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Terms of Use/User Agreement
CONDITIONS OF USE: YourCity.MD LLC (YourCity.MD) provides all their
services to you, subject to the following Terms of Use/User Agreement, Terms
and Conditions, Privacy Policies, Contest, Sweepstakes and Promotion Rules,
Ratings/Feedback/Testimonials, all of which may be updated by us from time to
time without any notice to you. For the purpose of all YourCity.MD
documents on any and all of its WebPages, the term "you" in all sections of the
terms of use/user agreement, privacy policies, contest rules and all other
legal references on the YourCity.MD websites including
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shall mean and include any and all of the following persons: site viewers, any
and all types of members or users of any of the YourCity.MD sites, medical
professionals, doctors, physicians, dentists, chiropractors, veterinarians,
physical therapists, any specialists in any dropdown list on any of the
YourCity.MD websites, patients, news persons, media persons, organizations,
universities, companies, corporations, individuals, sponsors, advertisers,
participants in any and all of the following: feedback, ratings, rankings,
testimonials, contests, forum and any other users of this or any of the
YourCity.MD websites for any reason. "You" must read and accept the entire
Terms and Conditions carefully and in their entirety prior to using this site
or searching for any information. 'You" must also read, understand and accept
the entire Privacy Policy and Contest Rules in their entirety prior to entering
any information, contest, posting, or participating in any other features
available on these YourCity.MD websites. By using this site and not unchecking
the I accept the terms of use box, you signify your understanding and
acceptance of all these conditions of use and restrictions of YourCity.MD
websites and this
NYC.MD
website in particular. You further agree to be bound by all the terms of this
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on the homepage which will disable your search and you will further signify
your disagreement by not trying to use the YourCity.MD websites and this
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website in particular and immediately exit the website.
You shall not upload, post or email any content or information that (a) is libelous, abusive, defamatory, harassing, threatening, obscene, pornographic, (b) contains viruses, contaminating or destructive features, (c) violates the rights of others, including content that infringes any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or violates any right of privacy or publicity (d) offends the community standards of users of the Website (e) interferes with or disrupts the any of our Websites, (f) harass another user or (g) otherwise violates any applicable law.
You remain solely responsible for the transactions of Ads, products or services and you agree to indemnify and hold YourCity.MD, L.L.C. harmless with respect to any claim based upon transactions of goods sold through all YourCity.MD LLC, its websites and its partner websites. We reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a formal subpoena arising from any fraudulent act or legal violations committed by you with regard to any postings, ads, services or products. No urls, commercials, promotions etc will be allowed in the feedback postings and no unproven allegations will be posted or allowed on our sites and thus will be removed when we are made aware of same.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for all Member Content that you make available through the Site, Application and Services.
Terms and Conditions
USE RESTRICTIONS AND OWNERSHIP: YourCity.MD websites and this
NYC.MD
website in particular is produced and published by YourCity.MD in order to make
available to the public, demographic and professional information on individual
doctors and their practices in the U.S. and internationally. YourCity.MD
websites and this
NYC.MD
website in particular is intended for the personal use by the general public
for easy access to information on doctors and their practices contained in
these directories. This website and all of the information contained in its
databases or on its pages is the sole property of YourCity.MD, its affiliated
companies and information suppliers. Any pictures or updated data from site members or non-members becomes sole property
of YourCity.MD and YourCity.MD has unlimited use of photos and updated data or information.
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other means. Information contained in YourCity.MD
websites and this
NYC.MD
website in particular may be printed on a screen-by-screen basis for personal
use only and not for any commercial purpose whatsoever. YourCity.MD website
information and this
NYC.MD
website information in particular including all of its data, listings, and
other components may not be downloaded, reproduced, reprinted, distributed,
circulated, duplicated in whole or in part, for commercial or any other
purposes. You may not compile or produce mailing lists or any other lists of
doctors from the information contained on our sites or in our databases. Use of
YourCity.MD websites and this
NYC.MD
website in particular to establish databases is strictly prohibited and
violators will be prosecuted. You agree to access the information contained on
these sites manually and not by any programmatic or automated means including
computer programs that automatically download content, commonly known as
robots, spiders, crawlers or any other means. By signing up for membership, you are agreeing that the
company can include your information in its directory of providers. In the event
you chose to discontinue your membership, your agree that the company may continue
to include your information in its directory of providers.
