Thank you for visiting our website, EliasAndWilliams.com. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using our website. By using this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions contained herein, you may not access or otherwise use the website. We may make changes to our website, these terms and conditions, or the policies and conditions that govern the use of our website at any time. We encourage you to review these terms periodically for updates or changes. Your continued access or use of our website shall be deemed your notification and acceptance of these changes.
USAGE OF OUR WEBSITE BY MINORS
Due to the nature of the Internet, we cannot prohibit minors from visiting our website. However, all users who register with our website must be 18 years of age or older or provide verified parental consent (see our Privacy Policy).
PERMISSIONS AND CONSENTS
By signing up to receive any of our free resources, subscribe to our newsletter, register for a webinar, seminar or a live event, you agree to receive emails related to the opportunity or free resource you opted in to receive, including its content, updates, changes and other opportunities.
If you are located outside of the 32 countries affected by the GDPR (the EU, EEA and Switzerland), when you subscribe, or if you opt in to receive any free resources, register for a webinar, seminar, a live event, or purchase products sold by us, we will automatically enroll you to receive our updates by email about upcoming events, news, time-sensitive opportunities and other information we may send. However, you may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.
If you are located within the GDPR-affected countries, we will only enroll you to receive our updates by email about upcoming events, news, time-sensitive offers and other correspondence if you affirmatively consent to it. Should you change your mind and do not wish to receive our emails, you can opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email or by following the instructions provided in any email we send.
Your use of this Website is also subject to the Company’s Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy which also governs this Website. It informs you about what personal data we collect and store, how we ensure the security of that data both when it’s stored or transmitted to third parties we have a contractual relationship with to provide the requested products, services and functionalities of our Website to you. Your agreement to the Privacy Policy is hereby incorporated into these Terms of Use.
OUR WEBSITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE
Information on this website is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. You should not use the information on the website for the purpose of diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication or other treatment. This website does not contain information about all diseases, nor does it contain all information that may be relevant to a particular medical or health condition.
Never disregard medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this site. You should always speak with your physician or other healthcare professional before taking any medication or nutritional supplement, or adopting any form of treatment for a health problem. Information provided on this website DOES NOT create a doctor-patient relationship between you and either Dr. Peter M. Elias or Dr. Mary L. Williams or with any other health care professional associated with this website.
While every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the information provided in this website is current and accurate, the authors and website administrators assume no responsibility for the accuracy and correctness of the information on this site or for any consequences of relying upon it. Such information is often presented in summary or aggregate form and is not meant to substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other medical professional(s), or for any information contained on or in any product packaging or labels.
Q & A’s
Although EliasAndWilliams.com welcomes questions concerning the skin from its users, the authors do not guarantee that the users will receive a reply, timely or otherwise. No specific advice will be provided about any individual’s skin condition, skin care practices, medications, or other health questions. All information given, including in response to queries from users of this website, is general information and does not constitute medical advice, nor does it create a doctor-patient relationship. This website retains the right to alter the language and edit the content of the questions submitted by users in any manner the website and its authors desire, and to post the questions, altered or not, on the website. Any answers to medical questions provided will not be specifically directed to any individual’s personal medical condition or situation.
Your privacy is important to us. For more information on how we will protect your privacy when visiting EliasAndWilliams.com, please consult our Privacy Policy.
COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS
All material on EliasAndWilliams.com created by its authors is protected by law, including, but not limited to, United States copyright and trademark law, as well as other state, national, and international laws and regulations. EliasAndWilliams owns a copyright in this website as a collective work and/or compilation, and in the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of this site’s content, and in original content created by and for this website. Except as expressly provided herein, EliasAndWilliams.com does not grant any express or implied right(s) to Users of this site. Removing or altering the copyright notice on any material on this site is prohibited. All original Content is copyrighted by EliasAndWilliams.com, whether accompanied by a copyright notice or not.
You may not modify, remove, delete, augment, add to, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part without the written permission of EliasandWilliams.com. All rights to such Content are reserved to their respective copyright owners. Any such Content may be used solely for your personal, non-commercial use. If you violate any of these terms, your permission to use the Content will automatically TERMINATE and you must immediately destroy any copies you have of any portion of the Content.
YOUR CONDUCT ON OUR WEBSITE
Code of Conduct. You agree not to do any of the following:
Restrict or inhibit any other authorized user from using and enjoying this site.
Harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from this site by electronic or other means.
Send any unsolicited commercial emails or other unsolicited commercial communications through this site or based on information collected from this site.
Use this site to advertise one’s goods or services or the goods or services of a third party.
Interfere (or attempt to interfere) with the operation of this site. This includes, without limitation, interfering with, defeating, or circumventing any security function of this site, or attempting to do so.
Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself or your affiliation with any person or entity.
