Terms and Conditions for access to Medicines Complete Website

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. USE OF THE SITE WILL INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE.

These Terms and Conditions were last updated on 9th December 2011.

The website www.medicinescomplete.com ('this Website') is owned and operated by The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, acting through its publishing division Pharmaceutical Press ("PhP").

1. Access to this Site

1. 1.1 Access to and use of this Website (including, without limitation, the individual titles published on this Website (`the Publications`) by you (`You`) is subject to your compliance with these Terms and Conditions. In addition to these Terms and Conditions, You shall be bound by any terms and conditions specific to the Publications (where applicable).
2. 1.2 PhP may make changes to these Terms and Conditions at any time and shall notify you of such changes within a reasonable time.
3. 1.3 PhP reserves the right to decline any application, order, or subscription for Medicines Complete or any publications contained within it. Where PhP provides access, it will either give You a secure access code, which You must keep confidential at all times, or permit access to Your IP (Internet Protocol) address. Where you are an individual, access is provided for Your own personal use only. If You become aware that there has been unauthorised use of Your account or that Your access code is no longer confidential, You must advise PhP immediately. Otherwise, You will be liable for all use of the Website using Your access code.
4. 1.4 You will not use this Website for any illegal purpose or in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any PhP server or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of this Website.

2. Intellectual Property

1. 2.1 All intellectual property in this Website and the information and material it contains, including without limitation copyright, database right and trade marks, is and shall remain the property of PhP, its co-publishers or third party licensors. You shall not modify or remove any proprietary marking or restrictive legends placed on this Website. Details of the copyright ownership of each individual publication can be found in the copyright notices attached to the relevant parts of this Website.
2. 2.2 You may display data from this Website on screen and print off single screens for Your internal use only.
3. 2.3 You shall not have any rights in or to the contents of this Website other than rights specifically granted or as otherwise permitted by applicable law and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by PhP. In particular, but without limitation, You shall not: (a) store permanently on any medium, transfer, transmit, reproduce, rent, sell, lease, sub-license, loan to any third party, copy, publish or otherwise exploit, modify, adapt, merge, translate, reverse, engineer, decompile, disassemble, create derivative works from or combine with other material the whole or any part of the data from this Website; or (b) distribute or disclose the contents of this Website to any third party.
4. 2.4 You may download a copy of these Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy and/or the Copyright Notices that appear on this Website for the purposes of record keeping.

3. Guidance

1. 3.1 You are assumed to possess the necessary knowledge to interpret the information that this Website provides. Information on the selection and clinical use of medicines is designed for prescribers, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals. Such information should be interpreted in light of professional knowledge and supplemented as necessary with specialist publications and by reference to product literature.
2. 3.2 PhP is not responsible for the content of any other website or pages linking to or from this Website. Following links to any other websites or pages shall be at Your own risk and PhP shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damages resulting from the use of such other websites.
3. 3.3 This Website and the content, names, text and images included on it are provided to You 'AS IS'. While reasonable care has been taken in the preparation of this website to ensure that the information contained on it is accurate, no warranty or representation of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement is given, nor is any warranty or representation given that there will be no delays, failures, errors or omissions or loss of transmitted information. This is without prejudice to any contractual warranties or representations which we may have entered into with You under the provisions of a separate written agreement.
4. 3.4 To the extent permitted by applicable laws, no liability is accepted for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage or loss of use, data, business opportunity or profits, whether in an action in contract, negligence or other tortuous action, however resulting from the access to and use of the Website and the information and materials contained on it.
5. 3.5 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions limits or excludes PhP's liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence, fraud, or any liability which cannot be excluded by applicable law.

4. Payment

1. 4.1 You shall pay to us the agreed fee for access to the Website within the credit terms we have allowed for access to and use of the Website.
2. 4.2 If You do not pay the fee within the credit terms allowed we will send You a reminder by letter or email, within 14 days of receipt of which You shall pay the fee.
3. 4.3 If You have not paid the fee within 14 days of receipt of the reminder mentioned in 4.2 above we may block Your access to the Website until such time as the fee is paid.

5. Suspension of Access to this Website

1. PhP monitors access and Website usage. If PhP reasonably believes that you are in breach of these Terms and Conditions (or any other contract between You and PhP) Your session may be temporarily blocked. Service will be automatically resumed after a short timeout period. Persistent repetition of a breach may result in Your access being suspended and a notice of misuse being issues. Access will be re-instated where You can demonstrate to our reasonable satisfaction that the pattern of use is reasonable and all due care has been exercised in preventing unauthorised use. You may be required to change any access codes and passwords before access is re-instated. This is without prejudice to any other rights or remedies of PhP.

6. Law and Jurisdiction

1. These Terms and Conditions are governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of any dispute which may arise.