Use

Please read the following terms and conditions which relate to your use of this website. By using this website you are agreeing to these terms and conditions and indicating that you accept them and agree to abide by them. We my change these terms and conditions at any time and will post revisions on this website. You are responsible for reading these terms and conditions and any revisions to them.

Intellectual Property Rights

Unless explicitly permitted in writing, other than printing a small proportion of content or displaying the content of this website on your screen or both (strictly for your personal non-commercial use), no part of this website may be reproduced, stored in any medium, in any form or by any means.

You may not create any derivative work or make any other adaptation of any of the content on this website without our prior written consent. You must not modify the copies you have displayed or printed in any way. If you print off or download any material from our website in breach of these terms of use, any rights to use our site will cease immediately and you must at our option return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. All rights not expressly granted in these terms and conditions or any express written license are reserved.

Any material you upload to this site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary and for such content you grant us a transferable royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable license to use, copy, distribute, edit, amend, disclose, sub-license to third parties and create derivative works in whole or part of any such material for any purpose in any media. We may remove, edit or amend any such material at any time without notice to you. To the extent moral rights attach to any material, to the fullest extent permitted by law these are waived in our favour. All material posted must adhere to the requirements of 'Your Conduct' below. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to this site constitutes a violation of their rights, including without limitation their intellectual property right, reputational rights or of their right to privacy.

Links

This website contains links, including hyperlinks, which may take you outside this website. Links are provided for your convenience only and an inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement or approval by us of the linked website, its operator or content. We have no control over the contents or functionality of those sites so linked and accept no responsibility for any loss or damages that may arise from your use of them. We are not responsible for any website outside this website, and such other websites will be subject to relevant terms and conditions and privacy policies.

You must not deep link to this website without our agreement in writing. You may not provide a link which suggests a form of association, approval or endorsement on our part, unless we have expressly agreed to this in writing. We reserve the right to withdraw any linking permission upon notice to you or by amending these terms and conditions.

Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability

Description or reference to a product or publication does not imply endorsement of that product or publication.

To the fullest extent permitted by law the material and information displayed on this website is provided 'as is' without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to accuracy or completeness.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable to you for damages, loss or refunds should the site become unavailable or access to this site becomes slow or incomplete due to system back-up procedures, internet traffic volume, upgrades, overload of requests to the servers, general network failures or delays, or any other cause which may from time to time make the website inaccessible to you.

This website does not offer medical advice and should not be seen as a replacement for consultation with a doctor or other health professional. Users of this website should also be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions and that there are regular advances in medical research.

We rely on the authors of articles/questions to confirm the accuracy of information presented and to describe generally accepted practise and therefore we, as publisher and/or editor, cannot and do not warrant its accuracy. Readers are responsible for independently verifying information that they chose to rely on. Ultimately, it is the reader's responsibility to make their own judgement on the material on this website.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW WE EXPRESSLY EXCLUDE:

(I) ALL CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES AND OTHER TERMS WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE BE IMPLIED BY STATUTE, COMMON LAW OR THE LAW OF EQUITY;

(II) ANY LIABILITY CAUSED BY A FORCE MAJEURE EVENT; AND

(III) ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGES INCURRED BY YOU IN CONNECTION WITH USE OF THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING BY YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE ANY INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE OR ANY PUBLICATION THEREON, VIA ANY WEBSITES LINKED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE AND ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON IT.

Your Conduct

You must not use this website in any way that causes or is likely to cause the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way. You understand that you are solely responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us. You must use the website for lawful purposes only. You must not use the website for any of the following:

(i) for fraudulent purposes or in connection with a criminal offence or for otherwise carrying out any unlawful activity;

(ii) to send, use, re-use or publish any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, harmful, defamatory, obscene, menacing, racist, abusive, threatening, invasive of privacy, in breach of confidence, infringes any intellectual property rights or is otherwise injurious to third parties, or is objectionable, or which consists of or contains software viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware (including, but not limited to, spam);

(iii) to impersonate any third party or otherwise mislead as to the origin of your content; or

(iv) to reproduce, duplicate, copy or resell any part of our site in contravention with these terms and conditions.

If you submit any article, document, opinion, link or other thing to be displayed on this website you warrant, represent and undertake that it (including any content accessed through any link) contains no copyrighted material and does not infringe any intellectual property right of any other person. We shall not check, and expressly disclaim any liability for, infringement of intellectual property rights of any person.

Governing Law

These terms and conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, whose courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to govern any dispute arising out of these terms and conditions or arising out of your use of this website in accordance with these terms and conditions.

Revised: 01/01/2019