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sources include but not are not limited to federal, state, local government and
commercial sources, as well as directly from doctors, other health care
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2004-2019 YourCity.MD and "All Rights are Reserved" by YourCity.MD and its
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year from time of infraction. Any claims or demands that are not filled within
that one-year period are forever to banned from prosecution regardless of any
and all laws in any jurisdiction to the contrary.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: The information contained on all YourCity.MD websites
and in particular
NYC.MD
is intended for general reference purposes only. YourCity.MD websites and the
NYC.MD
website in particular may include or provide paid or other type web links to
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organizations or companies. You understand and accept that YourCity.MD and
NYC.MD
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any such information in any form. You understand and accept that YourCity.MD
and
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in particular neither provides health or medical advice, nor advocates or
recommends the purchase of any product, service, health provider listed, linked
to or advertised on YourCity.MD and the
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of any kind either expressed or implied. You understand and accept that to the
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NYC.MD
in particular, and its affiliates disclaim all warranties, express or implied,
including, but not limited to, implied warranties of fitness, completeness,
timeliness, correctness, non-infringement or merchantability for a particular
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NYC.MD
in particular nor its affiliates warrant that the information will be
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soon as they are found. You understand and accept that YourCity.MD and
NYC.MD
in particular, and its affiliates do not warrant or make any representations
regarding the use or the information or the claims of the Individual doctor
members and non-members of this site in terms of their timeliness, correctness,
accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You understand and accept completely that
you the user assume the entire cost of all necessary corrections for
assumptions that you make regarding members, products and services on this
website. All doctor, health provider, insurance and other information contained
and searched on all YourCity.MD websites and in particular
NYC.MD
are both self-reported, by the doctor and/or doctor office staff, and collected
from multiple other data sources that may not be confirmed by the doctor.
YourCity.MD websites and in particular
NYC.MD
may contain errors as well as inaccurate information. YourCity.MD and
NYC.MD
in particular, do not provide advice, referrals, recommendations or
qualification certification about any particular doctor, provider, or insurance
company. Doctor and doctor practice information can and does change rapidly and
often. Do not rely on any advertising claims or member claims made on this
website and confirm any such claims with your doctor or any doctor member in
person and the proper authorities that govern that doctor and his/her
specialty. Any information about a particular doctor, medical provider, or
insurance company that is found on our websites or through our affiliated
companies should be confirmed by you with the doctors office, medical provider,
insurance company, your current doctor, the medical associations relative to
the doctor and the doctors specialty, and the state medical board governing the
doctor in question. YourCity.MD and
NYC.MDin particular, makes efforts
to update site content, but some doctor and other provider information may be
out of date, inaccurate or misleading. YourCity.MD does not and can not verify
the legitimacy or validity of any of the physician or facility listings, so it
is your responsiblity to verify that you are going to a real licensed physician
and you should not rely on the simple fact that a person presents themself as a
physician on our sites. If you find a fraudulant listing on our site, please
notify us immediately, and we will assist in prosecuting that person.
YourCity.MD and
NYC.MD
in particular, disclaims any and all liability arising directly or indirectly
from the use of its web sites. This site is intended for your personal use only
and you may not use this or any or our sites or information contained herein
for any commercial purpose. If you do not agree or accept all the terms in this
agreement, please kindly and immediately exit this website. Use of this website
signifies your complete acceptance of YourCity.MD and
NYC.MD
s User Agreement, Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. Your complete
acceptance of any future changes to this agreement, terms, conditions or
policies is signified by your continued use of the website, once any changes
are made and posted on the website
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NYC.MD
in particular, Inc. and its affiliates shall not be liable to you or any
associated party for damages or injury caused in whole or in part by negligence
in producing and publishing this site or any information contained in this site
or linked by or to this site. You completely understand and accept that in no
event will YourCity.MD and
NYC.MD
in particular or its affiliates, be liable to you or any party associated with
you for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on such
information or for any incidental, consequential, special, or similar damages.
