Website Terms and Conditions
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These terms and conditions ("Terms") apply to your use of this website (this "Site"), which is operated by Opinion Health Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 05483751.
1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
These Terms apply every time you use this Site so please read them carefully. By using or accessing this Site you accept these Terms, so if you do not agree to them, please leave this Site immediately.
This Site should only be used and accessed by UK residents, so please do not use or access this Site if you are a non-UK resident.
This Site should only be used by persons who are over the age of 18.
We may change these Terms from time to time, so you should check the current terms and conditions each time you open or access this Site.
You will need to become a registered user if you wish to use the interactive parts of this Site.
You will be asked to update your information from time to time.
You may use or access any other part of this Site freely without becoming a registered user.
2. REGISTERED USERS
Registered users with access to the interactive parts of this
Site will have an account with us. You are only allowed to
register once and to have one account. If you are found to have
registered more than once or have opened more than one account,
your subsequent registrations will be deleted and the accounts
closed. Any points accrued in the accounts that are closed will
not be transferred.
You must only use one email address for your registration.
3. ACCURACY AND PROVISION OF INFORMATION
The results of the polls, surveys, questionnaires and other research we carry out are very much dependent on the accuracy of the information we receive. So, in return for giving you access to the interactive parts of this Site and for crediting points to your account, you agree that:
- you are a qualified health practitioner;
- any information or data that you provide to us from time to time (whether this is on applying to become a registered user or in using the interactive parts of this Site) will be true, accurate, complete and not misleading in any way;
- you will provide honest and complete answers by means of the interactive polls, online questionnaires or other interactive features of this Site.
If any of the information or data referred to in the previous paragraph changes you agree to notify us of such changes as soon as you can. It is important to us that the information we hold about you remains true, accurate, complete and not in any way misleading so please could you update your information in the "My Profile" area of this Site.
Nothing in the previous paragraphs affect your rights to decline to provide any information or data that you do not wish to provide.
4. EARNING POINTS
You can earn points when you participate in each of our surveys, polls and questionnaires. For each survey, poll or questionnaire you complete, the points that you earn will accrue to your account. The number of points that you can earn for each completed survey, poll or questionnaire is stated on this Site. Once at least 250 points (the equivalent of £50) have accrued to your account:
(a) we will make a donation of £50 to a charity you select; or
(b) if you tell us that you would prefer to receive the money we
will send a cheque for £50 made payable to the registered user at
the address which is registered with us when the cheque is sent
out. Please allow 6 weeks for us to send the cheque
out.
No donation or payment will be made unless at least 250 points have accrued to your account.
5. DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY
Your privacy is important to us. We will process any personal data or information which you submit to us and which can be used to identify you in accordance with our privacy policy at [link]. Please read this carefully as when you become a registered user you are agreeing to be bound by that privacy policy
6. USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS
You should not disclose your username and/or password or share them with anyone else. You are responsible for any use or any access of this Site via your password (even if somebody other than you accesses or uses this Site). You agree to indemnify us against all losses or damages that we suffer as a result of any access or use of this Site obtained via your password and/or username. If you know of (or suspect) any unauthorised access and/or use of your username and/or password, you can report this and any suspicious activity to us through our online support center available from the 'My Support' tab of the members area.
7. OWNERSHIP AND PERMITTED USES OF THE CONTENT OF THIS SITE
All rights in the content and other material on this Site belong to us or our licensors. You are permitted to use this Site for your personal, non-commercial uses as follows:
- to view this Site and display content and material from your computer screen or by printing out one copy of individual pages.
- to store one copy of a limited number of individual pages on disk but not on any network linked equipment
Nothing in these Terms prevents you from e-mailing poll results, or articles from this Site to a friend at any time for non-commercial purposes.
8. PROVISION OF CONTENT TO THE SITE AND LICENCE TO USE IT
You should only upload, transmit or provide information or other content to this Site:
- if you are a registered user;
- in response to a request from this Site to provide such information from an interactive part of this Site; and
- in accordance with these Terms.
