Last updated: 5/18/2011

Terms of Use

Important Note Regarding Website Content

The information and content (collectively, "Content") on this website is for your general information only. The Content cannot replace the relationship that you have with your health care professionals. The Content on this website should not be considered medical advice and does not replace consultation with a doctor, pharmacist or other health care professional. You should always talk to your health care professionals for diagnosis and treatment, including information regarding which drugs or treatment may be appropriate for you. None of the information on this website represents or warrants that any particular drug or treatment is safe, appropriate or effective for you. Health information changes quickly. Therefore, it is always best to confirm information with your health care professionals.

This website is intended for a United States audience. If you live outside the U.S., you may see information on this website about products or therapies that are not available or authorized in your country.

Agreement and Terms

These website Terms of Use ("Terms") describe the rules for using this website. These Terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you, the person using this website, and Affiliated Community Medical Centers, P.A. If you are helping another person use this website, these Terms constitute a legally binding agreement between both the helper and the person being helped and Affiliated Community Medical Centers, P.A. Terms such as "we" or "our" and "ACMC" refer to Affiliated Community Medical Centers, P.A. and its affiliate entities.

By using this website, you agree to the most-recent Terms as well as the most-recent version of our Privacy Policy. We may change these Terms at any time, and such changes will be posted on this or a similar page of this website. We encourage you to review these Terms each time you visit this website. If you enter into any other agreement with ACMC, then these Terms are in addition to the terms of such other agreement.

License to use this website and content ownership

Subject to these Terms, ACMC grants you a personal, nontransferable, nonexclusive, revocable, limited license to view the Content on the website for the sole purpose of collecting information and related activities. You may also print a reasonable number of copies of the Content for your personal use, but in such case you must reproduce all proprietary copyright and trademark notices. All rights, title and interest in and to the website, including the Content, and all intellectual property rights, including all copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret rights, therein shall remain with ACMC and our licensors and vendors, and no ownership interest is transferred to you or any other entity by virtue of making the Content available on the website, granting the foregoing licenses or entering into this Agreement.

In the event you choose to provide ACMC with any feedback, suggestions or similar communications, all such messages (collectively, "Feedback Messages") will be considered non-personal, non-confidential (except for personal information as described in our Privacy Policy) and nonproprietary. You hereby grant ACMC a perpetual, sublicensable, assignable, unrestricted, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, practice, modify, create derivative or collective works, transmit and distribute your Feedback Messages, in whole or in part, and including all intellectual property rights therein.

Some websites operated by ACMC include trademarks or logos belonging to other third-party licensors and are used pursuant to an agreement with such third parties.

We may terminate this license at any time for any reason. If you breach any of these Terms your license to the Content terminates immediately. Upon the termination of this license you must stop using this website, including all Content, and return or destroy all copies, including electronic copies, of the Content in your possession or control.

We make no guarantees of the accuracy, correctness or completeness of any Content on the website, and shall not be responsible for:

1. any error or omission arising from the use of such information;
2. any failures, delays or interruptions in the delivery of any content or service contained within the website; and
3. any defamatory, libelous, inaccurate or unlawful material contained, including user web pages, resumes, emails, profiles, opinions, advice, user comments, recommendations, statements, memorandums or discussion board postings.

You acknowledge that any reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement, memorandum, or information shall be at your sole risk. You acknowledge that this site does not render legal, medical, counseling, or other professional services or advice.  We encourage you to seek appropriate professional advice for any situation or problem that you may have.

Restrictions on use of this website

You agree:

1. not to use this website or Content in any way not explicitly permitted by these Terms or the text of the website itself;
2. not to copy, modify or create derivative works involving the Content, except you may print a reasonable number of copies for your personal use;
3. not to misrepresent your identity or provide us with any false information in any information-collection portion of this website, if any;
4. not to take any action intended to interfere with the operation of this website;
5. not to access or attempt to access any portion of this website to which you have not been explicitly granted access;
6. not to share any password assigned to you with any third parties or use any password granted to a third party;
7. not to directly or indirectly authorize anyone else to take actions prohibited in this section; and
8. to comply with all applicable laws and regulations while using this website or the Content. You represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age.

Posting Messages or Comments

Certain portions of this website may be configured to permit users to post messages, comments, or other content. Any such content is only the opinion of the poster, is no substitute for your own research, and should not be relied upon for any purpose. You agree not to post any content which is

1. false, inaccurate, misleading, profane, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable;
2. contains unsolicited or unauthorized advertisements, solicitations, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
3. contains any private information of any third party, including, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers; or
4. the transmission of which could violate, or facilitate the violation of, any applicable law, regulation or intellectual property rights

You are solely responsible for the content of any postings you submit and ACMC assumes no responsibility or liability for any content submitted by you or any other site visitor. We may, but are not obligated to, restrict or remove any and all content from a message that we determine in our sole discretion violates these Terms or is otherwise harmful to us, ACMC customers, or any third party. ACMC reserves the right to purge the content you provide after 90 days of creation, but you understand that ACMC may access, preserve, and disclose the content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation or disclosure is required by law.

Any content you submit is for non-commercial use only. Any content you submit will be routed through the Internet and you understand and acknowledge that you have no expectation of privacy with regard to any content you submit. Never assume that you are anonymous and cannot be identified by your posts.

If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant ACMC and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant ACMC and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify ACMC or its affiliates for all claims resulting from content you supply.

