Social Media Policy

SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY

These guidelines are for anyone who may wish to interact with ENT Medical Services through social media.

We encourage your posts and comments in social media channels maintained by ENT Medical Services.

Please understand that we cannot respond to every comment, and that we cannot offer medical advice, diagnosis or treatment via the Internet. If you have a question about your specific medical condition, you should contact your doctor or other qualified healthcare professional.

If you are in the United States and experiencing a medical emergency, please call 911.

ENT Medical Services does not moderate or censor comments but reserves the right to delete comments that are abusive or off topic or that contain foul language, spam or advertisements for commercial products. Disagreements and feedback/criticism are welcome, but mutual respect is mandatory and abusive language will not be tolerated.

For your privacy, please do not post personal medical information to any ENT Medical Services social media site. Please remember that your posts and comments are available for all to see.

Your use of any of the social media channels maintained by ENT Medical Services is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use set forth below. By accessing, viewing, posting or otherwise using any content on or available through the ENT Medical Services websites or social media sites, you unconditionally accept these Terms and Conditions of Use. If you do not agree to the Terms and Conditions, you may not use ENT Medical Services sites.

Terms and Conditions of Use

Use of ENT Medical Services social media does not create a physician-patient relationship with any ENT Medical Services medical professional. ENT Medical Services’ social media sites are made available with the understanding that the content and service providers are not engaged in rendering medical, health, or any other kind of personal professional services through these sites. Users should consult with a medical, health or other competent professional before taking any action or drawing any inferences based upon the information accessed or viewed through the sites; any action taken by a user in response to information obtained from a social media site is at the user’s discretion. Nothing read on any ENT Medical Services social media site should be relied upon to replace or overrule a licensed health care professional’s judgment or clinical diagnosis.

Neither ENT Medical Services nor its content or service providers guarantee or warrant the ENT Medical Services social media sites against errors, defects, delays, omissions, interruptions or losses, including losses of data, nor are any files downloaded from an ENT Medical Services’ site warranted or guaranteed to be free of viruses, bugs, worms or other such destructive properties.

Users grant to ENT Medical Services the irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, non-exclusive, royalty-free worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) and right (i) to reproduce, publish, distribute and display content, (ii) to create derivative works from the content, (iii) to edit, modify or delete content, and (iv) to use content for any ENT Medical Services purpose.

Users are responsible for content submitted to social media sites. You may not submit any material or content that infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. You agree that you will not violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including those related to copyright and other intellectual property rights. You further agree that you will not submit any information that (i) is disruptive, threatening, abusive, profane, harassing, embarrassing, defamatory, libelous, obscene, hateful or racially, ethnically or is otherwise objectionable as solely determined by ENT Medical Services, (ii) contains any product or service advertisements or endorsements, or (iii) can be construed as political lobbying.

Users may not make any commercial use of any ENT Medical Services social media site or any content, code, data or materials on or available through the ENT Medical Services social media sites. Users may not download, post, display, publish, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, perform, broadcast, create derivative works, sell or otherwise exploit any content, code, data or materials on or available through the ENT Medical Services social media sites. Users also agree not to alter, edit, delete, remove or otherwise modify the meaning, appearance or purpose of any content, code, data or materials on or available through the ENT Medical Services social media sites, including, but not limited to, altering, obscuring or removing any trademarks, trade names, logos or other proprietary rights notices.

ENT Medical Services reserves the right to edit, modify, remove or delete any content or other information or materials submitted by Users.

ENT Medical Services reserves the right to monitor, restrict, block, suspend or discontinue your access to the ENT Medical Services social media sites, at any time, with or without advance notice, and for any reason or no reason at all.

ENT Medical Services may, without any liability to you, disclose your communications and activities with ENT Medical Services social media in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of ENT Medical Services rights.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold ENT Medical Services and its content providers and service providers harmless from any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, settlements, judgments, costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising in any way from your use of or access to ENT Medical Services social media. ENT Medical Services reserves the right, at its sole expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with ENT Medical Services’ defense of such claim.

ENT Medical Services may suspend, change or discontinue any aspect of ENT Medical Services social media at any time.

ENT Medical Services SOCIAL MEDIA, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL SERVICES, CONTENT, FUNCTIONS, MATERIALS AND INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH ENT Medical Services SOCIAL MEDIA, ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION, DATA, DATA PROCESSING, UPTIME OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS, ANY WARRANTIES CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, DISPLAYABILITY, ACCURACY, PRECISION, CORRECTNESS, THOROUGHNESS, COMPLETENESS, USEFULNESS OR CONTENT OF INFORMATION, AND ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ENT Medical Services HEREBY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, EXPRESS AND IMPLIED.

USER ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY RELATED TO THE SECURITY, PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH SENDING ANY CONTENT OVER THE INTERNET. ENT Medical Services, ALTHOUGH ALL TRAFFIC IS ENCRYPTED VIA SSL, CANNOT GUARANTEE AGAINST MALICIOUS ATTEMPTS TO INTERCEPT OR COMPROMISE USER INFORMATION POSTED TO ENT Medical Services SOCIAL MEDIA OR SENT OVER THE INTERNET.

IN NO EVENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE, SHALL ENT Medical Services, OR ANY OF ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR CONTENT OR SERVICE PROVIDERS, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM, OR DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY RELATED TO, THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, ENT Medical Services SOCIAL MEDIA OR THE CONTENT, MATERIALS AND INFORMATION RELATED THERETO, USER’S PROVISION OF INFORMATION VIA ENT Medical Services SOCIAL MEDIA, LOST BUSINESS OR LOST SALES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES IN ADVANCE.

Any dispute, claim or action related to your use, viewing, posting or access to ENT Medical Services social media shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflicts of laws principles.

ENT Medical Services RESERVES THE RIGHT, AT ITS SOLE DISCRETION, TO SUSPEND, MODIFY OR UPDATE THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AT ANY TIME WITHOUT ADVANCE NOTICE. Changes will be effective when posted. Users’ continued use of the ENT Medical Services social media after such changes to the terms and conditions are posted will be considered acceptance of those changes.

If any term, condition or provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the remainder of the Terms of Use.