Terms and Conditions

Welcome to this website (hereinafter referred to as the "site"), which is owned and operated by Guardian Dental Care and/or its associated companies, their subsidiaries, affiliates and/or related companies subject to the following Terms & Conditions concerning the use of the site and its associated services.

Acceptance

By accessing and using this site and/or any pages thereof you signify your agreement with, understanding and acceptance of these Terms & Conditions and all information pertaining to both this site and any material on it. If you do not agree to and accept these Terms & Conditions, you do not have permission to access the contents of this site and therefore should cease using this site immediately. In addition, when using particular services,

you and Guardian Dental Care shall be subject to any guidelines or rules or additional terms and conditions applicable to such services that may be posted on the site from time to time. All such guidelines, rules or additional terms and conditions are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms & Conditions.

No Offer of Service

Unless otherwise expressly stated, the material on the site is for information purposes only. Guardian Dental Care makes no representation that material on the site is appropriate or available for use in any particular jurisdiction. Those users who choose to access the site do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with local laws and regulations.

Intellectual Property

You acknowledge that Guardian Dental Care is the proprietor or the authorized user of the copyright, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights (IP Rights) in the software, text, graphics and other material (content) displayed or made available through the site. All rights, including copyright and database rights, in this site and its contents, are owned by or licensed to Guardian Dental Care, or otherwise used by Guardian Dental Care as permitted by applicable law.

Guardian Dental Care logo and design are trademarks of Guardian Dental Care. Furthermore, all rights in the company names, trade names, logos, product packaging and designs of Guardian Dental Care or official sponsors, licensees, suppliers, or other third-party products or services, belong exclusively to Guardian Dental Care or such third-party, as applicable, or their respective owners, and are protected from reproduction, imitation, dilution or confusing or misleading uses under national and international laws, as applicable. The use or misuse of these trade marks or any materials, except as permitted herein and including without limitation use as a domain name or as part of a domain name, is expressly prohibited and nothing stated or implied on this site confers on you any license or right under any patent, copyright work, trade mark, design or other right of a similar nature of Guardian Dental Care or any third party.

Nothing stated or implied in this site is designed to grant any license or right under any copyright or other intellectual property rights of Guardian Dental Care or any third party or to use any names, logos, pictures, trade marks or other works or content featured on the site. No act of downloading or otherwise copying or reproducing from the site will transfer title to you to any software or material on the site, unless express statements are communicated to you by Guardian Dental Care to the contrary.

Own Non-Commercial Use

You may view, download, and print contents from the site subject to the following conditions: (a) the content may be used solely for information purposes and for your own personal non-commercial private use; and (b) the content may not be modified, adapted or altered in any way. You may not copy, store in any medium (including without limitation on any other website), modify, adapt, spider (i.e. use a computer programme to collect or aggregate material from the site), publish, distribute by any means (including without limitation via any peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent), prepare derivative works from, broadcast, communicate to the public or transmit any part of this site or any of the material contained in this site or otherwise use the content for any other purpose other than as explicitly permitted herein. Any other use requires the prior written permission of Guardian Dental Care.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the prohibitions set out in this paragraph apply without limitation to any audio recording or visual or audio-visual works, reviews, articles, trade marks, logos or photographs (or any part of any of the foregoing) that appear on the site. You may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trade mark, logo, content or other proprietary information or content (including images, text, page layout, or form) of the Guardian Dental Care or from the site without the express written consent of Guardian Dental Care. Without prejudice to general prohibition on linking to the site without Guardian Dental Care prior consent, you may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" using Guardian Dental Care name or trade marks without the express written consent of Guardian Dental Care. You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of this site by Guardian Dental Care, other site users and/or any third party.

Such restriction or inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person and the transmission of obscene, defamatory or offensive content or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within this site. You do not acquire any ownership rights to any content in the site. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Guardian Dental Care and shall constitute a clear and material breach of these Terms & Conditions.

Disclaimer

Although Guardian Dental Care has taken reasonable care to ensure that the information and data on this site is accurate at the time of publication, these are for general information purposes only and no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to accuracy, reliability or completeness.

Guardian Dental Care is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites that link to this site or which are linked from it. To the maximum extent permitted by law Guardian Dental Care accepts no responsibility for loss, which may arise, from accessing or reliance on information or opinions contained in this site. Your use of the site is on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to (to the extent permitted by law) implied warranties of satisfactory quality, suitability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

Guardian Dental Care does not warrant that the functions, services and facilities contained or provided by this site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses, bugs, spy ware or similar flaws or represent the full functionality, accuracy, and reliability of the materials.

Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the site is done at your own discretion and risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or device with which you access the site as well as for any loss of data that results from the download or use of any such material. You acknowledge and agree that the views of the editorial team published on the site are not the views of Guardian Dental Care or of their officers and directors.

Links To and From the Site

No web site that links to the site and no website to which the site links is endorsed by the Guardian Dental Care and no responsibility is taken for material on the linked web site(s). You agree that by accessing the linked web site you are doing so at your own risk and agree fully to indemnify Guardian Dental Care against any liability arising out of your accessing any linked web site.

E-mail Service

In situations where Guardian Dental Care may give you the option to subscribe to any e-mail service, which will update you with news, or information, which it considers to be of interest to you, your use of the content received through the e-mail service will be subject to these Terms & Conditions.

Security

If you communicate with Guardian Dental Care by e-mail, you should note that the security of Internet e-mail is uncertain. By sending sensitive or confidential e-mail messages, which are not encrypted, you accept the risks of such uncertainty and possible lack of confidentiality over the Internet.