HiTIS is pleased to provide you with this website ("website") and its content for general informational purposes. Please carefully read these Terms and Conditions relating to the use of our website. By using our website, you agree to these Terms and Conditions without limitation or qualification. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, please do not use our website. We reserve the right to revise these Terms and Conditions or any portion of them at any time without notice by updating this posting. You are bound by any revisions and should periodically visit this page to review the current Terms and Conditions that apply to your use of our website. If you violate any of these Terms, your permission to use the materials (as defined below) automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of the materials.

The entire contents of this website are subject to copyright protection. You may not copy the contents of this website other than for non-commercial individual reference with all copyright or other proprietary notices retained, and thereafter the contents may not be recopied, reproduced or otherwise redistributed. Except as expressly provided above, you may not otherwise copy, display, download, distribute, modify, reproduce, republish or retransmit any information, text or documents contained in this website or any portion thereof in any electronic medium or in hard copy, or create any derivative work based on such images, text or documents, without the express written consent of HiTIS. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any license or right under any patent or trademark of HiTIS, its affiliates or any third party.

All product names, whether or not appearing in large print or with the trademark symbol, are trademarks of HiTIS, its affiliates, related companies or its licensors or joint venture partners, unless otherwise noted. The use or misuse of these trademarks or any other materials, except as permitted herein, is expressly prohibited and may be in violation of copyright law, trademark law, the law of slander and libel, the law of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes. Please be advised that HiTIS actively and aggressively enforces its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.

We have provided links to certain third party websites as a courtesy. By providing these links, we are not endorsing, adopting or agreeing with any of the content of the linked sites or the products or services of that third party. We do not review or control the content of third party sites and that content is not part of our website. We expressly disclaim any responsibility for the content of any third party sites linked to our website or the products or services of that third party. We do not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on third party websites or the products or services of third parties. We urge you to use discretion when you access any third party sites linked to our website.

This website and the materials may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. HiTIS makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the materials or about the results to be obtained from using this website or the materials. Although we make a good faith effort to update the materials periodically, we do not have any duty to update the materials, and we will not be liable for any failure to update such materials. Your use of the website and the materials is at your own risk. Changes can and will be made to the website and materials and at any time.

HiTIS makes no claims that the materials are appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the European Union. Access to the materials may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the website from outside of the European Union, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.

HiTIS does not warrant that the website will operate error-free or that the website and its server are free of computer viruses and other harmful goods. If your use of the website or the materials results in the need for servicing or replacing equipment or data, HiTIS is not responsible for those costs.

The website and materials are provided on an 'as is' basis without any express or implied warranties of any kind. HiTIS and its suppliers, to the fullest extent permitted by law, disclaim all express and implied warranties, including the warranty of merchantability, non-infringement of third parties rights, and fitness for a particular purpose. HiTIS and its suppliers make no warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the materials, services, software text, graphics, and links.

In no event shall HiTIS, its affiliates, suppliers, or any third parties mentioned at this website be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption) resulting from the use or inability to use the website and the materials, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not HiTIS is advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall HiTIS's total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort, including without limitation negligence, or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

The order, purchase, and/or sale of any products from HiTIS, its affiliates, and/or their suppliers are subject to the terms and conditions contained in the applicable purchase order or written agreement between the parties.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless HiTIS, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from your use of the materials (including software) or your breach of these Terms and Conditions of Use. HiTIS shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit or proceeding.

Any personally identifiable information in electronic communications to this website is governed by HiTIS' Privacy Policy. HiTIS shall be free to use or copy all other information in any such communications, including any ideas, inventions, concepts, techniques or know-how disclosed therein, for any purposes, including disclosure to third parties and/or developing, manufacturing and/or marketing products or services.

As a user of this website, you are liable for the accuracy of the information that you provide to us.

This website and its contents are intended to comply with the laws and regulations in the European Union. Although the information on this web site is accessible to users outside of the European Union, the information on the web site pertaining to HiTIS products and services is intended for use only by residents of the European Union. Other countries may have laws and regulatory requirements that differ from those in the European Union. HiTIS reserves the right to limit provision of our products or services to any person, geographic region or jurisdiction and/or to limit the quantities or any products or services we provide. Any offer for any product or service made on this website is void where prohibited.

Our website is operated from our offices in France. These Terms and Conditions of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of France without regard to any conflict of law provisions thereof. Any action related to these Terms and Conditions of Use shall be brought only in the state courts of France and all parties waive any objection to the personal jurisdiction of and venue in such courts.

