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Terms and Conditions of Use
In these terms and conditions you will find information regarding
the use of the eyetext.net website. Please take a few minutes to review
them. By using this website you are agreeing to these terms and conditions.
If we change them, we will post the revisions clearly on our website.
If you use our website you are agreeing to accept the changes.
Disclaimers
eyetext.net is providing this website on an ‘as is’ basis
and makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect
to this website or its contents and disclaims all such representations
and warranties. In addition, eyetext.net makes no representations
or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for
any purpose of the information and related graphics published in this
website. The information contained in this website may contain technical
inaccuracies or typographical errors. All liability of eyetext.net
howsoever arising from any such inaccuracies or errors is expressly
excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Neither eyetext.net nor any of its directors, employees or other representatives
will be liable for loss or damage arising out of or in connection
with the use of this website. This is a comprehensive limitation of
liability (to the extent permitted by law) that applies to all damages
of any kind, including (without limitation) compensatory, direct,
indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit,
loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties.
This website is one of many of educational resources. The use of this
website is not intended to be a replacement or substitute for your
own clinical judgement.
Other Links
Links including hypertext links are provided for your convenience
and inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement or approval by
us of the linked website, its operator or its content.
Copyright
As a contributor uploading material in the form of data, text, sound,
photographs, images, graphics, video, messages or other content, you
are granting eyetext.net a non-exclusive license to publish your work
on the website. Contributor’s proprietory rights are protected
by copyright laws.
As a user, you agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work
from any of the material contained in the website or to use it for
any purpose other than for your personal non-commercial use.
The copyright to the layout and design of the eyetext.net website
is protected by copyright laws.
eyetext.net Privacy Policy
eyetext.net is committed to protecting your personal
information. Please take a few minutes to review this policy as you
will find information regarding what information is being collected
about you, how personal information is being used, whether information
is being disclosed and how this personal information is stored and
protected.
(a) what information is being collected?
For registration, you will be asked to submit personal information.
This may include your user name, email, first name, last name, occupation,
degrees, country of origin, university, professional interests and
city. eyetext.net collects this information primarily for validation
and authorisation of users.
Our webserver collates visitor statistics from our website. Such information
is provided to us as daily log files. We use aggregate information
and statistics for the purposes of monitoring usage patterns on our
website in order to improve navigation and design features. In order
to help us develop the website and our services we may provide such
aggregate information to third parties such as sponsors or advertisers.
These statistics do not include information that can be used to identify
any individual.
(b) How is personal information being used?
We may use personal information to communicate with you generally
or to provide you with information about special features of our website
including sending you newsletters.
(c) To whom is personal information being disclosed?
We will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information
to any third party without your prior permission or except as required
to do so by law. With your permission, we may make your details available
to other eyecare professionals.
(d) How is personal information stored and protected?
Keeping your personal details private is very important to us. Passwords
on our site are MD5 encrypted which means that we have a very high
level of password security.
Unfortunately no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information,
we cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to
us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission,
we make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
(e) The use of cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer when
you visit a site. We use cookies for some aspects of site management
including recognising your computer when you return to the site (if
you have checked the ‘remember me’ box) and to enable some
functions that depend on cookies such as the live discussion area.
Cookies do not identify you personally and they do not enable access
to your computer.
(f) IP addresses
Each time you use the internet, an IP address is assigned to your
computer via your Internet Service Provider which is in the form of
a number. It may be the same or different each time. Each time your
computer requests information from our website, we log your IP address
on our server which we may use to gather information about website
traffic.
(g) Updating your details
On our website there is a facility for you to edit all of the data
that we hold about you. You can update your data at any time.
(h) Your consent
By submitting your information you consent to the use of that information
as set out in this policy. If we change our privacy policy we will
post the changes on this page.
eyetext.net Chat Room and Discussion Board Rules
These rules and our Privacy Policy govern all activity in our chat
rooms, discussion boards and on this site generally. In using the
chat room(s) and the discussion boards you agree to be bound by them.
1. Your Registration Obligations
Your name or an identifiable variant will be used to identify you
in on-line chat areas.
2. On-line Conduct
(a) You understand that all data, text, sound, photographs, graphics,
video, messages or other materials ("content"), whether
publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility
of the person from which the content originated. By using the on-line
chat areas and discussion boards you will to the best of your knowledge
and belief provide information and opinion which is accurate and understand
that such information will be used for teaching and learning purposes.
As a user of the chat areas and discussion boards you understand that
the content placed in the chat areas and discussion boards is not
intended to be a replacement or substitute for your own clinical judgement.
(b) Under no circumstances will eyetext be liable in any way for any
content, including (without limitation) any errors or omissions in
any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result
of your use of any content.
(c) You agree that you will not use any chat area or discussion board
or any part of our site to:
(i) upload, post or email any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening,
abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous,
invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically
or otherwise objectionable;
(ii) impersonate any person or entity, falsely state or otherwise
misrepesent your affiliation with a person or entity or disguise the
origin of any content;
(iii) harass another;
(iv) collect or store personal data about other users;
(v) upload, post or email any content that you do not have a right
to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
(vi) upload, post or email any content that infringes the intellectual
property rights of any party;
(vii) upload, post or email any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising,
promotional materials, ‘junk mail’, ‘spam’, ‘chain
letters’ or any other form of solicitation;
(viii) upload, post or email any content that contains computer viruses
or any other computer codes, files or programs designed to interrupt,
destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware
or telecommunications equipment;
(ix) disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to ‘scroll’
faster than other users of the chat areas are able to type, or otherwise
act in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability
to engage in real time exchanges; or
(x) violate any applicable national or international law or regulations.
3. Licence
You grant to us a worldwide, royalty free, non-exclusive licence (including
the right to sub-licence) to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate,
create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any content
(in whole or part) you upload, post or email and/or to incorporate such
content in other works in any form, media or technology now known or developed.
4. Sanctions
(a) As soon as we are made aware of activities that breach these rules,
our terms and conditions or our privacy policy, prompt action will
be taken. If you witness such breaches in the chat areas or anywhere
else in our site, please notify us at admin@eyetext.net immediately.
(b) On being made aware of any such breaches, we may ban, delete or
prohibit any content that relates to those breaches or that we judge
harmful to individuals or the rights of eyetext or any of our affiliates,
licensors or partners.
(c) We reserve the right to take whatever action we deem necessary
to prevent such breaches including the following:
(i) breaches we deem minor may result simply in receipt of a warning
from eyetext; or
(ii) breaches we deem serious may result in your automatic ban from
our chat room, bulletin boards and our site generally.
All incidents will be logged and our decision is final in all such
cases.
(d) Any breaches may lead to us reporting your activities to your
internet service provider or the relevant authorities or may lead
to legal action being taken against you.
(e) In addition we may at any time move, modify or remove any content
or take further legal action as a result of breaches or suspected
breaches of these rules, our privacy policy, any applicable laws or
regulations or where our rights or third party rights are threatened
or infringed.
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