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Terms Of Use USE AGREEMENT FOR THE CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR WEBSITE

Copyright and Proprietary Rights

The Choroid-Plexus-Tumor web site has been developed by the International Choroid Plexus Tumor Group and is the property of MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER and is protected by international and United States copyright laws. All trademark, copyright, and other proprietary rights to the web site and the information, documents, products, services, logos, graphics, software, design elements, sounds, images and all other materials originated or used by MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER at this site are reserved to MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER and its authorized licensees.

Unless a specific permission is given, other than printing out or downloading portions of the text and images for your own personal, non-commercial use, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, upload, download, display, transmit, or exploit in any way any part of the Choroid-Plexus-Tumor information or information accessed at other sites through links made at the web site or use such content to construct any kind of database.

You may not modify the web site, or any material residing on the site without express written permission of Johannes Wolff, MD and you shall observe copyright and other restrictions imposed by this and other sites. You may not use this web site in any manner that infringes upon the rights of any person or entity.

Legal Notice and Disclaimer

FOR INDIVIDUALS USING THE SITE FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES:

This information is not intended as medical advice and should not be used for, nor is it intended to constitute, a medical diagnosis or treatment. Information on the Site is not provided in the course of a professional relationship between a healthcare provider and a patient and is not intended to create any physician-patient relationship, nor should it be considered a replacement for consultation with a healthcare professional.

The information on the Site, is for informational and educational purposes only, and is not intended as a substitute for medical professional help, advice, diagnosis or treatment.

To address any questions or concerns you may have regarding your medical care, you should always seek the advice of your physician or another competent medical professional. If you think you may have a medical emergency, please call or see your doctor, or call 911, immediately and without delay. YOU SHOULD NEVER DISREGARD MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON THE SITE.

FOR PROFESSIONALS USING THE SITE:

The information on the Site, is for informational and educational purposes only. Although the Site uses reasonable efforts to ensure that the information provided is current, complete and, where appropriate, based on scientific evidence, the Site makes no assurances as to whether the provided information will at all times be current and does not intend to provide medical advice or reflect the best medical practice for any specific circumstance.

You therefore should not substitute information contained on the Site for your own professional judgment, nor should you rely on information provided on the Site in rendering a diagnosis or choosing a course of treatment for a particular individual.

THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT OR TITLE, AND WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES. BY ACCESSING THE SITE, YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE DESCRIBED HEREIN.

Without limiting the foregoing, MDAnderson Cancer Center Children's Hospital makes no representations regarding, and does not warrant, the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or usefulness of the opinions and other information provided through the Site or on the World Wide Web generally.

In the course of using the Site, you may be referred, linked, or otherwise directed to outside resources, including content, services, events, and products provided by others. It is our mission to empower you by making these resources available to you; however, we have no control over such outside resources and MDAnderson Cancer Center makes no guarantees about the quality, accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any such outside resources.

MDAnderson Cancer Center makes no representations or warranties regarding its own or any third party's compliance with any government regulations requiring disclosure of information about prescription drug products or the approval or compliance of any software tools with regard to the Content provided on the Site. MDAnderson Cancer Center Children's Research Hospital, its licensors, and its suppliers have no control over and accept no responsibility for compliance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to your country or state of residence.

The Site may contain health or medical-related materials that you may find sexually explicit or otherwise offensive.

Access and use of the Site may require the use of software, hardware, servers and/or services provided or maintained by others and over which MDAnderson Cancer Center has no control. MDAnderson Cancer Center Children's Hospital does not guarantee that these products will work as expected and expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions with respect to such software, hardware, servers and services, either express or implied or statutory, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

All information with respect to the Site is transmitted over a medium that is beyond our control and jurisdiction. Accordingly, we assume no responsibility for, or relation to, delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the Site or any site accessed through the Site. We do not guarantee continuous access to the Site, or that any defect in the Site will be corrected. You are solely responsible for implementing sufficient procedures to satisfy your particular requirements for protection of your computer systems and/or accuracy or integrity of data, and for maintaining a means of reconstructing or retrieving any lost or corrupted data.

Endorsement

Unless specifically stated otherwise, MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER does not endorse any third-parties that may appear, advertise on, or otherwise link to the web site, and makes no representation or warranties as to the content and accuracy of information, products, or services they may provide therein.

Licenses

In the event you are permitted by MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER to download software from the web site, the software, including any materials and documentation, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the "Software") are licensed to you by MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER does not transfer title to the software to you and you have no rights other than as an non-exclusive licensee under the terms of any associated license agreement. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER retains full and complete title to the software, and all intellectual property rights therein. You may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise modify the Software.

Submissions

All concepts, ideas, comments, documents, illustrations, educational course content and other materials disclosed or offered to MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER on or in connection with this web site are submitted without any restrictions or expectation of confidentiality. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by both parties (see Submission Release Agreement), MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER shall have no financial or other obligations to you when you submit such information, nor shall you assert any proprietary or moral right of any kind with respect to such submissions. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER shall have the right to use, modify, publish, reproduce, transmit, download, upload, post, display or otherwise distribute your submissions in any manner without further notice or compensation to you.

Termination

Unless subject to the binding terms and provisions of other MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER service agreements, MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER may terminate this Use Agreement and restrict access to the Choroid-Plexus-Tumor site at any time without notice. Upon notice of termination by MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER you shall destroy all materials obtained from this web site and all related documentation and copies and installations thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise.