By using this site you agree and accept that you shall, completely and
unequivocally waive any liability of YourCity.MD and
NYC.MD
in particular and/or its affiliates. In states that do not allow the limitation
or exclusion of liability such limitations or exclusions may not apply. The
above warranties are the only warranties of any kind granted by YourCity.MD and
NYC.MD
in particular. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no
event will the aggregate liability of YourCity.MD LLC and it's affiliates
exceed the total amount of the compensation actually paid to it hereunder
during the thirty (30) days immediately prior to the date on which the alleged
damages were claimed to have been incurred, regardless of the form of action.
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its affiliates, officers employees, all members, doctors, sponsors,
advertisers, partners, business affiliates, users and subsidiaries from any
claims or demands made by another party as a result of your use of any of the
YourCity.MD sites or your participation in any of the features on these sites
including but not limited to your feedback, ratings, rankings, testimonials,
forum or other posts, transmissions of data from our sites, your membership
privileges for use on this site, and violation of another's rights or the terms
of use or other conditions of use on our sites. In short, you must and will be
responsible for your own actions and comments on this and all of our sites. So
please, be truthful and fair to all parties whenever you have the opportunity
to participate in a site resource, feedback or posting. This indemnification
and hold harmless clause for YourCity.MD includes any and all attorney fees
that may arise from any such person or action, which is covered in this clause.
ATTESTATION
OF IDENTITY: Your submission of registration information to YourCity.MD concerning
a doctor or licensed healthcare professional constitutes an attestation that you
are the doctor or licensed healthcare professional or an authorized representative
of such doctor or licensed healthcare professional. YourCity.MD assumes no
responsibility to confirm any of the registration information.
LEGAL ENTITY: YourCity.MD LLC
YourCity.MD reserves the right to sell ads on all YourCity.MD sites and/or
site pages including the Free search results pages.
YourCity.MD
P.O. Box 43339
Cincinnati, Ohio 45243
Advertising/Sponsorship/Reseller Program
All advertising payments based on Annual Subscription Pricing are not refundable and not cancellable.
Monthly Advertising Subscriptions may be cancelled in writing with 30 days written notice. Prices are
guaranteed for a maximum of 1 (One) Year ONLY with Yearly Subscription. Monthly Subscription
Prices are guaranteed for the number of months you contract for (twelve month maximum). Prices are
subject to change without notice after the contract expires. Any advertising is subject to prior approval
by YourCity.MD LLC. YourCity.MD LLC reserves the right to remove or reject any advertising for any
reason and upon rejection will return your payment with no additional recourse or penalty to
Yourcity.MD. YourCity.MD reserves the right to change the advertisement size at any time without
notification or refund of any kind. The ad will be automatically renewed at the same price on your credit card or if there is a price increase, the ad will expire and you will not be charged. We will attempt to contact you once, to see if you want to hold the ad position at the increased price using your same credit card and if you no longer want the ad, we will remove your ad and resell the ad space to another party. There is no limit as to the number of advertising spaces you may
purchase. However a company can only appear in one advertising space per page. If you
reserve/purchase more than one advertising space on a page, YourCity.MD reserves the right to resell
the additional advertising spaces you reserve/purchase subject to the condition that the resale must
earn you a minimum of double the amount you originally paid for the advertising space based on the
time remaining on that specific advertisement. All such sales by YourCity.MD are subject to a 20%
YourCity.MD sales commission and 50%/50% net revenue split with YourCity.MD after the deduction
of the sales commission and any media commission or partnership deductions. You may resell the
balance of your advertising contract under the same original terms and conditions for any price
provided that all sales and payment plans must be made through YourCity.MD and all sales are
subject to a 50%/50% revenue split with YourCity.MD. Terms of the reseller program are subject to
change without advance notice at any time and will be posted on the YourCity.MD web sites under the
Advertising/Sponsorship/Reseller Program section. In order to qualify for our reseller program, you
must be 18 years of age or older and a legal U.S. Citizen and agree to supply YourCity.MD with all
applicable tax information including but not limited to your Social Security Number, Full Legal Name,
Current Address, Phone Number and Current Email Address. After YourCity.MD notifies you that your
advertisement has been resold, you will have thirty (30) days to respond to initiate the payment
process. If you do not respond during that time, you will forfeit your payment and receive your initial
investment back for the days remaining in your annual contract with a maximum
payment not to exceed the total you originally paid for that ad.
