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TERMS & CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO MEMBERS AND OTHER USERS OF THE MEDICATION
WEBSITE
THIS AGREEMENT WAS LAST UPDATED ON SEPTEMBER 18th, 2006
Please read the following terms and conditions carefully, as they form the
agreement between "You" (the user) and "Us" (Medication).
If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you may not use the website
and should not proceed to register. By using the website after September 18th,
2006 you are agreeing to be bound by this Agreement.
RIGHT TO USE
On application to become a Member You warrant and represent to Us that:
- You are over 18 years old;
- You have not been convicted of any offence relating to violence and/or any
offence under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (or under any statutory
enactment replacing and/or amending such Act); and/or
- You have not been subject to any injunction or any order to pay damages under
the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (or under any statutory enactment replacing
and/or amending such Act).
If You are not able or not willing to give the warranties and representations
set out above then You must not apply for membership.
BASIS OF CONTRACT
If you are applying for membership, you agree to be bound by these terms and
conditions for the provision of the Service. If you are a User, who is not a
Member, your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to be bound by these
terms and conditions insofar as they are relevant to use of the Website by non-Members.
We reserve the right to vary these terms and conditions at any time. If so,
the updated version will be posted on the terms and conditions page of the Website.
You will bound by the updated version if You continue to use the Service thereafter.
AGREEMENT
You will not:
- Post Information which breaches, infringes, violates and/or is contrary to
any law, by-law, statute and/or regulation or code of conduct or any other parties'
rights (including but not limited to Intellectual Property Rights and/or privacy
rights);
- Use the Service to promote another site, service and/or business in any way
including but not limited to Posting any telephone number, fax number, address
and/or e-mail address or URL in Your Profile;
- Solicit other Members' business, advertise, buy or sell products and/or services
through the Service;
- Misuse in any way the Service or any Information Posted on the Service;
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any Information available on or via
the Service or to any of the networks used in providing the Service;
- Post and/or reproduce in any way any Information in which the Intellectual
Property Rights belong to another party without first obtaining the prior consent
of the owner of such rights;
- Copy, in whole or in part any of the Information on the Website (including,
but not limited to any Information contained in other Members' Profiles) other
than for the purposes contemplated in this Agreement;
- Post any junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any similar or
fraudulent schemes or any inappropriate form of solicitation; or collection
of the responses to any such schemes or solicitation;
- In any way assign, transfer, part with and/or authorise any other person to
use, Your membership;
- Post any Information, which in Our opinion is sexually explicit, vulgar, indecent,
racist, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, offensive, harmful, threatening,
harassing, stalking, inflammatory, sexually suggestive, defamatory and/or obscene;
and/or - Post any Information which in Our opinion is capable of offending others'
political and/or religious beliefs;
- Use the website to distribute or upload any virus, trojan horse or do anything
else that might cause harm or malicious damage to the site, Medication systems
or to other members' systems in any way.
MONITORING OF INFORMATION AND TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP
We reserve the right to monitor and at Our option to remove for any reason
any Information Posted by You.
We shall have the right at Our option to refuse to grant applications for membership
and to terminate memberships at any time.
The Agreement between You and Us shall come into effect on Our acceptance of
Your application for membership. No application for membership shall be deemed
to be accepted by Us until You have received confirmation of Your membership
from Us by e-mail.
SECURITY
The username, password and activation code allocated to You are personal to
You and are not transferable. You are responsible for keeping them secure and
for any use of the Service including any activities by anyone using Your username,
password and/or activation code.
You should protect against unauthorized access to Your computer. Ensure that
You log out when You finish using a shared computer.
You must notify Us immediately of any apparent breach of security such as loss,
theft, or unauthorised disclosure or use of a username or password, and in such
cases You should immediately amend Your password using the Service.
YOUR PROFILE
You acknowledge that other Users will be able to view Your Profile.
We may copy and/or reproduce any Information Posted by You on the Website in
any form and in any manner We wish.
If You Post and/or disclose to other Users any confidential or sensitive Information
about Yourself then You do so entirely at Your own risk.
You will be able to view the details and profiles of other Members.
You warrant and represent to Us that all Information Posted by You:
- is accurate, true, complete and is not misleading; and
- will be regularly updated by You so that it remains accurate, true, complete
and not misleading.
We reserve the right to review Your Profile from time to time and to amend
and/or delete it if We, in Our sole discretion, think that it should be amended
and/or deleted.
PERSONAL DATA
Personal Information collected from You is subject to Our privacy policy.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CONFIDENTIALITY
As between You and Us, All Intellectual Property Rights in connection with
the Service shall be owned by Us absolutely. You may link to the Service but
You may not include the Service in part or in whole within another external
website without Our prior written consent.
You warrant and represent to Us that the Information Posted in Your Profile
is Posted by You and that You are the sole author of Your Profile. You assign
to Us with full title guarantee all copyright in Your Profile.
You waive absolutely any and all moral right to be identified as author of
Your Profile and any similar rights in any jurisdiction.
You agree that You will keep confidential and not use, except for purposes contemplated
by this Agreement, any and/or all Information relating to the Service which
may be disclosed to You or which You may learn, except where such Information
is public knowledge or it is required to be disclosed by law.
We will use Our reasonable commercial endeavours to keep Your personal details
such as Your surname, real e-mail address and credit card number(s) (where relevant)
confidential and will not disclose such Information, except where such Information
is public knowledge or it is required to be disclosed by law.