No Interference with Operation of Site

You may not use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access the Content on this website for any purpose. You may not post Content that contains any viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, spiders, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information. You shall not attempt to make this website unavailable through denial-of-service attacks or similar means. You shall not use any contact information about other users to facilitate the sending of unsolicited bulk communications such as SPAM or SPIM.

Copyright Infringement - DMCA Notice

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the "DMCA") provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under US copyright law. If you believe in good faith that content or material on this site infringes a copyright owned by you, you (or your agent) may send ACMC a notice requesting that the material be removed, or access to it blocked. This request should be sent to:

ACMC Privacy Officer
Administration
Phone: (320) 231-5050
Address: ACMC-Willmar, 101 Willmar Avenue SW, Willmar MN 56201

The notice must include the following information:

1. a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
2. identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
3. identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or the subject of infringing activity;
4. the name, address, telephone number, and email address of the complaining party;
5. a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
6. a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

If you believe in good faith that a notice of copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against you, the DMCA permits you to send us a counter-notice. Notices and counter-notices must meet the then-current statutory requirements imposed by the DMCA. Notices and counter-notices should be sent to the address above.

Changes to website content

We may change, add or remove some or all of the Content on this website at any time. In addition, please note that although our goal is to provide accurate information, certain features that may be offered through this website, such as our online formulary, pricing information or other Content, may not be accurate or up to date.

Links

While visiting this website you may click on a link to other websites and leave this website. We provide links to other websites that may contain information that may be useful or interesting to you. We do not endorse, and are not responsible for, the content and accuracy of linked websites operated by third parties or for any of your dealings with such third parties. You are solely responsible for your dealings with such third parties and we encourage you to read the terms of use and privacy policies on such third-party websites.

NO WARRANTIES

ALL CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN "AS IS", "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. ACMC, ALL THIRD PARTIES, IF ANY, PROVIDING CONTENT FOR THIS WEBSITE, AND ALL THIRD PARTIES PROVIDING SUPPORT OR INFORMATION FOR THIS WEBSITE (COLLECTIVELY, "WEBSITE-RELATED-PARTIES" HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

THE WEBSITE-RELATED-PARTIES MAKE NO WARRANTY AS TO THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENCY, OR RELIABILITY OF ANY CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE WEBSITE-RELATED-PARTIES SPECIFICALLY DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT ANY INFORMATION IS ACCURATE OR COMPLETE. THE WEBSITE-RELATED-PARTIES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES THAT USE OF THIS WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING ALL PRECAUTIONS NECESSARY TO ENSURE THAT ANY CONTENT YOU MAY OBTAIN FROM THIS WEBSITE IS FREE OF VIRUSES AND ANY OTHER POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE COMPUTER CODE. Some states do not allow limitations on implied warranties, so one or more of the above limitations may not apply to you.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU AGREE THAT NONE OF THE WEBSITE-RELATED-PARTIES SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT. THIS PROTECTION COVERS CLAIMS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, AND ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY. THIS PROTECTION COVERS THE WEBSITE-RELATED-PARTIES, INCLUDING ALL AFFILIATES, THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS. THIS PROTECTION COVERS ALL LOSSES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES, PERSONAL INJURY/WRONGFUL DEATH, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION. THE TOTAL, CUMULATIVE, LIABILITY OF THE WEBSITE-RELATED-PARTIES, THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, IF ANY, FOR LOSSES OR DAMAGES SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF YOUR ACTUAL DAMAGES, NOT TO EXCEED U.S. $ 100.00. THE LIMIT OF LIABILITY MAY NOT BE EFFECTIVE IN SOME STATES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE WEBSITE-RELATED-PARTIES, THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGES OTHER THAN THE AMOUNT DESCRIBED ABOVE. ALL OTHER DAMAGES, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE, RESULTING FROM ANY USE OF THE WEBSITE OR MATERIALS ARE EXCLUDED EVEN IF THE WEBSITE-RELATED-PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU AGREE THAT YOU USE THIS SITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THIS WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE WEBSITE.

Governing law and statute of limitations

The laws of the State of Minnesota govern these Terms and any cause of action arising under or relating to your use of the website, without reference to its choice-of-law principles. You agree that the only proper jurisdiction and venue for any dispute with ACMC, or in any way relating to your use of this website, is in the state and federal courts in the State of Minnesota, U.S.A. You further agree and consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in these courts in connection with any dispute involving ACMC or its employees, officers, directors, agents and providers. If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid under any applicable statute or rule of law, such provision is to that extent to be deemed omitted, and the balance of the Agreement shall remain enforceable.

Before seeking legal recourse for any harm you believe you have suffered arising from or related to your use of this website, you agree to inform us in writing and to give us thirty (30) days to cure the harm before initiating any action. You must initiate any cause of action within one (1) year after the claim has arisen, or you will be barred from pursuing any cause of action.

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Additional terms

Your obligations under the following sections survive termination of this Agreement: Important Note Regarding Website Content; content ownership portions of License to Use this Website and Content Ownership; Restrictions on Use of this Website; Changes to Website Content; NO WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY; Governing Law and Statute of Limitations; Additional Terms. If any provision of these Terms 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 Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition. You agree to defend, indemnify, Website-Related-Parties and their subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, and agents, harmless from any claim, demand, or damage, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to your breach of this Agreement or your use or misuse of the Content or website. You may not transfer or assign any rights or obligations under this Agreement. ACMC may transfer or assign its rights and obligations under this Agreement.