Your access to and use of this website (“Website”) is subject to all applicable laws and regulations which apply to this Website, to the Internet and/or to the World Wide Web, as well as these terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) and our Privacy Policy. By using or accessing this Website or by using any of the services provided by this Website, you are confirming that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by such Terms and Conditions, without reservation, limitation or qualification. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS PLEASE DISCONTINUE USE OF THIS WEBSITE AND ANY OF THE SERVICES PROVIDED PURSUANT THERETO.

These Terms and Conditions are subject to change at any time without notice and it is your responsibility to keep apprised of such changes. Any such change shall be effective immediately upon posting to this Website. Your continued access and/or use of this Website constitutes your continuing acceptance of these Terms and Conditions without reservation, limitation or qualification.

The information posted by the Website operator on this Website is believed to be accurate when posted, but is not warranted or represented in any way to be so. Any use or reliance on such information is at your own risk. Your access and/or use of this Website is strictly on an “as is” basis, and you must not assume that this Website will be error free or that it will operate without interruption or as intended.

PURPOSE:

The NDSelect.com (“NDSelect”) directory and information contained therein is a free reference service for prospective patients of information on individual licensed Naturopathic Doctors.  NDSelect may make improvements and/or changes in the listings and/or services described at any time.

Permitted uses of this Website include general public access to information about Naturopathic Doctors and their services and for individual Naturopathic Doctors and/or their staff to view their personal listings or those of colleagues for professional purposes (e.g. patient referrals).

Neither NDSelect nor any of its information, listings or other constituent elements may be downloaded, republished, resold, ”scraped” or duplicated, in whole or in part.  Any and all commercial use of information presented in NDSelect is not permitted and is subject to prosecution.

The use of this Website by hospitals, insurance companies, managed care organizations, GPOs, PPOs or any other commercial entities or individuals to verify the credentials of physicians is strictly prohibited.  The database of practitioners’ information does not contain sufficient information with which to verify any single practitioners’ credentials.

 NDSELECT.COM DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE:

The contents of this Website are for informational purposes only. Text and information contained on this Website, and reference to resource material is not intended as a substitute for the advice, diagnosis, treatment or suggested course of treatment by your physician or other healthcare professional or any information contained on or in any product label or packaging. No warranty is made or given that any information on or linked to this Website is complete and/or accurate, and no warranty is given that there may not be a contrary view to any of the material that is hereby published.  You should not use the information on this Website for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication or other treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other healthcare professional before taking any medication or nutritional or herbal supplement, or adopting any treatment for a health-related problem.

The information contained in this Website, or obtained as a consequence of using this Website is not intended to be, nor is it implied to be, a substitute for professional medical advice. Users should always seek the advice of their physician, pharmacist, or other qualified health care provider prior to commencing any treatment for any conditions, diseases or maladies, and questions in relation to such treatment should be directed to such professional health care providers. Users should never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking such advice because of information obtained from this Website. This Website may contain content from third party sources. NDSelect does not necessarily endorse any third party products, views or information presented on this Website and such information or content may not reflect the opinions, recommendations or practices of NDSelect. 

Information and statements regarding nutritional, herbal or dietary supplements have not been evaluated by regulatory agencies and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

NDSelect does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, advice or other information that may be mentioned or obtained through this Website. Reliance on any information provided by NDSelect, Bergman Directories Inc., our affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, third-party content providers, merchants, sponsors, licensors, physicians listed on this Website or the like (collectively, “associates") is solely at your own risk.

Limitation of Liability:

(a)          This Website is provided for informational purposes only. NDSelect does not represent or warrant that this Website will be accessible or available on a timely basis, or that access here will be uninterrupted or error-free. NDSelect does not warrant the quality, accuracy, currency or completeness of any information that may be provided in this Website. This Website may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. All information is provided on an “as is, where is” basis, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, with respect to this Website or any of the content. Any such information may be or become outdated or inaccurate and/or may be changed or updated without notice. NDSelect may also make improvements and/or changes in the products, services and/or programs described here at any time without notice.

(b)          NDSelect may add, remove, enhance, alter, improve and/or otherwise change material posted at this Website from time to time. Because of the nature of websites, decisions should never be made based solely on website information and without first verifying and/or otherwise corroborating information posted here with other sources deemed to be reliable by you.

(c)           NDSelect neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on this Website will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with NDSelect.

(d)          NDSelect also 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 this Website or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from this Website.