FUNCTIONING OF THE SERVICE
The Service is provided in its current form and We do not guarantee or warrant
that the Service, or any element of the Service will meet Your requirements,
purpose and/or expectations.
We do not guarantee or warrant that any of the Information provided in or via
the Service is accurate or reliable. You rely on it at Your own risk.
Due to the nature of the internet, we do not provide any warranty or guarantee
in respect of the Service, results, availability, and/or uninterrupted use of
the Service except that We will use Our reasonable endeavours to rectify serious
faults as soon as practical though not within any particular timescale.
We reserve the right to make changes to the Service.
We reserve the right to suspend the Service without notice for repair, maintenance
or other technical reasons.
USE OF THE SERVICE
The Website is a community site for Members to Post Information about themselves
and to allow You to make contact with other Members through use of the Service
if You choose to do so.
You should not assume that the Information contained in any profile is necessarily
correct and accurate. We do not have an opportunity to check that the profiles
are correct and not misleading. We do not make any representation or warranty
that the Information contained in any profile is accurate and We are not under
any obligation to verify any Information contained in any profile.
Before acting on any Information contained in any profile or on any Information
received by You through Your use of the Service, You should at Your own expense,
carry out such investigation as You think is necessary to satisfy Yourself of
the truth and accuracy of such Information. A person/group of people may not
be who he or she/they claims/claim to be.
If You arrange any meetings with any person/group of people through Your use
of the Service then You do so at Your own risk. You should take reasonable precautions
to ensure Your safety.
You must comply with Our reasonable instructions concerning use of the Service.
You must notify us in writing immediately if You become aware of any inappropriate
behaviour in connection with the Service.
We are entitled to delete messages stored on the Service after the period stated
on the Website. We may also delete messages immediately upon exercising any
right of suspension in this Agreement or upon termination of Your membership
or this Agreement. It is Your responsibility to store independently any messages
that You wish to keep.
LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY
We shall have no Liability for any defect in the Service caused or contributed
to by You and/or any other Member.
You shall give Us a reasonable opportunity to remedy any matter for which We
are liable before You incur any costs and/or expenses in remedying the matter
Yourself. If You do not do so We shall have no Liability to You.
You shall produce to Us written evidence of any claims for which it is alleged
that We are liable together with written details of how any loss was caused
by Us and the steps You have taken to mitigate the loss before We shall have
any Liability for the claim by You.
We shall have no Liability to You to the extent that You are covered by any
policy of insurance and You shall ensure that Your insurers waive any and all
rights of subrogation they may have against Us. We shall have no Liability to
You arising out of Your use of the Service and/or Your reliance on any Information
Posted by other Members.
It is possible for other Users and/or unauthorised users to obtain and misuse
Information about You as a result of Your use of the Service. We shall have
no Liability to You arising out of any Member's and/or unauthorised User's misuse
of Information Posted by You on the Service and/or to other Members.
We shall have no Liability to You for any:-
- consequential, special or indirect losses;
- economic and/or other similar losses (including, without limit, loss of revenues,
profits, contracts, business or anticipated savings); or
- damage to or loss of goodwill, reputation or data.
You shall be under a duty to mitigate any loss, damage, costs or expenses that
You may suffer.
Without prejudice to the foregoing, our total Liability to You under and/or
arising in relation to this Agreement for any one event or series of events
shall not exceed 5 times the amount paid by You for the Service (if any) in
the 12 months before the event(s) complained of or the sum of £1,000,
whichever is the higher.
Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit Our Liability for death or
personal injury due to Our negligence or any Liability which is due to Our fraud
or any other Liability which We are not permitted to exclude or limit as a matter
of law.
Nothing in this Contract shall exclude or limit any of Your statutory rights
which may not be excluded or limited due to You acting as a consumer.
We shall have no Liability to You for any delay in performance of this Service
and/or any other matters to the extent that such events and/or matters are due
to any events outside Our reasonable control including but not limited to acts
of God, war, flood, fire, labour disputes, strikes, lock-outs, riots, civil
commotion, malicious damage, explosion, governmental actions, acts of terrorism
and any other similar events.
This section (and any other clause excluding or limiting Our liability) applies
to Our directors, officers, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated
companies as well as to us.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified Us against any and all losses,
proceedings, lost profits, damages, awards, expenses, costs (including increased
administration costs and legal costs on a full indemnity basis), claims, actions
and any other losses and/or liabilities suffered by Us and arising from and/or
relating to Your use of the Service, Information and/or other material Posted
on or via the Service by You and/or arising from or due to any breach of contract,
any tortious act and/or omission and/or any breach of statutory duty by You.
GENERAL
Headings above are for guidance and not binding.
All third party rights are excluded and no third parties shall have any right
to enforce this Agreement under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act
1999 or otherwise. This shall not apply to members of Our group who shall have
the right to enforce this Agreement as if they were Us and to the persons mentioned
above.
No waiver by Us of any breach of this Agreement shall be considered as a waiver
of any subsequent breach of the same provision or any other provision.
This Agreement contains the entire agreement between You and Us. If any provision
of this Agreement is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable
in whole or in part the validity of the other provisions of this Agreement and
the remainder of the affected provision shall be unaffected and shall remain
in full force and effect.
We may assign all or part of Our rights or duties under this Agreement; You
may not do without Our prior written consent.
Unless otherwise stated in this Agreement all notices in writing shall be sent
by email to the most recent email address specified by You on the Service (in
Your case) and by email to info@medication.co.uk (in Our case).
This Agreement is governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law
and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English
courts.
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