Terms and Service

HPMA

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An Introduction to HPMA’s Terms & Conditions 

Welcome, to HPMA! Here is a quick summary of the highlights of our Terms of Service:

Our mission is to reshape healthcare project management by sharing knowledge on our platform

HPMA offers a place that resolves all your healthcare project management needs by asking questions and connecting with a vast network of healthcare professionals who contribute their unique insights & expert solutions. This empowers the project managers to learn from each other and understand the future of healthcare project management. 

 Who May Use HPMA Services?

As a user, you have the right to access the on the HPMA platform only if you agree to form a binding contract with HPMA and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction.

You must abide by the following rules: 

• Use the same name that you use in everyday life.
• Provide accurate information about yourself.
• Create only one account (your own) and use your timeline for personal purposes.
• Not share your password, give access to your HPMA account to others, or transfer your account to anyone else (without our permission).

HPMA is the global network of healthcare helping project managers to resolve all queries and learn more, so we have made the HPMA platform broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use HPMA if:

• You are under 13 years old (or the minimum legal age in your country to use our Products).
• You are a convicted sex offender.
• We’ve previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms or Policies.
• You are forbidden to use the HPMA website’s services or software under applicable laws.

Ownership and responsibility of the content you post

• This ensures that you have the needed rights to post your content and it does not violate the legal rights of another party.
• You are solely responsible for your use of the HPMA Services and for any content you provide, you should only provide content that you are comfortable sharing with others.
• Any use or reference to any of the content posted on the HPMA platform or obtained by you through the platform is at your own risk.
• HPMA will not be responsible or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any content or communications posted on the HPMA website.
• You will be solely responsible for using the HPMA website as you may be exposed to various posts and contents that might be inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, HPMA does not provide authenticity of any content posted on the website by any of the third-party vendors
• Post, content, and any such materials will be the sole responsibility of the person who originated such materials or content. HPMA will not monitor or control the content posted via various platforms or websites and, we cannot take responsibility for such posts.
• But HPMA reserves the complete right to remove any posts or content that violates the User Agreement, including, for example, copyright or trademark violations or other intellectual property misappropriation, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment.
• If you believe that your Content has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please report by contacting our designated copyright agent at:

HPMA Global.
536 Giotta Irvine, California 92614, United States of America
Email: contact@hpmaglobal.org
(for content on HPMA)

Permissions and Rights Provided

• Users will be responsible for any content or posts they submit or display on or through the HPMA website. What’s yours is yours, will be your original content audio, photos, and videos are considered part of the content).
• By submitting, posting, or displaying any content or posts through the HPMA website, you grant HPMA to get worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such content in any media or distribution methods are now known or later developed 
• This license authorizes HPMA to make your posts or content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. 
• You solely agree that this license authorizes HPMA to provide, promote, and improve the services and to make your Content available to other companies, organizations, or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, repost, promotion, or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use.
• Such additional uses by HPMA, or other companies, organizations, or individuals, are made with no compensation paid to you concerning the posts or content that you submit, post, transmit.
• HPMA has strict rules about how their partners make use of the available content and services. 
• HPMA has the right to may modify or adapt your content as it is distributed, syndicated, published, or broadcast by us and our partners and/or make changes to your posts or content to acclimate the content to different media.
• You as a user must have all the rights, licenses, consents, permissions, power, and/or authority necessary for any posts or content that you submit or display on or through the HPMA website. 
• You as a user must be aware that your posts or content will not contain material subject to copyright or other proprietary rights unless you have the necessary permission or are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant HPMA the license to do so.

Using the Services

You are requested to read the HPMA Rules and Policies which are part of the HPMA User Agreement and you may use these mentioned services only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable laws, rules, and regulations.

HPMA regularly updates its Terms of Services constantly, we also retain the right to create limits on the usage and storage at our sole discretion at any time. 

We may also remove or refuse to distribute any posts or contents on the HPMA website, limit distribution or visibility of any content on the HPMA website, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you.

