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Welcome to NeedMe (www.NeedMe.co), the health network designed with your own concerns in mind. NeedMe is owned and operated by NeedMe, Inc. ("we", "us”, and "our").

Please read these terms and conditions carefully (the "Terms," or the "Terms of Use"). Using or registering to be a user of NeedMe means you agree to the Terms set herein. Failure to agree with the Terms precludes you from using NeedMe. The only valid and legally binding version of the Terms of Use is the one in English.

NEEDME DOES NOT PROVIDE HEALTHCARE SERVICES OR MEDICAL ADVICE

ALL CONTENT ON NEEDME.CO AND NEEDME.CO, INCLUDING TEXT, IMAGES, AND VIDEO (THE "CONTENT"), IS PROVIDED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. THE CONTENT IN NO WAY CONSTITUTES PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE ASSESSMENTS VARY BASED ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH CASE AND THE BACKGROUND OF EACH INDIVIDUAL. NEEDME CONTENT CANNOT TAKE THE PLACE OF PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL CONSULTATION. FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT, ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER QUALIFIED HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS. NEEDME DOES NOT, EITHER EXPRESSLY OR IMPLIEDLY, ENDORSE, RECOMMEND, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THE CONTENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: a) PHYSICIANS. b) PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. c) MEDICAL RESEARCH, REPORTS, AND THEORIES. AND d) OTHER INFORMATION THAT APPEARS IN SEARCH RESULTS.

Acceptable Use of NeedMe

NeedMe is a community-oriented health search engine that helps consumers find, contribute, and share medical and health-related information with other people. Within the Terms of Use, NeedMe users who are at least 13 years of age may access, use, and upload content, including entering search queries into the NeedMe Search Engine (the "Search Engine") and participating in NeedMe network services and online community (the "Services").

The user agrees to abide by all applicable local and international laws, regulations, and rules, including those pertaining to medical and healthcare content. The user further agrees to undertake full responsibility for all acts or omissions associated with their own direct access to and use of NeedMe as well as access to and use of NeedMe by anyone on the user’s behalf.

When using NeedMe, you agree to refrain from:

  • Interfering with or disrupting the functionality of NeedMe.
  • Breaching the Terms or any other applicable rules and instructions with respect to the use of NeedMe.
  • Circumventing or manipulating the operation or functionality of the Services and Search Engine
  • Posting false, inaccurate, or misleading Content.
  • Posting Content that is not compatible with the defined topics or the rules of behavior in any of the Services.
  • Sending automated or machine generated search queries.
  • Using robots, crawlers and similar applications to collect and compile Content from NeedMe for the purposes of competing with NeedMe or in ways that might impair or disrupt NeedMe's functionality.
  • Impersonating any person or entity, or making any false statement pertaining to your identity, employment, agency, or affiliation with any person or entity.
  • Displaying NeedMe or any part thereof in an exposed or concealed frame, or linking to elements on NeedMe, such as images, independently from the web pages on which they originally appear
  • Collecting or processing personal information of NeedMe users without their explicit consent.
  • Posting commercial Content, including advertisements, sponsorships, solicitations, endorsements, and public relations material, except as expressly permitted within the designated zones.
  • Posting, disseminating, transmitting, or otherwise communicating through or to NeedMe, or making available any Content on NeedMe that may reasonably be deemed as:
  • 1. Infringing upon or violating intellectual property rights of other parties, including patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
  • 2. Software viruses, Trojan Horses, Worms, Vandals, Spyware, and other malicious applications.
  • 3. Unsolicited commercial communications ('spam'), chain letters, or pyramid schemes.
  • 4. Identifying minors, their personal details, or their addresses and ways to contact them.
  • 5. Constituting a violation of a person's right to privacy or right of publicity.
  • 6. Encouraging, supporting, assisting, providing instructions for, or advising in the committing of a criminal offense, under the applicable laws.
  • 7. Prohibited by any applicable law to be posted, published, disseminated, or otherwise made available to the public.
  • 8. Threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.

