Legal notices

The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Queensland (“MSSQ”) maintains this web site (“Site”) for your information, education and communication. Please feel free to browse the Site. If you are browsing this Site as a non-commercial consumer, you may download material displayed on the Site for your non-commercial, personal use only. This includes PDF (Adobe Acrobat) documents, RM (RealAudio and RealVideo) and ASF (Windows Media) files marked for viewing/listening to. Your access and use of the Site is also subject to the following terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the Terms and Conditions below.

Terms and conditions

Disclaimer

The information contained in the MSSQ web site is presented for the purpose of educating consumers on multiple sclerosis, MSSQ services and activities, and disease management topics. Nothing contained in the Site is intended to be instructional for medical diagnosis or treatment. The information should not be considered complete, nor should it be relied on to suggest a course of treatment for a particular individual. It should not be used in place of a visit, call, consultation or the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider. You should never disregard medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read in the Site.

Your use of the Site is at your risk. MSSQ makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy or completeness and MSSQ specifically disclaims any liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions or not. Neither MSSQ nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, special, punitive or exemplary damages or any loss of business, interest, revenue or profit arising out of your access to, or use of, or inability to use or access, the Site.





Copyright

All material on the Site is protected by copyright unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as permitted in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site.

Additionally, you may not distribute or transmit, modify, reuse, report, or use the contents of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, video and programming code that makes up the web pages, without MSSQ’s express written permission.

Materials displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, MSSQ. Any unauthorised use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and civil and criminal statues.





Other Web Sites
MSSQ is not responsible for the accuracy of any hyperlinks, content, or advertisements contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded or accessed from any of the services contained on the Site. Your linking to any other site is entirely at your own risk. While MSSQ may provide links on this Site to other sites, the inclusion of such links is for your convenience only and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the owner/sponsor of the site or the content on the site. MSSQ disclaims all warranties, express and implied, as to the accuracy, validity, legality and otherwise of the materials or information contained on such sites.

Viruses
MSSQ assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.





Privacy Policy
MSSQ is recognised for our commitment to safeguarding consumer privacy on the Site. We operate under a strict set of security measures to protect the privacy of your online activities.

Your personal information which may be provided by you from time to time is stored on our secure servers generally in an encrypted format. MSSQ will only obtain user information that is supplied voluntarily by you. If MSSQ needs additional personal information to customise its services, or to tell you about new features or services, you will be explicitly asked for that information and told why it is needed.

In order to keep up to date with our products and services we will ask you to subscribe voluntarily to one of our email lists. If you would rather not be notified of these changes or developments, simply indicate this on any online forms you fill out on our site (a tick box is always provided at the bottom of such forms) or you can unsubscribe at any time from our Site home page.




Operation
Features and specifications of products or services described or depicted on the Site are subject to change without notice. All measurements are approximate. MSSQ reserves the right to withdraw, suspend or discontinue any functionality or feature of the Site.

MSSQ may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. Since you are bound by these Terms and Conditions, you should therefore periodically visit this document.

For enquiries regarding our Terms and Conditions, please contact the web master:

Stefan Jayawardana Web Manager MS Society of NSW/VIC The Nerve Centre 54 Railway Road Blackburn, VIC 3130 Telephone: (03) 9845 2818 Fax: (03) 9845 2777 Email: webmaster@mssociety.com.au