The following terms (together with the documents referred within) tell you the terms (the Terms) on which you may make use of the website www.wcgcares.org (the Site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using the Site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using the Site.
The Site is operated by WCG Cares, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, organized under the laws of the state of California with its registered office at 701 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 300, Carlsbad, CA 92011.
The Site is controlled and operated from offices in the US and is provided for the general public.
The Company makes no representation that material in the Site is appropriate or available for use outside of the USA. Those who choose to access the Site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent that local laws are applicable.
Access to the Site is permitted on a temporary basis, and the Company reserves the right to withdraw or amend the service the Company provides on the Site without notice (see below). The Company will not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, the Company may restrict access to some parts of the Site, or the entire Site, to users who have registered with the Company.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of the Company’s security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. The Company has the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by the Company, at any time, if in the Company’s opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of the Terms.
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 the Terms, and that they comply with them.
The Company reserves the right to charge subscription and/or administrative charges to its registered users in order to access certain features and services on terms more particularly described on the Site from time to time.
PERMITTED USE
You may use the Site only for lawful purposes.
You may not use the Site:
You also agree:
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to the Site, or to make contact with other users of the Site, you must comply with the content standards set out below. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you shall indemnify the Company for any breach of that warranty.
Any material you upload to the Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and the Company has the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. The Company also has the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to the Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
The Company will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of the Site.
The Company may from time to time provide interactive services on the Site, including, without limitation:
Where the Company does provide interactive services, we will undertake appropriate moderation and reserve the right to remove any information which is posted on the Site which we believe to be incorrect or otherwise inappropriate. The decision to remove any content shall be at the sole discretion of the Company. However, the Company is under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service provided on the Site, and the Company expressly excludes any liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user, whether the service is moderated or not.
The use of any of the Company’s interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. The Company advises parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not foolproof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to the Site (Contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.
The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole. The Company shall be the sole arbiter of whether a Contribution meets the standards and may remove and Contribution from the Site if it believes the standards are not met.
Contributions must:
Contributions must not:
The Company is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in respect of the Site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on the Site.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
The Company’s status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on the Site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on the Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from the Company or the Company’s licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of the Site in breach of the Terms, your right to use the Site will cease immediately and you must, at the Company’s option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
TRADE MARKS
“WCG Cares” is a trade mark of the Company.
Commentary and other materials posted on the Site are for general information only and are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.
The Company cannot guarantee that information provided through the Site will meet your individual requirements (including but not limited to any health or medical requirements), which may be different for each person accessing the Site. The Company therefore disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to the Site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. Prior to using or relying on any information from the Site, you may wish to seek professional advice. If you are concerned about your health in any way, the Company recommends that you seek the opinion of an appropriately qualified medical professional.
The Company aims to update the Site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, the Company may suspend access to the Site, or close it indefinitely. Medical knowledge and practice is subject to regular changes, and whilst the Company makes efforts to keep the content of the site updated, any of the material on the Site may be out of date at any given time, and the Company is under no obligation to update such material.
The material displayed on the Site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, the Company, other members of the Company’s group of companies and third parties connected to the Company hereby expressly exclude:
This does not affect the Company’s liability for death or personal injury arising from the Company’s negligence, nor the Company’s liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
The Company processes information about you in accordance with the Company’s privacy policy. By using the Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
You must not misuse the Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, the server on which the Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Site. You must not attack the Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The Company will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and the Company will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Site will cease immediately.
The Company will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
Failure to comply with the Terms constitutes a material breach of the Terms and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
You may link to the home page of the Site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage the Company’s reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on the Company’s part where none exists.
You must not establish a link to the Site from any website that is not owned by you.
The Site must not be framed on any other site. The Company reserves the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards above.
If you wish to make any use of material on the Site other than that set out above, please address your request to
WCG Cares
701 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 300
Carlsbad, CA 92011
Where the Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. The Company has no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
You agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of USA courts in relation to any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to the Site although the Company retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws California.
The Company may revise the Terms at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes the Company made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in the Terms may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on the Site.
If you have any concerns about material which appears on the Site, please contact
WCG Cares
701 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 300
Carlsbad, CA 92011
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These Terms of Use were last revised: April 2020
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