USP Website Terms of Use

YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE.

This Website, including all of its features and content (the “Website”), is a service made available by The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) and may be used solely under the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”). USP reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time. Updated versions of the Terms of Use will appear on this Website and are effective immediately. Continued use of this Website after any such changes constitutes your consent to such changes.

This Website does not allow visitors to alter any original content provided by USP (“USP Content”), but feedback and comments (“Feedback,” and together with the USP Content, the “Content”) are welcomed and may be viewable by others accessing the Website. Users are hereby advised that USP has not necessarily reviewed the Feedback found in the Website and the Feedback provided may not be complete, accurate, or reliable information.  USP assumes no responsibility (and expressly disclaims responsibility) for updating the Website to keep information current or to ensure the accuracy or completeness of any posted information.

USP Content is owned by USP and is copyrighted and licensed, not sold. Third-party Content is owned by its respective owner. USP’s decision to permit posting of third-party Content does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement by USP of any particular product, service, company, or technology.  All rights not expressly granted under this agreement are reserved.

Content is not intended to and does not constitute legal or medical advice. The accuracy, completeness, adequacy, or currency of the Content is not warranted or guaranteed. Your use of Content on this Website or materials linked from this Website is at your own risk. 

USP grants you non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited permission to access the Website.  If you use or reference Content from the Website, such Content is not provided as “public domain.”  You may not mirror any of the Content from this site on another Website or in any other media.

THIS WEBSITE AND THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, USP SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ACCURACY. USP MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY WITH RESPECT TO THE WEBSITE'S ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR CURRENTNESS; AND USP SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY OTHER WARRANTY, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. USP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE ON ACCOUNT OF ANY SUCH ERRORS, OMISSIONS, DELAYS, OR LOSSES. YOU AGREE THAT IN NO EVENT WILL USP BE LIABLE FOR THE RESULTS OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT, FOR YOUR INABILITY OR FAILURE TO CONDUCT YOUR BUSINESS, OR FOR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. THE FOREGOING LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES SHALL APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE SUCCESS OR EFFECTIVENESS OF OTHER REMEDIES.

USP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS, INJURY, CLAIM, LIABILITY, OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, OR THE CONTENT HEREOF. USP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ATTORNEYS' FEES) IN ANY WAY DUE TO, RESULTING FROM, OR ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT.

You may not use the Website to communicate in any manner any unlawful or inappropriate information or materials, including without limitation anything that is threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane. USP may investigate complaints or violations of these Terms of Use and, notwithstanding any other terms or policies, it may take any action it deems appropriate including, without limitation, disclosing any information to enforcement agencies or others. In addition, USP reserves the right to pursue all remedies available for such violations, and may revoke access to the Website at any time.

By uploading, submitting, or otherwise making available or contributing to USP or the Website any Content, you grant USP an unrestricted, worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid up, license to use, make, have made, reproduce, display, perform, publish, upload, post, modify, create derivative works from, transmit, distribute, sell, offer for sale, and sub-license or otherwise transfer those materials or information or their modifications, and to authorize third parties to do any, some, or all of the foregoing including, but not limited to, sub-licensing others to do any, some, or all of the foregoing indefinitely. You represent and warrant that you have sufficient rights in those materials or information to grant these rights and licenses. You also agree that USP and its sub-licensees as described above are free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques that you submit to USP for any purpose.

Further, you hereby give permission to USP to release your name or otherwise publicize the fact that you submitted materials or other information to us, and USP may do so without the need of further notice to you.

Notwithstanding any other terms in this agreement, USP is under no obligation to use, post, or upload any contribution you make to the Website or otherwise, and USP may remove any posting or upload you make at USP's sole discretion.

USP does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information or material from you through the Website. Information that you submit to the Website may be posted publicly without notice to you. Please note that any information or material sent to the Website will be deemed not to be confidential.

Unless otherwise stated in this agreement, personally identifiable information that you submit to USP in the Website or otherwise will be handled in accordance with our privacy policies. Please click here for information regarding USP's privacy policies.

All trademarks or logos presented on the Website are and remain the property of USP. No licenses or other rights in or to such trademarks or logos are granted. The Website may contain other proprietary notices and copyright information, the terms of which must be observed and followed.

If you link to the Website, the link and pages that are activated by the link must not: (a) create frames around any page on the Website or use other techniques that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of any content within this site; (b) misrepresent your relationship with USP; (c) imply that USP approves or endorses you, your Website, or your service or product offerings; or (d) present false or misleading impressions about USP or otherwise damage the goodwill associated with the USP name or trademarks.

Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. USP and the Website do not encourage the violation of any laws, and USP is not responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein. This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Maryland  and the intellectual property laws of the United States of America, without regard to conflict of law principles. No party to this agreement may bring a legal action under agreement more than one year after the cause of action arose. Each party waives its rights to a jury trial in any resulting litigation.