This site and related services are provided subject to your compliance with the Terms of Use specified below. Your continued use of this site will indicate your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, please exit this site promptly.
Note that "site" and "website" in this document should be understood as including all/any websites within the Essentia Health family.
The information contained within this site is offered solely for your consideration, and is subject to your verification. It is not to be taken as a warranty or representation for which Essentia Health or any of its affiliates assumes legal responsibility, nor does Essentia Health or any of its affiliates grant permission to use or practice anything contained herein, or recommend such use or practice.
The Essentia Health website is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Do not use information from the Essentia Health website to diagnose or treat a health condition or disease without consulting a qualified health care provider.
The contents of this site may be viewed and accessed only for your personal, non-commercial use. The materials at this site may not be modified in any way or reproduced or distributed or used for any public or commercial purpose unless expressly permitted. Any use or display of the materials on this site on any other website or networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. The materials at this site are copyrighted and any unauthorized use of these materials may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. If you breach any of these terms, your authorization to use this site is terminated and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.
The User agrees to use the Essentia Health website only for lawful purposes. Unacceptable uses of the website include without limitation: (i) engaging in any illegal activity or the planning of any illegal activity; (ii) disseminating or transmitting statements or material that, to a reasonable person, may be abusive, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, vulgar, threatening or malicious; (iii) creating, disseminating or transmitting files, graphics, software or other material that actually or potentially infringes the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, publicity or other intellectual property rights of any person; (iv) creating a false identity or otherwise attempting to mislead any person as to the identity or origin of any communication; (v) exporting, re-exporting or permitting the downloading of any message, software or content in violation of any export or import law, regulation or restriction of the United States and its agencies or authorities, or without all required approvals, licenses or exemptions; (vi) interfering, disrupting or attempting to gain unauthorized access to other accounts on the website or any other computer network; (vii) disseminating or transmitting viruses, worms, Trojan horses, time bombs, Spyware, or any other malicious or invasive code or program; or (viii) engaging in any other activity deemed by Essentia Health to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of this website
Essentia Health and its affiliates own copyrights for the materials contained on this site, including all text, graphics, and photos. The use, reproduction, and/or re-transmission by any means of any of the material contained in this site without the written permission of Essentia Health is strictly prohibited.
Links to third-party websites on this site are provided solely as a convenience. If you use these links, you will leave this site. Essentia Health does not claim to have reviewed these third-party sites in their entirety, nor does it control these sites. Essentia Health is not responsible for any of these sites or their content. Moreover, Essentia Health does not endorse or make any representations about any of the websites, for which links are provided, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to this site, you do so entirely at your own risk.
The materials provided at this site are provided "AS IS" without any warranties of any kind, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringements of intellectual property. Essentia Health further does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the materials at this site. Essentia Health makes no commitment to update the materials at this site, even if out of date. Information published at this site may refer to products, programs or services that are not available in your country or region. In no event will Essentia Health, its affiliates, suppliers, or other third parties mentioned at this site be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, those resulting from lost profits, lost data or business interruption) arising out of the use, inability to use, or the results of use of this site, any websites linked to this site, or the materials or information contained at any or all such sites, whether based on warranty, contract, tort or any other legal theory and whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages.
Subject to the Essentia Health Privacy Statement, any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Essentia Health will have no obligations with respect to such communications. Essentia Health and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the communications and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law. No patient identifying information is to be shared or transmitted to this site.
These Terms of Use are entered into in the State of Minnesota and shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota, exclusive of its choice of law rules
Each party to these Terms of Use submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota for any dispute with Essentia Health, or its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, contractors, officers, directors, telecommunication providers, and content providers.
If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition.
Essentia Health may revise and update these Terms of Use at any time. Please periodically review the terms, conditions, and privacy statements posted on the Essentia Health website. Continued usage of the Essentia Health website will be considered acceptance of any changes. Expressly designated legal notices or terms on particular pages at this site may supersede certain provisions of these Terms of Use.
Essentia Health reserves the right to monitor all traffic to this website to identify and/or block unauthorized attempts or intrusion to upload or change information or cause damage to this website in any fashion. Anyone using this website consents to such monitoring.
Essentia Health welcomes your questions and comments regarding our Terms of Use and anything else on this site. Please e-mail us at webfeedback@essentiahealth.org.
Essentia Health is sensitive to the expectation of privacy by those who access this site. For a complete statement of our policies on privacy, please read our Privacy Statement.
