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GC America Inc. ("GC") maintains this site ("Site")
to provide information about GC and its products and services.
While this Site provides general information about GC intended
for any interested Internet visitor, the interactive features
and detailed content are intended only for dental professionals
and others in the industry residing in the United States.
GC makes no representations that the information in this
Site is appropriate for users in countries other than the
United States. By using the interactive features on this
Site and accessing the detailed information about GC, its
products, and its services, you represent that you are a
U.S. dental professional or otherwise part of the U.S. dental
industry.
Acceptance of Terms: Your access to and use of the Site
is subject to these Terms of Use and all applicable laws.
By accessing and browsing the Site you accept, without limitation
or qualification, these Terms of Use. GC may at any time
revise or delete the contents of the Site, including these
Terms of Use, by updating this posting. We encourage you
to periodically visit this page to review the then-current
Terms of Use to which you are bound. GC reserves the right
to revoke your access to the Site at any time, including
for violation of these Terms of Use.
Dental and Medical Information: All content on this Site
is intended for the educational and informational purposes
of U.S. dental professionals and members of the U.S. dental
industry. This Site may from time to time contain information
relating to various medical, health and fitness conditions
of people. This is not meant to be a substitute for the
advice provided by your own dental professional or other
medical professional, and in no manner should this Site
be considered for medical emergencies or should the Site
be used for diagnosing a health problem or disease. You
should always consult your own dental and medical advisors,
and if you are a medical professional, you should not use
the Site for adverse-event reporting, but should instead
follow all applicable U.S. laws on adverse event reporting.
Intellectual Property: Unless otherwise noted, all Site
content, including trademarks, logos, service marks, art
work, graphics, images, screen shots, text, music, digitally
downloadable files, multimedia clips, images of people or
places (Content) are property of GC or its licensees,
and are protected in the U.S. and internationally under
trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property laws.
Content may not be used except as provided in these Terms
of Use without the written permission of GC, and any unauthorized
use may violate copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity
laws and regulations. Nothing contained on the Site should
be construed as granting by implication, estoppel
or otherwise any license or right to use any Content
without GCs express written permission. You are also
advised that GC will aggressively enforce its intellectual
property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including
the seeking of criminal prosecution.
Use of Content: Content, such as multimedia clips, may
be used and viewed for your informational and educational
purposes. You may not make permanent copies of any material
including permanent copies on your own computer, nor may
you otherwise copy or distribute any Content except as provided
herein. Limited Content is available for use by members
of the press in order for them to report on or promote GC,
its products, or its services. Such Content is specifically
identified, and cannot be used without GCs prior express
permission. Once permission is granted, GC grants authorized
members of the press a limited, non-exclusive, nontransferable,
royalty free, revocable license to use Content that is specifically
identified as available for license (Licensable Content)
to report on or promote GC, its products or its services,
only in connection with legitimate editorial purposes, including
the reporting to the public of GC products and services
through print, television, or electronic format. Licensable
Content must be used only in the form and manner as it appears
on this Site and copyright, trademark or other ownership
notices may not be obscured. Authorized users of Licensable
Content understand the importance to GC of its reputation
and goodwill in the goods and services sold in connection
with its Content, agree at all times to use the Content
only in connection with legitimate editorial purposes, and
further agree to provide GC, on GCs request, with
copies of the editorial pieces with which the Content is
used to ensure that the quality standards required herein
have been followed. Use of the Content for any other purpose,
including in a manner that is likely to cause confusion
among consumers, that disparages or discredits GC and/or
its licensors, that dilutes the strength of GCs or
its licensors property, or that otherwise infringes
GCs or its licensors intellectual property rights
is expressly forbidden.
Disclaimer: While GC uses reasonable efforts to include
accurate and up-to-date information in the Site, GC makes
no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. GC
assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or
omissions in the content of the Site, including the accuracy,
completeness, timeliness, reliability or availability of
any information you receive as a result of your use of the
Site. Your use of the Site is at your own risk. Neither
GC nor any other party involved in creating, producing or
delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental,
consequential, indirect, special or punitive damages arising
out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting
the foregoing, everything on the Site and data available
to you through the Site is provided to you "AS IS"
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
GC also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable,
for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer
equipment or other property on account of your access to,
use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any
materials, data, text, images, video or audio from the Site.
Indemnification: You agree to indemnify and hold harmless
GC and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates,
third-party information providers, licensors and others
involved in the Site from and against any and all liabilities,
expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys
fees, arising from any violation by you of these Terms of
Use or your use of the Site or any products, services or
information obtained from this Site.
User Communications: Any communication or material you
transmit to the Site will be used in accordance with GCs
Privacy Statement. The Internet is not a secure medium,
however, and GC cannot be responsible for any communications
by you that may be intercepted by a third party. GC urges
you to use caution when communicating over the Internet.
GC reserves the right to use any ideas, concepts, know-how,
or techniques contained in any communication you send to
the Site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited
to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using
such information, and by sending such information you hereby
grant to GC an unlimited license to use such information
for any purpose without further consideration to you.
Links: GC provides links to third-party web sites as a
convenience to you. These links do not constitute an affiliation
with, endorsement or sponsorship of the third parties that
operate such web sites, and GC is not responsible for the
practices of these third parties, including their information
collection and use practices, nor is GC responsible for
the availability or reliability of the content of these
third party web sites. Any information you provide to those
third parties is not subject to these Terms of Use or GCs
Privacy Statement, and GC is not responsible for the treatment
of the information you provide to those third parties. We
recommend that you review the privacy policy of that third
party, and of any third party to whom you provide personally
identifiable information online. Your linking to any other
off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.
Children: This Site is not intended for, nor do we believe
is the Site appealing to, children under the age of 13.
We will not knowingly collect information from the Site
visitors in this age group. We encourage parents to talk
to their children about their use of the Internet and the
information they disclose online.
Miscellaneous: These Terms of Use are the only understanding
and agreement between you and GC regarding your use of the
Site. It supersedes all other communications or agreements
we may have had prior to this Agreement. These Terms of
Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the United States of America and the State of
Illinois, without regard to its conflicts of laws provisions.
If any of these Terms of Use is determined to be void, unlawful,
or unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the
remaining terms shall not thereby be affected or impaired. |