Terms of Use

Welcome to SafeCareCampaign.org!

SafeCareCampaign.org is an Internet system that provides resources, at low or no cost, to people all over the world to help them take effective action to improve health care. It will be helpful to people in many different roles in the health care system — including (but not limited to) physicians, nurses, other clinicians, managers, executives, policy-makers, educators, students, and interested members of the lay public. SafeCareCampaign.org is owned and operated by HAROT, Inc., a Georgia corporation. By using our website, you agree to the following Terms of Use, as well as our Privacy Statement (as more fully described below), the terms of which are hereby incorporated into this agreement by reference, which constitute an agreement between Safe Care Campaign and you. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, do not use SafeCareCampaign.org. When we refer to ourselves as "we," "us," "our," and similar terms, we mean Safe Care Campaign, including any subsidiary we control. We may change these terms from time to time. Your continued use of SafeCareCampaign.org following the posting of any changes to these Terms of Use constitutes your acceptance of such changes. You will always be able to view the most current version by clicking on a link at the bottom of any page on our site.

Scope of These Terms

These Terms of Use apply to your use of the SafeCareCampaign.org website and to tools accessible through SafeCareCampaign.org. We may have other websites that may be covered by different Terms of Use. The Terms of Use for each of our websites are available on those sites. When you leave one of our websites and go to another website (whether controlled by us or by a third party), different terms may apply.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability

SafeCareCampaign.org is a resource presented for the sole purpose of helping health care professionals improve care for the patients that they serve. We include a lot of information on SafeCareCampaign.org, including documents, references, tools, databases, and advertising. While we hope you find the information helpful, if you are a health care professional you should remember that the content on SafeCareCampaign.org is not meant to serve as a substitute for your own clinical judgment. If you are a consumer who chooses to use the information on SafeCareCampaign.org, you should not rely on that information as professional medical advice or use it to replace any relationship with your physician or other qualified health care professional. For medical concerns, including decisions about medications and other treatments, consumers should always consult their physician or, in serious cases, seek immediate assistance from emergency personnel. Individuals with any type of medical condition are specifically cautioned to seek professional medical advice before beginning any sort of health treatment. USERS WHO RELY ON INFORMATION ON SafeCareCampaign.org DO SO AT THEIR OWN RISK.

Although we generally do not review content posted directly by users in advance of its publication, we reserve the right to review any content at any time prior to or after it is published. We do not offer you any warranty or guarantee related to SafeCareCampaign.org. WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE DO NOT WARRANT OR GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CORRECTNESS, TIMELINESS OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, SERVICES, MERCHANDISE OR OTHER MATERIAL PROVIDED THROUGH SafeCareCampaign.org OR ON THE INTERNET GENERALLY. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR FREE. IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DECISION MADE OR ACTION TAKEN BY YOU OR ANYONE ELSE IN RELIANCE UPON THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN OR PROVIDED THROUGH SafeCareCampaign.org. It is your responsibility to evaluate the information and results from tools and other content available on SafeCareCampaign.org. If you are a health care professional, you should exercise your professional judgment in evaluating any information, and we encourage you to confirm the information contained on our website with other sources before undertaking any treatment or action based on it. If you are a consumer, you should evaluate the information together with your physician or another qualified health care professional. Some information on SafeCareCampaign.org comes from you or from other users. We are not responsible for that information. Whether the information comes from us or from you, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE INFORMATION ON SafeCareCampaign.org. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF SafeCareCampaign.org, HOWEVER ARISING, EXCEED ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,000), REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE AND NOTWITHSTANDING THE FAILURE OF THE ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY REMEDY YOU OR ANYONE MAY HAVE. You understand and agree that we cannot and do not operate, control, supply, endorse, warrant or guarantee any information, products, services or merchandise available on SafeCareCampaign.org or through the Internet, in general, in any way. You also understand and agree that we cannot and do not warrant or guarantee that files available for downloading through the website will be free of infections or viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that contains contaminating or destructive properties. You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for implementing sufficient precautions, procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your own requirements for the accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to SafeCareCampaign.org for the reconstruction of any lost data. We do not assume the responsibility for the loss of any information, data, or other materials resulting from your use of SafeCareCampaign.org. Content on SafeCareCampaign.org may include links to external websites, which are evaluated for inclusion on SafeCareCampaign.org using the following guidelines: The website provides clinical- and/or improvement-related information or content (e.g., resources and tools) that is entirely, or at least in part, freely available to users. SafeCareCampaign.org does not include links to websites or organizations that are commercial or product-based; pharmaceutical or medical products organizations or services; consulting services; or other types of organizations or websites, as determined by Safe Care Campaign’s sole discretion. Although we are selective about the organizations we link to, WE DO NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY WEBSITES THAT ARE LINKED TO OUR SITE OR THAT YOU BROWSE AFTER FOLLOWING A LINK FROM SafeCareCampaign.org. While we welcome your feedback on SafeCareCampaign.org, we reserve the right to make the final decisions about the content that is posted on the site and to remove such content in our unfettered discretion for any reason or no reason. If you believe that your work has been used on SafeCareCampaign.org in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact our Copyright Agent by following the procedures described below. To register other types of complaints, you can use the “Report This” or “Contact Us” features or any other feedback link on our site to send us comments and criticisms, but IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH OUR RESPONSE OR WITH THE CONTENTS OF SafeCareCampaign.org, YOUR ONLY REMEDY IS TO STOP USING THE WEBSITE.