Post, store, or transmit any unlawful, threatening, intimidating, harassing, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, obscene, inflammatory, pornographic, profane, or otherwise objectionable information or material, as determined by EliasAndWilliams.com.
Post, store, or transmit any information or material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.
Use this site to post, store, or transmit any information or software that contains a virus, worm, Trojan horse, or any other harmful or disruptive component.
Use any robot, spider or other automated device to access this site, or any portion thereof.
Use this site to post, store, or transmit materials in violation of another party’s copyright or other intellectual property rights. You are solely responsible for determining whether any material you post, store, or transmit is subject to or violative of a third party’s rights.
Modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, resell, retransmit, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of this site.
Use this site for any unlawful purpose or in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the site.
Any conduct by you on our website that we believe, in our sole discretion, restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying our website will not be permitted. You agree to use our website for lawful purposes only. You are prohibited from posting on or transmitting through our website any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, fraudulent, racially, ethnically, or religiously derogatory content or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including, but not limited to, any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law. You also agree not to use our website to post or cause to be posted petitions for any issue, or to post or cause to be posted any advertisement or solicitation of funds, goods or services.
You may not post any content from this website to forums, newsgroups, list serves, mailing lists, electronic bulletin boards, blogs, wikis, or other websites, without the prior written consent of EliasAndWilliams.com or the relevant third-party owner of rights. You warrant that you will not use this site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, including but not limited to (i) disrupting, impairing or interfering with this website, or attempting to do so, or (ii) collecting any information about other users, including personal URLs, accounts or other information, or attempting to do so.
You hereby acknowledge that any violation of any of our policies may result in TERMINATION of your access to our website, deactivation or deletion of your account and all related information and files in your account, and preclusion of any further access to such files or our website, without prior notice.
THE ELIASANDWILLIAMS.COM WEBSITE
This website, EliasAndWilliams.com, is provided for your use on an “as is” / “as available” basis. We, along with our affiliates and third-party content providers, do not make any representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, with respect to our website or its Content offered on or through our website or any other website to which our website links, or the uninterrupted or error-free use of our website. We do not warrant that our website or files available on our website will be free from corrupted data, computer viruses or similar destructive or contaminating code. No advice or information provided by us or by our affiliates shall create a warranty of any kind. Your use of our website and any website linked to our website is expressly at your own risk.
Our website may contain some materials and/or graphics which may be explicit, unedited, or offensive to you. Access such materials at your own risk. This website, its authors and their information providers, agents, officers, and employees bear no responsibility for such materials and you agree to hold them free from liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from any such materials.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND THIRD PARTY SERVICES
Our Service may contain links to third-party websites or services, including those of advertisers, that are not owned or controlled by the authors of EliasandWilliams.com. The authors of EliasandWilliams.com are not responsible for the claims or representations made by advertisers or sponsors. While these co-sponsored activities, banner ads and links originate on EliasandWilliams.com, we do not operate them. For example, if you click on a link or banner advertisement, that click takes you out of EliasandWilliams.com to either the service or ad provider’s site. These other sites may use cookies, collect data, or solicit personal information from you. Since we do not have control over the privacy practices or the content of these sites, we recommend that you check their privacy policies before giving out any personal information. EliasandWilliams.com and the authors of EliasandWilliams.com do not own, control, have access to or maintain any information collected by our co-sponsors or advertisers.
You acknowledge and agree that EliasandWilliiams.com and the authors of EliasandWilliams.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 third-party web sites or services.
The Company is providing these links as a convenience to you. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Company, the Website or the Company operators.
Certain products, services and functionalities on this Website are delivered by third-party websites and organizations. By using this Website and the services and functionalities provided on this Website, you acknowledge and consent that the Company may share share some of the personal data collected from you with the third party services we have a contractual relationship with to provide the requested product, service or functionality to our Website users and customers. Your personal data and the security of your information being transferred is outlined in our Privacy Policy. Once your information is transferred to the third party, the security and processing of your information is no longer controlled by the Company. It is subject to the third party’s privacy policy. We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third party web sites or services that you visit.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
The Company and this Service is controlled, operated and administered from our offices with the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside of the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the Company content accessed through this Website in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.
TERMINATION
The information on our website is subject to change without notice.
Links to Eliasandwilliams.com
You may include a link from your website, forum, newsgroup, list serve, mailing list, electronic bulletin board, blog or wiki to this website, provided that your website, forum, newsgroup, list serve, mailing list, electronic bulletin board, blog or wiki does not contain illegal, obscene or offensive content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this website, EliasAndWilliams.com, and its authors reserve the right to demand that you remove any link on your website that, in their sole judgment, would negatively affect the reputation of EliasAndWilliams.com or its authors, Peter M. Elias, M.D. and Mary L. Williams, M.D.
