CANADIAN VIRTUAL HOSPICE ("CVH")

LEGAL NOTICES

INTENDED FOR USE IN CANADA ONLY

Table of Contents

1. Medical Advice Disclaimers

2. "Ask A Professional"

3. Privacy Policy

4. Service Use and Restrictions

5. How you may use the Content

6. How you may use our marks

7. Links to other sites

8. Liability disclaimer

9. Use of interactive areas

10. Indemnity

11. Jurisdiction

12. Complete Agreement

TO ALL USERS (INCLUDING HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS):

PLEASE READ THESE LEGAL NOTICES CAREFULLY BEFORE MAKING ANY FURTHER USE OF THE CVH WEBSITE ("Site"). BY SUBMITTING A REGISTRATION OR BY FURTHER USING THE SITE (EVEN WITHOUT REGISTERING), YOU ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE LEGAL NOTICES AND YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THEM. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT REGISTER OR MAKE ANY FURTHER USE OF THE SITE.

CVH reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change these Legal Notices from time to time, and your accessing the Site will be deemed to be your acceptance of any changes. Since your continued use of the Site will mean you accept those changes, it is your responsibility to periodically review CVH’s Legal Notices.

1. MEDICAL ADVICE DISCLAIMERS

THIS SITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE.

a. The information and material contained on this Site ("Content") is provided for informational purposes only. It is general in nature, and is not intended in any way to be a substitute for a medical exam or professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard or delay seeking medical advice because of something you have read on the Site. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking any prescription or over-the-counter drugs (including any herbal medicines or supplements) or following any treatment or regimen. Only your doctor or pharmacist can provide you with advice on what is safe and effective for you.

DO NOT USE THIS SITE FOR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICES. IN AN EMERGENCY, CALL 911 OR YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE NUMBER.

b. CVH does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site. Reliance on any information provided by CVH, by CVH’s employees, collaborators, health care professionals, partners, licensors or suppliers (collectively referred to as "Licensors and Suppliers") appearing on the Site at the invitation of CVH, or by other visitors to the Site, is solely at your own risk.

c. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Site contains interactive areas such as bulletin boards where users may exchange information with other users and/or Licensors and Suppliers. You acknowledge and agree that CVH is only an intermediary that provides this particular service to permit the exchange of information, and that CVH bears no responsibility or liability of any nature or kind whatsoever for any claims that may arise directly or indirectly from providing this service or any other service (including "Ask a Professional") or from any Content.

d. CVH is not responsible and shall not be liable for the listings, advertisements, hyperlinks and bulletin boards contained on the Site, and those listings or advertisements may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors notwithstanding our efforts to eliminate them. Any opinions expressed anywhere on the Site are the opinions of the authors and not of CVH. We do not check for licenses prior to publishing listings or advertisements, and we do not assume any responsibility for monitoring the use of trademarks, certifications, copyrights or other rights of third parties.

e. CVH staff may include physicians and other medical practitioners including, but not limited to, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, spiritual care advisers and other health care professionals. These professionals are available solely to assist you in general research. They will not engage in any conduct that involves the practice of medicine. Professionals engaged by CVH will not retain any records, monitor your care or establish a confidential patient relationship with you, so do not share any personal medical information you want to be held confidential.

f. The Site may contain health or medical related materials which may be sexually explicit and which you may find offensive. While CVH and its Licensors and Suppliers endeavour to ensure that any such material is both pertinent and responsibly presented, the responsibility for determining which material you choose to access is yours alone. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of your local jurisdiction regarding accessing, importing, exporting, or re-exporting the contents of the Site.

g. The Content on the Site has been developed for use in Canada only, and may be appropriate for use in other countries as well. However, where the Content refers to cultural, dietary, societal, language, prescribing or dispensing conditions (including those imposed by law), these refer only to conditions found within Canada.

h. Neither CVH nor any of the Licensors and Suppliers makes any warranty that the Content on the Site satisfies government regulations requiring disclosure of information on prescription drug products.