TeleDoc Sponsorship: TelaDoc is not available to residents of Oklahoma and South Carolina.
Referral Program
Earn Referral Cash Back: Anyone can refer healthcare professionals or doctors can refer colleagues in your city in other specialties or in other cities in your specialty to earn cash. If they join our team as our city expert and contribute to our content and they indicate that you referred them to us by typing your name on their initial registration sign up, you will receive up to $60/month for up to 12 months, per doctor. There are no limits on the amount of money you can earn or number of doctors you can refer. We have 50,000 positions available (500 cities x 100 specialties each) to fill and you can earn up to $600/yr on each of them you refer that join and blog. Your monthly statement will be reduced by your referral fees until you reach zero then you will start being paid by us. Referral fees will be paid in arrears within ninety (90) days of receipt of fees from the referred doctor. YourCity.MD has no obligation to pay you a referral fee if the referred doctor does not pay a blogging fee.
Forums
You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country or International Law.
Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned, with notification of your Internet Service Provider if deemed required by us.
The IP address of all posts are recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions.
You agree that we have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should we see fit.
As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in a database.
Privacy Policy
USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES ACCEPTANCE OF Terms of Use/User Agreement AND Privacy
Policy
YourCity.MD AND
NYC.MD
in particular are committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the
following to learn about our privacy policy for Users and all Directory Members
on all of our sites.
DEFINITION & TERMS: User personal information: Information that is
personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone
number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. The Privacy Policy of
YourCity.MD does not apply to the practices of companies that YourCity.MD or
its affiliated companies does not own and/or control, or to any persons that
YourCity.MD does not employ or manage. In addition, all other YourCity.MD
associated companies have their own privacy statements, which can be viewed by
clicking on their links.
COLLECTION & USE OF INFORMATION: YourCity.MD may collect user and member
personal information when you join or register with YourCity.MD, when you use
our services, when you visit YourCity.MD pages or the pages of certain
YourCity.MD partners including
NYC.MD
web pages, and when you fill out permission based email requests, requests for
discount coupons and other similar promotions, feedback, testimonials and
ratings. YourCity.MD may combine information about you that we have with
information we obtain from business partners or other companies. When you visit
our directory or become members of our website listing/advertising services, we
may ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender,
zip code, occupation, industry, personal interests and other biographical
related information. For other services and payments we may ask for
identification by way of your Social Security number (for contest winning for
tax form 1099 etc.) or Drivers License or Medical License Number, and other
information. When you join or register with YourCity.MD and accept our services
or sign up with our services, you are not anonymous and in you are placed in
our database. YourCity.MD collects information about your transactions with us
and with some of our business partners. YourCity.MD automatically receives and
records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP
address, YourCity.MD cookie information, and the pages you request. YourCity.MD
uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the
advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and
services, to inform Health Care professional members of your feedback and
comments to improve the services of these members to you and the general
public, to contact you, conduct research, and provide reporting for internal
and external clients. Any information you provide becomes sole property of YourCity.MD
and YourCity.MD has unlimited use of photos and updated data or information. YOU GIVE
YOURCITY.MD EXPLICIT permission to contact you by fax, phone, email, postal mail or any other means.
