Terms & Conditions

Please read and review the following terms and conditions. Following your acceptance of them, you will be presented with a form to use to submit or update your information in the Covance Investigator Database.

1. The purpose of your submitting details requested about yourself and your professional activities (collectively, "Details") to Covance is to allow Covance to (a) collect information about you and your research facility, (b) tailor its services to best fit the requirements of its users and (c) use the information to form part of a database which can be used to identify Investigators to become involved in clinical trials and for other related purposes.
2. Should you submit patient or healthy volunteer data to Covance either now or in the future (collectively, "Subject Details"), the purpose of such data collection is to allow efficient data collection, clinical trial management and the tracking of data on the progress of clinical trials and of individual trial subjects, and to facilitate the ability of sponsors of clinical trials, CROs and SMOs or their designees (collectively, "Sponsors") to monitor and assess clinical trials and to ensure good clinical practice, effective trial management and the monitoring of adverse events.
3. You consent to Covance transferring your Details and any Subject Details submitted by you to any part of the world, whether by electronic communication or by fax, post or otherwise.
4. You represent and warrant that (a) you are a Qualified Clinical Investigator or are acting under the due authorization of a Qualified Clinical Investigator to submit information on the Investigator's behalf, (b) that you are in compliance with all applicable laws that govern your practice including, but not limited to, licensing requirements and (c) any Details or Subject Details submitted by you will be accurate and complete and will not violate any rights of another person.
5. Covance and Sponsors will use email to provide you with updates and alerts regarding clinical trials and activities related to the Site, or products and services pertaining to clinical trial involvement. You hereby consent to such communications. If at any time you would prefer not to be contacted by email then please send an email to investigators@Covance.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line and Covance will remove your name from the email mailing list.
6. You give permission to Covance to supply your Details to Sponsors and/or to license your Details to third parties for publication, reproduction or duplication. You acknowledge and agree that once you have submitted Details to Covance then Covance will be free to use the Details as set out herein, and where these Details are incorporated into databases by Covance then Covance will be the owner of all rights in such databases, including copyright rights. You will receive no compensation in connection with any of the foregoing.
7. You give permission to Covance and Sponsors to check and verify any of your Details. You agree to keep Covance updated as to any changes in your Details. Any misrepresentation or inaccuracy in providing your Details or Subject Details may lead to your Details not being included in the register of investigators database of which may be made available to Sponsors.
8. Covance does not guarantee that your Details will be provided to Sponsors, or that Sponsors will contact you. Covance does not determine whether or not you or your patients or healthy volunteers are eligible to participate in any clinical trial and does not guarantee participation in any clinical trial by you or your patients or healthy volunteers. You will not be compensated by Covance for submitting your Details or Subject Details. Covance may receive compensation from Sponsors with respect to the investigator database, for example in relation to the provision of information extracted from databases compiled from Details supplied to Covance.
9. In the event that Subject Details are being submitted by you, you represent and warrant that you have first obtained sufficient informed consent from the patient or healthy volunteer whose Subject Details are being submitted, by ensuring that they have read, understood and signed the relevant consent form.
10. Covance reserves the right to make disclosures of your Details or Subject Details submitted by you to the extent that it may be required to do so by law, rule, regulation, subpoena, order, decree, decision or other legal process.
11. If you are providing information on behalf of another person, you represent and warrant that you have been duly authorized to submit information on that person's behalf. You agree not to submit information about any person other than as you have been properly authorized and not to impersonate any other person.
12. Covance takes the issue of data privacy very seriously and has a security policy to protect any information you submit. The security policy includes both technical and operational measures including the use of passwords, restricted access to databases, use of transaction safeguards to prevent unauthorised access to system data and the reporting of unauthorised use to the Covance system security unit. However, no company can absolutely guarantee data security and thus Covance disclaims all liability in connection with the security or confidentiality of data.
13. COVANCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE INVESTIGATOR DATABASE AND THE SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
    
    YOU HEREBY AGREE THAT COVANCE AND ITS AFFILIATES, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS, SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (EVEN IF COVANCE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE), IN CONNECTION WITH OR RESULTING FROM YOUR SUBMISSION OF DETAILS OR SUBJECT DETAILS, YOUR PARTICIPATION IN ANY CLINICAL TRIAL OR NONPARTICIPATION IN ANY SUCH TRIAL, FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATIONS OF YOUR DETAILS OR ANY SUBJECT DETAILS SUBMITTED TO COVANCE. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AGAINST SUCH PARTIES WITH RESPECT THERETO.
14. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America and the State of New Jersey, without regard to conflicts of law.
15. Covance may assign its rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions and will be relieved of any further obligation upon such assignment. You may not assign your rights or obligations under these terms and Conditions without the prior written consent of Covance. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms and Conditions shall be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of you and Covance.
16. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be held illegal, void, or unenforceable, the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. Covance reserves the right to modify or alter these Terms and Conditions at any point in time and will notify you of any such changes. Your failure to object to any such modifications within sixty (60) days shall be deemed acceptance thereof.