2. "ASK A PROFESSIONAL"

a. "Ask A Professional" provides patients and their family and friends an opportunity, via the Site, to ask health care professionals questions about various aspects of life-threatening illnesses. A health care professional will usually respond to your inquiry within one to three business days.

b. This service is intended to assist you in obtaining general medical information and in identifying additional resources about palliative care. The general medical information may help you to communicate more effectively and efficiently with the treating physician and other health care professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of the patient.

c. In responding to any inquiry from you, our health care professional is not providing medical advice or health care services to you and has not established a health care professional-patient relationship with you. The information that our health care professional may provide to you is not a substitute for professional health care services provided by or under the supervision of a physician with whom you have established a doctor-patient relationship. Thorough consideration of a medical subject as applied to your circumstances can and should only occur through consultation by you with your physician.

d. The particular health care professional who responds to your inquiry may be different from the health care professional who responded to an inquiry that you may have sent previously, and may not be aware of any prior communications that you may have had with any of our other health care professionals through this service. Although a record of your inquiry and our health care professional’s response may be maintained, this record would not be considered a "medical record." None of our health care professionals will communicate with your physician or any other health care professional who may be treating you, and the sole method of communication offered through this service is via the Site with you. The response of our health care professionals will contain only summary information on a subject and may not reflect all recent developments or all material information about a subject.

3. PRIVACY POLICY

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4. SERVICE USE AND RESTRICTIONS

a. You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Site.

b. CVH is providing you with access to information about palliative care, on the Internet free of charge, and makes no representations about the suitability or content of the information or services provided on the Site, or posted to or linked from the Site.

c. CVH makes no guarantees that it will be able to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing or tampering with our files. Information other than personal information provided to CVH by you will not be treated as confidential. Personal information provided to CVH by you will be collected, used and disclosed in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Do not send or post anything that you deem confidential or proprietary. Other than personal information, any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like which you send to us may be used by CVH or its affiliates for any purpose including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. CVH 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 purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, marketing and providing products and/or services using any such ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques.

d. CVH may change or discontinue Content, or make improvements and/or changes in the products, services, and/or programs described in these materials, at any time without notice. The Content on the Site is provided to you free of charge, "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. CVH ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY OF ANY NATURE OR KIND WHATSOEVER FOR OR RELATING TO THE USE OF THE SITE, ANY INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, OR ANY DELAY, FAILURE, INTERRUPTION OR CORRUPTION OF ANY DATA OR OTHER INFORMATION TRANSMITTED TO OR USED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY USE OF THE SITE.

e. When you initially register for the Site, you will be asked to select a user name and password. Please keep that password confidential. Please inform CVH promptly if there is a change in the information you provided to CVH at the time of registration, including change of address or name. CVH reserves the right to reject or change any user name you select for any reason at its sole discretion.

5. HOW YOU MAY USE THE CONTENT

So long as you accept these Legal Notices and agree to be bound by them, CVH authorizes you to view the Content on this Site solely for your personal, non-commercial use. The Content on this Site, as well as all software related to this Site, is protected by copyright under both Canadian and foreign laws, and title to the Content or any such software shall not pass to you or any third party. Unauthorized use of the Content or any such software may violate copyright, trademark, other intellectual property rights and various laws. None of the Content may be reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, re-transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photoreproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed in any manner that does not constitute personal, non-commercial use without the prior written consent of CVH. None of the software related to this Site may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, decompiled, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, re-transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photoreproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of CVH. No derivative works may be made of this Site, any of the Content or any of the software related to this Site.

6. HOW YOU MAY USE OUR MARKS

The CVH names and logos and all related product and service names, design marks and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of Canadian Virtual Hospice. You are not authorized to use any CVH name, logo, mark or slogan in any advertising or publicity or in any other commercial manner without the prior written consent of CVH. Requests for authorization should be made to the Executive Director, Canadian Virtual Hospice at Room PE468, Administration Building, 1 Morley Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3L 2P4.

7. LINKS TO OTHER SITES

CVH provides links to selected medical and palliative information, resources and services that are consistent with the mission of the Site.

a. All product and service marks contained herein that are not CVH marks are the trademarks of their respective owners. References that we make to any names, marks, products or services of third parties or hypertext links to third party sites or information do not necessarily constitute or imply our endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of the third party, information, product, or service.

b. CVH is not responsible for the content of any site linked to or from the Site or for any health care provider whose name, address, telephone number, fax number or e-mail address may be listed on the Site. Linking to any other site or contacting any health care provider whose contact information is found on the Site is entirely at your own risk. While CVH may provide links on this Site to other sites and contact information about health care providers, the inclusion of such links and contact information is solely for your convenience and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the owner/sponsor of the site, the content of the site, or of the healthcare provider whose contact information is provided.

c. CVH disclaims all warranties, express or implied, statutory or otherwise, as to the accuracy, validity and legality of any materials or information contained in any site linked to or from the Site. CVH bears no responsibility or liability of any nature or kind whatsoever for the content or information contained on those other sites, and does not exert any editorial or other control over those other sites.

8. LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

a. REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR IN TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), IN NO EVENT WILL CVH OR ANY OF THE LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES, DAMAGES OR INJURIES OF ANY NATURE OR KIND WHATSOEVER TO PERSONS OR PROPERTY DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING FROM OR ATTRIBUTABLE TO ANY USE OF THE SITE OR ANY PRODUCT, INFORMATION, IDEA, INSTRUCTION OR OTHER CONTENT CONTAINED ON THE SITE OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE SITE. RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT CONTAINED ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE SITE IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

b. If the limitation of liability set forth in Section 8.a is held unenforceable or inapplicable for any reason whatsoever, you agree that your sole remedy is to stop using the Site.

9. USE OF INTERACTIVE AREAS

a. CVH may from time to time place interactive areas on the Site, which are solely to enable communication between Site users. CVH may also from time to time place e-mail links on the Site, which are solely to enable Site users to communicate by e-mail with CVH. CVH accepts no responsibility or liability for the opinions and information posted by any user of the Site on any of these interactive areas. CVH disclaims all warranties with regard to information posted in any of these interactive areas, whether posted by CVH or any third party. If you use an interactive area, you must realize that this is a public area, and you agree that you are solely responsible for your own communications, the consequences of posting those communications, and your reliance on any communications found in that interactive area. 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.

b. Although CVH does not screen communications in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material posted by users, it may from time to time monitor or review discussions, postings or transmissions on any interactive area. CVH does not do so actively or regularly, is under no obligation to do so, and assumes no responsibility or liability of any nature or kind whatsoever arising from the content of any such communication or for any error, defamation, libel, obscenity, profanity or inaccuracy contained in any such communication.

c. Other than personal information, any information that you post on the Site is considered to be non-confidential. You warrant that any information that you upload or transmit to the Site does not infringe any privacy, patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. By uploading or transmitting information you grant to CVH 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 information 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, with the exception of any personal information contained therein, CVH has the right to use any questions, comments, or other information submitted by users in books, articles, commentaries, research or in similar ways, without the consent of any user.

d. In consideration of being allowed 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 Legal Notices. 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 offence or give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, provincial, 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 unless CVH creates a portion of the Site expressly for this purpose. You are prohibited from impersonating other people, posting chain letters or pyramid schemes, "spamming" (ie. sending a message more than once), posting or transmitting charity requests or petitions for signatures, and sending unsolicited mass e-mailings 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 CVH or any of its users or any other parties.

e. CVH reserves the right, but is not obligated, to record, monitor, investigate, edit, disclose, delete or remove any Content or other information from the Site for any reason, and/or to suspend or terminate any user’s use of or access to all or any portion of the Site as a result of any breach of these Legal Notices by that user.

10. INDEMNITY

a. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold CVH, the Licensors and Suppliers, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and other representatives harmless from and against any and all actions, claims or demands, settlements, liabilities, losses, damages and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by or involving any of them which are in any way related to or alleged to result from your use of the Content or the Site, including any breach of the Legal Notices by you. CVH shall provide notice to you promptly of any such action, claim or demand and shall reasonably cooperate with you at your expense in your defence of any such action, claim or demand.

11. JURISDICTION

a. Your use of the Site and these Legal Notices are governed by the laws of the Province of Manitoba and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. You expressly agree that the courts of Manitoba shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction for any action, claim or demand of any nature or kind whatsoever involving the Site, CVH, any Licensor or Supplier or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents or other representatives.

b. The CVH operates in the Province of Manitoba and it makes no representation or warranty whatsoever that the Content found on the Site is appropriate or available for use in any jurisdiction other than the country of Canada. If you access the Site from any location outside of Canada, you are responsible for compliance with local laws.

12. COMPLETE AGREEMENT

a. Except as otherwise expressly provided in a particular Legal Notice on the Site, these terms and conditions and the Privacy Policy, and any amendments thereto made by CVH, constitute the entire agreement between you and CVH with respect to your use of the Site.

b. 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.

c. Any waiver by CVH of any breach of any Legal Notice must be in writing and signed by an authorized officer of CVH in order for such waiver to be binding on CVH. No waiver of any Legal Notice shall be deemed a waiver of any other Legal Notice or of any other breach of that Legal Notice by that user or any other user.