LEGAL AND PRIVACY STATEMENT

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE USE OF SANTHERA'S WEBSITE


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Any use of this website is subject to the following terms, conditions and applicable law. Your access to and browsing of this website implies your agreement to all such terms, conditions and applicable law. If you do not agree to any of these terms, conditions and applicable law, you may not use this website. Therefore, we urge you to read the following terms and conditions carefully prior to using this website. Please note that Santhera may revise or terminate these terms and conditions for any reason at any time and without further notice. Therefore, as you are bound by any such amendments, you should periodically visit this page to review the then valid terms and conditions.

1. Non-commercial and personal use only
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, this website is protected by copyrights. Therefore, you may download, electronically copy, print or display any information included in this website for non-commercial and personal use only. The distribution, modification, transmission or use of any data of the website (including images, text, graphics, video etc.) for public or commercial purpose is expressly prohibited. Any exception requires the prior written consent of Santhera. However, Santhera does not warrant or represent that your use of any information contained in this website will not interfere with rights of a third party.

2. Copyrights, trademarks and other property rights
The copyrights, trademarks, patents, proprietary information, products or other property rights included in or referred to on this website (the “Rights”) are the exclusive property of Santhera or other respective owners that have granted Santhera the right and license to use such Rights. No license to or right in any of the Rights is granted to or conferred upon you.

3. Linking and framing
Links to this website are only permitted to the homepage. Deep-linking is not permitted. In addition, hot-linking, in-line linking, framing of this website or any other method of incorporating parts of this website in your website or the website of a third party is equally prohibited. Any exception requires the prior written consent of Santhera.

4. Links to third-party sites
As a service to visitors, this website may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties (the “Third Party Sites”). Please note that Santhera has no control over these Third Party Sites and that your linking to these Third Party Sites is at your own risk and subject to the legal statement and privacy policy of the linked site. You further understand that Santhera does not approve nor survey any Third Party Sites. Santhera has no responsibility or liability of any kind for these linked Third Party Sites.

5. User chat rooms / User participation
While Santhera is under no obligation of any kind to monitor or review any chat rooms, bulletin boards or other similar areas on the website as well as the content of any such communications, Santhera may do so occasionally. Santhera does not take any responsibility or liability associated with the content of any such communication platforms, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, trademarks, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. You are explicitly prohibited from transmitting or posting any unlawful, libellous, threatening, obscene, pornographic or profane material or any material violating the law. Please note that Santhera will fully cooperate with any court order or law enforcement authorities requesting Santhera to disclose the identity of any person transmitting or posting such material. In addition, Santhera reserves the right to, but is not bound to do so, remove or block any communications or material that it considers to be (i) abusive, obscene, deceptive, misleading, offensive or defamatory, (ii) in violation of any intellectual property right, such as copyrights or trademark, (iii) in violation of any law or regulation, or (iv) otherwise unacceptable to Santhera at its sole discretion.

6. No confidential treatment of user submissions
Unless subject to the “Privacy Policy” section hereinafter, any communication or material you transmit to this website by electronic mail or by any other means, including but not limited to, any comments, questions, suggestions or the like will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Santhera is entitled to make use of anything you transmit or post for any purpose, including but not limited to, transmission, publication, disclosure, reproduction and posting. Moreover, Santhera is entitled to use any information, concept, know-how or the like included in any material or communication you transmit to the website for any purpose whatsoever, such as developing, manufacturing, promoting and marketing Santhera’s products. Please note that you herewith waive all your rights related to any such transmitted communications and material.

7. Privacy policy
The term “personal data” as used in this section refers to any information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, birth date, e-mail or mailing address.

Some of the services provided on this website may require registration. When registering with Santhera, you may need to complete certain data fields as well as pick a user name and password. This registration discloses your identity. Please note that in the event you decide to withhold certain requested personal data, it may not be possible for you to access certain parts of the website or for Santhera to respond to your request. Santhera will not process your personal data without your prior consent. Santhera will only process personal data for specific and limited purposes and will inform you about these purposes when asking for your personal data. In processing your personal data, Santhera will fully comply with internationally recognized standards of data protection. In doing so, Santhera ensures compliance of its staff with strict standards of security and confidentiality.

