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General</h3> <p>This General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter the "GTC") govern the legal relationship (hereinafter the "Agreement") between you (hereinafter the "User") and AO Foundation, Clavadelerstrasse 8, 7270 Davos, Switzerland (hereinafter "the AO", together the "Parties") concerning the websites <a href="/">www.aofoundation.org</a>, <a href="https://www.aofoundation.org/trauma/">www.aotrauma.org</a>, <a href="https://www.aofoundation.org/spine/">www.aospine.org</a>, <a href="https://www.aofoundation.org/cmf/">www.aocmf.org</a>, <a href="https://www.aofoundation.org/vet/">www.aovet.org</a>, <a href="https://www.aofoundation.org/recon/">www.aorecon.org</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.myao.app/" target="_blank" title="myAO">www.myao.app</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://surgeryreference.aofoundation.org/" target="_blank" title="AO Surgery Reference">surgeryreference.aofoundation.org</a> (hereinafter the "Sites").</p> <p>By using the Application and its Services, the Sites, or upon clicking of the acceptance icon indicated on the Sites, the User confirms to have read these GTC and agrees to be bound by these GTC.</p> <p>These GTC are available on the Sites. The User has the possibility to download a PDF file of these GTC which can be printed out and saved at any time. </p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">2. No advice</h3> <p style="background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; color: #575759;">The Sites are not designed for laypersons. The products, procedures, therapies, etc, described on the Sites are only to be applied in environments specially designed and by medical professionals specially certified and trained for such procedures.</p> <p>The information provided on the Sites is for educational and research purposes only and does not give professional advice or recommend particular products, procedures or therapies, etc. The information contained in the Sites is not intended to present the only or necessarily the best products, procedures, or therapies, etc. </p> <p>No suggested test or procedure should be carried out unless, in the User's professional judgment, its risk is justified. Whoever applies products, procedures and therapies, etc, shown or described on the Sites does so at her/his own risk and is responsible for their compliance with all local laws, regulations, and medical practice applicable. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, the AO recommends that independent verification of diagnosis, therapies, drugs, dosages, and operation methods should be made before any action is taken.</p> <p>All information contained in the Sites is only intended for preparing medical procedures and not as an aid while carrying out medical procedures.</p> <p>Individuals with any type of medical condition are specifically cautioned to seek professional medical advice before beginning any sort of health treatment. For medical concerns, including decisions about medications and other treatments, users of the Sites should always consult their physician or other qualified health-care professional.</p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">3. License to Services</h3> <p style="background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; color: #575759;">Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a nonexclusive and nontransferable license upon and limited to necessity to download and install one (1) copy of the Application to your mobile device, and to access and use the Services, solely for your own personal use. You may not: (i) copy, modify or distribute the Application for any purpose; (ii) transfer, sublicense, lease, lend, rent or otherwise distribute the Application or the Services to any third party; (iii) decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works of the Application or the Services; (iv) make the functionality of the Application or the Services available to multiple users through any means; or (v) use the Services in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with these Terms.</p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">4. Third-Party Materials and agreements</h3> <p style="color: #575759; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">You may be able to access, review, display or use third-party services, resources, content or information (“Third-Party Materials”) via the Services. By using the Application to find material on the internet, you instruct the AO to present portions of the selected data sources. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your access to, use of, or reliance upon any such Third-Party Materials, and the AO disclaims any liability that you may incur arising from your access to, use of or reliance upon such Third-Party Materials or user content via the Application. You acknowledge and agree that the AO: (a) is not responsible for the availability or accuracy of such Third-Party Materials or the products or services on or available from such Third-Party Materials; (b) has no liability to you or any third party for any harm, injuries or losses suffered as a result of your access to or use of such Third-Party Materials; and (c) does not make any promises to remove Third-Party Materials from being accessed through the Services. Your ability to access or link to Third-Party Materials or third-party services does not imply any endorsement by the AO of Third-Party Materials or any such third-party services. These Terms of Use do not authorize you to, and you may not, reproduce, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate to the public, make available, create derivative works of or otherwise use or exploit any Third-Party Materials excpt as expressly permitted by the Application as authorized by the AO, and the owners of such Third-Party Materials may have the right to seek damages against you for any unauthorized use of their Third-Party Materials.