In consideration for HPMA granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that HPMA and its third-party providers and partners may place advertising on the Services or in connection with the display of Content or information from the Services whether submitted by you or others.

 You as a user not supposed to misuse our website services, for example, by interfering with them or accessing them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide. 

You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the HPMA Services: 

1. Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services, HPMA’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of HPMA’s providers; 
2. Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures;
3.  Access, search or attempt to access or search the various services by any means other than through our currently available services, published interfaces that are provided by the HPMA website unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with HPMA;
4. Forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information;
5. Interfere with, or disrupt the access of any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing website, or by scripting the creation of posts pr content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on the HPMA website.

HPMA also prohibits the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe it is necessary to 

1. Satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request,
2. Enforce the terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof
3. Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues,
4. Respond to user support requests,
5. Protect the rights, property, or safety of HPMA, its users, and the public. 
6. HPMA does not disclose personally-identifying information to third parties except in accordance with our privacy policy.

Managing Your Account

• You may need to create an account to use some of our services on the website. You are responsible for safeguarding your account, so use a strong password and limit its use to this account. 
• We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with the above.
• You can control most communications from the HPMA website. HPMA is responsible to provide certain communications like service announcements and administrative messages. 
• These communications are considered part of the Services and your account, and you may not be able to opt-out from receiving them.
• If you added your phone number to your account and you later change or deactivate that phone number, you must update your account information to help prevent us from communicating with anyone who acquires your old number.

Your License to Use the services on the HPMA website:

• HPMA gives you a personal, worldwide, non-assignable, and non-exclusive license to use its website
• This license has the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the services provided by HPMA, in the manner permitted by these Terms.
• All the services on the website are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United States and other countries.
• Nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use the HPMA name or any of the HPMA trademarks, logos, domain names, other distinctive brand features, and other proprietary rights. 
• All right, title and interest in and to the Services (excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive property of HPMA and its licensors.
• Users’ feedback, comments, or suggestions regarding HPMA, or its services is entirely voluntary and is a full right of the users to provide it. 

Deactivation and Suspension of the account 

You may end your legal agreement with HPMA at any time by deactivating your accounts and discontinuing your use of the Services. 

HPMA has the full right to suspend or terminate users account at any time for any or no reason if we reasonably believe: 

• 1. You as a user have violated these Terms or the HPMA Rules and Policies
  2. You as a user are a risk or possible legal exposure for HPMA
  3. Your account needs to be terminated due to unlawful conduct
  4. Your account needs to be terminated due to prolonged inactivity
  5. Our provision of the services to you is no longer commercially viable. 

We will make reasonable efforts to notify you by the email address associated with your account or the next time you attempt to access your account, depending on the circumstances. 

If you believe your account was terminated in error you can file an appeal following the steps found in our Help Center

Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability

The services provided on the HPMA website are Available “AS-IS”, your access to and use of the Services or any Content are at your own risk. 

You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. 

The “HPMA Entities” refers to HPMA, its parents, affiliates, related companies, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, partners, and licensors.

The HPMA Entities make no warranty or representation and disclaim all responsibility and liability for:

1. The completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any Content; 
2. Any harm to your computer system, loss of data, or other harm that results from your access to or use of the Services or any Content; 
3. The deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Services; and 
4. Whether the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis. 

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the HPMA entities shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from 

1. Your access to or use of or inability to access or use the services
2. Any posts or content of the third party on the HPMA services, including without limitation, any defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of other users or third parties; 
3. Any content obtained from the services; or
4. Unauthorized access, use, or alteration of your transmissions or content. In no event shall the aggregate liability of the HPMA entities exceed the greater of one hundred U.S. Dollars (the U.S. $100.00) or the amount you paid HPMA, if any, in the past six months for the services giving rise to the claim.

General Rules 

HPMA has the full right to revise these Terms from time to time. We will try to notify you of material revisions, for example via a service notification or an email to the email associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.

The laws of the State of California, excluding its choice of law provisions, will govern these Terms and any dispute that arises between you and HPMA. 

