AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND DR-TEETH WEBSITE
These terms of use are an agreement between Dental Consultants, Inc. (the “Company”), publisher of DENTAL ADVISOR and dr-teeth.com (the “Website”) and users of its Website (herein referred to as “you” or “user”). This agreement (the “Agreement”) also governs your use of the products and services made available to you through our Website. By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have reviewed and agree to all of the provisions, disclosures and disclaimers in this Agreement and agree to be bound by them in connection with your use of the Website. The Company reserves the right to modify or supplement any or all of the terms of this Agreement from time to time without notice to you. The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to restrict, suspend or terminate access to all or any part of the Website(s) or to change, suspend or discontinue all or any aspect of the Website(s), including the availability of any feature, database, information or content, at any time and without prior notice or liability.
As you use the Website, you will encounter windows and hyperlinks that take you to web pages or websites of other companies with which we contract, either to make their products and services available to you or to enable you to communicate directly with those companies. Your use of such web pages or websites, while subject to the terms of this Agreement, is also subject to and governed by the terms and guidelines, if any, contained within such web page or website. Where such web page or website contains terms, conditions, policies, notices or disclaimers prepared by the Company related to the use of our Website or other web pages, or websites accessed through our Website, such terms, conditions, policies, notices or disclaimers are incorporated by reference into this Agreement whether or not any such term, condition, policy, notice, or disclaimer is referenced below. You acknowledge that you are aware of and accept the terms and conditions of the Website’s Privacy Policy
RESTRICTED TO ADULTS
You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Website. You agree to be solely responsible for (i) maintaining such controls over the use and/or access to the Website by minors in your family or (ii) having access to your computer or login limited to the extent necessary to restrict use to adults.
OUR STAFF
Our staff includes, in part, dentists and other health care professionals. None of our dentists will enter into a dentist-patient relationship with you, and no other Professional participants will establish any clinical relationship with you while they are using our Website services. They can assist you in your personal, general research but they will not engage in any conduct that involves the practice of dentistry, medicine or other health care profession. The information you obtain from the Website should not substitute for or be used instead of a clinical or therapeutic relationship with a health care professional. You are responsible for reviewing and understanding all research and other information obtained by you from the Website.
The Professional participants will not create or retain any medical records about you or monitor your care. The Professional participants should not be considered to be your treating or care giving health care professional and will not communicate with your own health care provider. Consequently, any information you obtain from the Website should not substitute or be used instead of a relationship with a health care professional. All users are encouraged to seek the advice of, and regularly consult with, dentists and other health care professionals of their selection. You should not disregard or delay medical advice or treatment based on information on the Website.
The Website does not clinically evaluate or perform credentialing of the Professional participants, because the Professional participants are not practicing dentistry or providing dental advice about individual-specific treatment matters. The Professional participants do not diagnose or treat any dental or medical conditions or prescribe medication or treatments for anyone using the Website. The Professional participants may not accept payment from you and may not bill any insurance company, government payment program, or other source of health benefits in compensation for providing information to you on the Website. If you decide to seek information or obtain treatment from any Sponsor (as described below), the Professional participants will not follow up or monitor your care.
Please do not share personal medical information of a kind you would wish to be held confidential in a dentist-patient or similar clinical relationship. The members of the Professional participants do not keep any medical records and will not have any records concerning prior contacts you may have made to our Website. Since the Professional participants are not in a dentist-patient relationship with you, the information you provide will not be considered a medical record. The Company shall have the right to use any questions, comments, or other information submitted by users in books, magazine articles, commentaries, research or similar ways.
When we receive an e-mail, we make reasonable efforts to respond in as timely a manner as possible, but the Company does not guarantee that it will respond to all inquiries. We reserve the right to ignore or delete any information, including, without limitation, information that is fraudulent, abusive, defamatory, and obscene or in violation of a copyright, trademark or other intellectual property or ownership right of any other person. You should be aware of the general risks of transmitting information over the Internet. While we attempt to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing our files or tampering with our site, we cannot guarantee that these efforts will always be successful or that information will be transmitted without interruption or error and the Company specifically disclaims any liability with respect thereto.
OUR SPONSORS
The Website is one way for you to gather general dental/medical information and to make contact with certain contracting sponsors in your area who have arranged to post advertisements on, and make other information available through, our Website (the “Sponsors”). Our relationships with a Sponsor in a particular area are based on factors we establish, which may include offering exclusivity in a particular region. Sponsor information may be displayed based on the zip code where you reside. All information regarding a specific Sponsor has been provided by that Sponsor.
We contract with Sponsors for a fee, and such fee is not based on the volume or value of any services Sponsors may or may not provide to our users. We do not endorse, credential or accredit the services our Sponsors advertise and make no representations or warranties about the type of services, quality of care, source of payment or billing practices of our Sponsors. We do not verify or update the licenses, accreditations, certifications or other permits and approvals of any Sponsor. You are responsible for all activities between you and a Sponsor.
If you indicate that you wish information about or from a Sponsor, or to be contacted by a Sponsor, this information is passed along to the Sponsor. We also provide to our Sponsors general information about the users who contact our Website.
CONTACTS WITH OTHERS WEBSITES
Our Website may include or provide links to other web sites on the Internet, which may include information, opinions or recommendations of various individuals, organizations or companies. In providing such links, we do not represent to you that the Company has investigated the content of such information, opinions or recommendations, and thus you understand and agree that our Website does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of such information or endorse, credential or accredit any such opinions, recommendations, websites, individuals, organizations or companies. You acknowledge and agree that the Company has no control over such sites and is not responsible for the availability of such external sites. You also acknowledge and agree that we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, links or other materials on or available from such sites. You should contact the site administrator for other websites if you have any concerns regarding such links or the content located on such other websites.
OUR INFORMATION
The Company strives to make the Website a valuable resource of timely information for our users. We cannot ensure that information we provide is accurate, exhaustive or complete on every subject or that it will necessarily include all of the most recent information available on a particular topic. This information is of a general nature and we urge you to review it with your healthcare provider. Users should never delay, ignore or fail to obtain medical advice based on information obtained from our Website.
YOUR INFORMATION
The Company may gather and share user information gathered through the Website with its Sponsors about the areas, topics and communities of interest, zip codes, and products and services identified, purchased or used by you and our other users of the Website. Such information may be aggregate or individual. Information we gather about the use of our website may be used, for example, in providing information to our Sponsors, advertisers or vendors of products and services with which we have a relationship. The manner in which we collect and use personally identifying information voluntarily provided by you is described in our Privacy Policy. Such information may also be used by the Company to enforce this Agreement.
RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS AND STUDIES
We contract with research organizations and Individuals to complete research studies of various kinds. The Company is compensated under such arrangements. The Company does not evaluate, approve, review or endorse studies by any research organization. We do not control or determine how information provided to a research organization is used by that organization or whether the research organization provides such information to others with which it has agreements.