Liability Disclaimer, Copyright and Privacy Policy
How to Contact Us
The Firelands Regional Medical Center postal address is:
1111 Hayes Avenue
Sandusky, OH 44870
We can also be reached via email, marketinggeneralinfo@firelands.com or phone 419557-7400.
Visitors to Our Website
All visitors to Firelands Regional Medical Center’s website are being provided access
to the website, free of charge, subject to the following terms and conditions. By using
this website, you signify your acceptance of our legal disclaimer and privacy statement
(each may be amended at any time) and your agreement to adhere to these terms and
conditions. Check back for updates to our legal disclaimer and privacy policy.
Use of Firelands Regional Medical Center Materials
The content of this website—including all text, images, files, and videos; designs,
layouts, and color schemes; concepts, methods, techniques, products, services,
processes, and technology described herein; and data used in connection with,
displayed on, or collected from or through the site—is the property of Firelands
Regional Medical Center (unless otherwise superseded by another agreement). You
may download, use and copy the materials found on the Firelands Regional Medical
Center website for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copies
bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice on the site that pertains to
the material being copied.
Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any
copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the material or the
products, services, processes or technology described therein.
All such rights are retained by Firelands Regional Medical Center, its affiliates and
subsidiaries and / or any third-party owner of such rights. You may not create framed
links to the Firelands Regional Medical Center website without express written
permission. You may not link to the Firelands Regional Medical Center website from
any website or webpage containing material that violates any copyright, trademark,
patent, trade secret or other intellectual property right; is libelous, defamatory, or
invasive of any right; contains any misleading, inaccurate, false, or deceptive
information or advertising; is sexually explicit, indecent, or otherwise objectionable (as
determined by Firelands Regional Medical Center); violates any law or regulation; or
reflects negatively on Firelands Regional Medical Center in any way.
Use of Firelands Regional Medical Center Design Marks
The Firelands Regional Medical Center names and logos and all related product and
service names, design marks and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of
Firelands Regional Medical Center, or its subsidiaries or affiliates. You are not
authorized to use any Firelands Regional Medical Center name or mark in any
advertising, publicity or other commercial manner without the prior written consent of
Cincinnati Children’s. Requests for authorization should be submitted to
marketinggeneralinfo@firelands.com.
Using Information on the Website
The information provided in this website is intended to educate the reader about
certain medical conditions and possible treatments. It is not a substitute for
examination, diagnosis and medical care provided by a licensed and qualified health
professional. If you believe you, or your child or someone you know suffers from the
conditions described herein, see your healthcare provider. Do not attempt to treat
yourself, your child or anyone else without proper medical supervision.
Disclaimer of Liability
The materials on the Firelands Regional Medical Center website are provided to you
free of charge, “AS IS,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
OR NONINFRINGEMENT.
In no event shall Firelands Regional Medical Center be liable for any damages
whatsoever, including special, indirect, consequential or incidental damages or
damages for loss of profits, revenue, use or data whether brought in contract or tort,
arising out of or connected with any Firelands Regional Medical Center website or the
use, reliance upon or performance of any material contained in or accessed from any
Firelands Regional Medical Center website.
Link Disclaimer
We provide links to websites operated by other parties. The links are provided for your
convenience only. The presence of a link does not imply endorsement of the material
on the websites or association with the website’s operators. We do not operate, control
or endorse any information, products or services provided by third parties through the
internet. We are not responsible for the content and performance of these sites. Use of
linked sites is strictly at your own risk including any risks associated with destructive
viruses.
Information Provided to Firelands Regional Medical Center Via the Internet
Do not send Firelands Regional Medical Center any confidential or proprietary
information, unless doing so through secure forms that are provided on this site. Any
feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like that you
send to Firelands Regional Medical Center will be treated as being nonconfidential and
nonproprietary, and you agree that any such information you choose to provide may
be reproduced, used and distributed by Firelands Regional Medical Center for any
purpose without restriction.
Endorsements
All product and service marks contained herein that are not Firelands Regional
Medical Center marks are the trademarks of their respective owners. References that
we may make to any names, marks, products or services of third parties or hypertext
links to third-party sites or information do not necessarily constitute or imply Firelands
Regional Medical Center endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the third
party, information, product or service.
