BrainInjuryForum.com - Terms of use
TERMS OF USE
Welcome to Brain Injury Forum, which is owned and operated by Q1 Care Management Group, Inc (“Q1“).
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY, OUR TERMS OF USE, CONDITIONS, AND PRIVACY POLICYS.
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By Accessing “Brain Injury Forum Site“ (hereinafter “Forum“, “Site“), you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by all the terms and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. We reserve the right to modify or alter our Terms of Use and Conditions at any time without notice or penalty and by using the “Forum“ you are agreeing to be bound by any such modifications, alterations or amendments. It would be prudent to review the Terms of Use regularly yourself as a part of your continued usage of the “Forum“. You may not modify the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use or find it to be unacceptable, in any manner whatsoever, you must immediately discontinue your use of this Site. The Terms of Use “Terms/Agreement“ is for all users, members, and all others who visit and or use our “Forum“ or services.
Medical Disclaimer; This site is not a replacement for professional medical advice, diagnosis, examination, or treatment. Once again, the information contained and shared in the “Site“ is not intended nor is it implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, therapy or treatment by a certified professional. The information presented on this site is presented as a public service only and for the purpose of disseminating general health related information. By sharing this information, Brain Injury Forum is not providing medical or specific health care advice. Always consult a qualified medical professional before making any changes to your currently prescribed treatment or medical issue. Please do not postpone or delay seeking professional medical advice based on information written by any author on this site. Please be advised that, none of the health information at Brain Injury Forum is regulated or evaluated by a registered medical professional. Posts made within the forum express the views and opinions of the individual author, and not the administrators, moderators, or editorial staff and hence Brain Injury Forum will accept no liabilities or responsibilities for any of the statements made.
In addition to any other agreements there may be between you and “Brain Injury Forum“, these terms explain the policies that govern your access to and use of our “Forum“, “Sites“, and “Network“, including the actions that we may take, within our sole discretion, for any use that we deem inappropriate and unacceptable. Your access and continued use of Brain Injury Forum at www.braininjuryforum.com or through www.q1cmg.com titled “Brain Injury Forum (the “Forum“) constitutes your acceptance of and compliance with, the following provisions irrespective of how the site is accessed. Once again, if you have not already done so, please take some time to familiarize yourself with these Terms and Conditions.
Advice, opinions, statements, and other information or content made available through this “Site“, but not directly by the (“Forum“), are those of their respective authors, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content. The (“Forum“) DOES NOT: (1) Guarantee the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information on the “Site“, and (2) adopt, endorse nor accept responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or, statement made by any party other than Brain Injury Forum. Under no circumstances will (the “Forum“) be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone's reliance on information or other content posted in the “Site“, or transmitted to or by any registered users.
You understand that Brain Injury Forum has no obligation to monitor its discussion forums, although we reserve the right to do so, including that Brain Injury Forum may from time to time, monitor any and all information transmitted or received through the “Site“, for operational and other purposes. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied, and used for authorized purposes. Use of the “Forum“ constitutes consent to such monitoring.
Your use of the “Site“ is entirely at your sole risk. The (“Forum“) and its associates specifically disclaim all warranties, whether expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No oral advice or written information given by Brain Injury Forum or its associates shall create a warranty. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, and related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum.
Brain Injury Forum does not endorse any advice or opinions contained in its discussion forums. The opinions expressed in the discussion forums reflect solely the opinions of the individual participants. Brain Injury Forum encourages participants to be truthful and discourages misleading, false or manipulative use of the discussion forums. Brain Injury Forum may take any action it deems appropriate, in its sole discretion, to maintain the quality and integrity of its services and to protect Brain Injury Forum, and other members.
You acknowledge and agree that Brain Injury Forum may, from time to time, without notice to you and at its sole discretion, establish various practices, limitations and restrictions for administering forum “Site“ services, including without limitation: how often the “Site“ may be accessed; the maximum number of days that discussion forum messages or postings will be retained; the maximum number of messages or postings allowed; the size and nature of messages or postings will be retained; the maximum storage space available for services; and all other matters related to administration of services.
Under no circumstances shall (the “Forum“) or its associates be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from your voluntary election to use or use of or inability to use the (“Site“), including but not limited to reliance by you on any information obtained in or from our sites and or “Forum“ that results in mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletions or corruptions of files, viruses, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance. The foregoing limitation of liability shall apply in any action, whether in contract, tort or any other claim, even if an authorized representative of Brain Injury Forum has been advised of or should have knowledge of the possibility of such damages. User hereby acknowledges that this paragraph shall apply to all content, merchandise and services available through our “Sites“ and or “Forums“. In addition and under no event shall (the “Forum“) be liable for any damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, general, special, compensatory, consequential, and/or incidental, arising out of or relating to the conduct of you or anyone else in connection with the terms of the service.
