Vein Care of America - A Professional Corporation

Terms of Use

This World Wide Web site with its home page in the domain 'http://www.veincareofnewyork.com', hereinafter referred to as the Website, is an information service provided by Vein Care of New York, hereinafter referred to as VCA, at no charge to users of the World Wide Web, with the express condition that these users agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this Terms of Use Agreement. VCA reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time, and you agree to abide by the most recent version of this Terms of Use Agreement each time you view and use the Website. You are accordingly advised to consult the Terms of Use Agreement each time you view and use the Website. Do not use the Website if you do not agree to all of the following terms and conditions.

The Vein Care of America website is intended to provide general educational information and to help users more easily access information about health care services at Vein Care of America.

Intention / Use of Website

This agreement can be modified by Vein Care of America (“Vein Care of New York.”) at any time and any such modification will be effective immediately upon posting. By accessing and using this website, you assent to these terms and conditions.

Medical Disclaimer

If you think you have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. Do not rely on electronic communications or communication through this website for immediate, urgent medical needs. This website is not designed to facilitate medical emergencies.

Health Content

This website does not provide medical advice.

Some information on the site is written by health care providers affiliated with Vein Care of America and its affiliates, and some content is provided by outside sources.

The content of this website, such as graphics, images, text and all other materials, is provided for reference and educational purposes only. The content is not meant to be complete or exhaustive or to be applicable to any specific individual's medical condition.

Vein Care of America assumes no duty to correct or update the website nor to resolve or clarify any inconsistent information that might be a part of the website. This website contains health or medically related materials that can be considered sexually explicit. If you find these materials offensive, do not use this website.

This website is not an attempt to practice medicine or provide specific medical advice, and it should not be used to make a diagnosis or to replace or overrule a qualified health care provider's judgment. Users should not rely up this website for emergency medical treatment. The content on this website is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always consult with a qualified and licensed physician or other medical care provider, and follow their advice without delay regardless of anything read on this website.

Use of programs on the Vein Care of America website does not establish a doctor–patient relationship. Should you electronically request an appointment through the website, Vein Care of America will use the information you submit to arrange for care where and when appropriate.

Liability

Vein Care of America cannot and does not warrant that access to the site will be error- or virus-free and does not guarantee against unauthorized users or hackers attempting to obtain access to this website.

Vein Care of America does not intentionally or knowingly collect personal information from children under age 18. If you are under the age of 18, please consult a parent or guardian for help in using this website.

You agree that you will hold harmless VCA and its shareholders, officers, directors, and employees from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this Website or the information contained in this Website or other websites to which it is linked, including but not limited to claims that you have found something you have heard, viewed or downloaded from this Website or any other website to which it is linked to be obscene, offensive, defamatory, or infringing upon your intellectual property rights. In no event will VCA or any of the information contributors to the Website be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if VCA has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Accuracy and Timeliness

Although we try to keep the information on the site as accurate as possible, Vein Care of America disclaims any warranty concerning its accuracy, timeliness and completeness of content, and any other warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Vein Care of America also reserves the right to temporarily or permanently discontinue this website, any page or any functionality at any time and without any notice.

External Links

In order to provide website users with other helpful information, the Vein Care of New York website contains links to other websites. However, Vein Care of New York provides no authority over external organizations' websites, and this policy does not apply to external sites that are provided as links. Pages of external websites might have different terms of use.

Users may provide hypertext links to this Website on another website, provided that: (a) the link be a text-only link clearly marked 'Vein Care of New York', (b) the link must 'point' to the URL 'http://www.veincareofnewyork.com' and not to other pages within the Website, (c) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with VCA's name and trademarks, (d) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not create the false appearance that an entity other than VCA is associated with or sponsored by VCA, (e) the link, when activated by a user, must display this Website full-screen and not within a 'frame' on the linked website, and (f) VCA reserves the right to revoke its consent to any link at any time at its sole discretion by amending this Terms of Use Agreement. You agree that any other hypertext links to this Website must be approved in writing by VCA.

Patient Confidentiality

At Vein Care of America Hospital, we place the highest priority on a patient's right to privacy. We respect the privacy and confidentiality of each patient's health information.

Vein Care of America adheres to the requirements outlined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which ensures security and privacy of an individual's medical records and promotes privacy and trust between patients and their health care providers.

Website Ownership

A. The works of authorship contained in this Website, including but not limited to all design, text and images, are owned or licensed by VCA and MedNet Technologies, Inc. , hereinafter referred to as MEDNET , or its suppliers and contributors, and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored by subsequent use or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without VCA's prior written consent, except that the user may make such temporary copies in a single computer's RAM and hard drive as is necessary to browse the Website, and that the user may produce one permanent printout of each page of the Website (unmodified in form, with a copy of this Terms of Use Agreement attached) to be used by the user for personal and non-commercial uses which do not harm the reputation of VCA or MedNet Technologies, Inc.

B. This Website (excluding linked sites) is controlled by MedNet Technologies, Inc. which is headquartered in the State of New York, in the United States of America. It may be accessed from all 50 states, as well as from other countries around the world. Because each of these places has laws that may differ from those of New York, by accessing this Website you agree that the statutes and laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of law principles thereof, will apply to all matters arising from or relating to the use of this Website. You also agree and hereby submit to the exclusive legal jurisdiction and venues of the Courts of Nassau County, New York and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York with respect to such matters. VCA and MEDNET. make no representation that materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is hereby prohibited. Individuals or organizations choosing to access this Website from other locations do so of their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

C. MedNet Technologies, Inc., its logo, nameplates, and MedNet-Sites™ are trademarks of MedNet Technologies, Inc. and are protected by international laws and treaty provisions.

D. All text and electronic images on this Website are copyrighted materials which are either registered copyrights, unregistered common law copyrights, registered trademarks or salesmarks of VCA or MEDNET, its suppliers or contributors. Any attempt to infringe upon or to circumvent these copyrights or trademarks will subject the infringing individual or organization to severe criminal and civil penalties as prescribed by law.