</p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">5. No warranty</h3> <p style="color: #575759; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">The Sites and the Services connected therewith are provided on an “as is,” “with all faults,” and “as available” basis and the entire risk as to satisfactory quality, performance, accuracy and efforts is with the User. The AO does not make any representations or warranties, express of implied, under the agreement. Any and all representations and warranties of the AO under or in connection with the agreement are excluded to the extent legally possible, including but not limited to representations of warranties:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort, error free access to the sites or use thereof;</p> </li> <li> <p>Regarding any data and/or information provided or made available by the AO or a User on the sites or on any external websites linked to the sites including but not limited to information being of satisfactory quality, adequacy, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, compliance with local laws as well as the regulations and medical practice thereof; and</p> </li> <li> <p>Of uninterrupted or error-free access or use of the sites.</p> </li> </ul> <p>The Sites do not, and in no way constitute or imply the endorsement, recommendation, or appropriate of an advice. The AO does not screen nor in any other way examine the information uploaded by its users on the Sites but simply provides the platform.</p> <p>Any graphic or pictorial materials appearing on the sites are digitized reproductions which, though viewable, are not of diagnostic quality and are not designed nor intended to become a permanent part of any patient’s medical record.</p> <p>The User represents and warrants that (i) the User has all necessary power and authorization to accept the GTC; (ii) these GTC are legal, valid, binding and enforceable against the user; (iii) the User’s acceptance of these GTC will not violate any law, rule, regulation or order, or any agreement, binding the User; (iv) and the User will observe all applicable laws and provisions of these GTC.</p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">6. No liability</h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;">TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, THE AO DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PERSONAL INJURY, FINANCIAL LOSS, DAMAGES FOR LOSS IN BUSINESS PROJECTS, LOSS OF PROFITS OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES) ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITES OR ANY MATERIAL APPEARING ON THE SITES, OR FROM ANY ACTION OR DECISION TAKEN AS A RESULT OF USING THE SITES OR ANY SUCH MATERIAL OR ANY OTHER ACT OR OMISSION IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITES.</span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">7. Membership and fees</h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;">The conditions for memberships, the applicable fees and the payment conditions are set forth on the Site. The respective provisions shall be integral part of this agreement.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">The AO or the respective AO specialty is entitled to terminate the membership of the User, if any, with immediate effect for reasonable cause. In such a case, the AO shall not be obliged to refund any monies paid to the AO or an AO specialty by the User.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">If the User does not accept the termination, she or he has to inform the AO within 20 days of the termination of the AO or the respective AO specialty in writing. In such a case, the AO Foundation Board (AOFB) shall decide about the effectiveness of the termination within reasonable time. The decision of the AOFB shall be final and binding.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">The usage of the Sites by the AO and the Services of the AO under the agreement connected therewith by the AO are free of charge, unless otherwise indicated on the Sites.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">The AO reserves the right to charge for the usage of parts of the Sites and the Services under the agreement at any time subject to a respective modification of the agreement according to Article 14 below.</span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">8. Intellectual property rights</h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;">Unless otherwise stated in this agreement, any and all intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to copyrights) in all data, information and material uploaded by the User (hereinafter the "User Material") is—subject to Article 7 below—owned by User.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">Prints or download extracts from the data, information or material of the Sites (hereinafter the "AO Material") as well as any other reproduction thereof are permitted for educational and research purposes or personal use only. None of the AO Material may be used for any commercial purpose by the User. Particularly, the User may not license, sublicense, sell, resell, transfer, assign, distribute, or otherwise exploit or make available to any third party the AO Material in any way.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">No AO Material may be reproduced, stored in or transmitted on any other websites (including intranet sites) by the User nor is the User permitted to create any derivative works based on AO Material without written permission of the AO. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">Some names, instruments, treatments, logos, designs, etc, referred to on the Sites are protected by patents, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights even though specific reference to this fact is not made on the Sites. Therefore, the appearance of a name, instrument, etc, without designation as proprietary is not to be construed as a representation by the AO that it is in the public domain.</span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">9. User data license</h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;">In the course of visiting the Sites, the User may upload User Material. As between the Parties, the User shall remain the sole owner of all User Material, provided however that the User hereby grants to the AO a worldwide, eternal, unlimited, non-revocable, and non-redeemable license to use, copy, distribute, display, disclose, and perform such User Material or parts of the User Material, to create derivative works thereof, and to sublicense such rights for any and all purposes. The User shall have sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability, appropriateness, and intellectual property ownership or right to use all User Material, and the AO shall not be responsible or liable for the deletion, accuracy, correction, disclosure, destruction, damage, loss or failure to store any User Material. For the avoidance of any doubt, the license granted by the User to the AO shall remain valid even if this agreement is terminated for whatever reason.