Terms of Use

Agreement Between User and Viquepedia™

The Viquepedia™ Website (“Viquepedia.com”) is owned, operated, and maintained by Victor Epelle and a team of contributors, with a view to provide educational content for everyone, free of charge. We try to write articles that are informative, easy to read, and interesting.

These Terms and Conditions shall apply to Your use of the Viquepedia Website located at viquepedia.comOpens in new window. We strongly recommend that you read them carefully before proceeding with Your use of the Viquepedia™ Website.

1. Introduction

This Terms of Use Agreement constitutes a legally binding contract between the Viquepedia™ Website (“Viquepedia.com,” “we,” “us,” “our”) and you with respect to your use of our online domain www.viquepedia.comOpens in new window, and the content therein such as educational content, and other information vital for your academics, research, and other intellectual purposes; each as collectively described as the “Viquepedia™ Website”.

We reserve the right at any time, with or without prior notification, to:

• Review and update periodically the terms and conditions herein stated in this Terms of Use;
• Update the Website, including eliminating or discontinuing any Educational Studies, Information, or other content of the Viquepedia™ Website; or

In the course of reviewing the content of this Terms of Use Agreement, any change(s) made will be rendered effective immediately upon our making such change(s) available on the Website or otherwise providing notice thereof. Any changes we make are intended to be prospective only. You agree that your entering, re-entering, or continuing to use the Vanpelleisa Website thereafter constitutes your acceptance of such change(s).

However, we strongly recommend that you make it a responsibility upon yourself to return to this page periodically to familiarize yourself with the most current version of this Terms of Use.

2. Medical Advice Disclaimer

The medical content you may find in the fields of Clinical Genetics and Emergency Medicine hosted on this Site is for informational purposes only. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. We strongly recommend that you always seek the counsel of your clinician or other qualified health provider with any question you may have regarding a medical condition. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. The Viquepedia does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physician, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site. If you rely on any information provided by Viquepedia, or on third-party sites or external links provided by Viquepedia, you do so solely at your own risk.

3. Acceptable Use Policy

You agree not to use ALL and NOT Some of the features, Information, or any Services offered in the Viquepedia™ Website to engage in any action(s) that:

• are contrary to the Viquepedia's public image, goodwill or reputation or otherwise not consistent with objective of the Viquepedia.com Project;
• infringe on our or any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or privileges of publicity or privacy;
• express or imply that any of your statements, activities or causes are approved or endorsed by us, without our prior written permission in any given case;
• violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or encourage any conduct that could constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability;
• restrict or inhibit any other visitor from using the Viquepedia™ Website, including, without limitation, by means of “hacking” or defacing any portion of the Viquepedia™ Website;
• are libelous, defamatory, threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, abusive, tortious, hateful, discriminatory, pornographic or obscene;
• transmit any trade secret or other material, non-public information about any person, company or entity without the authorization to do so;
• distribute any virus, worm or other similar or deleterious files, scripts or programming routines;
• interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on the infrastructure of the Viquepedia Website or its licensors or suppliers;
• use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine,” or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Website or its contents, authentication and security measures;
• execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Viquepedia Website's servers or any data not intended for you;
• harvest or collect information about the Viquepedia™ Website visitors or members without their express consent; and/or
• relate to political candidate campaigns or advertising or fundraise for, assist, support, or oppose candidates for public office.

Any such wrongful use of the Information, Features and/or Services offered in the Viquepedia™ Website may result in termination of your use and access to the Website, and may also result in civil and/or criminal liabilities.

4. User Registration.

Browsing of the Viquepedia™ Website is made accessible free of charge to any person. However, in the course of our expansion; access to some features of the Website will require you to register with and/or provide some of your personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your email address to the Viquepedia™ Website. If and/or when you register with or provide information to the Viquepedia™ Website, you agree to:

1. provide valid and complete information about yourself as prompted (including your email address) and;
2. maintain and update your information (including your email address) to maintain its validity.

You acknowledge that, if any information provided by you is invalid, we reserve the right to terminate this Agreement and Your use of the Website, features, information, or any of its Services. You understand that any information you provide will be treated by the Viquepedia™ Website as confidential.

5. External Links

The Viquepedia™ Website may contain links to third-party websites, often done to suit your learning needs. We do not control the linked websites or the content provided through such websites, and we have not reviewed, in their entirety, the terms of use of such websites. Your use of linked websites is subject to the privacy practices and terms of use established by the specific linked website, and we disclaim all liability for such use. The fact that we offer such links does not indicate any approval or endorsement by us of any linked website or any material contained on any linked website, and we disclaim any such approval or endorsement. Further, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select are free of such items as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, date or time bombs and other items of a destructive nature.

6. Term & Termination

This Terms of Use assume effectiveness from the date that you first access the Viquepedia™ Website, and shall remain effective until terminated in accordance with its terms. However, we may immediately terminate this Terms of Use, and/or your access to and use of the Website, or any portion thereof, at any time and for any reason, with or without cause, without prior notice.

This Terms of Use may also terminate automatically if you fail to comply with any condition or provision of this Terms of Use. Upon termination of this Terms of Use by either party, your right to use the Viquepedia™ Website shall immediately cease, and you shall be required to destroy all copies of information that you have obtained from the Viquepedia™ Website, whether made under the terms of this Terms of Use or otherwise. All disclaimers and all limitations of liability and all Viquepedia™ rights of ownership shall survive any termination.

We reserve the right to periodically review or update, discontinue certain features of the Viquepedia™ Website whether temporarily or permanently, with or without prior notice to you. You agree that we shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Viquepedia™ Website, or any part or portion thereof. Nothing in this Terms of Use shall be construed to obligate the Viquepedia™ to maintain and support its websites, or any part or portion thereof, during the duration of this Terms of Use.

7. Disclaimer

THE VIQUEPEDIA WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE INFORMATION AND SERVICES, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "WITH ALL FAULTS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ANY WARRANTIES THAT MAY ARISE FROM COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE OR USAGE OF TRADE, AND ANY WARRANTIES THAT THE INFORMATION AND WEBSITE IS CURRENT AND/OR UP-TO-DATE ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

THERE IS NO WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION OR GUARANTEE THAT THE IFIOQUE WEBSITE, OR YOUR USE OF THE IFIOQUE WEBSITE, WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, COMPLETE, ACCURATE, CURRENT, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR THAT ANY PROBLEMS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE IFIOQUE WEBSITE, OR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THE VIQUEPEDIA WEBSITE, IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WE DO NOT WARRANT, GUARANTEE, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION REGARDING THE USE OF, OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE WEBSITE EITHER IN TERMS OF ITS COMPATIBILITY WITH HARDWARE OR OTHER SOFTWARE OR EQUIPMENT, AND YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND/OR SERVICES AND INFORMATION AND YOUR RELIANCE THEREON.

8. Contacting Viquepedia

If you have any questions, comments or complaints about this Terms of Use or our Website, please contact us via this emailOpens in new window