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GENERAL DISCLAIMER FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES:
BY POSTING ON ANY Katherine Minh Dang DDS SOCIAL MEDIA SITE YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS.
Practice has opened publicly facing pages on social media sites for viewing content and/or videos and posting comments. These social media sites include but are not limited to various sites such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, multimedia or other user-generated content. By accessing, viewing and/or posting any
content to any Practice Social Media Site on the internet, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the following terms of use. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, you may not view or post any content to any Practice Social Media Site on the internet. Your use of Practice Social Media Sites is
acceptance of this Policy and has the same effect as if you had actually physically signed an agreement.
1. If you are a Practice employee you must adhere to the Employee Social Media Guidelines. Failure to
comply with these policies and procedures may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
2. You must be at least 18 years old to interact with any content on any Practice Social Media Site.
3. You are prohibited from posting any content that could be construed as personal, patient or patients’
health information including patient names, health details or images on any Practice Social Media Site.
You are also prohibited from using the Practice Social Media Site to provide medical advice or medical
commentary by non-Practice physicians or to use the Practice Social Media Site to make, recommend or increase referrals to physicians who are not employed by Dr. Katherine Dang. Compliance with ALL HIPAA and PHI regulations is required at all times.
4. As a guest posting content to any Practice Social Media Site on the internet, you agree that you will not: violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including but not limited to copyright and intellectual property rights laws regarding any content that you send or receive via this
Policy; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that is unlawful, disruptive, threatening, profane, abusive, harassing, embarrassing, tortuous, defamatory, obscene, libelous, or is an invasion of another's privacy, is hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable as solely
determined in Practice discretion; impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or
fiduciary relationships; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; transmit (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising (including
advertising of non Practice services or products), promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that contains software viruses, worms, disabling code, or any other
computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; harass another; or collect or store, or attempt to collect or store, personal data about third parties without their knowledge or consent; or to share confidential pricing information of any party.
5. Practice reserves the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue your access to any Practice Social Media Site, at any time, without notice and for any reason and in its sole discretion. Practice may remove, delete, block, filter or restrict by any other means any
materials in Practice sole discretion. You understand and agree that Practice may disclose your communications and activities with Practice in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, including Patriot Act requests, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of Practice
rights. You agree that in the event that Practice exercises any of its rights here-under for any reason, Practice will have no liability to you.
6. By posting any content on any Practice Social Media Site, you grant to Practice the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display such content and the right to create derivative works from your content, edit or modify such content and use such content for any Practice purpose.
7. You shall defend, indemnify, and hold Practice and its corporate affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, successors and assigns harmless from and against, and shall promptly reimburse them for, any and all losses, claims, damages, settlements, costs, and liabilities of any nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys' fees) to which any of them may become subject
arising out of, based upon, as a result of, or in any way connected with, your posting of any content to a Practice Social Media Site, any third party claims of infringement or any breach of this Policy.
8. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY RELATED TO THE SECURITY,
PRIVACY, AND CONFIDENTIALITY RISKS INHERENT IN SENDING ANY CONTENT OVER THE INTERNET. BY
ITS VERY NATURE, A WEBSITE AND THE INTERNET CANNOT BE ABSOLUTELY PROTECTED AGAINST
INTENTIONAL OR MALICIOUS INTRUSION ATTEMPTS. PRACTICE 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, PRACTICE 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 AND YOUR FAMILY.
FURTHERMORE, PRACTICE DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY PRODUCT, SERVICE, VIEWS OR CONTENT
DISPLAYED ON THE PRACTICE SOCIAL MEDIA SITE.
9. You agree that any claim or dispute relating to your posting of any content on a Practice Social Media
Site on the internet shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Virginia without regard to its conflict of law provisions and you agree to be bound and shall be subject
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local, state or federal courts located in the city of Falls Church.
10. You may not provide any content to a Practice Social Media Site that contains any product or service
endorsements or any content that may be construed as political lobbying, solicitations or contributions
or use the Practice Social Media Site to link to any sites or political candidates or parties or use the
Practice Social Media Site to discuss political campaigns, issues or for taking a position on any legislation
or law. © 2011 The Verden Group
11. THIS POLICY MAY BE UPDATED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND EACH TIME A USER ACCESSES A
PRACTICE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE, THE NEW POLICY WILL GOVERN, USAGE, EFFECTIVE UPON
POSTING. To remain in compliance, Practice suggests that you review the Policy, as well as the other
website policies, at regular intervals. By continuing to post any content after such new terms are posted,
you accept and agree to any and all such modifications to this Policy.
© 2011 The Verden Group
