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How we will use your
data
Smith & Nephew Medical Limited is responsible for operating
this Website. This privacy policy is integral to the operation of
the site and explains how we will use the personal information
which we collect from you when you register to access this website
and which you may provide to us at a later stage in your use of
it.
Smith & Nephew Medical Limited is required to comply with
European legislation (Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC) as
implemented in the UK by the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation
to the personal data which we hold about you. Personal information
requested to enter the site has been kept to a minimum and is held
securely. Smith & Nephew Medical Limited will use your personal
data for the proper operation and functioning of the website. The
data will be used for administration purposes by being held on a
database so that we have a record of our users' details and so that
we can monitor the number of people accessing the site. This
information will be used by Smith & Nephew Medical Limited for
the purpose of market research in order to assist us in the further
development.
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Information you may receive from
us
In addition to the information which is posted on
the website, we also offer supplemental bulletins which, if you so
choose, will be sent to you directly by e-mail once you registered
your details. These bulletins may cover a range of topics which you
may be interested in and may include educational updates, details
of forthcoming Smith & Nephew conferences and some Smith &
Nephew product information. If you would like to receive these
e-mail bulletins, please tick the box which appears. Note that if
you opt to receive these bulletins but at a later stage decide that
you no longer wish to receive them, please let us know.
Instructions on how to do this will be available both on our
website and with all the e-mail bulletins.
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Transfers of
Information
The personal information which you
provide to us will be held on a database by Smith & Nephew
Medical Ltd. In order to send all the information which you may
request by way of e-mail updates, as efficiently as possible, your
personal data which we hold on our database may be accessed by our
Smith & Nephew operation in the United States so that it can
send the bulletins to you. In addition, the database may be
accessed by other companies within the Smith & Nephew Group of
Companies on a global basis. This is for the purpose of monitoring
the use of the website and to generate information for market
research purposes. In addition, it may also from time to time be
necessary to transfer your details to other Smith & Nephew
Group Companies, which may be in other countries, in order to send
to you the e-mail updates which you may have requested.
From time to time, we may also transfer your personal information
to carefully selected third parties in order to ensure the proper
functioning of the website, for example our external service
provider who is responsible for the maintenance of our IT system.
It may also become necessary to employ a third party organisation
to manage the database in which your data is contained. This will
involve the transfer of your data to that organisation in order for
it to administer the database on our behalf.
By accepting these Terms and Conditions you consent to Smith &
Nephew Medical Limited and other companies within the Smith &
Nephew Group using your personal data for the purposes outlined in
these Terms and Conditions.
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Contacting Us
For general website questions,
questions pertaining to this disclaimer or for details on or
modifications to the information which we hold about you, please
contact Kirsty Akrill at the address below. You have the right to
have any information which we hold about you updated if the details
become inaccurate or out of date and we would ask you to let us
know if your details change so that we can update our records. You
also have the right to be informed of the nature of the information
which we hold about you and you should direct any enquiries which
you have in this regard to Kirsty Akrill as below. We may request
from you a small fee to cover our administration charges of
supplying this information to you.
Kirsty Akrill
Smith & Nephew Medical Ltd
101 Hessle Road
HULL, HU3 2BN
England
For any enquiries which pertain to the UK Data Protection Act,
contact Andrew Parkes at the address below.
Andrew Parkes
Data Protection Officer
Smith & Nephew Medical Ltd.
101 Hessle Road
Hull, HU3 2BN
England
This website contains links
to other websites. Please note that these websites may have privacy
policies that differ from those of this website and that Smith
& Nephew Medical Limited cannot accept any legal responsibility
or liability for the content of those websites or for any such
privacy policy contained on such websites.
Terms and Conditions of Use
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This website is intended for use by
medical professionals and is in no way intended for use by persons
who are not medical professionals. Nothing in this website should
be construed as the giving of medical advice and in all
circumstances, the advice of a fully qualified medical practitioner
should be sought.
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All website design, text,
graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof, and all software
compilations, underlying source codes, software and all other
material on this website are subject to copyright which is either
owned by Smith & Nephew Medical Limited or used under licence
from third party copyright owners. Under no circumstances shall a
user of this website acquire any interest in any intellectual
property rights whatsoever belonging to Smith & Nephew Medical
Limited by using this website.
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You may download materials
contained on this website to a single personal computer and to
print hard copy portions of this website but in each case solely
for your own private research and study and non-commercial use. No
part of this website or any of the software may be reproduced,
copied, transmitted or distributed in any form, for any other
purpose.
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No rights are granted to
you to use any trade marks or trade names as referred to on this
website whatsoever.
