Terms & Conditions
Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, P019 8SQ(registration number 641132) (“we” or “the Publisher”)
The following Terms govern use of this community website (the 'Website'). Please read them carefully because by visiting or registering in order to provide letters and comments or other content to the Website you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use.
Copyright
The entire content of the Website is protected by copyright (unless otherwise indicated). As a User, you have certain rights set forth below; all other rights are reserved. In submitting comments, letters or other content to the Website you grant the Publisher a non-exclusive licence to publish such content on the Website and to make it available to Users in accordance with these terms and conditions.
Rules of Use
A. The following rules apply to all Users:
You may download, view, copy and save to hard disk or diskette and store or print out single copies of individual items for your own personal and non-commercial use, scholarly, educational or scientific research or study. You may transmit to a third party, in hard copy or electronically, a single item from the Website for that party's own personal and non-commercial use or scholarly, educational, or scientific research or study. In addition, you have the right to use, with appropriate credit, brief excerpts from the Website content in your own work for the above purposes.
B. Except as provided in Paragraph (A) above, you may not copy, distribute, transmit or otherwise reproduce material from the Website or systematically store such material in any form or media in a retrieval system; or print out multiple copies of any item for inclusion in packs; or transmit any material from the Website directly or indirectly, for use in any paid service or for use by any information brokerage or for systematic distribution of material, whether or not to another User and whether for commercial or non-profit use or for a fee or free of charge. For any uses other than those permitted by Paragraph (A), permission should be sought from the Permissions Department at jrights@wiley.com or by written request to the address above.
In order to protect the integrity and attribution of the Website content, you agree not to remove or modify any copyright or proprietary notices, author attribution or disclaimer contained in the material or on any screen display, and not to integrate material from the Website with other material or otherwise create derivative works in any medium based on or including materials from the Website. This is not meant to prohibit the use of quotations from this Website for the purposes of comment, criticism or review in accordance with fair dealing law. Framing of the Website is prohibited. (If a link to the Website is directed to an area requiring registration, the link must be directed to the relevant registration page).
Finally, you may not do anything to restrict or inhibit any other User's access to or use of the Website.
C. All trade marks, logos, get-up, product and company names are owned by the Publisher or by third parties. No permission is given in respect of the use of any trade marks, logos, get-up, product or company names appearing on the Website where such use may infringe the holder's rights.
D. If you refuse or fail to abide by these rules or violate any other terms or conditions of access, your access may be suspended or terminated immediately without notice, in addition to any other available remedies.
Additional Terms
All charges associated with accessing the Website including any computer equipment, telephone lines, or access software are the sole responsibility of the User.
Alterations to the Site
The content of the website and these Terms of Use may be altered at any time and without notice. Any changes to these Terms of Use shall be posted on the Website. Your continued use of the Website following any such change shall signify that you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use as amended.
The Website may provide links to third party websites. Where such links exist, the publisher of the Website disclaims all responsibility and liability for the content of such third party websites. Users assume the sole responsibility for the accessing of third party websites and the use of any content appearing on such websites.
Registration is required in order to submit content to the Website. The username and password chosen at registration should not be shared or disclosed to any other User. Without prejudice to the foregoing, the Publisher reserves the right to deny Users access to the Website or any part of it without notice and to decline to provide access or services to any User who is in breach of these Terms of Use.
The Discussion Area and any other bulletin boards or chat areas within the Website are intended for discussions held by Users in good faith on topics and issues in the Website’s subject field. The views expressed are not necessarily shared by the Publisher or any other person or entity involved in creating, producing or delivering the Website and no such party shall be held liable for any statements made or content posted by third parties. The Publisher of the Website reserves the right to remove or not to post in its sole discretion any material provided for posting on the Website and may deny access to the Website to any User who abuses such services. All comments, letters and discussion items will be attributed to the contributor in the form provided in the submission.
In submitting content to the Website you warrant that you will not:
- submit unlawful, defamatory, obscene, threatening, offensive, harmful or otherwise objectionable content (this includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio);
- delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any content that is submitted;
- falsify the origin or source of content that is submitted;
- submit content in a language other than English;
- submit content that violates the legal rights of others or discriminates against others, in particular, material that contains the intellectual property rights of third parties unless you have obtained all necessary licences and consents to use such content including, without limitation, consent for use of medical patient photographs and case studies;
- submit any content which contravenes accepted ethical guidelines and practices;
- advertise, promote or offer to sell any goods or services;
- contribute content with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act;
- use inappropriate (e.g. vulgar or offensive) user names;
- contribute content that contains viruses or that may damage the Publisher’s or another user's computer;
- reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, email address, telephone number or postal address).
Warranty Limitations and Exclusions of Liability
(i) This Website and its content is provided on an 'as is' basis, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose or warranties as to accuracy or completeness;
(ii) The use of the Website and any services provided is at the User's own risk. Users should be aware that identifiable personal information, such as name or e-mail address, that is disclosed voluntarily on bulletin boards or in chat areas that are accessible to other Users could be collected and disclosed by others and that no liability is accepted for such collection and disclosure;
(iii) Access to the Website may be interrupted and may not be error free; and
(iv) No person or legal entity involved in creating, producing or delivering the Website shall be liable and liability is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by the law for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising out of the User's use of or inability to use the Website or any materials or information in it;
(v) The User accepts and agrees that the information on the Website is intended as general information only. No person or legal entity involved in creating, producing or delivering the Website shall be liable for any loss or damage occasioned to any person or property through using the information contained in the Website, or acting or refraining from acting as a result of such use
These Terms of Use shall be governed by English law as if made and wholly performed in England and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Privacy Policy
By submitting your personal information to this Website, you agree to its use in accordance with the Website's Privacy Policy.
General
No waiver: No failure in exercising any rights under these Terms of Use shall prejudice or restrict our rights or operate or be construed as a waiver thereof. Any single or partial exercise of any such rights shall not preclude other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. No waiver of any breach of these Terms of Use shall be held to be a waiver of any other or subsequent breach.
Force Majeure: No person or legal entity involved in the provision of the Website or its content shall be liable for any breach of these Terms of Use or any failure to provide or delay in provision of any services through this Website resulting from any event or circumstance beyond its reasonable control including, without limitation, any Acts of God, strikes, lock outs and other industrial disputes, breakdown of systems or network access, fire, flood, explosion or accident.
Severability: If any of these Terms of Use are or become or are declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such terms shall be severed from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity, legality or enforceability of the remainder of these Terms of Use.