Copyright

You acknowledge and agree that the content and materials available on SafeCareCampaign.org, including without limitation all text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, logos, tag-lines, audio and video media, artwork, design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, “look and feel” and the arrangement thereof, are protected by copyrights or other proprietary rights and laws. Among other things, this means you must not sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit, compile or create derivative works from such content or materials except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use. You acknowledge and agree that the unauthorized use of the contents and materials on SafeCareCampaign.org could cause irreparable harm to Safe Care Campaign and that in the event of such unauthorized use, Safe Care Campaign shall be entitled to an injunction in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity.

Policy on Using and Sharing SafeCareCampaign.org Content

Safe Care Campaign’s goal is to make the content posted on SafeCareCampaign.org free and open to all, as often as possible, and for our users around the world to access our resources in order to promote the improvement of health care quickly and broadly. In keeping with our mission, we invite registered users of SafeCareCampaign.org to download, learn from, and share the content on SafeCareCampaign.org, as permitted under these Terms of Use. Unless otherwise prohibited, you may look at SafeCareCampaign.org content online; download individual documents; print or email pages of content; download tools to your personal or handheld computer for later reading or use; and print a reasonable number of copies of pages for yourself or your colleagues, provided that:

You may not modify the content or any copyright notices or source indications.

You may NOT post the content directly into another website. Instead, because we update the content on SafeCareCampaign.org frequently and want to make sure people are using the most up-to-date information, you should link to the content on SafeCareCampaign.org.

You may not repackage our content for commercial purposes or otherwise offer it for sale.

Note that some content posted on SafeCareCampaign.org originates from outside sources that have granted Safe Care Campaign permission to post this content to our website only. Any further permissions for this content must be sought directly from the content owners. You may be required to register and/or pay to access or use certain content on SafeCareCampaign.org. You will be informed of any additional or modified terms governing your use of such content at the time of registration or purchase, and your access to and use of such content will be subject to those additional or modified terms. If you register or pay for an individual account, you may not share your user name or password with anyone else. If you register or pay for an organizational account, you may not share the organization’s user name or password with anyone outside of the organization. We reserve all other rights not expressly granted under these Terms of Use. To request permission to use SafeCareCampaign.org, including its content, in a manner other than as permitted under these Terms of Use, please send an email to info@SafeCareCampaign.org. Although we will try to respond in a timely manner, we are not always able to do so, and you do not have permission to vary your use of SafeCareCampaign.org, including its content, unless and until we give you explicit permission to do so.

Linking to Us

Usually, we do not mind if you have a simple link from your website to SafeCareCampaign.org. However, because we update our content frequently and want to make sure people are using the most up-to-date information and recognize its source, you must not frame our site or incorporate pieces of it into a different site or product. You are not allowed to link to SafeCareCampaign.org if you create or post illegal, obscene, or offensive content, or if the link in any way has a negative impact on our reputation.

