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This Guide and Prostate Cancer Research Institute’s website (www.pcri.org) pro­vides gen­eral infor­ma­tion and dis­cus­sion about med­i­cine, health and related sub­jects.  The words and other con­tent pro­vided in this Guide/Site, and in any affiliated mate­ri­als, are not intended and should not be con­strued as med­ical advice. If the reader or any other per­son has a med­ical con­cern, he or she should con­sult with an appropriately-licensed physi­cian or other health care worker. Never dis­re­gard pro­fes­sional med­ical advice or delay in seek­ing it because of some­thing you have read in this guide or in any affiliated materials. If you think you may have a med­ical emer­gency, call your doc­tor or 911 immediately. The views expressed in this Guide/Site have no rela­tion to those of any academic, hospital, practice or other insti­tu­tion with which the authors are affiliated.

TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT:

This Terms of Use Agree­ment (“agree­ment”) is entered between and by “you” (the reader or any other user of this guide or the PCRI website, also known as PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, the “Guide/Site”), Dr. Mark Scholz, MD  (the “Principal author”) and the PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE Guide/Site team (the ‘team’).  Access to the Guide/Site, and any use thereof, is sub­ject to the terms and con­di­tions set forth herein.  By access­ing, read­ing or oth­er­wise using the guide/site, you hereby agree to these terms and conditions.

This agree­ment con­tains dis­claimers and other pro­vi­sions that limit the Author’s lia­bil­ity to you.  Please read these terms and con­di­tions fully and care­fully.  If you do not agree to be bound to each and every term and con­di­tion set forth herein, please exit the guide/site and do not access, read or oth­er­wise use infor­ma­tion pro­vided herein.

By access­ing the Guide/Site and/or read­ing its con­tent, and/or using it to find infor­ma­tion on any other web­site or infor­ma­tional resource, you acknowl­edge and agree that you have read and under­stand these terms and con­di­tions, that the pro­vi­sions, dis­clo­sures and dis­claimers set forth herein are fair and rea­son­able, and that your agree­ment to fol­low and be bound by these terms and con­di­tions is vol­un­tary and is not the result of fraud, duress or undue influ­ence exer­cised upon you by any per­son or entity.

DISCLAIMER REGARDING MEDICAL ADVICE

The Principal author pro­vides the Guide/Site and any ser­vices, infor­ma­tion, opinions, con­tent, ref­er­ences and links to other knowl­edge resources (col­lec­tively, “Con­tent”) for infor­ma­tional pur­poses only. The Author does not pro­vide any med­ical advice through the Guide/Site. Access­ing, read­ing or oth­er­wise using the Guide/Site does not cre­ate a physician-patient rela­tion­ship between you and the Principal author.  Pro­vid­ing per­sonal or med­ical infor­ma­tion to the Principal author does not cre­ate a physician-patient rela­tion­ship between you and the Principal author or authors.

Noth­ing con­tained in the Guide/Site is intended to estab­lish a physician-patient rela­tion­ship, to replace the ser­vices of a trained physi­cian or healthcare pro­fes­sional, or oth­er­wise to be a sub­sti­tute for pro­fes­sional med­ical advice, diag­no­sis, or treatment.

You hereby agree that you shall not make any med­ical or health-related deci­sion based in whole or in part on any­thing con­tained in the Guide/Site.  You should not rely on any infor­ma­tion con­tained in the guide/site and related mate­ri­als in mak­ing med­ical, health-related or other deci­sions.  You should con­sult a licensed physi­cian or appropriately-credentialed health care worker in your com­mu­nity in all mat­ters relat­ing to your health.

DISCLAIMER REGARDING GUIDE/SITE CONTENT AND RELATED MATERIALS

The Con­tent may be changed with­out notice and is not guar­an­teed to be com­plete, cor­rect, timely, cur­rent or up-to-date.  Sim­i­lar to any printed mate­ri­als, the Con­tent may become out-of-date. The Author under­takes no oblig­a­tion to update any Con­tent in the Guide/Site.  The Principal author may update the Con­tent at any time with­out notice, based on the Principal author’s sole and absolute dis­cre­tion. The Principal author reserves the right to make alter­ations or dele­tions to the Con­tent at any time with­out notice.

Opin­ions expressed in the Guide/Site are not nec­es­sar­ily those of the Principal author or team.  Any opin­ions of the Principal author have been con­sid­ered in the con­text of cer­tain con­di­tions and sub­ject to assump­tions that can­not nec­es­sar­ily be applied to an indi­vid­ual case or par­tic­u­lar cir­cum­stance.  The Con­tent may not and should not be used or relied upon for any other pur­pose, includ­ing, but not lim­ited to, use in or in con­nec­tion with any legal proceeding. From time to time, the Guide/Site may con­tain health– or medical-related infor­ma­tion that is sex­u­ally explicit. If you find this infor­ma­tion offen­sive, you may not want to use the Guide/Site.

