LEGAL NOTICES

Friends with MS.com (FWMS) maintains this web site (“Site”) for your information, education and communication. Please feel free to browse the Site. If you are browsing this Site as a non-commercial consumer, you may download material displayed on the Site for your non-commercial, personal use only.  Your access and use of the Site is also subject to the following terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the Terms and Conditions below.

 
TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Disclaimer

   The information contained in the FWMS web site is presented for the purpose of educating consumers on multiple sclerosis, FWMS services and activities, and disease management topics. Nothing contained in the Site is intended to be instructional for medical diagnosis or treatment. The information should not be considered complete, nor should it be relied on to suggest a course of treatment for a particular individual. It should not be used in place of a visit, call, consultation or the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider. You should never disregard medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read in the Site.

   Your use of the Site is at your risk. FWMS makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy or completeness and FWMS specifically disclaims any liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions or not. Neither FWMS nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, special, punitive or exemplary damages or any loss of business, interest, revenue or profit arising out of your access to, or use of, or inability to use or access, the Site.

   FWMS has nothing to do with the fees paid to Dreamchat for memberships. If a person takes it upon themselves to purchase a membership with Dreamchat and a refund is requested, that is a matter to take up with Dreamchat.com.  We will NOT refund your Dreamchat memberships. We rent a room from Dreamchat for you to have a private environment in which to share your problems and swap information.

2. Copyright

   All material on the Site is protected by copyright unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as permitted in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site.

   Additionally, you may not distribute or transmit, modify, reuse, report, or use the contents of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, video and programming code that makes up the web pages, without FWMS express written permission.

   Materials displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, FWMS. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and civil and criminal statues.

3. Other Web Sites

   FWMS is not responsible for the accuracy of any hyperlinks, content, or advertisements contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded or accessed from any of the services contained on the Site. Your linking to any other site is entirely at your own risk. While FWMS may provide links on this Site to other sites, the inclusion of such links is for your convenience only and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the owner/sponsor of the site or the content on the site. FWMS disclaims all warranties, express and implied, as to the accuracy, validity, legality and otherwise of the materials or information contained on such sites.

4. Viruses

   FWMS assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.

5. Privacy Policy

   FWMS  can not be held responsible for any postings you or someone else makes on our message boards, forums or newsletters.  While we try to keep spams off the web site we can not prevent people from sending you an email if you yourself posts  your email with your message.  FWMS does not and will never supply any company with any of the groups email addresses or personal home information.   FWMS does not pass on lists of email addresses to any group of any kind.  We may supply you with links or information on other organizations but it is up to you to subscribe to them.

    

1. Operation

   Features and specifications of products or services described or depicted on the Site are subject to change without notice. All measurements are approximate. FWMS reserves the right to withdraw, suspend or discontinue any functionality or feature of the Site.

   FWMS may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. Since you are bound by these Terms and Conditions, you should therefore periodically visit this document.

   FWMS tries  to maintain a safe environment in the chat rooms but takes no responsibility for the actions of others in the room.  You may report offensive people to the web master and measures will be taken to deal with the problem but we can not promise that it wont happen again.  Please chat at your own risk.   The RA's in the room are there to help you and remove offensive chatters.