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Website Terms and Conditions of Use

1. By using the Health Visitors Website (the "Website"), you agree to these Terms and Conditions of Use. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions of Use and do not intend to be bound by them you must not use this Website and should exit it immediately. Your continued use of this Website will constitute acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
   
2. This Website is intended for use by people in the UK and in particular is aimed at two categories of individual. Some of the pages are intended for use by Health Visitors, and other Healthcare Professionals. These pages are listed under the "For Health Visitors " section on the home page. Other pages on the Website are intended for use by parents and parents to be and those pages are listed under the "For Parents of infants and children 0-5 years" section on the home page. The information contained in the two different parts of the Website has been tailored specifically to be of maximum use by the different categories of user and any person using those pages which are not aimed at the category of user into which such person may fall, does so at his/her own risk.
   
3. THE WEBSITE IS INTENDED FOR USE ONLY FOR GENERAL, NON-CASE SPECIFIC RESEARCH AND FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PROVISION. IT IS IN NO WAY INTENDED TO BE CONSTRUED AS THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL OR OTHER ADVICE WHICH IS TAILORED OR APPLICABLE TO ANY PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES. ALL INFORMATION, GUIDANCE OR ADVICE CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE WHETHER OF A MEDICAL NATURE OR OTHERWISE IS OF A GENERAL NATURE ONLY AND IN NO WAY ACCOUNTS FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL CIRCUMSTANCE. NOTHING IN THIS WEBSITE SHALL SUPERSEDE OR REPLACE IN ANY WAY, ANY ADVICE GIVEN TO ANY PERSON BY HIS/HER OWN MEDICAL ADVISERS AND IN ALL CASES, THE ADVICE OF A HEALTH VISITOR, DOCTOR AND/OR OTHER MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL SHOULD BE SOUGHT TO DEAL WITH THE SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES OF ANY PARTICULAR CASE OR ENQUIRY. HEALTHVISITORS.COM DOCUMENTS OR MATERIAL SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR DIAGNOSIS OR CHOICE OF TREATMENTS. HEALTHVISITORS.COM RECOMMENDS THAT YOU CONTACT YOUR HEALTH VISITOR, OBSTETRICIAN DOCTOR OR OTHER APPROPRIATE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS REGARDING FERTILITY, PREGNANCY, BIRTH OR YOUR BABY OR ANY OTHER HEALTH CONCERNS. THE LIABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR RELIANCE ON ANY OF THE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE RESTS WITH THE PERSON RELYING ON IT AND NOT WITH HEALTHVISITORS.COM.
   
   Ownership Rights
   
4. All Website design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof, software compilations, underlying source code, software and all other material on this Website are subject to copyright which is either owned by healthvisitors.com of midwivesonline.com Limited or used under licence from third party rights owners. Materials contained on this Website may be downloaded to a single personal computer and hard copy portions may be printed but in each case solely for your own internal, private, non-commercial study use. Except as specifically provided, no part of this Website may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form, for any other purpose. Under no circumstances shall the use of this Website grant to any user any interest in any intellectual property rights (for example copyright, know-how or trade marks) of healthvisitors.com or any third party whatsoever.
   
5. healthvisitors.com and the "for parents of infants and children 0-5 years" and "for Health Visitors" logos are trade marks of the company. Other trade marks and logos shown on this Website are either owned by healthvisitors.com of midwivesonline.com Limited or a third party. No rights whatsoever are granted to use or reproduce any trade marks or logos which appear on this Website except as specifically provided in these Terms and Conditions.
   
6. You must not, nor must you allow any other person to reproduce, publish, transmit, circulate, distribute, copy, alter, add to, delete, remove or tamper with this Website or any part of it in any way or directly or indirectly disrupt or interfere (or attempt to disrupt or interfere) with or alter this Website, other than in the course of viewing or using this Website in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of Use.
   