INFORMATION SHARING & DISCLOSURE: YourCity.MD does not rent, sell, or share
personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies
except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your
permission, or under the following circumstances: We provide Health Care
members all feedback and testimonials that are submitted by you on any
YourCity.MD site about that member, for the purpose of improving their services
to you and giving the Health Care professional the opportunity to follow up
with you regarding any concerns that you may have expressed in your feedback or
comments about your visits etc. to that Health Care professional. We also
provide the information to trusted partners, who work on behalf of or with
YourCity.MD under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your
personal information to help YourCity.MD communicate with you about offers from
YourCity.MD, affiliates and our marketing partners. However, these companies do
not have any independent right to share this information. YourCity.MD LLC
and its affilites own all data supplied to its sites by its members and
visitors and may use this data as they see fit for demos, marketing and
advertising. The use of our sites by any member or visitor constitutes full
compensation for use of said data, no future compensation will ever by due. We
also provide information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with
YourCity.MD under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your
personal information to help YourCity.MD communicate with you about offers from
YourCity.MD, affiliates and our marketing partners. However, these companies do
not have any independent right to share this information. We respond to
subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our
legal rights or defend against legal claims; We believe it is necessary to
share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to
the physical safety of any person, violations of YourCity.MD's terms of use, or
as otherwise required by law. We may transfer information about you in the event YourCity.MD
is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event your information may
become subject to a different privacy policy.
YourCity.MD may display targeted advertisements based on personal information.
Advertisers and Marketing companies could assume that people who search, view,
or click on targeted ads meet their targeting criteria. YourCity.MD does not
provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or
view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are
consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that
you meet the targeting criteria used to display the advertisement. YourCity.MD
advertisers may include doctors, hospitals, insurance companies pharmacies and
pharmaceutical companies to name just a few. YourCity.MD works with vendors,
partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and
categories of business.
MEMBERS CAN EDIT & DELETE ACCOUNT INFORMATION: Members can edit
their YourCity.MD account information, including their biographical
information, at any time. New categories of marketing communications may be
added to our Marketing programs from time to time. Members who wish can opt out
of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they
can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they
receive. We reserve the right to send members certain communications relating
to the YourCity.MD service, such as service announcements, administrative
messages and a possible YourCity.MD Newsletter in the future, these items are
considered part of your YourCity.MD account, without offering you the
opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
COOKIES: YourCity.MD may set and access YourCity.MD cookies on your computer.
YourCity.MD may allow advertisers on some of our pages to set and access their
cookies on your computer. Other companies use of their cookies is subject to
their own privacy policies, not ours. Advertisers do not have access to
YourCity.MD's cookies.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY: YourCity.MD may update this policy from time to time
without any notice to you. Use of this site signifies your acceptance of the
privacy policy and continued use of this site after changes to the Privacy
Policy or changes to any other terms of use signifies your acceptance of all of
those changes that were made.
QUESTIONS: If you have questions or suggestions, please write us at support@NYC.MD
or you can contact us at:
YourCity.MD
Privacy Policy
P.O. Box 43339
Cincinnati, Ohio 45243
Effective Date: August 25, 2004
Contest, Sweepstakes and Promotion Rules
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No purchase necessary.
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To enter: You must leave feedback for a Health Care professional listed on.
http://NYC.MD. You may enter
once for each of your actual Health Care providers. In order to win, you must
be confirmed by the Health Care provider you rated, as a current or former
patient within the 3 years immediately prior to the drawing of that particular
contest winner. If you are not or were not a patient of the Health Care
provider you left feedback for, you will be disqualified and forfeit any and
all prizes and YourCity.MD will owe you nothing, have no liability to you
whatsoever and the contest winner will be redrawn from the remaining entries.
