Medical Disclaimer
The medical information provided on Vibrance Associates, LLC. Is provided for educational and general research purposes only and is not intended nor should it be used as a substitute for professional medical advice. You should not use the information on our site to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease. You should consult your own physician or qualified health care provider regarding the applicability of any opinions or suggestions you receive from this site, and any questions or concerns you may have with respect to your symptoms or medical condition. Vibrance Associates, LLC. assumes no responsibility for how material or information from our web site is used. Vibrance Associates, LLC. expressly disclaims all responsibility and liability arising from your use of or reliance on this site as a reference source, and for information provided by health care providers featured on the site, and assumes no responsibility or liability for any claims that may result directly or indirectly from your use of this information, including, but not limited to, medical malpractice claims. We do not diagnose online or treat medical conditions or prescribe medications or treatments for anyone simply using our web site.
Privacy of Personal & Financial Information
We have created this privacy statement in order to describe and demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of our visitors' personal and financial information. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for Vibrance Associates, LLC.
This site does not collect personally identifying information about individuals except when such information is specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals. Our site's subscription form (to receive electronic newsletters, for example) requires users to give us contact information (like name and email address). Vibrance Associates, LLC. is a VeriSign Secure Site with a VeriSign Secure Server ID that assures that personal, financial and credit card information sent through the site is encrypted using Secure Sockets technology to protect this information against disclosure to third parties. The customer's contact information is used for billing purposes, and to contact the visitor when necessary. We will never release your name, street address, telephone number, or email address for purposes other than those stated without your consent.
Financial information that is collected is used only for the purpose of completing the transaction to fulfill the user's request for subscription membership or other products or services that we offer via our web site. Information obtained from visitor e-mails, our chat rooms, our bulletin boards, or via any of our on-line forms may be collected and used in an anonymous and general format, for example as part of Frequently Asked Questions or other educational pages, if it could help others resolve similar problems or answer similar questions. Such information will contain no personally identifying information.
Our privacy policy complies with all aspects of the Health on the Network (HON) and the Internet Healthcare Coalition, principles that can be accessed through links on the home page of Vibrance Associates, LLC. The privacy policy is designed to provide the knowledge to control your personal information. We encourage you to read the policies for a firm understanding about the information we collect, how we use that information, how we protect that information and what you can do to control your information.
When, and, or if, Vibrance Associates, LLC. collects personally identifiable information during registration for general purposes, it is to understand who our users are and what their interests are and to be able to provide customized advertisement and content to each user specific to them and their interests. It will be clear why information is sought. The information collected will be used only with your consent and specifically for the purpose stated, or, globally, in aggregate form. In those cases where registration may be needed (i.e., chat rooms, bulletin boards, electronic newsletter mailings) we may collect some or all of this information: password, gender, profession (are you a doctor or health care provider, for example), email address, zip code or country code. We may ask your area of interest, and, if you receive a newsletter, you have the option of "opting out."
Personally identifiable information collected during the registration process will only be used with your consent to provide you information you have elected to receive. We may provide aggregate information to other sites and/or advertisers, etc. based on the total numbers. Aggregate information does not include any personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information may be shared with staff for compiling aggregate numbers, for example, or for responding to informational requests. Following our guidelines, we will seek consistently to ensure that the information is kept private and not misused.
During the registration process, you have the opportunity to elect options for receiving and/or canceling obtaining information about areas that interest you and for receiving an electronic newsletter. Of course, you will be able to update material as you see fit. In fact, you can also decide to delete all information you emailed us by sending a request to
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Limitation of Warranty/Limitation of Liability
Use of this site is at your own risk. The site and its content are provided "as is." In no event shall Vibrance Associates, LLC. be liable for any lost profits or special, incidental or consequential damages (including from negligence) arising out of or in connection with your use of this website, or any page or link on or from this website, or your purchase of any product from this website. Except as set forth herein, Vibrance Associates, LLC. expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the implied warranties or merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Vibrance Associates, LLC. is not liable for any personal injury, including death, caused by your use of the site.
Copyright
All text and images are Copyright© 2000/ 2001/ 2002 by Vibrance Associates, LLC. All rights reserved. The Vibrance/hisandherhealth.com logo is a trademark Vibrance Associates, LLC/hisandherhealth.com.
IP Address Information
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to create a body of statistical information on how the public uses our site, and to help us administer our Web site. IP address are used in the aggregate only, to determine broad demographic information.
