Terms and conditions
Current as of July 15, 2020
These Terms and Conditions apply to our website located at https://www.biopartners.science/. As used in these Terms and Conditions, the terms “we”, “us”, “our”, or “BioPartners” refers to BioPartners, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Please read the following Terms and Conditions carefully as they affect your legal rights.
1. Acceptance of terms.
1.1. By accessing or otherwise using the Site, you agree to these Terms and Conditions, including the Privacy Policy (which can be accessed via a separate link on this Site and is an integral part of these Terms and Conditions and is being incorporated herein by reference).
1.2. Any entity or person who accesses, uses or interacts with the Site through the use of browsers, crawlers, robots, data mining or other functionality, whether such functionality is installed or placed by that person or entity or a third party, is considered to be using the Site. If at any time you do not accept all of these Terms and Conditions, you must immediately stop using the Site.
2. Information, data and content.
2.1 Your Information. You remain the owner of any electronic files, documents and other content that you provide to BioPartners. However, to be able to provide our Site and services to you, we need your permission to copy, store, transfer and otherwise process your content. Therefore, you hereby grant a non-exclusive, worldwide, sub-licensable license to BioPartners to use, copy, process, modify, transfer via electronic networks, store, distribute and publish your information, files, documents and other content without any further consent from you or the need for BioPartners to provide any notice to you and without any compensation or payments to you or any third parties. The license is subject to the following limitations:
i. We will use, copy, process, modify, transfer, store, distribute and publish your information only as needed to make the Site available to you, to ensure functionality and quality of the Site and to provide our services to you.
ii. We may use your information to improve our customer service and to conduct marketing research to determine how we can serve you and other visitors better.
iii. You may terminate this license for any specific content at any time, by deleting such content from the Site, and
iv. This license will automatically terminate when this Site is terminated for any reason.
2.2 Our Content. The Site features and provides general educational and professional information, pricing information, statistics, analytics, reports and other information, documents and data. BioPartners hereby grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of the Site. You may access, copy, download and print the information, documents, data and other content provided by the Site for your personal use. You may not distribute, sell, lease, transfer to third parties, compile, or publish any of BioPartners’s content. You may not modify or delete any trademark, copyright, or other proprietary notices that may appear in such content.
2.3. Any and all content included on the Site, including, but not limited to articles, texts, photos, images, videos, software code, and other material and information (collectively referred to as “Content”) is owned or licensed by BioPartners. and is fully protected by copyright, trademark, patent or other relevant laws and regulations. BioPartners expressly reserves all intellectual property rights in all Content.
3. Access to and use of the Site.
3.1. The Site is intended for use only by individuals who are at least 18 years of age.
3.2. By accessing and using this website, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age, and that you are authorized to access and use the Site.
3.3. We grant you a limited license to access and make personal use of the Site and the Content only for non-competing purposes and only to the extent such use does not violate these Terms and Conditions, including, without limitation, the prohibitions listed in the “Unlawful or Prohibited Uses” section of these Terms and Conditions.
3.4. You may download, print and copy Content for personal, noncommercial and non-competing purposes only, provided you do not change or modify the Content in any way, or violate these Terms and Conditions in any way.
3.5. Accessing, downloading, printing, posting, storing or otherwise using the Site or any of the Content for any purpose intended to make commercial use of the Content or compete with BioPartners, whether on behalf of yourself or on behalf of any third party, constitutes a material breach of these Terms and Conditions.
4. Unlawful and prohibited uses
4.1. The Site may only be used for lawful purposes only and in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
4.2. By accessing and using the Site, you promise and warrant that you will not use the Site for any unlawful or illegal purposes or any purposes that will violate these Terms and Conditions.
4.3. Whether you act on behalf of yourself or any third party, you may not:
i. Aggregate or make any collection of any product listings, descriptions, prices, images or other Content in order to compete with BioPartners or to sell or otherwise distribute such collections, aggregated data or other Content to others;
ii. Use or attempt to use any framing techniques or mirror any part of the Site without our express prior written consent;
iii. Use or attempt to use any automated crawlers or data extraction tools on th;
iv. Use or attempt to use any mining techniques or otherwise scrape the Site’s Content or harvest any data;
v. Use any meta tags or any other hidden text utilizing our name or trademarks;
vi. Use or attempt to use any robots or other automated agents to navigate or search the Site, other than search agents provided by us or generally publicly available browsers;
vii. Misrepresent you identify or location while using the website or impersonate any other person or entity;
viii. Misrepresent your connections or affiliations with any persons or entities;
ix. Breach or violate, or attempt to breach or violate, the Site’s security, or attempt to change the Site’s intended behavior or functionality in any way, including but not limited to using any technology, tools or methods designed to temper, hurt, damage, change or interfere with the Site’s intended behavior and functionality;
x. Change, translate, reverse engineer, or disassemble the Site or any portion thereof; or
xi. Conduct any unlawful, illegal or fraudulent activities on the Site or use the cite in any way to further any such activities.
