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Disclaimer - General.
The www.e-mercy.com web site is provided "as is" and
without warranty, express or implied. All warranties with regard to the
accuracy, reliability, timeliness, usefulness or completeness of the information
contained on the www.e-mercy.com web site are expressly
disclaimed. All implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular use are hereby excluded.
Assumption of Risk; Waiver.
Your use of the www.e-mercy.com web site is solely at your own
risk. Neither CHP nor any entity or individual with which CHP contracts in
connection with the operation of the www.e-mercy.com web site
("contractor") shall be liable or responsible to any person or entity
for any loss or damage, including special, incidental, consequential, punitive
or indirect damages, caused, or to have been caused (including, but not limited
to, liability arising out of contract, negligence, strict liability, tort,
patent or copyright infringement) directly or indirectly by or from the
information or ideas contained, suggested, or referenced on the www.e-mercy.com
web site or for any errors, misstatements, inaccuracies or omissions in
the information or ideas contained on the www.e-mercy.com web site
or any delays or interruptions in the use of the www.e-mercy.com web
site. You hereby release and forever waive any and all claims you may have
against CHP, its contractors and any of their respective officers, directors,
employees and agents, if any, for losses or damages you sustain in connection
with your use of the www.e-mercy.com web site, even if you have
advised CHP or any contractor of the possibility of such damages.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the total liability of CHP, its contractors,
their respective officers, directors, and agents, if any, for losses or damages
shall not exceed the amount, if any, paid by you for the particular information
or service provided. Use of the www.e-mercy.com web site
constitutes and acceptance of these provisions.
Disclaimer - Indemnification.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CHP, its contractors, and their
respective officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers and
suppliers from and against any claims, lawsuits, proceedings, costs, attorney's
fees, damages or other losses resulting from your use of the www.e-mercy.com
web site.
Disclaimer - External links.
The www.e-mercy.com web site contains links to third party
websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an
endorsement of the content on such third-party websites. We are not responsible
for the content of linked third-party sites and do not make any representations,
warranties or covenants regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such
third-party websites. If you decide to access linked third-party websites, you
do so at your own risk. Your use of third-party websites is subject to the terms
and conditions of use for such sites.
Disclaimer - Public Areas
You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable
information (for example, user name, e-mail address) on the bulletin boards,
chat areas and other interactive areas (collectively, "Public Areas")
of the www.e-mercy.com web site, that information, along with any
substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected,
correlated and used by other users and third parties and may result in
unsolicited messages from other users or third parties. Such activities are
beyond our control. We make no representations, covenants or warranties about
the discoverability of your identity by methods beyond our control. If you use a
Public Area, you are solely responsible for your own communications and the
consequences of posting those communications.
Catholic Healthcare Partners
Participants
Employees and other individuals affiliated with Catholic Healthcare Partners
("CHP") participating in the Interactive Services of the www.e-mercy.com
web site, and/or contributing content to the www.e-mercy.com web site,
do so as individuals and not in any official capacity. Their opinions and
expressions do not represent the opinions, expressions or official position of
the www.e-mercy.com web site, CHP or any of CHP's subsidiaries
unless expressly stated.
Disclaimer - Advertising and
Shopping
The www.e-mercy.com Website provides links to a variety of commercial websites offering products and services . The advertising is not a source of funding for ehealthconnection.com. We assume no responsibility for the appropriateness, fitness or reliability of the products or services offered for sale on such websites. You enter into any transactions with these companies at your own risk, under the terms and conditions of each website. We make no representations, warranties or covenants about these companies, products or services.
Disclaimer - Technology
We do not warrant against human and machine errors, omissions, delays,
interruptions or losses, including loss of data. We cannot and do not guarantee
or warrant that files available for downloading from the www.e-mercy.com web
site will be free of infection, viruses, worms, Trojan Horses or other codes
that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. We do not warrant or
guarantee that the functions or services provided by us will be uninterrupted or
error-free or that defects in the www.e-mercy.com web site will be
corrected.
Disclaimer - Find A Physician
The www.e-mercy.com web site provides information about health
care providers ("Providers") who are members in good standing of the
medical staffs of hospitals affiliated with CHP, or are employed by CHP or one
of its affiliates. The www.e-mercy.com web site can also help you find a
Provider who meets your specifications. Please note that when we provide you
with the name of a Provider who meets your specifications, we are not
recommending that Provider or referring you to that Provider. Information about
a Provider's specific area of practice is provided by the Provider, who is
solely responsible for the accuracy of that information. We do not guarantee the
reliability, accuracy or completeness of information contained on the www.e-mercy.com
web site about a particular Provider. If you are seeking information
about a Provider's participation with a specific health care plan, that
information may be available, however, due to frequent changes in insurance
coverage, we recommend that you always check with the Provider's office
regarding insurance specifics.
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Terms of Use
Please read these conditions
carefully before using this site. www.e-mercy.com provides
complimentary Internet-based communications and information services to the
consumer. By using this site, you acknowledge your agreement to these terms and
conditions. Please read this information carefully. If you do not agree to all
of the terms and conditions of this agreement, do not use this site. www.e-mercy.com
may periodically update these terms and conditions. Please periodically
review because your continued use of this site will mean you accept those
changes.
