Spine-health Forum Rules and Guidelines

Authority
Our forums are moderated on a daily basis. The administrators (dilauro and tamtam) and the moderators (haglandc, dave and jeauxbert) are volunteers.

The moderators and forum members are not regarded as health professionals.

Complementarity
The information provided on this forum is designed to support, not replace, the direct relationship between patients and health professionals.

Privacy
We remind you that any message can be read, used, reproduced and cited by all. Any post can be used or reproduced for usage outside the forums on Spine-health.com or on external websites, emails or printed materials.

You do not have the option to delete your messages. However, under exceptional circumstances, you can contact the moderators to do so. The references you provide for your posts cannot be deleted. Thus, please take care regarding the information that you post.

Messages
The moderators and members should conduct themselves at all times with respect and honesty.

By using our forums, you agree to post information that is true and correct to the best of your knowledge and is of your personal experience. If the information you post is not personal experience, we request you to provide sources (references, links, etc) whenever it is relevant and possible.

You are not allowed to post advertisements, commercial solicitations, or recruitment of any kind, whether in the form of text links, banners or other methods.

The moderators reserve the right to delete any messages deemed inappropriate without notifying the author. In cases of abuse, the moderators reserve the right to ban a member of the forum. Except for the most grievous violations of our rules and guidelines, prior to being banned from the Forums the user will be notified in advance and given a chance to participate appropriately in the Forums. Whenever possible, an explanation for moderators actions will be provided if the member requests it.

Additional Rules and Regulations

• You agree not to submit or post material that is harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable in any manner or nature to forums on Spine-health.com
• You agree not to post personal information about other Forum Members on the site, including email addresses.
• You agree not to impersonate other individuals when you submit to forums on Spine-health.com.
• You agree not to submit or post advertisements or commercial solicitations to forums on Spine-health.com.
• You agree not to engage in any solicitation either on the Spine-health.com forums or via email to Spine-health.com viewers.
• You agree not to post information that is considered to be formal medical advice.
• All information provided by members must clearly state that the information you provided is based on personal experience and is not formal medical advice.
• You agree not to submit or post copyrighted material, without permission, to forums on Spine-health.com.
• You agree not to post specific physician names on Spine-Health.com.
• You agree that any information, opinions or other content provided by doctors or patients on Spine-health.com forums is for educational purposes only and is not intended for medical diagnoses or treatment. Always consult with a physician for any health problem or medical condition.

Guideline for Including Links/Outside Material in Forum Posts

• No posting links to advertisements or as solicitations of business.
• No posting links that are not relevant to the applicable forum topic.
• No posting material that infringes on the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others.
• Any outside content or material directly quoted must include a reference to the location the source came from.

Spine-health.com assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, or failure to post messages.

Spine-health.com discourages duplicate posting by members.

Spine-health.com reserves the right to edit, monitor and/or delete comments at our discretion without notice.

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