Usage Policy

Acceptance of Terms

Please read this web page carefully. It contains the Terms and Conditions governing your access to and use of the HealthCultureDepot.com(a WellSolve, Inc. company) Web Site. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions or you do not meet or comply with their provisions, you may not use the Site. WellSolve, Inc. provides this Web site as a service to you, subject to the following Terms of Use which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. You agree that each use of the Web site is subject to the then existing Terms of Use, and any modifications or amendments made hereto from time to time. In addition, when using this web site, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services which may be posted from time to time.

WELLSOLVE, INC. MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY

HealthCultureDepot is an online open-content collaborative resource, that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of human knowledge. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection who is a registered user to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.

That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in HealthCultureDepot; much of the time you will. However, HealthCultureDepot cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.

No formal peer review

HealthCultureDepot is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or featured article processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.

None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with HealthCultureDepot in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.

No contract; limited license

Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual HealthCultureDepot contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to read or reference anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of HealthCultureDepot or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.

There is no agreement or understanding between you and HealthCultureDepot regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL); neither is anyone at HealthCultureDepot responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on HealthCultureDepot or any of its associated projects.

Trademarks

Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of HealthCultureDepot are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any other purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these HealthCultureDepot articles under the GFDL licensing scheme. Unless otherwise stated HealthCultureDepot is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such HealthCultureDepot cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.

Personality rights

HealthCultureDepot may contain material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to personality rights, independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.

Submissions

All submission made to HealthCultureDepot, must be true, correct and complete. HealthCultureDepot reserves the right to make any changes to any submission at any time. This may happen regardless of whether a fee was accepted as part of the submission, or not. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. HealthCultureDepot is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in its sole discretion.

Dealings With Advertisers and Other Third Parties

Your correspondence or business dealings with advertisers and other third parties (i.e., entities other than HealthCultureDepot) found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such party. You agree that Wellsolve, Inc. 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 on the Service.

Not professional advice

If you need specific advice (for example, medical, legal, financial, or risk management) please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

Privacy

HealthCultureDepot.com understands how important privacy is to our visitors and customers. We are committed to protecting your privacy and want to make sure that you understand how your information is used. We also want you to be aware that you have choices about how we use this information.

You do not need to give us any information about yourself in order to access most of HealthCultureDepot.com. You can visit our pages, and read our information on a completely anonymous basis.

A. What We Collect

If you want to take advantage of some of the optional services available on HealthCultureDepot.com, however, we will sometimes request information that allows us to identify you ("personal information") when you participate in other activities or services on HealthCultureDepot.com, such as surveys.

B. Information Sharing

We will not share your personal information with anyone under normal circumstances but we may release personal member information on the rare occasions when we are required to do so by law, or when necessary or appropriate to comply with legal process or to protect or defend HealthCultureDepot.com and its members.

Currently, HealthCultureDepot.com does not track, collect or distribute information about visitors via cookies. We regularly compile aggregate statistics that show the number of visitors to our site and the requests we receive for particular information on our web site. These aggregated statistics are used by us to improve the website in an ongoing effort to provide better information and services to the public.

We may sometimes share aggregate statistics and non-personal information with the media, advertisers, and other third-parties. For example, we may publish statistics on the number of members, or the number of visitors to HealthCultureDepot.com. These aggregate statistics will not allow anyone to identify member names or other personal information.

HealthCultureDepot.com includes links to other web sites, some of which are operated by Wellsolve, Inc., and some of which are not. Sites operated by Wellsolve, Inc. may also collect personal information, and may have their own privacy policies that differ from, and are not covered by, this privacy policy. It is important that you review any privacy policies on these sites carefully before you use any services or programs offered.

When you click to unaffiliated third-party sites, Wellsolve, Inc. and HealthCultureDepot.com are not responsible for, and have no control over, the information collection or privacy practices of that site. It is important that you review and understand the privacy policies posted on any linked sites you visit before volunteering any of your personal information. These sites may also collect cookies, or allow third-party advertisers on their sites to collect cookies. You can often find information regarding a site and its privacy policy on the site's home page. If you cannot find or do not like a site's privacy policy, you may prefer not to do business with, or offer information to, that site.

C. Protection

In order to protect your personal information, we use technologies and processes such as encryption, access control procedures, network firewalls, physical security, and other measures. These measures increase the security and privacy of information traveling to, from, and within Wellsolve, Inc. and HealthCultureDepot.com. Only our authorized employees or agents carrying out permitted business functions are allowed to access personal information. Employees who violate our privacy access policies may be subject to disciplinary actions, including termination when appropriate.
In order to receive some services, we may require you to use a password to protect your account from unauthorized access by others. If you do allow others to access HealthCultureDepot.com members-only services through your personal password or to use your membership account number, please understand that you are responsible for the actions of those individuals. Such actions may result in the cancellation of your account.

D. Your Choices

We respect your choices.

If you have any questions or comments about your information or this privacy policy, we will do our best to investigate any complaint you may have and respond promptly to your concerns.

E. On-Going Policy

The privacy section of this policy describes the types of information we currently collect, and the ways we use and protect that information. If you are uncomfortable with our policies and practices, please do not provide any personal information to us through HealthCultureDepot.com.

From time to time, we may collect different types of information and use that information in different ways - for example, when we add features or services to HealthCultureDepot.com. In these cases, we may edit this policy to explain the new practices. Because protecting members' privacy is very important to us, we do not expect major changes in policy.

If you submit or edit any information contained on our site, you agree not to:

1. Post or transmit anything that is defamatory, abusive, libelous, unlawful, obscene, threatening, harassing, fraudulent, pornographic, harmful, or that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.
2. Post or transmit pyramid schemes or chain letters.
3. Post or transmit anything that violates the copyright or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, including but not limited to copyrights and trademarks.
4. Post or transmit a virus or any other harmful component.

While retrieving information from our site, you agree not to:

1. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, use or attempting to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search this Web Site.
2. Aggregate, copy or duplicate in any manner any of the materials or information available from the Web Site for purposes other than research or reference.
3. Access data not intended for such user, or log into a server or account that the user is not authorized to access.
4.Contact HealthCultureDepot.com users through unsolicited email, telephone calls, mailings or any other method of communication.

Jurisdiction and legality of content

Publication of information found in HealthCultureDepot may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The HealthCultureDepot main office is located in the State of Georgia in the United States of America, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. HealthCultureDepot does not encourage the violation of any laws; and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein.

 

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