You agree that we are authorised and licensed to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, disseminate, license on to others, provide to others, create derivative works from, publish and/or do anything else we reasonably consider necessary with all information, data, content and other materials you upload or transmit to this Site for so long as we consider appropriate. Where your personal information is concerned this will be done in accordance with the terms of such privacy policy.
9. LINKS AND ADVERTISING
This Site may provide links to third party websites from time to time. If you use these links, you leave this Site. We do not control and are not responsible for these third party websites and so:
- it is your responsibility to decide whether the third party websites are suitable for your purposes;
- we do not control the availability of these third party websites;
- we do not endorse these third party websites or make any representations about them, or any material found there or any results that may be obtained from using them; and
- if you access any third party websites linked to this Site, you do so at your own risk.
You may link to this Site if you wish. We may at any time remove any links to this Site at our sole discretion.
Parts of this Site may contain advertising and sponsorship material. We are not responsible for such material. Your correspondence or dealings with, or participation in promotions of advertisers found on or through this Site, is your responsibility. We cannot be liable for any loss or damage you suffer as the result of any such dealings or as a result of the presence of such advertisers on this Site.
10. PROVISIONS RELATING TO CONTENT AND INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THE SITE AND CONTENT OF LINKED SITES
You should not provide (whether by linking, e-mailing or otherwise transmitting to or from this Site) any content or materials to this Site:
(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent,
seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite
racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous,
inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of
privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;
(b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or
approvals from the relevant persons including without limitation
with respect to any third party intellectual property rights,
from the owners of such rights;
(c) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be
considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or
otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any
third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
(d) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation,
computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful
components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful
data).
You may not misuse this Site including, without limitation,
(a) by hacking;
(b) by collecting or storing personal data about other users of
this Site;
(c) by submitting more than one vote per poll, or more than one
response to a questionnaire or survey; or
(d) by doing anything else that may affect the validity of our
polls, surveys and questionnaires.
We shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of the above paragraphs.
You will only access this Site by using the interface provided by us for accessing this Site. You will not access the interactive parts on this Site without becoming a registered user.
No part of this Site may be reproduced and/or stored in any other website or included in any public or private database or intranet service without our express prior written permission.
Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved in full. Without limitation the following marks belong to us and must not be used in any way without our prior written consent:
(a) OpinionHealth
(b) Opinion Health Limited
(c) Opinion Health
Subject to the terms of our privacy policy, we may copy and keep any information, data, content and other materials you upload or transmit to this Site or any part of them or disclose such data, content and/or other materials if required to do so by law or where we (acting reasonably) believe that such a copying or disclosure is necessary to:
(a) comply with legal process;
(b) respond to claims that any information, content or other data
breaches the rights of third parties;
(c) protect against unauthorised use abuse or misuse of this
Site;
(d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Opinion
Health; or
(e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of this
Site's users, Opinion Health's clients or the public.
11. COMPETITIONS
Any competitions, free prize draws and promotions run by us will be subject to additional terms, which will be made available to you when you enter such competition, prize draw and/or promotion.
12. ACCESS AND MODIFICATION
While we endeavour to ensure that this Site is normally available 24 hours a day, we shall not in any way be liable if for any reason this Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
Access to this Site or to any part of it may be modified, discontinued or suspended temporarily or permanently and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control. We will not be liable to you or to any third party for any such suspension.
13. TERMINATION
We may at any time terminate or suspend your access to this Site or any part of it or your registration with us for any reason with or without prior notice. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for such termination.
We reserve the right to suspend your registration and/or terminate your ability to use this Site and/or restrict your future ability to access this Site either
- if you do not comply with the Terms; or
- if for any reason any information you provide is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete and/or is misleading; or
- if we believe that such information is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete and/or is misleading.
14. BREACH OF SECURITY
Please notify us through our online support centre available within the 'My Support' tab of the member's area immediately if you become aware of or suspect any breach of security in relation to this Site.
