TERMS OF SERVICE

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THIS SITE AND THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED HEREUNDER CAREFULLY.

At Dental Digest (“Dental Digest,” “we,” “our” or “us”), it is our duty to work hard to ensure we can provide you a service via our website (dentaldigest.ca) to help you find and share information in the field of dentistry. You may use our website to search for text-based information, a photo, or a video about Dentistry in Ontario, Canada. This further includes other information, data and content (“Content”) which is created by Dental Digest, Dental Digest users (“User Generated Content”) or generated and provided by third parties (“Third Party Content”).

DENTAL DIGEST DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVISE

The Contents on Dental Digest are for informational purposes only. The Content is not intended nor justified to be a substitute for professional medical advice, prognosis, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your dentist, physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it due to something you have red on Dental Digest or the internet in general.

If you believe you are having a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. Dental Digest does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, dentists, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site. Reliance on any information provided to the Site is solely at your own risk.

CHILDREN’s POLICY

When using Dental Digest Services, including but not limited to visiting the Dental Digest website, as a registered and/or and unregistered user, you acknowledge that:

  • You are over 13 years of age. (This Service is not targeted towards children under the age of 13, nor do we knowingly collect information about children under the age of 13.)
  • You have read and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service.
  • These Terms of Service, together with the Dental Digest Privacy Policy are collectively known from this point forward as the “Terms of Service,” “Terms”).

This Site is not directed to persons under the age of 13. The sale of any of the Site’s products or services is not directed to persons under the age of 18. We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from persons under 13. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT PARENTS PARTICIPATE IN THEIR CHILDREN EXPLORATION OF THE INTERNET AND ANY ONLINE SERVICES AND USE THEIR BROWSERS PARENTAL CONTROLS TO LIMIT THE AREAS OF THE INTERNET TO WHICH THEIR CHILDREN HAVE ACCESS.

We hereby require all users of the Site to be over 13 and all purchasers of DENTAL DIGEST’s products and services to be over 18. You agree to abide by any such restrictions, and not to help anyone avoid these restrictions. If you are under 13, you agree to immediately stop accessing the Site. If you are accessing the Site, you represent that you are at least 13 years of age. If you are purchasing any of the products or services of DENTAL DIGEST, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

TAKE CARE TO READ THE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SERVICES OF DENTAL DIGEST.  THESE TERMS OF SERVICE OUTLINE THE LEGALLY BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR YOUR USE OF THE DENTAL DIGEST SERVICES. BY THE DENTAL DIGEST TERMS OF SERVICE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHER TERMS. IF YOU THE USER ARE ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF AN ENTITY, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPRESENTING THAT ENTITY AND WARRANT YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO BIND THE ENTITY TO THE TERMS OF SERVICE OUTLINED IN THIS AGREEMENT.IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO OR ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE DENTAL DIGEST SERVICE.

USING THE SERVICE

THE DENTAL DIGEST IS PROVIDED AS AN “AS IS” SERVICE AND DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. HENCE, YOU THE USER ARE ENCOURAGED TO REVIEW ALL DISCLAIMERS OUTLINED.

Dental Digest reserves the right to restrict, modify access to or terminate the Service or features of the Service for any reason at any time, without notice at our discretion. You understand that Dental Digest is an online Service which involves data transfer to and from the Dental Digest third party servers and databases via your network connection in order to function. You are responsible for any related fees charged by your internet service provider or mobile carrier for accessing and using our Services. You are responsible for ensuring that any networks you use when accessing the Dental Digest Services are secure and will not hold Dental Digest responsible for any consequences of using the Service including but not limited to using an unsecure network. You understand that Dental Digest is subject to use third party vendors and hosting providers in order to operate including hardware, software, networking, storage and related technology required to operate the Service. Dental Digest aims to protect your data as per the Privacy Policy. The Dental Digest Services are subject to be supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and/or promotions. The advertisements may be targeted based on Content, Your Content, queries or other information, however, all information is to be protected by our privacy policy. The manner, mode, and extent of advertising by or permitted by Dental Digest are subject to change without specific notice to you. In accessing our Services, you agree that Dental Digest may display such advertising throughout the Service you will not block such advertising from appearing. You will not use the Service in a manner inconsistent with its intended uses. If you are dissatisfied with the Service, you may provide feedback by contacting us directly. Your only other remedy is to cease using Dental Digest and remove or request removal Your Content and terminate Your Account, if you have registered one. You hereby grant Dental Digest a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, irrevocable, perpetual license to use or incorporate into the Service any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or other feedback that you provide to Dental Digest relating to the operation of the Service. We use third party APIs on our websites but do not endorse or certify by any of these parties. All logos and trademarks are the property of their respective parties. Ensure to view each party’s Privacy Policy & Terms of Service before participating in any manner.

