Please read this page carefully. This page states the Terms and Conditions under which you, the website visitor (hereinafter "You" or "visitor") may use this site. The content of this site is owned by or licensed to DeafDOC. By using this site, You agree to be bound by all of the Terms and Conditions set forth below. If You do not accept these Terms and Conditions, please do not use this site. DeafDOC may, in its sole discretion, revise these Terms and Conditions at any time; therefore, You should visit this page periodically to review the Terms and Conditions.

DeafDOC seeks to improve the health of children by creating engaging, innovative, family-oriented media. Although it strives for timeliness and accuracy in all of its materials, DeafDOC makes no representations, warranties, or assurances as to the availability, accuracy, currency, or completeness of this site or its contents. DeafDOC shall not be liable for any damages or injury resulting from Your access to, inability to access, or use of this site, including, without limitation, any damages or injury arising from any links to other sites contained within or referred to in this site.

Privacy

DeafDOC is committed to preserving Your right to privacy. DeafDOC does not collect identifying information about You (such as Your name, address, telephone number, or email address) unless You voluntarily submit that information to us through our Ask the Doc page, our Newsletter Subscription page, or other means.

Please do not provide any confidential information (including health information) about you or anyone else to us via electronic communication. Any information you do submit to us is treated as confidential and is not sold or otherwise disclosed to third parties.

Contact Us

The Ask the Doc and Contact Us page are the primary means of communication with DeafDOC staff for a website visitor. Website visitors may use the Ask the Doc or Contact Us page to send content suggestions or questions about the any area of the site directly to the DeafDOC editorial staff. Website visitors may also use this form to ask general questions about the Website or content, submit notification of broken links, communicate privacy concerns, and/or submit praise and/or complaints. All comments are seen by the Editor-in-Chief of DeafDOC who, along with editorial staff, handle all content-related issues and will use these comments, for instance, as ideas for generating new content or answering a question in a Q&A section on the site. All technical and operational issues are forwarded to the Chief Operating Officer for handling. As DeafDOC policy is not to respond to visitor email, the Ask the Doc or Contact Us page do not ask for any personally identifiable information (such as age, gender and address), and the only way personally identifiable information would be collected is if the visitor were to voluntarily type such information into one of the open text fields. Any information submitted through the Ask the Doc or Contact Us page is not stored and is deleted once it is read and/or answered by the appropriate staff.

Email Newsletter Subscription:

The only personally identifiable information that is actively collected by DeafDOC are email addresses of individuals who opt-in to our Email Newsletter Subscription program. These email addresses are only used for delivering our Email newsletters. These addresses are monitored for spam and may be viewed by a human being when necessary or if there is some problem with the database. Users may remove their email address from our list by unsubscribing at our Email Newsletter Subscription page.

When you visit the site, DeafDOC may automatically collect certain non-identifying information about you, such as the type of browser or computer operating system you use or the domain name of the site from which You linked to us.

Any automatically collected information may be maintained indefinitely and used for our internal business and marketing purposes, such as assessing traffic patterns and usage of various features on the site, but will not be sold or otherwise disclosed to third parties for any purposes. Notwithstanding any other statements or representations here or elsewhere on our site, DeafDOC reserves its right to disclose any information in its possession if it is required to do so by law, or it believes, in good faith, that such a disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, defend its rights or property, or to respond to an emergency situation.

If you are concerned about the information you have provided to DeafDOC or would like to review, update or delete that information, please contact us at:

58 Eastland Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618
585-271-7004 Voice/Relay
585-271-3826 Fax
info@deafdoc.org

DeafDOC will make reasonable efforts to comply with Your wishes.

