Please read these terms carefully before joining HIVConnect (this "Site")
By accessing and using this Site you indicate your acknowledgment and acceptance of these terms and conditions. These terms and conditions govern the use of this Site and conditions are subject to change without notice. Therefore, if you are a regular user of the Site, please review these terms and conditions regularly.
By completing the registration process, you are stating that you are at least 13 years old or a minor whose parent is allowing you to use our site, and that you agree to these terms of use. Hivconnect.net reserves the right to terminate the membership of children under the age of 13, in order to comply with our privacy regulations.
Registration
In registering with us, you agree to provide accurate, current and complete information about yourself, and to update that information if it changes; if you don't, we have the right to terminate any profile and or blog you have created and prevent you from using our site.
As part of the registration process, you will choose a member name and password. It is your responsibility to keep this password confidential. If you discover that someone is using your password or account without your consent, or you discover any other breach of security, you agree to notify us immediately.
Member Conduct
We mechanically screen for objectionable information transmitted or shared by members on our site. We reserve the right (but have no duty) to monitor the screened content and, if considered objectionable, to remove the information and/or remove the content in question from our system at any time without notice.
To help ensure that everyone's experience at hivconnnect.net is a positive one, we have certain rules for conduct, which you must agree to follow in using our site. You agree to:

• Follow all local, state, national and international laws and regulations
• Be responsible for all acts that occur under your account or password, including any content transmitted or broadcast through your account or any activities occurring on any profile administered under your account.

You also agree that you will not:

• transmit through hivconnect.net’s site any unlawful, harassing, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, tortuous, or otherwise objectionable content
• use your profile as a mechanism to defame our service or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers, or healthcare facility sponsors
• take or post any photographs of others without their express written consent
• copy, broadcast, distribute, or otherwise use any content provided by others, in a manner that is unlawful, harassing, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, libelous, tortuous, or otherwise objectionable
• transmit any content that might infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, rights of publicity, or other proprietary rights of others
• collect information about others without their consent
• reveal personally identifiable information about children
• interfere with or disrupt hivconnect.net’s site, services, computer systems, servers or networks, or violate the regulations or policies of such networks
• transmit any content containing viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or any other harmful programs
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to hivconnect.net’s site or services, others' accounts or computer systems or networks connected to hivconnect.net’s site, through password mining or otherwise
• engage in any systematic extraction of data or data fields, including without limitation e-mail addresses
• provide false information on your registration form, impersonate any person or the voice of any person, or otherwise attempt to mislead others about your identity or the origin of a message or other communication
• transmit junk mail, spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited bulk e-mail or duplicative messages
• sell access to or use of any services available on hivconnect.net’s site
• interfere with anyone's use or enjoyment of hivconnect.net’s site.