User Generated Content

NeedMe encourages free speech and open discussion. However, Content on NeedMe may only be posted on healthcare related issues and is subject to these Terms. We reserve the right to review posted Content and delete, remove, or block access to it, or refuse to post it on NeedMe for any reason that we may consider justified, including:

  • 1. Preventing misuse of the Services.
  • 2. When the Content that you have posted is unrelated to healthcare issues.
  • 3. When we deem the Content to be in breach of the Terms or an infringement of any applicable law.
  • 4. When, pursuant to the Terms, the owner of Content that you have posted wishes it to be removed, whether as result of a person's complaint, or of our own initiative.
  • 5. When your user account is canceled, either by yourself or by us.

Registration and User Account

NeedMe serves all Internet users. However, certain services are available to registered users only. By registering, you affirm that you are 13 years of age or older.

There is no charge for registration with NeedMe. We may, however, opt to charge registration fees in the future. Only following the posting of prior notice on NeedMe.com or NeedMe.com will we require said fees. We are under no obligation, however, to notify you in person of any change in our registration policy. Lack of consent to the Terms in the notice or failure to settle your registration fees will result in termination of your NeedMe account.

Registering with NeedMe requires certain contact and personal details. False, incorrect, or outdated information may prevent you from registering and impair our ability to both provide you with services and to contact you. We explicitly identify the mandatory fields. Failure to enter data in these fields will prevent registration with NeedMe.

Your e-mail address and password are required to log in. We may provide you with a different password for accessing your account on NeedMe. From time to time, we may also establish and require additional or alternative means of authentication for accessing your account or certain services on NeedMe.

You agree to absolute confidentiality in your username and password and will refrain from disclosing them to anyone. Passwords should be changed frequently, or once every six months. You are fully accountable for any outcome resulting from your failure to provide true, accurate, and complete details in the registration process, as well as for any use or misuse of your account on NeedMe as a result of conveying your confidential details to someone else.

You may personally terminate your account at any time using our designated termination form at: http://www.NeedMe.com/terms. Verification may be required in the form of an additional termination request message in order to terminate your account. Your account on NeedMe.com will terminate 10 days after we receive your notification. After that date of termination, you will no longer be able to access your NeedMe account.

We may temporarily or permanently deny, limit, suspend, or terminate your account, prohibit you from accessing NeedMe, remove Content that you have posted on NeedMe, and take technical and legal steps to keep you off NeedMe if we think that:

  • you have abused your rights to use NeedMe.
  • You have breached the Terms of NeedMe.
  • you deliberately submitted false information.
  • you conveyed your password to another person.
  • you have performed any act or omission that violates any applicable laws, rules, or regulations.
  • you have performed any act or omission that is harmful or likely to be harmful to us, or to any other third party, including other users and suppliers of NeedMe.
  • you made use of NeedMe's services to perform an illegal act, or for the purpose of enabling, facilitating, assisting, or inducing the performance of such an act.
  • you are in debt to us or to another person with respect to any transactions made on or through the use of NeedMe.

Privacy

NeedMe respects its users’ privacy. Our Privacy Policy explains our privacy practices. NeedMe reserves the right to change the terms of this Policy from time to time. We recommend that you read this policy periodically.

Links to Other Sites

NeedMe contains links to content located on other websites. Results generated by our search engine include links to third-party websites and similar content freely available on the Internet. NeedMe neither operates nor monitors these websites and content. These websites or the information and content posted therein may be incompatible with your health requirements. you may also object to their content or find the content to be annoying, improper, unlawful, or immoral. NeedMe does not endorse or sponsor the content of other websites, nor can we confirm their accuracy, authenticity, credibility, validity, integrity, or legality. We cannot assume any responsibility or liability for such third-party websites or contents, nor for their availability.

NeedMe may employ "advertisements," including but not limited to paid advertisements, sponsored links, and commercial information. These advertisements may transfer you to the website of an advertiser, or you may receive messages, information, or offers from the advertiser and/or from others. NeedMe is not responsible for any of the advertisers' practices, including their privacy policies, nor for the Content of their websites, user information, messages, or other offers.

Requests to Remove Content

The intellectual property rights of others are important to NeedMe. Requests may be made to remove copyright infringing Content from NeedMe or to counter requests to repost content on the grounds of mistake or misidentification of the Content. These requests shall be made in accordance with NeedMe's Copyright Policy. NeedMe reserves the right to act as we deem fit, in accordance with applicable law, upon receipt of a request to remove or re-post Content on NeedMe.

