Website Policies

Website Conditions of Use

This website is designed to increase your knowledge and understanding of health matters and to provide you with information regarding your health or the health of someone close to you. Before using this website it is important that you understand and accept that this website is merely informative and the information is of a general and not exhaustive nature, not being specific to you or your health
needs. The information is not intended to be used to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, or  illness, or for therapeutic purposes.

The information made available to you is not a substitute for regular advice from your doctor or health care professional. You should not act in reliance on any statement contained in the information made available to you and should consult your doctor or health care professional for an informed diagnosis and before varying your medication, dietary habits, exercise routine or any other aspect of your well being. Caringbah Family Practice do not warrant the accuracy of the opinions expressed on this website nor do they accept liability for any injury, loss or damage incurred by use of or in reliance on the information provided through this website whether arising from negligence or otherwise. If you do not understand or agree with limited purpose for which the information is made
available on this website please exit this site or contact us for further information.
The Caringbah Family Practice website (Website) is owned and operated by the Caringbah Family Practice . By using or accessing any part of the Website or the information or material contained in the Website (Content) you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these Conditions of Use.

You agree that your use of the Website and any Content will governed by the law of the State of New South Wales, Australia, and any dispute arising out of the use of the Website or the Content will be determined by the courts of that State and their appellate courts. Caringbah Family Practice does not warrant or represent that the Content is appropriate for use in other locations where such Content is or may be illegal, or may infringe any person's rights.

Caringbah Family Practice hereby licenses you to view and print copies of the Content from the Website and subject to the following conditions:

The Content is only used for the purpose of obtaining information about the services offered by Caringbah Family Practice 
The Content is used for non-commercial purposes.

All other copying, downloading, reproduction, distribution, adaptation, modification or communication of the Website or the Content is prohibited, except with the express authorisation of Caringbah Family Practice

Intellectual property in all programs, publications, designs, trade marks, products, processes, software, technology, information, know-how, or ideas contained in the Website or the Content is owned by or licensed to Caringbah Family Practice unless otherwise specified and is not licensed to you except as expressly set out in these terms.

You are not permitted to link or frame the Website without Caringbah Family Practice 's express permission.
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The Website is intended to provide general information on a particular subject or subjects and is not an exhaustive treatment of such subject's. The Website and the Content are subject to change at any time without notice. Caringbah Family Practice endeavours to provide accurate and up-to-date Content, however the Website and the Content may contain errors.

Caringbah Family Practice makes no express or implied representations or warranties regarding the quality, accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Website or the Content. Without limiting the foregoing, Caringbah Family Practice does not warrant that the Website or the Content will be error-free or will meet any particular criteria of performance or quality. Caringbah Family Practice expressly disclaims all implied warranties, including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability, title, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security, and accuracy.

To the extent that any non-excludable warranties are implied into these conditions by law, Caringbah Family Practice's liability in respect of the Website and the Content is limited to resupplying the relevant Content or the reasonable cost of resupplying the relevant Content, whichever Caringbah Family Practice elects to provide.

Your use of this document and information is at your own risk. You assume full responsibility and risk of loss resulting from the use of this document or information. None of Caringbah Family Practice, or any of its related entities or employees will be liable for any loss, damage, claim, cost or expense howsoever incurred in connection with the use of the Website or the Content.

Without limiting the foregoing, Caringbah Family Practice and its related entities and employees will not in any case be liable for any direct or indirect lost profit or any special, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages howsoever incurred in connection with the use of the Website or the Content.
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If any of the foregoing is not fully enforceable for any reason, the remainder shall nonetheless continue to apply.

Caringbah Family Practice and the Caringbah Family Practice logos, product names and all page headers, footers, and icons are trademarks or registered trademarks of Caringbah Family Practice. All other product names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective owners. You are not permitted to use these trade marks.

Certain links included in the Website lead to resources maintained by third parties over whom Caringbah Family Practice has no control. Caringbah Family Practice provides these links only as a ready reference for searching the internet and not as an endorsement of those resources or their providers. Caringbah Family Practice makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy, suitability or any other aspect of those resources.

Any personal information that you may provide to Caringbah Family Practice via the Website will be handled in accordance with Caringbah Family Practice's privacy policy. A copy of the privacy policy may be viewed on the Website.

Privacy

Privacy Statement

Effective as of January 23rd, 2006

Introduction

Caringbah Family Practice is a privacy conscious organisation. The following privacy statement explains how we protect visitors' information gathered via this Website.

If you, as a visitor, choose to register or submit information to this Website, you agree to the use of such data in accordance with this privacy statement. Please note that from time to time, this site will contain links to other websites not operated by Caringbah Family Practice. We recommend that you read the privacy statement relevant to those websites as other websites may deal with your personal information in a different manner to that described in this privacy statement.

If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement or do not feel that your concerns have been addressed, please direct your questions to the Webmaster using the Email Us link on the homepage.

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Information collection

As a visitor, you do not have to submit any personal information in order to use the Website. The site only collects personally identifiable information that is specifically and voluntarily provided by visitors. This information may include your name, current job title, company address, email address and telephone and fax numbers. You may choose to provide Caringbah Family Practice with additional personal information. Any personal information we collect from you will only be used for the purposes for which the personal information has been collected.
We use a "cookie" to facilitate improved navigation within the site. The cookie expires after the visitor leaves the Website. Cookies are small text files stored in a user's browser. If you are concerned about cookies and do not wish to receive them, you may set your Internet browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. You can then decide to either accept or reject it. However, under specific circumstances, visitors may be denied access to some parts of our site if their browsers reject cookies.

To ensure that our Website is well managed, when you are visiting or browsing this website we may collect personal information to identify categories of visitors by items such as domain and browser type. This information is used by Caringbah Family Practice to analyse the number of visitors to different areas of the site and to ensure that our Website is serving as a useful and effective information source.
Information use

Personal information collected by Caringbah Family Practice via this website will, save as consented by you, only be used for the purpose of enabling Caringbah Family Practice to provide its services to you and for disclosure to the third parties mentioned below.

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Disclosure of information to third parties

Caringbah Family Practice may disclose your personal information to its related companies or other third parties that have been retained by Caringbah Family Practice to perform certain services or to whom information must be disclosed in the course of providing services to you, including:

Marketing consultants
Operational consultants
Financial and Strategy Advisors

We will not share the information with third parties for secondary or unrelated purposes unless otherwise disclosed at the point of collection.

Where appropriate, personal information may also be disclosed to law enforcement, regulatory or other government agencies, or third parties where necessary or desirable to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or requests or for the purposes identified above.


Information security

We have in place reasonable commercial standards of technology and operational security to protect all information provided by visitors from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.


Access to your personal information

Subject to certain exceptions which may apply under the Privacy Act (CTH) 1988, you can request access to your personal information that has been provided to Caringbah Family Practice via this website.

A request for access to personal information must be made in writing and Caringbah Family Practice may recover from you its reasonable costs in providing you with access to this information.


Changes to our privacy policy

Caringbah Family Practice reserves the right to modify or amend this privacy statement at any time and for any reason. Nothing contained herein creates or is intended to create a contract or agreement between Caringbah Family Practice and any user visiting the Website or providing identifying information of any kind.


Visitors' questions

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your privacy while using this Website, please direct them to Webmaster Services using the E-mail us link on the Homepage
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