5. Indemnification.
You agree to reimburse, defend, indemnify and hold harmless BioPartners and its directors, officers, shareholders and employees, and their respective successors and permitted assigns from and against any and all claims, actions, causes of action, liabilities, losses, costs, expenses, or damages, which directly or indirectly arise out of or relate to: (a) your breach or violation of any of these Terms and Conditions and/or, (b) any of your illegal, fraudulent or misleading actions while using the Site or any resulting information, data, digital files, documents and other content.
6. Electronic communications.
6.1. Whenever you access or use the Site, submit electronic forms or send emails to BioPartners, you are communicating with BioPartners electronically. You therefore consent to send and receive any communications related to your use of the Site electronically. BioPartners will communicate with you by posting agreements, updates, disclosures, notifications, information and alerts on its websites or mobile applications or by sending you emails or other electronic messages.
6.2. You agree that all agreements, updates, disclosures, notifications, information, alerts and other communications that are provided to you electronically are legally sufficient as written communications. You further agree that any email communications sent by BioPartners to any email address provided by you to BioPartners shall be deemed delivered and effective at the time such communications were sent.
7. Intellectual Property rights.
BioPartners reserves all of its trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the Site. Using the Site does not give you any ownership rights in the Site or any of the data, information, software, images, documents and other content available through the Site. Any use of such trademarks, or confusingly similar marks, by you or any third parties without our express written authorization is prohibited.
8. BioPartners makes no warranties or guarantees of accuracy or completeness.
8.1. BioPartners provides the Site on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. BioPartners makes no representations and extends no warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation, warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, exclusivity, or fitness for a particular purpose.
8.2. BioPartners does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of pricing information, description of its services, reports, statistics, data or other content or information provided by or available on the Site. BioPartners is not responsible or liable for any errors on the Site and reserves the right to correct any erroneous pricing information or other data and information on this Site at any time and at its own discretion.
8.3. You understand and agree that you will access and use any of the information, statistics, reports, data or other content at your own risk and that you will be solely responsible and liable for any damages or losses sustained by you or any third party resulting from your access and use of any such information, statistics, reports, data or other content.
9. Limitations of liability.
9.1. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, BioPartners, its owners, shareholders, directors, officers, agents and affiliates shall not be liable for any damages or harm caused by the Site to you or third parties or in any way resulting from your usage of the Site or the Site’s Content.
9.2. You also specifically agree that BioPartners, its owners, shareholders, officers, employees, affiliates or agents shall not be held responsible or liable to you or any third parties for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages connected to or resulting from your usage of the Site or the Site’s Content.
10. Modification, suspension and termination of Site.
BoPartners reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Site (or any part thereof) at any time, with or without notice. You agree that BioPartners shall not be liable to you or to any third parties for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Site (or any part thereof).
11. Links.
The Site may include links to third-party websites. You understand that the mere presence of any such links on the Site does not indicate or imply that BioPartners is affiliated with any such third parties or that BioPartners endorses any such third party websites or any views and opinions expressed on such websites
12. Assignment.
You may not assign any of your rights or obligations under these Terms and Conditions, in whole or in part, without BioPartners’s written prior consent, and any such attempted assignment shall be void and unenforceable. BioPartners reserves the right to assign any of its rights or obligations under these Terms and Conditions, in whole or in part, to any third party at any time at its own discretion, with or without notice.
13. Future amendments.
13.1. You acknowledge and agree that BioPartners may at any time and at its sole discretion modify, amend, add or remove any provision or portion of these Terms and Conditions, including any policies incorporated herein by reference.
13.2. It is your responsibility to read the Terms and Conditions every time you visit the Site. Your continuous access to and usage of the Site constitutes your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions and any amendments to the Terms and Conditions.
14. Severability of agreement and ambiguities related to drafting.
14.1. If any part, section, term or provision of these Terms and Conditions is held by an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the validity of the remaining parts, sections, terms or provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall not be affected, and the rights and obligations of the parties shall be construed and enforced as if these Terms and Conditions did not contain the particular part, section, term or provision held to be invalid.
14.2. Any ambiguity created by these Terms and Conditions shall not be construed against BioPartners.
15. Dispute resolution.
15.1. Any and all disputes, complaints and/or claims arising from or related to the Terms and Conditions, or the meaning, interpretation or applicability of these Terms and Conditions, shall be governed, interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California.
15.2. To the fullest extend allowed by law, any and all disputes, complaints and claims arising from or related to the Terms and Conditions, the meaning, interpretation or applicability of these Terms and Conditions, or your access or usage of the Site shall be resolved by final and binding arbitration. The arbitration shall be administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Mediation Procedures in Los Angeles County, California USA.
15.3. You acknowledge and agree that, to the fullest extend allowed by law, you must initiate any dispute, complaint or claim within six (6) months after the cause of action subject to that dispute, complaint or claim arouse; otherwise, all disputes, complaints or claims arising from or related to that cause of action shall be permanently barred.
15.4. To the fullest extend allowed by law, any and all arbitration and resolution of disputes, complaints and claims between you and BioPartners shall take place on an individual basis; you must personally and individually file any such claim; class actions are expressly prohibited.
16. How to contact us.
If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, please contact us by email at info@biopartners-us.com or by writing to us at the following address: info@biopartners-us.com