Correction of Errors

NeedMe makes every attempt to ensure the reliability of facts and details posted on NeedMe.com. However, errors may sometimes occur. If you find any information or publication posted on NeedMe.com to be erroneous, please inform us at info@NeedMe.com.

Intellectual Property

NeedMe owns or has licensed all rights, title, and interest in and to patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, service marks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights, and any goodwill associated therewith (except for users’ and third parties’ Content).

Unless expressly permitted in the Terms, neither you nor a third party on your behalf may copy, distribute, display or perform publicly, sublicense, decompile, disassemble, reduce to human readable form, execute publicly, make available to the public, adapt, make commercial use of, process, compile, translate, sell, lend, rent, reverse engineer, combine with other software, modify, or create derivative works of any of the Content on NeedMe that is subject to intellectual property or other proprietary rights, in any way or by any means, including but not limited to electronic, mechanical, or optical means.

You may not adapt or otherwise use any name, logo, or mark that is identical to, or confusingly similar to, any of our trademarks, service marks, or logos.

You agree to abide by all indications of proprietary rights, including Copyright mark [©] and Trademark [® or ™], associated with the Content. You agree to maintain and not distort these signs and notices.

We do not claim ownership over your Content (text and images) that you upload to NeedMe. You warrant that you are the owner of all proprietary rights to that Content or that you are licensed by the owner(s) to post or use such Content on NeedMe, in accordance with our Terms.

By submitting Content, including all communications, data, images, sounds, text, ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques for posting on NeedMe, you grant us a royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, distribute, display publicly, decompile, disassemble, reduce to human readable form, execute publicly, make available to the public, adapt, sub-license, make commercial use of, process, compile, translate, sell, lend, rent, reverse engineer, combine with or incorporate into other Content, modify, and create derivative works on NeedMe, as well as in other communication and information networks, platforms, applications, and services. You waive all rights of attribution with respect to the use of your Content. You affirm that you allow every user to use and benefit from the ideas that you have uploaded to NeedMe in any available and legal way.

Changes in NeedMe

From time to time, we may modify NeedMe's layout, design, or display, as well as the scope and availability of the Content and Services, without giving prior notice. These changes may cause inconvenience or malfunctions at first. You acknowledge that NeedMe does not assume any responsibility with respect to, or in connection with, the introduction of such changes or associated with malfunctions or failures that may result.

Site and Service Availability

The availability and functionality of NeedMe depend on numerous factors and elements, including software, hardware, and communication networks, parts of which are provided by third parties. We do not warrant or guarantee that NeedMe will be: a) consistently operated without disruption, errors, or interruptions. b) accessible or available at all times. c) immune from unauthorized access. or d) error free.

Termination of Operation

We may at any time, based on our discretion, terminate the operation of NeedMe, or any part thereof, either temporarily or permanently. We do not need to give notice prior to the termination of NeedMe. At any time, we may block, remove, or delete any Content from NeedMe, and we do not guarantee that we will maintain a backup copy.

You agree that we do not assume any responsibility with respect to, or in connection with, the termination of NeedMe's operations and loss of data as a result.

Amendments to the Terms

We reserve the right to change the Terms at any time, including any and all documents, forms, and policies. Any substantial changes will take effect 30 days from the date we post an initial notification with respect to such changes on NeedMe's homepage or on any other relevant web pages on NeedMe.com. Minor changes will take effect 7 days after initial posting on NeedMe, unless we amend the Terms to comply with legal requirements. In cases of legality, the amendments will be effective immediately upon their initial posting, or as required by law.

You agree to be bound by changes made in the Terms, including changes to any and all documents, forms, and policies. Your continuing to use NeedMe or any of the Services affirms you accept the amended terms. If you do not agree with the amended terms, you must not use NeedMe further.

