Terms of Use
Please read these Terms of Use carefully and completely, as your
continued use of the DrBronstein.com Web site confirms your
unconditional acceptance of, and is subject to, the following terms and
conditions.If you do not accept these terms and conditions, do not use
the site. DrBronstein.com may, in its sole discretion, revise these
Terms of Use at any time; therefore, you should visit this page
periodically to review these Terms of Use. You shall be responsible for
reviewing and becoming familiar with any such revisions. Use of the
Site by you following such any revision constitutes your acceptance of
the terms and conditions of the Terms of Use as revised
Passwords
To become a Member of DrBronstein.com's on-line community, You
recognize that you are required to provide your e-mail address and to
choose a screen name.You recognize that your chosen screen name will
appear in connection with any communications you post on
DrBronstein.com.
You shall provide DrBronstein.com with accurate, complete, and updated
registration information. Failure to do so shall constitute a breach of
the Terms of Use, which may result in immediate termination of your
DrBronstein.com account.
You may not:
(i) select or use as a DrBronstein.com User ID a name of another person
with the intent to impersonate that person;
(ii) use as a DrBronstein.com User ID a name subject to any rights of a
person other than you without appropriate authorization; or
(iii) use as a DrBronstein.com User ID a name that is otherwise
offensive, vulgar or obscene.
DrBronstein.com reserves the right to refuse registration of, or
cancel, a DrBronstein.com User ID in its discretion. You shall be
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your DrBronstein.com
password.
Unless you voluntarily and affirmatively choose to list your e-mail
address in your membership profile, biography, posting or other
location on DrBronstein.com,you understand that your actual e-mail
address is not public, shared in anyway, or displayed on
DrBronstein.com.You also understand and agree that DrBronstein.com in
no way encourages members to disclose private information, including
their e-mail addresses, on the publicly accessible portions of
DrBronstein.com.
Personal Information
You understand that you are not required to post any personal
information to become a member. However, if you voluntarily choose to
include personal information in your member profile, biography or other
postings on DrBronstein.com, you may do so. You understand and agree
that DrBronstein.com in no way encourages members to disclose private
information, including your e-mail addresses, on the publicly
accessible portions of DrBronstein.com.
You understand and agree that DrBronstein.com and its directors,
officers, employees and agents are not liable for the disclosure of any
personal information which you voluntarily include in your profile,
biography and or posts. You recognize that you have no legitimate
expectation of privacy in any information which you voluntarily
disclose on DrBronstein.com, and hereby waive any constitutional,
statutory or common law right to privacy which you might otherwise
claim in such information.
You understand and agree that DrBronstein.com may collect and utilize
any personal information which you voluntarily provide, and may combine
the personal information collected from you with information from
others to provide a better user experience.
Acceptable User Conduct
Responsibility for Reviewing Content You are also responsible for the
interpretation of the content that is posted on DrBronstein.com. 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.
Responsibility for Posting Content All information, data, text,
software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or any
other materials whatsoever (collectively, "Content"), whether publicly
posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the
person from whom such Content originated. This means that you, and not
DrBronstein.com, are entirely responsible for all content that you
upload, posts, emails or otherwise transmits via DrBronstein.com.
Your contributions to content on DrBronstein.com should:
1. Increase the knowledge of other readers
2. Help create dialogue and discussion around topics
3. Provoke re-thinking of many conventionally held beliefs (i.e.
mercury vaccines are good for kids)
Ten Rules For Unacceptable User Conduct
As a condition of use, you promise to use the Site only for lawful
purposes and in compliance with these Terms of Use. You understand and
agree that DrBronstein.com is not under any obligation to control,
monitor or verify the statements made by members of DrBronstein.com's
on-line community. If DrBronstein.com discovers that you are violating
these Terms of Use or otherwise making unacceptable use of
DrBronstein.com, however, DrBronstein.com may terminate your account.
Some examples of such unacceptable uses are
1) Abuse, harass, humiliate, deceive, threaten, impersonate, intimidate
or engage in any other abusive behaviors with those who comment on
DrBronstein.com.
