Terms and Conditions
of Use
Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., its parent, affiliate and subsidiary companies including
but not limited to its business units (“WKH”) welcomes you to its Web site located
at http://www.lwwoncology.com and its related sites (the “Site”). Please take a
moment to review them. When you access, view, submit, or use the software, articles,
content, material, or services available on or through the Site you agree, on behalf
of yourself, any company or organization on whose behalf you actually or allegedly
act, and any individual that receives access to the Site through you, you indicate
that you have read and understand these Terms and Conditions, and that you agree
to them and intend to be legally bound by them. If you do not agree to these Terms
and Conditions, you are not granted permission to use the Site and must exit immediately.
Any violation of these Terms and Conditions or other act or omission by any person
that obtains access to this Site through you that would be a breach of these Terms
and Conditions if committed by you is deemed a breach of these Terms and Conditions
by you for which you shall be responsible. The Site must not be used by children
under 13.
1. Informational Purposes
Only
The information on this Site is for informational purposes only. No information,
services, or materials offered by or through this Site shall be construed as or
understood to be medical advice or care. None of the information on this Site shall
be used to diagnose or treat any health problem or disease. YOU MUST CONSULT WITH
A PHYSICIAN, DOCTOR, OR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER BEFORE TAKING ANY PRODUCT OR USING
ANY INFORMATION ON THIS SITE. No physician/patient relationship is created between
WKH and you by reason of your use of the Site or under any circumstances. Individual
inquiries about sensitive or confidential matters should be addressed to appropriate
health care professionals. In connection with this statement, please take particular
care to read the Disclaimer of Warranty and Liability.
Some drugs and medical devices described on this Site have Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) clearance for limited use in restricted research settings and to treat only
specifically approved medical conditions. It is the responsibility of the health
care provider to ascertain the FDA status of each drug or device planned for use
in their clinical practice. WKH does not endorse or suggest any particular medical
tests, pharmaceutical products, physicians or other health providers, products,
or medical procedures WKH may detail or describe on this Site. Your reliance on
any information provided by this Site is solely at your own risk.
WKH endeavors to keep the Site and Site Materials (defined in Section 2) on, in,
and through the Site up-to-date. Without limiting anything else in these Terms and
Conditions or otherwise, WKH is not responsible for any errors or omissions in the
Site or Site Materials.
2. Proprietary Rights
All works of authorship, information, content, functional components, articles,
software, downloads, upgrades, documentation, services, information and material
appearing on, contained in, or made available through the Site (“Site Materials”)
are protected by law, including without limitation United States copyright law.
Except as explicitly stated on the Site, the entirety of the Site Materials (including
without limitation text, graphics, images, video, data, design, organization, compilation,
look and feel attributes and other intellectual property) are WKH’s copyrighted
works, all rights reserved, or they are the copyrighted works of WKH’s affiliates,
licensors, or suppliers. WKH also owns a copyright in the Site as a collective work
and compilation, and in the selection, coordination, arrangement, and organization
of the Site Materials.
Removing or altering any copyright notice or any other proprietary notice on any
Site Materials is strictly prohibited. Any commercial use of any Site Materials,
in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of WKH, is prohibited. Any
reproduction, distribution, performance, display, preparation of derivative works
based upon, framing, capturing, harvesting, scraping, or collection of, or creating
of hypertext or other links or connections to, any Site Materials or any other proprietary
information of WKH, without WKH’s advance written consent, is prohibited.
All names, trademarks, service marks, symbols, slogans, and logos appearing on the
Site are proprietary to WKH or its parent, affiliates, licensors, or suppliers.
Use or misuse of these trademarks is expressly prohibited and may violate federal
and state trademark law.
3. Third Party Materials,
Products and Services
Parties other than WKH may provide products, services or content on the Site. Use
of the Site and the Site Materials and any other material or content on and made
available through the Site is entirely at your own risk. Additionally, the Site
contains links to other Internet Web sites for the convenience of users in locating
information, products, or services that may be of interest. Other terms and conditions,
in addition to these Terms and Conditions, may appear on the Site related to specific
content of third parties and will apply to such third party content as indicated.
