TERMS OF USE

1. Description of the website

Diabetorama.com is an innovative and original website, hosting free Powerpoint^® slide sets. The website enables users to access, view, upload, and download scientific presentations related to diabetes. Diabetorama.com is an English website designed for health care professionals. Health care professionals are allowed to create a free personal account in order to upload slide sets related to diabetes.
Since the website is not designed to back up data, you are responsible for taking all necessary precautions in that regard.

2. Your intellectual property rights

If you have registered and have a Diabetorama account pursuant to which you upload your own Powerpoint® slide sets, Diabetorama does not own your presentations. By making them accessible to other users, you agree to allow any users of the website to view and download your presentation free of charge for the entire period in which your presentation is hosted on the website.

3. Other users’ intellectual property rights

Other users of Diabetorama may have provided presentations published on the website. You can access, view, and download other users’ presentations for personal use only. If you wish to use another user’s content for any other purpose, in particular for commercial use, you must obtain such other user’s prior express authorization. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you need further information.

4. Our intellectual property rights

Diabetorama.com is the property of the MGSD. Except content uploaded or created by other users and published on Diabetorama.com, texts, graphics, logos, names, designations, images, information, data, videos, presentations and other material is the exclusive property of the MGSD. They are protected by copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights.

5. Our liability as host

We are under no legal obligation to monitor content transmitted via or stored on the website.
Our only obligations as host concern the fight against forbidden content and the removal of all clearly illegal content which has been effectively brought to our attention.

6. Your liability as user

As a supplier of content on the website, including presentations and comments, you are required to comply with the laws and regulation in force. You are thus responsible for ensuring that your presentations stored on or disseminated through the website do not violate any third-party intellectual property right, and do not cause personal injury, or invasion of privacy.
By uploading presentation through the website, you warrant that you are not uploading any infringing material and expressly warrant that you have all necessary rights and/or authorizations from the copyright owners, and have paid any royalties or other fees persuant to any licences or permissions you may have with owners of copyright royalty collection organizations.
You have to respect the applicable laws (in particular law regarding privacy and personal data protection). In particular, you shall refrain, with respect to the personal information to which you access, from any distorted collection or use, and generally, from any act likely to damage the privacy, reputation, respect, image or sensitivity of another user or any other person, by avoiding any libellous, provocative, malicious or threatening comment, message or text.

7. Scientific requirements and use of information

Diabetorama.com is a website designed for health care professionals. The MGSD may refuse a Powerpoint® presentation that would not comply with its scientific requirements.
If you are a consumer who chooses to use the professional-level information on Diabetorama.com, you should not rely on that information as professional medical advice or use it to replace any relationship with your physician or other qualified health care professional. For medical concerns, including decisions about medications and other treatments, consumers should always consult their physician or, in serious cases, seek immediate assistance from emergency personnel.
The MGSD shall in no way be held liable in case of error, absence of availability of the information and/or presence of viruses on its site.
The content of the presentations stored on or disseminated through the website only binds their authors. You should keep your own clinical opinion and be critical.

8. Registration and access

In order to publish presentations, you must set up an account using the online registration form. You are free to modify the personal data you provided on the form at any time. You may access your account by entering your personal login and password, which you are alone responsible for keeping secure.
You acknowledge having the skills necessary to access and use this site, and having checked that the computer configuration used is virus-free and in perfect working order.
You further acknowledge having been informed that the present site is accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, except in case of force majeure events, computer difficulties, difficulties linked to the telecommunications networks structure, or technical difficulties. The MGSD may interrupt the site for maintenance reasons.