About MediNette and Terms of Use
MediNette for Everyone!
The ultimate goal of MediNette (pronounced Medi-net) is to provide free, user-friendly, and interactive information platform for disseminating reliable health information, wellness resources and tools to everyone. To that end, MediNette provides free resources in the area of health directory, health tools, health links, and networking. With vast array of health information sources to choose from, MediNette is committed to selecting health information sources that are authentic, reliable, valid, and constantly updated.
MediNette recognizes the role of healthcare professionals as leaders in health promotion and health education and, for that reason, has taken steps to furnish easy-to-use tools which makes it easier not only for healthcare professionals to be searchable in our database system but also makes it easier for all categories of health professionals to create their practice or business pages in order to be reached by the numerous users who visit MediNette. Creating a practice or business page not only make it easier to for a practitioner to establish his/her profession online, but also opens the door to effectively promote one's practice and thus be contacted by unlimited number of real and potential customers who will need your service. With tools available to customize your practice page with whatever information one chooses, health professionals are able to announce and promote their practices in whatever form they choose to do that. This is also true for others who are not health professionals but have good products and services to promote. Other than business pages, MediNette discourages the use of other sections (profile pages, personal blog, and chat lines) to promote businesses, products and practices.
Majority of MediNette users are the non-health professionals who encompass people from all walks of life. Non-health professionals or standard members who register with MediNette are given equal access to numerous health information, resources, and tools which don't only guarantee exciting interactive experience on MediNette but also enhance their medical understanding and promote healthy lifestyle. Members have access to regular health news, health alerts, medication safety resources, health forum, personal blogs, chat lines and wellness metrics calculators. Standard members can also utilize available tools to form health groups to discuss any topic of interest. The vast amount of health links that are available in our directory system give users the ability to review any topic and to gain understanding from different perspective by discussing it with friends, family, and health professionals who are members of the user's group. Users can also search MediNette database and contact health professionals in their local area of residence for their health needs. One best way to benefit the most from MediNette is to make sure that you have somebody with a background in health in your group.
MediNette is determined to champion the fight against medical ignorance by way of making health information and resources available to all mankind. This is our ultimate goal, and every aspect of our operations is geared towards achieving that noble objective. On MediNette, you can freely network for healthy living while we at MediNette do our best to keep the world healthy.
Terms of Use
MediNette (pronounced Medi-Net) is a social media for informational purpos
es only.Therefore, MediNette is not and should never be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, health advice, examination, diagnosis, or treatment of any kind. Never substitute professional medical advice for any information in whatever form received or shared on MediNette. While MediNette could be used to searched for and reach numerous practitioners, this site is primarily for the purpose of information and personal education only. MediNette therefore neither recommend nor endorse any particular products, physicians, tests, clinics, hospitals, centers, experts, opinions, policies, practices, procedures, and other information mentioned or referenced on MediNette. As a health directory site, MediNette is not responsible for contents of licensed materials or websites to which MediNette is linked or vice-versa. MediNette also links to health-related sites that provide surgical procedures and sexually explicit educational materials. Users who may find these materials objectionable or offensive are advised not to go to those websites or not to use this website. MediNette assumes no responsibility and liability for the delay, failure, interruption, alteration, or corruption of any data or information transmitted in connection with the use of our site. Similarly, MediNette makes no representation, claims, and warranties about the accuracy, validity, reliability, completeness, and/or timeliness of text, links, graphics, data, communications, or software that is furnished in connection with the use of MediNette.
Networking on MediNette
When using MediNette interactive platform for networking, users agree to post or upload media such as photos, videos, audio, unique files, or celebrity photos and artwork that belong to them and which they have the right to use in the way they do without infringing on the trademark, copyright, privacy, ownership of another person or entity. Because MediNette is an interactive social network available to any user worldwide, by using medinette, you agree that MediNette has a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, global right or license to use, display, reproduce, modify, publish post, transmit, promote, and distribute the media and its content. It is worth mentioning that MediNette abhor the posting and use of media which contains direct or indirect expressions of abuse, hate, defamatory artwork, offensive images, obscenity, pornography, sexism, sexually offensive, or contents that could give a cause for any form of liability, or is in conflict with MediNette policies. As a user, you agree to defend and indemnify MediNette, its staff, employees, and any of its affiliates, and hold them harmless from all claims and expenses arising from the media and/or failure to comply with any part or all of the terms outlined in MediNette policy. While MediNette will take reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person or entity have access to your personal information, it is your primary responsibility to protect your access information like email and password. You also agree that, in order to protect your privacy, you will not post or upload any media, file or content that contains personally identifiable information. Of course, if you are a health care practitioner or business owner, you may provide professional contact information on your practice or business page so that customers can reach you. By doing so, you agree that MediNette assumes no responsibility for what happens between you and your customers and therefore holds MediNette and its employees harmless from all claims and expenses resulting from any business arrangement between a user and a customer. MediNette is currently based on Phoenix, Arizona, and by using MediNette, you expressly agree that in the case of any dispute relating to the use of this site, exclusive jurisdiction for resolution resides in the courts of the State of Arizona.
