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​Agreement in Regard to Your Use of This Site 

Your use of this Website and related services and links are provided subject to your agreement to comply with the provisions of this Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement.  By using this Website or any other The Christ Hospital operated website, you fully agree to all of the Terms and Conditions of Use.  If ​you do not agree to all of the Terms and Conditions of Use, do not access or use the Website.  The Christ Hospital may change the Terms and Conditions of Use any time by posting amended Terms and Conditions of Use on the Website.  Such changes are effective upon posting on the Website.  


Discl​​aimer​

The Website is owned and operated by The Christ Hospital.  The Website allows users to access health-related information that is provided by us and third party content suppliers.  Your reliance on content obtained by you at or through the Website is solely at your own risk.  The information provided on the Website is for general informational purposes only. None of the information provided on the Website constitutes, directly or indirectly, the practice of medicine, the dispensing of medical services, a professional diagnosis or a treatment plan. The information on the Website should not be considered complete, nor should it be relied upon to suggest a course of treatment for a particular individual.  You should not rely on information provided on the Website as a substitute for personal medical attention, diagnosis or hands-on treatment.  You should never disregard medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the Website.   If you have any healthcare-related concerns, please call or see your physician or other qualified healthcare provider.  Never discontinue treatment or medication without first consulting your physician, clinicians or therapists.  

The Website may provide links and pointers to other sites on the Internet (“Third Party Sites”). The Christ Hospital has not investigated the content of information provided on Third Party Sites and does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, reliability or timeliness of such information or the performance of the Third Party Sites.  The Christ Hospital’s inclusion of links to Third Party Sites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites or any association with their operators. You acknowledges and agree that The Christ Hospital is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You agree that The Christ Hospital shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, products or services available on such external sites or resources. 


To the extent the Website provides links to a variety of commercial websites offering products and services, we assume no responsibility for the appropriateness, fitness or reliability of the products or services offered for sale on such websites.  You enter into any transactions with these companies at your own risk, under the terms and conditions of each website.  We make no representations, warranties or covenants about these companies, products or services.


We do not warrant against human and machine errors, omissions, delays, interruptions or losses, including loss of data.  We cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the Website will be free of infection, viruses, worms, Trojan Horses or other codes that manifest contaminating or destructive properties.  We do not warrant or guarantee that the functions or services provided by us will be uninterrupted or error-free or that defects in the Website will be corrected.


The Christ Hospital does not make any representations or warranties as to the opinions or other service data you may access, download or use as a result of this Website.  Nor does The Christ Hospital make any warranty that the content contained on the Website satisfies government regulations requiring disclosure of information on prescription drug products.  


The Website is provided “as is” and without warranty, express or implied.  All warranties with regard to the accuracy, reliability, timeliness, usefulness or completeness of the information contained on the Website are expressly disclaimed.  All implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular use are hereby excluded.


Assumption o​​​f Risk and Waiver​

Your use of the Website is solely at your own risk.  Neither The Christ Hospital nor any entity or individual with which The Christ Hospital contracts in connection with the operation of the Website shall be liable or responsible to any person or entity for any loss or damage, including special, incidental, consequential, punitive or indirect damages, caused, or to have been caused (including, but not limited to, liability arising out of contract, negligence, strict liability, tort, patent or copyright infringement) directly or indirectly by or from the information or ideas contained, suggested, or referenced on the Website for any errors, misstatements, inaccuracies or omissions in the information or ideas contained on the Website or any delays or interruptions in the use of Website.  You hereby release and forever waive any and all claims you may have against The Christ Hospital, its contractors and any of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, if any, for losses or damages you sustain in connection with your use of the Website, even if you have advised The Christ Hospital or any contractor of the possibility of such damages.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the total liability of The Christ Hospital, its contractors, their respective officers, directors and agents, if any, for losses or damages shall not exceed the lesser of $1,000 or the amount, if any, paid by you for the particular information or service provided. As set forth above, use of the Website constitutes an acceptance of these provisions.


Web Traffic Data Co​llected​

When you use our website, we collect information about how you use our website (such as places visited and searches performed).


