OsseoNews Terms of Use

Welcome to OsseoNews.com! By using our Web Site, you agree to the following terms of use, which constitute an agreement between OsseoNews.com and you. We may change these terms from time to time. You will always be able to view the most current version by clicking on a link at the bottom of any page on our site.

Scope of These Terms

These terms of use apply to your use of our OsseoNews.com Web Site. We have other Web Sites that are covered by different terms of use. The terms of use for each of our Web Sites are available on the home page of that Web Site. When you leave one of our Web Sites and go to another Web Site (whether controlled by us or by a third party), different terms may apply. OsseoNews.com (www.OsseoNews.com) is owned and operated by OsseoNews, Inc. When we refer to ourselves as “we” or “OsseoNews.com”, we mean our company, OsseoNews, Inc., including any subsidiary we control (for example, a subsidiary we own). Reference to “OsseoNews.com” or “We” means OsseoNews, Inc., including any company that we control. Reference to “Web Site” means our internet website, OsseoNews.com

Our Information

We include a lot of information on OsseoNews.com, including articles, references, tools, continuing education for medical professionals, and advertising. Please remember that all of the information on OsseoNews.com is meant for adults who are licensed healthcare professionals. While we hope you find it helpful, you should remember that it is not meant to serve as a substitute for your own clinical judgment as a healthcare professional. If you are a consumer who chooses to use the professional-level information on OsseoNews.com, you should not rely on that information as professional medical advice or use it to replace any relationship with your physician or other qualified healthcare professional. For medical concerns, including decisions about medications and other treatments, consumers should always consult their physician or, in serious cases, seek immediate assistance from emergency personnel. We follow a standard set of editorial procedures for information that we put on OsseoNews.com. However, we don’t offer you any warranty or guarantee related to our Web Sites. We specifically disclaim any warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It’s your job to evaluate the information and results from tools we provide. If you are a healthcare professional, you should exercise your professional judgment in evaluating any information, and we encourage you to confirm the information contained on our Web Site with other sources before undertaking any treatment based on it. If you are a consumer, you should evaluate the information together with your physician or another qualified healthcare professional. The use of the Web Site is at your own risk and the Web Site and the content are provided on as “AS IS” basis. Some information on our Web Site comes from you or from other users. We’re not responsible for that information. Whether the information comes from us or from you, we’re not liable for any damages resulting from your use of the information on our Web Site. Although we are selective about the organizations we link to, we don’t assume any responsibility for any Web Sites that are linked to our site or that you browse to after following a link from our site. While we welcome your feedback on OsseoNews.com, we must make the final decisions about the content that is posted on the site to make sure it meets the needs of all our readers. You can use the feedback link on our home page to send us comments and criticisms, but if you are dissatisfied with our response or with the contents of OsseoNews.com, your only remedy is to stop using the Web Site.

Ownership of OsseoNews.com

Copyright

We or our partners own the information on OsseoNews.com. In fact, the entire contents and design of OsseoNews.com are protected under U.S. and international copyright laws. You may look at our Web Site online, download individual articles to your personal or handheld computer for later reading, and even print a reasonable number of copies of pages for yourself, your family, or friends. You must not remove any copyright notices from our materials. We reserve all our other rights. Among other things, this means you must not sell our information, rewrite or modify it, redistribute it, put it on your own Web Site, or use it for any commercial purpose without our prior written permission.

Trademarks

We also own the names we use for our products and services on OsseoNews.com, and these names are protected by trademark laws in the U.S. and internationally. An ® following a name on our site indicates that the trademark has been registered in the United States. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. If your activities are noncommercial, you may make use of our trademarks by linking to us or discussing us with others, as long as you make it clear that we are the owner of the trademark. Any other uses of our trademarks require our prior written approval. You may not use OsseoNews.com’s trademarks in any of the following ways:

  • In a non- OsseoNews.com product name or publication title.
  • Within or as part of your own trademarks.
  • To identify non- OsseoNews.com products or services.
  • In a manner which will likely cause confusion.
  • In a manner that implies that OsseoNews.com sponsors, endorses or is otherwise connected with your own activities, products, or services.
  • In a manner that disparages OsseoNews.com.

Linking to Us

Usually, we don’t mind if you have a simple link from your Web Site to ours. However, you must first ask our permission if you intend to frame our site or incorporate pieces of it into a different site or product in a way that is not clear to our users. You aren’t allowed to link to us if you engage in illegal, obscene, or offensive content, or if the link in any way has a negative impact on our reputation.

Information that You Put on Our Web Site When you place materials or information on our Web Site that are available publicly, you give us an irrevocable, perpetual license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display that information. For example, we have the right to display a comment that you post on one of our discussion boards for as long as we want. We will consider requests to remove information that you make publicly available on our Web Sites on an individual basis (contact us at the email address we give at the end of this document). For information and materials you place on our Web Sites that is not publicly available, please see our privacy policy for an explanation of how we use that information and your rights to change or delete it. We provide the link for our privacy policy later in this document. We ask that you not post any messages with misleading, false, or inappropriate language or statements. We reserve the right to remove any offensive or fraudulent content at any time without your consent.