15. DISCLAIMER
Because we collect information from different sources via the internet and from third parties we cannot control, we do not warrant the accuracy and/or completeness of the material on the site. We may make changes to the material on the site, at any time without notice. The material on the site may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such material.
The material on the site is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties and/or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we allow you to access the site on the basis that we exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which, but for these terms might have effect in relation to the site. You acknowledge and agree that the use by you of any material and/or information obtained through the use of or in any way facilitated by the use of the site is at your own risk and you alone shall be responsible for any loss or damage whatsoever that you may suffer from such use.
We make no warranty and/or representation that your access to the site will be uninterrupted, secure and/or error-free or that you will be able to access the site at any particular time.
16. LIABILITY AND INDEMNITY
We, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining and/or delivering the site), and any of our affiliated entities and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders and/or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise in connection with this Site in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Site and any websites linked to this Site or the material on such websites.
Without prejudice to the generality of the paragraph above, we, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining and/or delivering the site), and any of our affiliated entities and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders and/or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise in connection with any loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, and/or browsing the site and/or your downloading of any material from this Site or any websites linked to this Site.
Nothing in these terms shall exclude or limit our liability for:
(a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence; or
(b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
(c) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under
applicable law.
If, as a result of using the site or any material on it, you require servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you agree that you alone will bear any and all costs related to such servicing, repair or correction and that we shall not in any way be responsible to you for this.
If we waive any breach by you of these terms this will not prevent us from later requiring you to comply with any waived obligation.
You will indemnify and hold harmless Opinion Health, its officers, agents, sub-contractors employees or other partners from and against any and all liability, loss, damages, costs, legal costs, professional and other expenses and any other liabilities of whatever nature, suffered, incurred or sustained by it as a result of the claims of any third parties arising out of
- the content, data or information that you transmit, link to or otherwise submit;
- your use of the site;
- your non-compliance with these terms; or
- your breach of any third party rights.
17. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with the Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Issue Date: 27 September 2005
These terms and conditions ("Terms") apply to your use of this website (this "Site"), which is operated by Opinion Health Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 05483751.
1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
These Terms apply every time you use this Site so please read them carefully. By using or accessing this Site you accept these Terms, so if you do not agree to them, please leave this Site immediately.
This Site should only be used and accessed by UK residents, so please do not use or access this Site if you are a non-UK resident.
This Site should only be used by persons who are over the age of 18.
We may change these Terms from time to time, so you should check the current terms and conditions each time you open or access this Site.
You will need to become a registered user if you wish to use the interactive parts of this Site.
You will be asked to update your information from time to time.
You may use or access any other part of this Site freely without becoming a registered user.
2. REGISTERED USERS
Registered users with access to the interactive parts of this
Site will have an account with us. You are only allowed to
register once and to have one account. If you are found to have
registered more than once or have opened more than one account,
your subsequent registrations will be deleted and the accounts
closed. Any points accrued in the accounts that are closed will
not be transferred.
You must only use one email address for your registration.
3. ACCURACY AND PROVISION OF INFORMATION
The results of the polls, surveys, questionnaires and other research we carry out are very much dependent on the accuracy of the information we receive. So, in return for giving you access to the interactive parts of this Site and for crediting points to your account, you agree that:
- any information or data that you provide to us from time to time (whether this is on applying to become a registered user or in using the interactive parts of this Site) will be true, accurate, complete and not misleading in any way;
- you will provide honest and complete answers by means of the interactive polls, online questionnaires or other interactive features of this Site.
If any of the information or data referred to in the previous paragraph changes you agree to notify us of such changes as soon as you can. It is important to us that the information we hold about you remains true, accurate, complete and not in any way misleading so please could you update your information in the "My Profile" area of this Site.
Nothing in the previous paragraphs affect your rights to decline to provide any information or data that you do not wish to provide.
