PhysiciansWebOffice.com Terms of Access & Use (Patient)
The following terms are a legal agreement ("Agreement" between you and Pipkins Enterprises ("Company") and your provider
as described in this Agreement. Company is the hosting and development company associated with your doctor or other health professional
(collectively "Provider"). Any information or access to services on this web site whether services of Company or Provider are subject
to these terms of access and use. Company is assisting your Provider with information organization through its services, and therefore,
precautions have been taken to protect your information, including personal health information as described below. By transmitting
information, accessing, browsing and/or otherwise using this web site ('Site'), you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed
to be bound by these terms and conditions, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including U.S. export and re-export
control laws and regulations. If you do not agree to all of these terms and conditions, you may not access, browse and/or use this Site.
The material provided on this Site is protected by law, including, but not limited to, United States copyright law and international
treaties.
These terms of access and use apply to your access to and use of this Site and do not alter in any way the terms and conditions of any
other agreement you may have with Company or your Provider. If you breach any of these terms and conditions, your authorization to use
this Site automatically terminates and you must immediately cease all use of this Site and discontinue use of any hyperlinks to this Site.
HIPAA TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Personal Health Information. Personal Health Information ("PHI") is defined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
of 1996 ("HIPAA") which defines PHI as individually identifiable health information, including, without limitation, all information,
data, documentation, and materials, including, without limitation, demographic, medical, and financial information, that relates to the
past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; the provision of health care to an individual; or the
past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual; and that identifies the individual or with respect
to which there is a reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to identify the individual.
Special Rules Applicable to PHI. During the course of your access to the Site and services provided by Company, Company may be exposed to
Protected Health Information. You are aware of HIPAA and that special rules apply to PHI. Whether created or received by you or made
available in any form to the Company, Company will strictly follow HIPAA requirements regarding PHI, including each of the following
provisions:
A. Confidentiality of PHI. Company agrees to do the following:
Use or disclose any PHI solely: (1) for meeting its obligations as set forth in any agreements between Company and Provider; (2) as
required by applicable law, rule or regulation; (3) as would be permitted by the HIPAA Privacy Rule if such use or disclosure were made
by Company;
At termination of Provider's relationship with Company or upon your request, whichever occurs first, if feasible, Company will return to
Provider all PHI received from or created or received by Company that Company still maintains in any form, and retain no copies of such
information, or if such return is not feasible, Company will extend the protections of this Agreement to the information, and limit
further uses and disclosures to those purposes that make the return of the information not feasible; and
Ensure that its agents, including all subcontractors, to whom may have access to PHI, agree to the same restrictions and conditions that
apply to Company with respect to such information.
B. Permitted Use of PHI. Notwithstanding the prohibitions set forth in this Agreement, Company may use and disclose PHI and you authorize
Company to use and disclose PHI, if necessary, for the proper management and administration of the services provided by Company to your
health care provider or for Company to carry out the legal duties and responsibilities of Company, provided that as to any such
disclosure, the following requirements are met:
the disclosure is required by law;
Company obtains reasonable assurances from the person to whom the information is disclosed that it will be held confidentially and used
or further disclosed only as required by law or for the purpose for which it was disclosed to the person, and the person agrees to notify
Company of any breach of confidentiality; or
For data aggregation services, if to be provided by Company for health care information of your clients pursuant to any agreements between
Company and you. For purposes of this Agreement, data aggregation services means the combining of PHI by Employee with the PHI received
by Company in its capacity as a consultant of another covered entity, to permit data analysis that relates to the health care operations
of the respective covered entities.
C. Safeguards. Company will implement appropriate safeguards to prevent use or disclosure of PHI other than as permitted in this Agreement.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services has the right to audit Company records and practices related to use and disclosure of PHI to
ensure Company's compliance with the terms of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Company shall report to you any use or disclosure of PHI which is
not in compliance with the terms of this Agreement of which Company becomes aware. In addition, Company agrees to mitigate, to the
extent practicable, any harmful effect that is known to Company of a use or disclosure of PHI by Company in violation of the
requirements of this Agreement.
