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February 21 , 2018 Comments Off on Terms of Use 1774 views

PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF USE BELOW.

These Terms of Use (the “TOU“) state the terms and conditions under which Med.tips and its affiliates  provide you (“you,” or “your“) access to Med.tips (together with any sub-domains thereto and future sites operated by Med.tips, the “Site,” which defined term includes the Services and Software, each as defined below).

BY ACCESSING, BROWSING, OR USING THE SITES AND SERVICES (AS DEFINED BELOW), YOU ARE DEEMED TO ACCEPT THE TOU, AS WELL AS OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND GENERAL DISCLAIMER (each of which is incorporated herein by reference), AS A BINDING AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE TOU, THE PRIVACY POLICY, OR THE GENERAL DISCLAIMER, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES (as defined below). YOUR USE OF THE SITES AND SERVICES AND INFORMATION PROVIDED THEREIN MUST IN ALL CASES COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS.

  1. DESCRIPTION OF SITES, SERVICES, AND SOFTWARE
  2. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS; CHANGES TO TOU
  3. YOUR LICENSE TO USE THE SERVICES
  4. MED.TIPS‘ PRIVACY POLICY
  5. POSTINGS TO THE SERVICES
  6. MODIFICATIONS TO THE SERVICES
  7. DEALINGS WITH ADVERTISERS OR THIRD PARTY VENDORS
  8. LINKS; CO-BRANDING
  9. DISCLAIMER
  10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
  11. INDEMNIFICATION
  12. TRADEMARK INFORMATION
  13. SEVERABILITY; ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  14. HEADINGS
  15. LOCATION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
  16. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

1. DESCRIPTION OF SITES, SERVICES, AND SOFTWARE

Med.tips is a questions and answers site. It is supported and grown by a community of users collaboratively creating a vast Q&A database. Please note that the Service includes information and software provided from our third party licensors. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any modifications, updates, new features, or enhancements to the Service are also subject to the TOU.

2. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS; CHANGES TO TOU

Med.tips provides the Service to you subject to the following TOU, which may be updated by us from time to time in our sole discretion. Each time changes are made to the TOU, a revised TOU will be posted on the Site. Your continued use of the Service, or any part thereof, following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes. If you do not wish to be bound by the TOU, you should discontinue your use of the Service.

3. YOUR LICENSE TO USE THE SERVICES

Med.tips grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service, including the Site and Software. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content included in the Service and on the ‘Site’, in whole or in part. You may download copyrighted material for your personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication, or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the express permission of Med.tips and the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution, or publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend, or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material.

Except as otherwise expressly permitted in this Agreement, you may not: (i) decompile, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, except as otherwise permitted by applicable law; or (ii) remove or alter any trademark, logo, copyright or other proprietary notices, legends, symbols or labels on the Service. You may not access the Service by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Med.tips. Furthermore, you may not use the Service in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Services (e.g., you may not access the Service in an automated manner by use of “spiders”, “robots” or otherwise), nor may you use the Service in any manner that could interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Service. You are not permitted to retrieve and store in electronic or any other form any material part of the databases underlying the Service. All commercial and/or unauthorized use of the Service is strictly prohibited. You agree not to use or resell the Service for any commercial purpose, including, but not limited to, sending unsolicited commercial messages.

The Service remains at all times the sole property of Med.tips or its third party licensors, and its use is subject to the copyright and trademark notices. All rights in the Service not expressly granted to you by Med.tips under the TOU are retained by Med.tips.

4. MED.TIPS‘ PRIVACY POLICY

Med.tips protects your personally identifiable data as set forth in Med.tips‘ privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy“). The Privacy Policy explains our collection and use of personally identifiable information. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy before you use the Service.

5. POSTINGS TO THE SERVICES

The Service may permit you to post, submit, transmit, email, or otherwise make available questions, answers, comments, images, videos or other information (collectively, “Postings”.) You may only submit Postings that you created or that you have permission to submit and that do not violate copyright, trademark, or any other rights of third parties. We do not claim ownership of any Postings that you may submit. However, by submitting Postings, you grant us, our subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, and assigns a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully-paid, non-exclusive, and sub-licensable license to use, copy, display, distribute, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display the Postings (in whole or in part) and to incorporate the Postings into other works in any format or medium now or later known.

You may not upload, post, submit, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any Postings that (i) contain falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage Med.tips or any third party; (ii) are unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or are otherwise inappropriate; (iii) contain advertisements, solicitations of business or spam; (iv) disseminate or transmit any worms, viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files, code or programs; (v) collect or store personal information about others or otherwise invade their privacy; or (vi) impersonate another person or forge headers or use any other method to disguise the true origin of the Posting. Additionally, you may not submit any Postings that violate the TOU.

You acknowledge that Med.tips is not obligated to pre-screen content submitted by members, but that Med.tips shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove any content that is made available via Med.tips by any user that violates the TOU or is otherwise objectionable.

Med.tips respects the intellectual property of others and asks you to do the same. Med.tips may, in appropriate circumstances and at its sole discretion, terminate your right to use the Service for any reason, including, but not limited to, if you are a repeat infringer. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please contact us.

6. MODIFICATIONS TO THE SERVICE

Med.tips reserves the right at any time, and from time to time, to modify, suspend, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Med.tips shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any such modification, suspension or discontinuance.

7. DEALINGS WITH ADVERTISERS OR THIRD PARTY VENDORS

Med.tips may include advertisements on the Service, which are necessary for Med.tips to provide the Service to its users free of charge. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers or third party vendors found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or products, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser or third party vendor. Any question, complaints, or claims should be directed to the appropriate advertiser or third-party vendor. Additionally, all product reviews and ratings are informative for those wishing to use them, but they do not guarantee any level of performance by a third party vendor in any transaction. You agree that Med.tips 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 such advertisers or third party vendors or product reviews or ratings on the Service.

