Please read this page carefully as it states the Terms and Conditions under which you may use this website.

Terms and conditions

Please read this page carefully as it states the Terms and Conditions under which you may use this website. If you do not accept the Terms and Conditions stated here, do not use the website. The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners ('College') may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page periodically to review the Terms and Conditions, because they are binding on you.

Section 1. Use of Material

The College authorises you to view and download a single copy of the material on this website ('www.rnzcgp.org.nz') solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Special rules may apply to the use of certain software and other items provided on the website. Any such special rules are listed as 'Legal Notices' on this website and are incorporated into this Agreement by reference.

The contents of this website, such as text, graphics, images and other material ('Material'), are protected by copyright under both United States and foreign laws. Unauthorised use of the Material may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Material on any copy you make of the Material. You may not sell or modify the Material or reproduce, display, publicly-perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Material in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use of the Material on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited.

If you violate any of these Terms, your permission to use the Material automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of the Material.

Section 2. College's Liability

The Material may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. The College makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the Material or about the results to be obtained from using the website and the Material. The use of the website and the Material is at your own risk. Changes are periodically made to the website and may be made at any time.

The College does not warrant that the website will operate error-free or that this website and its server are free of computer viruses and other harmful goods. If your use of the website or the material results in the need for servicing or replacing equipment or data, the college is not responsible for those costs.

The website and material are provided on an 'as is' basis without any warranties of any kind. The College and its suppliers, to the fullest extent permitted by law, disclaim all warranties, including the warranty of merchantability, non-infringement of third parties rights, and the warranty of fitness for particular purpose. The College and its suppliers make no warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the material, services, software text, graphics, and links.

Part of the website may contain material submitted to the College by third parties. The College cannot be held responsible for any error, omission or inaccuracy in such material and reserves the right at its absolute discretion to omit, suspend or change any material submitted without giving notice.

The College shall not be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect or consequential losses, or any other damages or loss of profits whatsoever, arising directly or indirectly in contract, tort or otherwise, from the use of or inability to use the website (or any hypertext links to or from the website), or any information contained (or not contained) in the website (or any other website to which hypertext links to or from the website may exist).

Section 3. Disclaimer of Consequential Damages

In no event shall the College, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the website be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption) resulting from the use or inability to use the website and the material, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not the College is advised of the possibility of such damages.

Section 4. User Submissions

Generally, any communication which you post on the website is considered to be non-confidential. If particular web pages permit the submission of communications to be treated by the College as confidential, that fact will be stated in "Legal Notices" on those pages. By posting communications on the website, you automatically grant the College a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known or hereafter developed, and to sublicence such rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees.

As a User, you are responsible for your own communications and for the consequences of their posting. You must not do the following things: post material that is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or have the permission of the copyright owner to post it; post material that reveals trade secrets, unless you own them or have the permission of the owner; post material that infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others; post material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to another User or any other person or entity; post a sexually-explicit image; post advertisements (except when using the College classified service) or solicitations of business; post chain letters or pyramid schemes; or impersonate another person.

The College does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any of communications posted by other Users or endorse any opinions expressed by Users. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted by other Users will be at your own risk.

The College does not screen communications in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material posted by Users. If notified by a User of communications which allegedly do not conform to this Agreement, the College may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and its sole discretion whether to remove or request the removal of the communication. The College has no liability or responsibility to Users for performance or non-performance of such activities. The College reserves the right to expel Users and prevent their further access to the website for violating this Agreement or the law and the right to remove communications which are abusive, illegal, or disruptive.

Section 5. Links to Other Sites

The website contains links to third party websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by the College of the contents on such third-party websites. The College is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third party websites. If you decide to access linked third-party websites, you do so at your own risk.

Section 6. Software Licenses

All software made available for downloading from the website ("Software") is protected by copyright and may be protected by other rights. The use of such software is governed by the terms of the software licence agreement or designated "Legal Notice" accompanying such software ("Licence Agreement"). The downloading and use of such software is conditioned on your agreement to be bound by the terms of the Licence Agreement.

Section 7. Limitation of Liability

Unless otherwise expressly provided in a Software License or Legal Notice, the aggregate liability for the College to you for all claims arising from the use of the Materials (including Software) is limited to $100.

Section 8. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the College, its officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from your use of the Material (including Software) or your breach of the terms of this Agreement. The College shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit or proceeding.

Section 9. Export Control

The United States controls the export of products and information. You agree to comply with such restrictions and not to export or re-export the Materials (including Software) to countries or persons prohibited under the export control laws. By downloading the Materials (including Software), you are agreeing that you are not in a country where such export is prohibited or are a person or entity to which such export is prohibited. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of your local jurisdiction regarding the import, export, or re-export of the Product.

Section 10. User Information

The College may use the information it obtains relating to you, including your IP address, name, mailing address, email address and use of the website, for its internal business and marketing purposes and may disclose the information to third parties for such purposes.

Section 11. Cookies and Online Advertising

We use third party cookies – such as Google Analytics cookies – to keep track of the information you’re interested in. We may use these cookies to advertise only to you when you leave our site (as a result, you may see ads from the College when you visit other websites). This cookie does not in any way identify you or give access to your computer. The cookie is used to say “This person visited this page, so show them ads relating to that page.”

Google AdWords Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you.

You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics please visit this page. 

Section 12. General

This website is based in Wellington, New Zealand. The College makes no claims the Materials are appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the New Zealand. Access to the Materials (including Software) may not be legal for certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the website from outside of New Zealand, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. This Agreement is governed by the internal substantive laws of New Zealand, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. If any provision of this Agreement 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 this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term. Except as expressly provided in a particular "Legal Notice" or Software License or material on particular web pages, this Agreement constitutes the entire Agreement between you and the College with respect to the use of website. Any changes to this Agreement must be made in writing, signed by an authorised representative of the College.