By using MediNette, you agree that some actions and activities are prohibited as they constitute a material breach of MediNette's Terms of Use. These include but not limited to:
I. Impersonating another person(s) or allowing another person(s) to use your membership information to impersonate you to make contact with others.
II. Posting intellectually protected materials that infringes on the copyright, privacy, publicity right, trademark, and intellectual property rights of others.
III. Using MediNette networking platform to solicit for, or promote illegal drug trafficking, drug use, prostitution, hate crimes, financial transactions, money laundering, kidnapping, human trafficking, or TERRORIST ACTIVITIES. Any user who suspects another member(s) of engaging in any of these activities MUST IMMEDIATELY report to law enforcement first, and also to MediNette Complaints.
IV. Solicitation of business and/or posting of advertisement and unauthorized transactions on sections (e.g. personal blog, profile page) other than business pages.
V. Posting obscene, threatening, defamatory, harassing, intentionally misleading, and hateful material, or posting anything which violates local, state, federal, national and international laws.
VI. Posting fraudulent, deceptive, or pyramid schemes, and chain letters and several notes of the same content or spamming.
VII. Distributing cookies and harmful computer codes and programs including viruses and worms.
VIII. Employing tactics to disrupt to smooth flow of traffic, or cause technical harm.
IX. Using MediNette exclusively for purposes other than promoting the health and health-related causes.
X. Any behavior that can generally be considered as uncivil, grossly inappropriate, criminal, fraudulent, deceitful, and dangerous to individual and public health.
MediNette Resources: Help Using MediNette
The best way to utilize MediNette to your full benefit is to familiarize yourself with all the resources and health tools available on MediNette, and to start inviting friends and people you feel comfortable sharing your health interest with. By inviting family members, friends and healthcare professionals you know to join you on MediNette, you are not only creating a trusted group to share health ideas and answer pertinent questions, but also establishing a lifelong friendship and networks that may go a long way in fulfilling other needs like finding specific healthcare experts who may have the right answers and solutions to your family health needs.
User's personal profile allows you to upload photos and put face on your MediNette account. Your profile is always editable and enables users to tell more about themselves and their interests to people you invite to share your profile information with. Not only does it allow you to invite friends and check health updates among other things, but also furnish you with tools to check your inbox for messages left by friends.
Health news threads and health alerts from reliable sources like NIH, MedlinePlus, HealthFinder, HealthDay, CDC, and the FDA constantly threads in the health news section. These sources provide genuine, broad, and evidence-based health information that are indispensable to a healthy living and family happiness.
MediNette offers you the opportunity and tools to contact your doctor, nurse, personal trainer, counselor, and all other health professionals who you have already invited to join MediNette.
These Health Tools allows users access to all common health metrics and caloric measures. They span wide range of popular health metrics and dimensions and are helpful in accessing risk levels and in making diet decisions.
The Health Directory provides user with health links which span almost all health topics and is organized to bring to users' disposal numerous health information sources in a user-friendly format. This makes it easy for users to find the information they are looking for at different websites for healthy comparison.
The Email Checker allows users to check their emails at popular emails client hosts like (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc) without having to leave MediNette.
Some online games can be very refreshing and exciting, and MediNette believes that linking users to some online games can indeed be a healthy experience.
The Health Forum may not be a thing for everyone. But for those who like to share their views openly and contribute to the education of others, the forum is the place where MediNette users are likely to find like-minded users other than their invited friends to discuss relevant health issues.
You can chat live with friends, guests, and loved ones on MediNette.
All feedbacks about the quality of the site as well as any complaints about MediNette or the activities of users should be directed to: MediNette ?Feedback & Complaints P O Box 66802 Phoenix AZ 85082 USA.