Terms | Medical Device Manufacturing

The agreement

Medical Device Manufacturing is published by Life Science Outsourcing, Inc., 830 Challenger St, Brea, CA 92821, and these terms are between you and the publisher. Using the site accepts them: reading it, sending a sourcing request, posting a position, sending us news, signing up for the newsletter, or claiming a company page. If you do not accept them, do not use the site. They cover what you can do here and what we do and do not stand behind. A company that claims its page also agrees to the member terms, and where the two differ for a member, the member terms govern. What we hold about you, and for how long, is on privacy, which is part of these terms.

You must be at least eighteen and acting for yourself or for an organisation you are authorised to act for. Where you act for an organisation, you are stating that you have that authority, and these terms bind the organisation.

Using the site

Editorial and data content on this site is public and requires no account. You may read it, link to it, and quote it with attribution. Republishing a story in full is not permitted without permission.

There are two kinds of account. Administrator accounts belong to the people who run the site and are not offered to readers. Member accounts belong to a company that has claimed its own directory page; what a member agrees to is on member terms. Neither kind is needed to read the site or to send a sourcing request.

What is ours, and what is yours

The articles, the editions, the plain English written around the FDA records, the taxonomy, the page designs, the name and the marks are the publisher’s, and may be quoted with attribution and a link, and not otherwise reproduced, republished or used to train a model without permission. The FDA records themselves are public and are reproduced under the openFDA terms; nothing in these terms claims them. The badge image and the verification record are the publisher’s and are licensed to a member on the terms on member terms.

What you send us stays yours: a request, a posting, a news release, a company’s own statement. By sending it you give the publisher a licence to hold it, show it to the people this page says see it, publish the parts this page says are published, carry those parts in the site’s feeds, and keep it for the period on privacy. You are stating that you have the right to send it, that it is accurate, that it is not confidential, and that it does not infringe anyone’s rights or break any law.

Acceptable use

Do not do anything that interferes with the site or the people using it: no attempt to get past the rate limits, the one-time links, the access controls or the administration area, and no load intended to degrade it.
Automated reading is fine at a rate a person could sustain, and the sitemaps and feeds exist for it. Bulk extraction of the site to republish it, to resell it, or to build a competing database from it is not.
Every form takes what it asks for and nothing else. Do not send anyone else’s personal information without their authority, do not impersonate a company or a person, and do not use a form to send anything unlawful, defamatory or harmful.
A one-time link we email you is for you. Do not forward it, and do not use one that was not sent to you.

We may refuse, hold or remove anything sent to the site, and may refuse further use of it to anyone who breaks these terms. We do not publish why.

Sourcing requests

The referral desk takes sourcing requests today. Sending one is free and needs no account. When you send one, this is what you are agreeing to.

Nothing is shared with anybody until you tick the consent line, which reads Share my request with up to five matched suppliers., and confirm your email address. Five is a cap on what you consent to, not a number of suppliers you are promised. In a service category the publisher serves itself, the request goes to the publisher alone; those categories are named on network rules.
A request is never listed publicly, never published and never sold. It goes to the matched suppliers and to nobody else.
The form takes no files, and you agree to include nothing confidential. Specifications and drawings change hands after an introduction, under your own agreements, and this site never holds them.
A request whose confirmation link is never opened is deleted when the link expires, after seven days. A confirmed request is kept for at least ninety days from the day you sent it, and is then stripped of everything that identifies you. What is kept afterwards, and how to ask for removal sooner, is on privacy.
A request may wait rather than route. Sending a request commits no supplier to respond, and we state no turnaround.

The FDA data

The clearance, recall, product code, registration and listing records on this site come from openFDA and are reproduced under the openFDA terms. We normalise them, join them and write plain English around them. We do not change the records themselves.

Every data page states the FDA export date it was built from and links to the specific FDA record behind it. Where the two disagree, the FDA record is the authority.
FDA data is not real time. A record can change at the source before it changes here.
Nothing on this site is regulatory advice, legal advice, or a substitute for reading the regulation, the guidance or the standard itself.
The absence of a record here is not evidence that no record exists at FDA. Not every dataset is ingested, and the ones that are can be incomplete.

