Terms of Use

LaSalle County Mental Health Board: Terms Of Use

Effective Date: February --, 2023

This website with its home page in the domain [domain] (the "Site") is a complimentary information service offered by LCMHB at no charge to users of the World Wide Web, with the express condition that these users agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in these Terms of Use. LCMHB reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time, and you must consult the most recent version of these Terms of Use (not an older cached version) each time you view the Site. Use of this Site constitutes your acceptance of all of the following terms and conditions, including our Privacy Policy.

Disclaimer Statement

LCMHB Site & Online Community is for informational purposes only and is not meant to serve as medical advice or to replace consultation with your physician or mental health professional.

Use of LCMHB Site & Online Community constitutes an agreement by the users not to hold LCMHB or any of its employees or officers liable or responsible for information posted to discussion boards and other forums by persons or entities not associated with LCMHB.

You acknowledge that the information on the Site is provided "as is" for general information only. It is not intended as medical advice, and should not be relied upon, as a substitute for consultations with qualified health professionals who are familiar with your individual medical needs.

This Site includes chat and discussion boards. When you chat or join discussions, you agree to abide by all these Terms and Conditions. We want our Community to be a safe, comfortable, and friendly environment. We can remove any messages or solicitations that do not meet the standards of these Terms and Conditions. LCMHB reserves the right to immediately terminate a user's registration if we become aware and determine that the user is violating any of these Terms and Conditions or any of the chat and discussion board guidelines as enumerated therein.

Commercial solicitation, chain letters, junk mail, "spam", non-commercial or bulk solicitation, and/or content that infringes the copyrights or rights of privacy or publicity of others are all prohibited.

Threatening, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, profane, obscene, abusive, harmful, sexually-oriented, racially offensive, inaccurate, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature, is prohibited.

Unlawful material, or any material that encourages or promotes conduct that constitutes a criminal offense, or might give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, Federal or international law or regulation, or encourage the use of controlled substances, is prohibited. Posting content or participating in any form of discussion with the intention to commit any illegal or harmful activity is strictly prohibited.

Limitation Of Liability

You agree that you will hold harmless LCMHB and its officers, directors, employees, representatives and volunteers from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this Site or the information contained in this Site or other websites to which it is linked. This includes, but is not limited to, information or materials viewed or downloaded from this Site or another website to which it is linked that appear to you to be or may otherwise be construed as obscene, offensive, defamatory, inaccurate, incomplete, or in violation of any proprietary right. In no event will MLCMHB or the contributors of information to this Site be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you based on such information or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Hate Speech Policy

LCMHB does not condone or offer a platform for hate speech. We will not tolerate it or permit its use on platforms of ours. We reserve the right to delete or refuse to permit language that we find offensive. This includes, but is not limited to, any or all references that in our judgment are derogatory to people of any race, class, ethnicity, culture, gender, age, profession, orientation, or any population category included in state or federal civil rights legislation, whether or not the language or terms used may have been considered acceptable at some other time, in some other place, or by some other population. It also includes any language that would incite people toward violence toward or harassment of others.

Endorsements

You acknowledge that the opinions and recommendations contained in this Site are not necessarily those of LCMHB or endorsed by LCMHB. LCMHB may provide links on the Site to other websites which are not under the control of LCMHB. These links are provided for the convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by LCMHB of the organization or individual operating the Site or a warranty of any type regarding the Site or the information on the Site.

Content Usage Policy

Unless otherwise indicated, all information contained on our Site or in written form including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, button icons, photographs, video or audio clips is copyrighted by and proprietary to LCMHB or owned by and provided by one of our partners and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, sublicensed, altered, stored for subsequent use or otherwise used in whole or in part any manner without LCMHB’s prior written consent (or the written consent of our partners), except that the user may make such temporary copies in a single computer’s RAM and hard drive cache as are necessary to browse the Site, and the user may make one permanent copy of each page of the Site, brochure or booklet to be used by the user for personal and noncommercial uses. Unless language on our Site expressly permits certain copying or sharing rights of particular downloadable materials, to obtain written consent to use any material on or accessible through our Site, you will need to receive our consent through a permissions agreement. Data scraping or web crawling of the Site, other than by search engines for purposes of indexing for search purposes in the ordinary course, is prohibited.

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