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These Terms and Conditions May Change

Checkbiotech reserves the right to update or modify these terms and conditions at any time without prior notice. Your use of this web site following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the terms and conditions as changed. For this reason, we encourage you to review these terms and conditions every time you use this web site. These terms and conditions were last revised on March 2, 2007.

Copyright Notice and Limited License

Everything you see and hear on this web site (the "Content"), including, for example, all of the text, photographs, illustrations, graphics, audio clips, video clips, and audio-video clips, except for the articles found within the Checkbiotech database, is copyrighted under Swiss law and applicable international copyright laws and treaty provisions. Articles written by, or in behalf of, Checkbiotech will be designated as such within the article. Such articles are copyrighted and belong to Checkbiotech. The copyrights in the Content are owned by Checkbiotech or by third parties who have licensed their materials to Checkbiotech. The entire Content of this site is copyrighted as a collective work under Swiss law and applicable international copyright laws and treaties, and Checkbiotech owns the copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of the Content.

Checkbiotech does not claim ownership or property rights to the articles that have been stored in the database, with the exception of those written by, or in behalf of, Checkbiotech. The articles may be used for noncommercial, or private use by visitors of Checkbiotech and should respect the copyright of the original owner. Checkbiotech respectfully asks that the original source of a given article is respected and well-represented upon reproduction.

You may download, store, print, and copy selected portions of the Content of this site, provided you: only use the Content you download for your personal, noncommercial use or to further your business dealings with Checkbiotech.

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Except as expressly stated above, no right, title or interest in the downloaded Content is transferred to you when you download Content from this site. Except for the limited, non-exclusive license expressly granted above, nothing contained in these terms and conditions or on this web site shall be construed as conferring a license, be it by implication, e-stopple or otherwise, or any other right under any copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property right of or any third party.

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By submitting communications and/or materials to Checkbiotech through this web site, you assign to Checkbiotech, free of charge, all worldwide rights, title and interest in all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the information and/or materials you submit. Checkbiotech will be entitled to use any information and/or materials you submit through this web site, and any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any such information and/or materials, for any purpose whatsoever, included but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information or materials without restriction and without compensating you in any way.

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Effective Date

The terms and conditions set forth above are effective as of February 2, 2001.