Terms

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 The www.hospitalbuddy.ie website and related HospitalBuddy apps available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store are a resource for regulated healthcare professionals. The service enables registered users to keep up to date with educational events and meetings that may be of interest to them.

The domain https://www.hospitalbuddy.ie/, the associated apps, the facilities, services and information available thereon (our "Services"), are owned and operated by CME Meetings Ltd, trading as HospitalBuddy ("HospitalBuddy"), a company registered in Ireland, number 655019, having its registered office at Unit 101, 4, Burton Hall Park, Burton Hall Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.

1.2 Your usage of our Service is governed by the continuous application of these Terms of Service. For the purpose of these Terms of Service "we", "our" and "us" refers to CME Meetings Ltd, trading as HospitalBuddy, and "you" refers to you, a registered user of our Service and/or any facilities, services or information available thereon.

1.3 For the purpose of these Terms of Service, "Healthcare Professional" means any individual who is registered with, and regulated by, the Irish Medical Council in Ireland, or who is registered with and regulated by an equivalent competent body in Ireland or in any other country.

2. IMPORTANT NOTICE

2.1 WE ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE PROVISION OF ANY HEALTHCARE OR MEDICAL ADVICE OR DIAGNOSIS. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED VIA OUR SERVICE IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.

2.2 WE DO NOT SCREEN OR VALIDATE ANY CONTENT POSTED BY OURSELVES OR ANY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, NOR DO WE ENDORSE ANY PARTICULAR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL, EVENT OR MEETING.

3. ACCEPTING THE TERMS OF SERVICE

3.1 In order to use our Service you must firstly agree to these Terms of Service. You may not use our Service if you do not accept these Terms of Service.

3.2 You can accept these Terms of Service by actually using our Service. You understand and agree that we will treat your use of our Service as acceptance of these Terms of Service from that point onwards.

3.3 You may not use our Service and may not accept these Terms of Service if you are not a registered user. To be eligible to register as a user of our Service you must be:

  • A Healthcare Professional, be registered with the Irish Medical Council or by an equivalent competent body in Ireland or in other countries or:
  • Any other third party or service-provider approved from time to time by us.

4. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE

4.1 We reserve the right to modify or terminate any services offered from time to time, for any reason and without notice, and without liability to you, to any of our clients or to any other third party. We reserve the right to change the content, presentation, performance, user facilities and/or availability of any part of these Services including these Terms of Service at our sole discretion from time to time.

4.2 We will endeavour to bring any material changes to these Terms of Service to your attention. If we do amend these Terms of Service, the amended terms will be effective when posted on our Service. You, the user, are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms of Service and any additional terms posted on our Service. By continuing to access or use the Services after any changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms of Service. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the Services.

5. USE OF THE SERVICE

5.1 CME Meetings Ltd requires you to open an account in order to access our Service. You must complete the registration process and all the information supplied must be complete and accurate. You will be asked to choose a password, and the responsibility for maintaining the privacy of this account and the password to access it is entirely yours. No compensation will be made to you for the set-up or operation of your account.

5.2 You will be asked to provide your name, email address, your medical registration number and password. By participating in the registration, you acknowledge that you are a qualified healthcare professional and are therefore confirm your eligibility in accordance with paragraph 3.3 above to use our Service.

5.3 Whether you register as a healthcare professional or service provider or other third party consented to by us, you agree not to use the account or password of another user at any time or to disclose your password to any third party.

5.4 You agree to notify CME Meetings Ltd immediately if you suspect any unauthorised use of your account or access to your password or any other breach of the security of your account or to the security of our Service.

5.5 You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account, and you are solely and fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You are prohibited from selling, trading or otherwise transferring your HospitalBuddy account to another party. CME Meetings Ltd cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this obligation.

5.6 Once set up, your account will continue indefinitely, regardless of usage levels, unless terminated either by you or by us. You can terminate your account by contacting CME Meetings Ltd in writing at support@hospitalbuddy.ie.

5.7 CME Meetings Ltd reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account without prior notice at our discretion, in accordance with paragraph 11 hereunder, where we suspect that you have fraudulently or otherwise obtained access to our Service by breaching these Terms of Service, or any paragraph or sub-paragraph thereof.