The sponsor, YourCity.MD and its affiliates, is not responsible for lost, late,
misdirected, incomplete or incorrect feedback entries. Entries including any
and all feedback, written opinions, stories or statements on the entry or
feedback/testimonial forms become the property of YourCity.MD and its
affiliates and will not be returned. YourCity.MD and its affiliates reserves
the right to publicize, through normal media channels or other venues as we see
fits our needs, the name and likeness of any entrant including any or all of
their feedback, written opinions, stories or statements made through any of our
sites.
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Prize details: One doctor will be chosen each month and awarded a one month
free membership in
NYC.MD
from the Favorite Doctor Contest. In the feedback promotion contest, one prize
will be awarded after 100,000 feedback/testimonial entries are posted to the
doctors average feedback ratings in the feedback/testimonial contest. Total
Guaranteed Value of $1,000.00 per 100,000 feedback entries. No prize
substitutions will be allowed by the winner. No other entry has any monetary or
other value except the grand prizewinner of the feedback promotion/contest. Any
applicable taxes on any Prize will be the sole responsibility of the winner.
The winner must provide a tax identification number in order to collect any
prize, so we can file the proper 1099 tax form for distributing the winning
funds. If the winner refuses to supply either a tax ID # or social security
number within 30 days of notification that they won the prize then the prize
will be forfeited and re-awarded to another party as described in #4 below.
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Awarding of Prizes: Winner will be selected from all eligible entries received.
A random drawing will take place a few days after the feedback promotion
contest has received the required 100,000 feedback entries. The winning entry
will be based on the entrant's name and address provide, not the entrant's
e-mail address in the case of the feedback/testimonial promotion. In any and
all contests, YourCity.MD and its affiliates and their staff will be the sole
decision makers in choosing all the winners. There will be no arbitration or
rights to contest the winner of any contest except as required by law if any
applicable to a particular term. The winning entry will be notified by the
Email address they provided. If the winning entrant does not claim the prize
within 30 days, a second entry will be chosen or drawn (according to the
contest rules that govern that contest) and the first winner will no longer
have any rights to the original prize or any other prize. YourCity.MD is not
responsible for contacting the winner in any way other than by the notification
email and YourCity.MD is not responsible and has no requirement to follow up
with the winner to see that the email was delivered or if the email is still
valid or if the email service for the winner is working or failed. It is the
responsibility of the winner to keep their email address accurate by
resubmitting the feedback form for their doctor when and if their email address
changes. This process will continue until a winning entrant claims the prize.
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Odds. The odds of winning any of the prizes depends on the number of qualified
entries received in each contest. The odds of winning the $1,000
feedback/testimonial promotion are 1 in 100,000.
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Eligibility: This contest is open to all legal U.S. residents, age 18 and
older. Employees and relatives of YourCity.MD employees are not eligible
to receive the $1,000.00. In addition, no health care professional, staff
member or relative of the health care professional or staff member are eligible
to win the $1,000.00 if their office is the one for which feedback was
submitted. In the instance where one of these ineligible persons was chosen, a
new entry would be drawn until an eligible person was chosen. All
federal, state and local laws apply. This contest is void where prohibited.
YourCity.MD and its affiliates are not responsible for printing, distribution
or production errors and may rescind, cancel or revoke the awarding of prizes
based upon any such error without liability and at its sole discretion. By
participating in this contest and sweepstakes, entrants waive all rights to and
hold harmless YourCity.MD and its affiliates from any loss, damage or expense
arising out of or in connection with the participation in these contests or the
acceptance or misuse of any prize.
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Beyond Our Control: YourCity.MD and its affiliates is not responsible for lost
connections, miscommunications, failed computer transmissions or technical
failures or interrupted or unavailable network, ISP, website, server, internet
or other connections, miscommunications, failed computer hardware or software
or technical failure, garbled or jumbled transmissions or other errors of any
kind, whether human, mechanical or electronic. If for any reason this contest
is not capable of running as planned on the internet due to a computer virus,
bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any
other causes beyond our control we will be held harmless. YourCity.MD and its
affiliates reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any
individual who tampers with the contest process, corrupts or affects the
administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of any contest.
