WHEN YOU VISIT MEDICALLY INSPIRED READING ABOUT CHALLENGING LIFE EXPERIENCES ONLINE BOOKSTORE, INC.
YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR
SOCIAL MEDIA DISCLAIMERS
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If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern our relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.
The terms ‘Us’ or ‘We’ ‘Our’ refers to the owner of the website ‘Medically Inspired Reading About Challenging Life Experiences Online Bookstore, Inc.’, from here on identified as ‘MIRACLE’ The terms ‘Website’ refers to MiracleOnlineBookstore.com whose registered office is P.O. Box 4718, Chicago, Illinois 60680-4718. The term ‘You’ or ‘Your’ refers to the customers, visitors, and any other users of the website.
We welcome and encourage open discussion on current and future ‘MIRACLE’ Social Media sites - including but not limited to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, and online story-sharing forums - and look forward to any comments, stories, and experiences you would like to share.
Miracle Online Bookstore, Inc. makes a reasonable effort to monitor participation to ensure that you stay on topic. Please remember that information posted on any of ‘MIRACLE’ social media platforms should not be considered medical advice and should not replace a consultation with a health care professional. If you have a medical emergency, call 911! If you have medically-related questions regarding your health, please call your doctor, therapist or professional healthcare provider.
Please be aware that once you post something online, there is the potential for thousands of people to read your words, even years from now. As a result, we suggest that you exercise caution when posting information on any of our social media sites and that you do not disclose personal identifiable information like your location, medical record number, financial information, etc.
You must be at least 18 years old to post any content on any ‘MIRACLE’ social media sites;
If you are a healthcare provider or a "covered entity" under federal HIPAA regulations, you are prohibited from posting any content that is Personal Health Information, including patient images. All users are prohibited from posting personal health information related to individuals other than themselves or their dependents;
Violations under the HIPAA Privacy Rule include Civil Money Penalties which can result in fines ranging from $100 – $1,500,000 or Criminal Penalties which can result in fines up to $250,000 and up to 10 years in prison. Other consequences of violating HIPAA include lawsuits, the loss of a medical license or employee termination. Review full HIPPA Violations and Enforcement for social media usage at https://www.hipaajournal.com/hipaa-social-media/;
Users are prohibited from using the sites to provide medical advice or medical commentary (unless expressly authorized through your affiliation as a ‘MIRACLE’ physician, nurse or allied health professional.);
As a visitor or user, you agree that you will not violate any laws and regulations, including copyright, intellectual property rights laws and others regarding any content that you send or receive. You also agree you will not transmit any material in any manner that is unlawful, disruptive, threatening, profane, abusive, harassing, embarrassing, tortuous, defamatory, obscene, libelous, or is an invasion of another's privacy, is hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable as solely determined by ‘MIRACLE’s staff;
Transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email, etc.) that is abusive, defamatory, disruptive, embarrassing, constitutes harassment or bullying, obscene, profane, threatening, tortuous, unlawful or is an invasion of another's privacy, offensive posts meant to intentionally harm someone’s reputation, or posts that could contribute to a hostile work environment on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion or other status protected by law or company policy; or otherwise objectionable as solely determined by ‘MIRACLE’s staff;
Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
Transmit (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) any unsolicited or unauthorized advertisement, (including advertising of none ‘MIRACLE’ services or products or use of logo), promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes"; or any other form of solicitation that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
Transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email, etc.) that contains software viruses, worms, disabling code, or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; ; transmit any material that contains software "viruses;"
Collect or store, or attempt to collect or store, personal data about third parties without their knowledge or consent; or to share confidential pricing information of any party;
‘MIRACLE’ reserves the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue your access to any ‘MIRACLE’ Social Media sites, at any time, without notice, for any reason and at its sole discretion. ‘MIRACLE’ may remove, delete, block, filter or restrict by any other means any materials at its sole discretion;
You understand and agree that ‘MIRACLE’ may disclose your communications and activities in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, including Patriot Act requests, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of ‘MIRACLE’ rights. In the event that ‘MIRACLE’ exercises any of its rights hereunder for any reason, you agree that ‘MIRACLE’ will have no liability to you;
By posting any content on any ‘MIRACLE’ social media sites, you grant to ‘MIRACLE’ the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute and publish such content, in whole or part, for any purpose ‘MIRACLE’ deems appropriate;
You agree that any claim or dispute relating to your posting of any content on an ‘MIRACLE’ Social Media site on the internet shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Illinois without regard to its conflict of laws or provisions, and you agree to be bound and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local, state or federal agencies and/or courts;
You may not provide content to any ‘MIRACLE’ social media site that contains any products or service endorsements or any content that may be construed as political lobbying, solicitations or contributions; or use any ‘MIRACLE’ Social Media site to link to any sites or political candidates or parties; or use any ‘MIRACLE’ Social Media site to discuss political campaigns, issues or for taking a position on any legislation or law.
You shall defend, indemnify, and hold ‘MIRACLE’ and its corporate affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, and successors harmless from and against, and shall promptly reimburse them for, any and all losses, claims, damages, settlements, costs, and liabilities of any nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys' fees) to which any of them may become subject arising out of, based upon, as a result of, or in any way connected with, your posting of any content to any ‘MIRACLE’ social media site, any third party claims of infringement or any breach of this Policy;
You expressly acknowledge that you assume all responsibility related to the security, privacy, and confidentiality risks inherent in sending any content over the internet. By its very nature, a website and the internet cannot be absolutely protected against intentional or malicious attempts;
‘MIRACLE’ does not control the third party sites and the internet over which you may choose to send confidential personal or health information or other content and, therefore, ‘MIRACLE’ does not warrant any safeguard against any such interceptions or compromises to your information. When posting any content on an internet site, you should think carefully about your own privacy in disclosing detailed or private information about yourself and your family. Furthermore, ‘MIRACLE’ does not endorse any products, services, views or content displayed on any ‘MIRACLE’ social media site;
The opinions and or views expressed on any ‘MIRACLE’ social media platforms, including, but not limited to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Blogs .i.e. represent the thoughts of individual bloggers and online communities, and not those necessarily of ‘MIRACLE’ or any of its corporate affiliates or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, research staff, medical staff or members of its respective board of directors. The opinions and views expressed on these pages do not in any way reflect the views of the site they are posted on, other sites affiliated with the site, the staff involved with maintaining the site or any members of the site;
These terms of use may be updated at any time and each time a user accesses ‘a social networking site the new terms of use will govern usage, effective upon posting. To remain in compliance, ‘MIRACLE’ suggests that you review the Policy, as well as the other website policies, at regular intervals. By continuing to post any content after such new terms are posted, you accept and agree to any and all such modifications to this Policy.
Updated: January 15, 2019.