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">Any User Material shall be depersonalized by the User before submitted to the AO (ie, the User must ensure that User Material does not qualify as personal data in the sense of Art. 3 let. a of the Swiss Act on Data Protection when submitted to the AO). The User acknowledges that he/she has the sole responsibility that any and all User Material is fully depersonalized.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">The User Material has to comply with all relevant laws and regulations as well as ethical and medical standards and may not (i) have an illegal, harmful, or harassing content or invade another's privacy, (ii) infringe rights of a third party, including any intellectual property rights, or (iii) contain viruses or any other computer codes, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">If the AO exploits the User Material, it will name the respective User to the extent reasonably possible. The AO is, however, not obliged to pay to the User a royalty or other financial compensation for such exploitation.</span></p> <div> <h3 style="text-align: center;">10. Data protection</h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;">The AO shall comply with all applicable legal provisions regarding data protection. In particular, the AO shall not provide or otherwise disclose any personal data of the User to any third party without authorization. Details on the use of the Users' personal data by the AO are set forth in the </span><a href="https://media.aofoundation.org/-/media/project/aocd/shared/ao_data_privacy_notice.pdf?rev=86a9497d2eae4b9797885dc35cff3da2">data privacy notice of the AO</a><span style="color: #131313;"> which is accessible on the website of the AO.</span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">11. Advertising material</h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;">Advertisers, if any, are responsible for ensuring that the User Material submitted for inclusion on the Sites complies with all relevant laws and regulations as well as ethical and medical standards. The AO will not take responsibility for any error, omission or inaccuracy in advertising material. Appearance on the Sites does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of the quality or value of a product or of the allegations made by the manufacturers.</span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">12. Infringement and indemnification</h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;">If the User does not comply with these GTC, AO has the right to prevent the User from visiting the Sites and using the Services connected therewith, and AO reserves the right to any legal action the AO thinks is appropriate.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">If, based on a written agreement between the User and the AO, the User is entitled to provide access the Sites to third persons, the User represents that all such third persons using the Sites are contractually bound by these terms, conditions and disclaimers as well.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">The User agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the AO, to the fullest extent permitted by law, against any cause of action, all liabilities, losses, costs or expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel) with respect to any claim by third parties arising out of the User's failure to perform its obligations under the agreement.</span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">13. No right to visit the Sites and modification of the Sites</h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;">Unless expressly stated in this or another written agreement between the Parties, the AO has no legal duty to the User, and may at any time and without giving grounds prevent the User from visiting the Sites and using the Services connected therewith.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">The AO is entitled without prior notice to the User in its free discretion</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color: #131313;">To shut down the Sites temporarily or permanently at any time</span></li> <li><span style="color: #131313;">To remove any and all content on the Sites </span></li> <li><span style="color: #131313;">To modify the Sites and the Services connected therewith</span></li> </ul> <h3 style="text-align: center;">14. Termination of the agreement</h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;">Each Party may terminate this agreement with immediate effect by email at any time.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">Upon termination of the agreement, the User shall not have access to the Site anymore without restriction. The user data license according to Article 7 above shall under no circumstances be terminated due to the termination of this agreement.</span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">15. 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This means that the applicants are considered according to the sequence their registration and payments arrived in the AO.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #131313;">No correspondence concerning the evaluation criteria and the selection will be hold and legal action is ruled out.</span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #131313;">19. Recording at AO events</span></h3> <p><span style="color: #131313;"><span class="cf01">The AO reserves the right to film, photograph, and audio record during its events. The AO uses these recorded materials for the AO’s scientific, educational, and marketing purposes and may publish them on the AO website, in presentations, in social media (like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X), and in print media, such as in ads, flyers, programs or in booth media. If you would prefer not to be recorded and the recordings published, please inform the photographer or the recording person. 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