Terms of Use

This web site with its home page in the domain "mentalhealthamerica.net" (the "Website") is a complimentary information service offered by Mental Health America at no charge to users of the World Wide Web, with the express condition that these users agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this User Agreement. Mental Health America reserves the right to change these terms and conditions any time, and you must consult the most recent version of this User Agreement (not an older cached version) each time you view the Website. Use of this Website constitutes your acceptance of all of the following terms and conditions.

Disclaimer Statement

Mental Health America’s website & Online Community is for informational purposes only and is not meant to serve as medical advice or to replace consultation with your physician or mental health professional.

Use of Mental Health America’s website & Online Community constitutes an agreement by the users not to hold Mental Health America or any of its employees or officers liable or responsible for information posted to discussion boards and other forums by persons or entities not associated with Mental Health America.

You acknowledge that the information on the Website is provided "as is" for general information only. It is not intended as medical advice, and should not be relied upon, as a substitute for consultations with qualified health professionals who are familiar with your individual medical needs.

This site includes chat and discussion boards. When you chat or join discussions, you agree to abide by all these Terms and Conditions. We want our Community to be a safe, comfortable, and friendly environment. We can remove any messages or solicitations that do not meet the standards of these Terms and Conditions. Mental Health America reserves the right to immediately terminate a user's registration if we become aware and determine that the user is violating any of these Terms and Conditions or any of the chat and discussion board guidelines as enumerated wherein.

Commercial solicitation, chain letters, junk mail, "spam", non-commercial or bulk solicitation is prohibited.

Threatening harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, profane, obscene, abusive, harmful, sexually oriented, racially offensive, inaccurate, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature, is prohibited.

Unlawful material, or any material that encourages or promotes conduct that constitutes a criminal offense, or might give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, Federal or international law or regulation, or encourage the use of controlled substances, is prohibited. Posting content or participating in any form of discussion with the intention to commit any illegal activity is strictly prohibited.

Limitation of Liability

You agree that you will hold harmless Mental Health America and its officers, directors, employees, and volunteers from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this Website or the information contained in this Website or other websites to which it is linked. This includes, but is not limited to, information or materials viewed or downloaded from this Website or another website to which it is linked that appear to you or are construed by you to be obscene, offensive, defamatory, or that infringe upon your intellectual property rights. In no event will Mental Health America or the contributors of information to this Website be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Endorsements

You acknowledge that the opinions and recommendations contained in this Website are not necessarily those of Mental Health America or endorsed by Mental Health America. Mental Health America may provide links on the Website to other websites which are not under the control of Mental Health America. In general, any website which has an address (or URL) which does not contain "Mental Health America” is such a website. These links are provided for convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by Mental Health America of the organization or individual operating the website or a warranty of any type regarding the website or the information on the website.

Content Usage Policy

Unless otherwise indicated, all information contained on our website www.mentalhealthamerica.net or in written form including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, button icons, video or audio clips is copyrighted by and proprietary to Mental Health America and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, sublicensed, altered, stored for subsequent use or otherwise used in whole or in part any manner without Mental Health America’s prior written consent, except that the user may make such temporary copies in a single computer’s RAM and hard drive cache as are necessary to browse the website, and the user may make one permanent copy of each page of the website, brochure or booklet to be used by the user for personal and noncommercial uses which do not harm the reputation of Mental Health America. To obtain written consent see our permissions agreement.

Once written consent is given in the form of a signed permission agreement, the following restrictions apply:

*  The content may be used for informational, non-commercial purposes only
*  Any copy of content or portion thereof must include Mental Health America cite line as “copyrighted and published by Mental Health America, no part of this document may be reproduced without written consent”
*  Mental Health America has the right to revoke such authorization at any time, and any such use must be discontinued upon notice from Mental Health America

Mental Health America affiliates

Mental Health America affiliates in good standing are exempt from being required to obtain written consent for the use of Mental Health America content.

Linking Your Website to Mental Health America

Mental Health America is dedicated to promoting mental health, preventing mental disorders and achieving victory over mental illness through advocacy, education, research and service. Mental Health America therefore encourages and permits links to Mental Health America’s website that support this mission. As such, Mental Health America allows external, hyper-text links to websites, provided:

(a) any text-only link must clearly be marked "Mental Health America";

(b) the appearance, position and other aspects of either the link or the host website may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with Mental Health America’s name and trademarks;

(c) the appearance, position and other aspects of either the link or the host website may not create the false appearance that an entity other than Mental Health America is associated with or sponsored by Mental Health America;

(d) the link, when activated by a user, must display this Website full-screen and not with a "frame" on the linked website. Mental Health America considers framing, the practice of intact reproduction of a page or pages of one website to another website, to be deceptive and a violation of Mental Health America’s copyright rights. No authorization or permission is given for framing our content, whether in whole or in part;

(e) Mental Health America reserves the right to revoke its consent to external links at any time at its sole discretion and require that said links are abolished; and

(f) Mental Health America reserves the right to require a reciprocal link to the linking site.

Mental Health America Website Linking to External Websites

Mental Health America is a nonprofit, broad-based, citizens’ movement; however, Mental Health America is also committed to presenting material in a nonpartisan, noncommercial manner. Thus, links to Mental Health America’s website should not be used for inappropriate, political or commercial purposes, or suggest that Mental Health America promotes, endorses or sponsors any third party’s causes, ideas, products or services. Additionally, Mental Health America is not responsible for the information or materials contained on the host website. Links to external websites are provided for convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by Mental Health America of the organization or individual operating the host website or a warranty of any type regarding the host website or the information on the host website.

Privacy Policy Statement

For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes the consumer's domain name, the e-mail addresses of those who post messages to our bulletin board, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information, e-mail addresses and/or site registrations. We automatically collect only the domain name.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by writing to us at the address below. If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line. The information we collect is used for marketing purposes, internal review, used to improve the content of our Web page, but is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Cookies: To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we invoke a standard feature found in browser software, called a "cookie", to assign each visitor a unique, random number, a sort of anonymous user ID that resides on your computer. The cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. A cookie can't read data off your hard drive. We do not link cookie data with personally identifiable information, nor do we store personal information in our cookies. You can disable cookies at any time by changing the preferences in your browser.

For our internal purposes, we gather date, time, browser type, navigation history and IP address of all visitors to our site. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. We use this information for our internal security audit log, trend analysis and system administration, and to gather broad demographic information about our user base for aggregate use.

With respect to ad servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Upon request, we provide site visitors with access to contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them and users have the right to opt out of having their information collected. Consumers can do this by writing to us at the address below.

With respect to security: When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at 800-969-6MHA.

Page last updated: 02/22/2007