Terms of Service

CHANGES TO THESE TERMS OR THE EMERGING PHYSIOS SERVICE

Emerging Physios may modify these Terms of Service at any time and without notice, so please review them periodically so that you are aware of any such modification. Your continued use of the Site and the Emerging Physios Service will mean you accept those changes and such changes will therefore be binding upon you.

Emerging Physios reserves the right to modify or terminate the Emerging Physios Service or any Editor account, and to update the Site and change or remove any text, images, videos, graphics and other information, whether provided by Emerging Physios or by its Editors (“Content”) at any time and for any or no reason, without notice and with no liability to you. Content on the Site may be out of date at any given time, and Emerging Physios is not obliged to keep it up to date.

ACCESSING THE SITE

The Site is made available free of charge.

Emerging Physios does not guarantee that the Site, or any Content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to the Site is permitted on a temporary basis. Emerging Physios may suspend, withdraw or discontinue or change all or any part of the Site without notice. Emerging Physios will not be liable to you if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Service and other applicable terms and conditions and that they comply with them.

NO PROVISION OF MEDICAL ADVICE

EMERGING PHYSIOS DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE.

The Content does not constitute medical advice of any kind, and is not intended to be, and should not be, used to diagnose or identify treatment for a medical condition. The Content should never be used in place of the advice of your physician or other medical professional, and your use of Emerging Physios indicates your agreement not to do so. Nothing on the Site or included as part of any project of Emerging Physios, including the Emerging Physios Service, should be construed as an attempt to offer or render a medical opinion or otherwise engage in the practice of medicine. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the Site.

Emerging Physios is intended as an educational resource for you to learn about issues relating to physiotherapy. There is absolutely no assurance that any statement contained or cited in the Content touching on medical matters is true, correct, precise, or up-to-date. Even if a statement made about medicine is accurate, it may not apply to you or your symptoms. If you are a patient or suspect that you are suffering from a medical condition, see your doctor for medical advice and diagnosis. If you are affected by any potential health or medical emergency, call your local emergency service immediately.

Emerging Physios does not recommend or endorse any treatment, institution, product, professional, physician, procedure, test, opinion or other information that may be mentioned on Emerging Physios. By using the Emerging Physios Service, you understand and agree that the Content is written and monitored in a collaborative effort by a large community of people that are neither employees of Emerging Physios nor controlled by Emerging Physios and the Content is constantly changing. Emerging Physios does not validate or otherwise endorse the Content, nor does it validate the credentials of the people contributing to the Site.

The Content and the use of the Content by you DOES NOT create a doctor-patient relationship between you and Emerging Physios or any of the Editors or Emerging Physios personnel, or anyone else connected with Emerging Physios in any way whatsoever (“Members of Emerging Physios”).
Information and statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Indian Medicines Agency or any other regulatory agency or body and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

The Site may contain health- or medical-related materials that are sexually explicit. If you find these materials offensive, you may not want to use our Site.

GENERAL DISCLAIMER

YOU USE EMERGING PHYSIOS AT YOUR OWN RISK. DO NOT RELY UPON ANY INFORMATION FOUND IN EMERGING PHYSIOS WITHOUT PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY FIND IN EMERGING PHYSIOS MAY BE INACCURATE, MISLEADING, DANGEROUS, ILLEGAL OR DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH THE STATE OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE RELEVANT FIELDS.

No guarantee of validity

Some information on Emerging Physios may create an unreasonable risk for those users who choose to apply or use the information in their own activities or to promote the information for use by third parties.

The authors may not be qualified to provide you with complete information or to inform you about adequate safety precautions or steps you can take to prevent injury, bodily damage, or other damages to your person, property or reputation. If you need specific advice, please seek a professional licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

None of the Members of Emerging Physios are responsible for your use of the information provided through the Emerging Physios Service and/or contained in or linked from the Site.

No formal peer review

Emerging Physios is not uniformly peer reviewed. Editors may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, however, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information provided on the Site and through the Emerging Physios Services is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or featured article processes may later have been edited inappropriately before you view them.

None of the Members of Emerging Physios are responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libellous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from the Site.

Emerging Physios is not responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Emerging Physios or any of its associated projects.