8. LINKS; CO-BRANDING

This policy only addresses the Service. The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites. Additionally, in many cases, co-branded services that are jointly provided by us and selected companies will contain the Service’s branding, but might not be hosted by us. Because Med.tips has no control over such sites, you acknowledge and agree that Med.tips is not responsible for the availability of such external or co-branded sites, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites. You should not attribute any views or information on such sites to Med.tips. You further acknowledge and agree that Med.tips shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or products available on or through any such linked site. You should follow the link to the terms of use on the appropriate page for such sites to determine which company’s terms of use governs such sites.

Anyone linking to the Service must comply with the following guidelines and all applicable laws: A site that links to any Service (i) may link to but not replicate the Service’s content; (ii) should not create a browser or border environment around any Service’s content; (iii) should not imply that Med.tips is endorsing it or its products; (iv) should not misrepresent its relationship with Med.tips or the Service; (v) should not present false information about Med.tips or the Service; (iv) should not use any Med.tips trademarks, trade names or logos without permission from Med.tips; and (vi) should not contain content that is reasonably considered profanity, defamatory, vulgar, or otherwise unlawful.

9. DISCLAIMER

WE DO NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF THE SERVICE. ADDITIONALLY, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. MED.TIPS, AND ITS THIRD-PARTY LICENSORS, SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGMENT.

MED.TIPS, ITS LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT: (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SOFTWARE, SERVICE, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, OR (v) ANY ERRORS IN THE SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED. NEITHER WE, NOR OUR LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS, GUARANTEE THE RELIABILITY, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, SAFETY, TIMELINESS, LEGALITY, USEFULNESS, ADEQUACY OR SUITABILITY OF ANY OF THE SERVICE. THE SERVICE MAY BE HARMFUL, UNTIMELY, INCOMPLETE, OR INACCURATE AND, ACCORDINGLY, YOU AGREE TO EXERCISE CAUTION, DISCRETION AND COMMON SENSE WHEN USING THE SERVICE.

YOU SHOULD NOT USE THE SERVICE FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES OR TO SEEK OR PROVIDE DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT OF MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL OR OTHER PROBLEMS OR DIFFICULTIES, OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, TAX, LEGAL, INVESTMENT, ACCOUNTING, OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. THE ENTIRE RISK FOR USE OF THE SERVICE IS BORNE BY YOU.

ADDITIONALLY, PLEASE REVIEW OUR GENERAL DISCLAIMER, WHICH IS HEREBY MADE A PART OF THE TOU.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO A PORTION OF THE FOREGOING MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, IN WHICH CASE THE DURATION OF ANY SUCH IMPLIED WARRANTIES IS LIMITED TO THE MINIMUM PERIOD PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

NONE OF THE LICENSORS, CONTRIBUTORS, SPONSORS, ADMINISTRATORS, OR ANYONE ELSE CONNECTED WITH THE SERVICE IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER CAN BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE APPEARANCE OF ANY INACCURATE INFORMATION OR FOR YOUR USE OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN OR LINKED FROM THE SERVICE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE, OR OUR LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS, BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS THE SERVICE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK DISRUPTIONS, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF, AND REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY (CONTRACT, TORT, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR OTHERWISE) UPON WHICH THE CLAIM IS BASED. NEITHER WE NOR OUR LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THE SERVICE AND/OR ANY MATERIAL LINKED THROUGH THE SERVICE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL MED.TIPS’, OR MED.TIPS‘ LICENSORS’, DIRECT LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF USE OF THE SERVICE EXCEED THE GREATER OF (I) THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID MED.TIPS FOR SUCH USE OR (II) $10.00. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY, AND THEREFORE THIS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

11. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify and hold Med.tips, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents harmless from and against any and all liability, losses, claims, demands or costs of any kind, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of litigation, arising from (i) your Postings or other content you submit, post, transmit, email, or otherwise make available through the Service, (ii) your use of or reliance on the Service, (iii) your connection to the Service, (iv) your violation of the TOU, or (v) your violation of any rights of another party.

12. TRADEMARK INFORMATION

The Med.tips and other Service names, trademarks and logos are trademarks of Med.tips or its third-party licensors. Without our written prior permission, or that of applicable third parties, you agree not to display, or use in any manner, the marks of Med.tips. The trademarks, logos, and service marks not owned on behalf of Med.tips and that are displayed on the Service are the registered or unregistered marks of their respective owners. No rights are granted by Med.tips to use such marks, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.

13. SEVERABILITY; ENGLISH LANGUAGE

If any provision in the TOU should be held illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be modified to the extent necessary to render it enforceable without losing its intent, or severed from the TOU if no such modification is possible, and the other provisions of the TOU shall remain in full force and effect. The controlling language of the TOU is English. If you have received a translation into another language, it has been provided for your convenience only.

14. HEADINGS

The headings to the sections of the TOU are used for convenience only and shall have no substantive meaning or impact on the interpretation of the TOU.

15. LOCATION OUTSIDE THE U.S.

If you are located outside the U.S., then you are responsible for complying with any local laws in your jurisdiction that might impact your right to use the Service, and you represent that you have complied with any regulations or registration procedures required by applicable law to make the TOU enforceable.

16. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

The TOU constitute the entire agreement between you and Med.tips and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and Med.tips. Please note, however, that Service may have additional or different terms related specifically to such Service only (“Service Terms”). The Service Terms are in addition to the general terms and conditions in the TOU. If there is any conflict between the TOU and the Service Terms, the Service Terms will govern with respect to that particular Service. Some terms contained in the TOU may not be applicable to a particular Service, in which case, such inapplicable terms will not apply to you with respect to that particular Service.