Links to Other Sites
This website is an educational and informational service. This site may provide access to materials and information that reside on sites not owned or controlled by EliasAndWilliams.com. Such external sites may include advertisements through which you may be taken to other sites not owned or controlled by EliasAndWilliams.com. This website, EliasAndWilliams.com, has no control over such third-party websites or their content. You acknowledge and agree that the authors of this website, EliasAndWilliams.com, are not responsible for the availability of such sites or resources, and neither review nor endorse any content, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such third-party websites.
Accordingly, this site expressly disclaims any responsibility for the content, the accuracy of the information, and the quality of products or services provided by or advertised on such external sites or resources. You agree that EliasAndWilliams.com and its authors will not be responsible or liable for any alleged loss or damage incurred by you as the result of any dealings that you may have with any third-party advertisers or websites, including but not limited to communications with such third parties or reliance on their representations, online or otherwise.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Under no circumstances shall we or any other party involved in creating, producing, or distributing our website be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages or loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages) that allegedly result from (i) any delay, failure, interruption or corruption of our website or any data or information transmitted in connection with the use of the website, (ii) personal injury or death caused by your use or misuse of our website, (iii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data, (iv) statements or conduct of any third party on our website, or (v) any other matter relating to our website. You hereby acknowledge that this paragraph shall apply to all content available through our website. Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states, liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, total liability of EliasAndWilliams.com for any reason whatsoever related to use of this site shall not exceed $50.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless us, our employees, agents, providers, licensors and affiliates from and against all claims, actions, demands, judgments, losses, and liabilities (including, without limitation, costs, expenses and attorneys’ fees) by you or any third party arising from or relating to your use of this website, your connection to this website, Content you submit to, post to or transmit through this website, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of another person in connection with this website.
We respect your privacy in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to monitor our website and to disclose any information recorded or posted on, submitted to, or transmitted through our website to the extent that we, in our sole discretion, deem such disclosure necessary to comply with any law, regulation, subpoena, or government request; to operate our website; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of our users. In addition, we are committed to protecting the privacy of children. The website is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 18 (see above).
We may TERMINATE your access, or suspend your access to all or part of our website, without notice, for any conduct that we believe, in our sole discretion, is in violation of any applicable law or is unreasonably harmful to us, our interests or the interests of another user or a third-party provider.
APPLICABLE LAW; JURISDICTION AND VENUE
We control the website from our offices within the United States. We make no representation that the website’s Content is appropriate, legal or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access our website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. You may not use or export the website’s Content in violation of United States export laws and regulations. Any claim relating to the website, the services provided through the website or its Content shall be governed by the laws of the State of California. If a dispute should arise between you and us, you expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction and venue lie in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California.
These terms are effective until terminated by either party. If you no longer agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, you must cease your use of our website. Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to suspend or deny, in our sole discretion, your access to all or any portion of our website with or without notice. You agree that any TERMINATION of your access to our website may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that we may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and bar any further access to such files or our website. Further, you agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any TERMINATION of your access to our website.
FUNDING
All funding and support for the website is provided by the Elias Williams Medical Corporation, a private medical corporation.
ADVERTISING POLICY
This website does not permit outside advertisements, other than those directly related to the professional activities of Drs. Peter Elias and Mary Williams.
NO WAIVER
Failure to insist on strict performance of any of the Terms of Use set forth in this agreement will not operate as a waiver of any subsequent default or failure to perform. No waiver by EliasAndWilliams.com of any right under these Terms of Use will be deemed to be either a waiver of any other right or provision, or a waiver of that same right or provision at any other time. In addition to these Terms of Use, you may also be subject to additional terms or conditions that apply when you use affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such additional rights or provisions.
SEVERABILITY
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us and govern the use of our website. If any provision of these Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law, including but not limited to the disclaimers and the liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid and enforceable provision that most clearly matches the intent of the original provision, and the remainder of these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.
LIMITATIONS
You agree that regardless of any law or statute to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to use of our website or these Terms of Use must be filed within one year after such claim or cause of action accrued, or will be forever barred.
SECTION TITLES WITHOUT EFFECT
The section titles in the Terms of Use are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS
We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on our website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may notify us by providing our copyright agent the following information:
1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, including the URL (i.e., webpage address) of the location where the copyrighted work exists or a copy of the copyrighted work;
3. Identification of the URL or other specific location on our website where the material that you claim is infringing your copyright interest is located;
4. Your address, telephone number, and email address;
5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
7. Notices and claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement on the site may be submitted by emailing eliasandwilliams@eliasandwilliams.com.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Copyright February 2013, by Peter M. Elias, M.D. and Mary L. Williams, M.D. All rights reserved. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
CONTACT US
Elias and Williams welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms:
Elias Williams Medical Corporation
P.O. Box 174
Jenner, CA 95450
Email: eliasandwilliams@eliasandwilliams.com