Terms of Use

Agreement Between User and Medacs Healthcare

This Website is owned by Medacs Healthcare. Your use of this Website is governed by these Website Terms of Use. By accessing and browsing this Website you agree to be bound by these Website Terms of Use.

Modification of These Terms of Use

Medacs Healthcare reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the Medacs Healthcare Web Site is offered, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the Medacs Healthcare Web Site.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use

As a condition of your use of the Medacs Healthcare Web Site, you warrant to Medacs Healthcare that you will not use the Medacs Healthcare Web Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Medacs Healthcare Web Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Medacs Healthcare Web Site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Medacs Healthcare Web Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Medacs Healthcare Web Sites.

Links to third party sites

The Medacs Healthcare Web Site may contain links to other Web Sites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Medacs Healthcare and Medacs Healthcare is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Medacs Healthcare is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. These links are provided to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply Medacs Healthcare's endorsement of the site or any association with its operators.

Materials Provided to Medacs Healthcare

Medacs Healthcare does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Medacs Healthcare (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Medacs Healthcare Web Site or its associated services (collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting Medacs Healthcare, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Medacs Healthcare is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in Medacs Healthcare's sole discretion.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.

Use of Communication Services

The Medacs Healthcare Web Site may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, "Communication Services"), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:

• Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
• Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
• Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.
• Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer.
• dvertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages.
• Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.
• Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
• Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
• Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
• Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.
• Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent.
• Violate any applicable laws or regulations.

Medacs Healthcare has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Medacs Healthcare reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Medacs Healthcare reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

Medacs Healthcare reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Medacs Healthcare's sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. Medacs Healthcare does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, Medacs Healthcare specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized Medacs Healthcare spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Medacs Healthcare.

Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.

Liability Disclaimer

The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the Medacs Healthcare web site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. Medacs Healthcare and/or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the Medacs Healthcare web site at any time. Advice received via the Medacs Healthcare web site should not be relied upon for personal, medical, legal or financial decisions and you should consult an appropriate professional for specific advice tailored to your situation.

Medacs Healthcare and/or its suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics contained on the Medacs Healthcare web site for any purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all such information, software, products, services and related graphics are provided "as is" without warranty or condition of any kind. Medacs Healthcare and/or its suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, services and related graphics, including all implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Medacs Healthcare and/or its suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the Medacs Healthcare web site, with the delay or inability to use the Medacs Healthcare web site or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the Medacs Healthcare web site, or otherwise arising out of the use of the Medacs Healthcare web site, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if Medacs Healthcare or any of its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the Medacs Healthcare web site, or with any of these terms of use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Medacs Healthcare web site.

Termination/Access Restriction

Medacs Healthcare reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Medacs Healthcare Web Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice.

Jurisdiction and Governing Law

This Website and content has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of New Zealand law. These Website Terms of Use and any matters or disputes connected with this Website will be governed by New Zealand laws and will be dealt with by New Zealand courts in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Medacs Healthcare Web Site. Use of the Medacs Healthcare Web Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Medacs Healthcare as a result of this agreement or use of the Medacs Healthcare Web Site. Medacs Healthcare's performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Medacs Healthcare's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Medacs Healthcare Web Site or information provided to or gathered by Medacs Healthcare with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect. Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Medacs Healthcare with respect to the Medacs Healthcare Web Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Medacs Healthcare with respect to the Medacs Healthcare Web Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be drawn up in English.

Copyright

The information, images, screens, web pages, logos and brands on this site and the general content of this site are the property of Medacs Healthcare, who hold copyright in it - the information may not be copied or reused (other than as expressly intended by this site) without the prior written consent of Medacs Healthcare. In particular, in no circumstances should the Medacs Healthcare brand or the Medacs Healthcare logo be used without the consent of Medacs Healthcare. You may not use or permit use of any part of this site for any purpose other than that intended and information about Medacs Healthcare.

Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

If you believe that any material contained on this Web site infringes your copyright, you should notify Medacs of your copyright infringement claim in accordance with the following procedure.

To be effective, the notification must be in writing and contain the following information:

• 1. Physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the copyright owner;
• 2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
• 3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled as well as information reasonably sufficient to permit Medacs to locate the material;
• 4. Contact information 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 authorised by the copyright owner, its agents, or the law;
• 6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.