Santhera will not give access to any of your personal data to any third party. However, personal data may incidentally be transferred to a third party acting for or on behalf of Santhera, or in connection with Santhera’s business, for further processing in accordance with the original purpose of the collection of the personal data. Wherever possible, Santhera endeavours to ensure that both the obligation of non-disclosure and the intended use of the personal data are clearly indicated. Such third parties may adopt different privacy policies. However, Santhera aims to ensure that such third parties provide the same degree of protection as Santhera does, and, where appropriate, Santhera will contractually bind a third party to process personal data only for the purpose explicitly authorized by Santhera. Nevertheless, it is expressly understood that Santhera will not share any personal data that is sensitive (e.g. medical history) with any third party without your prior and explicit consent, and you may always withdraw your consent at any later time. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, Santhera may not be able to comply with some of your requests. However, Santhera will, where practicable, inform third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred of your withdrawal of consent.

Santhera attempts to ensure that your personal data are updated, accurate and complete according to the information that has been provided. You are entitled to access and update your personal data or to demand their deletion at any time. If you wish to access, amend or delete your personal data held by Santhera, please contact our Webmaster. Santhera will address your request in a prompt and accurate manner and free of charge. However, requests to delete personal data will be subject to any applicable legal and ethical reporting or document filing or retention obligations with which Santhera must comply. In all other cases, Santhera will keep personal data only as long as is reasonably required for the processing of the purpose for which the personal data were collected and in accordance with any applicable legal or ethical reporting or documentation retention requirements.

This Privacy Policy applies solely and exclusively to this website.

8. Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

You can refuse the use of Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set on the computer, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website: Disable Google Analytics

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

9. Technical inaccuracies, typographical errors and changes
This website may contain technical inaccuracies and typographical errors. Santhera reserves the right to amend, correct and/or improve any information, as well as any products described on this website at any time without notice.

10. Disclaimer
Even though Santhera aims to provide accurate and up to date information on the website at any time, you acknowledge that the website is made available “as is”. Santhera does not give any warranty or representation, whether expressly or implied, of any kind related to the content of this website (including, without limitation, text graphics and links). Moreover, Santhera takes no responsibility or liability whatsoever related in any way to your use of this website and its content. Santhera takes no liability for the accuracy, adequacy, completeness, comprehensiveness, usefulness, reliability or timeliness of the content of this Website. Santhera does not give any warranty, whether expressly or implied, that the functions contained in the website will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this website or the server that makes the website available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Santhera reserves the right to interrupt or discontinue any or all of the functionalities of the website, and takes no liability whatsoever for any interruption or discontinuance of any or all of the functionalities of the website.

As some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, some of the above-mentioned exclusions may not apply to you.

11. Information provided on Santhera products
Information provided on this website about Santhera's products is not intended to be a substitute for qualified medical advice. If you are a patient, please contact and notify your physician or medical provider if you are in need of medical advice. Santhera will respond to your physician’s or medical provider’s query.

Products information is targeted to a wide range of audiences and may contain information that is not available in your country. Please contact the responsible Santhera affiliate for country specific documents and information.

12. Forward-looking statement
Some of the statements on this website are forward-looking. Such statements are by nature subject to certain risks, uncertainties and other factors that may affect actual results, performance or achievements of Santhera and its affiliates to be considerably different from those expected or anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on Santhera’s current expectations and assumptions, which may be influenced by a number of factors. These factors include any failure or delay in Santhera’s ability to develop new products, any failure to receive anticipated regulatory approvals, any problems in commercializing current products due to competition or other factors and government regulations limiting Santhera’s ability to sell its products. Please note that Santhera takes no liability to update the forward-looking statements contained in this website to reflect any events or circumstances occurring after the date of content updates to the website.

13. Applicable law and venue
Your use of this website shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Switzerland without regard to choice of law provisions. You agree that any disputes and legal proceedings directly or indirectly arising out of or relating to this Website shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of the Canton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland.