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Terms and Conditions

The Care Continuum Alliance provides the materials on its Web site for general informational, educational and disease awareness purposes. Although accessible by others, the Web site and its content are intended strictly for access and use by U.S. residents only.

Please carefully read these Terms and Conditions that apply to your access and to the use of the Web site. By accessing or using the Web site, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, please discontinue access and use of the Web site. We reserve the right to revise these Terms and Conditions or any portion of them at any time and in any way without notice by updating this posting. Your use of this Web site is subject to any such revisions and you should periodically visit this page to review the current Terms and Conditions that apply to your use of this Web site.

The Web site contains information concerning the Care Continuum Alliance that may be useful to our members and employees, as well as the general public. The Care Continuum Alliance makes no representations or warranties and assumes no responsibility or liability as to the accuracy, completeness, reliability or usefulness of any information contained on the Web site. Further, the Care Continuum Alliance expressly disclaims any obligation to update or correct information contained on the Web site and explicitly disclaims any duty to do so. The Care Continuum Alliance assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Web site. The Care Continuum Alliance reserves the right to make additions, deletions or modifications to the information or materials on the Web site at any time and in any way without notice.

The information presented on our Web site is not intended to provide medical advice and should not be relied upon as the basis of any health care decision. This information is not intended to replace informed medical advice from your qualified health care provider regarding questions or concerns you may have about your health or about the potential beneficial uses and possible adverse effects of any health care product.

Intellectual Property Rights
All content of the Care Continuum Alliance Web site is protected to the fullest extent possible by copyright laws. You may not copy, modify, upload, download, post, transmit, republish or distribute any of the content, including without limitation the HTML or other software instructional code, contained in our Web site without our prior written permission except for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. Nothing contained in this Web site shall be construed as granting a license or other rights under any patent, trademark, copyright or other intellectual property of the Care Continuum Alliance or any third party. Please be advised that the Care Continuum Alliance actively enforces its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent allowed by applicable laws.

Derivative Works
You are prohibited from creating derivative works or other modifications of any of the Materials and Services or of any portion of the Web site. If you create derivative works of the Materials and Services or of any portion of the Web site through the written permission of the Web site or otherwise, you hereby assign, transfer and set overall worldwide rights, title and interest, including all Intellectual Property Rights, to any and all portions of such derivative works, unless otherwise specified in writing. You agree to execute all necessary documents and cooperate fully with the Care Continuum Alliance to perfect any assignments required by the Terms of Use.

Cookies
You acknowledge that the Web site uses cookies on certain pages and that many features and services on the Web site may be available only through the use of a cookie. You expressly authorize "Company Name" to generate and utilize cookies that shall be stored on the hard drive of the computer used to access the Web site. You are free to decline cookies if your browser permits, but some loss of the features, Materials and Services offered via the Web site may occur as a result.

Use and Protection of Username and Password
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account number and/or password, if applicable. You are responsible for all uses of your account, whether or not actually or expressly authorized by you.

User Authentication and Disputes
You acknowledge that, because user authentication on the Internet is difficult, the Web site cannot and does not confirm that each user is who they claim to be. Because the Care Continuum Alliance is not and cannot be involved in user-to-user dealings or control the behavior of participants on the Web site, in the event that you have a dispute with one or more users, you hereby release the Care Continuum Alliance (and its agents and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential, direct and indirect) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

Security
You expressly acknowledge that security risks are an inherent risk of doing business on the Internet. In particular, you acknowledge that third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications of yours. Although the Care Continuum Alliance intends to use industry standard practices for securing the Web site, you acknowledge that the Care Continuum Alliance does not warrant or represent that information communicated to or from the Web site will be free from tampering or interception by third parties. In particular, and not withstanding any other provision in the Terms of Use, the Care Continuum Alliance does not warrant that information communicated to or from the Web site shall not be disclosed to third parties or otherwise remain private.

Monitoring
The Care Continuum Alliance may, but is not obligated to, monitor or review (i) any areas on the Web site where users transmit or post communications or communicate solely with each other, including but not limited to chat rooms, bulletin boards or other user forums, and (ii) the content of any such communications. The Care Continuum Alliance, however, will have no liability related to the content of any such communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise.

Removal
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Web site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or other material that would violate any law. The Care Continuum Alliance may, but is not required to, remove or delete any Materials or Services you have transmitted or posted to the Web site without notice or comment to you. You specifically agree to allow the Care Continuum Alliance to do so without any liability or consequence to the Care Continuum Alliance.