2) Contribute any content that is infringing, libelous, defamatory,
obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive or otherwise violates any law
or right of any third party;
3) Post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted, any
communication or solicitation designed or intended to obtain password,
account, or private information from any DrBronstein.com user;
4) Create or submit unwanted email ("Spam") to any other
DrBronstein.com users or any URL;
5) Violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to
copyright laws);
6) Submit stories or comments linking to affiliate programs,
multi-level marketing schemes, or off-topic content or any other system
that will result in your personal financial or commercial gain.
7) Use for illegal or unauthorized purpose. If you are an international
user, you agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct
and acceptable content
8) With the exception of accessing RSS feeds, you will not use any
robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site for
any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you
agree that you will not:
(i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion
an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
(ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the
Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or
(iii) bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to
the Site;
9) Create separate user accounts with the intention of artificially
inflating your DrBronstein.com count, comments, or any other
DrBronstein.com service.
10) Post personal communications from anyone without their consent
Reporting Violations of Terms of Use
DrBronstein.com may remove any Content and DrBronstein.com accounts at
any time for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of
claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to
such Content), or for no reason at all. To report Terms of Use abuse,
please email: abuse@DrBronstein.com.
You understand and agree that it is impossible for DrBronstein.com to
guarantee complete security. You understand and agree that
DrBronstein.com accepts no responsibility for any consequences of
unauthorized entry, even if such entry could have been prevented by
procedures known to DrBronstein.com, but not adopted, and you hereby
waive any claim against DrBronstein.com and/or its directors, officers,
employees or agents, based upon any unauthorized acts by third parties.
User Submissions
You acknowledge that DrBronstein.com may or may not pre-screen Content
posted by users to our Web Site ), but that DrBronstein.com and its
designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole
discretion to pre-screen, refuse, or remove any User Postings. Without
limiting the foregoing, DrBronstein.com and its designees shall have
the right to remove any User Postings that violates these Terms of Use
or is, in DrBronstein.com's sole direction, otherwise objectionable.
You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with,
the use of any User Postings, including any reliance on the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness of such User Postings. With respect to User
Postings you yourself submit or make available for inclusion on
DrBronstein.com, you grant DrBronstein.com a worldwide, perpetual,
irrevocable, fully-sublicensable, royalty-free and non-exclusive
license(s), to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish,
translate, publicly perform and publicly display such User Postings (in
whole or in part), and on DrBronstein.com, and to incorporate such User
Postings into other works in any format or medium now known or later
developed.
As a user of the Site, you are responsible for your own communications
and are responsible for any consequences resulting from these
communications. Therefore, do not do any of the following things:
transmit to us or post to the Site material that is copyrighted, unless
you are the copyright owner or have the permission of the copyright
owner to send it; send material that reveals trade secrets, unless you
own them or have the permission of the owner; transmit to us or post to
the Site material that infringes on any other intellectual property
rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others;
transmit to us or post to the Site material that is obscene,
defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing
to another user or any other person or entity; send sexually-explicit
images; transmit to us or post to the Site advertisements or
solicitations of business; transmit to us or post to the Site chain
letters or pyramid schemes; or impersonate another person.
DrBronstein.com reserves the right to expel users and prevent their
further access to this Web Site for violating these terms or the law.
User Postings to Site
You understand and agree that DrBronstein.com may collect and utilize
any personal information which you voluntarily provide, and may combine
the personal information collected from you with information from
others to provide a better user experience.You further understand and
agree that DrBronstein.com may summarize and/or reprint any information
or comments which you voluntarily post on the website as a part of
newsletters and other publications.
Copyright Information
Use of Site Material
This website and its contents, such as text, graphics, images and other
content (the "Site Material") are protected by copyright under both
United States and foreign laws. Copyright 2009 Dr. Nancy Bronstein. All
Rights Reserved. Individual articles on the Site may be copied in full,
without specific permission, for not-for-profit purposes. Any other use
of Site Material violates copyright, trademark, and other laws. Absent
the express written permission of Dr. Bronstein, you may not sell or
modify our Site Material or reproduce, display, distribute, or
otherwise use the Site Material in any way for commercial purpose.
Termination of your user account for any reason, including but not
limited to your violation of any of these Terms of Use, results in the
immediate revocation of your license to use the Site Material and
obligates You to immediately destroy any copies of the Site Material in
your possession.
DrBronstein.com has no responsibility for content on other web sites
that you may find or access when using DrBronstein.com's products or
services. Material available on or through other web sites may be
protected by copyright and the intellectual property laws of the United
States and/or other countries. The terms of use of those web sites, and
not the DrBronstein.com Term of Use, govern your use of that material.