7. Any aspect of this Website including the information contained on it may be altered, deleted, adapted or in any other way amended at any time and without notice by healthvisitors.com. healthvisitors.com may also take down the Website at any time and without notice to you. These Terms and Conditions may change from time to time and any changes will be posted on this Website for your information. You should review this page on a regular basis. If you continue to use the Website after any such amendments have been made then you will be deemed to accept those amendments and accordingly will be bound by them. You may access these terms and conditions at any time by accessing the link to them which appears on each page of this Website.
   
8. healthvisitors.com reserves the right to charge for any or all of the information supplied on this Website at any time in the future. Users will be informed on this Website if midwivesonline introduces any such charges. For the avoidance of doubt, if any such changes are introduced, nothing shall oblige you to purchase any such services.
   
   Links to other websites
   
9. This Website contains links to many other Websites which may be of interest including by way of example, websites which are based in the US, Australia, New Zealand as well as in the UK. These links are provided for your convenience only and midwivesonline has no control over and does not endorse nor is in any way responsible for the content of such websites. Reliance by you on any of the information contained on any of those websites shall be at your own risk.
   
10. If you wish to provide a linked internet Website to the midwivesonline Website you must seek the prior written approval of healthvisitors.com.
    
    Limitation of Liability and Disclaimer
    
11. healthvisitors.com is providing this Website on an "as is" basis and to the fullest extent permitted by law makes no and expressly excludes all representations (except for fraudulent misrepresentation) and warranties of any kind with respect to this Website and its contents including, without limitation, warranties as to quality and fitness for purpose. midwivesonline does not represent or warrant that the information accessible via this Website, is accurate, complete or current nor that this Website will meet particular requirements, be available, accessible, uninterrupted, timely, secure or operate without error or that it will be free from viruses or other harmful elements.
    
12. In no way does healthvisitors.com guarantee that the information contained on this Website is up to date or that all medical or technical developments are taken into account in the information contained on the Website.
    
13. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED AT LAW, NEITHER HEALTHVISITORS.COM NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES, WILL BE LIABLE WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE OR OTHERWISE HOWSOEVER ARISING FOR ANY DAMAGES, LOSSES, COSTS, CLAIMS, LIABILITIES OR EXPENSES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE. THIS EXCLUSION AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, COSTS, CLAIMS, LIABILITIES AND EXPENSES OF ANY KIND WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LEGAL COSTS OR EXPENSES, DIRECT LOSS OF PROFIT, DIRECT LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF DATA, INDIRECT LOSS OF PROFIT, INDIRECT LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF USE OF MONEY, LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY OR LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND/OR ANY WASTED EXPENDITURE AND THIRD PARTY CLAIMS. FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT THE LOSSES AS LISTED IN THIS CLAUSE 13 ARE INTENDED TO BE SEVERABLE.
    
14. Without prejudice to Clause 13, healthvisitors.com maximum aggregate liability for all claims made by any person in relation to this Website shall not exceed £50,000 however that claim arises including (without limitation) negligent error or omission, breach of contract, tort, misrepresentation (excluding fraudulent misrepresentation) or breach of statutory duty.
    
15. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit the liability of healthvisitors.com for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation.
    
    Discussion Forums/Tell Us Your Story
    
16. This Website contains online Forums where users can make contributions. The Chat room and Discussion Forum page is aimed at Health Professionals whereas the "Tell Us Your Story" section on the Website is aimed at Parents. healthvisitors.com is not responsible for and shall have no and expressly excludes all liability in relation to any expressions of opinion, data, information or any other material whatsoever which is submitted on this Website by any user in the use of the Chat Room or Discussion Forum or the Tell Us Your Story Section or otherwise. healthvisitors.com shall not be liable for any application of or reliance on any information contained on this Website which has been submitted by a third party via a Discussion Forum or the Tell Us Your Story Section or otherwise.
    