6. SERVICES WE PROVIDE

6.1 Our Service enables registered users to:

  • keep up to date with meetings that may be of interest to them and to track the meetings they have attended
  • communicate with their colleagues
  • access content for their specific hospital
  • access patient information leaflets
  • acesss other useful content

6.2 We do not make any warranty, either express or implied, as to the veracity or accuracy of any of the information available on our Service. You expressly agree that any such use of any or all of the information that you obtain from our Service, is done at entirely your own risk and that you will not seek to be indemnified by us for any loss, howsoever caused, to you or to your employees, agents or patients, arising out of the usage made of any information that you, the user, obtain from our Service.

7. SERVICES WE DO NOT PROVIDE

7.1 Our Service is not a medical advisory service and we do not endorse, recommend, or approve any Healthcare Professionals that may be referenced in our Service.

8. CONTENT POLICY

8.1 We have no obligation to screen content or information in advance, nor are we responsible for screening or monitoring material posted by you or any other user.

8.2 Information on our Service is posted in good faith by you and other users but we cannot guarantee its completeness and accuracy. We cannot and have not checked the accuracy of all information available on our Service.

8.3 You are solely responsible for the content and information you provide to us to be published on the Services, either through our online data entry forms or other means by which you may opt to provide information to us. We reserve the right to edit or remove your content if we suspect it is untrue or that it may incur liability for us or for any other reason deemed appropriate by ourselves.

9. INTERACTIVE CONTENT

9.1 HospitalBuddy cannot endorse or stand by the accuracy, truthfulness or reliability of any material posted by users.

9.2 You are solely responsible for your conduct and any material that you submit, post, and/or display on HospitalBuddy. You agree not to post material contrary to this Content Policy or our Terms of Service.

9.3 As with any web or app based interaction, we suggest that you use caution and good judgment. If there is a dispute between you and any third party (including any advertiser), we are under no obligation to become involved.

9.4 We have no obligation to verify the identity of any users when they are connected to the site or to monitor material provided by them.

9.5 You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the material posted by you or otherwise have the right to grant the licence set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of the material does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.

10. OWNERSHIP AND USAGE OF THE INTERACTIVE CONTENT POSTED BY YOU

10.1 You own all of the material you post on HospitalBuddy and we do not claim ownership of that material. However, we need your permission to be able to display that material and in some cases to modify it for best display – for different browsers, for our mobile site, and so on.

10.2 By posting any material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material) on or through HospitalBuddy, you grant us an unlimited licence to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such material.

10.3 The licence you grant to us is non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, sub-licensable, and worldwide.

10.4 You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing to any person by reason of any material posted by you to or through HospitalBuddy.

10.5 From time to time we may seek to use users' material for the purpose of advertising or marketing HospitalBuddy.

10.6 You are responsible for making sure that you have all rights to what you post, including the rights necessary for you to grant the foregoing licences to same.

11. TERMINATION OF ACCESS TO INTERACTIVE CONTENT

11.1 We may at our absolute discretion refuse you access to our Service and/or cancel/terminate your user privileges without prior notice for any reason and you shall not be entitled to any compensation in respect of cancellation/termination of your user privileges.

11.2 We may, but are not obliged to, remove or limit access to material from any user which breaches these Terms of Service.

11.3 Without limiting the foregoing, the following will lead to a suspension of your privileges on HospitalBuddy:

  • Breaches or violations of these Terms of Service or other HospitalBuddy guidelines,
  • Requests by law enforcement and/or other government agencies,
  • Unexpected technical issues or problems,
  • Extended periods of inactivity.

12. AGE AND RESPONSIBILITY

12.1 Our Service may only be used by individuals who are of the requisite legal capacity to be bound by these Terms of Service. Each time you access our Service you are representing to CME Meetings Ltd that you are at least 18 years of age.

13. PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

13.1 In accordance with the HospitalBuddy Privacy Policy, CME Meetings Ltd respects your privacy.

13.2 We endeavour at all times to protect your privacy and the privacy of the other users who access the Service and use its facilities in accordance with obligations laid down in Irish law. For full details of the manner in which we use the information provided by you, the type of information we collect and the manner in which cookies are used on our Service, and for further details concerning the circumstances upon which we disclose information, please read the Privacy Statement which is hereby incorporated into, and forms part of, these Terms of Service.

