Terms of Use

Last Updated: September 2012

Introduction

Welcome to www.abroadclinics.com, a website for finding health clinics around the world. It gives you the opportunity to search for, find and contact medical services provided by healthcare providers across the world. AbroadClinics.com and the facilities, services and materials available thereon (the "Website") is owned and operated by Purpose LTD (registration code 14460082) trading as AbroadClinics.com ("www.abroadclinics.com") an Estonian registered company. For the purpose of these terms and conditions "we", "our" and "us" refers to AbroadClinics.com.

Important Notice

AbroadClinics.com is not involved in the provision of any healthcare or medical advice or diagnosis. All information provided on the website is intended as a guide only and should not be construed as a substitute for professional medical advice. The website is an information service that displays information on health clinics that has been gathered from the healthcare provider or the internet.

We do not screen or validate any content posted by healthcare providers, nor do we endorse any particular Healthcare Provider. If you decide to engage a Healthcare Provider to provide medical services to you, you do so at your own risk. We would recommend that you undertake your own research into any Healthcare Provider listed on the Website and that you should consult with your doctor or primary healthcare provider before engaging any Healthcare Provider from this Website.

Services We Do Not Provide

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AbroadClinics.com is not a medical referral service and does not endorse, recommend, or approve any Healthcare Provider listed in the Website. We are not medical professionals nor do we hold ourselves out to be medical professionals and will not discuss or advise on any issues relating to medical treatment with Clients or Healthcare Providers.
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AbroadClinics.com is not involved in any transaction between you and Healthcare Providers who use this Website. We cannot assure that all transactions will be completed nor do we guarantee the ability or intent of Healthcare Providers to fulfil their obligations in any transactions.
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As we cannot control the information provided by Healthcare Providers or information sourced by AbroadClinics.com from the Internet that is made available through this Website, AbroadClinics.com does not guarantee or endorse the authenticity, quality, safety or legality of any Healthcare Provider or the services provided or purported to be provided by the Healthcare Providers.

Services We Do Provide

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AbroadClinics.com is a Website for individuals seeking to access medical services ("Clients," "Your" or "You") and Healthcare Providers situated around the world, be they individual medical practitioners, hospitals, clinics, travel agencies (together the "Healthcare Providers") who want to provide medical services.
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AbroadClinics.com gathers information from various worldwide Healthcare Providers about their facilities and services as well as from a large number of publicly available websites. You can access this information via our Website. This information should assist you in making a decision on choosing your preferred Healthcare provider by conducting your own research into such Healthcare Providers.
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You may simply wish to browse through the Website to see what AbroadClinics.com has to offer. If this is the case, then only some of the provisions of these Terms of Use will be applicable to your use of the Website and other provisions will not be relevant.

Content Policy

AbroadClinics.com acts as a passive conduit for the online distribution and publication of information submitted through the Website, and has no obligation to screen content or information in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material posted by you or Healthcare Providers.

You acknowledge we may publish your reviews of Healthcare Providers or the medical services provided to you by Healthcare Providers either on the website or on associated or linked websites and you consent to the unrestricted publication of such reviews.

Review Policies

Review cannot be libellous
Review must be family friendly (no profanity, etc.)
No hearsay. You cannot make a statement about what someone else has said
No personal insults
No reports of criminal activity (these must be reported to the proper authority)
Commercial information including email address or phone numbers
Content not relevant to other potential customers
Review must use standard email etiquette (not all CAPS, no HTML, etc.)
We may choose to reject reviews where we cannot contact you by email or phone

Age and Responsibility

You should note that the Website Service is only available to, and may only be used by individuals who are legally entitled to form such contracts under law in the jurisdiction in which they reside. If you are under the age of eighteen (18 years), you should not access and/or use this Website or the Website Services. By accessing and using this Website, you warrant that you are over the age of eighteen.

