WWW.IVF-Worldwide.com Terms of Use Agreement
www.IVF-Worldwide.com (owned and operated by Prof. Milton Leong) is an and expert finding service that automatically generates knowledge profiles of IVF units. These knowledge profiles also reflect connections between experts in the fields. The information generated in the website can also serve patients and industry who are interested in information and understanding of the process of IVF.
The knowledge profiles are generated using internet search and can be updated by the processionals in the various IVF units over the glob.
These experts are allowed to register (at which point they become a Member), claim, and edit their knowledge profiles online in order to find and communicate with other Members. Members are allowed to request that their knowledge profile be removed.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS. THESE INCLUDE VARIOUS LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS, AND A DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLAUSE THAT GOVERNS HOW DISPUTES WILL BE RESOLVED.
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services. By using the IVF-worldwide.com services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the IVF-worldwide.com Website) or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with IVF-worldwide.com). The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the IVF-worldwide.com Services (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave the IVF-worldwide.com Website and discontinue use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member, communicate with other Members and make use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services, you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the Registration process.
This Agreement includes IVF-worldwide.com's policy for acceptable use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services and Content posted on the IVF-worldwide.com Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services and IVF-worldwide.com 's Privacy Policy. In order to participate in certain IVF-worldwide.com Services, you may be notified that you are required to download software or content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable to the IVF-worldwide.com Services in which you choose to participate, those additional terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement. You may receive a copy of this Agreement by emailing us at:
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IVF-Worldwide.com may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by IVF-worldwide.com on the IVF-worldwide.com Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the IVF-worldwide.com Services after any such modification is posted. It is therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.
Please choose carefully the information you post on IVF-worldwide.com and that you provide to other Users. Your IVF-worldwide.com profile may not include the following items: any publications of which you were not an author, any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter. Despite this prohibition, information provided by other IVF-worldwide.com Members (for instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit material, products or services, and IVF-worldwide.com assumes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of the IVF-worldwide.com Services by any person, please contact IVF-worldwide.com or click on the "Contact" link.
IVF-worldwide.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the IVF-worldwide.com Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability. IVF-worldwide.com expressly reserves the right to remove your profile and/or restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to any part of IVF-worldwide.com Services if IVF-worldwide.com determines, in its sole discretion, that you pose a threat to IVF-worldwide.com and/or its Users.
1. Eligibility.
Use of and Membership in the IVF-worldwide.com Services is void where prohibited. By using the IVF-worldwide.com Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c) you are 18 years of age or older; and (d) your use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 18 years of age.
2. Term.
This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the IVF-worldwide.com Services or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Personal Data page. IVF-Worldwide.com may terminate your Membership at any time, without warning. Unless profile deletion is requested by you, IVF-Worldwide.com will maintain a knowledge profile for you at it's discretion upon Membership termination. Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including sections 5-17.
3. Fees.
You acknowledge that IVF-worldwide.com reserves the right to charge for the IVF-worldwide.com Services and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion. If IVF-worldwide.com terminates your Membership because you have breached the Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription fees.
4. Password.
When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify IVF-worldwide.com immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
5. Non-commercial Use by Members.
The IVF-worldwide.com Services are for the personal use of Members only and may not be used in connection with any institutional or commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by IVF-worldwide.com. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of or linking to the IVF-worldwide.com Website is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from Member profiles without notice and may result in termination of Membership privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken for any illegal or unauthorized use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services. If you are interested in using the IVF-worldwide.com Services for commercial or institutional use, please contact:
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6. Proprietary Rights in Content on IVF-Worldwide.com.
IVF-worldwide.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post to the IVF-worldwide.com Services. After posting your Content to the IVF-worldwide.com Services, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the IVF-worldwide.com Services, you hereby grant to IVF-worldwide.com a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the IVF-worldwide.com Services.
