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website ("TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site," or the "Site,") will
mean you accept those changes. CONTENTS
The
Site Does Not Provide Medical Advice
Children's
Privacy
Use
of Content
Liability
of TheFilipinoDoctor.com and Its Licensors
Doctor
Submissions
Doctor
Submissions - Image, Video, Audio files
Usernames
and Passwords
Advertisements,
Searches, and Links to Other Sites
Indemnity
General
Jurisdiction
Notice
and Take Down Procedures, Copyright Agent
Complete
Agreement
The
Site Does Not Provide Medical Advice
The
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obtained from TheFilipinoDoctor.com's licensors, and other material contained
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Malan Press, Inc. employees, others appearing on the Site at the invitation of
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Site may contain health- or medical-related materials that are sexually explicit.
If you find these materials offensive, you may not want to use our Site. Children's
Privacy
We
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this Site is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 18.
We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually
know is a child under the age of 18. Use
of Content
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and other items accessible on the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site may be included elsewhere
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Content is protected by copyright under both Philippines and foreign laws. Title
to the Content remains with TheFilipinoDoctor.com or its licensors. Any use of
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of these Terms and Conditions and may violate copyright, trademark, and other
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made of any portion of the Content. Liability
Of TheFilipinoDoctor.com And Its Licensors
The
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using the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site, information will be transmitted over a medium
that may be beyond the control and jurisdiction of TheFilipinoDoctor.com and its
suppliers. Accordingly, TheFilipinoDoctor.com assumes no liability for or relating
to the delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information
transmitted in connection with use of the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site. The
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accuracy, reliability, completeness, currency, or timeliness of the Content, software,
text, graphics, links, or communications provided on or through the use of the
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satisfaction of any government regulations requiring disclosure of information
on prescription drug products or the approval or compliance of any software tools
with regard to the Content contained on the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site. In
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or any third parties mentioned on the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site shall be liable
only to the extent of actual damages incurred by you, not to exceed Php20,000.
TheFilipinoDoctor.com, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned
on the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site are not liable for any personal injury, including
death, caused by your use or misuse of the Site, Content, or Public Areas (as
defined below). Any claims arising in connection with your use of the Site, any
Content, or the Public Areas must be brought within one (1) year of the date of
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Submissions
The
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Privacy Policy. To the extent there is an inconsistency between this Agreement
and the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Privacy Policy, this Agreement shall govern. You
agree that you will not upload or transmit any communications or content of any
type to the Public Areas that infringe or violate any rights of any party. By
submitting communications or content to the Public Areas, you agree that such
submission is non-confidential for all purposes. If
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by email, (including through the email addresses listed on the "Contact Us"
link) any communication or content that infringes or violates any rights of any
party. If you submit any business information, idea, concept or invention to TheFilipinoDoctor.com
by email, you agree such submission is non-confidential for all purposes except
where explicitly stated. If
you make any submission to a Public Area or if you submit any business information,
idea, concept or invention to TheFilipinoDoctor.com by email, you automatically
grant - or warrant that the owner of such content or intellectual property has
expressly granted - TheFilipinoDoctor.com a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable,
world-wide non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from,
modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication
or content in any media or medium, or any form, format, or forum now known or
hereafter developed. TheFilipinoDoctor.com may sublicense its rights through multiple
tiers of sublicenses. If you wish to keep any business information, ideas, concepts
or inventions private or proprietary, do not submit them to the Public Areas or
to TheFilipinoDoctor.com by email. We try to answer every email in a timely manner,
but are not always able to do so. Doctor
Submissions - Image, Video, Audio Files
You
agree to only post or upload Media (like photos, videos or audio) that you have
taken yourself or that you have all rights to transmit and license and which do
not violate trademark, copyright, privacy or any other rights of any other person.