Privacy Policy
This is how Firelands Regional Medical Center will handle information learned about
you from your visit to our website. The information we receive depends upon what you
do when visiting our site. For each visitor to the website, the server that Firelands
Regional Medical Center website resides automatically recognizes the consumer’s
domain name and email address (where possible).
Firelands Regional Medical Center collects the domain name of visitors to our website,
aggregates information on what pages consumers access or visit (e.g. number of site
visitors, time on site), user-specific information on what pages consumers access or
visit and information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and / or
site registrations. Firelands Regional Medical Center collects this information by using
“cookies,” which are small files stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are text
information files that your web browser places on your computer when you visit a
website. Most browsers accept cookies automatically but can be configured not to
accept them or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
The information we collect is used to improve the content of the website, offer online
features that are helpful to visitors, customize the content and / or layout of our page
for each individual consumer, and contact consumers for marketing
purposes. Through the use of Google Analytics, Google gathers anonymous data via
“cookies.” If you do not want information collected in this manner, there is a simple
procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies.
You also may decide to send Firelands Regional Medical Center personally identifying
information, for example, in an electronic mail message or by voluntarily disclosing that
information by completing an online survey. We may use personally identifying
information from you to respond to your inquiries or for other internal business
purposes. This information will not be sold or rented to third parties. You should be
aware, however, that others may access such information and use it, though any such
use would be without the consent of Firelands Regional Medical Center.
We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site,
unless you choose to provide such information.
The Firelands Regional Medical Center website is managed in the State of Ohio,
United States of America. We make no representation that material found at the site is
appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access the Firelands Regional
Medical Center site from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with local
laws.
Social Media Disclaimer / Terms of Use
Firelands Regional Medical Center has developed social media sites to share
information, videos, comments and more. These social media sites include Facebook
and LinkedIn, but this policy is intended to address all similar "community sites" with
user-generated content. By accessing, viewing and/or posting any content to any of
these sites you agree to the following terms of use:
1. You are at least 13 years old.
2. If you are a healthcare provider or a "covered entity" under federal HIPAA
regulations, you are prohibited from posting any content that is Personal Health
Information, including patient images. All users are prohibited from posting
personal health information related to individuals other than themselves or their
dependents.
3. Users are prohibited from using the sites to provide medical advice or medical
commentary (unless expressly authorized through your affiliation as a Firelands
Regional Medical Center physician, nurse or allied health professional.)
4. As a visitor or user, you agree that you will not violate any laws and regulations,
including copyright, intellectual property rights laws and others regarding any
content that you send or receive. You also agree you will not transmit any material
in any manner that is unlawful, disruptive, threatening, profane, abusive,
harassing, embarrassing, tortuous, defamatory, obscene, libelous, or is an
invasion of another's privacy, is hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable as solely determined by Firelands Regional Medical Center staff;
impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your
affiliation with a person or entity; transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized
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advertising, promotional materials or any other form of solicitation; transmit any
material that contains software "viruses."
Firelands Regional Medical Center reserves the right to monitor and/or terminate
your access to the social media site at any time, without notice and for any reason
in its sole discretion. Firelands Regional Medical Center may remove any
materials in its sole discretion. You understand and agree that Firelands Regional
Medical Center may disclose your communications and activities with Firelands
Regional Medical Center in response to lawful requests by governmental
(including judicial) authorities.
By posting any content on any Firelands Regional Medical Center social media
site, you grant to Firelands Regional Medical Center the irrevocable right to
reproduce, distribute and publish such content, in whole or part, for any purpose
Cincinnati Children's deems appropriate.
You shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Firelands Regional Medical
Center and its corporate affiliates and their respective representatives from and
against any liabilities whatsoever resulting from the use of this site.
You acknowledge that you assume all responsibility related to the security, privacy
and risks inherent in sending any content over the Internet. Firelands Regional
Medical Center does not control the third-party sites and does not endorse
products or services advertised on the social media sites.
These terms of use may be updated at any time and each time a user accesses a
social networking site the new terms of use will be in effect.