Have Your Say Terms and Conditions

Have Your Say Terms and Conditions

This function is only for the use of the Australian medical practitioners and/or the Australian medical community.

Email contributions forwarded via the Web site may be published in Medical Observer Weekly at the Editor’s discretion. Only contributions that are published in the print version of Medical Observer Weekly are eligible for a prize/payment where specified. You agree to abide by the Editor’s decision.

If You are providing Content which includes clinical information to the Web site, you agree to: (a) obtain the particular patient’s consent involved in the case study prior to providing the information to the Web site; (b) remove from the Content to be provided including all images, any information or identification marks which could reveal the patient’s identity. If You provide Content to the Web site which includes your opinion on a current political issue or any other issue facing the medical profession, and that opinion: (a) contains personal information about You; (b) contains sensitive information identifying Your affiliation with any trade union or professional organisation or political party; then You agree that the Web site can publish your opinion including that information and You indemnify the Web site and UBM Medica Australia from any claim, loss, damage or harassment which may occur by this information being available on the Internet.

Email contributors to the IT Helpdesk section understand that queries will be published in the paper and on the website at the discretion of the Editor. Contributors to this section understand queries should be general in nature and can not be answered on an individual or real time basis. Email contributors must agree to supply contact details and to be contacted prior to publishing for verification and editing purposes. For more information refer to our privacy policy.

If You communicate with UBM Medica Australia or the Web site by email, You agree not to use the Web site to: (a) Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, torturous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful or ethnically otherwise objectionable. (b) Impersonate any person or entity including, but not limited to a UBM Medica Australia representative, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent Your affiliation with a person or entity. (c) Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Web site.