IU Surgical Weight Management Center Website Policy and Guidelines

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The goal of interactive features on the IU Surgical Weight Management Center website (including blogs, message boards, chat rooms, etc.) is to promote web-based sharing of ideas and exchanges of information among IU Surgical Weight Management Center patients. It allows IU Surgical Weight Management Center patients to make connections with other patients by providing direct interaction. This policy includes rules and guidelines for use of IU Surgical Weight Management Center’s website, and applies to all users. Although the administrators and moderators of IU Surgical Weight Management Center’s website will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this site, it is impossible for the Center to review all messages. IU Surgical Weight Management Center expects all users to abide by all rules and guidelines of the IU Surgical Weight Management Center Website Policy and Guidelines. IU Surgical Weight Management Center retains the right to remove, without advance warning or permission, any content that does not meet the rules and guidelines of this policy, or may be illegal or offensive. IU Surgical Weight Management Center also retains the right, in its sole discretion, to revoke system privileges for any user. All users are required to review and accept the IU Surgical Weight Management Center Website Policy and Guidelines prior to use of the IU Surgical Weight Management Center websites’ blog, chat rooms, or message boards.

Rules and Guidelines

• The IU Surgical Weight Management Center website is strictly for the use of IU Surgical Weight Management Center patients. Users may not share their user ID or password with anyone else without prior authorization from IU Surgical Weight Management Center.
• Users may not use the IU Surgical Weight Management Center website to harass, threaten, offend, intimidate, defame, discriminate, or disparage others, or to communicate content of a sexual nature.
• Users may not use the IU Surgical Weight Management Center website to engage in illegal, fraudulent or malicious conduct, including but not limited to conduct that violates copyright law, trade, securities, patent, discrimination or other laws.
• Users may not use the IU Surgical Weight Management Center website to offer to buy or sell goods, operate a business, or use for personal financial gain. Users may not use the website to reveal personal or health information about other users or Wishard patients.
• Users may not use profanity.
• Users must adhere to copyright and trademark laws when posting material to the IU Surgical Weight Management Center website. Any copyrighted information where written reprint information has not been obtained in advance cannot be posted on IU Surgical Weight Management Center’s website.

All messages express the views of the author, and neither IU Surgical Weight Management Center nor Wishard Health Services will be held responsible for the content of any message. Users agree that they will not hold Wishard, IU Surgical Weight Management Center or their employees liable for the statements or comments made by users. Users are personally responsible for their commentary. Users should understand that they can be held personally liable for commentary that is considered defamatory, obscene, proprietary or libelous by any offended party.

Monitoring

IU Surgical Weight Management Center reserves the right to monitor comments or discussions on the IU Surgical Weight Management Center website. Users who use the IU Surgical Weight Management Center website consent to having their communications monitored by IU Surgical Weight Management Center. Users understand that they have no expectation of privacy while using the IU Surgical Weight Management Center website. IU Surgical Weight Management Center reserves the right to use content management tools or other tools to monitor, review, or block content on the IU Surgical Weight Management Center website that violates this policy.

Violations of the Policy

IU Surgical Weight Management Center requests that users report any violations of this policy to IU Surgical Weight Management Center. Any user found to be in violation of this policy may be subject to immediate revocation of system privileges. IU Surgical Weight Management Center also reserves the right to take legal action against participants who engage in prohibited or unlawful conduct.