Confidentiality of User Communications
Except as required by law and in accordance with the hivconnect.net Privacy Pledge, hivconnect.net will maintain the confidentiality of all user communications which contain personal user information and which are transmitted directly to hivconnect.net. For Site administration purposes, hivconnect.net may need to view personally identifiable information. Only employees of hivconnect.net may view this information for the express purpose to improve the functionality of the Site and the user's profile. In addition, hivconnect.net reserves the right to monitor profile content for adherence to our terms of service.
Users should be aware that linked sites might contain confidentiality provisions that differ from the provisions provided herein. Hivconnect.net is not responsible for such provisions, and expressly disclaims any and all liability related to such provisions. Hivconnect.net does not knowingly collect personal information regarding children.
Communications from CarePages.com
By using this service, you agree to receive communications from hivconnect.net that are necessary to the use of the service. Examples of these communications include, but are not limited to, welcome notices, educational e-mails and e-mails regarding any changes to the service.
From time to time we may send you messages through the service from Health Care professionals in order provide you with information about services or programs which may be of interest to you. Usage of the hivconnect service constitutes acknowledgement and agreement that such messages may be received.
Copyright/Trademarks
This Site, including images, text, audio and other components therein ("Materials") are copyrighted materials owned by hivconnect.net and protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. Elements of this site are also protected by copyright, trade dress and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. Materials and elements, including, but not limited to, names, trademarks, logos, graphics, sounds or images may not be used, copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed, in any way without hivconnect.net’s express prior written permission. Except as expressly provided herein, hivconnect.net does not grant any express or implied right to users under any patents, copyright, trademarks, or trade secrets.
No Warranties
This Site is distributed on an "as is" basis. hivconnect.net makes no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy, reliability or completeness of this Site's content or the content of any Site linked from this Site. To the extent permissible by applicable law, hivconnect.net and its sponsors disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, non-infringement, warranties of title, implied warranties of quality, performance, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, security and accuracy. Further, hivconnect.net does not warrant that this Site or the server that makes it available are free of computer viruses.
Updates and Errors
hivconnect.net does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links, or other items contained within this Site. The documents and related graphics published on this Site could contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically made to the information herein. hivconnect.net and/or its respective suppliers may make improvements and/or make changes in the product(s) and/or the program(s) described herein at any time.
hivconnect.net has no duty to update this Site or the content hereof and hivconnect.net shall not be liable for any failure to update such information. You agree that hivconnect.net and any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers, or sponsors will not be liable, whether in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, for any indirect, punitive, special, consequential or incidental damages (including without limitation lost profits, cost of procuring substitute service or lost opportunity) arising out of or in connection with the use of this Site, or a linked site or with the delay or inability to use the Site or a linked site, even if hivconnect.net was made aware of the possibility of such damages.
This limitation on liability includes, but is not limited to, the transmission of any viruses which may infect a user's equipment, failure of mechanical or electronic equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnect problems (e.g., you cannot access your Internet service provider), unauthorized access, theft, operator errors, strikes or other labor problems or any force majeure. hivconnect.net cannot and does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to the Web site. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify hivconnect.net against liability for any and all use of the Site.
Although CarePages.com will attempt to address any problems or concerns regarding its service, if you continue to be dissatisfied with hivconnect.net’s site or services or the content available thereon, or with any of hivconnect.net's terms of use, your only remedy is to discontinue using hivconnect.net.
Limitation of Liability for Services Provided by Affiliated Hospitals/Businesses
You understand that hivconnect.net may provide you with information about other businesses that provide their own goods or services. hivconnect.net and any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, or information providers hereby disclaim any liability, whether in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, for any indirect, punitive, special, consequential or incidental damages (including without limitation lost profits, cost of procuring substitute service or lost opportunity) arising out of or in connection with the goods or services provided by any dealer identified on this Site, including without limitation, liability for any act, error, omission, injury, loss, accident, delay or irregularity which may be incurred through the fault, negligent or otherwise, of such dealers and you hereby exonerate hivconnect.net from any liability with respect to the same.
The hivconnect.net Site Should Not Be Substituted for Professional Advice
All content on www.hivconnect.net is created by the users of the site, with the exception of healthcare information provided by our affiliates. Any and all content should not be substituted for professional advice. Healthcare facilities that sponsor our service disclaim any liability for the content provided by members, users and our affiliates.
Though every effort has been taken to provide accurate, credible, and reliable information on our site, it is important to understand that all medical content is provided for educational purposes only. Information, communications, and materials available on the hivconnect.net Site is not and should not be considered professional healthcare advice. Nor should you assume that information on a particular topic is complete. While the content provided through the hivconnect.net Site is updated frequently, healthcare information changes rapidly and consequently some information on the hivconnect.net Site may be slightly out of date, or in the case of certain content sources, historic in nature. You therefore, should not substitute information contained on the hivconnect.net Site for consultation with qualified health care professionals; nor should you rely solely on information contained on the hivconnect.net Site in rendering a diagnosis or considering a course of treatment.
The hivconnect.net Site Is Not Engaged in the Practice of Medicine
The hivconnect.net Site is designed to promote communication and education regarding and concerning health care information. hivconnect.net and its sponsors are not engaged in offering any medical advice on this Site, nor are hivconnect.net and its sponsors responsible for any medical information generated through chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups. hivconnect.net cannot be held responsible for the medical content of any of the sites linked from this Site. No medical information obtained through hivconnect.net should be used to diagnose or treat any health ailment or disease. Please consult your physician or health care provider if any questions arise regarding your condition. hivconnect.net expressly disclaims any and all responsibility for any consequences related, directly or indirectly, to any use, misuse or interpretation of the hivconnect.net Site or any other information provided or omitted in connection therewith and you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless hivconnect.net therefrom.
Jurisdiction and Venue
This Site is controlled and operated by hivconnect.net from its offices within the United States of America. Any claim relating to this Site shall be governed by the internal substantive laws of the state of Massachusetts. You and hivconnect.net agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the state of Massachusetts. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of hivconnect.net Web site or these terms and conditions must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose.
Linked Internet Sites
hivconnect.net prohibits caching, unauthorized hypertext links to this Site and the framing of any materials available through this Site. hivconnect.net reserves the right to disable any unauthorized links or frames and specifically disclaims any responsibility for the contents of any other Internet sites linked to this Site. Access to any other Internet sites linked to the Site is at the user's own risk. User should be aware that linked sites may contain rules and regulations, privacy provisions, confidentiality provisions, transmission of personal data provisions, and other provisions that differ from the provisions provided on this Site. hivconnect.net is not responsible for such provisions, and expressly disclaims any and all liability related to such provisions.
Violation of Terms and Conditions
hivconnect.net reserves the right to seek all remedies available at law and in equity for violations of these Terms and Conditions, including the right to block access from a particular Internet address to this Site. hivconnect.net operates this Site and reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time and from time to time without notice. The failure of hivconnect.net to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms and conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles herein are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.