Terms and conditions of use for Allina.com
Please carefully read this agreement before using this Web site. By
using Allina.com, you signify your agreement to these terms and conditions of
use. If you do not agree to all of the terms and conditions for Allina.com,
do not use this site.
Allina.com may revise and update these terms and conditions at any time. Your
continued use of Allina.com will mean you accept those changes. So please periodically
review this agreement.
Section 1. Ownership
Section 2. General disclaimer
Section 3. Use of content (including liability and copyright)
Section 4. Privacy
Section 5. User submissions
Section 6. Use of message boards and other interactive services
Section 7. Links to other sites
Section 8. Advertisements
Section 9. General
Section 10. Allina Health System trademarks
Section 1. Ownership
Allina.com ("the site"), is owned and operated by Allina Hospitals & Clinics
and any or all of its subsidiaries (collectively referred to as "Allina.com",
"Allina," "we", or "us"). Allina.com allows users ("you") to access health care
related information provided by us and third party content providers ("suppliers").
Such information may consist of, but is not limited to, such things as data,
text, graphics and programs. Allina Hospitals & Clinics owns or has license
to the intellectual property rights to all components of Allina.com.
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Section 2. General disclaimer
The content on Allina.com is general in nature and is provided for informational
purposes only. The content is not intended in any way to be a substitute for
professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other
qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical
condition. Never disregard medical advice or delay in seeking it because of
something you have read on Allina.com.
Read our full disclaimer.
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Section 3. Use of content (including liability and copyright)
Under this agreement, you may use Allina.com only for your personal lawful
purposes. Any other personal use of Allina.com or information accessed via Allina.com
(such as reproduction, resale, publication, distribution or transmission) is
not permitted.
Liability -- Any use by you of Allina.com or the information contained
in the site is at your own risk. Allina and the suppliers will not be responsible
for the consequences of your decision to utilize the information contained in
this Web site.
Where appropriate, information contained on this site will be supported by
clear references to source data and, where possible, have specific links to
that data.
In no event shall Allina, its licensors, its suppliers or any third parties
mentioned at Allina.com be liable for any damages (including, without limitation,
incidental and consequential damages, lost profits, personal injury/wrongful
death or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption) resulting
from the use or inability to use Allina.com, whether based on warranty, contract,
tort or any other legal theory, and whether or not Allina.com is advised of
the possibility of such damages.
Copyright -- Upon acceptance of these terms and conditions, Allina
authorizes you to view or download a single copy of the material on this Web
site only for your personal, noncommercial use.
Special rules may apply to the use of certain software and other items provided
on Allina.com. Any such special rules are listed as "legal notices" on the site
and are incorporated into these terms and conditions by reference.
The contents of Allina.com, such as text, graphics, images and other material
including software licensed by Allina to permit you to access the Allina.com
Web site ("content"), are protected by copyright under both United States and
foreign laws. Title to the content shall not pass to you or any other user.
Unauthorized use of the content may violate copyright, trademark, and other
laws.
None of the content may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, decompiled, reproduced,
transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer
language, re-transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical,
photo reproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without
the prior written consent of Allina.com , except that you may reproduce limited
excerpts of the data for personal use only, provided that each such copy contains
a copyright notice as follows: Copyright © 2005, Allina Health System. All rights
reserved.
For information obtained from Allina's licensors, you are solely responsible
for compliance with any copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights and
restrictions and are referred to the publication data appearing in bibliographic
citations, as well as to the copyright notices appearing in the original publications.
You may not sell or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform,
distribute or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial
purpose. The use of the content on any other Web site or in a networked computer
environment for any purpose is prohibited.
Content is subject to change without notice at the editorial discretion of
Allina. If you violate any of these terms and conditions, your permission to
use the content automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any
copies you have made of any portion of the content.
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Section 4. Privacy
Although we use reasonable precautions to safeguard the confidentiality of
information received and sent over the Internet or by electronic mail (e-mail),
we guarantee the confidentiality of such information only to the extent explained
in our privacy
policy.
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Section 5. User submissions
Except as described herein, any communication which you post on the Allina.com
Web site is considered to be non-confidential. You agree that you will not upload
or transmit any communications that infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret,
copyright or other proprietary rights of any party.
By submitting communications to any part of this Web site, you automatically
grant -- or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly granted --
Allina a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide nonexclusive license
to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate,
distribute, perform, and display the communication alone or as part of other
works in any form, media or technology whether now known or hereafter developed,
and to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses.
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Section 6. Use of message boards and other interactive services
If you use a message board or other interactive service on Allina.com, you
are solely responsible for your own communications and the consequences of posting
those communications. In cases where you feel threatened or believe someone
else is in danger, immediately contact your local law enforcement agency.
When using an interactive service of Allina.com, you agree that these actions
constitute a material breach of these terms and conditions:
- using an interactive service for any purpose in violation of local, state,
national, or international laws
- posting material that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others
or on the privacy or publicity rights of others
- posting material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing,
abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to another user or any other person or entity
as determined by Allina.com at its sole discretion
- posting advertisements or solicitations of business
- after receiving a warning, continuing to disrupt the normal flow of dialogue,
or post comments that are not related to the topic being discussed (unless
it is clear the discussion is free form)
- posting chain letters or pyramid schemes
- impersonating another person
- allowing any other person or entity to use your identification to post or
view comments
- posting the same note more than once
- engaging in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person
from using or enjoying the interactive services, or which, in the judgment
of Allina.com, exposes Allina Hospitals & Clinics or any of its customers
or suppliers to any liability or detriment of any type
Allina reserves the right (but is not obligated) to monitor, edit or disclose
any type of posting on its interactive services needed in the course of normal
operation and maintenance of Allina.com, or if required to do so by law or in
the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to…
- comply with the law or comply with legal process served
- protect and defend the rights of Allina.com or others
- act in an emergency to protect the personal safety of our guests or the
public
Allina has no liability or responsibility to subscribers or any other person
or entity for performance or nonperformance of the aforementioned screening
activities.
Any reliance on content posted in an interactive area is at your own risk.
Allina.com does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy or reliability
of any of the material posted by interactive service users or endorse any opinions
expressed by such users.
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Section 7. Links to other sites
Allina.com contains links to third-party Web sites. These links are provided
solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by Allina.com or Allina
Hospitals & Clinics.
If you decide to access linked third-party Web sites, you do so at your own
risk. Your use of third-party Web sites is subject to the terms and conditions
of use for such sites.
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Section 8. Advertisements
Allina.com sometimes displays ads promoting services and programs of Allina
Hospitals & Clinics. All ads are clearly marked.
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Section 9. General
Allina Hospitals & Clinics is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
of America. Allina.com makes no claims that the content is appropriate or may
be downloaded outside of the United States. Access to the content (including
software) may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries.
If you access Allina.com from outside the United States, you do so at your
own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.
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Section 10. Allina Health System trademarks
These trademarks may appear on Allina.com and are owned by Allina Health System:
Allina®, Medformation®, ExerCareTM, Healthy CommunitiesTM, Minneapolis Neuroscience
Institute®, Physician-to-Physician®, Piper Breast CenterTM, WomenCare®.
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