17. Under no circumstances should any user make any submission which is defamatory, abusive, obscene, unlawful, of a racist, sexist or other discriminatory nature, or which is otherwise offensive or could in the absolute discretion of healthvisitors.com cause offence to any person or damage the reputation of healthvisitors.com, Catherine Parker-Littler its associated companies, clients and other contacts. You must not use any abusive or aggressive language, swear, threaten, harass or abuse any other person, including other users. All contributions should be polite, clear and should not be offensive in any way. All users must use their own identity when making any contribution. No user must post nor recommend any other website nor post any advertisement for or recommend on the Website any product or service.
    
18. You must not corrupt the Website, flood the Website with information so as to cause the Website not to function or use any features which may affect the function of the Website for example viruses, worms, logic bombs or similar. You must not submit your comments or contribution more than once and any multiple submissions or "Spam" are strictly prohibited. You must not interfere or tamper with, remove, delete or otherwise alter in any way, any information which is included on the Website.
    
19. healthvisitors.com reserves the right to remove any material whatsoever submitted to a Chat Room/Discussion Forum or the Tell Us Your Story Section or otherwise to the Website for any reason. midwivesonline shall have absolute discretion as to whether to include any submissions on its Website and may at any time and without notice remove or delete all or any part of any submission.
    
20. Where any user is in breach of these Terms and Conditions, midwivesonline may but shall not be required, to provide a warning to such user for failure to comply. Further, healthvisitors.com has the right to ban any user at any time (whether or not any prior warning has been given) and shall have ultimate discretion in allowing persons to use the Chat Room/Discussion Forum or the Tell Us Your Story Section and/or the Website.
    
21. Any other website addresses or website links may not be included on any contribution. If you believe that you have found a useful link or website, please let us know by using the "contact us" facility. This will then be reviewed and added as a link in an appropriate place on our Website if it is considered by us appropriate to do so.
    
22. Any communications which you send to this Website or otherwise to healthvisitors.com are on a non-confidential basis and healthvisitors.com may reproduce, publish or otherwise use them in any way or for any purpose. healthvisitors.com or any of its affiliates shall be free to use the content of such communications including any ideas, inventions, concepts, techniques or know-how disclosed therein, for any purpose whatsoever including developing, manufacturing and/or advertising goods or services.
    
    Advertisements
    
23. This Website contains links to third party Websites and also contains details of products which may be available for purchase from those third parties. Those third parties may offer for sale generally or directly offer to you products or services and any purchase of such products or services shall be directly between you and the third party. In no way shall healthvisitors.com be liable for any such products or services and healthvisitors.com does not make any representations or give any warranties or recommendations in respect of such products or services and the links to such websites and any images or information relating to such products or services which appear on the healthvisitors.com Website are provided for information and convenience only. Further, none of the products or services which are featured on this Website constitutes any recommendation for treatment in any given case.
    
24. In addition, this Website provides links to organisations which may be advertising vacancies within those organisations. This information is contained on the Website for information provision only and does not constitute any representation or recommendation about such vacancy or organisation. Any interested person should contact the organisation directly for full details of the positions available.
    Law and Jurisdiction.
    
25. These Terms and Conditions and your use of this Website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and any disputes arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
    
    General
    
26. If for any reason any part of these Terms and Conditions is deemed to be unenforceable then the validity of the remaining Terms shall not be affected.
    
27. Any waiver by healthvisitors.com of a breach of any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not be deemed to be a wavier of any subsequent breach of any provision.
    
28. All disclaimers, terms, conditions as set out in this Website and the Privacy Policy shall form part of these Terms and Conditions of Use of this Website.
    
29. These Terms and Conditions of use constitute the entire agreement between you and healthvisitors.com and replace all previous arrangements whether written or oral regarding use of this Website.
    
30. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall be construed as establishing or implying a partnership between healthvisitors.com and any user of the Website nor shall any relationship of agency be implied.
    
31. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions is intended to confer on any person any right to enforce any provision of these Terms which that person would not have had but for the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

    Your Personal Data

32. In using this Website, it may be necessary for us to collect certain information about you. The Website will make clear when you are being asked to submit any information about yourself and how that information will be treated. The use of any personal information will be in accordance with our Privacy Policy which forms part of these Terms and Conditions and which is set out below.
    