We advise you to read the Terms periodically, as they may change from time to time.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

NeedMe IS PROVIDED FOR USE AS IS. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO NeedMe, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUALITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, COMPATIBILITY, PERFORMANCE, SECURITY, OR ACCURACY. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT NeedMe WILL OPERATE IN AN UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE MANNER, NOR THAT NeedMe WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE OR FREE FROM ALL HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU AGREE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE USE OF NeedMe IS ENTIRELY, OR AT THE MAXIMUM PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AT YOUR OWN RISK.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

WE, INCLUDING OUR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AND AGENTS, SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE, AND LOSS (INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFIT AND LOSS OF DATA), COSTS, EXPENSES AND PAYMENTS, EITHER IN TORT, CONTRACTUAL, OR IN ANY OTHER FORM OF LIABILITY, ARISING FROM, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, NeedMe, OR FROM ANY FAILURE, ERROR, OR BREAKDOWN IN THE FUNCTION OF NeedMe, OR FROM ANY FAULT OR ERROR MADE BY OUR STAFF OR ANYONE ACTING ON OUR BEHALF, OR FROM YOUR RELIANCE ON POSTED CONTENT ON NeedMe, OR FROM ANY COMMUNICATION WITH NeedMe, OR WITH OTHER USERS ON OR THROUGH NeedMe, OR FROM ANY DENIAL OR CANCELLATION OF YOUR USER ACCOUNT, OR FROM RETENTION, DELETION, DISCLOSURE, AND ANY OTHER USE OR LOSS OF YOUR CONTENT ON NeedMe. IN ANY EVENT, YOUR SOLE REMEDY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE CORRECTIONS OF SUCH ERRORS OR MALFUNCTIONS.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless us and our managers, directors, shareholders, employees, sub-contractors, agents, and anyone acting on our behalf, at your own expense and immediately after receiving a written notice from us, from and against any damages, loss, costs, expenses, and payments, including reasonable attorney's fees and legal expenses, resulting from any complaint, claim, or demand arising from or in connection with your use of NeedMe, the Content that you post on NeedMe, any communications that you convey through NeedMe, or your breach of the Terms or any other terms, rules or regulations applicable to NeedMe, or your violation or infringement of other persons’ rights

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Governing Law, Jurisdiction

The Terms and your use of NeedMe are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, U.S.A., without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions, whether Federal, or of the State of New Jersey or of any other jurisdiction, that would result in the application of the laws of a jurisdiction other than the State of New Jersey.

You agree to resolve any dispute or claim that you may have against us and to submit to personal jurisdiction in the state and federal courts in the city of Wall, New Jersey.

Notices

We may contact you and send you notice via e-mail, regular mail, Short Message Services ('SMS'), fax messages, and postings on NeedMe. You may contact our customer relations by using the 'Contact Us' form on NeedMe.com, or by using the contact details below. We reserve the right to publish in public, including on NeedMe, any communications we have with you, as long as your personal details are not revealed without your prior consent. All communications between us shall be deemed as received after one business day.

General

The Terms of Use constitute the whole agreement between you and us with respect to the use of NeedMe, and the Terms supersede any and all other agreements.

No waiver, concession, extension, representation, alteration, addition, or derogation from the Terms by us, or pursuant to the Terms, shall be effective unless consented to explicitly and executed in writing by our authorized representative.

The Terms of Use take precedence over all documents, forms, and policies that may conflict with the Terms of Use, unless it is specifically indicated in such documents that a certain provision is determined notwithstanding the Terms of Use.

Failure on our part to demand performance of any provision in the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of any of our rights under the Terms.

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not govern the Terms.

Changes in Ownership

We may incorporate NeedMe as a separate company or transfer ownership rights and title in NeedMe to a third party provided that your rights according to the Terms are not infringed upon by the transfer of ownership. In this event, all of your details and the information pertaining to you will be passed on to the corporation receiving the rights to NeedMe. You hereby give your prior consent to this.

No Assignment

Your rights and obligations under the Terms are not assignable. Any attempted or actual assignment thereof by you shall be null and void without our prior explicit consent in writing.

Interpretation

The section headings in the Terms are included for convenience only and shall take no part in the interpretation or construing of the Terms.

"Including," whether capitalized or not, means without limitation.

Severability

If any provision of the Terms is held to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable by a competent court, the provision shall be performed and enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of the Terms shall continue to remain in full force and effect.

Survival

The provisions of the intellectual property, disclaimer of warranty, limitation of liability, and indemnification sections shall survive the termination or expiration of the Terms.