13.3 You may from time to time receive information from our partners and/or carefully selected third parties. You can opt out of this informational service at any stage and still remain a registered member of our Service.

13.4 Our Service is hosted in the European Union.

13.5 CME Meetings Ltd holds data in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998, and will adhere to any other relevant future legislation in this area. Under this legislation, you the user can obtain a copy of all information which CME Meetings Ltd has on its database in relation to use. Members wishing to obtain such information should contact us in writing at the following email address: support@hospitalbuddy.ie.

13.6 Our Service contains links to other external Services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external Services, and we do not make any warranties in this regard, either express or implied.

13.7 Information sent over the internet cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure as it is subject to possible interception, or loss, or possible alteration. You understand and agree to assume the security risk for any and all information you provide using the Service, including but not limited to information relating to any financial transaction that may be conducted between you and us in the course of our business or any electronic patient referral initiated by you. Please notify us immediately of any compromise or unauthorised use of your account.

13.8 We are not responsible for any information sent over the internet and we will not be liable to you or any other party for any loss or damage, howsoever caused, or any other loss whatsoever, incurred in connection with any information sent by you to us, or to another Healthcare Professional, or any information sent by us, by a Healthcare Professional or by any third party to you, either through the medium of our Service, or otherwise over the internet.

14. SUSPENSION/TERMINATION

14.1 Whilst we will make reasonable attempts to inform you, provided that we deem it to be in our mutual interest to do so, we may at any time, without notice to you, suspend or terminate your access to our Service, or any service forming part of our Service, wholly or partially, for any reason including, but without limitation, where you have provided false or misleading information to us, or you are in breach of our Terms of Service, or if we cannot verify or authenticate any information submitted by you, or purported to have been submitted by you or on your behalf, to our Service.

14.2 We shall not be liable to you or any third party for any suspension or termination of access to our Service, which includes any resulting damage that may allegedly arise to you, your employees or your agents, howsoever caused.

15. USE OF OUR SERVICE

15.1 You agree not to use this Service or any of the facilities and/or services provided by us for any purpose that is fraudulent, unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Service, or otherwise in accordance with law. In particular, you agree NOT to use HospitalBuddy to:

  • post illegal material;
  • defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
  • solicit personal information from anyone under 18;
  • solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes;
  • collect or store other users' personal data for purposes other than establishing contact that is reasonably expected to be welcomed by such other users;
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to the HospitalBuddy administrative areas or interface, to user accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the HospitalBuddy site, through password mining or any other means;
  • post irrelevant material, repeatedly post the same or similar material or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the HospitalBuddy servers or infrastructure;
  • post any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional content, 'junk mail', 'spam', 'chain letters', 'pyramid schemes', or any other form of commercial publicity;
  • post any abusive, harmful, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, indecent, profane, inappropriate, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material;
  • post material that contains violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to adult services or is sexually explicit;
  • post material that promotes or encourages illegal activity;
  • post material that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary right of any party;
  • post material that falsely expresses or implies that such material is sponsored or endorsed by Us;
  • post material that contains software viruses or harmful programmes including but not limited to, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel-bots, computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
  • modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of HospitalBuddy, or use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of HospitalBuddy, except as expressly authorised in writing by HospitalBuddy;
  • reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of HospitalBuddy.

15.2 The information contained on our Service may contain technical inaccuracies and typographical errors. We will endeavour to remedy such errors where they are brought to our attention, but to maximum extent permitted by law, we shall not accept any responsibility or any liability for our failure to do so.

15.3 The information on our Service may be updated from time to time but we do not accept any responsibility for keeping the information in these pages up-to-date nor any liability for our failure to do so.

15.4 We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to pursue all of our legal remedies upon breach by you of these Terms of Service, including but not limited to removal of your postings and content from our Service, and restricting or otherwise suspending your ability to access to our Service and to use any or all of its constituent services.

16. COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND LIMITED LICENCE

16.1 The information, content, graphics, text, sounds, images, buttons, trademarks, service marks, get-up, business names, domain names, rights in good will, know-how, designs and rights in designs, trade names and logos (whether registered or unregistered) contained on our Service are protected by copyright, trade mark, database right, sui generis right and other intellectual property laws and are also protected under national laws and international treaties. CME Meetings Ltd and/or its licensors (as the case may be) retain all right, title, interest and intellectual property rights in and to the materials. All proprietary content on our Service is the copyright of CME Meetings Ltd.

16.2 Any other use of the information on our Service, including any form of copying or reproduction, modification, distribution, uploading, re-publication, extraction, re-utilisation, incorporation or integration with other materials or works or re-delivery using framing technology, without our prior permission is strictly prohibited and is a violation of the proprietary rights of CME Meetings Ltd. Other than as expressly provided herein, nothing in these Terms of Service should be construed as conferring, by implication or otherwise, any licence or right under any copyright, patent, trade mark, database right, sui generis right or other intellectual property or proprietary interest of CME Meetings Ltd, its licensors or any third party.

16.3 You agree to grant CME Meetings Ltd a non-exclusive, royalty free, world-wide, transferable perpetual licence with the right to sub-licence, reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works of, or publicly display any or all content or information (including without limitation, any or all ideas contained therein for new or improved services) when you submit information or any other content to our Service either during the registration process or to us, by whatever means, thereafter.

17. DISCLAIMERS

17.1 THE SERVICE IS AVAILABLE TO ALL USERS "AS IS" AND, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS MADE AVAILABLE WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

17.2 CME MEETINGS LTD MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR UNDERTAKINGS ABOUT THE SERVICE OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICE

17.3 ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED ON OUR SERVICE IS INTENDED AS A GUIDE ONLY AND NEITHER CME MEETINGS LTD, NOR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR UNDERTAKINGS AS TO THE ACCURACY OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED ON OUR SERVICE.

17.4 CME MEETINGS LTD MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR UNDERTAKINGS THAT OUR SERVICE, OR THE SERVER(S) UPON WHICH IT IS HOSTED, WILL BE FREE FROM DEFECTS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL ELEMENTS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CME MEETINGS LTD ACCEPTS NO LIABILITY FOR ANY INFECTION BY COMPUTER VIRUS, BUG, TAMPERING, UNAUTHORISED ACCESS, INTERVENTION, ALTERATION OR USE, FRAUD, THEFT, TECHNICAL FAILURE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY, OR ANY EVENT OR OCCURRENCE BEYOND THE CONTROL OF CME MEETINGS LTD, WHICH CORRUPTS OR AFFECTS THE ADMINISTRATION, SECURITY, FAIRNESS AND THE INTEGRITY OR PROPER CONDUCT OF ANY ASPECT OF OUR SERVICE.

17.5 ALL USE BY YOU OF OUR SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU ASSUME COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY FOR, AND FOR ALL RISK OF LOSS RESULTING FROM YOUR DOWNLOADING ,OR USING OF, OR REFERRING TO, OR RELYING ON, THE FACILITIES, SERVICE(S) OR INFORMATION PROVIDED ON OUR SERVICE, OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICE. YOU AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CME MEETINGS LTD AND ALL CONNECTED PROVIDERS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORK SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO CME MEETINGS LTD WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR YOUR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS WITH RESPECT THERETO, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHER GROUNDS.

17.6 NO ORAL ADVICE OR WRITTEN INFORMATION, GIVEN BY CME MEETINGS LTD, ITS OFFICERS, AGENTS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS, OR THE LIKE, SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY, NOR SHALL YOU RELY ON ANY SUCH INFORMATION OR ADVICE.

17.7 MAKE SURE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY ANY INFORMATION AND CONTENT ON HOSPITALBUDDY BEFORE RELYING ON IT. ANY INFORMATION ON HOSPITALBUDDY DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ANY FORM OF ADVICE OR RECOMMENDATION BY CME MEETINGS LTD AND IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE RELIED UPON IN MAKING ANY DECISION.