4. EARNING POINTS
You can earn points when you participate in each of our surveys, polls and questionnaires. For each survey, poll or questionnaire you complete, the points that you earn will accrue to your account. The number of points that you can earn for each completed survey, poll or questionnaire is stated on this Site. Once at least 125 points (the equivalent of £25) have accrued to your account:
(a) we will make a donation of £25 to a charity you select; or
(b) if you tell us that you would prefer to receive the money we
will send a cheque for £25 made payable to the registered user at
the address which is registered with us when the cheque is sent
out. Please allow 6 weeks for us to send the cheque
out.
No donation or payment will be made unless at least 125 points have accrued to your account.
5. DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY
Your privacy is important to us. We will process any personal data or information which you submit to us and which can be used to identify you in accordance with our privacy policy at [link]. Please read this carefully as when you become a registered user you are agreeing to be bound by that privacy policy
6. USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS
You should not disclose your username and/or password or share them with anyone else. You are responsible for any use or any access of this Site via your password (even if somebody other than you accesses or uses this Site). You agree to indemnify us against all losses or damages that we suffer as a result of any access or use of this Site obtained via your password and/or username. If you know of (or suspect) any unauthorised access and/or use of your username and/or password, you can report this and any suspicious activity to us through our online support center available from the 'My Support' tab of the members area.
7. OWNERSHIP AND PERMITTED USES OF THE CONTENT OF THIS SITE
All rights in the content and other material on this Site belong to us or our licensors. You are permitted to use this Site for your personal, non-commercial uses as follows:
- to view this Site and display content and material from your computer screen or by printing out one copy of individual pages.
- to store one copy of a limited number of individual pages on disk but not on any network linked equipment
Nothing in these Terms prevents you from e-mailing poll results, or articles from this Site to a friend at any time for non-commercial purposes.
8. PROVISION OF CONTENT TO THE SITE AND LICENCE TO USE IT
You should only upload, transmit or provide information or other content to this Site:
- if you are a registered user;
- in response to a request from this Site to provide such information from an interactive part of this Site; and
- in accordance with these Terms.
You agree that we are authorised and licensed to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, disseminate, license on to others, provide to others, create derivative works from, publish and/or do anything else we reasonably consider necessary with all information, data, content and other materials you upload or transmit to this Site for so long as we consider appropriate. Where your personal information is concerned this will be done in accordance with the terms of such privacy policy.
9. LINKS AND ADVERTISING
This Site may provide links to third party websites from time to time. If you use these links, you leave this Site. We do not control and are not responsible for these third party websites and so:
- it is your responsibility to decide whether the third party websites are suitable for your purposes;
- we do not control the availability of these third party websites;
- we do not endorse these third party websites or make any representations about them, or any material found there or any results that may be obtained from using them; and
- if you access any third party websites linked to this Site, you do so at your own risk.
You may link to this Site if you wish. We may at any time remove any links to this Site at our sole discretion.
Parts of this Site may contain advertising and sponsorship material. We are not responsible for such material. Your correspondence or dealings with, or participation in promotions of advertisers found on or through this Site, is your responsibility. We cannot be liable for any loss or damage you suffer as the result of any such dealings or as a result of the presence of such advertisers on this Site.
10. PROVISIONS RELATING TO CONTENT AND INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THE SITE AND CONTENT OF LINKED SITES
You should not provide (whether by linking, e-mailing or otherwise transmitting to or from this Site) any content or materials to this Site:
(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent,
seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite
racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous,
inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of
privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;
(b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or
approvals from the relevant persons including without limitation
with respect to any third party intellectual property rights,
from the owners of such rights;
(c) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be
considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or
otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any
third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
(d) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation,
computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful
components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful
data).
You may not misuse this Site including, without limitation,
(a) by hacking;
(b) by collecting or storing personal data about other users of
this Site;
(c) by submitting more than one vote per poll, or more than one
response to a questionnaire or survey; or
(d) by doing anything else that may affect the validity of our
polls, surveys and questionnaires.
We shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of the above paragraphs.
