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Welcome to www.handsurgerymanual.com.


By using our Web site, you agree to the following terms of use, which constitute an agreement between Www.handsurgerymanual.com 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


These terms of use apply to your use of our Www.handsurgerymanual.com. Web site.

Www.handsurgerymanual.com  is owned and operated by PIMO Ltd. Www.handsurgerymanual.com is our Web Site for doctors and allied health care professionals. Www.handsurgerymanual.com is also the name we use to refer to our entire company, even though our formal corporate name is PIMO Ltd. When we refer to ourselves as "we" or "Www.handsurgerymanual.com", we mean our company, Information that we own or control is always protected under the terms of this privacy policy.

Our Information


We include a lot of information on Www.handsurgerymanual.com for the continuing education for medical professionals.

Please remember that all of the information on www.handsurgerymanual.com is meant for adults who are licensed medical professionals. We maintain this by ensuring registration to the site and have locked sensitive information. Any attempt to illegally unlock these files for other use will infringe on the terms and condition of legal use of this site.
You should remember that it is not meant to serve as a substitute for your own clinical judgment as a healthcare professional. If you are a consumer who chooses to use the professional-level information on Www.handsurgerymanual.com.com, you should not rely on that information as professional medical advice or use it to replace any relationship with your doctor or other qualified healthcare professional. For medical concerns, including decisions about medications and other treatments, consumers should always consult their doctor or, in serious cases, seek immediate assistance from emergency personnel.

Www.handsurgerymanual.com do not offer you any warranty or guarantee related to our Web sites. 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 tools we provide. If you are a healthcare professional, you should exercise your professional judgment in evaluating any information, and we encourage you to confirm the information contained on our Web site with other sources before undertaking any treatment based on it.

Some information on our Web site comes from you or from other users. We're not responsible for that information. Whether the information comes from us or from you, we're not liable for any damages resulting from your use of the information on our Web site.

Although we are selective about the organizations we link to, we don't assume any responsibility for any Web sites that are linked to our site or that you browse to after following a link from our site.

While we welcome your feedback on Www.handsurgerymanual.com, we must make the final decisions about the content that is posted on the site to make sure it meets the needs of all our readers. You can use the feedback link on our home page to send us comments and criticisms, but if you are dissatisfied with our response or with the contents of Www.handsurgerymanual.com.com, your only remedy is to stop using the Web site.

Our Tools and Databases


We include clinical tools and databases intended for the use of healthcare professionals on our Web site. Our tools don't give professional advice or recommend particular products. Doctors and other healthcare professionals who use our tools or databases should exercise their own clinical judgment as to the results. Consumers who use the tools or databases do so at their own risk.

Individuals with any type of medical condition are specifically cautioned to seek professional medical advice before beginning any sort of health treatment. For medical concerns, including decisions about medications and other treatments, users should always consult their doctor or other qualified healthcare professional.
Ownership of Www.handsurgerymanual.com

Copyright


We or our partners own the information on Www.handsurgerymanual.com.You may look at our Web site online, download individual articles to your personal or handheld computer for later reading, and even print a reasonable number of copies of pages for yourself, your family, or friends. You must not remove any copyright notices from our materials. We reserve all our other rights. Among other things, this means you must not sell our information, rewrite or modify it, redistribute it, put it on your own Web site, or use it for any commercial purpose without our prior written permission.

Trademarks


We also own the names we use for our products and services on Www.handsurgerymanual.com., All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. If your activities are noncommercial, you may make use of our trademarks by linking to us or discussing us with others, as long as you make it clear that we are the owner of the trademark. Any other uses of our trademarks require our prior written approval.

You may not use Www.handsurgerymanual.com's trademarks in any of the following ways:
•    In a non-Www.handsurgerymanual.com product name or publication title.
•    Within or as part of your own trademarks.
•    To identify non-Www.handsurgerymanual.com products or services.
•    In a manner which will likely cause confusion.
•    In a manner that implies that Www.handsurgerymanual.com sponsors, endorses or is otherwise connected with your own activities, products, or services.
•    In a manner that disparages Www.handsurgerymanual.com.

