Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

RELEASE DATE: 31/10/2024

Access to The Best of ObesityWeek^® is free. We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in the request form on our website (email address, profession).
• Information we collect from you automatically when you use the platform.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes.

The online program "The Best of ObesityWeek^® is owned and operated by Globalport (US) LLC (Infomedica) with headquarters at 228 North Market Street - Suite 200 - Frederick, MD 21701 USA. Infomedica acts as the data controller for the personal data of the user and can be contacted at the email address: privacy@infomedica.com.

The program is intended solely for the use of physicians and other qualified medical professionals for medical education purposes.

This website is intended for medical education purposes only. Legal steps may be taken in case of diverse use. Italian law protects the intellectual property and copyright of text, layouts, graphics, and logos at this site. If you have any technical questions or problems, please contact the help desk at: info@infomedica.com

DATA PROCESSING

The processing of data is carried out by Infomedica as the data controller and involves the following operations: collection, recording, organisation, storage, processing, modification, selection, extraction, comparison, use, interconnection, blocking, communication, dissemination, deletion, and destruction of the same data, including the combination of two or more of the aforementioned operations.

This data, collected in a specific Database, may be processed manually or electronically, ensuring their security, confidentiality, and prevention of unauthorized access. They are protected and may be used by Infomedica for the following purposes:

• for healthcare training and information through Infomedica’s staff and/or authorized partners;
• for statistical analysis to verify access to the content on this site;
• for communications regarding initiatives promoted by Infomedica, including advertising, marketing, and dissemination of medical-scientific information on behalf of third parties.

Data may be stored and managed on servers located in European countries.
Data will not be transferred outside the EEU.

Data-retention period

The data will be stored for a period of time not exceeding that is necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or subsequently processed in accordance with legal obligations.

Rights to the data subject

Users have the rights to update, delete, or prohibit the use of their data by writing to:

Globalport (US) LLC
228 North Market Street, Suite 200
Frederick, MD 21701 USA

• To the attention of the Data Protection Officer
• Email: privacy@infomedica.com
• Fax: +39 011.859890.

WEBSITE

This website does not provide medical advice. The opinions or views expressed in the program are those of the authors. Content of this program is subject to modification and amendments. Implementing scientific information presented in the program does not guarantee for success in a specific patient.

The information and data provided in this program was updated and correct at the time of the program development, but may be subject to change without notice.

Please note that some articles may discuss agents that may not be approved in your country for the application described. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. No responsibility for the content of external links is assumed by scientific board members and Infomedica.

Infomedica also declines all responsibility for reliance upon content obtained through program. The Content should be considered only a source of information or education that a licensed physician or other qualified health provider can use to assist in his/her practice. Use of this website, including any communications via this website does not establish a doctor-patient relationship.

You should not use the information contained on this website in place of a consultation with medical or other professional advisers. You should not take action, or refrain from taking action, on the strength of information obtained from the website without first consulting competent professional advisers.

All the medical information offered on the website should be considered in-depth and explained by a specialist and must not be taken out of the scientific and editorial context in which it was compiled and entered.

Under no circumstances may the information and documents put on this website be considered as constituting a definitive scientific truth; they merely represent the opinions of the speakers and/or authors.

The opinion of the speakers and /or authors is solely theirs and, therefore, may not reflect the opinion of Infomedica, or scientific board members.

Content of this platform has been selected by the scientific board members and faculty  program; permissions of use of the materials have been obtained. Scientific board members, The Obesity Society and Infomedica are not liable for the correctness, completeness, and actuality of the content.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The content and other information provided on or through this website is provided as accurately as possible without warranty of any kind. Your use of this website or any linked site is at your own risk.

Although the information on this site is obtained or compiled from sources it believes to be reliable, we cannot and do not guarantee or make any representation or warranty, either express or implied, as to the accuracy, validity, sequence, timeliness, completeness or continued availability of any information or content, including third-party content, made available on this site or on any linked site.

By using this website, you agree and understand that the website may contain viruses or other damaging elements, and that communications to or from the website, including encrypted communications through the website’s forum or other message areas and interactive areas, are not secure and may be intercepted.

In no event shall it be liable for any decision made or action or inaction taken by you in reliance on any content, information or data, including third-party content, on this site or on any linked site.

We further explicitly disclaim, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

The website’s members, affiliates organizers, beneficiaries, successors, suppliers of third-party content and any other third party working with it shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damages or loss (including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential and any and all other forms of damages or losses regardless of the form of the action or the basis of the claim) caused or alleged to be caused in connection with your use of this website, including, but not limited to, in connection with your devising, monitoring or administering treatment or applying an operating protocol, or in making a diagnosis and devising a care strategy or decision, whether or not foreseeable, even if the website or any of its affiliates organizers, beneficiaries, successors, suppliers of third-party content or other third parties working with the website in connection with this website has been advised of the possibility or likelihood of such damages.

INDEMNITY

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold the website’s affiliates organizers, beneficiaries, successors, suppliers of third-party content and any other third party working with the website harmless against any losses, expenses, costs or damages (including our reasonable attorneys’ fees, expert fees’ and other reasonable costs of litigation) arising from, incurred as a result of, or in any manner related to (1) your breach of the contract condition, (2) your unauthorized or unlawful use of this website.

USE OF THE WEBSITE

We allow you to consult and use the website for your personal, non-commercial use in accordance with the methods and conditions set out in these Privacy Policy. This website is intended for medical education purposes only.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The website and the Content are protected by legislation on copyright and intellectual property; they belong to Infomedica and to its licensors. The Content may not be reproduced, represented, adapted, translated, amended, transmitted, published, circulated, re-published or any other use made of the website or its Content, whether in full or in part, without Infomedica giving specific consent in writing in advance, except for the entitlement to access specifically authorized to members of the site.

MODIFICATION OF THE WEBSITE

The website may be modified, interrupted or rendered unavailable at any time without notice, either temporarily or permanently. Our liability cannot be incurred as a result of such occurrences.

DIVISIBILITY

Should any provision or undertaking in the present agreement be invalid or inapplicable, the validity or applicability of any other provision or commitment contained in the present document would not be affected; all the invalid provisions or commitments would be deemed divisible from the remainder of the present Privacy Policy.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page.

CONTACT US

Any queries or concerns about privacy on this website should be sent by email to info@infomedica.com or addressed to:

Globalport (US) LLC
228 North Market Street, Suite 200
Frederick, MD 21701 USA