All disputes related to these Terms or the Services will be brought solely in the federal or state courts located in San Francisco County, California, United States, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum.

If you are a federal, state, or local government entity in the United States using the Services in your official capacity and legally unable to accept the controlling law, jurisdiction, or venue clauses above, then those clauses do not apply to you. 

For such U.S. federal government entities, these Terms and any action related thereto will be governed by the laws of the United States of America (without reference to conflict of laws) and, in the absence of federal law and to the extent permitted under federal law, the laws of the State of California (excluding choice of law).

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining rules of the Terms will remain in full force and effect. HPMA’s failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision.

These Terms are an agreement between you and HPMA, Inc., 536 Giotta Irvine, California 92614, United States. If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us.

Effective: October 2, 2020

Privacy

HPMA

Privacy We value your data

Information you share with HPMA

HPMA requires certain information from its users to provide seamless services to them. For example, you must create an account to upload or share content on the HMPA website. When you as a user chose to share the information described below with us, we HPMA will collect and use it to operate our services.

1.1 Basic Account Information

You don’t have to create an account to browse through our services and features, such as searching and viewing the various project management courses on our HPMA website which is freely accessible to the public. But if you choose to create an account, you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide our services to you. On the HPMA homepage, this includes a display name, a username, a password, and an email address or phone number. Your display name and username are always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym/alias name. You can also create and manage multiple HPMA accounts, for example, to express different parts of your identity.

1.2 Public Information

Most activity on the HPMA website will be open for public open discussions and forums and so some of your information will be availed by all including your profile information, your time zone, and language. Also, information like when you created your account, and certain information about your posts like the date, time, and application. 

You also may choose to publish your location in your HPMA profile.  The lists you create, people you follow and who follow you, and the posts you Like or Respond to are also public. If you like, repost or, reply, or otherwise publicly engage with an ad on our services, that advertiser might thereby learn information about you associated with the ad with which you engaged such as characteristics of the audience the ad was intended to reach. The information posted about you by other people who use the HPMA platform may also be public. 

You are responsible for your posts and other information you provide through our services, and you should think carefully about what you make public on your account, especially if it is sensitive information. If you update your public information on the HPMA website, such as by deleting or deactivating your account, it will be reflected on your updated content on HPMA.com, HPMA for iOS, and HPMA for Android versions.

1.3 Contact Information and Address Books

HPMA will use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number, to authenticate your account and keep it and all over services secure, and to help prevent spam, fraud, and abuse. We can have our users to login from LinkedIn, Google, Twitter and Instagram. The users can also provide us with their phone number, you agree to receive text messages from HPMA to that number as your country’s laws allow. You can use your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you receive from HPMA. You can also unsubscribe from a notification.  

1.4 Payment Information

You may provide us with payment information, including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address, to purchase advertising or other offerings provided as part of our services. 

1.5 How You Control the Information You Share with Us

Your privacy and safety settings let you decide:

• Whether your posts and comments are publicly available on HPMA
• Whether others can tag you in a post
• Whether you will be able to receive direct messages from anyone on HPMA or just your followers
• Whether others can find you based on your email or phone number
• When and where you may see sensitive content on HPMA

2. Additional information we receive about the users

HPMA receives certain information when you use our services or other websites or mobile applications that include our content, and from third parties including advertisers. Like the information you share with us, we use the data below to operate our services.

2.1 Location Information

HPMA will need the location information about your signup and current location, which we get from signals such as your IP address or device settings, to securely and reliably set up and maintain your account and to provide our services to you.

Subject to your settings, we may collect, use, and store additional information about your location – such as your current precise position or places where you’ve previously used the HPMA website – to operate or personalize our services including relevant content like local trends, stories, ads, and suggestions for people to follow. 

2.2 Links

To operate our services on the HPMA website, we keep track of how you interact with links across our website and its services. This includes links in emails we send you and links in posts or comments that appear on other websites or mobile applications.

If you click on an external link or ad on our services, that advertiser or website operator might figure out that you have come from the HPMA website along with other information associated with the ad you clicked such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach. 