How You May Use Our Materials
The content of this site is protected by copyright under both United States and
foreign laws. You may download, use, and copy the materials found on CHP Sites
for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copies that you
make of the material must retain any copyright, trademark or other proprietary
notice located on the site, which pertain to the material being copied. Except
as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any
copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the
material or the products, services, processes or technology described therein.
All such rights are retained by CHP, its subsidiaries, and/or any third party
owner of such rights.
You may not create framed links to
CHP websites without express written permission from CHP.
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. None of the content, including any software, may be reversed
engineered, disassembled, decompiled, reproduced, transcribed, stored in a
retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language,
retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo
reproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the
prior written consent of CHP, except as expressly set forth above.
How You May Use Our Marks
The CHP names and logos and all related product and service names, design marks
and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of CHP, or its subsidiaries or
affiliates (collectively "CHP"). You are not authorized to use any CHP
name or mark in any advertising, publicity or in any other commercial manner
without the prior written consent of CHP. Requests for authorization should be
made to CHP's Trademark Manager.
Use Of Interactive Areas
CHP may from time to time place bulletin boards on the site, which are solely to
enable communication between site visitors. CHP may also from time to time place
e-mail inks on the site, which are solely to enable site visitors to communicate
by e-mail with CHP. If you use a public area, you are solely responsible for
your own communications, the consequences of posting those communications, and
your reliance on any communications found in the interactive areas. In cases
where you feel threatened or believe someone else is in danger, you should
contact your local law enforcement agency immediately. If you think you may
have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.
Although CHP may from time-to-time
monitor or review discussions, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards and the
like on the site, CHP does not do so actively or regularly, and is under no
obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the
contents of any such communications nor for any error, defamation, libel,
obscenity, profanity or inaccuracy contained in any such communication.
Any communication that you post on
the Site (apart from your personal profile) is considered to be
non-confidential. Do not send or post anything that you deem confidential or
proprietary. Any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions,
ideas, or the like which you send to us may be used by CHP or its affiliates for
any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure,
transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. CHP is free to use, without
any compensation to you, any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained
in any communication you send to the site for any purpose whatsoever, including
but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products and/or
services using such information. By uploading or transmitting information you
grant to CHP a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, non-exclusive
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 sub-license such rights through multiple tiers of
sub-licenses. Additionally, CHP has the right to use any questions, comments, or
other information submitted by users in books, articles, commentaries, and
research or in similar ways, without the consent of the user. You warrant that
any communications you upload or transmit to this Site do not infringe any
patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any
party.
In consideration of being allowed to
use the interactive areas, you agree that you shall refrain from the following
prohibited conduct and that such conduct shall constitute a material breach of
the terms and conditions of use. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting
slanderous, unlawful, threatening, defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic,
profane, fictitious, licentious, lewd, violent, hateful, abusive, insulting,
harassing or threatening material or any material that could constitute or
encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or give rise to
civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, federal or foreign law.
You are prohibited from any form of direct or indirect personal attack or
harassment. You are prohibited from posting any material that infringes on the
intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of
others. You are prohibited from posting advertisements or solicitations of
business. You are prohibited from impersonating other people, posting chain
letters or pyramid schemes, "spamming" (sending a message more than
once), posting or transmitting charity requests or petitions for signatures, and
sending unsolicited mass e-mailings to other users. You are prohibited from
posting any information, which contains any virus, worm, Trojan horse or other
code which is contaminating or destructive to the files or programs of CHP or
any of its users or any other parties.
CHP reserves the right to but is not
obligated to record, monitor, investigate, edit, disclose, delete or remove any
content from the Site for any reason, and/or eject any user from all or a
portion of the Site for not adhering to these terms of use. CHP reserves the
right to terminate any user's access to any or all areas upon the user's breach
of these terms of use. CHP does not screen communications in advance and is not
responsible for screening or monitoring material posted by members or any other
person or entity.
Jurisdiction
The CHP Web Sites are operated from a site in the State of Ohio United States of
America. We make no representation that materials found at our sites are
appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access our sites
from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with local laws. For
further information on intellectual property matters, contact CHP's Office of
General Counsel. These legal notices are governed by the substantive laws of the
State of Ohio. You expressly agree that sole and exclusive jurisdiction for any
claim involving CHP, its officers, directors, employees, agents, Licensors and
Suppliers, contributors and editors, or any related affiliate, shall be in the
appropriate state or federal court located in the State of Ohio.
Complete Agreement
Except as expressly provided in a particular legal notice on the site, these
terms and conditions, and any amendments thereof, constitute the entire
agreement between you and CHP with respect to the use of the site, including but
not limited to, any software and content.
If any provision of these legal
notices is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the
invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
provisions of these legal notices, which shall remain in full force and effect.
No waiver of any of the legal notices shall be deemed a waiver of any other
legal notice.
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