Acorda Therapeutics Terms of Use

1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to www.zanaflexcapsules.com (the “Site”), which is owned and operated by Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (“Acorda” or “we”). Acorda provides the Site and the information and services offered on the Site to you, subject to the following Terms of Use (the “Terms”). The Site is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by the Terms. Acorda may, in its sole discretion, modify the Terms without notice to you. Therefore, please continue to review the Terms when using the Site. By continuing to access and use the Site after the Terms have been modified, you are agreeing to such modifications. In addition, when using particular Acorda services or features on the Site, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services or features that may be posted from time to time. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into the Terms.

2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
The Site provides information about Zanaflex Capsules^®. The Site and the information, features and services available on the Site may be referred to herein collectively as the “Service”. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features or services that augment or enhance the Service in the future shall be considered part of the Service and subject to the Terms.

3. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
You may be required to provide certain information to us in order to take advantage of certain features offered on the Site (for example, to join our email distribution list or to request that we send you product information). If you choose to provide information on the Site, you agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Site. Any personal and other information you provide to Acorda is subject to our Privacy Policy.

4. INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY; NO MEDICAL ADVICE; NO INVESTMENT ADVICE
The Service is provided for informational purposes only. Acorda shall not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, completeness, usefulness or availability of any information or other content, data, text, URLs, graphics or any other materials (collectively, the “Content”) transmitted or made available via the Service. Acorda shall not be responsible or liable for any decisions made in reliance on such information.

In particular, the information and other Content contained on the Site should never be used as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other health care provider. You should not use or rely on this information or other Content to diagnose or treat a disease or health problem. You should instead always consult your physician or other health care provider for such medical advice or services.

This website may contain forward looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that might cause actual results to differ. These risks are detailed in Acorda's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

5. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
The Service may provide links to websites or resources outside of the Site. Because Acorda has no control over external sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that Acorda is not responsible for the availability of such sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, goods, services or other materials on, available through or provided by such sites or resources.

Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, any websites that you find or link to through the Service, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such websites. You agree that Acorda shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of links to such websites on the Service.

6. SUBMISSIONS
If you submit any questions, comments, suggestions, information, ideas, concepts, graphics or other materials to Acorda, whether oral, written or electronic (collectively, “submissions”), no confidential or other relationship shall be established between you and Acorda. Your submissions shall be considered non-confidential and shall be considered the sole and exclusive property of Acorda. Acorda shall have the right to publish, reproduce, modify, adapt, distribute, transmit to others and otherwise use any submissions for any purpose whatsoever (including, but not limited to, research, development, manufacture, advertising or sale of any products or ingredients incorporating or relying on such submissions), in any media, throughout the world and in perpetuity, and without any compensation, attribution or other obligation to you.

7. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE; TERMINATION
Acorda reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Acorda shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service. Acorda reserves the right, at its sole discretion, immediately and without notice to suspend or terminate the Terms and/or your ability to access the Site, for any reason including any breach by you of the Terms or conduct by you that Acorda determines to be inappropriate.

8. ACORDA’S PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service (the “Software”) contain proprietary and/or confidential information, Content and other materials that are protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws (including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, service marks and patents). Except as expressly authorized by Acorda, you agree not to display, publish, reproduce, transmit, distribute, post, modify, adapt, rent, lease, sell or otherwise use the Software, the Service or any Content contained thereon, in whole or in part without our prior permission. However, you may download Content for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided that you agree to abide by any copyright notice or other restrictions contained in or pertaining to such Content and provided that you keep intact any author attribution, copyright or trademark notice in any such Content that you download. You may not use such downloaded Content for any commercial purpose. Modification of the Content or use of the Content for any other purpose is a violation of Acorda’s copyright and other proprietary rights.

You agree that you will not challenge the ownership rights of Zanaflex Capsules^® in or to any and all trademarks, logos, service marks and/or domain names of Zanaflex Capsules^® (the “Zanaflex Marks”), and that you will not register or attempt to register any trademark, service mark, logo, and/or domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to any of the Zanaflex Marks. The Zanaflex Marks include, but are not limited to, the following: Zanaflex Capsules^®, Zanaflex^®, www.zanaflex.com, www.zanaflexcapsules.com. In addition, all product names appearing on the Site in type form different from that of the surrounding text are Zanaflex Marks. Acorda will enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.

9. JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES
Please note that Zanaflex Capsules^® are marketed by Acorda in the United States. The information and other Content contained on the Site are intended for use only by persons in the United States. Acorda makes no representations that the information and other Content contained on the Site are appropriate for users in countries other than the United States, which countries may have different legal or regulatory requirements or restrictions regarding, or may require different indications for, the sale or use of pharmaceutical products or information. Those who choose to access the Site from locations outside the United States do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. Nothing herein should be considered a solicitation, promotion or indication for any product that is not permitted by the laws or regulations of the country where the user of the Site resides.

Also, please note that certain software and data files from the Site may be subject to export controls imposed by the United States government and may not be downloaded or otherwise exported to a country (or a national or resident of a country) upon which the United States government has placed an embargo. If you download or use any such software of data files, you warrant that you are not located in, or a national of, or under the control of, any such country.

10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICE OR THE INFORMATION OR OTHER CONTENT OFFERED ON THE SERVICE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MER CHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. ACORDA MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY AS TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY CONTENT ON OR ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE SERVICE. ANY DOWNLOADING, RELIANCE ON OR USE OF SUCH CONTENT SHALL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. ACORDA MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE AVAILABLE ON A TIMELY BASIS OR WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ACORDA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONS-EQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ACORDA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

11. Present or Future Employment with Acorda
Should you become employed with Acorda, none of the information or materials on the Site shall constitute or be considered part of an employment contract or an employee manual or handbook. Nothing stated or represented on the Site shall affect the employment relationships between Acorda and its current, former, or future employees.

12. NOTICE
Notices to you may be made via either email or regular mail. The Service may also provide notices of changes to the Terms or other matters by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on the Service.

13. GENERAL INFORMATION
The Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Acorda and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and Acorda. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software. The Terms and the relationship between you and Acorda shall be governed by the laws of the United States and the State of New York without regard to choice of law principles. You and Acorda agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located within the state of New York. The failure of Acorda to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms shall remain in full force and effect.

14. CONTACTING US
If you have any questions or comments about the Terms, or if you would like to report any violations of the Terms, please contact us at info@acorda.com.

Be sure your patient received what you prescribed

Zanaflex Capsules® (tizanidine hydrochloride) is a short-acting drug indicated for the management of spasticity. Because of the short duration of effect, treatment with Zanaflex Capsules® (tizanidine hydrochloride) should be reserved for those daily activities and times when relief of spasticity is most important.

Important Safety Information:

Use with fluvoxamine or ciprofloxacin is contraindicated and results in significant increases in tizanidine plasma levels.
There is a limited data base for chronic use of single doses above 8 mg and multiple doses above 24 mg per day.
Tizanidine is an alpha2-adrenergic agonist and can produce hypotension. In a single-dose study where patients were not titrated, two-thirds of patients given 8 mg of Zanaflex experienced hypotension, which may be minimized by titration of dose. The hypotensive effect is dose related and has been measured following single doses of 2 mg or more.
Tizanidine occasionally causes liver injury, most often of the hepatocellular type.
Patients should be advised that sedation may interfere with daily activities. These effects appear to be dose related.
Visual hallucinations or delusions occurred in 3% (5/170) of study patients in two North American clinical trials.
Use with caution in hepatic or renally impaired patients.
Use with oral contraceptives results in 50% decrease in tizanidine clearance.
To discontinue therapy, taper the dose in patients receiving high doses over long time periods to reduce the risk of hypertension, tachycardia and hypertonia.
In vitro studies indicate that neither tizanidine nor the major metabolites are likely to affect the metabolism of other drugs metabolized by cytochrome P450 isoenzymes.
Most common adverse events with tizanidine include dry mouth (49%), somnolence (48%), asthenia [weakness, fatigue and/or tiredness] (41%), dizziness (16%) and increased ALT (5%). Other adverse events include UTI, infection and constipation.
Food has complex effects on tizanidine pharmacokinetics, which differ for the different formulations. These pharmacokinetic differences may result in clinically significant differences when switching formulations, or changing administration during a fed or fasted state. These changes may result in increased adverse events or a delayed/more rapid onset of activity, depending on the nature of the switch.

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