17.8 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CME MEETINGS LTD ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY, NOR DO WE GRANT ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, RELATING TO THE OPERATION, SAFETY, CONDITION OR SERVICE OF AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL OR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL OR MEDICAL SERVICE, OR ANY OTHER PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH SAME THAT IS USED BY, FOR, OR ON BEHALF OF, YOU. CME MEETINGS LTD IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE ACTS, ERRORS, OMISSIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, BREACHES OR NEGLIGENCE OF ANY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL OR ANY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL OR ANY OTHER PERSONS ASSOCIATED WITH SAME, WHOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION OR CONTACT DETAILS YOU OBTAINED FROM OUR SERVICE, OR FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGES OR EXPENSES RESULTING THEREFROM.

17.9 CME MEETINGS LTD CANNOT GUARANTEE, AND DOES NOT PROMISE, ANY SPECIFIC RESULTS FROM THE USE BY YOU OF OUR SERVICE.

17.10 PART OF OUR SERVICE MAY CONTAIN THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING. ADVERTISERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING THAT MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR INCLUSION ON OUR SERVICE COMPLIES WITH ALL RELEVANT ENGLISH, EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS AND ALL RELEVANT ENGLISH, EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY CODES OF PRACTICE AND INDUSTRY OR VOLUNTARY CODES OF CONDUCT, WHERE APPROPRIATE. CME MEETINGS LTD TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIRD PARTY ADVERTISEMENTS WHICH ARE HOSTED ON OUR SERVICE, NOR DO WE TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE GOODS OR SERVICES OFFERED BY SUCH THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS. CME MEETINGS LTD WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ERROR OR INACCURACY IN ADVERTISING MATERIALS, NOR WILL IT BE LIABLE FOR ANY BREACH OF ENGLISH, EUROPEAN OR OTHER INTERNATIONAL LAWS, NOR ANY ENGLISH, EUROPEAN OR OTHER INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY CODES OF PRACTICE OR VOLUNTARY CODE OF CONDUCT BY THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS IN RELATION TO THE CONTENT OF ANY OF THEIR ADVERTISEMENTS WHICH MAY FROM TIME TO TIME APPEAR ON OUR SERVICE.

18. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

18.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER CME MEETINGS LTD NOR ANY OF ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH, YOUR USE OF ANY FACILITIES OR SERVICES WHICH WE OFFER, OR ANY TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO, THROUGH OR FROM OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGES, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF INCOME, PROFIT OR OPPORTUNITY, LOSS OF, OR DAMAGE TO, PROPERTY AND CLAIMS OF THIRD PARTIES, EVEN IF CME MEETINGS LTD HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGES, OR SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGES WERE REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.

18.2 IN NO EVENT SHALL CME MEETINGS LTD NOR ANY OF ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION OF THE SERVICE, WHETHER SUCH INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION WAS JUSTIFIED OR NOT, NEGLIGENT OR INTENTIONAL, INADVERTENT OR ADVERTENT.

18.3 WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE FOREGOING, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL CME MEETINGS LTD NOR ANY OF ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DELAY OR FAILURE IN PERFORMANCE OF OUR SERVICE OR THE FACILITIES OR SERVICES THAT WE OFFER ON OUR SERVICE, RESULTING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ACTS OF NATURE, FORCES OR CAUSES BEYOND THEIR REASONABLE CONTROL, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INTERNET FAILURE, COMPUTER EQUIPMENT FAILURES, TELECOMMUNICATION FAILURES, OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURES, ELECTRICAL POWER FAILURES, STRIKES, LAY-WAY DISPUTES, RIOTS, INTERACTIONS, CIVIL DISTURBANCES, SHORTAGES OF LABOUR OR MATERIALS, FIRES, FLOATS, STORMS, EXPLOSIONS, ACTS OF GOD, WAR, GOVERNMENTAL ACTIONS, ORDERS OF DOMESTIC OR FOREIGN COURTS OR TRIBUNALS OR THE NON-PERFORMANCE OF A THIRD PARTY.

18.4 CME MEETINGS LTD DOES NOT EXCLUDE LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY ITS NEGLIGENCE OR THAT OF ITS EMPLOYEES OR AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVES OR FOR FRAUD.