Without this license, IVF-worldwide.com would be unable to provide the IVF-worldwide.com Services. For example, without the right to modify Member Content, IVF-worldwide.com would not be able format Content to satisfy technical requirements. The license you grant to IVF-worldwide.com is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to IVF-worldwide.com), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that IVF-worldwide.com is not required to pay you for the use on the IVF-worldwide.com Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that IVF-worldwide.com is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors such as Internet content delivery networks to provide the IVF-worldwide.com Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the IVF-worldwide.com Services are global in reach). The license does not grant IVF-worldwide.com the right to sell your Content, nor does the license grant IVF-worldwide.com the right to distribute your Content outside of the IVF-worldwide.com Services.
You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the IVF-worldwide.com Services or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the IVF-worldwide.com Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.
The IVF-worldwide.com Services contain Content of Users and other IVF-worldwide.com licensors. Except for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the IVF-worldwide.com Services.
Users of IVF-worldwide.com are solely responsible for compliance with any copyright restrictions and are referred to the publication data appearing in the bibliographic citations, as well as to the copyright notices appearing in the original publications, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference. No license is given from IVF-worldwide.com to Users to duplicate, resell, or redistribute any portion of data obtained from IVF-worldwide.com.
7. Content Posted.
IVF-worldwide.com may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of IVF-worldwide.com violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person. IVF-worldwide.com assumes no responsibility for monitoring the IVF-worldwide.com Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time IVF-worldwide.com chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the IVF-worldwide.com Services, IVF-worldwide.com nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content.
You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of the IVF-worldwide.com Services, and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions with other Users. IVF-worldwide.com does not endorse and has no control over the Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by IVF-worldwide.com prior to posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of IVF-worldwide.com. IVF-worldwide.com makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the Content or to the accuracy and reliability of the Content or any material or information that you transmit to other Members.
You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information about IVF-worldwide.com, the IVF-worldwide.com website, or the IVF-worldwide.com Services ("Submissions"), provided by you to IVF-worldwide.com are non-confidential and shall become the sole property of IVF-worldwide.com. IVF-worldwide.com shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights, and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these Submissions for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.
8. Content/Activity Prohibited.
The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the IVF-worldwide.com Services. IVF-worldwide.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in IVF-worldwide.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the IVF-worldwide.com Services and terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to Content that, in the sole discretion of IVF-worldwide.com:
is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes; or
includes a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person's consent.
The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the IVF-worldwide.com Website and through your use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services. IVF-worldwide.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in IVF-worldwide.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:
criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the IVF-worldwide.com Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the IVF-worldwide.com Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, IVF-worldwide.com reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which IVF-worldwide.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the IVF-worldwide.com Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to IVF-worldwide.com.
9. Copyright Policy.
You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of IVF-worldwide.com to terminate Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt of proper notification to IVF-worldwide.com by the copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the IVF-worldwide.com Services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the IVF-worldwide.com; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. IVF-worldwide.com's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:
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10. Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other IVF-worldwide.com Members. IVF-worldwide.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
11. Privacy.
Use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
12. Disclaimers.
IVF-worldwide.com is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the IVF-worldwide.com Website or in connection with the IVF-worldwide.com Services, whether caused by Users of the IVF-worldwide.com Services or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the IVF-worldwide.com Services. Profiles created and posted by Members on the IVF-worldwide.com Website may contain links to other websites. IVF-worldwide.com is not responsible for the Content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are in no way investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by IVF-worldwide.com. Inclusion of any linked website on the IVF-worldwide.com Services does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by IVF-Worldwide.com. When you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. IVF-worldwide.com takes no responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on this IVF-worldwide.com Website or through the IVF-worldwide.com Services, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers. IVF-worldwide.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of the IVF-worldwide.com Services. IVF-worldwide.com assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any User or Member communication. IVF-worldwide.com is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or on any of the IVF-worldwide.com Services or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to Users or to any person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the IVF-worldwide.com Services. Under no circumstances shall IVF-worldwide.com be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services, attendance at a IVF-worldwide.com event, from any Content posted on or through the IVF-worldwide.com Services, or from the conduct of any Users of the IVF-worldwide.com Services, whether online or offline. The IVF-worldwide.com Services are provided "AS-IS" and as available and IVF-worldwide.com expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. IVF-worldwide.com cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the IVF-worldwide.com Services..
