Terms of Use
Updated: May 01, 2018
1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Generation Care Inc. (referred to as “Company,” “us” or “we”), provides the Generation Care Inc. website (https://www.generation-care.com), as well as services (collectively referred to as “Services”, subject to your compliance with the following Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”), as well as any other written agreement(s) between us and you.
We reserve the right to change these Terms from time to time with or without notice to you. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to periodically review this Site and these Terms. Your continued use of this Site after such modifications will constitute acknowledgement and acceptance of the modified Terms.
As used in these Terms, references to our “Affiliates” include our owners, officers, directors and includes (without limitation) all parties involved in creating, producing, and/or delivering this Site and/or contents available on this Site.
BY USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE THESE TERMS, PLEASE EXIT THE SITE. YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THIS SITE, OR SERVICES AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE, OR THESE TERMS IS TO CEASE USING THE SITE AND/OR THOSE PARTICULAR SERVICES
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Using Information Found on This Site. The information on this site is for your information only. It is not a substitution for medical advice. Seek the advice of your health care provider (your physician) with any questions regarding a medical condition. Generation Care Inc. will not be held responsible for the consequences of your decisions to utilize information on this website. In case, of you are having a medical emergency, call 911.
You must be at least [18] years of age to use our website. By using our website [and by agreeing to these terms and conditions] you warrant and represent that you are at least [18] years of age.
While the generation-care.com domain does not currently use cookies when you visit our site, we may do so in the future. By using our website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our [privacy policy / cookies policy].
2. LICENSE TO USE WEBSITE/ GENERATION CARE INC. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
Content.
For purposes of these Terms, “content” is defined as any information, communications, software, published works, photos, video, graphics, music, sounds, or other material that can be viewed by users on our Site and is owned by Generation Care Inc. or its Affiliates.
Ownership of Content.
By accepting these Terms, you agree that all content presented to you on this Site is protected by any and all intellectual property and/or other proprietary rights available within the United States, and is the sole property of Generation Care Inc. or its Affiliates.
The following are registered trademarks, trademarks or service marks of Generation Care Inc. or its Affiliates: Generation Care Inc. service mark including logo and company name. All custom graphics, icons, logos and service names are registered trademarks, trademarks or service marks of Generation Care Inc. or its Affiliates. All other trademarks or service marks are property of their respective owners. Nothing in these Terms of Use grants you any right to use any trademark, service mark, logo, and/or the name of Generation Care Inc. or its Affiliates.
Limitations on Use of Content.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions. Any unauthorized use of Site content violates our intellectual property interests and could result in criminal or civil penalties.
You must not:
(a) republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
(c) show any material from the website in public;
(d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;
(e) edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
(f) redistribute material from this website [except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution (such as our newsletter)].
Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organization.
- ACCEPTABLE USE
You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.
You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.
- COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS; TRANSMISSION OF DATA
With respect to its operation of the Services, and to the extent required by (i) the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and the regulations promulgated thereunder, and (ii) the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH”) and any regulations promulgated thereunder (HIPAA and HITECH are collectively referred to herein as the “Privacy Laws”), Generation Care Inc. will fully comply with the Privacy Laws applicable to business associates and maintain the confidentiality of any Protected Health Information (as defined by the Privacy Laws) (“PHI”) transmitted or made available through the functionality of the Services or the Affiliated Services.
You understand and agree that this Terms of Use Agreement may be amended from time to time if necessary to comply with the Privacy Laws. The requirements of this Section will survive the termination of Your use of the Services.
When You use the Services to upload, transmit, or receive PHI, You agree that, to the extent applicable, You shall comply with all applicable state and federal laws including, but not limited to, the Privacy Laws. You represent and warrant that You will, at all times, comply with all laws directly or indirectly applicable to You that may now or hereafter govern the gathering, use, transmission, processing, receipt, reporting, disclosure, maintenance, and storage of PHI. You agree that Generation Care Inc., and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of the Services, have the right to monitor, retrieve, store, review, and use PHI, if applicable, in connection with the transmission of any PHI.
To the extent permissible under the Privacy Laws and any other applicable Federal and State laws, You hereby grant to Generation Care Inc. a perpetual, unlimited license to use the data and information that is compiled or passes through the Services that specifically relates to You, Your patient care, Your Provider’s procedures or diagnoses, or insurance provider procedures, policies, coverage, or payments, and any related information (collectively, the “Client Data”), in a de-identified format as defined under the Privacy Laws for data benchmarking, sharing, warehousing, resource utilization, and similar data analysis services; provided, however, that Generation Care Inc. shall comply with the Privacy Laws in connection with any such actions.
GENERATION CARE INC. CANNOT AND DOES NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OR MISUSE OF PHI OR OTHER INFORMATION TRANSMITTED, MONITORED, STORED OR RECEIVED WHILE USING THE SERVICES WHETHER TO A PROVIDER LOCATED USING THE SERVICES OR OTHERWISE. GENERATION CARE INC. RESERVES THE RIGHT TO AMEND OR DELETE ANY UPLOADED CONTENT (ALONG WITH THE RIGHT TO REVOKE ANY MEMBERSHIP OR RESTRICT ACCESS TO THE SERVICES) THAT IN GENERATION CARE INC.’S SOLE DISCRETION VIOLATES ANY PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION OR THE TERMS OF USE IN GENERAL.
