Forum terms and conditions
Welcome to our discussion forum. The purpose of the
forum is to provide users with a
positive space in which they can share experiences and exchange
views.
The forum is for debate and discussion. It is
not a suitable place to obtain medical advice in an emergency. If
you feel unwell or need advice in an emergency situation, help
should be obtained from one of the following sources:
- Your local GP service - either your surgery or, if closed, the
local out-of-hours centre; some regions also have NHS Walk-in
centres
- NHS Direct - a nurse-led advice line which can provide medical
advice, or call an ambulance if needed - telephone 0845 4647
- Dialling 999 for an emergency ambulance, or by going to your
local Accident and Emergency department
You can also contact our free and
confidential helpline 0808 800 0303 from Monday to Friday
9am to 8pm and Saturday 10am to 2pm, and speak to one of our
skilled nurses or specialist advisers.
We may update these rules from time to time, so please check
back here regularly.
We have established these terms and conditions
to help protect users and allow you to get the most out of the
forum. In using this discussion forum and our site, you agree to be
bound by them.
1 Your registration obligations
1.1 By registering
with our forum, you agree to:
1.1.1 provide
true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself
when filling out our registration form;
1.1.2 maintain
and promptly update your registration data to keep it true,
accurate, current and complete. If we have reasonable grounds to
suspect that any information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or
incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your
registration;
1.1.3 keep your messages
civil, tasteful and relevant;
1.1.4 maintain
respect for other people on the forum, including moderators;
1.1.5 post your
message under the relevant thread; and
1.1.6 use only
one account to access these message boards. We will suspend users
who create multiple accounts.
1.2 You are over the
age of 18.
1.3 If you agree
to participate in private messaging, the person you make contact
with will then have access to your email address. Parkinson's
UK has no responsibility for content in messages exchanged
between forum users through private messaging.
1.4 If you participate
in Parkinson's UK consultations through the forum, you agree
that Parkinson's UK may use and reproduce this information without
prior notice. Any information that is used will remain anonymous.
Details provided by you and certain other information about you are
subject to our website terms and
conditions
1.5 You agree to
abide by and be governed in accordance with the laws of
England and Wales and to accept legal responsibility for the
contents of your communications.
2 Privacy and data protection
Details provided by you and certain other
information about you are subject to our website terms and conditions
3 Online conduct
3.1 You agree
that you will not use the discussion forum to:
3.1.1 attack or
'flame' people individually;
3.1.2 upload,
post or email any content that is unlawful, libellous, tortuous,
defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane,
sexually oriented or explicit, invasive of another's privacy,
hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable
material;
3.1.3 harm minors in any
way;
3.1.4 impersonate
any person or entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your
affiliation with a person or entity or disguise the origins of any
content;
3.1.5 'stalk' or
otherwise harass another;
3.1.6 collect or
store personal data about other users;
3.1.7 post your
message twice under different subtopics (if a post has been entered
twice please contact the moderators by email at forum@parkinsons.org.uk);
3.1.8 publish
email addresses, phone numbers or other personal contact
information in posts;
3.1.9 allow other
people to post to the forum using your account;
3.1.10 post messages
advertising commercial products or services, 'junk mail', 'spam',
'chain letters' or any other form of solicitation;
3.1.11 use the private
messaging service to send multiple copies of the same message;
3.1.12 participate in
manipulative or malicious behaviour with intent to cause damage to
Parkinson's UK, the Parkinson's UK website or any of the
computer systems linking to Parkinson's UK;
3.1.13 use the forum to gather
information for research, surveys or similar;
3.1.14 post messages
which contain discussion of any illegal activity or threats of
violence (e.g. illicit drug use including medicinal marijuana,
fraud, etc);
3.1.15 post messages of
an overtly political or religious nature OR posts promoting
advocacy of particular political or religious causes. The forum is
intended for offering mutual personal support. Limited religious
references are allowed (e.g. "my prayers are with you" or a brief
quote as part of a larger post), but the forum should not be used
to convert others;
3.1.16 post links to
external websites which are not relevant to the topic and/or have
no connection with Parkinson's or related conditions;
3.1.17 upload, post, or
email any content that you do not have a right to transmit under
law or under a contractual or fiduciary relationship;
3.1.18 upload, post or
email any content that infringes any intellectual property rights
of any party;
3.1.19 violate any applicable
national or international laws or regulations.
3.2 You acknowledge that we do
not pre-screen content but we shall have the right to remove, edit,
move or close any posts when in breach of the forum terms and
conditions.
3.3 You
acknowledge that we have the right to modify or delete any or all
information relating to a user, including deletion of a user's
account (whether temporarily or permanently) without prior notice
or reason.
3.4 You
acknowledge that our decision to remove or ban an individual from
using the forum is binding and the decision final.
4 Copyright
Information copyrighted or owned by any
individual or entity other than the member should not be posted on
the discussion forum without the consent of the owner. You may not
violate, plagiarise or infringe on the rights of third parties
including copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, personal,
publicity or proprietary rights. If such an event occurs, the
individual posting the information shall be held solely
responsible. Parkinson's UK shall not be held responsible
for member-posted information that may violate copyright law.
5 Licence
You grant to us a worldwide, royalty-free,
irrevocable, non-exclusive licence (including the right to
sub-license) to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate,
create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any
content (in whole or part) you post and/or to incorporate such
content in other works in any form, media or technology now known
or developed.
6 Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold us and our
subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, officers, agents or partners
harmless from and against any direct or indirect loss or damage
(including consequential loss) and loss of profits, goodwill or
business opportunities arising from any third party claim in
relation to any content you upload, post or email on or through our
forum or our site, your use of the forum and our site, or your
breach of the provisions of these rules.
7 Sanctions
7.1 As soon as we are
made aware of activities that breach these rules, our terms and
conditions or our privacy policy, prompt action will be
taken. If you witness such breaches in the forum or anywhere
else in our site, please notify forum@parkinsons.org.uk
immediately.
7.2 On being made
aware of any such breaches, we may ban, delete or prohibit any
content that relates to those breaches or that we judge harmful to
individuals or the rights of Parkinson's UK or any of our
affiliates, licensors or partners.
7.3 We reserve the
right to take whatever action we deem necessary to prevent such
breaches including the following:
7.3.1 breaches we deem
minor may result simply in a receipt of a warning from forum@parkinsons.org.uk;
or
7.3.2 breaches we
deem serious may result in an automatic ban from our forum and our
site in general. All cases will be logged and our decision is final
in such cases.
7.4 Any breaches may
lead to us reporting your activities to your internet service
provider, your employer, relevant authorities, or to legal action
being taken against you, or both.
7.5 In addition we may
at any time move, modify or remove any content or take further
legal action as a result of breaches or suspected breaches of these
rules, our privacy policy, any applicable laws or regulations or
where our rights or third party rights are threatened or
infringed.
8 Disclaimer
8.1 All communications
made available as part of this forum, and any opinions, advice,
statements, views or other information expressed in this forum are
solely provided by, and the responsibility of, the person posting
such communication and not of Parkinson's UK.
8.2 Parkinson's
UK does not certify, endorse or verify the contents of any
communication posted to the forums. Parkinson's UK makes
no warranty of any kind, express or implied, with regard to the
posted communications or information contained therein.
8.3 Parkinson's
UK is not responsible for defamatory, offensive or illegal
conduct of any author posting to this forum.
8.4 Although Parkinson's UK reserves the
right to remove any postings from this forum at its discretion,
this reservation creates no affirmative duty in Parkinson's UK, and
failure to exercise this power shall not subject Parkinson's
UK to any liability of any sort.
If you have any concerns about posts
or users in the forum, please contact forum@parkinsons.org.uk
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