Internet Disclaimer and Privacy Policy
The Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System Web site is intended to provide general educational information about spinal cord injury. Information on this Web site is generally written by faculty and staff affiliated with the Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System while other information may be from sources outside of the TMSCIS.
You assume full responsibility for using the information on the TMSCIS Web site and understand and agree the Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System is not responsible or liable for any claim, loss, or damage resulting from its use by you or any user. While we try to keep the information on this site as accurate as possible, we disclaim any warranty, expressed or implied, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System also does not warrant that access to the site will be error free or virus free.
Copyright law protects material on the TMSCIS Web site. Reprinting or otherwise reproducing any document in whole or in part is prohibited, unless prior written consent is obtained from the copyright owner.
By choosing to use the TMSCIS Web site, you acknowledge and agree to the terms of this Disclaimer. We reserve the right to modify these terms and policies and recommend that you review them periodically.
Health Information
If you are a health care consumer who chooses to use the health related information on the Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System Web site, you should not rely on that information as professional medical advice or use it to replace any relationship with your physician or other qualified healthcare professional. The Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System Web site is not an attempt to practice medicine or provide specific medical advice and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Health-related information on the Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System Web site should not be used to make a diagnosis or to replace or overrule the advice of a qualified healthcare provider.
Users of the Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System Web site should not rely on the information contained in the Web site for emergency medical treatment. Users should consult with a qualified healthcare professional for answers to specific health related questions.
Privacy Policy
The privacy of our visitors is important to the Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System. We understand that visitors to this site need to be in control of their personal information.
Therefore, the following is this TMSCIS's Internet Privacy Policy:
Your personal information is not required to visit our site. If you choose not to provide personal information, you can still visit the texasmscis.org pages.
Some areas of our site may request some of your personal information. In that case, this personal information will only be collected if specifically and voluntarily provided and authorized by you. Personally identifying information collected will be used only in connection with texasmscis.org, or for such purposes as are described at the point of collection.
Some information collected is for statistical purposes only. The Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System performs analyses of user behavior in order to measure customer interest in the various areas of our sites.
The Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System will make every reasonable effort to protect the personal information that you share with us. The TMSCIS does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information to third parties, unless specifically and voluntarily provided and authorized by you. If we share demographic information with third parties, we will give them de-identified aggregate information only.
You do not need to have cookies enabled to visit www.texasmscis.org.
A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser, along with a Web page, when you access a Web site. A cookie might track the pages you've visited, and the date when you last looked at a specific page. There are two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's memory. Because a session cookie is never written to a drive, it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a more permanent line of text that gets saved by your browser to a file on your hard drive.
The Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System uses both session cookies and persistent cookies.
We use cookies to count the number of visitors and to improve the usability of our Web sites. We have set our software so that your browser will only return cookie information to the domain where the cookie originated (in this case, texasmscis.org). No other site can request it. Note: Regardless of the particular uses for cookies on the Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System Web site, we will not share any cookie information with any third parties.
While the Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System will make every attempt to protect the personal information that you share with us, the use of electronic mail (email) is not secure against interception. You should take any appropriate steps to assure yourself that your communication is protected.
The Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information.
