Northside Hospital, Inc. (“Northside”, “we”, “our”, “us”) welcomes any comments, stories, and experiences you want to share on our social media sites — including but not limited to our blogs, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube pages we maintain, and online story-sharing forums (“Social Media Sites”). Before posting, please read this Social Media Policy (“Policy”).
Please understand that we cannot respond to every comment, and that information posted on any of our Social Media Sites should not be considered medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. If you have a question about your specific medical condition, you should contact your doctor or other qualified healthcare professional. If you are in the U.S. and experiencing a medical emergency, please call 911.
The opinions and or views expressed on our Social Media Sites represent the thoughts of individuals and online communities, and not those necessarily of Northside. Northside does not moderate comments, but we reserve the right to review, edit, and/or delete comments we deem are inappropriate, abusive or off topic or that contain foul language, spam or advertisements for commercial products. Northside also reserves the right to monitor, restrict, block, suspend, or discontinue your access to any of our Social Media Sites, at any time, with or without advance notice, and for any reason or no reason at all.
All links to other web sites found linked from our Social Media Sites are provided as a service, but such linkage does not constitute endorsement of those sites by Northside, which is not responsible for the content of any third party sites. Furthermore, Northside does not endorse any product, service, views, or content displayed on our Social Media Sites.
By submitting content to any of our Social Media Sites, you understand and acknowledge that this content is available to the public, and that other users on our Social Media Sites may use your posted content beyond the control of Northside. You further understand and acknowledge that by posting content on any of our Social Media Sites, you are granting Northside the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, edit, modify display your content, the right to create derivative works from your content, and use such content for any purpose. If you do not wish to grant Northside these rights in your content, please do not post, share, or otherwise submit your content on our Social Media Sites. We strongly discourage users from submitting any content on our Social Media Sites containing health information or personally identifying demographic information, such as address, telephone number, date of birth, medical record number or financial information.
Users are responsible for all content they submit to our Social Media Sites. You may not submit any material or content to our Social Media Sites that infringes any patent, trademark, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party. You agree that you will not violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including those related to copyright and other intellectual property rights. You further agree that you will not submit any content that (i) is disruptive, threatening, abusive, profane, harassing, embarrassing, defamatory, libelous, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or is otherwise objectionable as solely determined by Northside, (ii) contains any product or service advertisements or endorsements, or (iii) can be construed as political lobbying.
You expressly acknowledge that you assume all responsibility related to the security, privacy, and confidentiality risks inherent in sending any content over the internet or posting information on our Social Media Sites. By its very nature, a website and the internet cannot be absolutely protected against intentional or malicious intrusion attempts. Northside 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, Northside 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 or others.
Neither Northside nor its content or service providers guarantee or warrant the Social Media Sites against errors, defects, delays, omissions, interruptions or losses, including losses of data, nor are any files downloaded from any of our Social Media Sites warranted or guaranteed to be free of viruses, bugs, worms, or other such destructive properties.
Northside may, without any liability to you, disclose your communications and activities with any of our Social Media Sites in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of Northside rights.
This Policy may be updated at any time without notice, and each time you access our Social Media Sites, the new Policy will govern usage, effective upon posting. We suggests that you review the Policy, as well as the other website policies, at regular intervals. By continuing to use our Social Media Sites and post any content after the Policy is posted, you accept and agree to any and all such modifications to this Policy.
If you have any questions regarding the website and social media policies, please contact Northside Hospital Marketing & Communications at [email protected].
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