Terms of Agreement

This page lays out the basis of use under which you may utilize and engage with this website. American Dental Ratings is an interactive online healthcare business directory. By utilizing and using this site, you agree to the conditions and terms give hereafter.

Standard Use

American Dental Ratings is meant to give users general information related to healthcare services, businesses, news, and events. We do not endorse or recommend any specific service, business, event, procedure or news article listed on our website. Though we try to ensure correct information is provided by our team and others mentioned on the website, we cannot take any kind of guarantee that every bit of information is correct. We are also not responsible for the correctness of information on our website. Use of this website – its content and information – is to be consumed at your own risk. If you believe any piece of data on our website is not accurate, please contact our customer service team.

Rules of Transaction

We are permitted to understand this website’s rules of conduct, as per these conditions and terms. Users who we believe are in violation of these terms and conditions may have their profile suspended or terminated at our discretion. We may take action to correct false information at our sole discretion as deemed appropriate. If you believe your profile has been suspended or terminated in error, please contact our customer service team to seek a resolution.

We are not required to supervise all content posted by users, but we may supervise content arbitrarily. Any information or content found that violates these terms and conditions may be deleted at our discretion. If we are notified by a user that any user’s content violates these rules, we may investigate and determine if we agree with the allegation, in which case we may remove or request the removal of certain user content. We are not required to make any such investigation or to remove any user materials, and we are not to be held liable to any user for taking or not taking such actions.

Rules of Posting Content

Content posted on American Dental Ratings may not contain the following:

Web links to websites competing with us

Material that is copyright (without permission to reuse/share)

Secret trade information (without permission to re-use)

Content that violates the privacy or publicity rights of others or misappropriates or infringes on intellectual property rights

Material that is obscene, sexually explicit, offensive, defamatory, threatening, harassing, libelous, hateful or abusive

Content posted on American Dental Ratings may not be used to:

Imitate another business or individual

Put up inaccurate, false or misleading information

Share pyramid schemes or chain letters

Defame or harass or another business or individual

Conduct Rules

You may not encourage others to send unsolicited business or commercial correspondence to our users

Comments should be used only to respond with point of views about the relevant news article To solicit business through responses and comments is prohibited.

Do not revise, sabotage or remove content posted by another user without their approval

Do not violate intellectual or copyright rights or plagiarize

Report comments or conduct that’s inappropriate to customer service

We are under no obligation to oversee the behavior of our users. Any conduct by a user on our website that we believe infringes these rules of conduct may be used to suspend or terminate the user from use of this website

Rules Related To Security

Users are barred from violating the security of the website, including, without limitation:

Accessing data not for them

Accessing an account or server the user is not authorized to use or access

Attempting to scan, test or probe the vulnerability of a network or system to bypass or break security measures without authorization

Attempting to hamper with service to any host, user or network

Sending unsolicited e-mail including advertising of services or products or services or promotional messages

Forging of any information related to American Dental Ratings for any purpose

Breach of these security rules may result in criminal or civil liability. We will investigate any activity we believe is in infringement of our rules of security and will cooperate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute anyone involved in such activities.

Rules of Registration

To register, you will be required to share specific personal and professional information such as your name, phone number, email and other personal or business details. This data must be correct to the best of your knowledge. We will not reveal this information with outside parties – unless with explicit your permission. For more information, see our privacy policy.

After registration, you will have a username and a password. For your own security, do not reveal this information and store the same in a secure location. You are responsible if someone accesses personal information through your password or username.

Please inform us right away of an unauthorized user has accessed to your password or username. If we find, during our engagement, that you gave false information related to your business practices and/or services, we have the right to terminate or suspend your account. We may terminate your account or deny access to the website at any time for appropriate reason.

Reserved Rights

We hereby grant you terminable, limited, and non-exclusive right to use and access American Dental Ratings for your personal use. This use authorizes you to download, view, and share content on the website only for personal and non-commercial use.

You must mention the following announcement in any materials downloaded: “Copyright American Dental Ratings. Except when permitted under copyright law, no redistribution, copying, publication, retransmission or commercial use of downloaded material will be allowed without the explicit written permission of American Dental Ratings.”

Except as stated clearly in these Terms of Use, we hold all rights to the contents on this website including graphics, written content, design elements, images, trademarks and service marks. By submitting material to this website, you grant, or warrant that the owner of such content has clearly granted to us the perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive license and right to reproduce, use, adapt, modify, translate, publish, and distribute such material (in whole or in part) and/or to include it in other works in any media, form or technology. You may not transfer, sell or assign any services or products or your rights to any services or products provided by us to any third party without our clear written approval.