Content That You Submit to SafeCareCampaign.org

Unless we tell you that something will be treated confidentially, when you submit content to SafeCareCampaign.org, including but not limited to documents, web page text, tools, reports, studies, comments, ratings, and postings to discussion boards, blogs and wikis, you are giving us a royalty-free, world-wide, irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display such content in any medium, form, format, or forum whether presently existing or developed later, and to sublicense such rights to others. For example, you give us the right to display an item of content, such as an document or comment that you post in one of our discussion groups, blogs, wikis, or the Knowledge Center, for as long as we want. We will consider requests to remove content that you make publicly available on SafeCareCampaign.org on an individual basis, but Safe Care Campaign will make the final decision whether or not to remove such content.

For our policies regarding information you place on SafeCareCampaign.org that will be treated confidentially, please see our Privacy Statement. You may not post any content, links or code that would be, in the sole and absolute determination of Safe Care Campaign, misleading, false, defamatory, vulgar, inappropriate, or harmful. We disclaim any liability for moderating such content, but reserve the right to remove any such content at any time without your consent. If you submit or post any content or intellectual property to SafeCareCampaign.org or Safe Care Campaign, you represent and warrant that your submission or posting does not infringe the rights of the owner of such content or intellectual property or any other third party. You further represent and warrant that the owner of such content or intellectual property has expressly granted, or allowed you to grant, to Safe Care Campaign a royalty-free, world-wide, irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display such content or intellectual property in any medium, form, format, or forum whether presently existing or developed later, and to sublicense such rights to others.

Advertising/Sponsorship and Solicitation Policy

Unless expressly permitted by SafeCareCampaign.org, you may not use SafeCareCampaign.org or any information, tool or service provided by SafeCareCampaign.org to solicit other users for any commercial purpose, or to advertise commercial programs, products, or services of any kind for which a fee is charged. Safe Care Campaign may permit advertising on and sponsorship of SafeCareCampaign.org by third parties. We do not endorse any product or service provided by such parties.

About the Privacy Statement

We pay special attention to privacy issues. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any sensitive information on SafeCareCampaign.org. If you use certain features of SafeCareCampaign.org, Safe Care Campaign may make some of your personal information publicly available, such as your name, photo, job title, organization name, city, state, and country. These uses are more fully described in our Privacy Statement. Otherwise, we recommend that you use caution when deciding whether to give out your own personal information, and that you never give out your address, phone number, date of birth or social security number. You may not give out information about an organization, a patient or another person if you do not have the express authority or permission to share that information publicly. Never submit content to SafeCareCampaign.org if you do not have the express authority or permission to share that information publicly. The purpose of our Privacy Statement is to identify the information we may collect about you, describe the uses we may make of your information and the security measures we take to protect it, and discuss your options for controlling your information. Please review the Privacy Statement for SafeCareCampaign.org.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Conduct

As a condition of your use of SafeCareCampaign.org, you warrant and agree that you will not use SafeCareCampaign.org for any purpose that is unlawful or is prohibited by these Terms of Use. You may not use SafeCareCampaign.org in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair SafeCareCampaign.org or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of SafeCareCampaign.org. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through SafeCareCampaign.org.

Consequences; Indemnification

If you do not comply with these terms, as determined by Safe Care Campaign in its sole and absolute discretion, we have the right to block your access, suspend or eliminate your registration, and remove any content or other information you have placed on our site. We may also take any legal action if, in our sole discretion, we think such legal action is appropriate. If your use of SafeCareCampaign.org or violation of this Agreement causes harm to yourself or others, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold Safe Care Campaign harmless against any liability for that harm.

Reporting a Violation

Any user who believes that another user’s use of SafeCareCampaign.org is in violation of these Terms of Use may report such violation to SafeCareCampaign.org by sending an email to: info@SafeCareCampaign.org. Safe Care Campaign will make the final determination in responding to any alleged violation.

General

If any provision of these Terms of Use is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. These Terms of Use and the Privacy Statement set forth the entire understanding and agreement between you and Safe Care Campaign with respect to your use of SafeCareCampaign.org.

Questions or Concerns About Our Terms of Use

For questions or concerns about these Terms of Use, please send an email to anahum@SafeCareCampaign.org.