If you believe that your work has been copied in the Site in a way that
constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property
rights have been otherwise violated, please abuse@drbronstein.com with
the following information:
1. Reasonably sufficient details
to enable us to identify the copyrighted work or other intellectual
property that you claim has been infringed;
2. A description of where the
material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site, with
enough detail that we may find it on the Site;
3. Your contact information so
that we can contact you (including your name, address, telephone
number, and email address);
4. A statement that you have a
good faith belief that the use of the material identified in (2) is not
authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
5. A statement, under penalty of
perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that
you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right
that is alleged to be infringed; and
6. The electronic or physical
signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the
copyright or other intellectual property interest.
Counter-Notification
If material that you have posted to the Site has been taken down in
response to a claim of copyright or other intellectual property
infringement, you may send abuse@drbronstein a counter-notification
containing the following details:
1. Reasonably sufficient details
to enable us to identify the material that has been removed to which
access has been disabled, together with the location at which the
material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disable;
2. A statement, under penalty of
perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was
removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the
material in question;
3. Your contact information so
that we can contact you (including your name, address, telephone
number, and email address);
4. A statement that you consent to
the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for judicial district in
which your address is located or, if your address is outside of the
USA, in any judicial district in which DrBronstein.com may be found,
and that you will accept service of process from the person who
submitted a notice in compliance with the section (c)(1)(C) of the
DMCA, as generally described above; and
5. Your physical or electronic
signature.
By email
abuse@drbronstein.com
Attachments cannot be accepted. Accordingly, any notification of
infringement or counter-notification submitted electronically with an
attachment will not be received or processed.
Links to Other Web Sites
Users may provide links to other web sites or resources. Because
DrBronstein.com has no control over such sites and resources, you
acknowledge and agree that DrBronstein.com is not responsible for the
availability of such external sites or resources and does not endorse
and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products
or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You
agree not to knowingly link to any web site, web page or resource that
contains defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or offensive
material, or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party.
You further acknowledge and agree that DrBronstein.com shall not be
responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss
caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or
reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through
any such site.
DrBronstein.com Limitation Of Liability
Although DrBronstein.com desires accuracy in all elements of the Site
Material, there may be inaccuracies or typographical errors.
DrBronstein.com makes no express or implied representation about the
accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of the Site Material
or about the results that may be obtained from use of the Site. You use
the Site and the Site Material at your own risk.
THE WEB SITE AND THE MATERIAL ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, DrBronstein.com DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING
THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES
RIGHTS AND THE WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ALTHOUGH AMF
DESIRES TO PROVIDE COMPLETE AND ACCURATE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS ON
ITS WEB SITE, AMF MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ABOUT THE
ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS OR TIMELINESS OF THE INFORMATION,
MATERIAL, SERVICES, SOFTWARE, TEXT, GRAPHICS AND LINKS FOUND AT THE WEB
SITE.
IN NO EVENT SHALL DrBronstein.com OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE UNDER
CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER LEGAL THEORY: (A)
WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE, THE SERVICE OR ANY CONTENT FOR ANY LOST
PROFITS OR SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES (HOWEVER
ARISING), OR (B) FOR ANY DIRECT DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF (IN THE AGGREGATE)
$100. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND
EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Miscellaneous
No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a
result of the Terms of Use and you do not have any authority of any
kind to bind DrBronstein.com in any respect whatsoever. The failure of
either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein
shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder.
DrBronstein.com shall not be liable for any failure to perform its
obligations hereunder where such failure results from any cause beyond
DrBronstein.com's reasonable control, including, without limitation,
. mechanical,
. electronic or
. communications failure or
. degradation (including "line-noise" interference).
If any provision of the Terms of Use is found to be unenforceable or
invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum
extent necessary so that the Terms of Use shall otherwise remain in
full force and effect and enforceable.
The Terms of Use is not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by
you except with DrBronstein.com's prior written consent.
DrBronstein.com may transfer, assign or delegate the Terms of Use and
its rights and obligations without consent. The Terms of Use shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of
Illinois, as if made within Illinois between two residents thereof, and
the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and any other
limitations on how they will address legal claims.