You may not use and encourage others to use the site for any purpose or in any manner that is not allowed by these conditions and terms or is deemed illegal.

You may demand permission to license American Dental Ratings content for commercial use by contacting our customer service.

Disclaimer

We cannot certify the reliability, accuracy or appropriate representation of any of the users or material on our site. We cannot certify that the website’s services will be uninterrupted, that the functions and content will be error-free or seamless, or that the servers don’t have viruses or other harmful components. To the full extent required by law, we disclaim any warranties, implied or express.

This website is not meant for professional advice. We will not be held liable for any damage or loss caused by your use or reliance on information derived through this website – under no circumstances. It is your responsibility to find valid the completeness, accuracy, or usefulness of any opinion, information, advice or other material available here and elsewhere. Please seek the advice of professionals related to the merits of any specific opinion, advice, information or other content, if need be. Never neglect professional advice such as medical advice or delay in seeking it, after reading something here.

You are completely responsible for the material of any information you post, and also any results from such posting. We take no responsibility for contents posted by our users. We act as a via media for users to publish and share their materials. We do not undertake responsibility for monitoring our users’ content. The writers who publish articles to our website are not employed by American Dental Ratings. Each blogger is self-responsible for the content of his or her articles. Each blogger owns the copyright to the uploaded articles. We are not responsible for screening the materials of our bloggers. The opinions expressed by the bloggers are their own. They are not ours and nor endorsed by us.

We clearly disclaim any responsibility for the accuracy, content or availability of information found on a third party website associated with ours. We might offer links to third-party websites that have various products and/or services, but this is not an endorsement of these sites. We cannot take responsibility on behalf of users if they will be satisfied with any services or products purchased from any third-party site related to ours as they are operated and owned by others.

We do not recommend any of such services or products, nor have we undertaken any steps to authenticate the accuracy of any of the information present on any third party websites. We do not make any warranties or representations regarding the security of any information, including personal information and credit card and other, that users might be required to give a third-party website. We strongly recommend users to make their own review of third-party websites prior to transacting with these third parties.

We do not recommend, and nothing on the website shall be considered as an representation, endorsement or warranty of any third party – including our users, writers, directory members – whether in relation to such third party’s services, products, experience, services, websites or background or otherwise. We do not make any warranties or representations in relation to any contents posted by our users, bloggers, and directory members. The data in our directories is given exclusively by participating professionals.

You accept that American Dental Ratings, limits all disclaims, liabilities, warranties in association with this site to the same extent and in the same manner as we do in these terms of use. Your use of American Dental Ratings and any contents you access via our website or post or your conduct in associations with this site – are at your own risk.

Indemnity Terms

Users hereby agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us, our officers, directors, members, agents, employees, and affiliates harmless from and against any and all third party claims, liability, costs, actions, loss, and expenses (including but not limited to all expenses related to settlements, judgments, and reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs) arising out of or relating to, or alleged to origin out of or related to (i) Client’s engagement of Company pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, (ii) any acts or omissions of Client or any person related to or affiliated with Client, or (iii) any failure by Client to perform any obligation in this Agreement.

Liability & Limitations

Neither we, nor any of our officers, directors, employees or agents, will be liable to you or to any other person for any indirect, consequential, punitive or special damages, of any character, whether in an action in contract, tort or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with these terms of use, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

The liability of us and any of our officers, directors, employees or agents to you or to any other person for direct damages shall be limited to the greater of U.S. $100 or the fees paid by you for our services during the 12 months preceding the events that give rise to your first claim against us for damages.

Because some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for non-direct damages, the limitations in paragraph (a) above may not apply to you, but in such case, the limitations in paragraph (b) shall apply to both direct and non-direct damages.

Amendment

We may modify these terms and privacy policy at any time. We will put up information regarding these changes on the website and also e-mail them to users registered with us. Your continued use of the website after the posting on the website of any changes (irrespective or receipt or non-receipt of notice by email) shows your acceptance of these changes.

General

We and you are separate and self-standing contractors of each other. Neither party shall be considered in default for not complying with any provision hereof, if such failure results from events or acts beyond its reasonable control – other than the issue of payment of money. If any part of these terms is shown to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable – the legality, enforceability, and validity of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be impaired or affected. No waiver of any provision of these terms shall be deemed a continuing foregoing of such provision or any other clause.

All clauses of these terms, except provisions that give you access to or use of the website, shall survive the termination of the agreement between you and us. These terms shall be binding upon the parties, successors, permitted assigns, and their legal representatives but may not be assigned by you. Except as may be expressly communicated in any other written agreement signed by you and us, these terms and privacy policy clauses contain the full understanding between you and us, and overrule any preceding agreement between you and us, whether written or oral.