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Welcome to the Virtual Medical Community the worlds premier medical information
resources developed by medically trained and qualified professionals for medical
practitioners and the general public.
Information provided on this site is designed to support, not replace, the relationship
that exists between a patient/site visitor and his or her physician!
Our primary aim always is for patients, families, their carers, allied professionals
and the medical profession to be able to be more informed than ever before around
the clock.
We also believe that medical information must ALWAYS be discussed one on one with
your own medical professional and if required you can reference your doctor to
this resource.
Honesty in Advertising & Editorial within this or any of our online resources is as per our policy whereby all advertising is to be clearly marked "advertisement" beneath the advert. Banners that appear are internal and not payed advertising.
By directly or indirectly entering any of our websites (titled www.virtual...
or www.mylocal…) at any point you will have recognised & therefore acknowledged
that you are entering medical information portals that relate and presents medical
information that (due to the nature of the topic) could/may possibly visually
offend some visitors.
By entering and using the sites information you acknowledge and recognise that
we have taken all actions possible to ensure you are completely aware of sensitive
visuals, images, pictures or data.
By entering this or any of the Virtualmedicalcentre.com websites you agree you
may be exposed to informational sensitive surgical images that may offend and
that you further acknowledge that we provide general medical information only
and we do not under any circumstance provide recommendations on any information
we publish.
Please read all these terms of use, which will constitute an agreement between
the site you have entered, Virtual Medical Centre or Virtual Medical Centre
and you.
We may change these terms from time to time. You will always be able to view the
most current version by clicking on a link at the bottom of any page on our site.
Virtual Medical Centre gratefully acknowledges the support of the following commercial entities:
These terms of use apply to your use of any of the Virtualmedicalcentre.com
or Virtual Medical Centre websites. The terms of use for each of our Web
sites are available on the home page of that Web site.
Virtualmedicalcentre.com and all interconnected “Virtual” sites are owned
and operated by Virtual Medical Community. Virtualmedicalcentre.com is
our website for the general public, site members, universities, associations,
hospitals medical practitioners and allied health care professionals. Content
will vary depending on the membership type you have. Virtualmedicalcentre.com
is also the name we use to refer to our entire company.
We include a lot of information on Virtualmedicalcentre.com sites including
articles, references, support for people living with cancer, continuing education
for medical professionals, latest results from research and advertising. While
we hope you find it helpful, you should remember that it is not meant to serve
as a substitute for your doctors clinical judgment - we recommend that all information
must be discussed with your doctor.
We specifically disclaim any warranties, express or implied, including implied
warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It's your job
to evaluate the information and results from tools we provide. If you are a healthcare
professional, you should exercise your professional judgment in evaluating any
information, and we encourage you to confirm the information contained on our
website with other sources before undertaking any treatment based on it. If you
are a consumer, you should evaluate the information together with your physician
or another qualified healthcare professional.
Some information on our website comes from you or from other users. We are not
responsible for that information. Whether the information comes from us or from
you, we are not liable for any damages resulting from your use of the information
on our website.
Although we are selective about the organisations we link to, we don't assume
any responsibility for any websites that are linked to our site or that you browse
to after following a link from our site.
While we welcome your feedback on Virtual Medical Centre, we must make the final
decisions about the content that is posted on the site to make sure it meets the
needs of all our readers. You can use the feedback address, feedback@virtualmedicalcentre.com
to send us comments and criticisms, but if you are dissatisfied with our response
or with the contents of Virtual Medical Centre your only remedy is to stop using
the website.
We include a database of Australian health care professionals intended for the
use of site members, medical practitioners and allied healthcare professionals
on our website. This directory exists purely to allow easy contact between you
the user and the health care professional. This does not indicate any financial
of other business association with these members.
We or our partners own the information on Virtual Medical Centre and its
associated interconnected sites. Articles on the press desk and downloadable material
are written by partners of Virtual Medical Centre, OR they are summarized
and sourced from external bodies. These external bodies own copyright of the original
article. Partners of Virtual Medical Centre own the copyright of articles
and documents they contribute. You may look at our Web site online, download individual
articles to your personal or handheld computer for later reading, and even print
a reasonable number of copies of pages for yourself, your family, or friends.
You must not remove any copyright notices and source from our materials. We reserve
all our other rights. Among other things, this means you must not sell our information,
rewrite or modify it, redistribute it, put it on your own Web site, or use it
for any commercial purpose without our prior written permission.
We also own the names we use for our products and services on Virtual Medical
Centre, and these names are protected by trademark laws in Australia and internationally.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. If your activities
are non commercial, you may make use of our trademarks by linking to us or discussing
us with others, as long as you make it clear that we are the owner of the trademark.
Any other uses of our trademarks require our prior written approval.
You may not use Virtual Medical Centre or any other trademarks in any of
the following ways:
We allow you to have a simple link from your website
to our homepage. However, you must first ask our permission if you intend to frame
our site or incorporate pieces of it into a different site or product in a way
that is not clear to our users. You aren't allowed to link to us if you engage
in illegal, obscene, or offensive content, or if the link in any way has a negative
impact on our reputation.
When you place materials or information on our web site that are available publicly,
you give us an irrevocable, perpetual license to use that information. For example,
we have the right to display a comment that you post on one of our discussion
boards for as long as we want. We will consider requests to remove information
that you make publicly available on our website on an individual basis (contact
us at the email address we give at the end of this document).
For information and materials you place on our website that is not publicly available,
please see our privacy policy for an explanation of how we use that information
and your rights to change or delete it. We provide the link for our privacy policy
later in this document.
We ask that you not post any messages with misleading, false, or inappropriate
language or statements. We reserve the right to remove any offensive or fraudulent
content at any time without your consent.
We provide a link to download software to view
the website. This link is clear to the owner of the software and Virtual Cancer
Centre in no way claims ownership of this software.
Virtual Medical Centre controls all interconnected
Virtual Centre websites from its offices within Perth, Western Australia and Sydney
New South Wales. The website can be accessed from any of the Australian states
and territories and from other countries worldwide. Since the laws of each State
or country able to access the website may differ, by accessing the website both
you and Virtual Cancer Centre agrees that the statutes and laws of the Perth,
Western Australia, without regard to choice of laws principles, will apply to
all matters relating to use of our website.
Virtual Medical Centre makes no representation that materials on the website
are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from
areas where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access
these sites from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible
for compliance with local laws.
By accessing materials on any of our related websites or by registering you agree
with all the terms and conditions of this agreement. You indemnify Virtual Medical
Centre or related sites against any losses, damages or costs or expenses incurred
by Virtual Medical Centre in connection with your breach of these terms and conditions
or any other legal obligation by you, or your use of or conduct of the Virtual
Medical Centre websites.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change
the terms and conditions of this Agreement from time to time, and your continuing
use of our website constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to any changed
terms and conditions. We will post any such changes in a timely manner, and draw
your attention to any significant changes.
Because we are in the healthcare area, we pay special attention to privacy issues.
The purpose of our privacy policy is to identify the information we may collect
about you, describe the uses we may make of your information and the security
measures we take to protect it, and discuss your options for controlling your
information. You can review our privacy policy for Virtual Medical Centre or related
sites.
If you don't comply with these terms, we have the right to suspend or eliminate
your membership and remove any information you have placed on our site. We may
also take any legal action we think is appropriate. If your violation of this
agreement causes harm to others, you agree to hold Virtual Medical Centre or related
companies harmless against any liability for that harm.
The above terms and conditions are governed by the law in force in the state of
Western Australia, and you irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction
of the courts of Western Australia.
For questions or concerns about these terms of use, please email: info@virtualmedicalcentre.com