Specific Use Restrictions
You shall not use the Web site to post, transmit, distribute, store or destroy any information: (i) in violation of any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, without limitation, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, antidiscrimination or false advertising); (ii) in a manner that will infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others; (iii) that is defamatory, trade libelous, obscene, threatening, abusive or hateful; (iv) that contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; (v) that includes any incomplete, false, inaccurate, or misleading information or information; or (vi) that advertises or promotes a franchise, pyramid scheme, "club membership", distributorship or sales representative agency arrangement or other business opportunity which requires an up front or periodic payment, pays commissions only (no significant salary), or requires recruitment of other members, sub-distributors or sub-agents.

Security Breaches
You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Web site, including, without limitation, (i) accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account which you are not authorized to access; (ii) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (iii) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Web site, overloading, "flooding", "spamming", "mailbombing," "crashing", denial of service attacks and other attacks; (iv) sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; (v) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any posting; or (vi) deleting or revising any material posted on the Web site by any other person or entity. If you have a password allowing access to a non-public area of the Web site, you shall not disclose the password to any third parties or use the password for any unauthorized purpose.

Interference and Use of Outside Software
You shall not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Web site or any activity being conducted on this site. You shall not take any other action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Web site's infrastructure. Notwithstanding any provision of the Terms of Use, you shall not use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to monitor, copy, navigate or search the Web site other than the search engine and search agents available from the Web site and other than generally available third party web browsers (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer).

Links to Third-Party Web Sites
We have provided links to certain other third-party Web sites merely as a convenience for users of the Care Continuum Alliance Web site. These Web sites are maintained on third party servers and are not under the control of the Care Continuum Alliance. We do not control the material on such third party Web sites. Access to such third party Web sites is at the user's own risk and the Care Continuum Alliance is not responsible for its accuracy or reliability. Inclusion of such links to third party Web sites does not constitute an endorsement, approval, or guarantee the accuracy of the contents of any linked Web sites, including any of the opinions and predictions of any financial analysts with respect to the Care Continuum Alliance or any of its securities. We expressly disclaim any responsibility for the content of any third party Web sites linked to our Web site. We urge you to use discretion when you access any third party Web sites linked to our Web site.

THE CONTENT ON THE Care Continuum Alliance WEB SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE Care Continuum Alliance MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTITES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, CREATED BY LAW, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE Care Continuum Alliance MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT ACCESS TO THE WEB SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE ON A CONTINUOUS BASIS, WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THE WEB SITE WILL BE TIMELY, COMPLETE OR ERROR FREE.

EACH PERSON ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND ALL RISKS ARISING FROM ACCESS AND USE OF THE WEB SITE. IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY OF THE Care Continuum Alliance , OUR SUBSIDIARIES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, BUSINESS PARTNERS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS AND LICENSORS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AND ASSIGNS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR NATURE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL (INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFIT), PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXISTENCE, ACCESS OR USE OF THE WEB SITE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE Care Continuum Alliance OR ANY OF THE OTHER ENTITIES OR PERSONS LISTED ABOVE HAS BEEN ADVISED AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

We do not warrant that the functions or informational materials contained in or accessed through out Web site are free of computer viruses or other harmful components. Although we make a good faith effort to update the content of our Web site periodically, we do not have a duty to update information contained in our Web site, and we will not be liable for any failure to update such information.

The Care Continuum Alliance assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content neither of the Web site nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger or inaccuracy contained in any information within the Web site or accessed through the Web site.

Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold The Care Continuum Alliance, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, damages, demand, cost, expense, dispute, action or litigation, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content, materials and services you submit, post to, transmit or provide through the Site, your use of the Site, your connection to the Site, your violation of the Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of another person or entity. The foregoing indemnity shall survive and continue in force after the termination of these Terms of Use without limitation. If you fail to accept the defense of the matter as above provided, the Care Continuum Alliance shall have the full right to defend against any such claim or demand, and shall be entitled to settle or agree to pay in full such claim or demand, in its sole discretion, and seek payment from you hereunder.

Trademark Information
You acknowledge that trademarks, logos, service marks and other proprietary marks ("Marks") may be displayed on this Site which are the property of the Care Continuum Alliance or other third parties. You are not permitted to use the Marks without the prior written consent of the Care Continuum Alliance or such third party which may own the Marks. The Care Continuum Alliance and the Care Continuum Alliance logo are trademarks of the Care Continuum Alliance.



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