You will only access this Site by using the interface provided by us for accessing this Site. You will not access the interactive parts on this Site without becoming a registered user.
No part of this Site may be reproduced and/or stored in any other website or included in any public or private database or intranet service without our express prior written permission.
Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved in full. Without limitation the following marks belong to us and must not be used in any way without our prior written consent:
(a) OpinionHealth
(b) Opinion Health Limited
(c) Opinion Health
Subject to the terms of our privacy policy, we may copy and keep any information, data, content and other materials you upload or transmit to this Site or any part of them or disclose such data, content and/or other materials if required to do so by law or where we (acting reasonably) believe that such a copying or disclosure is necessary to:
(a) comply with legal process;
(b) respond to claims that any information, content or other data
breaches the rights of third parties;
(c) protect against unauthorised use abuse or misuse of this
Site;
(d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Opinion
Health; or
(e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of this
Site's users, Opinion Health's clients or the public.
11. COMPETITIONS
Any competitions, free prize draws and promotions run by us will be subject to additional terms, which will be made available to you when you enter such competition, prize draw and/or promotion.
12. ACCESS AND MODIFICATION
While we endeavour to ensure that this Site is normally available 24 hours a day, we shall not in any way be liable if for any reason this Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
Access to this Site or to any part of it may be modified, discontinued or suspended temporarily or permanently and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control. We will not be liable to you or to any third party for any such suspension.
13. TERMINATION
We may at any time terminate or suspend your access to this Site or any part of it or your registration with us for any reason with or without prior notice. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for such termination.
We reserve the right to suspend your registration and/or terminate your ability to use this Site and/or restrict your future ability to access this Site either
- if you do not comply with the Terms; or
- if for any reason any information you provide is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete and/or is misleading; or
- if we believe that such information is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete and/or is misleading.
14. BREACH OF SECURITY
Please notify us through our online support centre available within the 'My Support' tab of the member's area immediately if you become aware of or suspect any breach of security in relation to this Site.
15. DISCLAIMER
Because we collect information from different sources via the internet and from third parties we cannot control, we do not warrant the accuracy and/or completeness of the material on the site. We may make changes to the material on the site, at any time without notice. The material on the site may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such material.
The material on the site is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties and/or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we allow you to access the site on the basis that we exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which, but for these terms might have effect in relation to the site. You acknowledge and agree that the use by you of any material and/or information obtained through the use of or in any way facilitated by the use of the site is at your own risk and you alone shall be responsible for any loss or damage whatsoever that you may suffer from such use.
We make no warranty and/or representation that your access to the site will be uninterrupted, secure and/or error-free or that you will be able to access the site at any particular time.
16. LIABILITY AND INDEMNITY
We, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining and/or delivering the site), and any of our affiliated entities and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders and/or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise in connection with this Site in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Site and any websites linked to this Site or the material on such websites.
Without prejudice to the generality of the paragraph above, we, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining and/or delivering the site), and any of our affiliated entities and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders and/or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise in connection with any loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, and/or browsing the site and/or your downloading of any material from this Site or any websites linked to this Site.
Nothing in these terms shall exclude or limit our liability for:
(a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence; or
(b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
(c) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under
applicable law.
If, as a result of using the site or any material on it, you require servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you agree that you alone will bear any and all costs related to such servicing, repair or correction and that we shall not in any way be responsible to you for this.
If we waive any breach by you of these terms this will not prevent us from later requiring you to comply with any waived obligation.
You will indemnify and hold harmless Opinion Health, its officers, agents, sub-contractors employees or other partners from and against any and all liability, loss, damages, costs, legal costs, professional and other expenses and any other liabilities of whatever nature, suffered, incurred or sustained by it as a result of the claims of any third parties arising out of
- the content, data or information that you transmit, link to or otherwise submit;
- your use of the site;
- your non-compliance with these terms; or
- your breach of any third party rights.
17. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with the Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Issue Date: 27 September 2005