- RESTRICTED ACCESS
Access to certain areas of our website is restricted. We reserve the right to restrict access to other areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion.
If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our website or other content or services, you must ensure that that user ID and password is kept confidential.
[We may disable your user ID and password in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.]
6. PAYMENT
Fees.
If you choose to purchase one or more of the Services provided on our Site, you agree to pay all fees associated with the Services.
Any charges incurred by your purchase or use of the Services will be billed to the medical insurance plan (if applicable), your account, or credit card we have on file. You agree to provide us with accurate and complete billing information, including current insurance plan information, valid credit card information, your name, address and telephone number, your representative’s information (if applicable) and to provide us with any changes in such information within five (5) business days of the change.
This site does not process credit cards, or take other payment processing information. Payment processing is handled through third-party services, such as Paypal.com. Credit card payments will include 3.5% processing fees.
Overdue Amounts.
If, for any reason, you, your medical insurance plan, or credit card company declines or otherwise refuses to pay the amount owed for the Services you have purchased, you agree that we may, at our option, suspend or terminate Services and may require you to pay any overdue amounts incurred by other means acceptable to us. In the event legal action is necessary to collect on balances due, you agree to reimburse us for all expenses incurred to recover sums due, including attorney fees and other legal expenses.
- USER GENERATED CONTENT
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.
[Notwithstanding our rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our website.]
- THIRD-PARTY SITES AND INFORMATION
This Site may redirect or link to other websites on the Internet, or may otherwise include references to information, products or services made available by unaffiliated third parties. While we make every effort to work with trusted, reputable providers, from time to time such sites may contain information, material or policies that some may find inappropriate or personally objectionable. You understand that we are not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, decency or legality of content hosted by third party websites, nor are we responsible for errors or omissions in any references made on those websites. The inclusion of such a link or reference is provided merely as a convenience and does not imply endorsement of, or association with the Site or party by us, or any warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied.
- LIMITED WARRANTIES
We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).
- LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY
Nothing in these terms and conditions will: (a) limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence; (b) limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (c) limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or (d) exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section and elsewhere in these terms and conditions: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the terms and conditions or in relation to the subject matter of the terms and conditions, including liabilities arising [in contract and/or in tort].
To the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
- INDEMNITY
You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions [, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions].
- BREACHES OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
- VARIATION
We may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
- ASSIGNMENT
We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
- SEVERABILITY
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
- EXCLUSION OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS
These terms and conditions are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
- ENTIRE AGREEMENT
These terms and conditions [, together with our privacy policy,] constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
- LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Site (excluding any Third Party websites) is controlled by us from our offices in Minnesota, and the statutes and laws of the State of Minnesota shall be controlling, without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof. You agree and hereby submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the 2nd District Court of the State of Minnesota or the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota with respect to such matters controlled by that court.
- NOTICES
All notices to a party shall be in writing and shall be made either via email or conventional mail. Notices to us must be sent to the attention of Customer Service at [email protected]. You agree to allow us to submit notices to you either through the email address provided, or to the address we have on record. Any notices or communication under these Terms will be deemed delivered to the party receiving such communication (1) on the delivery date if delivered personally to the party; (2) two business days after deposit with a commercial overnight carrier, with written verification of receipt; (3) five business days after the mailing date, if sent by U.S. mail, return receipt requested; (4) on the delivery date if transmitted by confirmed facsimile; or (5) on the delivery date if transmitted by confirmed email.
20. TERMINATION OF USE
You agree that we may, at our sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Site with or without notice and for any reason, including, without limitation, breach of these Terms. Any suspected fraudulent, abusive or illegal activity may be grounds for barring your access to this Site, and reporting you to the proper authorities, if necessary.
- INTERNATIONAL USE
Although this Site may be accessible worldwide, we make no representation that materials on this Site are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United States. Those who choose to access this Site from other locations do so on their own initiative and at their own risk. If you choose to access this Site from outside the United States, you are responsible for compliance with local laws in your jurisdiction, including but not limited to, the taxation of products purchased over the Internet. Any offer for any product, Service, and/or information made in connection with this Site is void where prohibited.
- FORCE MAJEURE
In addition to any excuse provided by applicable law, we shall be excused from liability for non-delivery or delay in delivery of Services and Offerings available through our Site arising from any event beyond our reasonable control, whether or not foreseeable by either party, including but not limited to: labor disturbance, war, fire, accident, adverse weather, inability to secure transportation, governmental act or regulation, and other causes or events beyond our reasonable control, whether or not similar to those which are enumerated above.
- NO WAIVER
Any failure by us to enforce or exercise any provision of these Terms or related rights shall not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.