Terms of Use

CT Lexicon is a mobile application made available as a piece of software (the “Application”) owned and operated by Takeda Canada Inc. and its affiliates (hereinafter: “Takeda”, “our,” or “us”), and distributed by Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG, designed to present information about key data, both new and old, as well as summaries of clinical trial designs. The Application assists Users (“Users” or “You” or “Your”) to look up and review trials on your mobile device. 

THIS APP IS INTENDED FOR CANADIAN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS ONLY.

  • You are required to create a CT Lexicon account to use the app. This account will be associated with an email address and a password that you create.
  • Use of the app requires that you be authenticated as a healthcare professional by entering an access code that you received from a Takeda Medical Science Liaison or by providing, along with your email address, your first and last name, associated healthcare institution, and province. This information is only used one time to authenticate you as a healthcare professional and is not stored with your account information.
  • You may only access and view the curated studies in this app for your personal private study, research, or education.
  • The studies and other content in this app may not be printed, downloaded, nor distributed.
  • The app allows you to make notes associated with each study. Any information entered into these note fields is only accessible by you when you log into your account and is not accessible by Takeda. The content of these notes is your legal responsibility. 

By continuing to use this App, you: (i) signify that you have read, understand and agree to be legally bound by these TOU including without limitation the applicable law and dispute provisions, (ii) are granted, subject to your compliance with these TOU, a worldwide, non-exclusive, terminable licence at no charge for your personal and private use of our “CT Lexicon” mobile application (including any updates or supplements to it) (“App”), and (iii) must comply with all applicable laws and regulations as they may change from time to time in connection with your use of the App.
If you do not agree to be legally bound by, or cannot comply with these TOU, you must delete and stop using the App. 

Your Responsibility

It is your responsibility to determine whether your use of the App is lawful. Please check with your provincial/territorial professional association before using this App.  
If you record any information into the note fields in this the App you are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the App meets your legal obligations under personal information and health privacy laws. 

Takeda only has access to an aggregated report of App usage and will not, at any time, have access to any information you have entered into the note fields in this app.
You also acknowledge that no form of internet transmission or network security is guaranteed to be secure against all forms of threat actors or instructions, and your use of the App and network is at your own risk.

THIS APP IS ONLY DESIGNED TO ASSIST WITH REVIEW OF CURATED MEDICAL LITERATURE. IT IS NOT A MEDICAL DEVICE. NOTHING STATED OR POSTED IN THE APP IS INTENDED TO BE, AND MUST NOT BE TAKEN AS, A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ANALYSIS AND DIAGNOSIS BY A HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAW, THE APP AND ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THE APP IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, AND WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. ALL CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

  1. WHO WE ARE AND WHAT THIS AGREEMENT DOES
    1. Takeda has developed this mobile application to be used by you to review curated medical information for your personal private study, research, or education.
    2. These TOU set out the application legal terms and conditions which you have agreed to in order to be permitted to use the App.
       
    3. Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to modify all or any portion of these TOU at any time without incurring any liability or obligation whatsoever to you or any other person or entity. If we do this, we will post the changes to these TOU before the amendment comes into effect and will indicate at the top of this page the date these TOU were last revised. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, your continued access to and/or use of any App after the date specified in such notice constitutes your full acceptance of, and agreement to be legally bound by, the terms of these TOU as revised.
       
  1. OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    This app requires an iPhone or iPad with iOS 11.0 or higher, or an Android device with Android 6.0 or higher.  

  1. RESTRICTIONS FOR DOWNLOADING THE APP
    This app is intended for use by registered Canadian healthcare professionals only. This app is not intended for, and should not be used by, users who have not reached the legal age of majority in their Canadian province or territory of residence.
     
  1. YOUR OBLIGATIONS WHEN DOWNLOADING THE APP
    1. If you download onto or otherwise access the App through any phone or other device not owned by you, you must have the owner’s permission to do so. You will be responsible for complying with the TOU, whether or not you own the phone or other device.
       