Do not send confidential or proprietary information to Brain Injury Forum. We do not wish to receive such information from you. Any information or materials sent to Brain Injury Forum is deemed to be non confidential and by sending any information or materials, posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any form of communication on our “Site“, you grant Brain Injury Forum and the public an unrestricted, royalty free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, copy, modify, adapt, document, reproduce, sublicense, display, transmit and distribute those materials or information or any underlying work in which you may possess proprietary rights, including, but not limited to, copyright rights; likewise, you agree that Brain Injury Forum is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose.
You and all other users of the “Forum“ are therefore deemed to have disclaimed or waived all copyright ownership rights in their messages or files, even if they contain copyright notices. You shall have absolutely no recourse against Brain Injury Forum for any alleged infringement of any proprietary rights to which you may claim ownership.
All comments, suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts, or other information disclosed or offered to us by you through this “Forum“ or in response to solicitations in this “Site“ shall be deemed and shall remain our property.
All posted articles which are not the work of the member posting the article must include full credit including a link to the original source and the full names of all authors. Please abide by specified copyright restrictions and the laws of fair use.
Trademarks, All rights, title and interest (including all copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights) in this “Site“ belong to Brain Injury Forum or its licensors. In addition, the names, images and other indicia identifying our product and/or services are our propriety marks. All other copyrights, trademarks and intellectual property rights referred to in this “Site“ belong to their respective owners.
Brain Injury Forum has the exclusive legal right to use the following trademarks and logos: Unauthorized use of any Brain Injury Forum trademark or logo is a violation of federal and provincial trademark laws.
You understand and acknowledge that we have both internal resources and other external resources which may have developed or may in the future develop ideas identical to or similar to the suggestion or comments to suggestions and that we are only willing to consider the suggestion on these terms. In any event, any suggestion is not submitted in confidence and we assume no obligation, express or implied by considering it. Without limitation, we shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights to the suggestions of every kind and nature throughout the Universe and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of the comments for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise without compensation to the provider of the suggestion(s).
Although we attempt to moderate all messages we cannot be held responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message. You agree that neither these forums, nor any person or entity associated with them will be held responsible for any content.
You must be at least thirteen (13) years of age to become a Registered User. By registering, you represent and warrant that you are at least 13 years old and that you have the capacity to understand and comply with all of the terms and conditions required to use this forum.
You agree to being, the sole person of use on this account. You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. You may not authorize others to use your account, and you may not transfer your account to any other person or entity. You agree that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account password and other account information and that you are responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password. You agree to notify Brain Injury Forum of any unauthorized use of your account or password.
You will use the Services in a manner consistent with any and all laws and regulations.
Your use of any information shared in this “Forum“ is subject to the Brain Injury Forum Privacy Policy.
You agree not to post any abusive, false, defamatory, inaccurate, harassing, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, profane, sexually-orientated or inappropriate, invasive of a person's privacy, or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country, the country where “Brain Injury Forum“ is hosted or International Law. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned, with notification of your Internet Service Provider if deemed required by us. The IP address of all posts, are recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that “Brain Injury Forum“ has the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should we see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in our database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, neither “Brain Injury Forum“ nor phpBB shall be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.
Brain Injury Forum reserves the sole right to determine what constitutes material which is knowingly false and / or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, harassing, hateful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented or inappropriate, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of any law.
Brain Injury Forum does not warrant that your use of the Service will be secure, uninterrupted, always available, error-free, or will meet your requirements, or that any defects in the Service will be corrected. To forward an enquiry or complaint regarding the service, you should contact Brain Injury Forum via our “Contact“ link provided here.
You agree that you will not post copyrighted content without the express permission of the copyright holder. Advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes and solicitations are also inappropriate in this forum. We reserve the right to remove, edit, close or move any post for any reason at our discretion.
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All rights are reserved, and commercial uses including publication, retransmission, broadcast, posting to newsgroups, mail lists or electronic bulletin boards, circulation, selling, reproduction or redistribution in any medium are prohibited, except with the prior written approval of the copyright owner.
Brain Injury Forum reserves the right to seek all remedies available at law and in equity for violations of the rules and regulations set forth in our “Sites“, including the right to block access from a particular Internet address to the “Site“.
Brain Injury Forum reserves the right to remove, edit, close or move any post for any reason at our discretion.
Brain Injury Forum does not sell, rent or trade user information and will always strive to maintain high security to ensure users data is kept private and confidential on the forums.
It is the expressed will of the parties that this agreement and all related documents have been drawn up in English. C'est la volonté expresse des parties que la présenté convention ainsi que les documents qui s'y rattachent soient rédigés en anglais.
For additional information or enquiries, contact:
Brain Injury Forum
Attn: Site Administrator
PO Box # 61552
Hamilton, Ontario
L8T 5A1
Last Update; July 2008