(e)          Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with this Website, Website-related services, content or information contained herein or on any hyperlinked website is to stop using this Website, Website-related services, content, information or hyperlinked website.

IN NO EVENT SHALL NDSELECT OR ITS ASSOCIATES (OR ANY OF ITS OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR REPRESENTATIVES) BE LIABLE, AT LAW, IN EQUITY OR OTHERWISE, FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS WEBSITE AND ITS USE BY YOU.

Indemnification:

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, You will defend, indemnify and hold NDSelect harmless, and each of NDSelect’s directors, officers, employees, consultants and agents from and against all claims, liability, and expenses, including all legal fees and costs, arising out of:

(a)          Your breach of any provision of these Terms and Conditions; or

(b)          Your use of this Website, the content contained in this Website and the placement or transmission of any information or other materials on this Website made by you. You agree to notify NDSelect immediately after you become aware of any unauthorized use the information on this Website and to take such reasonable steps as are necessary to prevent any reoccurrence of such event.

LISTING REGISTRATION:

We may, at our discretion, suspend or terminate the listing and registration of any user who violates any of these terms and conditions of use, or for any other behavior that we deem inappropriate.   

COOKIES:

NDselect uses cookies to track non-personal information about our Website users such as the URL that the user has come from and goes to next, the Internet browser and type of operating system used, the user's location, and the user's IP address. We use IP addresses for system administration purposes so we can better understand which parts of our Website users visit most. Many sites automatically collect this information. We may use this information for such purposes as improving the content of our Website, marketing, advertising or research.

DATA SECURITY:

NDSelect uses a secured network to store your personal information. In order to view or change personal information that has already been stored, a secured server is used and information is transmitted via SSL encryption.

COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS:

This Website contains property notices and copyright information, the terms of which must be observed and followed. All materials on this Website are copyrighted unless otherwise noted, and nothing from this Website may be used by you except as provided in these Terms and Conditions, without the prior written permission of NDSelect. NDSelect neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on or downloaded from this Website will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with NDSelect.

Nothing contained in this Website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark, logo, service mark or design displayed on this Website without the written permission of NDSelect or any third party that may own any such item displayed on the Website. Your use of any of the trademarks, logos, service marks, designs and other intellectual property displayed on this Website and any other content on this Website is strictly prohibited except only and to the limited extent expressly permitted in these Terms and Conditions. NDSelect will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law should you breach any of these terms and conditions.

DISCLAIMERS:

This Website is provided for your use on an “as is,” “as available” basis. We, along with our associates, do not make any representations or warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, with respect to our Website or its contents, including, without limitation, the products, services or information offered or sold on or through our Website or any other website to which our Website links and the uninterrupted or error-free use of our Website. If and to the extent that any other websites on the World Wide Web are linked to this Website at any time, NDSelect is not responsible for the content of any such linked website or any link contained within such a linked website. NDSelect reserves the right to terminate any link or linking program at any time and the linking of any website to or through this Website does not imply any endorsement by NDSelect of the companies, products or information offered described or otherwise made available on or through such linked websites. We disclaim all representations and warranties, including, without limitation, all warranties of merchantability, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that our Website or files available on our Website will be free from corrupted data, computer viruses or similar destructive or contaminating code. No oral advice or written information provided by us or our affiliates shall create a warranty of any kind.

Unless encrypted, information sent or received over the Internet is not secure and NDSelect cannot and does not make any representation, warranty or promise concerning the interception by third parties of your personal or other information. NDSelect will not be responsible for any damages you or any third party may suffer as a result of, or in connection with, the transmission of any information from or to NDSelect through this Website.

If you decide to access this Website, any site linked to our website you do so expressly at your own risk.

PRIVACY POLICY:

NDSelect takes your privacy seriously and is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the terms of our privacy policy.  We reserve the right to monitor our web site and to disclose any information recorded or posted on, submitted to, or transmitted through our web site to the extent that we, in our sole discretion, deem such disclosure necessary or appropriate to comply with any law, regulation, subpoena, or government request, to operate our web site, or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of our users. 

SEVERABILITY:

If any of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, unlawful or for any reason unenforceable, that term or condition shall be deemed severable from these Terms and Conditions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

JURISDICTION:

By using this Website, you agree that the laws of the Province of Ontario, without respect to its conflict of laws principles, will govern these Terms and Conditions and any dispute that might arise between you and NDSelect or its associates.

 Thank you for your cooperation and adherence to these Terms and Conditions.