Data Protection

For the purpose of these Terms of Use "Data" means all electronic data or information, including personal data as defined in the Personal Data Protection Act (the "PDP Act") submitted by you onto the Website and transferred by AbroadClinics.com to the Healthcare Provider, the processing of which is necessary to conclude the contract between you and the Healthcare Provider.

You recognise and acknowledge that in order to facilitate the provision of Medical Services to you, we will need to provide certain details of your personal information, including any medical information you provide us with, to Healthcare Providers whom you wish to arrange a consultation with.

AbroadClinics.com endeavours to protect your privacy and the privacy of others who access the Website and use its facilities. For full details of the manner in which AbroadClinics.com uses cookies, the type of information we collect, how we use it and further details concerning the circumstances upon which we disclose information, please read the Privacy Statement which is hereby incorporated into and forms part of these Terms of Use.

Provision of Information

If you wish to arrange a consultation with a Healthcare Provider, then you will be asked to provide certain information including details such as your contact details (phone number and email address), age and gender and some medical information to allow us to present your data to Healthcare Providers who may be interested in providing Medical Services to you.

Information sent over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure as it is subject to possible interception, loss or alteration. You understand and agree to assume the security risk for any information you provide using the Website.

Suspension/Termination

AbroadClinics.com may at any time, without notice to you, suspend or terminate your access to this Website, or any service forming part of this Website, wholly or partially, for any reason including, without limitation, where you have provided false or misleading information, or you are in breach of these Terms of Use.

Use of Website

You agree not to use this Website or any of its facilities and/or services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use including but not limited to:

Prohibited Uses

Any commercial purpose including but not limited to creating, checking, confirming, updating or amending your own or someone else's databases, records, directories, customer lists, mailing or prospecting lists
Any purpose that is fraudulent, unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use
Copying, modifying, transmitting, displaying, distributing, performing, reproducing, licensing, publishing, creating derivative works from, transferring or selling any information, software, products and services contained on or forming part of this Website
Accessing or using the Website in and from jurisdictions which restricts or prohibits same by local law
Accessing or using the Website in any manner which could damage, disable, overload, flood, mail bomb, crash or impair the Website or interfere with any other party's use and/or enjoyment of the Website
Posting or transmitting to or from the Website any unlawful, harassing, threatening, libellous, defamatory, tortious, obscene, hateful, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic or profane material
Transmitting material which may cause harm to AbroadClinics.com's or any other party's computer systems, including but not limited to any material which contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, adware, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines or engines
Harassing, harming or abusing another person, or contacting, advertising, soliciting, selling to any other person without their prior written consent or transmitting or relaying spam, junk email or chain letters
Accessing data or materials not intended for your use; logging into a server or account which you are not authorised to access; attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network
Attempting to gain unauthorised access to the Website, or any computer systems or networks connected to any AbroadClinics.com website, through hacking, password miming or any other means
Harvesting or otherwise collecting by any means any programme material or information (including without limitation email address or details of other users) from the Website or monitoring, mirroring or copying any content of the Website

The pages contained in this Website may contain technical inaccuracies and typographical errors. The information on this Website may be updated from time to time but we do not accept any responsibility for keeping the information in these pages up-to-date, nor any liability for any failure to do so.

AbroadClinics.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to pursue all of its legal remedies upon breach by you of these Terms of Use, including but not limited to removal of your postings and content from this Website, and restricting your ability to access this Website and use the Website Services.

Copyright Notice and Limited Licence

The information, content, graphics, text, sounds, images, buttons, trademarks, service marks, get-up, business names, domain names, rights in good will, know-how, designs and rights in designs, trade names and logos (whether registered or unregistered) (the "Materials") contained in this Website are protected by copyright, trade mark, database right, sui generis right and other intellectual property laws.

Any other use of the Materials on this Website, including any form of copying or reproduction, modification, distribution, uploading, re-publication, extraction, re-utilisation, incorporation or integration with other Materials or works or re-delivery using framing technology, without the prior permission of AbroadClinics.com is strictly prohibited.