No contract; no license

Content provided by Emerging Physios is provided freely, and no agreement or contract is created between you and Emerging Physios, the owners or users of the Site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the Members of Emerging Physios, or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project subject to your claims against them directly.

You may not use content from the Site unless you obtain permission from us or its owner, or unless you are otherwise permitted by law.

Trade marks

Any of the trade marks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles on Emerging Physios are the property of their respective owners. Their use on the Site does not imply that you may use them for any other purpose. Unless otherwise stated the Site and Emerging Physios are neither endorsed nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such Emerging Physios cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.

Personality rights

Emerging Physios may contain material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to personality rights, independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.

Grant of rights

You grant Emerging Physios and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of the Site the right to transmit, monitor, retrieve, store, and use your information in connection with the operation of the Site, for example, to analyse website traffic. Emerging Physios cannot and does not assume any responsibility or liability for any information you submit, or your or third parties' use or misuse of information transmitted or received using Emerging Physios tools and services.

Emerging Physios License to You

Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Service, Emerging Physios grants free access to the Content of Emerging Physios.

If you violate any of these Terms of Service, your permission to use the Content automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of any portion of the Content.

10.2 Links to Emerging Physios Content

Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Service, Emerging Physios hereby grants you a restricted, non-exclusive, and revocable license to use hyperlinks or otherwise refer to the Content (collectively, a “Link”), provided that:

1. links may not suggest or imply in any way that Emerging Physios promotes, sanctions or otherwise approves any website, organisation, individual, product, service or information;
2. you do not misrepresent the Site, the Emerging Physios Service or your relationship with Emerging Physios; and
3. you may not include a Link on any website that that could be construed as, or that a reasonable person may consider obscene, offensive, or inappropriate. Emerging Physios reserves the right to require you to remove any Link at any time in Emerging Physios sole discretion.

PROHIBITED ACTS

In consideration of being allowed to use the Site and the Emerging Physios Service, you agree that you shall not:

• use the Site or the Emerging Physios Service for any purpose in violation of local, state, national, or international laws;
• post material that infringes the Intellectual Property Rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others;
• post material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by Emerging Physios in its sole discretion;
• post advertisements or solicitations of business;
• after receiving a warning, continuing to disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, or posting comments that are not related to the topic being discussed (unless it is clear the discussion is free-form);
• post chain letters or pyramid schemes;
• impersonate another person;
• distribute viruses or other harmful computer code;
• harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent;
• allow any other person or entity to use your identification for posting or viewing comments;
• post the same note more than once or undertake "spamming"; or
• engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying any of the Emerging Physios Service and/or the Site, or which, in the judgement of Emerging Physios, exposes Emerging Physios or any of its customers or suppliers to any liability or detriment of any type.

Emerging Physios reserves the right (but is not obligated) to do any or all of the following:

• investigate an allegation that a communication(s) do(es) not conform to the terms of this section and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the communication(s);
• remove communications which are abusive, illegal, or disruptive, or that otherwise fail to conform with these Terms of Service; and
• terminate a user's access to any of the Emerging Physios Service and/or the Site upon any breach of these Terms of Service, including the above restrictions.

Emerging Physios or its licencors have no liability or responsibility to users of the Emerging Physios Service or any other person or entity for performance or non-performance of the aforementioned activities.

12. PROHIBITED CONTENT ON EMERGING PHYSIO

Prohibited content includes content that:

• is offensive or promotes racism, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
• bullies, harasses or advocates stalking, bullying, or harassment of another person;
• involves the transmission of “junk mail,” “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing, or “spamming,”
• is false or misleading or promotes, endorses or furthers illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libellous;
• infringes another person's content without a license to do so, whether or not the Intellectual Property Right is registered (or filed for registration) in any country;
• promotes, copies, performs or distributes an illegal or unauthorised copy of another person's work, whether it is protected by copyright or trade secret law, or not, such as, without limitation, presenting the work of a third party as your own (plagiarism), providing stolen or illegally obtained content, providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protection devices, or providing pirated music, videos, or movies, or links to such pirated music, videos, or movies;
• is involved in the exploitation of persons under the age of eighteen (18) in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under eighteen (18);
• provides instructional information about illegal activities such as, without limitation, making or buying illegal weapons or substances, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses and other harmful code;
• solicits passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from users of the Site or the Emerging Physios Service;
• attempts to impersonate another user or individual, or uses the username of another user or individual;
• with the intent to deceive or mislead, submits content to Emerging Physios that is false, inaccurate or misleading;
• except as expressly approved in writing by Emerging Physios, involves commercial activities and/or promotions such as contests, sweepstake's, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
• contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, corrupted files, or similar software;
• constitutes, promotes, or is used primarily for the purpose of dealing in: counterfeit goods, items subject to embargo, illegal drugs and paraphernalia, stolen products and items used for theft, unlicensed trade or dealing in stocks or securities, gambling items, professional services regulated by state licensing regimes or non-transferable items; or
• engages in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Site, the Emerging Physios Services, or which, in the judgement of Emerging Physios, exposes or may expose Emerging Physios, any of its licencors, Members of Emerging Physios or suppliers, or any visitors to the Site to any liability or detriment of any type;
• using the services in a manner that is inconsistent with applicable law, collectively “Prohibited Content”.

13. GEOGRAPHIC DISCLAIMER

Publication of information found in Emerging Physios may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information.

The Emerging Physios database is stored on a server in the INDIA, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under the laws of INDIA. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. Emerging Physios does not encourage the violation of any laws; and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein.

Access to the Site and content may not be legal for some persons or in some countries outside INDIA. If you access and use Emerging Physios and the Content from outside of England and Wales, you do so at your own risk and are solely responsible for obeying the applicable laws and regulations in your location.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Where the Site contains links or other references to third party websites and resources provided by third parties, these links and references are provided for your information only. Emerging Physios has no control over the content of those websites or resources and assumes no responsibility for the content of such websites and resources or make any representations as to their content or accuracy.

Emerging Physios also may select certain sites as priority responses to search terms you enter and Emerging Physios may agree to allow advertisers to respond to certain search terms with advertisements or sponsored content.

Emerging Physios does not endorse any product, service, or treatment advertised on the Site and does not endorse the content on any third party websites. Emerging Physios assumes no responsibility for the content or privacy policies of any such Web sites and does not make any representations regarding their content or accuracy.

Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such sites. By using the Site, you expressly relieve Emerging Physios from any and all liability arising from your use of any third party website.

VIOLATIONS OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE

Any use of the Emerging Physios Service in violation of these Terms of Service may result in, among other things, termination of your rights to use the Site and the licenses granted in these Terms of Service. To cooperate with legitimate legal requests, subpoenas or court orders, Emerging Physios may access and disclose any information and content Emerging Physios considers necessary, including any and all information such as full names, e-mail addresses, content, IP address, use history, etc.

Emerging Physios has the right (but not the obligation) to review any content and delete or change content that violates this Agreement or which is Prohibited Content, or may otherwise violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any other person, or create liability for Emerging Physios, as determined by Emerging Physios in its sole discretion. Emerging Physios reserves the right (but has no obligation) to investigate and take appropriate action if you violate these Terms of Service, including without limitation removing or modifying Content, terminating your account, reporting you to law enforcement authorities or taking legal action against you.

COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS

Emerging Physios will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law. If you have evidence, know, or have a good faith belief that your rights or the rights of a third party have been violated by any Emerging Physios Content and you want Emerging Physios to remove such Content from the Site, you must provide Emerging Physios with the following information:

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
• Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyright works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works. Please describe the work, and where possible include a copy or the location (e.g., URL) of an authorised version of the work;
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringed or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled;
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit Emerging Physios to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted;
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

For this notification to be effective, you must provide it to Emerging Physios designated agent at: Emerging Physios, emergingphysio@gmail.com

In an effort to protect the rights of copyright owners, Emerging Physios maintains a policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of Editors of the Site who are repeat infringes.

Please take all steps necessary to ascertain that any information you receive from Emerging Physios is correct and has been verified. Check the references at the end of the article. Read the article's talk page and revision history to see if there are any outstanding disputes over the contents of the article. Double-check information with independent sources.