HEALTH NEWS FLORIDA (HNF) TERMS OF USE

Terms of Use

The Health News Florida (HNF) Web site is a complimentary information service provided free of charge by the Florida Health Policy Center, a not-for-profit Florida corporation, as a public service, with the express condition that users agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this User Agreement. HNF reserves the right to change the User Agreement terms and conditions at any time. Use of the HNF Web site constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions included below. Please also consult our Privacy Policy.

Limitation of Liability

You agree that you will hold harmless HNF and its officers, directors, employees, and volunteers from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this Web site or the information contained in this Web site or other Web sites to which it is linked. You also agree that HNF or the contributors of information to this Web site shall NOT be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on information provided on the HNF web site or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Disclaimer of Warranty

The information available on and through the Health News Florida Web site has been obtained from sources believed to be accurate and reliable. However, HNF makes no warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of this information. Information accessed on and through www.HealthNewsFlorida.org or the Health News Florida eAlerts is provided "as is" and without warranty, express or implied, including, but not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability or of fitness for a particular purpose. The information provided on the HNF Web site and in the daily eAlerts is provided for general information only and is not intended to serve as an authoritative source of specific data or information for clinical, policy or legal purposes.

The material on this Web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Information contained on this Web site will be changed, updated and deleted without notice. HNF may make improvements and/or changes in this material at any time. HNF makes no warranties that this Web site will operate uninterrupted or error free or that defects will be corrected. HNF does not warrant that this Web site is compatible with your computer equipment or that this Web site or its server is free of errors or viruses, worms or “Trojan horses” and HNF is not liable for any damage you may suffer as a result of such destructive features that ay be directly or indirectly associated with the access to, use or forwarding of this Web sit or any of its contents.

Additionally, HNF makes no representations or warranties whatsoever about any other Web site which you may choose to access through this Web site. Links provided by HNF to such Web sites are provided solely for your convenience and should not be deemed to imply that HNF endorses those Web sites, the safety of using those Web sites with respect to any errors, viruses, worms or “Trojan horses” that may be therein contained, embedded or otherwise made available to or through user.

Endorsements

You understand that the opinions expressed on this Web site are not necessarily those of HNF or the Florida Health Policy Center or endorsed by HNF or the Florida Health Policy Center. Health News Florida provides links to other Web sites which are not under the control of HNF. These links are included as a convenience to you and are not intended as an endorsement by HNF of the organization or individual operating the Web site.

Use of Content

Unless otherwise indicated, all information contained on the HNF Web site, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio and video clips, is proprietary to HNF. Such information may be copied and reproduced in paper or electronic form for personal, educational, or non-commercial purposes provided that it is accompanied by, at minimum, the following statement: "Source: Health News Florida, an independent, nonprofit news service".

For any information contained on the HNF site that is attributed to another source, permission to reproduce must be obtained from the original source. Use of any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy the Web site or any of its content and "mirroring" the Web site or any content on any other server is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from HNF.

This Website and its content may not be used to construct a database of any kind nor may the same be stored (in whole or part) in databases for access by you or any third party or to distribute any database containing all or part of the Website or its content.

Conduct

You agree that you are prohibited from using this site to commit fraudulent activities, violate any state, federal or international law, statute, ordinance or regulation. Furthermore, no communications passing through this site may be defamatory, libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing, obscene or contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information. HNF will take immediate action to prevent violators of this policy from using our site, and will prosecute individuals and/or organizations to the fullest extent of the law for civil and/or criminal acts. Persons and/or organizations found to be in violation of these Terms of Use may be subject to full liability for damages, legal and other costs.