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Terms of Subscription and License Agreement for JAMAevidence

All use of the JAMAevidence web pages is subject to the terms and conditions set forth below by McGraw-Hill Education under agreement with the American Medical Association. By completing the registration process, clicking the User Agreement acceptance "button", and using JAMAevidence, you represent that you are 18 years old or older and agree to abide by the following terms and conditions. The terms "you" and "User" refer to the person who completed the registration process.

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Use of JAMAevidence

All of the JAMAevidence Owned content is either the property of the American Medical Association or McGraw-Hill Education or is licensed to McGraw-Hill Education and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. The User shall honor all reasonable requests by McGraw-Hill Education to protect the American Medical Association and McGraw-Hill Education's proprietary interests in JAMAevidence. During the term of your subscription to JAMAevidence, McGraw-Hill Education hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use JAMAevidence for the fees and under the terms described in this Agreement. For individual subscriptions, only one person at a time may access JAMAevidence using the User's screen name and password. You may display, download, or print out, for your own research or study only, materials from JAMAevidence; you may not otherwise copy, transmit, rent, lend, sell, or modify any materials from JAMAevidence or modify or remove any proprietary notices contained therein, or create derivative works based on materials from JAMAevidence. You may not engage in systematic retrieval of Content from the JAMAevidence to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without prior written permission from McGraw-Hill Education. You may not use any robots, spiders, crawlers or other automated downloading programs or devices, including without limitation, to: (i) continuously and automatically search or index any Content; (ii) harvest personal information from JAMAevidence; or (iii) cause disruption to the operation of JAMAevidence. McGraw-Hill Education reserves the right to terminate the User's subscription at any time if the User downloads or prints out a substantial portion of JAMAevidence. The User may not disseminate any portion of JAMAevidence through electronic means, including mail lists or electronic bulletin boards and agrees not to restrict or inhibit any other User's access to, or use of, JAMAevidence.

Other Content

The User grants to McGraw-Hill Education and the American Medical Association perpetual, non-exclusive right to use all material entered into JAMAevidence by the User (other than third-party material transmitted through private electronic mail) in any of McGraw-Hill Education's or the American Medical Association’s print or electronic publications.

Users entering material into JAMAevidence are responsible for the content of that material. McGraw-Hill Education, the McGraw-Hill Education Designated Online Providers, and the American Medical Association do not have any responsibility for Other Content, including the content of any messages or information posted by Users or others, or for the content of information accessible via direct or indirect hyperlinks from JAMAevidence. However, McGraw-Hill Education retains the right, which it may or may not exercise in its sole discretion, to review, edit, or delete Other Content which McGraw-Hill Education deems to be illegal, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.

You may not input or distribute any material through JAMAevidence which is promotional in nature, including solicitations for funds or business, without the prior written authorization of McGraw-Hill Education.

The User agrees to indemnify the American Medical Association, McGraw-Hill Education and the McGraw-Hill Education Designated Online Providers from all damages, liabilities, costs, charges and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, which McGraw-Hill Education, its affiliates, employees and the McGraw-Hill Education Designated Online Providers may incur as a result of either: (i) the User's violation of this Agreement; or (ii) material entered into JAMAevidence with the use of the User's screen name or password. McGraw-Hill Education reserves the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any such matter for which the User has agreed to indemnify McGraw-Hill Education or the McGraw-Hill Education Designated Online Providers.

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Registration

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Privacy Policy

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Term and Termination

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McGraw-Hill Education may discontinue or change JAMAevidence, or its availability to you, at any time. If you refuse or fail to abide by these rules or violate any other terms or conditions of this Agreement, McGraw-Hill Education reserves the right in its sole discretion to suspend or terminate your access to JAMAevidence immediately without notice, in addition to any other available remedies.

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General

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User Indemnification

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Export

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Updates, Revisions and Technical Support

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Links

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JAMAevidence Image and PowerPoint Usage Guidelines

JAMAevidence users may display, download, or print out PowerPoint slides and images associated with the site for personal and educational use only. Educational use refers to classroom teaching, lectures, presentations, rounds, and other instructional activities, such as displaying, linking to, downloading, printing and making and distributing multiple copies of said isolated materials in both print and electronic format. Users will only display, distribute, or otherwise make such PowerPoint slides and images from the applicable JAMAevidence materials available to students or other persons attending in-person presentations, lectures, rounds or other similar instructional activities presented or given by User. Commercial use of the PowerPoint slides and images are not permitted under this agreement. Users may modify the content of downloaded PowerPoint slides only for educational (non-commercial) use, however the source and attribution may not be modified.

Users may not otherwise copy, print, transmit, rent, lend, sell or modify any images from JAMAevidence or modify or remove any proprietary notices contained therein, or create derivative works based on materials therefrom. They also may not disseminate any portion of the applicable JAMAevidence site(s) subscribed to hereunder through electronic means except as outlined above, including mail lists or electronic bulletin boards.