USE RESTRICTIONS
Copyright. All Site materials, including, without limitation, text, pictures, graphics and other files and the selection and arrangement
thereof are copyrighted materials of Company, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, or the original creator of the material. Permission is granted to
display, copy, distribute, and download the materials on this Site only for purposes related to the services provided by Company, provided
you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the materials. You may not
"mirror" any material contained on this Site on any other server without prior written permission from Company. Any unauthorized use of
any material contained on this Site may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity and communications
regulations and statutes.
Trademarks. The trademarks, service marks, trade names, and logos (the "Trademarks") used and displayed on this Site are registered and
unregistered Trademarks of Company or Provider. In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts are service
marks, trademarks and/or trade dress of Company, and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written
permission of Company. You acknowledge that the Trademarks used and displayed on this Site are and shall remain the sole property of
Company or the Trademark owner. Nothing in this Agreement shall confer any right of ownership of any of the Trademarks in you. Further,
nothing in this Site shall be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise any license or right to use any Trademark used
or displayed on the Site, without the express written permission of Company or the Trademark owner. The misuse of the trademarks displayed
on this Site, or any other content on the Site, is strictly prohibited.
Hyperlinks. You are granted a limited, nonexclusive right to create a "hypertext" link to this Site provided that such link is to the
entry page of this Site and does not portray Company or any of its products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise
defamatory manner. This limited right may be revoked at any time for any reason whatsoever. You may not use framing techniques to enclose
any Company trademark, logo or trade name or other proprietary information including the images found at the Site, the content of any text
or the layout/design of any page or any form contained on a page without Company's express written consent. Links to third party sites on
this Site are provided solely as convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. Company and Provider have not
reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their policies,
including, without limitation, privacy policies or lack thereof. Company and Provider do not endorse or make any representations about
third party sites or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using
them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do so entirely at your own risk. You acknowledge and
agree that Company and / or Provider shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged
to be caused by, or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such third party sites.
Downloadable Materials. Any documents or software, including codes or other materials that are made available to download from this Site,
is the copyrighted work of Company, Provider and/or their suppliers and affiliates. All documents downloaded shall only be used for their
intended purpose and are subject to the use restrictions of copyrighted material consistent with your use of this Site. If you download
software from this Site, use of the software is subject to the license terms in the software license agreement that accompanies or is
provided with the software. You may not download or install any software until you have read and accepted the terms of the applicable
software license agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, copying or reproduction of any software to any other server or location for
further reproduction or redistribution is expressly prohibited unless otherwise provided for in the applicable software license agreement
in the case of software, or the express written consent of Company in the case of codes or other downloadable materials.
Limited Access. Except as otherwise expressly permitted by Company, any access or attempt to access other areas of the Company computer
system or other information contained on the system for any purposes is strictly prohibited. You agree that you will not use any robot,
spider, other automatic device, or manual process to "screen scrape" monitor, "mine" or copy the Web pages on the Site or the content
contained therein without Company's prior, express, and written permission. You will not spam or send unsolicited e-mail to any other
user of the Site for any reason. You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere
with the proper working of the Site. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large
load on Company's infrastructure.
Additional Use Restrictions. You shall not post, transmit, e-mail, re-transmit or store material on or through any of the services
provided by Company (the "Services") which, in the sole judgment of the Company: (i) is in violation of any local, state, federal or
non-United States law or regulation, (ii) is threatening, obscene, indecent, defamatory or that otherwise could adversely affect any
individual, group or entity (collectively, "Persons") or (iii) violates the rights of any person, including rights protected by HIPAA or
other privacy laws, or by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property or similar laws or regulations including, but not
limited to, the installation or distribution of "pirated"or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by you.
