Use of the COT website is subject to the following terms and conditions including the limitations of liability in paragraphs 2,4, 6 and 8. If you do not agree to any of these terms and conditions then please leave this site immediately.
- Information and tools available on this website
- Third party services and advertisements
- Law
- Liability
- Copying and printing
- Access to online services
- Privacy and data protection
- Security
- Forum
COT is not responsible for any material posted on any [Discussion Forum ("Forum")]. In particular, without limitation, COT has no responsibility for any advice or information posted by any user of a Forum or for any reliance placed on that advice or information. You shall not upload, transmit, distribute or otherwise publish through these Forum any materials which:
- libels, defames, or is obscene, pornographic, abusive or threatening;
- infringes the intellectual property rights of any other person including (without limitation) infringing any person's copyright or trademark;
- is illegal;
- advocates illegal activity;
- advertises or solicits funds or is a solicitation for or offer to supply goods or services unless approved by us
(together "Non-Approved Items").
COT is not responsible for the contents of the messages posted to the Forum and cannot and does not review every message, it nevertheless reserves the right to delete, edit or move messages which we in our discretion consider are unacceptable. We also reserve the right to exclude from using this site any person whom we consider to be in breach of any of these terms and conditions.
- Indemnity
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- Changes
We take care to ensure that any materials and information on this site are accurate, relevant and up to date but this site is intended primarily to provide guidance to members of COT and other UK healthcare professionals who have registered with COT for online services only and is not intended for and should not be relied upon as a substitute for specific advice or clinical assessment and professional judgement in individual case.
Any third party services, promotions or products which you use or acquire through any links, services or advertisements contained on this site will be used or obtained by you subject to such terms and conditions as are imposed on or agreed between you and the relevant third party provider of such service, promotion or products and COT to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law excludes all liability for any loss or damage incurred by you as a result of your dealings or communications with any such third party.
You are not to link to this website or frame it without our express prior permission. Please e-mail any requests to web.team@cot.co.uk.
Your use of this website and any downloads from it and the operation of these terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute between us arising out of or in connection with your use of this website.
You use the services provided on this site at your own risk and for the benefit of COT its employees, agents and contractors and all contributors, editors and authors of the contents of the site, we exclude to the fullest extent permitted in law all liability including any liability in negligence arising from the use of this website or any reliance on its contents and tools. This exclusion does not extend to liability for personal injury or death caused by negligence.
All implied warranties and conditions are excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law including (without limitation) any implied term as to the provision of any services to a reasonable standard of care or in respect of any non- infringement of any intellectual property rights.
The contents of this website and downloads including information, design, text and graphics are the property of COT or its licensors. You are welcome to download and store information for the purposes of viewing and you may also print copies for your own personal use or use by other healthcare professionals in your organisation provided that you maintain all copyright and other proprietary notices. You must NOT permanently store or otherwise copy contents for wider distribution or for commercial gain and nor must you plagiarise or create any derivative works from materials on this site unless expressly authorised by COT.
You shall comply with all copyright laws worldwide in your use of the contents of this site and to prevent any unauthorised access or copying of its contents.
Members of COT [and others who register with COT for online services] will be issued with such passwords and other identifiers as we deem appropriate and which we may alter from time to time on reasonable notice. Any password is issued to the applicant only and is not transferable and must be kept confidential. You will indemnify us against any unauthorised use of a password by any third party.
You must not permit any unauthorised third party to use the services provided on this site on your behalf.
All equipment, which is used to access any online service, must be of the type which can be lawfully connected in the UK to the public switch telephone exchange system. You are wholly responsible for the operation and condition of such equipment, your user software and Internet connections.
COT accepts no liability whatsoever for any inability you experience in accessing this website or any service due to failure or incompatibility of any kind between the equipment and/or software you use to access the site or service or poor or disrupted telephone and/or internet connections or electricity supply, or disruption to any communication facilities (including any internal or external network services) or for any interruption or break in any service or access to any service caused by any technical failure of your computer equipment or software or of the computers or computer network on which the relevant service is stored.
We respect the privacy of users of this website. If you provide us with any information about yourself we will keep it confidential and we may use it to contact you by e-mail or by post to send you details about [the development of our services, information about COT or to send you bulletins which we believe might be of interest to you]. We may also share this information with our selected service and product providers who we think may provide information, services or products of interest to you. If you do not want us to use the information in this way then please contact web.team@cot.co.uk. We will not otherwise pass information we hold about you to any company or organisation outside the [COT] unless we have your consent to do so.
If you would like details of any personal information we hold about you or if you believe any information we hold about you is incorrect or out of date then please contact web.team@cot.co.uk. Any information which is incorrect or incomplete will be corrected quickly.
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Any information which you provide to us may be stored or processed outside of the country where you entered the information. We will take steps to ensure the security of your data in accordance with these conditions of use but no transmissions over the Internet can be considered to be completely secure and we therefore give no warranty as to the security of your data which is supplies at your own risk.
You agree to indemnify us for any and all claims, damages, losses and causes of action arising out of your transmittal of any Non-Approved Items or your failure to comply with any of these terms and conditions.
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If you have any query or comment on any of these terms or conditions or the operation of the website then please contact web.team@cot.co.uk.
We reserve the right to make changes to these terms and conditions without notice to you. You should therefore read them from time to time and note any amendments.
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