Verification and listings

A verification badge means that specific checks were run on a date. It is not an endorsement and it does not replace your own supplier qualification. What is checked, and what is not, is on vetting. We publish no delivery, quality or responsiveness figure about any company, because we hold none.

Job postings

The jobs board takes postings today. Posting is free, no posting is featured, ranked, promoted or paid for, and there is no plan to sell one. Posting means confirming a mailbox on the employer’s own domain, or posting from a company page you have claimed; no reader account exists and none is created by posting.

By posting a position you are stating that all of this is true.

The position is real, is open at the employer you have named, and you are authorised to advertise it. If you are a recruiter or an agency acting for the employer, you tick the box that says so and the posting carries that line.
The posting asks no applicant for money, for a payment of any kind, or for a bank account, and it is not a route to selling anything to the people who answer it.
The posting and the hiring behind it comply with the law of the place the work is in, including any rule there about disclosing pay. What you type as pay is what we publish; we neither add a figure nor check one.
The words are yours to publish. You keep them, and you give us permission to publish them here, to carry them in the board’s feed, and to keep the closed posting as a record for the period on privacy.
Applications go to the page or the address you give, which has to be on the employer’s domain. Nothing about the people who apply reaches this site, and we never contact them.

Every posting renders under the line that the employer posted it and that Medical Device Manufacturing has not checked it, and that is the whole of our position on its contents. We may take any posting down, and we do not publish why. A posting that is taken down is closed rather than deleted: its page stays, marked closed, until the retention period runs out.

Links out

Directory listings link to companies’ real websites and stories link to primary sources. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for what is on them.

Member terms

What a company agrees to when it claims its page, covering what it may publish, the badge licence, what it may do with a request it receives, and how membership ends, is on member terms. Sending the claim link accepts them, and they are part of these terms for a member.

What we do not stand behind

The site is provided as it is and as it is available. We do not promise that it is accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted or free of error, and we give no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including of merchantability, fitness for a purpose and non-infringement, to the extent the law lets us. In particular, as the sections above say in their own words: the FDA data is a reproduction and FDA is the authority; a verification badge records that specific checks were run on a date and endorses nobody; a posting, a statement and a release are their author’s words and not ours; and nothing here is regulatory, legal, engineering or purchasing advice. Your own supplier qualification, your own regulatory reading and your own judgment are yours to do.

The limit on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, the publisher, its officers, employees and contractors are not liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for any loss of profit, revenue, business, data or goodwill, arising from the site or from anything on it, however caused and under whatever theory. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to one hundred US dollars. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else the law of the place you are in does not let us exclude or limit; where that law gives you a right these terms cannot take away, you keep it.

Your indemnity

If a claim is brought against the publisher because of something you sent to the site in breach of these terms, something you published through it, or your use of the site in breach of the law, you will defend the publisher against it and pay the resulting losses, costs and reasonable legal fees. We will tell you promptly of any such claim and will not settle it on your behalf without asking you.

Governing law and disputes

These terms, and any dispute about them or about the site, are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its rules on conflict of laws. The state and federal courts sitting in Orange County, California have exclusive jurisdiction, and you and we each submit to them, except that either side may bring a claim in a small claims court that has jurisdiction, and either side may seek an injunction wherever one is needed to stop a breach of these terms. Before bringing a claim, write to us through the contact page and give us thirty days to put it right.

Changes

The date at the top of this page is the date of the version you are reading, and it moves whenever the text does. A change takes effect when it is published here, and using the site after that accepts it; where a change materially affects a member, the member terms say how notice is given. Earlier versions are kept and can be had on request.

The rest

These terms, the privacy policy, the member terms for a member, and the network rules are the whole agreement between you and the publisher about the site, and replace anything said elsewhere about it.
If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stands, and the part is read as narrowly as it must be to be enforced.
A right we do not exercise is not a right we have given up.
You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these terms to anyone else. The publisher may transfer them to a successor to the publication, and will say so on this page.
Neither side is liable for a failure caused by something outside its reasonable control.

Questions go through the contact page, or by post to the publisher at 830 Challenger St, Brea, CA 92821, marked for Medical Device Manufacturing. The publisher’s own site is at lso-inc.com.