1. Agreement
Family Practice Notebook is an Internet-based on-line medical reference. By using this website, you agree to the terms found here. Please review these terms periodically, as they may change without advanced notice.
2. License
You are invited to use the Family Practice Notebook website for your personal use, downloading or printing this information within the guidelines of these terms and conditions. You may not however reproduce any portion of these web pages' text or graphics without prior written consent.
3. Links
For your convenience, Family Practice Notebook links to other medical web sites. Paid links are marked clearly as advertisements. The Family Practice Notebook LLC is not responsible for, nor does it endorse the actions of other web sites or advertisers. Please let us know if you believe a link or advertisement to be distasteful, illegal, inaccurate, or otherwise out of line with the values you expect from this website.
4. Warranty Disclaimer
The Family Practice Notebook website strives to offer reliable reference materials to medical professionals. Readers outside the medical profession are welcome to use this website as a resource; this should, however, not be interpreted as medical advice, and does not in any way replace professional medical care. Patients should always address specific medical concerns with their physicians.
The Family Practice Notebook website tries to maintain an accurate and up-to-date medical database. However, typographical errors and inaccurate information are unavoidable with a project this size and with an ever changing medical landscape. The user of this website assumes complete responsibility in applying any management strategies documented here. Healthcare professionals need to use their own clinical judgement in interpreting this medical information, and details such as medication dosages or laboratory normal values should always be confirmed with other resources. As always, this website welcomes feedback to correct its errors.
The information found within this website is provided as a service and is without guarantee. You assume the risk of computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and other destructive code by downloading files from this website.
5. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Family Practice Notebook LLC, its officers, directors, employees, authors, partners, and advertisers from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, resulting from any violation of this agreement.
6. Waiver, Release and Limitation of Liability
You release Family Practice Notebook LLC, its officers, directors, employees, authors, partners, and advertisers from any liability relating to your use of this website. You waive any claims for sustained losses or damages from use of Family Practice Notebook. Notwithstanding, these claims should not exceed what the user paid to access this medical information.
7. Third Party Rights
Family Practice Notebook LLC, its officers, directors, employees, authors, partners, and advertisers may use the provisions of paragraph 5 and 6 on their own behalf.
8. Severability
Each provision in this agreement stands independently; they are severable. In the event that any provision herein is found to be invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.
9. Privacy
Maintaining the privacy of the web site user is important to the publishers of the Family Practice Notebook. Unlike the Fpnotebook IOS/Android versions which are supported by subscription, this website is supported by advertising. Modern website advertising (e.g. as of 2020) identifies individual users in order to serve targeted ads. However, fpnotebook does not sell any information about you collected on the website. Ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to you by our Web advertising partners, and their policies are described below. Please see the FPNotebook Privacy Statement.
10. Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Per site author discretion, advertising is not accepted if it is degrades the overall quality of the site. Site users are encouraged to offer feedback regarding advertising quality.
The authors of this website have sole discretion over the content of the site; medical accuracy is paramount. Advertisers do not influence content. Advertising is both labeled and clearly delimited from medical content.
11. Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser. All modern browsers allow customization to disable cookies. This website is still accessible despite disabling cookies; however certain added features may be unavailable without the use of cookies.
FPnotebook does not sell your information to third parties. However, third party advertisers may be able to identify you from cookies in your browser. In addition, FPnotebook partners with UBM Medica for advertising, and users who specifically subscribe to UBM Medica's services may have their browsing history discerned by third parties. Again, disabling cookies in your internet browser will disable tracking.
12. Website traffic analysis
In order to monitor website usage, our traffic analysis solution may use "cookies." The two traffic analysis tools used on this site are Google Analytics and Adobe Omniture. FPnotebook uses these tools only to monitor overall trends in usage and return visitors, but not to collect personal information about the user. As noted above, cookies may be disabled in your browser's option panel."
13. Image Data Handling
13a. Image Upload and Storage
When you add images to to the app, these images are transmitted to remote servers only if you are logged in. The primary purpose of this upload process is to synchronize your data across all your devices, ensuring that you have consistent access to your images no matter where you log in from. This synchronization process allows for a seamless user experience across platforms. If you are not logged in, all of your images remain on your local device.
13b. Image Usage
Images that you include in the FPNotebook app are not used for any secondary purposes. Any transmission or storage of images by the app is only for the purpose of implementing app functionality and syncing data across your devices.
13c. Copyright and Ownership
It is important to note that by uploading images, you are not transferring copyright or ownership of these images. You retain full copyright and ownership rights to your images. We make no claims of copyright or ownership over any images uploaded to our platform.
13d. Third-Party Cloud Services
To provide robust data synchronization and storage capabilities, third-party cloud services are utilized. These services are selected for their reliability and security measures. However, it is important for users to understand that their images may be stored on these third-party cloud services as part of the synchronization and storage process. While these images are not shared with the public and are intended solely for your personal access and use, their storage is managed by these third-party services in accordance with their security protocols and privacy policies.
13e. Privacy and Security
We are committed to protecting your privacy and securing your data. We implement a variety of security measures to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your images. However, users should be aware that no method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your images, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
13f. Consent and Changes
By using the app, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy regarding your images. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes to the image handling section of our Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. Your continued use of the app after any changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.