Privacy Policy

Please read all these provisions (“terms”) carefully before using this Web site. Using this Web site indicates your agreement and acceptance of these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Web site or download materials from this site.

Security

North East Sleep Society makes every effort to protect the privacy of every user of this website. Individuals are not required to “register” to use this site with the exception of those healthcare professionals desiring to purchase products contained herein.

North East Sleep Society is sensitive to the need to respect and protect your privacy. Here are some of the security procedures we have internally that protect against unauthorized access to your information:

• Both a unique login name and a password are required in order for users to access personally identifiable information.
• Firewalls protect information held in our servers.
• Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption is used to transmit personally identifiable information to our servers. In order to take advantage of encryption technology, you must have an Internet browser which supports 128-bit encryption.
• All employees are educated on the Privacy Policy and are subject to disciplinary action if they violate it.

Despite North East Sleep Society’s efforts to protect your personally identifiable information there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.

northeastsleep.org and its Use

The northeastsleep.org Website is owned and provided by North East Sleep Society, Inc. (North East Sleep Society) and is provided for your personal information and non-commercial use.

Please feel free to browse northeastsleep.org; however, your access to and use of the northeastsleep.org is subject to the following Terms and all applicable laws:

• You shall use northeastsleep.org for lawful purposes only.
• You shall not post or transmit through northeastsleep.org any information or material which violates or infringes, in any way, the rights of others, or which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.
• Nor shall you post or transmit through northeastsleep.org any information or material which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to liability or otherwise violate any law or administrative ruling or guidelines, is in violation of these Terms, or which, without North East Sleep Society's prior written approval, contain advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services.

Any conduct by you that, in North East Sleep Society's opinion, restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying northeastsleep.org will not be permitted.

northeastsleep.org contains information and material, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, video, graphics and audio, (collectively "Materials") which are derived in whole or in part from information and materials supplied by North East Sleep Society and other sources, and are protected by international copyright, trademark and other laws and the entire content of northeastsleep.org is copyrighted as a collective work under the United States Copyright Laws.

North East Sleep Society owns the copyright in the overall selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of such content, and owns the rights in, or license to use, the individual components of such content.

Materials may not be copied, reproduced, republished, modified, uploaded, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way or decompiled, reverse engineered or disassembled, including but not limited to the text, images, audio and/or video, as well as any software (including but not limited to any images or files incorporated in or generated by the software or data accompanying such software), except that you may download one copy of the Materials on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices and make no change in or deletion of author attribution.

This limited authorization is not a transfer of title in the Materials and by your use of northeastsleep.org you acknowledge that you do not acquire any license, ownership or other rights to the Materials.

Modification of the Materials or use of the Materials for any other purpose is a violation of North East Sleep Society's or such other sources' copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights and may violate other laws.

The use of any such Materials on any other Web site or networked computer or environment is prohibited without North East Sleep Society's express written consent. If you breach any of these Terms, your authorization to use northeastsleep.org automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed Materials.

Disclaimer

northeastsleep.org and materials and related communications are provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied, of any kind, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, or fitness for particular purpose.

Some jurisdictions do not allow for the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusions of implied warranties may not be applicable under certain circumstances. Under these circumstances, all other exclusions remain in force.

North East Sleep Society does not warrant the accuracy, reliability or completeness of any information contained on this site. Nor does it warrant or represent that any information may be suitable for use in any circumstance or application. By using this site you acknowledge that any reliance on any such materials, advice, statement or information shall be at your sole risk.

North East Sleep Society assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for any damages of any nature caused by the use of this site. This express disclaimer includes damages caused by viruses, worms, trojans or any other computer software or anomaly that may infect, affect, or damage your computer hardware, software, memory or any other property of yours or others, as a result of your access to, use of, or browsing in this site.

Third-Party Sites

North East Sleep Society may provide as a convenience to you, links to Web sites operated by other entities and persons, but makes no representations whatsoever about any other Web site which you may access through this one. Any link to a non-North East Sleep Society Web site does not mean that North East Sleep Society endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, or the use of such Web site.

If you use these sites, you do so at your own risk. North East Sleep Society makes no warranty or representation regarding, and does not sponsor or endorse, any linked Web sites or the information or materials appearing thereon or any of products and services described thereon.

Furthermore, links do not imply that North East Sleep Society is affiliated or associated with, or that any linked site is authorized to use any trademark, trade name, logo, or copyright of North East Sleep Society.

Third Party Content

Any opinions, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available in northeastsleep.org by any third party are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of North East Sleep Society.

Limitation of Liability

Your use and browsing of northeastsleep.org is at your risk. If you are dissatisfied with any of the Materials contained in northeastsleep.org, or with any of these Terms, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue accessing and using northeastsleep.org.

