The content available on this www.pituitary.asn.au website is offered by the Australian Pituitary Foundation Ltd (ABN 13 088 357 902) (APF) and made available to you subject to the terms of this Legal Statement, our Privacy Policy (which is available on the website), and other terms or policies notified to you on the website (Terms).  By using this website, you agree to the Terms.

 

Information on our website

This website contains information and material for APF members, their family members and carers, health professionals and members of the public for the purpose of providing information, educational material, and support in relation to pituitary disorders.

The information and material on this website, including educational material, health information, articles written by health professionals, patient stories, and information about the activities of APF, is not necessarily complete, up-to-date or applicable to you personally.

APF does not endorse, sponsor or approve any information on this website that is provided by a third party, such as APF Members, health professionals or any other person.

The information and material on this website, whether provided by APF or any third party, is not intended to be used as a substitute for professional health or other advice.  You should not rely on this information or material to make decisions about your health or lifestyle without consulting a health professional.  APF does not accept liability for any injury, loss or damage incurred by use of or reliance on information or material on this website.

 

Your use of information

The information and material on this website is intended for personal reference use only and not for commercial use.  You may download and print one copy of this information or material, including educational material, health information, articles written by health professionals, patient stories, or information about the activities of APF, for your personal reference only.

If you would like to use information or material on this website for any other purpose, including for education, research, public awareness or any other purpose, please contact us to seek permission for you to do this.

 

Third party links

APF is not responsible for the content or conduct of any site that is linked to or from our website, including sites of heath or other professionals or organisations.  Any such links are provided for your convenience only and APF does not endorse, sponsor or approve any information contained in a linked site or the use of health or other services offered at a linked site.

 

Submitting Material

If you submit information, opinions, images, photographs or audio or visual material (Material) to us for use on the website (such as patient stories and photographs or articles relating to health conditions or treatments) or directly to the website (such as via the online forum):

(a)  you must ensure that you have the right to submit the Material and your submission of the Material will not infringe any other person's rights.  For example:

• if any Material contains information about another person including health-related information (of a family member, carer, health professional, APF member or any other person), such as their name, photograph or other personal information, you must obtain that person's permission to submit the Material.

• if any Material contains information written by, opinions of, or images, photographs or audio visual material of or prepared by, another person, you must obtain that person's permission to submit the Material.

(b)  you must not submit Material that would cause you or us to breach any law, regulation, rule, code or other legal obligation or breach a person's confidence or privacy.

(c)  you must not submit material that could reasonably be considered to be obscene, inappropriate, defamatory, disparaging, indecent, offensive, pornographic, threatening, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, or that may bring the APF or this website into disrepute.

You grant APF a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable licence to use the Material for the purpose of undertaking our activities. 

You agree that we may alter or amend any Material for any reason if we consider this necessary. 

Intellectual property

All intellectual property rights in any material or content displayed on the APF website, including data, information, documents, graphics, and images belong to APF or its licensors. 

Other than viewing and downloading content from the website for the purposes permitted in the Terms, you may not use these intellectual property rights without APF's written permission.

Limitation of liability

To the extent that it is able to at law, APF:

• makes no warranties or representations as to the continued availability of the website, the accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of the content of the website, or that access to the website will be uninterrupted, secure or error free, or as to results that can be             gained from use of the website

• excludes all representations, warranties or terms other than those set out in the Terms

• excludes all liability for your use of this website or for any loss as a result of your failure to use the website, including for any loss of data, interruption of business or any consequential or incidental damages

   

Changes to our Terms

We may review and amend this Legal Statement from time to time.  Our up-to-date Legal Statement will be posted on our website.  We may also provide other notices to you by posting the notice on the website. 

 

Governing law

The Terms of this website are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of New South Wales.  In the event that any of the Terms are found to be unenforceable under New South Wales law, this will not affect the remainder of the Terms.