Ferring Web Site Usage Terms

PLEASE READ AND REVIEW THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEB SITE. By using this web site, you agree to these terms and conditions. If you do not agree, please exit and disregard the information contained herein. THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE, WHICH IS HIGHLIGHTED IN THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION SECTION

General Information

This site contains material about Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. (hereinafter “Ferring”) and its various products that may be of interest to Ferring’s employees and customers, as well as to members of the health care community and the general public. Please feel free to browse this web site. Your access and use of the information contained herein is subject to the following terms and conditions and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing this web site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these terms and conditions and acknowledge that they supersede any other agreement between you and Ferring.

Ferring maintains this web site for your personal use. This web site and its contents are intended to comply with the laws and regulations of the U.S. While you can access this web site from outside the U.S., our server is located within the U.S., and the web site it is intended to be used by residents located in the U.S.

Medical Information/Conditions

Please note that product information presented on this website is intended only as a brief summary for the visitor’s convenience in relation to the activities of Ferring. Not all products or indications are licensed in every country and may be subject to further local variations.

While there may be information on this web site related to certain medical conditions and their treatment, should a medical condition exist, promptly see your own physician or health provider. Ferring does not offer personalised medical diagnosis or patient-specific treatment advice. Indeed, only your doctor or other health care professional, as a learned intermediary, can determine if a product described in this web site is appropriate for you.

PLEASE CONSULT WITH YOUR DOCTOR, OR OTHER QUALIFIED HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL BEFORE USING ANY PRODUCT DISCUSSED WITHIN THIS WEB SITE.

Copyright And Restriction On Use Of Material (Noncommercial Use)

This web site is copyright protected. Any textual or graphic material you copy, print, or download from this web site is licensed to you by Ferring and/or its subsidiaries for your personal, noncommercial home use only, provided that you do not change or delete any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices.

Limitation of Liability

Ferring will use reasonable efforts to include accurate, complete and up-to-date information on this web site, but Ferring makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy, completeness or frequency that it is updated. All users agree that access to this web site is at their own risk, and that neither Ferring nor any party involved in creating or delivering this web site shall be liable for damages of any kind, including without limitation, any special, direct or indirect, incidental, or consequential or punitive damages (even if Ferring has been advised of the possibility of such damages) arising out of access to, or use of the information contained on this web site, or any errors or omissions, misprints, out-of-date information, technical or pricing inaccuracies, typographical or other errors appearing on this web site. This limitation includes damages to, or for any viruses that may infect, your computer equipment.

Dispute Resolution

All legal disputes arising out of or in connection with this web site (including without limitation, disputes regarding usage of personal information provided to Ferring via the web site) which can not be resolved through good faith discussions, shall be referred to and finally determined by arbitration as follows. The Arbitration Tribunal shall comprise three arbitrators. Each party shall appoint one arbitrator and the two arbitrators so appointed shall appoint the third arbitrator. The third arbitrator shall be a member of the legal profession. If either party fails to appoint its arbitrator within on month of the receipt of a corresponding request by the other, or if the two arbitrators appointed fail to reach agreement on the third arbitrator within one month of the date of the last appointment, that arbitrator and/or the third arbitrator shall, at the request of either party, be appointed by the American Arbitration Association. The Arbitration Tribunal shall sit in New York, New York and the arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in English. The arbitration proceedings shall be governed by the rules of civil procedure applicable in the State of New York.

Disclaimer

Information and related materials are subject to change without notice. This web site, and all information and related materials it contains, are provided “as is.” Ferring makes no representation or warranty whatsoever regarding the completeness, accuracy, “up-to-dateness”, or adequacy of, or the suitability, functionality, availability, or operation of this web site or the information or materials it contains. By using this web site, you assume the risk that the information and materials on this web site may be incomplete, inaccurate, out of date, or may not meet your needs and requirements. Ferring specifically disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including without limitation, the warranties or merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement with respect to this web site and information, graphics and materials contained herein.

Links to Other Web Sites

This web site may contain links to, or be accessed from links on, other world wide web sites. Ferring does not have responsibility for, or control of, the contents, availability, operation or performance of other web sites to which this web site may be linked or from which this web site may be accessed. Ferring makes no representation regarding the content of any other web sites which you may access from this web site.

Concerning Your Privacy

Access to this web site may be monitored by Ferring. If monitored, the requesting URLs, the machine originating the request, and the time of the request, are logged for access statistics and security purposes. Your use and access of this web site constitutes your consent to such general monitoring. Please see FERRING PRIVACY NOTICE for details on how information from the web site may be gathered and used.

Trademarks

All trademarks, logos and service marks appearing in this web site, and as designated with either a trademark symbol or type form that is different from the surrounding text, are trademarks owned by or licensed to Ferring, its subsidiaries or affiliates. Notwithstanding this disclaimer, all other names and marks mentioned in this web site are the trade names, trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

No License

Nothing in this web site shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use in any form or manner any patent, copyright or trademark of Ferring. Please be advised that Ferring protects its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.

Submissions (Information To Ferring)

The submission of any unsolicited information, such as questions, comments, or suggestions, to Ferring, either through this web site or by any other means of communication, shall NOT be considered confidential. Ferring shall have no obligation to you of any kind with respect to such information. By submitting any information to Ferring, you understand that Ferring shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, display, exhibit, transmit, perform, create derivative works, and distribute the information to others without limitation, and to authorise others to do the same. In addition, Ferring shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and other items incorporating such ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques.

Other

This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with laws of the U.S. If any provision of this agreement is held to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent necessary and such elimination or limitation shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter herein and you agree to indemnify Ferring for any claims or damages resulting from your failure to abide by these terms and conditions.

The Ferring web site may be unavailable from time to time due to mechanical, telecommunication, software, hardware and third-party vendor failures, updating or construction. Ferring cannot predict or control when such downtime may occur and cannot control the duration of such downtime.

Ferring reserves the right to alter or delete material from this web site at any time.

Ferring may, at any time, revise these Web site Usage Terms by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should, therefore, periodically review these terms to review the then current Usage Terms.

Transparency in Coverage

The Transparency in Coverage Final Rules require certain group health plans to disclose on a public website information regarding in-network provider rates and historical out-of-network allowed amounts and billed charges for covered items and services in two separate machine-readable files (MRFs).  The MRFs for the benefit package options under the Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. Employee Benefit Plan are available here.