19. INDEMNITY

19.1 You agree to defend, indemnify and keep indemnified and hold CME Meetings Ltd and (as applicable) its officers, directors, employees, agents or other representatives, harmless against any and all claims, proceedings, actions, costs (including legal costs), charges, expenses, damages, liability, losses and demands made by, or liabilities to, any third party, resulting from any activities conducted under your account and/or your email/username and/or password, resulting in the use or misuse of our Service, including but not limited to posting content on our Service, entering into transactions with Healthcare Professionals, infringing any third party intellectual property or other rights, or otherwise arising out of your breach or any breach of these Terms of Service.

20. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SERVICES

20.1 Our Service contains links to third party services. Your use of third party services is subject to the independent terms and conditions of use contained within each of those services. Access to any other external services through our Service is at your own risk.

20.2 CME Meetings Ltd is not responsible or liable for the accuracy of any information, data, opinions or statements made on third party services, or the security of any link or communication with those services. CME Meetings Ltd reserves the right to terminate a link to a third party services at any time.

20.3 The fact that CME Meetings Ltd provides a link to a third party service does not mean that CME Meetings Ltd endorses, authorises or sponsors that services, nor does it mean that CME Meetings Ltd is affiliated with any third party services, owners or sponsors. CME Meetings Ltd provides these links merely as a convenience for those who use our Service.

21. AVAILABILITY

21.1 Although CME Meetings Ltd endeavours to ensure that our Service is available at all times, there may be occasions when access to our Service may be interrupted, e.g. to allow maintenance, upgrades and emergency repairs to take place, or due to the failure of telecommunications links and equipment that are beyond our control. You agree that CME Meetings Ltd shall not be liable to you for any loss incurred by you resulting from the modification, suspension or discontinuance of our Service.

21.2 You accept that you have sole responsibility for adequate protection and back up of any content and data you submit to the Services and for undertaking reasonable and appropriate precautions to scan for computer viruses or other destructive items.

22. JURISDICTION AND GOVERNING LAW

22.1 The Service is controlled and operated by CME Meetings Ltd and its service provider(s) from the Republic of Ireland. HospitalBuddy does not make any representation that the facilities, services and information contained thereon, including but not limited to the availability of advertising material relating to third party products or services, offered through our Service is appropriate or suitable for use in any country other than the Republic of Ireland, or that such information complies with any legal or regulatory requirements in any jurisdiction other than the Republic of Ireland. In accessing our Service, you do so at your own risk and on your own initiative, and are responsible for compliance with local laws, to the extent that any local laws are applicable.

22.2 If it is prohibited to make our Service, facilities, services or information offered through our Service, including but not limited to the availability of advertising material relating to third party products and or services, or any part of them available to your in your country of access, (whether by reason of nationality, residence, law or otherwise), these Services, the facilities, and/or information and/or advertising material relating to third party products and or services offered through our Service, or any part of them, are hereby regarded at not directed at you.

22.3 These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ireland, and you hereby agree for the benefit of CME Meetings Ltd, and without prejudice to the right of CME Meetings Ltd to take proceedings in relation to these Terms of Service before any court of competent jurisdiction, that the courts of the Republic of Ireland shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any actions or proceedings that may arise out of, or in connection with, these Terms of Service. You also hereby agree that for such purposes you irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Republic of Ireland.

22.4 The language of any dispute resolution procedure or any proceedings under these Terms of Service will be English.

23. MISCELLANEOUS

23.1 Any waiver of any provision of these Terms of Service must be in writing and signed by an authorised officer of CME Meetings Ltd to be valid. Any waiver of any provision hereunder shall not operate as a waiver of any other provision, or a continuing waiver of any provision in the future.

23.2 Each of the provisions of these Terms of Service is separate and severable and enforceable accordingly, and if at any time any provision is judged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be void or unenforceable the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired.

23.3 Nothing in these Terms of Service shall constitute, or be deemed to constitute, a partnership between you and CME Meetings Ltd or its agents, nor shall either party be deemed to be the agent of the other party.

23.4 These Terms of Service represent the entire understanding and agreement between you and CME Meetings Ltd relating to your use of our Service, its facilities services and information available thereon and supersede any and all prior statements, understandings and agreements.

24. CONTACTING US

In order to contact us, please email us at support@hospitalbuddy.ie.