A Note to Parents and/or Guardians:

Our website is intended to be a safe resource for children under 13 to find useful, age-appropriate information. Although DeafDOC is a non-commercial organization, and might not be subject to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, it takes children's privacy very seriously. DeafDOC does not share or sell the information sent to it, whether by children or anyone else. DeafDOC does not advertise third-party products to children or anyone else. DeafDOC does not collect any personally identifiable information from children with one exception. To all of its visitors, DeafDOC offers Email Newsletter Subscriptions, which is an opt-in newsletter that informs visitors of either new medical information and/or new content on the site. DeafDOC does not know the age of any visitor who enrolls. Our Ask the Doc and Contact Us pages do not ask for any personally identifiable information. Sometimes, children write DeafDOC with a personal medical question. As stated elsewhere, DeafDOC generally does not answer such questions and does not collect personal addresses on the Ask the Doc and/or Contact Us form in order to be able to respond directly. However, there are times when a visitor includes personal information, and a physician believes it is advisable to ask a follow-up question or offer a comment, for instance, in the case of a life-threatening condition. Only in these rare and serious instances will DeafDOC respond to an individual visitor. However, it is important to note that if a user communicates a serious issue but does not include an email address, there will be no way for DeafDOC to respond.

Security:

DeafDOC employs reasonable security measures to protect the personal information you submit to it.

User Submissions:

DeafDOC welcomes Your comments on its site and Content. However, You acknowledge that if You send us creative suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts, inventions or other information, (collectively, the "Information"), the Information shall be deemed, and shall remain, the property of DeafDOC. By submission of any Information to us, you assign to us and we shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights to such Information and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of the Information for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to you.

As a user of this site, you are responsible for your own communications and are responsible for the consequences of their posting. Therefore, do not do any of the following things: transmit to us material that is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or have the permission of the copyright owner to post it; send material that reveals trade secrets, unless you own them or have the permission of the owner; send material that infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others; send material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to another user or any other person or entity; send sexually explicit images; send advertisements or solicitations of business; send chain letters or pyramid schemes; or impersonate another person.

DeafDOC reserves the right to expel users and prevent their further access to this site for violating these terms or the law and reserves the right to remove any communications from this site. The violation of any of the terms and conditions set forth on this Terms and Conditions page shall result in the immediate revocation of your right to use the Content and obligates you to immediately destroy any copies of the content in your possession.

Editorial Policies:

Articles and features published on this site undergo a rigorous editorial process that includes extensive review by medical professionals. However, all information on this site is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor or healthcare provider.

The editorial staff makes every effort to be as neutral as possible with regard to gender, race, color, religion, disability and age. Within the articles, the site takes turns referring to people as "he" or "she." Remember, that even if an article says he or she, it is referring to all males and females, unless otherwise specified.

Links:

This site contains links to websites owned by third parties. These links appear as resources associated with individual articles. These resources are listed on a separate page and users are cautioned at the top of these pages that clicking links to listed resources will take them off the DeafDOC site. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and are not an endorsement by DeafDOC of the contents of those other sites. DeafDOC is not responsible for the content of any linked sites and makes no representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such sites. If you decide to visit any third-party sites using links from this site, you do so at your own risk.

Disclaimer of Warranties:

DeafDOC does not warrant that the site will operate error-free. It does not warrant that the site and/or server are free of computer viruses or other harmful material. If your use of the site or the site's material results in the need for servicing or replacing of equipment or data, DeafDOC shall not be responsible for those costs. This site and its material are provided on an "as is" basis without any warranties of any kind.

DEAFDOC, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES' RIGHTS, AND THE WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Disclaimer of Consequential Damages:

IN NO EVENT SHALL DEAFDOC, ITS EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS, OR ANY THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED IN THE SITE CONTENT, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE OR SITES LINKED TO THIS WEB SITE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER DEAFDOC IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Use of Site Material:

The contents of this site, including, without limitation, text, graphics, images, and other content (the "Content") are owned by or licensed to DeafDOC and are protected by copyright under both United States and foreign laws. Unauthorized use of the content violates copyright, trademark, and other laws. You agree to retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original content on any copy You make of such material. You may not sell or modify our content or reproduce, display, distribute, or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. Use of the content on any other website or in a networked environment is prohibited.

Miscellaneous:

This site originates from Rochester, New York. DeafDOC does not claim that the Content on this site is appropriate or to be used outside of the United States. Access to the Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If You access the site from outside the United States, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.

These Terms and Conditions are governed by the substantive laws of the State of New York, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. You agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts situated in the State of New York with respect to any dispute, disagreement, or cause of action related to or involving this site. If any provision is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term. Except as expressly provided elsewhere in this site, these Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and DeafDOC with respect to your use of this site.

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