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This Terms of Use Agreement (these “Terms of Use” or “Terms”) constitute a binding legal contract between you (“you” or “your” either an individual or a legal entity) and the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, an autonomous, nonprofit organization operating under the auspices of The Massachusetts General Hospital, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (the “Schwartz Center”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the web sites, media, platforms, forums, portals, and any other online services offered by Schwartz Center including without limitation https://www.theschwartzcenter.org/ web sites and any media, software, programs, services, tools, features, databases, materials, content, features, products, platforms, forums, portals, or information available or sold on or through it or used in connection therewith (collectively, the “Services”). Your use of the Services is subject to these Terms and our Community Guidelines. If you do not agree to these Terms, you are not authorized to use the Services.
Your use of the Services may also be subject to a membership agreement between you (or the organization that you are employed by or affiliated with). In the event of any conflict between these Terms and your membership agreement, your membership agreement shall control
Schwartz Center may amend these Terms at any time by posting revised Terms on the Services. Any such amendment or revision is effective on the date of posting. Your continued use of the Services and any Schwartz Center Materials after the date of such posting shall constitute your agreement to the revised terms.
Your Account and Your Use of the Services. You must provide accurate and complete registration information any time you register to use the Services. It is your responsibility to provide us with true, accurate and complete e-mail address, contact, and other information related to your account(s), and to maintain and update promptly any changes in this information. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your password and account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. Your username and password may not be used by any other person. You agree to (a) immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. We shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with any of these Terms.
Your use of the Services and any Schwartz Center Materials or other content accessed through the Services must comply with all applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. You must be at least 18 years old to register and use the Services. You may not interfere with or disrupt the proper operation of the Services
By providing us with your email address and other contact information, you consent to our using such contact information to send you Services-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. We may also use your email address or phone number to send you other messages, such as changes to features of the Services and other information about our organization.
User Content. Some areas of the Services allow users to submit, post, display, provide, or otherwise make available content such as profile information, contact information, photos, user forum features, comments, questions, and other content or information (any such materials a user submits, posts, displays, provides, or otherwise makes available on the Services is referred to as “User Content”).
We claim no ownership rights over User Content created by you. The User Content you create remains yours. However, you understand that if portions of the Services allow other users to view, edit, share, and/or otherwise interact with your User Content, by providing or sharing User Content through the Services, you agree to allow others to view, edit, share, and/or interact with your User Content in accordance with your settings and this Agreement. We have the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to remove any User Content that is on or is shared via the Services.
By submitting, posting, displaying, providing, or otherwise making available any User Content on or through the Service, you expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant, to us a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, syndicate, publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such User Content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Services and our (and our successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Services (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Services a non-exclusive right to access your User Content through the Services, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Content as permitted through the functionality of the Services and under these Terms.
For the purposes of these Terms, “Intellectual Property Rights” means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction.
In connection with your User Content, you affirm, represent and warrant the following:
To the best of your knowledge, all your User Content and other information that you provide to us is truthful and accurate.
We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any User Content that you or any other user or third-party posts, sends, or otherwise makes available via the Services. You shall be solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of posting, publishing it, sharing it, or otherwise making it available via the Services, and you agree that we are only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your User Content. You understand and agree that you may be exposed to User Content that is inaccurate, objectionable, inappropriate for children, or otherwise unsuited to your purpose, and you agree that we shall not be liable for any damages you allege to incur as a result of or relating to any User Content.
Acceptable Use. You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities in connection with your use of the Schwartz Center Materials, the Services and/or any features or functions therein: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Schwartz Center Materials or the Services in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated “scraping”; (ii) using any automated system, including without limitation “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., to access the Services in a manner that sends more request messages to our servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional online web browser; (iii) transmitting spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited email; (iv) attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Services; (v) taking any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (vi) uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Services; (vii) collecting or harvesting any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Services; (viii) using the Services for any commercial solicitation purposes; (ix) impersonating another person or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity; (x) interfering with the proper working of the Services; (xi) accessing any content on the Services through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Services; or (xii) bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Services, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Services or the content therein, including without limitation the Schwartz Center Materials.
You agree not to post User Content that: (i) may create a risk of harm, loss, physical or mental injury, emotional distress, death, disability, disfigurement, or physical or mental illness to you, to any other person, or to any animal; (ii) may create a risk of any other loss or damage to any person or property; (iii) seeks to harm or exploit children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise; (iv) may constitute or contribute to a crime or tort; (v) contains any information or content that we deem to be unlawful, harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), libelous, threatening, profane, obscene, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable; (vi) contains any information or content that is illegal (including, without limitation, the disclosure of insider information under securities law or of another party’s trade secrets); (vii) contains any information or content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; or (viii) contains any information or content that you know is not correct and current. We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to reject and/or remove any User Content that we believe, in our sole discretion, violates any of these provisions.