In addition, you may only use the Services in a manner that, in the Company's sole judgment, is consistent with the purposes of such
Services. If you are unsure of whether any contemplated use or action is permitted, please contact the Company at
helpline@dirforbusiness.com. By way of example, and not limitation, the following uses described below of the Services are expressly
prohibited:
upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or
other materials (collectively, "Content") that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene,
libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. Pornography and pornographic
related merchandising are prohibited under all Services, including providing links to pornographic content elsewhere;
harm minors in any way;
impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Company official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or
otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Services or
develop restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or
fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment
relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary
rights of any party;
upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail" "spam," "chain
letters" "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas of the Services that are designated for such purpose;
upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses 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;
interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies
or regulations of networks connected to the Services;
intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to,
regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including,
without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
"stalk" or otherwise harass another; and
effecting security breaches or disruptions of Internet communication; Security breaches include, but are not limited to, accessing data of
which you are not an intended recipient or logging into a server or account that you are not expressly authorized to access.
DISCLAIMER WARRANTY
This Site, including all documents, software, functions, materials, and information, is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind,
either express or implied. Company and Provider disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of
quiet enjoyment and non-infringement and implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, merchantability
of computer programs, data accuracy, system integration, and informational content. Company and Provider do not warrant or make any
representations regarding the operation of this Site, the use, validity, accuracy or reliability of, or the results of the use of the
materials on this Site or any other sites linked to this Site. The materials of this Site may be out of date. Company and Provider do
not and cannot guarantee or warrant that the files available for downloading from this Site, if any, will be free from infection, viruses,
worms, Trojan horses, or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. Company does not warrant that this Site,
software, materials, products, or services will be uninterrupted or error-free or that any defects in this Site, software, materials,
products, or services will be corrected.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
In no event will Company, Provider, its suppliers or other third parties mentioned at or in this Site be liable for any damages, including,
without limitation, direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, damages resulting from lost profits, lost data or
business interruption arising out of relating to the use, inability to use, or resulting from the use of this Site, any web sites linked
to this Site, the materials, software or other information contained in any or all such sites, whether based on warranty, contracts,
statutes, regulations, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence) or any other legal theory and whether or not advised of the
possibility of such damages. If your use of the materials or information from this Site results in the need for servicing, repair or
correction of equipment or data, you assume all costs thereof. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or
consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS
The materials on this Site are provided with "RESTRICTED RIGHTS." Use, duplication, or disclosure by the government is subject to
restrictions as set forth in applicable laws and regulations. Use of the materials by the government constitutes acknowledgment of
Company's or other owner's proprietary rights in them.
REVISIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT
Company may revise this Agreement at any time without notice by updating this posting. By using this Site you agree to be bound by any
such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this Site and page to determine the then current terms and conditions of use to
which you are bound.
TRANSMISSIONS
Company has taken precautions to protect personal health information transmitted to and through this Site and which resides on Company
servers. Company has followed HIPAA guidelines and provides at least the minimum security protection as provided in the industry, which
may change from time to time. However, you are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Site any unlawful, threatening,
libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, profane material or any other material, including, but not limited
to, any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under both domestic and international law and you are required to
maintain any information and not transmit information in violation of any privacy laws, including, but not limited to, HIPAA.
APPLICABLE LAWS & MISCELLANEOUS
If any provision(s) of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be
construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect.
Company's failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision
unless acknowledged and agreed to by Company in writing. The section titles in this Agreement are solely used for the convenience of the
parties and have no legal or contractual significance. This Agreement may be assigned in whole or in part by Company. This Agreement may
not be assigned in any manner by you without the express, prior written permission of Company. This Agreement shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas notwithstanding any conflict of laws provisions. You irrevocably and
unconditionally (i) consent to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts covering the County of Harris, Texas
the "Texas Courts") for any litigation or dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement, (ii) agree not to commence any litigation
arising out of or relating to this Agreement except in the Texas Courts, (iii) agree not to plead or claim that such litigation brought
therein has been brought in an inconvenient forum, and (iv) agree the Texas Courts represent the exclusive jurisdiction for all disputes
relating to this Agreement.
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