Linking to Us


Usually, we don't mind if you have a simple link from your Web site to ours. 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 a way that is not clear to our users. You aren't allowed to link to us if you engage in illegal, obscene, or offensive content, or if the link in any way has a negative impact on our reputation.

Information that You Put on Our Web Site


When you place materials or information on our web site that are available publicly, you give us an irrevocable, perpetual license to use 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 on our Web sites on an individual basis (contact us at the email address we give at the end of this document).

For information and materials you place on our Web sites that is 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 for 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 offensive or fraudulent content at any time without your consent.

Software Products


We make some software and accompanying documentation available for downloading from our Web sites. These materials are the copyrighted work of Www.handsurgerymanual.com or companies that have licensed the software to us. We do not transfer any ownership rights in software our documentation to you when you download it from our Web sites; rather, you are allowed to use the software and documentation under the terms of a license agreement. You must read the license agreement that accompanies each product and indicate your agreement to those terms prior to downloading. You are not authorized to attempt to recreate or reverse engineer our software. In addition, some software available on our Web sites is subject to United States export controls. By downloading or using such software, you are representing to us that your download of such software complies with these controls.

Laws that govern this agreement


Www.handsurgerymanual.com controls the Www.handsurgerymanual.com Web sites from its offices within the United Kingdom.

The Web sites can be accessed from any where.

Www.handsurgerymanual.com makes no representation that materials on these Web sites 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. Www.handsurgerymanual.com. is intended for use by  doctors and healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom.

Acceptance Procedure


By accessing materials on our Web site or registering you agree with all the terms and conditions of this agreement.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change the terms and conditions of this Agreement from time to time, and your continuing use of our Web sites constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to any changed terms and conditions. We will post any such changes in a timely manner, and draw your attention to any significant changes.

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 discuss your options for controlling your information. You can review our privacy policy for Www.handsurgerymanual.com at the end of this page.

Consequences


If you don't comply with these terms, we have the right to suspend or eliminate your account, and remove any information you have placed on our site. We may also take any legal action we think is appropriate. If your violation of this agreement causes harm to others, you agree to hold Www.handsurgerymanual.com harmless against any liability for that harm.
Questions or Concerns about Our Terms of Use

For questions or concerns about these terms of use, please send an email to us.

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 discuss your options for controlling your information. You can review our privacy policy for Www.handsurgerymanual.com at the bottom of this page.

Consequences


If you don't comply with these terms, we have the right to suspend or eliminate your account, and remove any information you have placed on our site. We may also take any legal action we think is appropriate. If your violation of this agreement causes harm to others, you agree to hold Www.handsurgerymanual.com harmless against any liability for that harm.

Questions or Concerns about Our Terms of Use


For questions or concerns about these terms of use, please contact us.

Protection of Information


In this section of our Privacy Policy, we discuss the security measures we take to protect information that we have collected about you.

General Policies


We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and other measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, and accidental loss. We also protect your information by requiring that all our employees and others who have access to or are associated with the processing of your data respect your confidentiality.

We use security methods to determine the identity of its registered users, so that appropriate rights and restrictions can be enforced for that user. Reliable verification of user identity is called authentication. We use both passwords and usernames to authenticate users. Users are responsible for maintaining their own passwords.

Storage of Health Information


Personally identifiable health information you share with us is stored on our database servers at our data centers or hosted by third parties who have entered into agreements with us that require them to observe our Privacy Policy. We have a firewall to prevent unauthorized access. Data centers are physically secure and protected from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons. Physical access to the servers requires individual authorization and authentication.

Information in our data centers is backed up routinely, in order to aid in the recovery of information in the event of accidental damage of information or due to a natural disaster. The backup media are stored in a physically secure storage facility.

Access to Information and Choices


In this section of our Privacy Policy, we tell you how to obtain and correct information we have about you, and how to choose what types of information you may share with us.

Correction of Information We Have About You


If you believe that registration information collected by our Web site(s) is in error, you may edit your personal profile any time that you like. You can directly edit your user profile on our Web site on which you initially registered. Requests for deletion of your record may result in your removal from the registry, but we may keep certain demographic information about you for product improvement purposes. You may contact Web Customer Support and ask for the changes that you would like to make.