Cookies
For your convenience, we may sometimes use industry-standard cookies to save your membership information and status to your machine so you don't have to re-enter this information each time you revisit our site. These cookie files contain information that is only useful to the site that created it, and cannot threaten the user's computer or files. Most browsers offer settings to block these types of files. We do not track your browsing history or in any way change any information on your machine that did not originate from domains under our control.
Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites. We are not affiliated with any such sites and have no right or opportunity to control what other proprietors do. These links are provided for your convenience only. Vibrance Associates, LLC. is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, performance, or transactions carried out on such Web sites. Certain pages of our site may have been created as a result of co-branding agreements with other sites, and will be identified as such. Information that may be gathered on those pages will only be shared with our co-branding partners for the purposes clearly stated on those pages and limited to the extent necessary to for us to fulfill the visitor's request for products or services from Vibrance Associates, LLC.
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms and message boards available to its users. Your participation in these areas of the site is solely at your own risk. Information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal or medical information. Be aware that when you voluntarily disclose such information such as your email address on the bulletin boards or in the chat areas, that others can collect that information and send you unsolicited messages from their own systems. Vibrance Associates, LLC. will not send you any unsolicited messages.
Vibrance Associates, LLC. reserves the right in its sole discretion to restrict visitors access to any area of the site as we deem necessary . All information in these areas is subject to our review, random monitoring, editing, deletion or blocking in our sole discretion and without prior notice. We cannot be held responsible for any material that is posted by visitors to the chat and bulletin board areas of our site, and we cannot guarantee the accuracy or endorse any of the statements made therein. We may assign moderators for discussions in chat rooms, but we cannot control the comments of users. You may not post or transmit any message which discloses private or personal matters concerning others. You may not post or transmit any material which may in our discretion be indecent, obscene or pornographic, or violates the property rights of others. You may not interfere with other user's use of the site, or post or transmit any file which contains viruses, worms, Trojan horses or any other contaminating or destructive features. Vibrance Associates, LLC. does not allow the use of our site for the dissemination of charity requests, petitions for signatures, chain letters, 'spamming,' bulk communications, or messages relating to pyramid schemes. The transmission or posting of advertising, promotional materials or any other solicitation of other users to use goods or services by visitors in these areas are prohibited. You may not impersonate any other person or entity, whether actual or fictitious, including impersonating an employee or consultant of Vibrance Associates, LLC.. Vibrance Associates, LLC. refuses to be responsible for any person who violates the prohibitions set forth herein and users of our site should be aware of this and use caution. If any chat room is being abused, we reserve the right to close it at any time for any period of time.
Accuracy, Timeliness, Availability
Despite frequent updates, the constantly changing field of medicine may render some of the information on this site obsolete or invalid before we are able to correct it. Vibrance Associates, LLC. cannot absolutely guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided on this site, but are confident enough to publish it. We will not be liable for any direct, consequential or incidental damages, whether forseeable or not, which may result from the unavailability, interruption, or malfunction of our site. Our relationships with sponsors or physicians in a particular area are based on criteria we establish, which may include offering exclusivity in a particular region. We contract with sponsors and physicians for a fee which may not be based on the volume or value of any services that they may or may not provide to our users.
Age Appropriate Access
The information available on the Vibrance Associates, LLC. website, although medical in nature, is not appropriate for children. We recommend that parents supervise their children's use of the internet. We have taken steps to provide rating information that is designed to work with all of the major blocking and parental control software programs that are commonly available. If a parent learns that a child has submitted personally identifying information to our website, the parent should contact us and that information will be deleted. We will not be responsible for any consequences should a child manage to visit our site.
Security
Sensitive areas of the site employ industry-standard computer encryption (Secure Socket Layer) technology, widely accepted e-commerce protocols, and other security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Despite these safeguards, we cannot guarantee that our security will not be breeched by new technology or techniques, or the unique application of established methods. Users should guide themselves accordingly.
Receiving Email From Us
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we request information about the user. We will make a reasonable effort to respond to your email inquiries in a timely manner but cannot guarantee that we will respond to all inquiries.
Record Maintenance
Users are given the opportunity to modify any information that they previously provided or remove their information from our databases completely, except for chatroom and bulletin board entries.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about our site's Privacy, Policies & Disclaimers, or have comments on your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
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