Any type of disruption may cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest and
sweepstakes as allowed under both State of Ohio and Federal laws that apply at
the time of interruption.
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YourCity.MD and its affiliates and its agencies assume no responsibility for
any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or
transmission communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized
access to, or alteration of entries. YourCity.MD and its affiliates is not
responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of telephone network or
telephone lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer
equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received or sent by
YourCity.MD and its affiliates on account of technical problems human error or
traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site, or any combination
thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's
materials in this contest. Any and all rules in this contest may be changed at
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P.O. Box 43339
Cincinnati, Ohio 45243
Ratings/Feedback/Testimonials
Need help deciding what to write?
Please review our tips before you begin.
Remember these tips while leaving feedback and testimonials:
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Use your first name or an alias only in the testimonial text itself (avoid
giving personal information like your full name, address, etc. because it
will be posted if your testimonial gets posted) except when registering as a
site user for feedback when your real information is required.
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Answer the feedback as if you're telling the staff about your experience
and write the testimonials as if you are telling a friend.
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Answer fairly about the business or service (don't include personal
information about the owner or establishment). We encourage every user to use
truthfulness and fairness in all feedback and posts.
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Do not use profanity, personal attacks or threats of any kind.
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Negative feedback will be seen by our staff, the doctor, medical professional
and staff to remedy any complaint and improve the services of that office.
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Each user will be allowed to rate each medical professional on the site only
once. If your opinion of that professional changes, then you will be able to go
back and change your rating and feedback. Your original feedback and rating
will be replaced with the new rating/feedback and not just averaged like a new
user rating would be averaged. This keeps the rating fair and keeps users from
having more than one opinion of any professional averaged in to effect the
overall rating of that individual.
YourCity.MD Site Guide to 10 Star Ratings:
10 out of 10 Stars = great experience/great professional
9 out of 10 Stars = beat my best expectations
8 out of 10 Stars = very satisfied
7 out of 10 Stars = satisfied
6 out of 10 Stars = somewhat satisfied
5 out of 10 Stars = neutral
4 out of 10 Stars = fell a little short of my expectations
3 out of 10 Stars = would not recommend
2 out of 10 Stars = not happy with service
1 out of 10 Stars = completely disappointed
Not Yet Rated = no ratings to date
Not Authorized for Viewing = Health Care professional has requested in
writing that their average rating not be shown until they receive 10 ratings OR
the Health Care professional has an overall average rating below neutral.
All medical professionals started with a 5 star neutral rating on July 1,
2005, as though 10 patients gave this rating.
YourCity.MD will refrain from displaying the overall average rating for any medical professional
who has an overall average rating below neutral.
About Feedback and Testimonials:
All rating, forum, feedback and testimonial policies are designed to encourage
open and honest discussion of the Health Care medical professionals and their
services. However, to ensure that these feedback services are used for the
proper purpose and not abused, YourCity.MD has basic rules that are outlined in
the Terms of Use that must be followed.
Under federal law (the Communications Decency Act), YourCity.MD is not legally
responsible for the remarks that users post on its sites, even if those remarks
are defamatory. However, this law does not protect the person who leaves the
feedback from responsibility for it.
YourCity.MD provides its Health Care forum, its ratings, feedback and
testimonials as venues for its users to express their opinions of medical
professionals on our sites, and YourCity.MD will not and does not censor these
opinions, or investigate any postings for accuracy that may appear on our
sites.
In order to prevent possible liability, and maintain protection under the
Communications Decency Act, YourCity.MD must refrain from removing any comments
that do not fall into the violations as described in our terms of use policies
including but not limited to vulgar language. Our policy is to allow the
medical professional members to determine which testimonials they will allow on
their listing site and therefore allow them to make their individual decisions
to share testimonials about themselves.
