Terms and conditions

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European Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging Media Services

ECVDI® (European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging®) is the governing body for granting specialist status in veterinary diagnostic imaging in the European Union. Diagnostic imaging is defined as the specialty of "diagnosis with the aid of images representing anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the body, predominantly by radiology and ultrasonography, but also by nuclear medicine, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging."

Service

This service is provided to USERS who agree to abide by the terms of use. The web site and its pages may be used for professional use only by strictly bone fide veterinarians. Business (commercial) users other than bone fide members of European Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging College (ECVDI®) must obtain written consent from ecvdi.org before use.

Any user who breaks this agreement may have their use canceled at any time, at ecvdi.org sole discretion. The user may be permanently banned from using the ecvdi.org website. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless ecvdi.org for any loss, liability, and damage arising from or in connection with the contents or service of any ecvdi.org web service.

The ECVDI® and affiliate websites, and subsidiaries are not responsible for the quality of service or products of third parties. You are reminded, medical procedures and outcome thereof, medical equipment and paraphernalia, animal health and welfare, promises insurance and assurances remain the responsibility of the pet(s) owner(s) and/or veterinary practitioner(s) as applicable.

Online Conduct

You are entirely responsible and liable for all of your activities, conduct etc. on and at ecvdi.org. You will not post on, from or through the service, or transmit to other users of the service, any material that infringes or violates another party's intellectual property rights (including another party's copyrights, trademark rights or trade secret rights) or rights of privacy, publicity or personality.

Site Monitoring

ecvdi.org reserves the right without obligation or responsibility, to monitor the materials posted on the ecvdi.org web site and pages. ecvdi.org reserves the right to remove or modify any such material that at, evdi.org sole discretion, violates, or may violate, any third party right, applicable law or this agreement. You remain solely responsible for the content of the materials you post in any area of the service and your private email messages should such services be available to you. Users are responsible for all content submitted to ecvdi.org and will be held legally accountable when necessary. ecvdi.org reserve the right to make amendments or modifications to any material posted, incorporated into other documents or records as fits evdi.org requirements.

Prohibited Use

You agree not to do any of the following:

Copy any software or content provided to you by ecvdi.org. Copying and placement of prepared promotional material such as link graphics, press releases and other specific promotional items are acceptable.
Translate any software or content provided to you by ecvdi.org.
Merge any software or content provided to you by ecvdi.org with another program or modify any software or content provided to you by ecvdi.org.
Reverse-engineer, disassemble, decompile, or make any attempt to discover the source code underlying the services offered by or in connection with ecvdi.org.
Right to Refuse Service

ECVDI®, the ecvdi.org website reserves the right to refuse service to anyone at any time, for any reason and without prior notice.

Prohibited Material

THIS INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

No profanity, or harassment
No hate or racist propaganda
No illegal activity under any law
No nudity or pornographic material
No material that violates or infringes third party rights.
Any material which evdi.org deems inappropriate, at its sole discretion. If your use contains any of the above material, you may not use ecvdi.org.
If you violate the terms of use, and place prohibited material on at evdi.org web page anyway, your use will be subject to deletion without notice and possible banning from the service. If you think material you use may be questionable, email the Editor or administrator of the ECVDI® website (using our online email form) for a review before using the service.

Material Available

You understand that information available to you from third parties or directly from ecvdi.org may include materials that are unedited, Inaccurate or offensive to you and that your access to such materials is at your own risk. ecvdi.org and its affiliates hereby disclaim any responsibility for or control over such materials. In addition, evdi.org and its affiliates disclaim any responsibility for the use of any personal information that you may choose to disclose in connection with the use of this service.

Third-Party Service/Products

You must verify the validity of third party information, services or products sourced at evdi.org or partners and affiliates including advice offered in chat rooms, via email or posted directly to any web pages, etc. ecvdi.org accepts no liability for the conduct of third parties or for losses incurred from contact with such third parties.

Modifications

ecvdi.org reserves the right to modify or discontinue the service, or any portion of the service, with or without notice to you, and shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any consequences arising from such modification or discontinuation.

Ownership

ecvdi.org retains ownership and all rights to ecvdi.org, name, logo's, software, media products such as databases, reports, web site, downloaded material and all information.

Copyright Policy

ecvdi.org respects the intellectual property rights of others, and we ask our users to respect those rights as well. You should not breach existing or claimed property rights when using ecvdi.org. You should not copy & paste or re-key printed material elements of copywritten material for publication at ecvdi.org. ecvdi.org use promotional material such as packaging/record/video sleeve art etc in a 'fair usage' context, respective copyrights apply.

Trademarks

European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging® and ECVDI® are registered trademarks under class classifications of 41,42,44,45 of the European Union Intellectual Property Office. Furthermore, the titles European Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging® and European Specialist in Veterinary Radiology® are registered trademarks under class classification of 45 of the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The registered owner is: European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging Ltd., 82b High Street, Sawston, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB22 HJ. Use of these trademarks without the consent of the owner is strictly forbidden and enforced by law.

Cancellation

Either you or evdi.org may cancel your use and access to the service at any time for any reason, or for no reason. You may cancel your use by stopping the use of the service and it's web pages. All original material added to evdi.org listings become the property of ecvdi.org. Donations and offerings made to the evdi.org website, evdi.org are the property of evdi.org.

Disclaimer

You agree and understand that you are using the service and this web site at your own risk. The service and this web site are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. ecvdi.org makes no warranties with respect to the service, either express or implied, and ecvdi.org hereby disclaims to the fullest amount allowed by law, any warranties of satisfactory quality, quiet enjoyment, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. You acknowledge and agree:

That the service may contain bugs, defects and errors.
That the service may be unavailable or inaccessible to you for substantial periods of time.
That lost or corrupted data, including online and on your own computer is not the responsibility of ecvdi.org.
You agree to back-up onto your own system, if possible, any data or information you do not want to lose. No oral advice or written information given by ecvdi.org, its employees, affiliates, or the like, will create a warranty; nor may you rely on any such information or advice.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Under no circumstances, including negligence, will ecvdi.org, or its affiliates be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, reliance, special, exemplary or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use the service or this web site. This includes but is not limited to reliance on any information obtained via the service, or that results from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files or emails, loss of or damage to data, errors, defects, viruses, delays in operation, or in transmission, or any failure of performance, whether or not limited to acts of God, communications failure, theft, destruction or unauthorised access to ecvdi.org records, programs or services, lost profits or goodwill.

You hereby acknowledge that the foregoing limitation applies to you regardless of the theory of liability (including breach of contract, negligence and strict liability) that this provision will apply whether or not evdi.org is given notice of the possibility of such damages, and that this provision will apply to all content, merchandise or services available through the service, or from ecvdi.org or its affiliates. In addition, ecvdi.org disclaims all liability regardless of the form of action, for the acts or omissions of other users (including unauthorised users, or "Hackers" of the service. ecvdi.org is not responsible for the procurement of substitute goods or services.

ecvdi.org reserves the right to modify the terms of use at their sole discretion and without prior notice. It is your responsibility to keep current with changes in the agreement, since changes are effective for all users. Any modification is effective immediately and can be accessed at the terms of use page, currently located at: /terms-and-conditions If any modification to this Agreement is unacceptable to you, you may immediately cancel your use of the web site. However, if you continue to use the service following any modification to this Agreement, your continued use will mean that you have accepted any modification.