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OrthoMind Privacy Policy

Access to, and use of, password-protected and secure areas of this site are restricted to authorized Orthopaedic Surgeon users only. You will be responsible for any use of your password and for maintaining the confidentiality of that password. For added security, we do not store passwords, IDs, or other proprietary information in our database. OrthoMind does not represent itself as any entity other than OrthoMind; ie not as the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, (AAOS), American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS), American Orthopaedic Society (AOS) nor does it represent that we are sponsored by, endorsed by or partnered with them or any other Orthopaedic Boards or Organizations.

This site is owned by OrthoMind. The relationship between OrthoMind and our community is an important asset to us. We strive to maintain your confidence and trust by committing ourselves to protecting your confidential information. We have not and will not disclose any personal information to anyone unless it is, at your direction, needed to service to your profile, or is required by law or necessary to protect our rights.

We require password registration to use this site. This site is only for licensed Orthopaedic Surgeons. This site is not intended for minors and we do not accept registration from minors.

We collect and store only post content on our servers, and only maintain nonpublic personal user information that our physicians knowingly provide, such as names, educational background, street addresses or email addresses. Physician users can elect to ‘remain anonymous’ in the community and their information is restricted from discovery. We may also collect and store: your domain name and host from which you access the internet; the internet protocol address of the computer - but not of the individual user - being used; the browser software and operating system; and the internet address of any site which is linked to our site. Cookies are the files that contain such information that have been created by a server and stored on your hard disk drive. We use cookies only to facilitate automation, measure the number of users of our site and track and store passwords. We do not use cookies to disseminate significant information about you over the internet. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect nonpublic personal customer information. We restrict access to nonpublic personal customer information to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. If you have access to our site through another site, however, we have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies of such sites.

DISCLAIMERS

While the Material contained in this Website has been formulated with all due care, the State of New South Wales does not warrant or represent that the Material is free from errors or omission, or that it is exhaustive.

OrthoMind disclaims, to the extent permitted by law, all warranties, representations or endorsements, express or implied, with regard to the Material including but not limited to, all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

OrthoMind further does not warrant or accept any liability in relation to the quality, operability or accuracy of the Material.

The Material is made available on the understanding that OrthoMind and its employees and agents shall have no liability (including but not limited to liability by reason of negligence) to the users of the Website for any loss, damage, cost or expense whether direct, indirect consequential or special, incurred by, or arising by reason of, any person using or relying on the Material and whether caused by reason of any error, omission or misrepresentation in the Material or otherwise. Users of the Website will be responsible for making their own assessment of the Material and should verify all relevant representations, statements and information with their own professional advisers.

Furthermore, whilst the Material is considered to be true and correct at the date of publication, changes in circumstances after the time of publication may impact upon the accuracy of the Material. The Material may change without notice and OrthoMind is not in any way liable for the accuracy of any information printed and stored by a user. Changes are periodically added to the Material and OrthoMind may make improvements and/or changes in the Material and/or the Website at anytime. See the OrthoMind End User License Agreement (EULA) for further details.

OrthoMind takes no responsibility for the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of any information included in the Material provided by third parties nor for the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of links or references to information sources (including Internet sites) outside of OrthoMind. In addition to the Material, the Website provides links to and from other Internet sites. These external information sources are outside the control of OrthoMind and it is therefore the responsibility of the Internet users to make their own decisions about the accuracy, reliability and correctness of information found on those external Internet links.

The search engines provided on this website are to assist Internet users to locate resources more quickly. However, OrthoMind takes no responsibility for the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of its search facilities, and does not warrant or represent that the search facilities are free from errors or omission, or that they are exhaustive.

The internet is not a secure medium and communications to and from the website may be intercepted or altered in transit. OrthoMind does not warrant or represent that this website or any linked sites, are free from anything which may damage any computer used to access the site.

Linking

Credible Internet sites have permission to link to pages within our Website. Please observe the following conditions of linking to our Website:

• Links must be presented in a way which fairly represents our role and our site(s). They must not embarrass us.
• The context in which you insert the link must not give your visitors the impression that your site, organization or company, is sponsored by, endorsed by or partnered with us.
• The context of the link must not suggest that we have created any of your content, i.e. the source material must be clear, and acknowledgement of the Website clearly provided.
• You may not reproduce any logos of OrthoMind appearing on the Website without the express approval of OrthoMind.

Spim, Spam, Phishing, Viruses

OrthoMind takes no responsibility for the abuse of it’s platform by hackers or malicious persons. We have installed security features to protect our community and users but it is the responsibility of the users to make their own decisions about content which could be considered Instant Messaging fraud (SPIM), email fraud (SPAM), fraudulent third party masquerading or solicitation (Phishing) or a viral threat.

OrthoMind is not responsible for the privacy policy, the content or the accuracy of any Web site accessed through a link on the OrthoMind Web site. A link to other Web sites does not constitute an endorsement by OrthoMind of the linked site, its products or services. If our privacy policy changes, we will notify all users by posting the new policy on this site. If you have any questions or concerns, or would like to make a change to any of your customer information, please update your profile inside of OrthoMind or contact us at info@orthomind.com.

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