WKH does not recommend and expressly disclaims any responsibility for the content,
the accuracy of the information, or quality of products or services provided by
or advertised on third party sites or the transactions you conduct or enter into
with third parties. Your use of third parties’ websites is at your own risk, and
subject to the terms and conditions of such other websites. WKH does not endorse
any product, service, or treatment provided on a third party website or advertised
on the Site.
4. Materials Submitted
to the Site
The Site may allow you to contribute photographs, pictures, videos, recordings,
postings, and other materials and information that is not governed by the Privacy
Statement as personal data (“User Materials”) to the Site. WKH does not guarantee
the accuracy or completeness of any User Materials and cannot be responsible for
any User Materials. By submitting User Materials to or using the Site, you represent
that you have the full legal right to provide the User Materials, that such User
Materials will not: (a) divulge any protected health information or infringe any
intellectual property rights of any person or entity or any rights of publicity,
personality, or privacy of any person or entity, including without limitation as
a result of your failure to obtain consent to post personally identifying or otherwise
private information about a person or which impersonates another person; (b) violate
any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation; (c) be defamatory, libelous or trade
libelous, unlawfully threatening, or unlawfully harassing or embarrassing; (d) be
obscene, child pornographic, or indecent; (e) violate any community or Internet
standard; (f) contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots,
or other computer programming routines that damage, detrimentally interfere with,
surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data or personal information,
or that facilitate or enable such or that are intended to do any of the foregoing;
(g) result in product liability, tort, breach of contract, personal injury, death,
or property damage; (h) constitute misappropriation of any trade secret or know-how;
or (i) constitute disclosure of any confidential information owned by any third
party. Upon your submission of User Materials or other material or information to
WKH, you grant WKH, and WKH thereby accepts, a worldwide, perpetual, non-terminable,
irrevocable, transferable, license to access, use, distribute, perform, reproduce,
display, modify, create derivative works based upon, and sublicense, and to permit
others to access, use, distribute, perform, reproduce, display, modify, create derivative
works based upon, and sublicense, the User Materials for the purpose of providing
the Site and Site products and services and for all other business purposes of WKH,
all without any compensation to you whatsoever. WKH may remove User Materials from
the Site that are libelous, incorrect, spiteful, or otherwise inappropriate, in
WKH's sole discretion. WKH shall not be responsible for changes, modifications,
or removal any User Materials that you submit to the Site. WKH reserves the right
to, but is not obligated to monitor, edit or disclose any User Materials. If you
believe that any User Materials violate your intellectual property or other rights,
please follow our Complaint Procedure in Section 9 of these Terms and Conditions.
User Materials stored on the Site are stored by WKH only for permitted temporary
online sharing purposes and not for permanent or long-term storage or for temporary
archival purposes. WKH is not obligated to maintain back-up copies of any User Materials.
You acknowledge and agree that User Materials may be transferred by WKH and its
agents, representatives, contractors, and licensees outside of the United States.
In addition, you acknowledge and agree that it is your obligation to inform third
parties of the processing, including, without limitation, transferring across international
borders, of their personal information, such as their name, address, and likeness,
in connection with the User Materials. You agree to ensure that any required third
parties have given their consent to such processing as required by all applicable
law, statute, ordinance, or regulation, including, without limitation, data protection
legislation.
5. Communications with
the Site
WKH welcomes your feedback and suggestions about how to improve our products, information,
and services and the Site, including, without limitation, the feedback and suggestions
and all other information, data, material, or other content (collectively, “Submissions”)
to WKH. Such Submissions shall be deemed User Materials in accordance with Section
4 of these Terms and Conditions. Without limiting the foregoing, WKH is free to
use any ideas, concepts, methods, know-how, techniques, and processes contained
in any Submission for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation creating
and marketing products, information, or services using such information.