Our company policy for testimonials, feedback and ratings for all dental
listings is that they must follow the current and future guidelines as outlined
(these current rules are in committee and look to be abandoned in the spring of
2006) in the Ohio State Dental Board Laws and Rules, currently page 50 http://www.dental.ohio.gov/pdfs/laws2005.pdf
and must follow any future changes if enacted. Our policy is for all
listing testimonials, feedback and ratings including dental are that
they must all follow any and all legal guidelines for each particular
Health Care professional based on the binding rules and regulations they
are bound by from any regulatory bodies from time to time including but
not limited to all state, federal and local government agencies, etc.
Feedback cannot be edited or removed once it has been left with the exception of
the re-rating policy described. Re-rating Policy: it is a YourCity.MD policy to
allow an individual to change their opinion of any medical professional on our
site for their own reasons at any time, whether they be due to recent problem
solving of an important issue or otherwise. If an individual actually wants to
re-rate a medical professional, their original rating, feedback and testimonial
will be replaced with their newest rating, feedback and testimonial. In this
way each person has the ability to express their current opinion only one time
without weighting the overall results and affecting the true and honest
intention of this site. We will only allow one rating, feedback and testimonial
per person but can only go as far as to consider one valid email address to
constitute one user. If a dishonest person were to try and defame a member or
any listing on one of our sites by trying to duplicate their postings by using
different email addresses then they are solely responsible under the law and
could be held legally responsible for damages to a member's reputation, if a
court were to find that their remarks, rating, nfeedback or testimonial
constituted libel or defamation. Forum postings, ratings, feedback and
testimonials become a permanent part of a listings record or site forum and if
a listing member is so inclined, they may approve the post of the testimonial
to their member site to be viewable by the public. It is YourCity.MD
policy to allow an individual to change their opinion of any medical
professional on our site for their own reasons at any time, whether they be due
to recent problem solving of an important issue or otherwise. If an individual
actually wants to re-rate a medical professional, their original rating,
feedback and testimonial will be replaced with their newest rating, feedback
and testimonial. In this way each person has the ability to express their
current opinion only one time without weighting the overall results and
affecting the true and honest intention of this site. We will only allow one
rating, feedback and testimonial per person but can only go as far as to
consider one valid email address to constitute one user. If a dishonest person
were to try and defame a member or any listing on one of our sites by trying to
duplicate their postings by using different email addresses then they are
solely responsible under the law and could be held legally responsible for
damages to a member's reputation, if a court were to find that their remarks,
rating, feedback or testimonial constituted libel or defamation. Forum
postings, ratings, feedback and testimonials become a permanent part of a
listings record or site forum and if a listing member is so inclined, they may
approve the post of the testimonial to their member site to be viewable by the
public.
YourCity.MD reserves the right to refuse or remove any review that does
not comply with these Guidelines or the NYC.MD
Terms of Use and may terminate your YourCity.MD user account for
a violation. All testimonials will be averaged into the overall rating. YourCity.MD reserves
the right to use or not use any and all information submitted by users pursuant
to this feedback policy, for any reason, in its sole and absolute discretion.
The Health Care Professional members will be given an opportunity to
correct any negative feedback problems you may have, which will help the user
in many cases get resolution they may not be able to get without this venue,
improve relationships and give the user another chance to leave more positive
feedback for that professional after resolution if the user is so
inclined. We cannot and do not guarantee that all feedback is from
patients or acquaintances of the medical professional but instead are the
opinion of the users of this site. In that regard, the more individual
feedback and testimonials given about any individual, the better the
feedback rating and testimonials should reflect the community opinion of that
professional. These ratings and testimonials are intended as an
additional resource for the users of this site only and do not necessarily
reflect accurately the skills or professional abilities of any individual
practitioner. Keep in mind many people are judged on how they treat
others instead of on their pure ability to help others in their field of
expertise. Therefore, all feedback is considered subjective and are the
opinions of the individual user and do not reflect the opinion of YourCity.MD
or its affiliates in any way.
YourCity.MD and its affiliates are not responsible or liable in any way for
ratings and reviews posted by its users.
YourCity.MD
Feedback Policy
P.O. Box 43339
Cincinnati, Ohio 45243
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