Export Controls

Your use of the web site should comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations that govern the export of technical data. By downloading any information including software you agree that you are not in a country where such export is prohibited, that you are not a person or entity to which such export is prohibited, and that you accept full responsibility for compliance with the laws of your local jurisdiction.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER, its employees, officers, directors, successors and assigns, individually and collectively, from and against all claims, demands, losses, damages, costs, judgments, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) arising out of or in connection with any and all claims of third parties, whether or not groundless, associated with use of Choroid-Plexus-Tumor information, software, services, products or community forums.

Limitation of Liability

In no event shall MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER or its employees, agents, licensors or contractors be liable for any incidental, consequential, punitive or multiple damages of any kind that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this web site, even if an authorized representative of MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER's total liability to you for damages, losses, and causes of action whether in contract or tort (including, but not limited to, negligence) exceed the amount paid by you to MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER, if any, for accessing this web site.

Jurisdiction

You understand and agree that the laws of the State of Tennessee govern this Use Agreement and that exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or dispute with MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER, or relating in any way to your account or use of the web site, resides in the State of Tennessee. You further agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the courts of Tennessee in connection with any such dispute, including any claim involving MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER or its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, contractors, officers and directors.

Entire Agreement

This Use Agreement represents the complete agreement between MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER and yourself with regard to the subject matter of this Use Agreement, and supercedes any other written or oral agreement. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Use Agreement. Please check these terms and conditions periodically for changes. Your continued use of the web site following the posting of changes to these policies will indicate your acceptance of those changes.

Privacy

MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of visitors to the Choroid-Plexus-Tumor web site. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER has developed the following terms of privacy so that you can understand the care with which we intend to treat the information you provide at our web site. Our privacy terms are as follows:

Collection and Storage of Information

MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER may collect certain limited personal information, including your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address, when you register as a member. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER may also collect statistical and other additional information in connection with site usage and surveys. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER will maintain appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of your personally identifiable information.

MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER may use "cookies" to recognize you, to facilitate your access privileges on our site, to monitor site usage and generally to improve the quality of our services. If you do not want information collected through the use of a cookie, this preference can be modified in most browsers by accepting or denying the cookie feature. Please note that certain features available on the web site may require the use of cookies to function properly.

Use of Information

Information collected is used strictly to maintain, improve, and operate Choroid-Plexus-Tumor including security, systems administration, research, and troubleshooting purposes. Personally identifiable information of users will not be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without prior consent of the user. Information concerning any individuals' usage of our site will not be disclosed to third parties except in aggregate form. The Choroid-Plexus-Tumor web site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, e-mail functions and/or news groups (individually and collectively, the "community forums") available for your use. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and discretion should be used when deciding to disclose personal information. Information that is voluntarily disclosed on the above community forums is beyond the control of MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER and may result in unsolicited messages. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER cannot control and is not responsible for the privacy policies of web sites to which the Choroid-Plexus-Tumor site may link.

Communications

MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER reserves the right to contact users who have accepted the terms and conditions of any of our user agreements, at any time, regarding user related matters such as changes to our terms and conditions. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER may also send users other notifications including but not limited to new site features, news bulletins, and other site-related information or opportunities.

The information about you collected on the web site is subject to these privacy terms.

Community Standards

MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER makes community discussion areas ("chat rooms," "forums," "message boards,") e-mail functions and/or news areas (individually and collectively, the "community forums") available for your interactive use on the web site. If you use the community forums, you are solely responsible for your own communications and the consequences of posting those communications. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER assumes no responsibility for any communication on, or consequence arising from the use of, the community forums. The purpose of the community forums is to facilitate an exchange of professional ideas and to stimulate community interaction. To ensure that participation in the community forums is enjoyable and productive for everyone concerned, we ask that you adhere to the following rules:

Users of the community forums should provide their real names, and use their own login identity when participating in community forums. You may not impersonate another person nor allow others to use your identification.

Do not disturb the intent of the community forums by soliciting business, promoting any products or services, or posting chain letters or pyramid schemes of any form. The forums shall be used only in a noncommercial manner.

You may not post the same item repeatedly. This is sometimes referred to as "spamming" and is strictly prohibited.

Do not threaten, verbally attack, harass, embarrass, intimidate or engage in any conduct that may compromise any individual or entity including inhibiting their ongoing use and enjoyment of the community forums.

Do not upload, distribute or otherwise publish through the web site any content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene or pornographic in nature or that would constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate a law including copyright infringement or otherwise give rise to liability.

Please settle any disputes with other users, yourself, and understand that MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER will not mediate disagreements that may arise in the community forums.

Although MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER will not edit the content of your messages, we reserve the right to remove any message that we determine in our sole discretion to be inappropriate or in violation of the terms of this policy. MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER has no liability or responsibility to any person or entity for performance or non-performance of such screening activities.

MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER may invoke whatever sanctions it alone deems appropriate on any user, up to and including banning them from use of the Choroid-Plexus-Tumor web site, for their improper use and/or abuse of the community forums.

MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER reserves the right to use any content posted by users for research, publication, and/or promotional purposes.

MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any of the material posted by users of the community forums or endorse any opinions expressed or implied by such users. You acknowledge that any reliance on content posted in the community forums is at your own risk.

Through your use of any of the community forums, you are agreeing to all the terms and conditions contained herein and any future amendments hereto.