Social Media Use Terms and Conditions

BY POSTING ON ANY ORTHOINDY SOCIAL MEDIA SITES YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS.

OrthoIndy (“OI”) and OrthoIndy Hospital (“OIH”) have opened publicly facing pages on social media sites for viewing content and/or posting comments. These social media sites include but are not limited to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, bulletin boards or other user generated content sites (all such OI or OIH sites are referred to in this policy as “Social Media Sites”). By accessing, viewing and/or posting any content related directly or indirectly to OI or OIH on any Social Media Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the following terms of use. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, you may not view or post any content to any Social Media Site on the Internet. Your use of Social Media Sites is acceptance of this Policy and has the same effect as if you had actually physically signed an agreement.

  1. If you are an OI or OIH employee you must adhere to the OrthoIndy and OIH Corporate Social Media Policy, available in the shared drive.
  2. You must be at least 18 years old to post any content on any Social Media Site.
  3. You are prohibited from posting any content that is personal health information of any party other than yourself, including patient images, on any Social Media Site. You are also prohibited from using the Social Media Site to provide medical advice or medical commentary by non- OI physicians.
  4. As a guest posting content to any Social Media Site, you agree that you will not: violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including but not limited to copyright and intellectual property rights laws regarding any content that you send or receive; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) 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 in OI or OIH’s discretion; impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; transmit (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising (including advertising of non OI or OIH services or products), promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes” or any other form of solicitation; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that contains software viruses, worms, disabling code, or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; harass another; or collect or store, or attempt to collect or store, personal data about third parties without their knowledge or consent; or to share confidential information of any party.
  5. OI or OIH reserve the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue your access to any Social Media Site, at any time, without notice and for any reason and in its sole discretion. OI or OIH may remove, delete, block, filter or restrict by any other means any materials in OI or OIH’s sole discretion. You understand and agree that OI or OIH may disclose your communications and activities with OI or OIH in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, including Patriot Act requests, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of OI or OIH rights. You agree that in the event that OI or OIH exercises any of its rights hereunder for any reason, OI or OIH will have no liability to you.
  6. By posting any content on any Social Media Site, you grant to OI or OIH the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display such content and the right to create derivative works from your content, edit or modify such content and use such content for any OI or OIH purpose.
  7. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold OI, OIH, their affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, successors and assigns harmless from and against, and to promptly reimburse them for, any and all losses, claims, damages, settlements, costs, and liabilities of any nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) to which any of them may become subject arising out of, based upon, as a result of, or in any way connected with, your posting of any content to a Social Media Site, any third party claims of infringement or any breach of this Policy.
  8. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY RELATED TO THE SECURITY, PRIVACY, AND CONFIDENTIALITY RISKS INHERENT IN SENDING ANY CONTENT OVER THE INTERNET. Websites, social media platforms and the Internet generally cannot be absolutely protected against intentional or malicious intrusion attempts. OI and OIH do not control the means by which you may choose to send confidential personal or health information or other content and, therefore, OI or OIH do not warrant any safeguard against any such interceptions or compromises to your information when posting any content on an Internet site.
  9. You agree that any claim or dispute relating to your posting of any content on a Social Media Site on the Internet shall be construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Indiana without regard to its conflict of laws provisions and you agree to be bound and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local, state or federal courts located in Marion County, Indiana.
  10. You may not provide any content to a Social Media Site that contains any product or service endorsements.
  11. THIS POLICY MAY BE UPDATED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND EACH TIME A USER ACCESSES A SOCIAL MEDIA SITE, THE NEW POLICY WILL GOVERN, USAGE, EFFECTIVE UPON POSTING. To remain in compliance, OI or OIH suggests that you review this Policy, as well as the other website policies, at regular intervals. By continuing to post any content after such new terms are posted, you accept and agree to any and all such modifications to this Policy.