2.3 Cookies

HPMA uses cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Most of the browsers automatically accept cookies, the browsers’ settings can be changed to decline cookies or alert a user when any website is attempting to place a cookie on their PC.  But some of the HPMA services may not function properly if you disable cookies. When your browser or device allows it, HPMA will use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our services. This helps HPMA to monitor the user’s aggregate usage patterns and thus personalize and operate our services like providing account security, personalizing the content we show the users including ads, and remembering their language preferences. 

2.4 Log Data

HPMA receives information when a user views content on or interacts with HPMA various services, which is commonly referred to as “log data,” even if you have not made an account with HPMA. This log data consists of information like the user’s IP address, browser type, OS, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information), search terms, and cookie information. 

HPMA also extracts the Log data when the user clicks on, view, or interact with links on our services on the HPMA platform. HPMA uses log data to operate its services and ensure that this data is secure, reliable, and provides robust performance.

HPMA uses various information including log data from various third parties, to make interpretations like what topics you may be interested in, how old you are, and what languages you speak. This helps us better promote and design our services for you and personalize the content we show to the users including advertisements 

2.5 Advertisers and Other Ad Partners

Revenue from ads allows us to support and improve our services on the HPMA website.  HPMA can use the information stated in this Privacy Policy to help make our advertising more relevant to its users. HPMA’s advertisement partners and affiliates share information with us such as browser cookie IDs, mobile device IDs, hashed email addresses, demographic or interest data, and content viewed or actions taken on a website or app. 

2.6 Other Third Parties and Affiliates

HPMA may also extract information about the user from third parties who are not our ad partners, which helps HPMA evaluate the safety and quality of content on our website. We use the information we receive to provide you features like cross-posting or cross-service authentication and to operate our services. 

3. Information we share and disclose

3.1 Sharing Your Data

HPMA has the right to share or disclose some of your data with your consent or at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or application to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback with a business. 

Subject to your settings, we also provide certain third parties with personal data to help us offer or operate our services. You can learn more about these partnerships in our Help Centre.

3.2 Service Providers

HPMA engages its service providers to perform functions and provide services for us in the United States. HPMA is authorized to share its user’s data with the service providers but is limited to the obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. HPMA shares users’ payment information with payment services providers to process payments; prevent, detect, and investigate fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute resolution such as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes associated with the acceptance of credit and debit cards.

3.3 Law, Harm, and the Public Interest

HPMA can preserve, use, share, or disclose its user’s data or other safety data if they believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request. This is required to protect the safety of users or the integrity of their information on the website. This mainly helps HPMA to prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our website, to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of our users. However, HPMA’s privacy policy does not intend to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party, including a government’s, request to disclose your data. 

4. Managing user’s personal information with HPMA

4.1 Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data

If you have registered an account on HPMA, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us and associated with your account. To submit a request related to access, modification, or deletion of your information, you may also contact us anytime through email or phone. 

4.2 Deletion

We keep Log data for a maximum of 18 months, once your account is deactivated, your HPMA account, including your display name, username, and the public profile will no longer be viewable on HPMA.com, HPMA for iOS, and HPMA for Android. For up to 30 days after deactivation, it is still possible to restore your HPMA account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated.

The user must be aware that the search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of their public information such as profile information and public posts, comments even after they have deleted the information from our services or deactivated their account. 

4.3 Object, Restrict, or Withdraw Consent

When you are logged into our HPMA account, you can manage your privacy settings and other account feature at any time. It may take a short amount of time for privacy settings to be fully reflected throughout our systems.

5. Children and HPMA Services

HPMA services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 18. The user needs to be of the right legal age to give consent to the processing of services in their country. 

6. Amendments to this privacy policy

HPMA may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your data and will always be at https://hpmaglobal.org/privacy-policy/  If HPMA makes a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you through our HPMA website, HPMA for Android iOS by authorized HPMA account (for example @HPMASupport), or by sending an email to the email address associated with your account. If the user continues to access or use the HPMA services after those changes become effective, it means that they have agreed to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.