Member Conduct

If you use a OsseoNews.com service, such as email, bulletin board or community (a “Member Service”), all communications, information, data, text, music, sound, graphics, messages and other material (the “Content”) are your responsibility and you are responsible for all Content that you upload, post, transmit, email or otherwise distribute via the Member Service. OsseoNews.com and its licensors are not responsible for the consequences of the Content posted via the Member Service and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Member Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive or objectionable. In no event will OsseoNews.com be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content uploaded, posted, transmitted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Member Service. 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. In consideration of being allowed to use the Member Service, you agree to not use the Member Service to: 1. Violate applicable local, state, national, or international laws; 2. Post, upload, email, transmit or otherwise distribute any Content that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others; 3. Post, upload, email, transmit or otherwise distribute any Content that is unlawful, harmful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by OsseoNews.com in its sole discretion; 4. Harm minors in any way; 5. Posting advertisements or solicitations of business; 6. Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Member Service; 7. Post, upload, email, transmit or otherwise distribute chain letters, pyramid schemes, unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or spam; 8. Impersonate another person or stalk or otherwise harass another person; 9. Post, upload, email, transmit or otherwise distribute viruses or other harmful computer code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the use of any computer software or hardware; 10. Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their identification for posting or viewing comments; consent; 11. Allow any other person or entity to use your identification for posting or viewing comments 12. Interfere with or disrupt the Member Service or computers, networks or other hardware connected to the Member Service, or disregard any requirements or policies of networks connected to the Member Service; 13. Engaging in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Member Service, or which, in the judgment of OsseoNews.com, exposes OsseoNews.com or any of its customers or suppliers to any liability or detriment of any type. OsseoNews.com may (but is not obligated) to do any or all of the following: 1. Record or pre-screen the dialogue in public chat rooms. 2. Investigate an allegation that a communication(s) do(es) not conform to the terms of this section and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the Content. 3. Remove Content which is abusive, objectionable, illegal, or disruptive, or that otherwise fail to conform with these Terms of Use. 4. Terminate your access to any or all Member Services upon any breach of these Terms of Use. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. You acknowledge, consent and agree that OsseoNews.com may investigate your use of the Member Service in order to determine whether a violation of the Terms of Use has occurred or to comply with any applicable law, regulation, governmental request or legal process.

Laws that govern this agreement

OsseoNews, Inc. controls the OsseoNews.com Web Sites from its offices within the state of Florida in the United States of America. The Web Sites can be accessed from any of the United States and from other countries worldwide. Since the laws of each State or country able to access the Web Sites may differ, by accessing the Web Sites both you and OsseoNews.com agree that the statutes and laws of the state of Florida, without regard to choice of laws principles, will apply to all matters relating to use of our Web Sites. OsseoNews.com makes no representation that materials on these Web Sites are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access these sites from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. OsseoNews.com is intended for United States physicians only.

Acceptance Procedure

By accessing materials on our Web Site or registering you agree with all the terms and conditions of this agreement. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change the terms and conditions of this Agreement from time to time, and your continuing use of our Web Sites constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to any changed terms and conditions..

Privacy Policy

Because we are in the healthcare area, we pay special attention to privacy issues. The purpose of our privacy policy is to identify the information we may collect about you, describe the uses we may make of your information and the security measures we take to protect it, and discuss your options for controlling your information. You can review our privacy policy for OsseoNews.com here.

Consequences

If you don’t comply with these terms, we have the right to suspend or eliminate your account, and remove any information you have placed on our site. We may also take any legal action we think is appropriate. If your violation of this agreement causes harm to others, you agree to hold OsseoNews.com harmless against any liability for that harm. If there is any dispute between us concerning this agreement our your use of our Web Site, we both agree to submit the dispute to non-binding mediation, followed by binding arbitration. Both the mediation and the arbitration will be governed under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, and the venue for the arbitration will be Florida.

Indemnity.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold OsseoNews.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.

NOTICE AND TAKE DOWN 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 OsseoNews.com’s copyright agent (identified below) and providing the following information: 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Your name, address, telephone number and (if available) e-mail address. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. A signature or the electronic equivalent from the copyright holder or authorized representative. In an effort to protect the rights of copyright owners, OsseoNews.com maintains a policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of subscribers and account holders of the Site who are repeat infringers.

COMPLETE AGREEMENT.

Except as expressly provided in a particular “legal notice” on the Web Site, these Terms of Use constitutes the entire agreement between you and OsseoNews.com with respect to the use of the Web Site, the Member Services and Content.

Questions or Concerns about Our Terms of Use

For questions or concerns about these terms of use, please send an email to osseonews AT osseonews DOT com or mail us at: OsseoNews.com c/o DDSGadget 2875 NE 191st Street, Suite 500-252, Aventura, FL 33180