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Welcome to Healthsourcemag.com, a service of Times-Union Media. Please read this User Agreement in its entirety because it contains useful information.

By using Healthsourcemag.com, you agree to abide by the terms of this User Agreement. These terms may change at any time in the future. Healthsourcemag.com will endeavor to post general notices of such changes, but no individual notice of changes to Users will be provided. So check back periodically and review the Rules and Terms of Use to ensure that you still agree to abide by them. Unless you terminate your registration, you will be bound by any subsequent change in the terms of this User Agreement.

By registering with Healthsourcemag.com, or by using the service, you agree that we may use and disclose, as we see fit, consistent with applicable law, any information you provide, or that we obtain concerning your use of the service.

CHAT ROOMS, MESSAGE BOARD FORUMS, AND BLOGS

Healthsourcemag.com wants to encourage an open exchange of information and ideas. But we cannot and DO NOT REVIEW postings made in the chat rooms, forums, or other public posting areas. You may well read any given posting before anyone on the Healthsourcemag.com staff does. Take what you find with a grain of salt. You can expect these areas to include information and opinions from a variety of individuals and organizations other than Healthsourcemag.com.

We DO NOT endorse or guarantee the accuracy of any posting, regardless of whether the posting comes from a user or from a celebrity or “expert” guest. In short, there is no substitute for healthy skepticism and your own good judgment. Responsibility for what is posted in the chat rooms, forums, and other public posting areas on Healthsourcemag.com lies with each User. You alone are responsible for the material you post.

By using Healthsourcemag.com you agree not to post or transmit any defamatory, abusive, obscene, threatening or illegal material, or any other material that infringes on the ability of others to enjoy Healthsourcemag.com or that infringes on the rights of others. We retain the right to revoke the access privileges of anyone who we believe has violated any of these terms or any other term of this agreement. Although Healthsourcemag.com cannot monitor all the postings in the chat rooms, forums, and other public areas, we reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to delete, move, or edit any postings that come to our attention that we consider unacceptable or inappropriate, whether for legal or other reasons.

We will not, in the ordinary course of business, review private electronic messages that are not addressed to Healthsourcemag.com. However, we will comply with the requirements of the law regarding disclosure of such messages to others, including law enforcement agencies. While Healthsourcemag.com will not edit, change or modify the content of any user’s messages, Healthsourcemag.com expressly reserves the right to remove or ban any user for inappropriate conduct on Healthsourcemag.com. Healthsourcemag.com expects that you will not use the service to violate anyone’s rights in copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property. By submitting material to Healthsourcemag.com, you are representing that you are the owner of the material, or are making your submission with the explicit consent of the owner. Submitting material that is the property of another without the specific consent of its owner, is not only a violation of this agreement, but may also subject you to legal liability for infringement of copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights. No Soliciting.

You agree not to use any other area of Healthsourcemag.com to advertise or to solicit anyone to buy or sell products or services, or to make donations of any kind, without our express written approval. You or Healthsourcemag.com may terminate your registration/account at any time for any reason. Once your registration/account is terminated, you may not engage in User/Member activities in Healthsourcemag.com , in any manner for any reason, without the express AND written consent of Healthsourcemag.com Administrator. If you assist in enabling a terminated User/Member to access Healthsourcemag.com through your registration/account, your registration/account will be revoked.

COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS

The Internet allows people throughout the world to share valuable information, ideas, and creative works. To ensure continued open access to such materials, we all need to protect the rights of those who share their creations with us. Although we make Healthsourcemag.com freely accessible, we don’t intend to give up our rights, or anyone else’s rights, to the materials appearing on the service.

The materials available through Healthsourcemag.com are the property of The Florida Times-Union. or its licensors, and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You are free to display and print for your personal, non-commercial use information you receive through Healthsourcemag.com. But you may not otherwise reproduce any of the materials without the prior written consent of the owner. You may not distribute copies of materials found on Healthsourcemag.com in any form (including by e-mail or other electronic means), without prior written permission from the owner.

Of course, you’re free to encourage others to access the information themselves on Healthsourcemag.com and to tell them how to find it. Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found on Healthsourcemag.com should be sent to our Director of Online Services. We welcome links to our service. You are free to establish a hypertext link to this site so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by Healthsourcemag.com or Healthsourcemag.com. No Framing. Without the prior written permission of The Florida Times-Union, you may not frame any of the content of Healthsourcemag.com, or incorporate into another Website or other service any intellectual property of Healthsourcemag.com, Healthsourcemag.com, or any of their licensors. Requests for permission to frame our content may be sent to the Director of Online Services. Trademarks. We don’t want anyone to be confused as to which materials and services are provided by Healthsourcemag.com and which aren’t. You may not use any trademark or service mark appearing on Healthsourcemag.com without the prior written consent of the owner of the mark. ” Healthsourcemag.com ” and the Healthsourcemag.com logo are trademarks of The Florida Times-Union.

Your submission of any content for display or dissemination on Healthsourcemag.com automatically to Healthsourcemag.com a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, disseminate, perform, transmit and display such content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content. If you are not the owner of such content, you shall be deemed to have warranted that the owner of the content has expressly granted to you a similar license.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY

We work hard to make Healthsourcemag.com an interesting and enjoyable place, but we cannot guarantee that our users will always find everything to their liking. Please read this Disclaimer carefully before using Healthsourcemag.com.

YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE, AND THE INHERENT HAZARDS AND UNCERTAINTIES OF ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION, THERE MAY BE DELAYS, OMISSIONS, INACCURACIES, OR OTHER PROBLEMS WITH SUCH INFORMATION. IF YOU RELY ON THIS SERVICE OR ANY MATERIAL AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SERVICE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS SERVICE IS PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS.” Healthsourcemag.com, Healthsourcemag.com, The Florida Times-Union, AND THEIR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE. NOR DO THEY GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE ERROR-FREE, OR CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

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