IMPORTANT NOTICE: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE REGISTERING TO USE THE SERVICE: This agreement is a legal agreement between you, the individual who accepts this Agreement, (User or you) and IXICO Limited of London Bioscience Innovation Centre, 2 Royal College Road, London, NW1 0NH (IXICO or we) for the TrialWire Free service.

By clicking on the "Accept" button below you agree to the terms of this agreement which will bind you.  If you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, you must discontinue registration to use the TrialWire Free service now by clicking on the "Reject" button below and you may not use the TrialWire Free service.

The Service

TrialWire Free is an online software tool accessed through www.mytrialwire.com, www.trialwire.co.uk  and www.trialwire.us (the “Site”).  TrialWire Free assists users to de-identify and organise large volumes of medical imaging data using parameters defined by the user and facilitates electronic transfer of the data from the user’s computer equipment to a destination of the user’s choice (this service, together with associated services carried out by IXICO such as the hosting of the Site, shall be described as the “Service”).  The software for the Service (including the software for the Site and software downloaded and auto-installed on the user’s computer equipment as part of the Service) together with any upgraded or altered version of such software made available to you shall be described as the “Software”.  The Software is a free release made available for user evaluation and testing.  Further information about the Service is available on the Site in the form of the Instructions for Use, Technical Information and FAQs (referred to in this agreement, together with any other documentation about the Service which we may make available to you, as the “Documentation”). 

Ixico offers the free version of the Service to the medical imaging community for use free of charge solely in relation to research trials that are covered by suitable ethics or IRB consent and/or for educational purposes where suitable consent is in place.  For information about use of a non-free version of the Service with additional features on a chargeable basis, please contact us at info@ixico.com.

Access to the Service: Subject to the terms of this agreement, IXICO grants you, free of charge, a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence, to access and use the Service through the Site, and to use the Software, solely in connection with research trials that are covered by suitable ethics or IRB consent and/or for educational purposes where suitable consent is in place.

You must register through the Site in order to access and use the Service.  Upon registration, you will be issued with a password which will enable you to log in to your account on the Site in order to access and use the Service.  You agree not to disclose your password to anyone else or to allow anyone else to access or use the Service with it.

Scope of the Service: The Service has not been developed to meet your individual requirements and it is your responsibility to ensure that the facilities and functions of the Service as described in this agreement and the Documentation meet your requirements.  We do not guarantee that use of the Service will ensure your compliance with patient privacy or confidentiality laws or regulations.  It is your responsibility to check that legal and regulatory requirements applicable to your activities are met and to ensure that the results obtained from the use of the Service meet your requirements.

We cannot guarantee the security or integrity of data transferred using the Service and accept no responsibility for loss of, changes to, or corruption of data, for unauthorised use of or access to data.  Data transferred using the Service will not be encrypted except by the encryption built into the transfer protocol (eg: ftps) if that is selected.  It is your responsibility to decide upon (and correctly input details of) the destination to which you choose to send your data.

The Service is not a medical device or clinical tool.  The Service may be used solely in relation to research trials that are covered by suitable ethics or IRB consent and/or for educational purposes where suitable consent is in place. IXICO reserves the right to cease provision or change the Service at any time either for any customer or for any group of customers or for all customers of the Service at any time. 

The Service is made available on an “as is” basis.  All conditions, warranties, representations or other terms, express or implied, except those specifically stated in this agreement are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.  The Site and the Software may not be free of bugs or errors and we cannot guarantee that access to the Site will be uninterrupted or that the Service will always be available or will be error-free.  We give no warranty and make no representation that the Site, the Software and/or the server that makes the Site available is free of viruses or other harmful components.

Assistance with the Service: If you have any queries about the Service, please refer to our Instructions for Use, Technical Information and FAQs. We do not provide email or telephone support for the free Service.

We welcome your comments and feedback on the Service and you can make comments and discuss the Service with other users through the discussion forum on the Site.  However, we do not undertake to respond to your comments and feedback.  You agree not to post any material that is illegal, offensive, libellous or infringes someone else’s intellectual property rights on the discussion forum. We may remove from the discussion forum any material that we believe is inappropriate, irrelevant, misleading, illegal, offensive, libellous or infringes someone else’s intellectual property rights.