13. Limitation on Liability.
IN NO EVENT SHALL IVF-worldwide.com BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF IVF-worldwide.com HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, IVF-worldwide.com's LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO IVF-worldwide.com FOR THE BIOMEDEXPERTS SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
14. U.S. Export Controls.
Software available in connection with the IVF-worldwide.com Services (the "Software") is further subject to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded from the IVF-worldwide.com Services or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading or using the Software is at your sole risk.
15. Disputes.
If there is any dispute about or involving the IVF-worldwide.com Services, you agree that the dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to conflict of law provisions and you agree to exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue in the state of israel. Either IVF-worldwide.com or you may demand that any dispute between IVF-worldwide.com and you about or involving the IVF-worldwide.com Services must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the state of Israel.
16. Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold IVF-worldwide.com, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the IVF-worldwide.com in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above and/or if any Content that you post on the IVF-worldwide.com Website or through the IVF-worldwide.com Services causes IVF-worldwide.com to be liable to another.
17. Discussion Forums
When Asking Medical Questions
The doctors and other medical professionals welcome your medical questions and will do their best to answer them. It is VERY important you understand a few things before asking a question that might effect your health care decisions:
MOST IMPORTANT - This forum does not replace the need for you to visit with your doctor!
• IVF-worldwide.com Discussion Forums are public forums and everyone reads your question. All messages posted to the forums will be archived and available to anyone with Internet access and will be accessible via third party Internet search (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, etc.)
• Remember that discussions in this forum are open to anyone. Don't mention anything which could embarrass yourself. More importantly please respect the confidentiality of third parties. A man discussing the personal medical details of his partner without her knowledge and agreement would breach her confidentiality in the same way as a doctor discussing a patient in public.
• Do not treat advice given on this forum as a formal medical consultation - see your doctor.
• There is no guarantee that the person answering your question is qualified to answer any medical question. Just because they claim to be an authority does not mean they are a certified health care practitioner. Anyone can join this forum and represent them self as having qualifications and credentials they do not have, or being someone they are not.
• Advice can only be based on what the responder has been told.
• It is NOT likely that a medical professional will comment on the actions of another.
• Physicians will not prescribe medication through this forum.
• Medical professionals do not have the benefit of your medical history, a visual examination, or a physical examination. This limits what they can offer as advice.
• You may find differing opinions from those that respond. Medicine is not an exact, or perfect science. Medical professionals make decisions based on their training, the advice of their peers, years of experience, and the facts that are presented.
• Advice given to others may not be appropriate for YOU. Even if your circumstances are only slightly different.
You should not ask questions like:
• Can you tell me what condition I have?
• Why did my doctor do this?
• Was my doctor correct?
• What is the best treatment for my condition?
• What dosage of a prescription should I take?
• How long should I do this or take this?
• Can you interpret my lab results?
MOST IMPORTANT – Answered received on this website do not replace the need for you to visit your doctor.
18. Other.
This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the IVF-worldwide.com Website or any of the IVF-worldwide.com Services and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and IVF-worldwide.com regarding the use of the IVF-worldwide.com. The failure of IVF-worldwide.com to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. IVF-worldwide.com is a trademark of IVF-worldwide.com. This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Information provided
Information and answer to medical questions provided and contained at IVF-worldwide.com and its global electronic links have been made available under the following conditions:
• Changes may occur, since the last update, which affect the accuracy and availability of the information presented.
• While considerable care and effort has been taken in the gathering of the data and compilation of the global electronic links, visitors should note that errors and/or omissions may occur.
• There are limitations on the accuracy, reliability and suitability of accessible information via the Internet. Visitors are advised when making use or any decision based on information obtained by this means, to verify the information independently.
• The authors, managers, and project members of IVF-worldwide.com shall not be liable for any damages caused as a result of the use of the information contained herein.
• Accessibility of documents, programs, information, and any other material through this Web server does not imply suitability or endorsement for any purpose whatsoever by any parties.
Please contact us with any questions regarding this Agreement.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.
