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Eligibility
1. Sponsorships must comply with the Core Principles.
2. Sponsorships are available to organizations or companies at a corporate level and for specific products or services provided that there is no reasonable inference of a commercial connection or relationship between the sponsor or the products and services and the clinical content.
3. Single (or exclusive) sponsorships will be accepted at the corporate level for both clinical and non-clinical publications. Single sponsorships for specific products and services are permissible in non-clinical publications only.
4. Preferred suppliers of PharmaClips.com may be single sponsors of features that are closely related to products or services they manufacture or promote however, the relationship between the PharmaClips.com and the sponsor will be transparent to the reader and in accepting such sponsorship the PharmaClips.com will at all times be guided by the Core Principles of editorial independence, institutional integrity and consistency with PharmaClips.com’s mission, vision and values.
5. A regular feature page or section may qualify for long-term sponsorship by a single sponsor provided that the specific content of the feature is variable and confidential, and that editorial independence is maintained.
6. Banner advertising from other advertisers may appear in the template of pages or sections that have been sponsored.
7. Sponsorships from organizations whose products or services compete with those offered by the PharmaClips.com or PharmaClips.com’s subsidiaries, including drug coupons, are not eligible. See General -- Restrictions on Competitive Advertising and Sponsorship.
8. Sponsorships from organizations that manufacture or promote products or services such as tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, weapons, gambling or pornography, or other products that violate PharmaClips.com policy, are not eligible.
9. Sponsorships are not eligible in designated areas of PharmaClips.com, such as the home page.
10. PharmaClips.com reserves the right of final approval of all sponsorship and the right to refuse or terminate any sponsorship.
Acknowledgement
1. PharmaClips.com will determine the final wording and placement of sponsor acknowledgement.
2. Sponsorship of specific content (e.g., article, series, supplements, special features or electronic tables of contents) will be acknowledged as an unrestricted educational grant.
Sample wording:
"This table of contents/this series/etc. is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from [Organization X] " or "Produced by PharmaClips.com through an unrestricted educational grant from [Company Y]."
3. Acknowledgement of sponsorship may make reference to products or services.
Sample wording:
"Produced through an unrestricted educational grant from [Organization X], makers of [Product Y]."
4. The acknowledgement of sponsorship may be accompanied by a corporate logo that is linked to advertisements for products or services of the sponsor (.pdf pages only) provided the sponsor's logo is not more prominent than the size of the PharmaClips.com’s logo. The prominence of logos will be determined by PharmaClips.com.
5. Sponsors may refer to the fact of sponsorship but no characterization of the sponsorship relationship shall be taken or used as evidence of PharmaClips.com's endorsement of the sponsor or of any of the sponsor's products or services. PharmaClips.com will work with the sponsor to develop appropriate wording.
Linking from a Sponsor's Acknowledgement
1. Sponsorship may include a link to the sponsor's corporate Web site or to the sponsor's product or service.
2. Users must not be sent to any Web site other than the originating Web site unless they choose to do so by clicking on a sponsorship link. The destination page will appear in a new window that will be smaller than the originating background page.
3. Although sponsorships may link off the originating Web site, such links must permit the user to return. The user will be informed that by proceeding, the user will be leaving PharmaClips.com does not assume any responsibility for material on the linked site:
4. If a sponsorship acknowledgement is to link to a page off the originating web site, PharmaClips.com will review the page prior to posting the acknowledgement. The sponsor may not change the linked page without prior review and approval.
5. Any Web site to which an acknowledgement is linked must comply with the laws and regulations of the United States.
6. PharmaClips.com reserves the right to not link, or to remove links, to other Web sites.
7. PharmaClips.com assume any responsibility for material on a linked site.
8. PharmaClips.com logo or weblink may not appear on any other Web sites, including the sponsoring organization's Web site, or promotional material without prior written approval.
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