Information collected also includes the domain names and/or IP addresses of browsers that visit our website, time of day the website was visited and other non-personally identifiable information. Collecting this information helps to characterize Website users to improve our services.


We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. We use cookies to identify returning visitors, so that they do not have to reenter a password whenever they return to our website.


Personal Inform​ation Collected​

Our Website may use various forms for users to request information, products and services. We collect a visitor's contact information (such as an email address) and financial information (such as an account or credit card numbers) in various forms on the Website. This information is used to fulfill orders and process payments or donations.


The user's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. For example, we might have a question about the processing of an order. If a user so requests, we may use the contact information to send the user additional information about The Christ Hospital.


Use of Third Party Technology

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.


Public Dom​​ain 

You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (for example, user name, email address) on the bulletin boards, chat areas and other interactive areas (collectively “Public Domain”) of the Website, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected, correlated and used by other users and third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other users or third parties.  Such activities are beyond our control.  We make no representations, covenants or warranties about the discoverability of your identity by methods beyond our control.  If you use a Public Domain, you are solely responsible for your own communications and the consequences of posting those communications.


The Christ Hospital Participants

Employees and other individuals affiliated with The Christ Hospital participating in the interactive services of the Website, and/or contributing content to the Website, do so as individuals and not in any official capacity.  Their opinions and expressions do not represent the opinions, expressions or official position of the Website, The Christ Hospital or any of The Christ Hospital’s subsidiaries or affiliates unless expressly stated.           


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Find A Physician

    

The Website provides information about healthcare providers (“Providers”) who are members in good standing of The Christ Hospital medical staff or who are employed by The Christ Hospital or one of its affiliates. The Website can also help you find a Provider who meets your specifications.  Please note that when we provide you with the name of a Provider who meets your specifications, we are not recommending that Provider or referring you to that Provider.  Information about a Provider’s specific area of practice is provided by the Provider, who is solely responsible for the accuracy of that information.  We do not guarantee the reliability, accuracy or completeness of information contained on the Website about a particular Provider.  If you are seeking information about Provider’s participation with a specific healthcare plan, that information may be available, however, due to frequent changes in insurance coverage, we recommend that you always check with the Provider’s office regarding insurance specifics.​            

How You May Use Our Materials

    

The content of this site is protected by copyright under both United States and foreign law.  You may download, use and copy the materials found on the Websites for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copies that you make of the material must retain any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice located on the site, which pertain to the material being copied.  Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the material or the products, services, processes or technology described therein.  All such rights are retained by The Christ Hospital, its subsidiaries, and/or any third party owner of such rights.            

    

You may not sell or modify the content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute or otherwise use the content in any way for any public or commercial purpose.  The use of the content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited.  None of the content, including any software, may be reverse engineered, disassembled, decompiled, reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo reproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of The Christ Hospital, except as expressly set forth above.​            

How You May Use Our Marks

The Christ Hospital names and logos, all related product and service names, design marks and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of The Christ Hospital or its subsidiaries or affiliates (collectively “The Christ Hospital”).  You are not authorized to use any The Christ Hospital name or mark in any advertising, publicity or in any other commercial manner without the prior written consent of The Christ Hospital.  ​            

Linking

The Christ Hospital reserves the right to modify, break or delete hyperlinks at any time, and takes no responsibility for any inbound links established by others that are affected by such changes. Under no circumstances may the Website or any of its content be "framed" or portions of the Website copied to a server, except as part of an Internet service provider's or Internet search engine’s incidental caching of pages. Each page within the Website must be displayed in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising and promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border, margin, design, branding, trademark, advertising or promotional materials not originally displayed on the page within the Website.            

