TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE FOR ACCORDANT.NET

Accordant.net is owned and operated by Accordant. By using any feature at Accordant.net, you are acknowledging your consent to the following terms and conditions.

Accordant.net reserves the right at its discretion to change these terms and conditions from time to time. Your continued use of Accordant.net after the posting of any amended terms and conditions shall constitute your agreement to be bound by any such changes. Accordant may modify, suspend, discontinue or restrict the use of any portion of Accordant.net, including the availability of any portion of the content at any time, without notice or liability.

License

You may interact with or download information from any portion of Accordant.net for your personal, noncommercial information or use. However, you may not copy, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, modify, display, repost, hyperlink or otherwise use or distribute any portion of the information and materials from Accordant.net for public or commercial purposes without the express written consent of Accordant.net.

Use of Accordant.net

The use of Accordant.net is intended for lawful purposes only. By accessing Accordant.net, you specifically agree not to do any of the following: (i) upload to or transmit on Accordant.net any defamatory, indecent, obscene, harassing, excessively violent or otherwise objectionable material, or any material that is, or may be, protected by copyright, without permission from the copyright owner; (ii) use Accordant.net to violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others; (iii) intercept or attempt to intercept electronic mail not intended for you; (iv) misrepresent an affiliation with any person or organization; (v) restrict or inhibit other subscribers' use of Accordant.net; (vi) upload or otherwise transmit files that contain a virus or otherwise corrupted data; or (vii) download a file or software or include in a message any software, files or links that you know, or have reason to believe, cannot be distributed legally over Accordant.net or that you have a contractual obligation to keep confidential.

Registration and Submission to Accordant

Certain areas of Accordant.net are accessible only to registered users. To become a registered user, you must be employed by a company that has hired Accordant to provide you with online prescription services. In order to access the registered-user-only areas of Accordant.net, you will need the username and password provided to you by your employer. You acknowledge that the use of username and password is an adequate form of security. You are solely responsible for (1) authorizing, monitoring, controlling access to and maintaining the strict confidentiality of your username and password, (2) not allowing another person to use your username or password, (3) any charges or damages that may be incurred as a result of your neglect to maintain the strict confidentiality of your username and password, and (4) promptly informing Accordant in writing of any need to deactivate an username due to security concerns. Accordant is not liable for any harm related to the theft of usernames or passwords, disclosure of usernames or passwords, or your authorization to allow another person or entity to access and use Accordant.net using your username or password. You shall immediately notify Accordant of any unauthorized use of your username or password and any breach of confidentiality. Until Accordant receives this notification from you, you will be held liable for any harm ensuing from the use of your username on Accordant.net.

Submissions to Accordant.net

If any user of Accordant.net makes any submission (such as questions, comments, resume, or suggestions) to Accordant, whether oral, written or electronic, no confidential relationship shall be established between the user and Accordant. The user's submission, and any information submitted with it, shall be considered nonconfidential and shall be considered the sole and exclusive property of Accordant. Accordant shall have no obligation of any kind (such as compensation) with respect to the submission or any materials that accompany it. Accordant shall be free to use or transmit to others any ideas, concepts, or techniques contained in the user's submission and accompanying materials for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, research, development, manufacture, use or sale of any products or services incorporating or relying on such information.

Not Intended for Use by Minors

Accordant.net is not intended for, nor do we believe they are appealing to, children under the age of 18. We will not knowingly collect information from Accordant.net visitors in this age group.

Disclaimer

All information on Accordant.net is for your educational and informational purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for a consultation with your physician, or other applicable clinician, and should not be used to diagnose or treat a health problem without consulting your physician. The risks and benefits of any particular drug or treatment should be considered with your physician or other applicable clinician. You should consult with your physician to assist you in evaluating the appropriateness of the information provided to you by Accordant and its licensed pharmacists and any medications you are taking in the context of your situation and circumstances and with due consideration to new developments. In no event shall Accordant be liable for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information contained on this site.
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Certain of the information on Accordant.net is licensed by Accordant or otherwise made available to Accordant by third parties. Accordant is not responsible for the content of any information provided to it by any third party. Information accessible through Accordant.net speaks only as of the date such information was prepared. Such information may be incomplete or may have become out of date. Accordant makes no commitment, and disclaims any duty, to update or revise such information. Accordant.net does not warrant that the functions contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that Accordant.net or the server that makes it available is free of viruses or other harmful components.

Intellectual Property

Accordant.net and all content and images contained therein, as well as all copyright, trademark, trade dress and other rights therein are owned or licensed by Accordant and its affiliates. Nothing contained on Accordant.net should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right in or to such information or trademarks without the express written permission of Accordant. You agree not to copy, use or otherwise infringe upon any trademarks or service marks contained in Accordant.net. You further agree that you will not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from any copies of the information downloaded from Accordant.net.

