Terms & Conditions
By using AJMC.com (as defined below), you agree to the following Terms of Use, which constitute an agreement between AJMC and you. We may change these terms from time to time. You will always be able to view the most current version by clicking on a link at the bottom of any page on our site.
Scope of These Terms of Service
AJMC provides users with access to a wide variety of resources on the AJMC.com domain including, but not limited to, articles, reference tools, continuing education for medical professionals tools, communication tools, message boards and search websites. We have other websites that are covered by different terms of use. The terms of use for each of our websites are available on the homepage of each website. The website is owned and operated by Intellisphere, LLC. The website is for managed care professionals and other healthcare professionals. When we refer to ourselves as "we" or "AJMC" we mean our company, Intellisphere, LLC, including any subsidiary we control (for example, a subsidiary we own). Reference to "website" means our Internet website, AJMC.com.
Our Information
We include a lot of information within AJMC.com, including articles, references, tools, continuing education for medical professionals, and advertising.
We follow a standard set of editorial procedures for information that we make available through the website. However, we don't offer you any warranty or guarantee related to our website. We specifically disclaim any warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It's your job to evaluate the information and results from websites we provide. If you are a managed care professional, you should exercise your professional judgment in evaluating any information, and we encourage you to confirm the information made available or otherwise obtained through the website with other sources. The use of the website is at your own risk and the website and the content are provided on as "AS IS" basis. Some information made available through the website may be provided by our users. We're not responsible for that information. Whether the information is provided by us or our user, we're not liable for any damages resulting from your use of the information made available through the website. Although we are selective about the organizations we link to, we don't assume any responsibility for any websites that are linked to or from our website. While we welcome your feedback regarding the website, we must make the final decisions about the content made available through the website. You can use the feedback link on our homepage to send us comments. If you are dissatisfied with our response or with the content of the website, your only remedy is to stop using the website.
The content contained on this website is for general information purposes only. The reader is encouraged to confirm the information presented with other sources. AJMC.com makes no representations or warranties of any kind about the completeness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, or suitability of any of the information, including content or advertisements, contained in this website and expressly disclaims liability for any errors and omissions that may be presented in this website. AJMC.com reserves the right to alter or correct any error or omission in the information it provides in this website, without any obligations. AJMC.com further disclaims any and all liability for any direct, indirect, consequential, special, exemplary, or other damages arising from the use or misuse of any material or information presented in this website. The views expressed in this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of AJMC.com.
Collecting Information
AJMC gathers and tracks information/data that users provide through registration on our sites for some services. In addition to this gathering of information by the registration of users, AJMC also gathers information through tracking systems depending on the service being used by you. The tracking systems include deriving data by tallying page views throughout our sites and capturing information on the type of browser being used to view the site, tracking what pages you have visited while on the site and in market research studies tracking what computers respond to a survey. This information enables us to better provide content and to respond to our users' needs. It also is used to help our advertisers and sponsors to better understand the demographics of our audience (solely on an aggregate basis). As AJMC derives its revenue mainly from advertising on our sites, it is necessary for us to provide such aggregated demographic data to our sponsors and advertisers; this allows us to keep our services free to you. AJMC does not divulge any personal information about an individual user to any third party except in the case of a market research study where your identity or an identifier unique to you may be disclosed but will not be linked to the answers you provided.
*Registration
Some AJMC services require user registration. For the registration process, AJMC may require some information, like name, e-mail address, and profession, while other information requested will be voluntary and optional. Information collected in the registration process is never shared with third parties in a personally identifiable way.
*eDigests
AJMC offers free eDigests to users, providing specific information to them on the appropriate topics. To provide this service, AJMC must gather the e-mail addresses of users who register for and voluntarily subscribe to said service. You may remove yourself from an AJMC mailing list at any time by following the instructions provided at the end of every eDigest.
*Usage Tracking
AJMC uses traffic analysis software on our servers to track user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. AJMC uses this data to break down overall usage statistics according to IP address, domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the data automatically sent by the browser whenever a web page is requested.
*Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that resides only on your own computer and that can be accessed only by the server that originally created the cookie. A cookie cannot store or send back any information to AJMC that you have not specifically and voluntarily provided while on an AJMC site, or that is not among the information mentioned above that is contained in every user's browser (i.e., domain name, browser type). We use cookies only so that we may tally the number of unique users who visit our sites, and potentially to permit greater personalization of the site to your preferences and specifications. Even when you may have provided to AJMC information that is stored in a cookie on your computer, AJMC will not share personally identifiable information about you to third parties.
Sharing of the information
AJMC uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs, help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics and help ensure the integrity of market research studies. This is essential to keeping our service free. We do not share information about an individual user’s identity with any third party except (a) as noted above to the extent you have voluntarily agreed to participate in a market research study or (b) as necessary to comply with applicable legal requirements.
"No-spam" policy
Your e-mail address will not be sold to a third party if you sign up for one of our AJMC eDigests or register for our site. If you sign up for an eDigest at AJMC, you will receive only the eDigest of the specialty you have requested. You may occasionally receive an offer from AJMC to sign up for a new eDigest, specialty-specific information from one of our advertisers sent on behalf of AJMC, or information about other AJMC services, but you will not receive additional eDigests unless you specifically have requested them.
Delete/deactivate policy
Users may unsubscribe to any of our eDigests or discussion lists at any time by following the instructions contained at the end of every eDigest or discussion list, and also on the web site. If you no longer wish to use any AJMC services or receive any information from AJMC, you may request to have your personal information removed from AJMC 's databases by sending a request via e-mail (info@AJMC.com) or by fax (609-716-4747), including your first and last names and e-mail address with which you originally registered. Changes or corrections to your information may be submitted in the same fashion.
Opt-in List Privacy Policy
When you register for AJMC services by giving us your e-mail address, you are joining an opt-in list, which means you will receive information or participate in campaigns relevant to the specialty you selected, whether it is sent directly by us or sent by us on behalf of our advertisers. You may have your e-mail address removed from the AJMC opt-in lists at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions contained at the end of the e-mail you receive.
Opting Out of Cookie Serving
AJMC is dedicated to providing privacy on the Internet. In addition to developing our privacy policy, we have provided you the opportunity to opt out of future ad serving cookies. In order to identify you as someone who has elected to opt out of receiving future cookies from ad serving companies, we will place an opt out cookie on your machine.
If you would like to opt out of ad serving cookies or read additional information about these
cookies, go to www.optout-choices.com.
Proprietary Rights
You acknowledge and agree that the website and information, content and software presented to you through the website or used in connection with the website contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected under U.S. and international intellectual property laws, including copyright, trademarks, website marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by us or our advertisers, you agree not to sell, rewrite, modify, redistribute, create derivative works, or rent the website of any information presented to you through the website, in whole or in part.
You may look at our website online, download individual articles to your personal or handheld computer for later reading, and even print a copy of an article for yourself. You may not remove any copyright notices from our materials. We reserve all of our other rights not granted in these Terms of Use. You agree not to access the website by any means other than through the interface that is provided by us for use in accessing the website.
Linking to Us
Usually, we don't mind if you include a simple link from your website to our website. However, you must first ask our permission if you intend to frame our site or incorporate pieces of it into a different site or product in such a way that is not clear to our users that we are the source of the content. You are not allowed to link to us if you engage in the publication or promotion of illegal, obscene, or offensive content, or if the link in any way negatively impact on our reputation.
Information that You Provide to AJMC.com
When you upload materials or information to areas of our website that are publicly available, you give us an irrevocable, perpetual license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display that information. For example, we have the right to display a comment that you post on one of our discussion boards for as long as we want. We will consider requests to remove information that you make publicly available through our website on an individual basis (contact us at the email address we provide at the end of this document). For information and materials you upload to areas of our website that are not publicly available, please see our Privacy Policy for an explanation of how we use that information and your rights to change or delete it. We provide the link to our privacy policy later in this document. We ask that you not post any messages with misleading, false, or inappropriate language or statements. We reserve the right to remove any content that we deem offensive or fraudulent at any time without your consent.
Passwords
We offer to our users several tools that allow you to record and store information. You are responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person shall have access to your passwords or accounts. You are responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. It is your sole responsibility to (1) control the dissemination and use of activation codes and passwords; (2) authorize, monitor, and control access to and use of your account and password; (3) promptly inform us of any need to deactivate a password. You grant us and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of the website the right to transmit, monitor, retrieve, store, and use your information in connection with the operation of the website. AJMC 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 our tools and websites.