CONTENT CONSUMPTION

DENTAL DIGEST IS RELIANT ON USER GENERATED CONTENT AND THIRD PARTY CONTENT, WHICH IS PROVIDED “AS IS”. WE DENTAL DIGEST MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR NO WARRANTY CONCERNING THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, CONSISTENCY, COMPLETENESS OR TIMELINESS OF ANY CONTENT. USE OR RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. 

As the user you agree that DENTAL DIGEST will not be responsible for any Content, nor any person’s reliance on such Content, regardless of accuracy and the consequences of any action that you, another person or entity takes or fails to take based on the Content or the result of your use of the Content in this Service. We do not endorse nor have control over User Generated Content.  DENTAL DIGEST cannot guarantee authenticity of data which users may provide about themselves. We have no obligation to monitor the Service, Content, or User Generated Content. Under no circumstances will Dental Digest be liable in any way for any Content or User Generated Content. We are not responsible for any data which is deleted. The Services provided may contain links to third party services. When you access third party services, it is at your own risk. You may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, objectionable, or otherwise inappropriate. Hence, we reserve the right to remove any Content that does not align with our values, hence, you acknowledge that you nonetheless may be exposed to such materials.You may not use Content without written permission from Dental Digest or the original license holder. If Dental Digest grants permission to use any photos hosted on the Service, the following caption (or agreed alternative) must be placed directly adjacent to any such photos: “Photo by [Dental Digest User’s Display Name]. Used by permission from Dental Digest.”

 
ACCOUNT CREATION

To contribute Your Content to Dental Digest or to access certain features of the Service, you must create an Account. You further require to provide Personal Information about yourself and ensure it is accurate and up to date. It is your duty to protect Your Account from unauthorized access. Hence, you and only you are responsible for anything conducted under your account. You must not impersonate, abuse, harass, threaten or intimidate other people from Your Account.

CONTENT CONTRIBUTION 

You will contribute accurate photos and information. Content that is falsified, offensive, indecent, inaccurate, objectionable, or otherwise conflicting may be flagged and removed without notice.

You must own the rights to any Content you contribute. All content posted on the Service must comply with all applicable laws (including, without limitation, Canadian and U.S. copyright law). You represent and warrant that (A) You own or otherwise possess all rights to use Your Content; (B) You have the permission to use the name and likeness of each identifiable individual person and to use such individual’s identifying or personal information; (C) You are authorized to grant all of the rights described in these Terms of Service; and (D) the use of Your Content as contemplated by these Terms of Service will not infringe or violate any intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contract or other rights of any person or entity. If you do not have the right to submit Content for such use, it may subject you to liability. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content that you submit. Your Content may be publicly visible throughout the Dental Digest Service. You will be held solely responsible and liable for Your Content and conduct on the Dental Digest Service. Your Content, including your public account information may be indexed by third party search engines. Dental Digest is not responsible for retaining original copies of Your Content. Your Content always belongs to you. You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Your Content, but by uploading, posting, contributing, or otherwise providing Your Content to Dental Digest, you grant Dental Digest a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit Your Content in connection with the Service and Dental Digest (and its successors’ and assigns’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Services (and derivative works thereof) or the Service in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third party services).

REMOVAL OF ACCOUNTS AND CONTENT

We have the right to delete or disable your account and content for any reason. If you disable your account we will reasonably apply efforts to prevent display of your account name and distribution of your content. Disabling your account will transfer content to Dental Digest and while it may anonymize you, it may not remove your content. Upon termination of your account, the Terms of Service and provisions of such will survive termination.

RESTRICTIONS OF USE

The contents of this site are protected by copyright and trademark laws, and are the property of their owners. Unless we say otherwise, you may access the materials located within the Site only for your personal use. This means you may download one copy of posted materials on a single computer for personal, non-commercial home use only, so long as you neither change nor delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice. When you download copyrighted material you do not obtain any ownership rights in that material.

You may not modify, copy, publish, display, transmit, adapt or in any way exploit the content of the Site. Only if you obtain prior written consent from us and from all other entities with an interest in the relevant intellectual property may you publish, display or commercially exploit any material from the Site.

You must abide by all additional copyright notices or other restrictions contained in any of the Site.

You agree not to do any of the following while using the Site:

  • harass, stalk or otherwise abuse another user;
  • transmit or otherwise make available any content that is false, harmful, threatening, abusive, tortious, defamatory, libelous, disparaging (including disparaging of the Site), vulgar, obscene, pornographic or that promotes violence, racial hatred, terrorism or illegal acts, or is otherwise objectionable (as determined by us in our sole discretion);
  • transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful or infringes, violates or misappropriates any patent, trademark, trade identity right, trade secret, publicity right, privacy right, copyright or any other intellectual property or any other rights of any third party;
  • upload or transmit viruses, Trojan horses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files or post material that interferes with any third party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Site.
  • impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Site or to us, including forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any transmission to the Site for any reason;
  • transmit or otherwise make available through the Site any personal advertising, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or offer for sale of any products or services, except in areas specifically designated for such purposes; or
  • violate any applicable local, state, federal or international law, rule or regulation.

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER

Dental Digest does not have a fiduciary duty to you. You acknowledge that Dental Digest has no duty to take any action regarding: users gaining access to the Service; the Content you access via the Service; any effects the Content may have on you; how you the user interprets or make use of the Content; or any actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content. You release Dental Digest from all liability for you having accessed or not accessed Content through the Services. Dental Digest does not make any representation concerning any content contained in or accessed through the Services, and will not be liable for the precision, accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Services.

YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICE AND ALL INFORMATION AND CONTENT (INCLUDING THAT OF THIRD PARTIES) IS AT YOUR RISK AND IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND AS TO THE USE OUR SERVICE, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT ANY OUR SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE OR THAT ANY ERRORS IN ANY OF OUR SERVICE OR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE CORRECTED. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. YOU AGREE THAT WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER LOSSES INCURRED BY YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE USE OF, INABILITY TO USE, OR THE TERMINATION OF THE USE OF ANY OF OUR SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION OR CLAIM (WHETHER CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW. OUR SERVICE MAKES NO GAURANTY OF CONFIDENTIALITY OR PRIVACY OF ANY COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TRANSMITTED ON THE SERVICES OR ANY WBESITE LINKED TO THE SERVICE.

INDEMNITY

You shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Dental Digest, its affiliates and each of its, and its affiliates  employees, contractors, directors, suppliers and representatives from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that arise from or relate to your misuse of or access to the Services, Service, Content or User Generate Content, violation of Terms of Service, infringement by you or any third party utilizing your account.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT SHALL DENTAL DIGEST BE LIABLE TO SPONSOR FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ITS TERMINATION, WHETHER LIABILITY IS ASSERTED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE AND IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER DENTAL DIGEST  HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall DENTAL DIGEST’s cumulative liability under this Agreement exceed the amount of  ONE-HUNDRED CANADIAN DOLLARS ($100.00) to DENTAL DIGEST in the immediately preceding six (6) month period.  SOME PROVINCES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.  

INTERNATIONAL USE

Dental Digest makes no representation that the Content is appropriate or available for use in locations outside of Ontario, and accessing the Service is prohibited from territories where such Content is illegal. You are responsible for complying with local laws.

CHANGE OF TERMS OF SERVICE

Dental Digest reserves the right to amend its Terms of Service. If we make material changes to these Terms of Service, we will notify you by delivering an announcement via our Service. You are responsible for proactively checking for any changes. If you continue to use the Service after changes have been posted, you agree to be bound by the changes.

CONTACT

If you have any questions or concerns about these terms of service, please contact us via email: hello@brescacin.dev and we will promptly address your inquiries to the best of our ability. Thank you kindly for your patience and attention.  If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.