    2. We are giving you personally the right to use the App. You may not otherwise transfer the App to someone else, whether for money, for anything else or for free. If you sell any device on which the App is installed, you must permanently delete the App from it.
    3. By using the App, you hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Takeda, its affiliates, each of their respective agents, employees, directors, successors, and assigns (“Releasees”) from any loss, liability, claim, demand, damage or expense asserted by any entity relating in any way to your use of the App, User Content, and/or breach of these TOU, including, without limitation, any and all claims based on negligence, medical malpractice, publicity rights, defamation, invasion of privacy, copyright infringement, trade-mark infringement or any other cause of action.
       
  1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
    1. All intellectual property rights in the App (which for greater certainty includes without limitation all graphics, texts, icons, designs, works, marks, creative materials, artwork, layouts, writings, programming, content, technology and other proprietary materials or content) shall belong to Takeda absolutely, exclusively and in their entirety worldwide. These rights include copyrights, design rights (whether registered or unregistered), patent rights other rights whenever existing in the world together with the right to apply for protection of the same. For greater certainty, your use of the App does not grant or transfer to you any ownership or other rights in the App, and except as expressly provided, nothing herein or within the App shall be construed as conferring on you or any other person any license to use any of Takeda’s intellectual property rights, including, without limitation, any right to download, display, reproduce, distribute, modify, edit, alter or enhance the App in any manner whatsoever. Any rights not expressly granted to you in these TOU are expressly reserved by Takeda. For greater certainty, you agree that you will not take any action that is inconsistent with Takeda’s ownership of the App. 
       
    2. Subject to your adherence to the TOU, the rights in the App are licensed (not sold) to you in a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, personal manner. You have no intellectual property rights in, or to the App other than the right to use them in accordance with these TOU.
       
    3. Certain features and/or portions of the App permit you to record, upload, or otherwise transmit your data and content (“User Content”).
       
    4. You hereby agree that you shall not use the App to upload, post, communicate or otherwise submit or transmit through, or to, the App any User Content that:
       
      1. may, in the sole and absolute discretion of Takeda, degrade, disparage, tarnish or deprecate Takeda and/or the public image or standing in the community of Takeda provided it is understood that this shall not be interpreted to prohibit you from expressing your true and honest experience with Takeda or its products in a manner prohibited under applicable law;
         
      2. is deemed, in the sole and absolute discretion of Takeda, to be defamatory, trade libelous, pornographic or obscene;
         
      3. contains any reference to or likeness of any identifiable third parties;
      4. infringes, or might infringe, the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, rights of publicity, or other rights; or
         
      5. contains any viruses, trojan horses, time bombs, or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
         
      6. By using the App and entering User Content, you hereby are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the App meets your legal obligations under personal information and health privacy laws.
         
  1. RESTRICTIONS OF USING THE APP
    1. Our license for you to use the App as set out in these TOU is on the condition that you comply with all applicable laws which govern your use of the App, and you will not:
       
    2. copy, lease, sub-license, loan, provide, or otherwise make them available, in any form, in whole or in part to any person;
       
    3. translate, merge, adapt, vary, alter, or modify, the whole or any part of the App nor permit the App or any part of it to be combined (in whole or in part) with, or become incorporated in any other programs, except as necessary to use them on devices as permitted in these TOU;
       
    4. disassemble, de-compile, reverse engineer or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of the App;
       
    5. use the App in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with these TOU, or act negligently, fraudulently, or maliciously, for example, by hacking into or inserting malicious, for example, by hacking into or inserting malicious code, such as viruses, or harmful data, into them or any operating system; and
       
    6. infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of the App.
       
  1. OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LOSS OR DAMAGE
    1. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAW, THE APP AND ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED ON OR ACCESSED FROM THE APP IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, AND WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. ALL CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
       
    2. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE RELEASEES MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT: (I) THE APP WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR DEVICE AND SOFTWARE; (II) THE APP WILL BE AVAILABLE OR WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERROR; (III) THE USE OF THE APP, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE BROWSING AND DOWNLOADING OF ANY INFORMATION, WILL BE FREE OF ANY VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, WORMS OR OTHER DESTRUCTIVE, INTRUSIVE OR DISRUPTIVE COMPONENTS; (IV) THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION TO AND FROM THE APP WILL BE SECURE; (V) THE USE OF THE APP WILL NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS) OF ANY PERSON; OR (VI) THE USE OF THE APP WILL NOT CAUSE ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE, SYSTEMS, SOFTWARE OR ELECTRONIC FILES.
       