    PRIVACY POLICY
    
33. healthvisitors.com is required to comply with data protection requirements in the way in which it uses any personal information collected from you in your use of this Website and in relation to any services provided to you by healthvisitors.com. This requirement is in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and certain other legal requirements which put into effect various pieces of European law.
    
34. At healthvisitors.com, we therefore take very seriously your rights in relation to the way in which we use your personal information and the security of that data which you provide to us is very important.
    
35. In various places on this Website, you may be asked to provide to us certain personal information about yourself such as contact information for example a name and e-mail address or for example a CV if you wish to apply for a position with this organisation. Any submissions which you make on a Chatroom, Discussion Forum or the "Tell Us your Story" section may also include personal data.
    
36. The personal data which we collect from you will be held and used for the proper administration of our business and in order to provide information services to you or to answer any questions which you may raise. We will retain copies of any communications which you send to us (including copies of any e-mails) in order to maintain accurate records of the information which we have received, such as queries and requests for advice as well as information and stories which you have submitted to us. This information will also be used to give us a better understanding of who is using our site and the types of subject areas which are of interest. The personal data which you supply to us will also be used for the purposes for which you supplied it for example if you wish to apply for a position within midwivesonline and send us your CV, your CV will therefore be used for the purpose of assessing your application for a position with healthvisitors.com. For specific uses for which personal data will be used in any particular case, please refer to the specific notices which are included on the pages of the Website at which personal information is collected.
    
37. Some of the information which you may submit may include what is known under the relevant legislation as "sensitive personal data". This includes for example information relating to trade union membership, your health, any disability which you may have or your race or ethnic origin. Should you supply any such information (including any photographs) in particular for example in the "Tell Us Your Story" section or Discussion Forum you specifically consent to our use of that information which you submit.
    
    Direct Marketing
    
38. When you submit your contact details to us, you will be asked on the relevant pages of the Website whether you would like to receive information about the services offered by healthvisitors.com. We will only send such information to you if you specifically state that you wish your details to be used for that purpose by ticking the appropriate box. You may at any time indicate that you wish to stop receiving such information by writing to us at Jubilee Mill, North Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 4EW or by e-mailing clittler@healthvisitors.com.
    
    Cookies
    
39. This Website uses cookies to track your use of the web and to assist the functionality of the Website. A cookie is a small file of text which is downloaded onto your computer when you access our Website. This allows us to recognise when you as the same user come back to the Website]. Cookies are used for the purpose of allowing us to understand who is accessing our site and helping to gain a picture of use volume. They are also used to help recognise those users who are repeated users so that we can gauge your interest in the site.
    
    Disclosure of your Information
    
40. From time to time it may be necessary for us to pass your details on to carefully selected third parties for example who are used to provide services to us to ensure the proper functioning and design of our Website. Similarly, there may be services offered on this Website which mean that we necessarily have to provide your details to a third party. By submitting your information to us you specifically consent to our disclosing such information to third parties as necessary from time to time.
    
41. On occasion it may be necessary for us to transfer your personal information overseas and in particular outside of the European Economic Area (this includes the member states of the EU plus Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland). Where this is the case, by providing the information you specifically consent to our disclosing this information outside of the EEA in order for us to provide a proper service to you in accordance with the functions on this site.
    
    Accessing Your Data and Making Sure it is Accurate
    
42. You have the right to be informed of the information which we hold on you and if you have any queries in this regard please contact Catherine Parker-Littler, Jubilee Mill, North Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 4EW. We may request from you a small fee of £10.00 to cover our administration charges of supplying this information to you. You also have the right to request us to update any records which we hold about you should the information become inaccurate or out of date. Therefore if you wish to update your details please let us know by contacting Catherine Parker-Littler, Jubilee Mill, North Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 4EW.