be exercised, and
no shares of Common Stock shall be issued hereunder, until the Corporation
shall have complied with all applicable requirements of the 1933 Act (including
the registration of the shares of Common Stock issuable under the Plan on a Form S-8
registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission), all
applicable listing requirements of any Stock Exchange (or the Nasdaq Stock
Market, if applicable) on which the Common Stock is listed for trading and all
other applicable requirements established by law or regulation.
B. The Plan
shall serve as the successor to the Predecessor Plan, and no further offering
periods under the Predecessor Plan shall commence after December 31, 2009.
C. Unless
sooner terminated by the Board, the Plan shall terminate upon the earliest of (i) the
last business day in April 2020, (ii) the date on which all shares
available for issuance under the Plan shall have been sold pursuant to purchase
rights exercised under the Plan or (iii) the date on which all purchase
rights are exercised in connection with a Change in Control. No further purchase rights shall be granted
or exercised, and no further payroll deductions or other forms of contribution
shall be collected, under the Plan following such termination.
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X. AMENDMENT
OF THE PLAN
A. The Board
may alter or amend the Plan at any time to become effective as of the start
date of the next offering period thereafter under the Plan. In addition, the Board may suspend or terminate
the Plan at any time to become effective immediately following the close of any
subsequent Purchase Interval.
B. In no event
may the Board effect any of the following amendments or revisions to the Plan
without the approval of the Corporation’s stockholders: (i) increase the
number of shares of Common Stock issuable under the Plan, except for
permissible adjustments in the event of certain changes in the Corporation’s
capitalization or (ii) modify the eligibility requirements for
participation in the Plan.
XI. GENERAL
PROVISIONS
A. All costs
and expenses incurred in the administration of the Plan shall be paid by the
Corporation; however, each Plan Participant shall bear all costs and expenses
incurred by such individual in the sale or other disposition of any shares
purchased under the Plan.
B. Nothing in
the Plan shall confer upon the Participant any right to continue in the employ
of the Corporation or any Corporate Affiliate for any period of specific
duration or interfere with or otherwise restrict in any way the rights of the
Corporation (or any Corporate Affiliate employing such person) or of the
Participant, which rights are hereby expressly reserved by each, to terminate
such person’s employment at any time for any reason, with or without cause.
C. The
provisions of the Plan shall be governed by the laws of the State of California
without resort to that State’s conflict-of-laws rules.
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Schedule
A
Corporations
Participating in
the
United Online, Inc.
2010
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Juno Internet
Services, Inc.
NetZero, Inc.
United Online
Advertising Network, Inc.
Classmates Online, Inc.
MyPoints.com, Inc.
FTD.COM, Inc.
Florists’ Transworld
Delivery, Inc.
APPENDIX
The following
definitions shall be in effect under the Plan:
A. Board shall mean the Corporation’s Board
of Directors.
B. Cash Earnings shall mean (i) the regular base
salary paid to a Participant by one or more Participating Companies during such
individual’s period of participation in one or more offering periods under the
Plan and (ii) any overtime payments, bonuses, commissions, profit-sharing
distributions and other incentive-type payments received during such period. Cash Earnings shall be calculated before
deduction of (A) any income or employment tax withholdings or (B) any
contributions made by the Participant to any Code Section 401(k) salary
deferral plan or Code Section 125 cafeteria benefit program now or hereafter
established by the Corporation or any Corporate Affiliate. Cash Earnings shall not include any
contributions made on the Participant’s behalf by the Corporation or any
Corporate Affiliate to any employee benefit or welfare plan now or hereafter established
(other than Code Section 401(k) or Code Section 125
contributions deducted from such Cash Earnings).