    3. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAW, THE RELEASEES WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR PATIENTS) OR ENTITY FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING FROM, CONNECTED WITH, OR RELATING TO THE APP. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TAKEDA HAS ENTERED INTO THIS AGREEMENT WITH YOU AND MAKES THE APP AVAILABLE TO YOU, IN RELIANCE UPON THE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY AND THE DISCLAIMERS SET FORTH HEREIN, AND THAT THE SAME FORM AN ESSENTIAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND TAKEDA. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT THE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY AND THE DISCLAIMERS SET FORTH HEREIN WILL SURVIVE AND CONTINUE TO APPLY IN THE CASE OF A FUNDAMENTAL BREACH OR BREACHES, THE FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF CONTRACT, THE FAILURE OF ANY EXCLUSIVE REMEDY, OR TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.
       
    4. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:
       
      1. We are not liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to download and use an App update offered to you free of charge or, for damage that was caused by you, including you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.
         
      2. We are not liable to you under these TOU for any special, incidental, punitive, consequential, or other indirect or exemplary damages arising in any way out of or under these TOU including, without limitation, negligence, medical malpractice, lost profits, lost business, business interruptions or loss of business opportunity, whether in tort, contract or otherwise, even if you have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
         
      3. We are not liable for any information provided by the App – Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information provided by the App, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that such information is accurate, complete or up to date.
         
      4. We are not responsible for the loss of any information or data that you may have recorded in the App.
  1. WHEN WE MAY END YOUR RIGHTS TO USE THE APP
    1. As this App is made available free of charge and is for informational purposes only, we make no representation that we will continue to make it available, support and/or update it indefinitely. We may, in our sole discretion, change, suspend or terminate, temporarily or permanently, the App or any part thereof or any of its features at any time, for any reason, without any notice or liability to you or any other entity. If your permission to use the App is terminated by us for any reason, these TOU will nevertheless continue to apply and be binding upon you in respect of your prior use of the App and anything relating to or arising from such use. If you are dissatisfied with the App or with these TOU or Privacy Notice, then your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the App.
       
    2. We may also end your rights to use the App at any time if you have violated these TOU or the Privacy Notice.
       
    3. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if we end your rights to use the App:
       
      1. You must stop using the App.
         
      2. You must delete or remove the App from all devices in your possession and immediately destroy all copies of the App which you have.
         
  1. TRANSFER OF THIS AGREEMENT
    1. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these TOU to another organization.
       
    2. You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these TOU to another person if we agree in advance in writing.
       
  1. FURTHER TERMS
    1. This TOU does not give rise to any rights to a third party to enforce any terms of these TOU.
       
    2. If any one or more provisions of these TOU is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable by any court having competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect.
       
    3. Even if we delay in enforcing these TOU, we can still enforce it later. If we do not insist immediately that you do anything you are required to do under these TOU, or if we delay in taking steps against you in respect of your breach of these TOU that will not mean that you do not have to do those things and it will not prevent us taking steps against you at a later date.
       
  1. APPLICABLE LAW AND DISPUTES
    1. The following provision (11.2) does not apply to residents of Quebec.
    2.  These TOU, and all related matters, shall be exclusively governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws, rules and regulations of Canada applicable therein.  In the event of a dispute arising out of these TOU or any related matters, all parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario. 
  1. UPDATE AND CHANGES TO THE APP
    1. From time to time, we may ask you to update the App to improve performance, vary functionality, reflect change to the operating system or address security issues. However, we are under no legal obligation to update the App.
       

If you choose not to install such updates, you may not be able to continue using the App.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS OF USE SHALL SUPERSEDE ANY PREVIOUS ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION.

By continuing to use this App I agree to the Terms of Use outlined above.

Reporting Adverse Events

Any communication with Takeda using this app (e.g., a submission from the contact form) is for the express purpose of exchanging information about the CT Lexicon app.

Do NOT use this app to report adverse events. You are encouraged to report side effects or quality issues to Takeda at AE.CAN@takeda.com. If you prefer, you can report to the Health Authority.

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