You agree to grant AbroadClinics.com a non-exclusive, royalty free, world-wide, transferable perpetual licence, with the right to sub-licence, reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works of, publicly display and publicly perform any Materials and other information when you submit to the Website.

Disclaimers/Warnings

This clause limits AbroadClinics.com's legal liability to you for your access to and use of the Website. You should read this clause carefully. You acknowledge that you have agreed to these Terms of Use relying on the disclaimers stated herein and that those disclaimers are an essential basis of this contract.

The website is available to all users "as is" and, to the greatest extent permitted by applicable law, the website is made available without any representations or warranties of any kind, either express or implied. AbroadClinics.com makes no representations, warranties or undertakings about the services or materials available on the website.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, AbroadClinics.com assumes no responsibility nor do we grant any warranties, express or implied relating to the operation, safety, condition or service of the Healthcare Professional or any doctor or any other person associated with the Healthcare Provider.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, neither AbroadClinics.com nor any of its officers, directors, employees, affiliates or other representatives will be liable for loss or damages arising out of or in connection with your use of any facilities, services and the website services offered or transactions entered into through or from this Website.

In no event shall AbroadClinics.com nor any of its officers, directors, employees, affiliates or other representatives be liable for any damages whatsoever resulting from the statements or conduct of any Healthcare Provider or third party or the interruption, suspension or termination of the website services.

Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall AbroadClinics.com nor any of its officers, directors, employees, affiliates or other representatives be held liable for any delay or failure in performance of the website or the website services resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces or causes beyond its reasonable control.

AbroadClinics.com does not exclude liability for death or personal injury, caused by its negligence or that of its employees or authorised representatives, or for fraud.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and keep indemnified and hold AbroadClinics.com and, as applicable, its officers, directors, employees, affiliates or other representatives, harmless against any and all claims, proceedings, actions, costs, including legal costs, charges, expenses, damages, liabilities, losses and demands made by, or liabilities to, any third party resulting from any activities conducted under your account.

Links to Third Party Websites

This Website contains links to third party websites. Your use of third party websites is subject to the terms and conditions of use contained within each of those websites. Access to any other website through this Website is at your own risk. AbroadClinics.com is not responsible for, nor liable for, the accuracy of any information, data, opinions, statements made on third party websites.

Availability

Although AbroadClinics.com endeavours to ensure the Website is available at all times, there may be occasions when access to the Website may be interrupted, e.g. to allow maintenance, upgrades and emergency repairs to take place, or due to failure of telecommunications links and equipment that are beyond our control.

You have sole responsibility for adequate protection and back-up of any content and data you submit to the Website and for undertaking reasonable and appropriate precautions to scan for computer viruses or other destructive items.

Changes in These Terms of Use

AbroadClinics.com may modify or terminate any services offered through this website from time to time, for any reason and without notice, and without liability to you, any other client or any third party. AbroadClinics.com reserves the right to change the content, presentation, performance, user facilities and/or availability of any part of this Website, including these terms of use at its sole discretion from time to time.

Jurisdiction and Governing Law

This Website is controlled and operated by AbroadClinics.com from Estonia. AbroadClinics.com does not make any representation that the facilities, services, including the website service, and/or materials offered through this Website are appropriate or suitable for use in countries other than Estonia.

These terms of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Estonia and you hereby agree, for the benefit of AbroadClinics.com, and without prejudice to the right of AbroadClinics.com to take proceedings in relation to these terms of use before any court of competent jurisdiction.

The language of any dispute resolution procedure or any proceedings under these terms of use will be english or estonian.

Miscellaneous

Any waiver of any provision of these terms of use must be in writing and signed by AbroadClinics.com to be valid. Each of the provisions of these terms of use is separate and severable and enforceable accordingly. These terms of use represent the entire understanding and agreement between you and AbroadClinics.com relating to use of this website, its facilities and/or services.