6. Privacy
Our Privacy Statement is incorporated into these Terms and Conditions by reference,
as if fully set forth herein.
7. Disclaimer of Warranty
and Liability
THE SITE, THE SITE MATERIALS AND USER MATERIALS ON, IN, AND MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH
THE SITES, AND THE SERVICES, PRODUCTS, INFORMATION AND OTHER MATERIALS ON AND IN
AND MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE IS MADE AVAILABLE “AS IS” AND “WITH ALL FAULTS.”
USE OF THE SITE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
WKH OR ITS LICENSORS MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, AND DISCLAIMS ALL
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE, THE USER MATERIALS, THE
SITE MATERIALS, THE SERVICES, PRODUCTS, INFORMATION AND OTHER MATERIALS ON AND IN
AND MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WRITTEN OR ORAL, ARISING
FROM COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, USAGE OF TRADE, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, ACCURACY, SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, NON-INTERFERENCE, QUALITY, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS
AND EFFORT WITH REGARD TO ANY AND ALL USER MATERIALS, THE SITE, THE SITE MATERIALS,
AND THE SERVICES, PRODUCTS, INFORMATION AND OTHER MATERIALS ON AND IN AND MADE AVAILABLE
THROUGH THE SITE, IS WITH YOU.
WKH OR ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, EXTRA-CONTRACTUAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF
ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST REVENUES OR LOST PROFITS,
WHICH MAY OR DOES RESULT FROM THE USE OF, ACCESS TO, OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE,
THE USER MATERIALS, THE SITE MATERIALS, THE SERVICES, PRODUCTS, INFORMATION AND
OTHER MATERIALS ON AND IN AND MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE, REGARDLESS OF LEGAL
THEORY, WHETHER OR NOT WKH HAD BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OR PROBABILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGES, AND EVEN IF THE REMEDIES OTHERWISE AVAILABLE FAIL OF THEIR ESSENTIAL
PURPOSE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF WKH AND ITS LICENSORS
TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY IN CONNECTION WITH, BASED UPON, OR ARISING
FROM THE SITE, THE SITE MATERIALS ON, IN, AND MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE, OR
THE SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR PRODUCTS OFFERED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH EXCEED THE
PRICE PAID BY YOU DURING THE PRECEDING SIX MONTHS FOR USE OF THE SITE. SOME STATES
DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF ANY PART
OF THIS LIMITATION ON LIABILITY IS FOUND TO BE INVALID OR UNENFORCEABLE FOR ANY
REASON, THEN THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF WKH AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT EXCEED TEN DOLLARS
($10).
8. Indemnification
You shall indemnify WKH and its directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors
and licensors (“WKH Indemnitees”) against all claims, actions, suits, and other
proceedings (“Claims”) arising out of or incurred in connection with the Site and
your use of the Site, your fraud, violation of law, negligence, willful misconduct,
or any other use of the Site, the User Materials, the Site Materials, the services,
products, information and other materials on and in and made available through the
Site, (except to the extent attributable to WKH), or any breach by you of these
Terms and Conditions and shall indemnify and hold WKH Indemnitees harmless from
and against all judgments, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including
without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees and attorneys’ disbursements) arising
out of or incurred in connection with such Claims. You may not settle any Claim
without the prior written consent of WKH.
WKH or its licensors may assume the defense of any Claim, at your sole cost and
expense, and you shall cooperate in all reasonable respects in such defense. You
shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any Claim and to participate
in the defense thereof. If WKH or its licensors do not notify you that it elects
to undertake the defense thereof, you shall have the right to defend the Claim with
counsel reasonably acceptable to WKH, subject to the right of WKH to assume, at
their sole cost and expense, the defense of any Claim at any time prior to the settlement
or final determination thereof.