Dealing with Advertisers
Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the website, including payment and delivery of related goods or websites, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that we shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the website.
Indirect Costs
For outside projects sponsored by Intellisphere, LLC, indirect costs will be incurred by the organization working on the project. Per company policy, Intellisphere, LLC, does not cover institutional indirect costs that are not allocatable to the project. Examples of indirect costs include legal expenses, rent, utilities, and executive oversight.
Laws that Govern this Agreement
Intellisphere, LLC controls AJMC.com from its offices within the state of New Jersey in the United States of America. The website can be accessed from any of the United States and from other countries worldwide. Since the laws of each State or country able to access the website may differ, by accessing the website both you and AJMC agree that the statutes and laws of the state of New York, without regard to choice of laws principles, will apply to all matters relating to use of our website. No waiver of any of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition. AJMC makes no representation that materials made available through the website are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access these sites from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. The website is intended for United States managed care professionals only.
The following provisions survive the expiration or termination of these Terms of Use for any reason whatsoever: Liability, Member Conduct, Proprietary Rights, Indemnity, Laws that Govern this agreement and Consequences.
Acceptance Procedure
By accessing materials through our website or registering you agree with all the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change these Terms of Use from time to time, and your continuing use of our website constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to any changed terms and conditions.
Privacy Policy
Because we are in the healthcare area, we pay special attention to privacy issues. The purpose of our privacy policy is to identify the information we may collect about you, describe the uses we may make of your information and the security measures we take to protect it, and describe your options for controlling your information. You can review our policy for the website by viewing the Privacy Policy.
Consequences
We may also take any legal action we think is appropriate. If your violation of these Terms of Use causes harm to others, you agree to hold AJMC harmless against any liability for that harm. If there is any dispute between us concerning these Terms of Use or your use of our websites, we both agree to submit the dispute to non-binding mediation, followed by binding arbitration. Both the mediation and the arbitration will be governed under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, and the venue for the arbitration will be New Jersey.
Termination and Modification
You agree that AJMC may, under certain circumstances and without prior notice, discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the website (or any part thereof) or eliminate your account, any associated e-mail address, and remove any information you uploaded or provided to our website with or without notice. Cause for termination shall include, but not be limited to, (a) breaches or violations of these Terms of Use or other incorporated agreements or guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions), (d) discontinuance or material modification to the website (or any part thereof), (e) unexpected technical or security issues or problems, (f) extended periods of inactivity, and/or (g) engagement by you in fraudulent or illegal activities. You agree that all terminations for cause shall be made in AJMC's sole discretion and that AJMC shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your account, any associated e-mail address, or access to the website.
Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold AJMC, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers, harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your violation of these Terms of Use.
Notice and Take Down Procedures and Copyright Agent
If you believe any materials accessible on or from the website infringe your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access thereto) from our website by contacting AJMC's copyright agent (identified below) and providing the following information:
1.Identification of the copyrighted work that you believe to be infringed. Please describe the work, and where possible include a copy or the location (eg, URL) of an authorized version of the work. 2. Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and its location. Please describe the material, and provide us with its URL or any other pertinent information that will allow us to locate the material. 3. Your name, address, telephone number and (if available) e-mail address. 4. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the complained of use of the materials is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. 5. A statement that the information that you have supplied is accurate, and indicating that "under penalty of perjury," you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. 6. A signature or the electronic equivalent from the copyright holder or authorized representative. AJMC%u2019s agent for copyright issues relating to this website is as follows:
Intellisphere, LLC The Office Center at Princeton Meadows 666 Plainsboro Rd., Bldg. 300 Plainsboro, NJ08536 609/716-7777
In an effort to protect the rights of copyright owners, AJMC New Media maintains a policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of subscribers and account holders of the site who are repeat infringers.
Complete Agreement
Except as expressly provided in a particular "legal notice" on the Website, these Terms of Use constitutes the entire agreement between you and MDNG New Media with respect to your use (and prior use) of the website.
Questions or Concerns about Our Terms of Use
For questions or concerns about these terms of use, please contact a representative.