    

Without our prior written consent you will not, and you will not authorize, direct or permit any other party to (1) co-brand the Website or any portion thereof, or (2) frame the Website or any portion thereof (so that the Website appears on the same screen within a portion of another website). "Co-branding" means to display a name, logo, trademark, or other indicia of ownership of any party in a manner reasonably likely to give a user of the Website the impression that the party has the right to display, publish, or market the Website or any content accessible within the Website. You agree to cooperate with us in immediately stopping any unauthorized co-branding, framing, or linking to the Website.​            

Use of Interactive Areas

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The Christ Hospital may occasionally place bulletin boards on the site, which are solely to enable communication between site visitors.  The Christ Hospital may also occasionally place email links on the site, which are solely to enable site visitors to communicate by email with The Christ Hospital.  If you use a public area, you are solely responsible for your own communications, the consequences of posting those communications, and your reliance on any communications found in the interactive areas.  In cases where you feel threatened or believe someone else is in danger, you should contact your local law enforcement agency immediately.  If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.            

    

Although The Christ Hospital may occasionally monitor or review discussions, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards and the like on the site, The Christ Hospital does not do so actively or regularly, and is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the contents of any such communications nor for any error, defamation, libel, obscenity, profanity or inaccuracy contained in any such communication.            

    

Any communication that you post on the site (apart from your personal profile) is considered to be non-confidential.  Do not send or post anything that you deem confidential or proprietary.  Any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like which you send to us may be used by The Christ Hospital or its affiliates for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting.  The Christ Hospital is free to use, without any compensation to you, any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any communication you send to the site for any purposes whatsoever, including, but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products and/or services using such information.  By uploading or transmitting information you grant to The Christ Hospital 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 alone or as part of other works in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, and to sub-license such rights through multiple tiers of sub-licenses.  Additionally, The Christ Hospital has the right to use any questions, comments or other information submitted by users in books, articles, commentaries and research or in similar ways, without the consent of the user.  You warrant that any communications you upload or transmit to this site do not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party.            

    

In consideration of your privilege to use the interactive areas, you agree that you shall refrain from the following prohibited conduct and that such conduct shall constitute a material breach of the terms and conditions of use.  You are prohibited from posting or transmitting slanderous, unlawful, threatening, defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic, profane, fictitious, licentious, lewd, violent, hateful, abusive, insulting, harassing or threatening material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, federal or foreign law.  You are prohibited from any form of direct or indirect personal attack or harassment.  You are prohibited from posting any material that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others.  You are prohibited from posting advertisements or solicitations of business.  You are prohibited from impersonating other people, posting chain letters or pyramid schemes, “spamming” (sending a message more than once), posting or transmitting charity requests or petitions for signatures, and sending unsolicited mass emailings to other users.  You are prohibited from posting any information, which contains any virus, worm, Trojan horse or other code which is contaminating or destructive to the files or programs of The Christ Hospital or any of its users or any other parties.          

    

The Christ Hospital reserves the right to, but is not obligated to record, monitor, investigate, edit, disclose, delete or remove any content from the site for any reason, and/or eject any user from all or a portion of the site for not adhering to these terms of use.  The Christ Hospital reserves the right to terminate any user’s access to any or all areas upon the user’s breach of these terms of use.  The Christ Hospital does not screen communications in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material posted by members or any other person or entity.            


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Indemnification

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You agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Christ Hospital, its contractors and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers and suppliers from and against any claims, lawsuits, proceedings, costs, attorney fees, damages or other losses resulting from your use of the Website.            


Jurisdiction

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The Website is operated from a site in the State of Ohio, United States of America.  We make no representation that materials found at our sites are appropriate or available for use in other locations.  If you access our sites from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with local laws.  The Terms of and Condition of User are governed exclusively by the substantive laws of the State of Ohio without regard to its choice of law rules.  You expressly agree that sole and exclusive jurisdiction for any claim involving The Christ Hospital, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers, contributors and editors, or any related affiliate, shall be in the appropriate state or federal court located in Hamilton County, Ohio.            


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Complete Agreement

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Except as expressly provided in a particular legal notice on the site, these terms and conditions, and any amendments thereof, constitute the entire agreement between you and The Christ Hospital with respect to the use of the site, including, but not limited to, any software and content.          

    

If any provision of these legal notices is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these legal notices, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of the legal notices shall be deemed a waiver of any other legal notice.          


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