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You will not nor will you
allow any other person to:-
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reproduce, publish,
transmit, circulate, distribute, copy, alter, add to, delete,
remove or tamper with this website or any part of it;
or
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directly or indirectly
disrupt or interfere (or attempt to disrupt or interfere) with or
alter this website other than in the course of viewing or using
this website in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of
Use.
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Neither Smith & Nephew
Medical Limited nor any of its affiliates, group members,
directors, employees, agents or other representatives, will be
liable (whether under contract, tort, statute or otherwise
howsoever arising) for any damages, losses, costs, claims,
liabilities or expenses arising out of or in connection with the
use of this website or any other information supplied to you by
Smith & Nephew Medical Limited in connection with your use of
this website. This limitation of liability shall apply to ALL
damages, losses, costs, claims, liabilities and expenses of any
kind, including (but without limitation whatsoever);
(a) any direct loss or damage of any kind howsoever caused
including without limitation direct loss of profit or direct loss
of anticipated savings; or
(b) any indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind
howsoever caused, including without limitation any indirect loss of
profit, loss of use of monies, loss of anticipated savings, loss of
business, loss of opportunity, loss of goodwill or reputation, loss
of data and/or any wasted expenditure.
For the avoidance of doubt, the sub-clauses of this Clause 6 are
intended to be severable.
Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit the liability of
Smith & Nephew Medical Limited for death or personal injury
caused by its negligence or for fraudulent
misrepresentation.
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These Terms and Conditions
and your use of this website shall be governed by and construed in
all respects in accordance with English law and by using this
website you accept that any dispute under these Terms and
Conditions or arising out of the use of this website shall be
subject to the executive jurisdiction of the English Courts to
which you submit. This Clause shall not prejudice the rights of
Smith & Nephew Medical Limited to bring an action in any other
court of competent jurisdiction.
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If for any reason part of
these Terms and Conditions is deemed to be unenforceable, the
validity of the remaining terms shall not be
affected.
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Any waiver by Smith &
Nephew Medical Limited of a breach of any provision under these
Terms and Conditions shall not be considered a waiver of any
subsequent breach of any provision.
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Smith & Nephew Medical
Limited reserves the right to modify, adapt, delete or supplement
these Terms and Conditions at any time and without notification to
anyone.
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The Privacy Statement and
the Disclaimer form part of these Terms and Conditions of Use of
this website. If you do not agree with, or are not prepared to be
bound by any of the Terms and Conditions of this website or if you
do not consent to Smith & Nephew Medical Limited using your
personal data as described in the Privacy Statement then, you must
stop using this website. By continuing to use this website, you are
deemed to have agreed to all Terms and Conditions contained within
this website and are deemed to have given your express consent to
Smith & Nephew Medical Limited using your personal data as
described in the Privacy Statement. Please therefore confirm your
acceptance or non-acceptance of these Terms and Conditions by
clicking as appropriate.
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Disclaimer
Smith & Nephew provides this site for
your general information only. Smith & Nephew reserves the
right to delete, modify or supplement the content of this site at
any time for any reason without notification to
anyone.
Products shown may not be available in all countries or
may be known by a different name. Indications for use may vary from
country to country. You should always check with your local health
care professional and read the package insert prior to use.
Customer Service is available to help with product information or
questions. The information provided here is not a substitute for
medical care. If you have or suspect you have a health problem, you
should consult your health care professional.
Smith
& Nephew makes no representations, warranties or assurances as
to the availability, accuracy, currency or completeness of this
site or its contents. Smith & Nephew shall not be liable for
any damages or injury resulting from your access to, or inability
to access, this site, or from your reliance on any information
provided at this site.
The
content of this site is owned or controlled by Smith & Nephew
and is protected under applicable copyright and trademark laws. You
may download content only for your personal use for non-commercial
purposes, but no modifications or further reproduction of the
content is permitted without the express prior written permission
of Smith & Nephew. The content otherwise may not be copied or
used in any way.
If
this site is linked to other sites, Smith & Nephew does not
endorse or have any responsibility for the content of such other
sites, and Smith & Nephew shall not be liable for any damages
or injury arising from the content of any other site.
Any communications you send to this site or otherwise to Smith
& Nephew are on a non-confidential basis, and Smith &
Nephew is under no obligation to refrain from reproducing,
publishing, or otherwise using them in any way or for any purpose.
Smith & Nephew shall be free to use the content of any such
communications, including any ideas, inventions, concepts,
techniques or know-how disclosed therein, for any purpose including
developing, manufacturing and/or marketing goods or
services.
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