Finding Our Way: Living with Dying In America
Website Terms and Conditions of Use

Disclaimer

The contents of the Finding Our Way: Living with Dying In America (“FOW”) web site are provided as general information only, and 
are not intended as legal or medical advice. FOW is a project wholly owned by Partnership for Caring, Inc., America’s Voices for the Dying (“PFC”), located in Washington, DC.

PARTNERSHIP FOR CARING, INC., MAKES NO WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY OR CURRENCY OF THIS INFORMATION OR ITS SUITABILITY FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SITE ALSO CONTAINS HYPERTEXT LINKS TO WEB SITES CREATED AND CONTROLLED BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. THESE LINKS ARE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE AND ARE NOT INTENDED AS AN ENDORSEMENT BY FOW OR PFC OF THE ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING THESE SITES NOR AS A WARRANTY OF THE INFORMATION THEY CONTAIN.

By accessing the information on this web site, you agree that PARTNERSHIP FOR CARING, INC. and FINDING OUR WAY: LIVING WITH DYING IN AMERICA shall not be liable to you for any loss or injury caused in procuring, compiling, or delivering the information. In no event will PFC, FOW or the contributors of information to this site be liable to you or anyone else for any action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special or similar damages.

Copyright and Use Restrictions

Copyright in the text materials contained in this web site is owned by Partnership for Caring, Inc. These materials may be used, downloaded, reproduced, publicly displayed, or reprinted for personal or non-commercial purposes provided that the following attribution appears in all copies: "Reproduced with permission of Partnership for Caring, Inc., America’s Voices for the Dying, Washington, DC." Permission to reproduce materials for commercial application (e.g. book publishing) must be obtained in writing. The text materials contained in this web site may not be modified in any way. The site may also offer software, graphic images, data and other non-text based materials. All rights to these materials are reserved to Partnership for Caring, Inc. and/or the copyright owners who license such materials to us. Where indicated, prior permission to use, download, reproduce, publicly display, or reprint any of these materials must be obtained from PFC or other copyright owner. 

Correspondence/Submissions

Partnership for Caring welcomes your feedback on the materials in the Finding Our Way web site. However, all remarks, suggestions, ideas, stories, or other information communicated to PFC through this site will be deemed, and shall remain, the exclusive property of Partnership for Caring, Inc. Submissions will be posted, excluded and/or edited at the sole discretion of Partnership for Caring, Inc. In exchange for allowing you the opportunity to contribute to the web site, you agree that nothing you provide will be obscene, offensive, defamatory, infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others, or otherwise objectionable or unlawful. Partnership for Caring, Inc., while reserving the right to delete all or part of any communications that it deems in its sole discretion to be objectionable, assumes no responsibility and makes no warranty that it will undertake to do so. 

Applicable Laws and Jurisdictional Issues

Users of this web site shall abide by all applicable federal, state, and local laws, including those pertaining to libel, slander, defamation, trade libel, product disparagement, harassment, invasion of privacy, and copyright and trademark infringement. By accessing the site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement which is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the District of Columbia, without giving effect to any conflict of laws principles. It is further agreed that the District of Columbia is the proper venue for any and all actions arising out of the use of this site, (including, but not limited to, accessing pages, downloading materials, etc.) 

Termination

This agreement is effective until terminated by either party. However, the agreement’s jurisdictional provisions shall remain in force for any dispute that arises over any prior activities on this site, whether or not either party has terminated the agreement. By destroying all materials obtained from any and all PFC site(s) and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise, you may terminate this agreement at any time. Additionally, this agreement will terminate immediately without notice if, in our sole discretion, you fail to comply with any term or condition. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from this site and all copies thereof. Partnership for Caring, Inc. may update this agreement from time to time without notice. Such updating will in no way relieve you of your obligations under earlier versions of this agreement. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of the terms and conditions in place at the moment of use.

Privacy Policy and Use of Cookies

It is the policy of PFC and FOW to allow our site visitors to provide as much - or as little - personal information to us as they feel comfortable doing. As a Finding Our Way visitor you have a guarantee of privacy. You may, however, elect to tell us things that you want Finding Our Way to remember. We hope that, like many of our users, you will want to provide information about yourself to Finding Our Way because it will make our website more valuable to you. If you are comfortable providing us with information about yourself, enhanced services are available to you that are impossible for us to offer to anonymous users. Examples of such enhanced services would be e-mail notification of content that interests you, recent news articles, and feature stories. The choice of how much personally identifiable information about yourself to disclose to Finding Our Way is left completely up to you. But however you choose to interact with Finding Our Way, you have our guarantee of privacy:

Finding Our Way will never willfully disclose individually identifiable 
information about its users to any third party without first receiving that user's permission.

If you are reading this message you may be concerned about your privacy, annoyed by warning messages appearing on your browser, or simply curious about "cookies". 

Cookies are used to maintain a connection between your computer and the computer you are visiting. What this means to you is that when you login to the Finding Our Way website, a "cookie" is made just for you. 

Then the cookie is given to you simply as an identifier as you navigate through the site. When you exit from your browser, the cookie expires and is not used again. Our website uses cookies to generate web pages which are of interest to you, based on what you've told us in your registration form and to spare you the inconvenience of having to keep entering your registration name and password, as you move in and out of areas that are password protected. The cookies will not be used to:

-acquire information about you 
-relay your name to mailing lists 
-scrutinize your web usage for marketing purposes 
-penetrate your hard drive 
-transmit viruses

Editorial Policy

Partnership for Caring, Inc. reserves the right to edit or exclude any posting to this website. All postings are subject to review by a content administrator. You are asked to please use good judgment with your postings. Please refrain from using foul language, derogatory remarks, or purposely posting misinformation. We thank you for your cooperation and hope you enjoy the site!