Present or Future Employment with Accordant

Should you become employed with Accordant, none of the information or materials on Accordant.net shall constitute or be considered part of an employment contract or an employee manual or handbook. Nothing stated or represented on Accordant.net shall affect the employment relationship between Accordant and its current, former, or future employees.

Links

Accordant.net contains links to other Web sites not operated by Accordant. These links are provided as a convenience and do not constitute an affiliation with, endorsement or sponsorship of the third parties that operate those Web sites. Accordant is not responsible for the availability or reliability of the content of these third party Web sites. Any information you provide to those third parties is not subject to the terms of this privacy policy, and Accordant is not responsible for the treatment of the information you provide to those third parties. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of that third party, and of any third party to whom you provide personally identifiable information online.

Contacts

If you have any questions or comments about Accordant.net, please Contact Accordant or write to Accordant at:

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Personal Information

A user's personal information is treated in accordance with Accordant.net's Privacy Policy.

Client Services Applications

The Client Services web-based applications are exclusively provided to Accordant clients. Use of these applications is subject to the terms of agreements signed with Accordant.

Jurisdiction

Accordant.net is operated as a service to the clients and participants of Accordant in the United States of America and its territories and should be used only by residents of the United States of America. These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflicts of law provisions. If any of these terms and conditions is determined to be void, unlawful, or unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions shall not thereby be affected or impaired.

WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY FOR ACCORDANT.NET

Accordant.net is owned and operated by Accordant. Most areas at Accordant.net are open to the general public, however some areas of the site may provide additional information or services for registered users.

We have provided this notice to describe the online information collection and use practices at Accordant.net. This document describes the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. This privacy policy applies only to the information collected on Accordant.net, and does not apply to any other information that Accordant collects about you on other Accordant owned, operated, or sponsored web sites, or in other forums, including in e-mail correspondences or over the telephone. This policy does not apply to the "Physicians" section of Accordant.net, which is available only to Accordant clients, and is governed by separate agreements in place between Accordant and its clients.

From time to time, our internal processes may change, or we may offer new features at Accordant.net. If appropriate, we will revise this privacy policy. We encourage you to return to this area to read the most recent version of the privacy policy. The information we provide you on Accordant.net will be treated in accordance with the privacy policy in effect as of the date you provide information to us. If we alter our practices in a manner that will affect the treatment of information that you have already provided to us, we will send you a notice of our new practices. If you do not agree with the privacy practices described in this policy, you should not provide us with information. This version of the privacy policy is effective as of January 3, 2004.

Information Collection

Accordant collects personally identifiable information at Accordant.net from web visitors who are interested in receiving services it offers such as e-mail alerts, newsletters, and event notifications. Accordant also collects additional information from registered users, such as addresses and other information necessary to process your request. If you have questions about the information your employer may have shared with us, please contact your employer's human resources department.
Accordant works with third-party providers to provide specific services offered on Accordant.net, and may collect personal information as part of the provision of those services. For example, BrassRing operates the "Careers at Caremark" feature at the "About Caremark" area of the Caremark.com site and Yesmail sends several of our email alerts.

A Note About Cookies and Passive Tracking Technologies: A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer that allows Accordant.net to reparticipant that it has previously communicated with your browser. Accordant uses both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once a user closes his or her browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Once a persistent cookie is saved on a user's computer, only Accordant.net can read it and no other web site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. Like most standard Web site servers, Accordant uses log files to collect non-personally identifiable information. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp and number of clicks.

Information Use

Information you provide is used in order to respond to your request. From time to time Accordant requests information from users via surveys on Accordant.net. Participation in these surveys is voluntary, and information collected as part of those surveys is used in compliance with this privacy policy.

We may use the information to provide you with materials about Accordant or our products and services, including new content or services at Accordant.net. We may provide you with these materials by phone, mail, facsimile, or e-mail. We may also share your information with our subsidiaries, affiliates, or business partners.

We will disclose your personal information if, in good faith, we believe we are required by law to do so, including but not limited to disclosure to law enforcement or other government officials in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability. We may also disclose your information in the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other similar event. If this occurs, your personally identifiable information may be transferred to our successor or assign, or may be sold as an asset of our company.

Passive tracking mechanisms such as cookies and log files are used by Accordant to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Persistent cookies enable Accordant to track and target the aggregate interests of Accordant.net users to enhance the experience on the site.

Security

Accordant takes reasonable technical and procedural precautions to protect the information provided by users of Accordant.net. When online registration and order forms require users to provide certain information, such as a credit card number, that information is collected on a "secure" page, and the information submitted is encrypted. To determine if you are on a secure page, look to see if a lock icon appears on the bottom of your web site browser.