C. Change in Control shall mean a change in ownership of
the Corporation pursuant to any of the following transactions:
(i) a merger, consolidation or other reorganization
approved by the Corporation’s stockholders in which a change in ownership or
control of the Corporation is effected through the acquisition by any person or
group of persons comprising a “group” within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) of
the 1934 Act (other than the Corporation or a person that, prior to such
transaction, directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under
common control with, the Corporation) of
beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the 1934
Act) of securities possessing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total
combined voting power of the Corporation’s outstanding securities (as measured
in terms of the power to vote with respect to the election of Board members),
(ii) a sale, transfer or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the Corporation’s assets,
(iii) the closing of any transaction or series of related
transactions pursuant to which any person or any group of persons comprising a “group”
within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) of the 1934 Act (other than
the Corporation or a person that, prior to such transaction or series of
related transactions, directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is
under common control with, the Corporation) acquires directly or indirectly
(whether as a result of a single acquisition or by reason of one or more
acquisitions within the twelve (12)-month period ending with the most recent
acquisition) beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the
1934 Act) of securities possessing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total
combined voting power of the Corporation’s securities (as measured in terms of
the power to vote with respect to the election of Board members) outstanding
immediately after the consummation of such transaction or series of related
transactions, whether such transaction
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involves a direct issuance from the Corporation or the
acquisition of outstanding securities held by one or more of the Corporation’s
existing stockholders,
(iv) a merger, recapitalization, consolidation, or other
transaction to which the Corporation is a party or the sale, transfer or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the Corporation’s assets if, in
either case, the members of the Board immediately prior to consummation of the
transaction do not, upon consummation of the transaction, constitute at least a
majority of the board of directors of the surviving entity or the entity
acquiring the Corporation’s assets, as the case may be, or a parent thereof, or
(v) a change in the composition of the Board over a period
of thirty-six (36) consecutive months or less such that a majority of the Board
members ceases for any reason to be comprised of individuals who either (A) have
been Board members continuously since the beginning of such period or (B) have
been elected or nominated for election as Board members during such period by
at least a majority of the Board members described in clause (A) who were
still in office at the time the Board approved such election or nomination, but
excluding for purposes of both clauses (A) and (B) any person appointed or elected to the Board in
connection with an actual or threatened proxy contest for Board membership or
any other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies for the election of
Board members.
D. Code shall mean the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as amended.
E. Common Stock shall mean the Corporation’s common
stock.
F. Corporate Affiliate shall mean any parent or subsidiary
corporation of the Corporation (as determined in accordance with Code Section 424),
whether now existing or subsequently established.
G. Corporation shall mean United Online, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation, and any corporate successor to all or substantially all
of the assets or voting stock of United Online, Inc., which shall assume
the Plan.
H. Effective Date shall be May 3, 2010. Any Corporate Affiliate that becomes a
Participating Corporation after such Effective Date shall designate a subsequent
Effective Date with respect to its employee-Participants.
I. Eligible Employee shall mean any person who is
employed by a Participating Corporation on a basis under which he or she is
regularly expected to render more than twenty (20) hours of service per week
for more than five (5) months per calendar year for earnings that are
considered wages under Code Section 3401 (a); provided, however, that the
Plan Administrator may, prior to the start of the applicable offering period,
waive one or both of the twenty (20) hour and five (5) month service
requirements.
J. Entry Date shall mean the date an Eligible
Employee first commences participation in the offering period in effect under
the Plan. The earliest Entry Date under
the Plan shall be the Effective Date.
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K. Fair Market Value per share of Common
Stock on any relevant date shall be the closing price per share of Common Stock
at the close of regular trading hours
(i.e., before after-hours trading begins) on the date in question on the
Stock Exchange serving as the primary market for the Common Stock, as such
price is reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers (if
primarily traded on the Nasdaq Global or Global Select Market) or as officially
quoted in the composite tape of transactions on any other Stock Exchange on
which the Common Stock is then primarily traded. If there is no closing selling price for the
Common Stock on the date in question, then the Fair Market Value shall be the
closing selling price on the last preceding date for which such quotation
exists.
L. 1933 Act shall mean the Securities Act of
1933, as amended.
M. 1934 Act shall mean the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
N. Participant shall mean any Eligible Employee of
a Participating Corporation who is actively participating in the Plan.
O. Participating Corporation shall mean the
Corporation and such Corporate Affiliate or Affiliates as may be authorized
from time to time by the Board to extend the benefits of the Plan to their
Eligible Employees. The Participating
Corporations in the Plan are listed in attached Schedule A.
P. Plan shall mean the United Online, Inc.
2010 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as set forth in this document.
Q. Plan Administrator shall mean the committee of two (2) or
more Board members appointed by the Board to administer the Plan.
R. Predecessor Plan shall mean the Corporation’s 2001
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
S. Purchase Date shall mean the last business day of
each Purchase Interval.
T. Purchase Interval shall mean each successive six
(6)-month period within the offering period at the end of which there shall be
purchased shares of Common Stock on behalf of each Participant; provided,
however, that the Plan Administrator may, prior to the start of the applicable
offering period, designate a different duration for the Purchase Intervals
within that offering period.
U. Stock Exchange shall mean the
American Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global or Global Select Market or the New
York Stock Exchange.
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