Terms & Conditions

www.thetruthabouttb.org is part of The Truth About TB awareness campaign by the charity TB Alert.

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions:

“This site” or “This website” refers to the website www.thetruthabouttb.org "User", “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting the TB Alert’s terms and conditions. “TB Alert”, “Ourselves”, “We” and "Us", refers to TB Alert. “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us”, refers to both the User and Ourselves, or either the User or Ourselves. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalisation and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

These terms and conditions form part of the Agreement between the User and ourselves. By using this site, you indicate that you understand, agree to and 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 this site. Your statutory Consumer Rights are unaffected.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use this site.

Reliance on the information on this site

The information provided on this website is for general and educational purposes only. TB Alert accepts no responsibility or liability for the completeness, accuracy or reliability of any information contained on or downloaded from the website. You are advised to verify the accuracy of any information on the website before relying on it and any reliance you place on it is done at your own risk. TB Alert cannot be held responsible for any action taken as a result of viewing or downloading any material on this site. The content of this site will be updated and changed from time to time. If the need arises, TB Alert may suspend access to this site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on this site may be out of date at any given time, and TB Alert is under no obligation to update such material.

Medical Disclaimer

Any information given regarding the diagnosis and treatment of Tuberculosis is intended to give general information about Tuberculosis. It is not intended as a substitute for the knowledge, expertise, skill, and judgment of physicians, pharmacists, and/or other healthcare professionals in patient care. None of the information contained in this web site is intended to be used for decisions on diagnosis or treatment. Questions and concerns regarding diagnosis and treatment of specific cases should be directed to a healthcare professional, not to TB Alert. To the extent permitted by law, TB Alert disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to this site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Links from this website

This website contains links to websites, which are not under the control of TB Alert. TB Alert does not accept responsibility or liability for the operation or content of such websites. Inclusion of these links is for your convenience only and does not imply any endorsement by TB Alert. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices, or content, of these sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of these sites. You should evaluate the security and trustworthiness of any other site connected to this site or accessed through this site yourself, before disclosing any personal information to them. TB Alert will not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage in whatever manner, howsoever caused, resulting from your disclosure to third parties of personal information.

Links to this website

You may link to the home page of this site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage TB Alert’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 TB Alert’s part where none exists. You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you. This site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of this site other than the home page. TB Alert reserves the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you do create a link to a page of this website you do so at your own risk and the exclusions and limitations set out above will apply to your use of this website by linking to it.

Modification

TB Alert reserves the right to change these conditions from time to time as it sees fit and your continued use of the site will signify your acceptance of any adjustment to these terms. You are therefore advised to re-read this statement on a regular basis.

Ownership of the site and the materials on it

TB Alert is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in this 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 or download extracts, of any page(s) from this site for your personal reference or for non-commercial, educational purposes only, and you may draw the attention of others to material posted on this 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 or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. TB Alert’s status (and that of any identified contributors) as the author(s) of material on this site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on this site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from the TB Alert or his licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of this site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use this site will cease immediately and you must return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Privacy Statement

TB Alert has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. We will never give out the information you give to us on any web forms, surveys or other forms. TB Alert will never sell the information you give us.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Additionally, for systems administration, detecting usage patterns and troubleshooting purposes, our web servers automatically log standard access information including browser type, access times/open mail, URL requested, and referral URL. This information is not shared with third parties and is used only within TB Alert on a need-to-know basis. Any individually identifiable information related to this data will never be used in any way different to that stated above without your explicit permission.

Cookies

Like most interactive web sites TB Alert’s website [or ISP] uses cookies to enable us to retrieve user details for each visit. Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of this area and ease of use for those people visiting.

Applicable laws

This website (including these Terms and Conditions) shall be governed by English law and the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising from this website.