PRIVACY POLICY

We take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting any personal information you provide to us. This privacy policy explains how we use and protect any personal information we collect from you.

When you submit a form through PCRI.ORG, email us, or in any way contact the Prostate Cancer Research Institute, we may collect your name, phone number, email address, and any other information you choose to provide. This information will only be used to contact you in response to your inquiry or request. We will not share your information with any third parties unless required by law. We will store your information securely and take appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure. We will retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by law.

By contacting the PCRI, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal information as described in this privacy policy.

GUIDELINES FOR POSTING

This website is open to the pub­lic. You should con­sider com­ments care­fully and do not post any infor­ma­tion or ideas that you would like to keep pri­vate.  By upload­ing or oth­er­wise mak­ing avail­able any infor­ma­tion to the Principal author in the form of user gen­er­ated com­ments or oth­er­wise, you grant the Principal author the unlim­ited, per­pet­ual right to dis­trib­ute, dis­play, pub­lish, repro­duce, reuse and copy the infor­ma­tion con­tained therein.

You are respon­si­ble for the com­ments you post. You may not imper­son­ate any other per­son through the website.  You may not post con­tent that is defam­a­tory, fraud­u­lent, obscene, threat­en­ing, inva­sive of another person’s pri­vacy rights or that is oth­er­wise unlaw­ful.  You may not post con­tent that infringes on the intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights of any other per­son or entity.  You may not post any con­tent that includes any com­puter virus or other code designed to dis­rupt, dam­age, or limit the func­tion­ing of any com­puter soft­ware or hardware.

By sub­mit­ting or post­ing con­tent on the website, you grant the Principal author, team and any com­pany sub­stan­tially under the con­trol of the Principal author, the right to remove any con­tent or com­ment that, in Principal author’s sole judg­ment, does not com­ply with the terms and con­di­tions of this Agree­ment or is oth­er­wise objec­tion­able.  You also grant the Principal author and any com­pany sub­stan­tially under the con­trol of Principal author the right to mod­ify, adapt, and edit any con­tent.

DISCLAIMER REGARDING THIRD PARTY LINKS

The Site may, from time to time, con­tain links to other (“third party”) websites. These links are pro­vided solely as a con­ve­nience and not as a guar­an­tee or rec­om­men­da­tion by the Principal author for the ser­vices, infor­ma­tion, opin­ion or any other con­tent on such third-party websites or as an indi­ca­tion of any affil­i­a­tion, spon­sor­ship or endorse­ment of such third-party websites.

If you decide to access a linked web­site, you do so at your own risk.  Your use of other web­sites is sub­ject to the terms of use for such sites.

The Principal author is not respon­si­ble for the con­tent of any linked or oth­er­wise con­nected websites.  The Principal author does not make any rep­re­sen­ta­tions or guar­an­tees regard­ing the pri­vacy prac­tices of, or the con­tent or accu­racy of mate­ri­als included in, any linked or third party web­sites.  The inclu­sion of third party adver­tise­ments on the Site does not con­sti­tute an endorse­ment, guar­an­tee, or rec­om­men­da­tion.  The Principal author makes no rep­re­sen­ta­tions and/or guar­an­tees regard­ing any prod­uct or ser­vice con­tained therein.

DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES

Con­tent made avail­able on the Site is pro­vided on an “as is” and “as avail­able” basis with­out war­ranties of any kind, either express or implied. Under no cir­cum­stances, as a result of your use of the Site, will the Principal author be liable to you or to any other per­son for any direct, indi­rect, inci­den­tal, con­se­quen­tial, spe­cial, exem­plary or other dam­ages under any legal the­ory, includ­ing, with­out lim­i­ta­tion, tort, con­tract, strict lia­bil­ity or oth­er­wise, even if advised of the pos­si­bil­ity of such damages.

AGE RESTRICTION

The Site is intended for per­sons eigh­teen (18) years or older. Per­sons under the age of eigh­teen (18) should not access, use and/or browse the Site.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indem­nify and hold the Author harm­less from any claim or demand, includ­ing attor­neys’ fees, made by any third party as a result of (1) any con­tent posted or made avail­able by you on this Site, (2) any vio­la­tion of law that occurs by you through the Site, and/or (3) any­thing you do using the Site and/or the Con­tent con­tained therein.

MODIFICATION

The Author may mod­ify the terms and con­di­tions of this Agree­ment in whole or in party at any time for any rea­son with­out any notice to you, based on her dis­cre­tion.   Such mod­i­fied terms and con­di­tions shall super­sede these terms and con­di­tions and shall become bind­ing when pub­lished online on the Site.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

You accept that this Agree­ment rep­re­sents the entire under­stand­ing between you and the Author con­cern­ing use of the Site.