Terms of Use

Welcome to CROChina.com, a premium B2B portal site built to promote business between China-based contract research organizations (CRO) and pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide. If you continue to browse and use this website you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our Privacy Policy govern CROChina's relationship with you in relation to this website. The term "CROChina", or "us" or "we" refers to the owner of the website (CROChina.com) whose registered office is in North Wales, Pennsylvania, USA. The term "you" refers to the user or viewer of our website.

Change of Content

The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice. The changed terms and conditions shall be valid as soon as posted on CROChina.com. Your continuous use of our website and services will signify your acceptance of the changed terms. CROChina reserves the right to change or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, some or all of the services and site features at any time without notice to you.

Accuracy of Content

Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, credibility, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on CROChina.com for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law. Your use of any information, materials, or services on CROChina.com is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any services or information available through CROChina.com meet your specific requirements.

Service Charges

Access to CROChina.com and registering for membership are currently FREE of charge. However, CROChina reserves the right to modify the charging clause and we promise to notify you of such modifications promptly.

Liability Disclaimer

CROChina will not be liable for interruption to service as a result of acts of god, hardware malfunction, software related problems, or human error. The information and services available to you on CROChina.com may contain errors and our service is subject to periods of interruption. While it does its best to maintain the services available on its website, CROChina cannot be held responsible for any errors, defects, lost profits, or other consequential damages arising from the use of this website. Please note that we are not responsible for all hardware, software, internet access and other failures, malfunctions or costs you incur while accessing our website and retrieving data on our servers. CROChina provides the services on CROChina.com "as is," with no warranties whatsoever. All express warranties and all implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement of proprietary rights are hereby disclaimed to the fullest extent permitted by law. In no event shall CROChina be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special and exemplary damages, or any damages whatsoever, arising from the performance of CROChina.com or from any services provided through this website, even if CROChina.com has been advised of the possibility of such damages. If you are dissatisfied with CROChina.com, or any portion thereof, your exclusive remedy shall be to stop using the web site.

Links

From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. CROChina does not endorse and is not responsible for validity of any content, advertising, service, product or information from said linking websites. CROChina is not liable, or responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused by any content, advertising, service, product or information from the linking website.You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without CROChina's prior written consent.

Users

CROChina.com is provided to individuals or companies who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. If you do not qualify, please do not use the service. Users of CROChina.com are entitled (to certain extent) to add or modify company profile, to post projects, job positions or news and events. While performing such tasks on CROChina.com, you agree to refrain from the following actions:

• Transmitting any information, data, text, files, links, software, chat, communication or other materials that are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful or racially or otherwise objectionable.
• Harassing, threatening, embarrassing or causing distress or discomfort upon another individual or entity.
• Transmitting or posting any information that is not related to contract research and manufacturing services.
• Utilizing CROChina.com to send spam messages or repeatedly posting the same information about provider, project or job positions.
• Impersonating any individual or unlawfully using another company's name to post information or conduct business of any form.
• Posting or transmitting third-party copyrighted information or in any way infringing on the intellectual property rights, contractual or fiduciary rights of others.
• Any unauthorized access, use, modification or control of the CROChina.com database, network or related services.
• Violating any applicable local, state, national or international law.
  

CROChina is not responsible for the possible consequence caused by your behavior during use of CROChina.com. CROChina may, in its sole discretion, refuse the service to anyone whose behavior is not in accordance with applicable laws.

Feedbacks from Buyers

The buyer feedbacks regarding each service provider's performance are comments received from actual buyers or sponsors who participate in CROChina's online survey and therefore become members of CROChina.com. As such, these feedbacks are informative for those wishing to use them for their own references, but they do not guarantee any level of performance by the service provider or other third party under any given circumstences.

Users agree not to take any actions for the purpose of manipulating or distorting, or that may undermine the integrity and accuracy of, the buyer feedbacks. Furthermore, users agree not to post any comment that is false or that contains profanity, personal attacks upon individuals, ethnic slurs, business or personal information such as account numbers, material that violates another's legal rights, or other offensive or inappropriate content that goes beyond the scope of pharma-biotech outsourcing. By posting a feedback, the poster thereby represents that the feedback is based upon an actual outsourcing experience with the service provider being reviewed and irrevocably assigns all copyright and other intellectual property rights in the feedback to CROChina.com. CROChina.com may publish the feedback on the CROChina Web site or elsewhere in its discretion and reserves the right to remove or alter the content of any feedback or comment deemed offensive or in violation of CROChina.com's policies, and all decisions by CROChina.com in this regard are final.

Registration Obligation

If you register on CROChina.com, you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself in the "Registration Form", and (b) maintain and promptly update your personal account information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or CROChina has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, CROChina reserves the right to suspend or terminate your member service. Should you object to any of the terms and conditions set forth herein or any subsequent modifications or become dissatisfied with our services for any reason, your only resource is to immediately: (1) discontinue use of the site; (2) terminate your account; and (3) notify CROChina of termination by sending an email to crochina@crochina.com.

Termination

CROChina reserves the right to terminate the service to you at any time or for any reason, with or without notice, if it concludes that you have provided false information in connection with your member account, are engaged in fraudulent or illegal activities, or are engaged in activities that may damage the rights of CROChina or others. CROChina shall not be liable to you or any third party for the termination of your account or any claims related to your termination. CROChina reserves the right to monitor or remove any information or content posted on its website.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold CROChina.com, its officers, directors, owners, agents and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the services on CROChina.com, the violation of these terms and conditions by you, or the infringement by you, or other user of the services using your computer, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. CROChina reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you.

Copyright

This website contains materials which are owned by or licensed to us. Such materials include, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction of those materials is prohibited other than in accordance with the Copyright Notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions. All company logos and trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to CROChina, are acknowledged on the website. Unauthorized use of this website may give to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

Last modified: July 03, 2008.

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