Changes to the Service: We reserve the right to make changes to the Service without giving you advance notice.  These changes may include upgrades to the Service or additional features or functions.  We intend to continue to make the Service available free of charge but we give no undertaking to continue to do so.  If changes are made to the Service, continued use of the Service (and/or of the additional features) may be subject to acceptance of a new version of this agreement and/or payment of charges. 

Data Collection: IXICO does not transfer to its servers or store any personally identifiable information about patients or volunteers contained in the User’s medical imaging data files.  In order to help us improve the Service, we may collect other data relating to your use of the Service.  This may include information about the speed of transfers from your system to the destination of your choice, frequency of use of the Service by you, volume of data transferred to the destination of your choice, and DICOM tag information relating to the type of scanner used and type of scan (such as modality, and scanner manufacturer) for your medical image data.

Your Undertakings: You agree to acknowledge use of the Service in all publications and presentations of research or projects in relation to which you have made use of the Service.

Except as expressly set out in this agreement or as permitted by any local law which is incapable of exclusion by agreement between us, you agree:

-          not to host or attempt to host your own version of the Service, or otherwise make the Service and/or the Software available to any third party and not to copy or attempt to copy the Software or Documentation except where such copying is incidental to authorised use of the Software or Documentation or where it is necessary for the purpose of back-up or operational security;

-          not to rent, lease, sub-license, loan, translate, merge, adapt, vary or modify the Software or the Documentation nor attempt to do so;

-          not to disassemble, de-compile, reverse engineer or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of the Software or otherwise reduce the Software to human-perceivable form nor attempt to do so.

If you would like to make the software available to anyone else or to charge anyone else for use of the software, please contact us to discuss the possibility of making alternative arrangements to allow you to do so. 

Intellectual Property Rights: You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights in the Service, the Site, the Software and the Documentation throughout the world belong to IXICO or its licensors, that rights in the Software are licensed (not sold) to you, and that you have no rights in, or to, the Service, the Site, the Software or the Documentation other than the right to use them in accordance with the terms of this agreement. 

Your Data You agree to fully compensate us by reimbursing the amount of any such losses or costs to us upon request in relation to any losses or costs (including reasonable legal expenses) we incur as a result of any claim, allegation or court proceedings brought against us by a third party in connection with data in relation to which you use the Service and/or your use of such data. 

Exclusions and Limitations of our Liability: Nothing in this agreement shall exclude or limit IXICO’s liability for fraud, or for death and personal injury caused by its negligence, or any other liability to the extent that it cannot be excluded or limited as a matter of law.

Except as set out in the paragraph above, because the Service and is made available to you free of charge, IXICO excludes all liability arising out of or in connection with this agreement, the Service, the Software, the Site, the Documentation and/or your use of or inability to use the Service.

Termination: We may at any time and for any reason, or for our convenience, terminate this agreement, your registration and your access to the Site and the Service immediately by written notice to you at the address provided by you upon registration.

Upon termination for any reason all rights granted to you under this agreement shall cease and you must immediately cease all activities authorised by this agreement and delete or destroy all copies of the Software and/or the Documentation in your possession. Your password for the Site will be invalidated. 

General: You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of this agreement, or any of your rights or obligations under it, without our prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of this agreement, or any of our rights or obligations arising under it, at any time.

If we fail to insist on strict performance of any of your obligations or to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations.

If any of the terms of this agreement are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

This agreement represents the entire agreement between us in relation to the provisions of the Service and licensing of the Software and Documentation, sets out the full extent of our obligations and liabilities, and supersedes any prior agreement, understanding or arrangement between us. We each acknowledge that, in entering into this agreement, neither of us has relied on any statement or representation (other than a fraudulent misrepresentation), undertaking, warranty, term, condition, course of dealing or promise, express or implied, except as expressly stated in this agreement. 

This agreement, its subject matter and/or its formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and any dispute relating to this agreement, the Service, the Software, the Site and/or the Documentation shall be submitted to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.