See A Practitioner Online -- Rules

Healthphone.com is proud to offer you the opportunity to talk to practitioners online. However, please read and agree to our rules, prior to engaging one of our online practitioners.

Healthphone.com's online practitioner service is a serious and professional videoconfrencing chat area, where participants gather to discuss, debate, question and comment on Chinese and alternative medicine, healthcare, sickness, illness, treatment and any other health related topics, as deemed appropriate by our practitioners.

At Healthphone.com, we encourage the free and open discussion of health related issues on our online communities. However, to ensure everyone using this online community enjoys the same rights and freedoms of expression as everyone else, we have established the following rules to be followed, while participating in any of our videoconference areas.

Before connecting using our videoconfrencing section, you must read and agree to abide by the following rules.

If you have already read our rules, please click here.

Healthphone.com See A Practitioner User Agreement

General Terms

Before you join our online community, we require you to read and agree to abide by this Agreement. Healthphone.com cannot guarantee that on occasion other members may violate these rules, so we ask you to recognize and agree to the limits on our legal responsibility.

You are responsible for your words and conduct within our community. By joining this community, you agree to abide by the following basic principles.

These rules apply anytime you join in a an online meeting, be it through video, audio or plain text.

Terms of Conduct While Using Healthphone.com's See A Practitioner

  1. Don't use foul language, lie, or say anything you would be embarrassed to say out loud.
  2. Don't pretend you are somebody else.
  3. Don't intentionally annoy, embarrass, or attack another person.
  4. Don't offer anything for sale.
  5. Be sure you have the right to post any material that you contribute to our website -- either because you own it, or because you have the permission of the owner. We prohibit the posting of copyrighted material on our site without the owner's consent, and we have a policy of removing or prohibiting any material on the forum which violates this policy.
  6. Don't copy or distribute material from this site in any way without permission from the owner/original poster. If you are not clear on who owns the material you want to copy or distribute, email us and we'll be glad to help.

Practitioner's Moderation and Control

  1. While engaged in an online meeting with our practitioners, the practitioner is in control of the session.
  2. The practitioner has the right to terminate any online meeting, be it video, audio or plain text, at any time, without warning, for any reason the practitioner seems fit.
  3. The practitioner has the right to limit participant time, so that all visitors to Healthphone.com have an equal opportunity to see that practitioner while he/she is online. The practitioner also has the right to refuse to admit anyone to the online meeting areas, for any reason the practitioner sees fit.
  4. The practitioner has the right to end his/her session early, for the following reasons: lack of visitors, abusive/hostile visitors, medical emergencies, and any other reasons which are beyond Healthphone.com's control.

Legal Terms

  1. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS SERVICE IS NOT INTENDED NOR IMPLIED TO BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER QUALIFIED HEALTH PROVIDER PRIOR TO STARTING ANY NEW TREATMENT OR WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING A MEDICAL CONDITION. NOTHING CONTAINED IN THE SERVICE IS INTENDED TO BE FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT.
  2. Any information about drugs mentioned in our online communities is general in nature and is intended for use as an educational aid. It does not cover all possible uses, actions, precautions, side effects, nor interactions of these medicines, nor is the information intended as medical advice for individual problems or for making an evaluation as to the risks and benefits of taking a particular drug.
  3. We reserve the right to remove unilaterally any material contributed by our members that we consider offensive or that we think might violate another person's rights.
  4. Although we hope it won't ever happen, we reserve the right unilaterally to revoke your membership in our community for any reason, without notice.
  5. You understand and agree that we cannot ensure that our members will always follow these rules, and by becoming a registered member you agree not to take Healthphone.com -- the Hosts of this online community -- to court or try to hold us responsible for what another member says or does online. Specifically, if you are unhappy with what another member says or does on or off this site, you agree that you will not seek any injunction against Healthphone.com and etech-Canada, Inc. and their related companies, directors, officers, employees and agents.

Downloading Our Software

You understand that, except for information, products or services clearly identified as being supplied by Healthphone.com, Healthphone.com does not operate, control or endorse any information, products or services on the Internet, including any files which may be exchanged through our online communities.

You also understand that Healthphone.com cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading through our service to be free of infection or viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties.

Each Member is responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy his or her particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our service for the reconstruction of any lost data.

Healthphone.com does not assume any responsibility or risk for your use of our service.

By using Healthphone.com's online community, I accept the terms and conditions above.

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