9. Complaint Procedure
If you believe that any photographs or content on the Site violate your intellectual
property or other rights, please send to WKH at
erin.sanders@wolterskluwer.com a comprehensive detailed message setting
forth the following information: (1) your name and the name of your company, if
any; (2) your contact information, including your e-mail address; (3) the nature
and substance of your complaint, the specific rights at issue, and your basis for
making the complaint, including the content or posting that is objectionable; and
(4) the following statement: “The statements, representations, and assertions made
in this message are true, complete, and accurate and I have the full legal authority
to make each and every such statement, representation, and assertion and to make
and be granted any demand made in this message.”
10. Nature of the Internet
Given the nature of the Internet, the transmission of any communication or material
to WKH via the Site or Internet electronic mail, whether encrypted or otherwise,
cannot be guaranteed, and is not represented to be, secure. Alternative to communicating
via the Internet or e-mail, WKH can be contacted by regular mail at 530 Walnut Street
7th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106, or by telephone at 1-800-638-3030 (US) or 1-301-223-2300
(elsewhere). Use of the Internet is solely at your own risk and is subject to all
applicable local, state, national, and international laws and regulations. Without
limiting anything else in these Terms and Conditions or otherwise, neither WKH nor
its contractors will be liable for any loss resulting from failure of electronic
or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnect
problems, computer viruses, unauthorized access, theft, operator errors, severe
weather, earthquakes, natural disasters, strikes or other labor problems, wars,
or governmental restrictions.
11. Corrections and Changes
WKH may make changes to the Site or Site Materials, or to the products, information,
or services made available in connection with the Site, at any time, and WKH makes
no commitment to update the information contained on or in the Site. WKH reserves
the right to terminate your access to the Site in the event that you violate these
Terms and Conditions or for any reason whatsoever or no reason, with or without
notice, in addition to any and all other remedies available at law or in equity.
WKH reserves the right at any time to modify, alter or update these Terms and Conditions.
Your use of the Site following any changes means that you agree to follow and be
bound by the terms as changed. It is the obligation of users visiting the Site before
the change to learn of changes to the Terms and Conditions since their last visit.
Any change to the Terms and Conditions shall be effective as to any visitor who
has visited the Site before the change was made.
12. Governing Law and
Jurisdiction
These Terms and Conditions represent the entire agreement between you and WKH with
respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede any and all prior and contemporaneous
written and oral representations, understandings, and agreements, express and implied,
and will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, without reference to its conflict of law rules; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
THAT THE TERMS OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW NOW OR HEREAFTER ENACTED THAT IS BASED ON,
DERIVED FROM, SIMILAR TO, OR CONNECTED WITH THE UNIFORM COMPUTER INFORMATION TRANSACTIONS
ACT DRAFTED BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS SHALL
NOT APPLY EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT THE LAW EXPRESSLY PROHIBITS ALTERATION BY THESE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE APPLICABILITY OF ONE OR MORE SECTIONS OF THE LAW.
By accessing, viewing, or using the works, content, or materials on the Site, you
consent and agree to (a) the exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any and all disputes
arising out of this Agreement or related to the Service are in the state and federal
courts located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and (b) accept service of process by
personal delivery or mail; and (c) irrevocably waive the right to trial by jury
and any jurisdictional and venue defenses otherwise available.
13. Miscellaneous
The Site is controlled and operated from within the United States. Without limiting
anything else, WKH makes no representation that the Site, Site Materials, User Materials,
services, products, information or other materials available on, in, or through
the Site is appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to them
from territories where they are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access
the Site from other locations do so on their own volition and are responsible for
compliance with applicable laws. The waiver or failure of WKH to exercise in any
respect any right provided hereunder shall not be deemed a waiver of such right
in the future or a waiver of any of other rights established under these Terms and
Conditions. Headings used in these Terms and Conditions are for reference only and
shall not affect the interpretation of these Terms and Conditions.
Dated: March 1, 2011
Copyright © 2009 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.