If any provision of these Terms and Conditions of Use is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions of Use shall remain in full force and effect. Any provision of these Terms and Conditions of Use held invalid or unenforceable only in part or degree will remain in full force and effect to the extent not held invalid or unenforceable. The parties further agree to replace such invalid or unenforceable provision of these Terms and Conditions of Use with a valid and enforceable provision that will achieve, to the extent possible, the economic, business and other purposes of such invalid or unenforceable provision.

These Terms and Conditions of Use represent the entire agreement between you and HiTIS relating to the subject matter herein and shall not be modified except by HiTIS as provided herein or through a written document signed by both parties.

These Terms and Conditions were last updated: 11/01/2007

HiTIS - life science & biotech intelligence ("HiTIS") respects individual privacy and value the confidence of its customers, partners and employees.

This Privacy Policy and Notice of Information Practices sets forth HiTIS' practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information that you may provide through this site. Please read this entire privacy policy before using this site or submitting information to HiTIS through this site.

By using this site and whenever you submit information through this site to HiTIS, you agree with the terms of HiTIS' Privacy Policy and Notice of Information Practices written below.

HiTIS only collects personally identifiable data such as your name, address, telephone number or email address when you voluntarily submit it to HiTIS. This information may be used by HiTIS personnel as a means to contact you to obtain more information, to improve this site, or it might be used to provide you with information that you have requested or additional information which HiTIS believes may be of interest to you.

The data will not be transferred outside the company without your prior consent, but may be used within HiTIS or by a company acting as an agent of HiTIS for processing and mailing purposes. HiTIS may also use this information within the company for performing marketing studies or for other commercial purposes for which it may receive compensation.

HiTIS maintains the data collected in an electronic database of voluntarily submitted personally identifiable information. HiTIS and its agents may exchange such information with each other or with you over the internet or intranet systems for the purposes of carrying out the services described above.

While HiTIS makes every reasonable effort to protect the information collected through its websites, please be aware that there is always some risk involved when submitting data over the Internet. We cannot guarantee that our website is 100% safe from illegal tampering or "hacking." Any data transmitted over the Internet may be at risk; however, once it is received at HiTIS and entered into its database, it has the same protection that HiTIS extends to its own confidential information.

We track the total number of visitors to our website, the number of visitors to each page of the website, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers. No personally identifiable information is gathered in this process

If at any time you wish to stop receiving emails or other communications from us, or if you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to have that information deleted from our records, please notify us. You may also request access to personal data about you that HiTIS holds and you may have the opportunity to request a correction or amendment to your personal data. As a reminder to you when exchanging emails, any email that you send or receive on your employer's email system may be the property of your employer. Consequently, your employer has the ability to review your personal information sent via email.

As a convenience to our visitors, our sites currently contain links to a number of other (non-HiTIS) sites that we believe may offer useful information. The privacy policy presented here does not apply to those sites. You should contact these sites directly for information on their privacy policies, confidentiality agreements and data collection/distribution procedures.

Our websites are not intended or designed to attract people under the age of 18. We do not collect personal information from any person we actually know under the age of 18.

We collect information about your usage of our site through cookies and similar technology. There are two types of cookies: session cookies (non persistent cookies) and persistent cookies. Session cookies temporarily store non-personally identifiable information about your visit to our website in your computer's memory. The cookie is deleted as soon as you close your browser. Persistent or permanent cookies will uniquely identify your browser and will permanently save in your computer's memory information requested by the website. A cookie does not collect or keep your name or other personal identifying information, but when you return to our site, the cookie allows us to bring you the content and features likely to be of greatest interest to you based on your previous activities on our site. Your Web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you, If your browser is set to reject cookies, sites like ours that are cookie-enabled will not recognize you when you return to the site and some site functionality may be lost.

In HiTIS sites that require passwords, you are giving us explicit permission to use a "persistent cookie," which is a small data file that is generated when you enter your assigned user id and password and access the site. This file is saved in you computer's memory, and enables your browser to access each page that is in the password-protected area.

Please note that linked non-HiTIS sites may also use cookies. HiTIS cannot control the use of cookies by these non-HiTIS sites. In addition, when you link from a HiTIS website to another website, that site may have the ability to recognize that you have come from a HiTIS site. If you do not want any other websites to know that you have been on this website, we recommend that you do not use the links provided in our site.

Any changes to the HiTIS Internet privacy policy will be posted on this page.

This privacy policy was last updated: 11/01/2007.