Photos or videos of celebrities and cartoon or comic images are usually copyrighted
by the owner. It
is strictly prohibited to upload media of any kind that contain expressions of
hate, abuse, offensive images or conduct, obscenity, pornography, sexually explicit
or any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under
applicable law or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these
Terms and Conditions, the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Advertising Policy and the TheFilipinoDoctor.com
Privacy Policy. You
agree that you will not upload any material that contains software viruses or
any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit
the functionality of any computer software or this Web site. By
uploading any media like a photo or video, (a) you grant to TheFilipinoDoctor.com
a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, print,
display, reproduce, modify, publish, post, transmit and distribute the media and
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TheFilipinoDoctor.com to use, copy, print, display, reproduce, modify, publish,
post, transmit and distribute the media and any material included in such media;
and (c) you agree to indemnify TheFilipinoDoctor.com and its affiliates, directors,
officers and employees and hold them harmless from any and all claims and expenses,
including attorneys' fees, arising from the media and/or your failure to comply
with these the terms described in this document. TheFilipinoDoctor.com
reserves the right to review all media prior to submission to the site and to
remove any media for any reason, at any time, without prior notice, at our sole
discretion Usernames
and Passwords
TheFilipinoDoctor.com
has several tools that allow you to record and store information. You are responsible
for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person shall have
access to your TheFilipinoDoctor.com usernames and passwords or accounts. It is
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codes and passwords; (2) authorize, monitor, and control access to and use of
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of any need to deactivate a password. You grant TheFilipinoDoctor.com and all
other persons or entities involved in the operation of the Site the right to transmit,
monitor, retrieve, store, and use your information in connection with the operation
of the Site. TheFilipinoDoctor.com cannot and does not assume any responsibility
or liability for any information you submit, or your or third parties' use or
misuse of information transmitted or received using TheFilipinoDoctor.com tools
and services. Advertisements,
Searches, and Links to Other Sites
TheFilipinoDoctor.com
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certain sites as priority responses to search terms you enter and TheFilipinoDoctor.com
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or sponsored content. TheFilipinoDoctor.com does not recommend and does not endorse
the content on any third-party websites. TheFilipinoDoctor.com is not responsible
for the content of linked third-party sites, sites framed within the TheFilipinoDoctor.com
Site, third-party sites provided as search results, or third-party advertisements,
and does not make any representations regarding their content or accuracy. Your
use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions
of use for such sites. TheFilipinoDoctor.com does not endorse any product, service,
or treatment advertised on the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site. Indemnity
You
agree to defend, indemnify, and hold TheFilipinoDoctor.com, its officers, directors,
employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers, harmless from and against any claims,
actions or demands, liabilities and settlements including without limitation,
reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from,
your violation of these Terms and Conditions. General
TheFilipinoDoctor.com
is based in the Philippines with principal offices in Ortigas Business District,
Pasig City. TheFilipinoDoctor.com makes no claims that TheFilipinoDoctor.com and
the Content are appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the Philippines. Access
to the Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If
you access the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Network from outside the Philippines, you
do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your
jurisdiction. The
following provisions survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement for
any reason whatsoever: Liability, User Submissions, User Submissions - image,
video, audio files, Indemnity, Jurisdiction, and Complete Agreement. Jurisdiction
You
expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute with TheFilipinoDoctor.com,
or in any way relating to your use of the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site, resides
in the courts of the Republic of the Philippines and you further agree and expressly
consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the courts of the Republic
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of the Philippines, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. If any
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competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall
remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms and Conditions
shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any
other term or condition. Notice
and Takedown Procedures; and Copyright Agent
If
you believe any materials accessible on or from the Site infringe your copyright,
you may request removal of those materials (or access thereto) from this web site
by contacting TheFilipinoDoctor.com's head office (identified below) and providing
the following information: Identification
of the copyrighted work that you believe to be infringed. Please describe the
work, and where possible include a copy or the location (e.g., URL) of an authorized
version of the work.
Identification of the material that you believe to be
infringing and its location. Please describe the material, and provide us with
its URL or any other pertinent information that will allow us to locate the material.
Your
name, address, telephone number and (if available) e-mail address.
A statement
that you have a good faith belief that the complained of use of the materials
is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement
that the information that you have supplied is accurate, and indicating that "under
penalty of perjury," you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act
on the copyright owner's behalf.
A signature or the electronic equivalent
from the copyright holder or authorized representative.
TheFilipinoDoctor.com's
contact for copyright issues relating to this web site is as follows: Medicomm
Pacific, Inc
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an effort to protect the rights of copyright owners, TheFilipinoDoctor.com maintains
a policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of subscribers and
account holders of the Site who are repeat infringers. Complete
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to the use of the TheFilipinoDoctor.com Site, and Content. Thank
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