Under no circumstances will North East Sleep Society, its suppliers or other third parties mentioned at, or involved in creating, producing, or delivering northeastsleep.org be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, special or punitive damages whatsoever (including without limitation, costs and expenses of any type incurred, lost profits, lost data or programs, and business interruption) arising out of your access to, use, inability to use or the results of use of northeastsleep.org any Web sites linked to northeastsleep.org, or any materials contained at any or all such sites (including but not limited to those caused by or resulting from a failure of performance; error; omission; linking to other Web sites; interruption; deletion; defect; delay in operation or transmission; computer virus; communication line failure; or destruction, unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of any computer or system), whether based on warranty, contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other legal theory and whether or not North East Sleep Society was advised of the possibility of such damages.

North East Sleep Society shall have no liability or responsibility for any acts, omissions, or conduct of any user or third party.

North East Sleep Society's obligations and responsibilities regarding its products and services are governed solely by North East Sleep Society's terms and conditions of sale or license under which such products and services are sold or licensed.

Information Provided By You

The editors of northeastsleep.org, in their sole discretion, reserve the right to reject, edit, remove, or otherwise alter any content submitted or posted to northeastsleep.org for any reason. North East Sleep Society reserves the right, in its sole discretion to revoke a user’s privilege to submit or post content to northeastsleep.org.

It has been and remains North East Sleep Society's policy not to accept or consider ideas, suggestions or materials other than those that North East Sleep Society has specifically requested from you. Accordingly, North East Sleep Society does not want you to, and you should not, send any confidential or proprietary information to North East Sleep Society through northeastsleep.org unless specifically requested by North East Sleep Society. Please note that any unsolicited information or material sent to North East Sleep Society will be deemed not to be confidential or proprietary.

By submitting information and material to northeastsleep.org, you automatically grant to North East Sleep Society (or warrant that the owner of such information and material has expressly granted to North East Sleep Society) a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, right and license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, adapt, publish, translate, transmit and distribute, or otherwise make available to other such information and material (in whole or in part and for any purpose) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed. You also agree that North East Sleep Society is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques that you send North East Sleep Society for any purpose.

You authorize North East Sleep Society to publish your name and location (city, state and/or country) in connection with any use of your submission to northeastsleep.org and in identifying yourself and location, you represent that you have done so accurately. Once your submission is posted, you will not have the right to have it removed or edited.

Submissions to the user-generated content portions of northeastsleep.org must be legible, comprehensible, and written in the English language.

You agree that you have disclosed any relevant competing interests that, when broadly viewed, could be construed as a conflict of interest or the appearance thereof including, without limitation, financial or beneficial conflicts of interest, employment relationships, and affiliations with other entities or interests.

As further provided above, North East Sleep Society does not want to receive, and you are deemed to covenant and agree through the use of northeastsleep.org not to provide, any information or materials to North East Sleep Society that are defamatory, threatening, obscene, harassing, in violation of any law, governmental requirements or otherwise unlawful, or that incorporate the proprietary information or materials of another person or entity.

You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on northeastsleep.org any information and material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express written permission of the owner of such right(s). You shall be solely liable for any damages resulting from any infringement of copyright, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission.

Sharing northeastsleep.org login information is strictly prohibited.

Copyright Complaints

North East Sleep Society respects the intellectual property ownership rights of others. If you believe your work has been reproduced at northeastsleep.org in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please notify us by providing the following items to the northeastsleep.org editor:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the owner, or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
2. Identification of the copyrighted work, or a representative listing of the copyrighted works, that you claim have been infringed;
3. Identification of the material that you claim to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and information reasonably sufficient to locate the material;
4. Information for contacting you, including your address, telephone number, and, if available, e-mail address;
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the claimed infringement is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Changes

North East Sleep Society reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to revise these Terms at any time and correct any errors or omissions in any portion of northeastsleep.org and Materials. Materials may also be changed, modified, added, or removed and updated without notice at any time; however, North East Sleep Society is under no obligation to update Materials.

North East Sleep Society may also make changes in the products, services, programs, or prices (if any) described in northeastsleep.org at any time without notice. Your continued use of northeastsleep.org after any change North East Sleep Society makes to northeastsleep.org will be considered acceptance of those changes.

You should revisit these Terms from time to time to review the then-current Terms because they are binding on you.

Linking to Site

Anyone linking to northeastsleep.org must comply with North East Sleep Society's guidelines for linking to northeastsleep.org and all applicable laws.

International Users

North East Sleep Society administers northeastsleep.org from its offices in the United States. Materials published at northeastsleep.org may refer to products, programs, or services that are not available in your country.

Furthermore, North East Sleep Society makes no representation that the Materials at northeastsleep.org are appropriate or available for use at other locations outside of the United States and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited.

You may not use northeastsleep.org or export information and materials in violation of the export laws of the United States or any other country. If you access northeastsleep.org from a location outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws.

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between North East Sleep Society and you with respect to your use of northeastsleep.org. Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of northeastsleep.org must be commenced within six (6) months after the claim or cause of action arises.