Breaking any of the rules below may lead to the immediate suspension of your account and could lead to legal action being taken against you by Optimax or an aggrieved party. Avoid the inclusion of any personal contact details in contributed material or forum posts. We do not accept responsibility for the consequences of individuals publishing their personal details on this website Posts including inappropriate material in the forums or anywhere else on this website or link to such material on other sites will be removed. This means content that is:

• defamatory - this means making untrue or unsubstantiated statements that are capable of damaging the reputation of Optimax or other organizations / individuals. You are responsible for any postings which prove to be libellous or illegal.

• threatening or harassing - expressing any threat or possibility of a threat, or engaging in any systematic and/or continued unwanted and annoying actions for whatever purpose or intent

• unlawful or illegal - this means anything that is contrary to or forbidden by law. For example, you should not post material that incites people to commit any crime, including incitement of racial hatred, or is legally sensitive.

• vulgar, obscene or abusive - material that is crudely indecent or offensive. For instance, swearing, blasphemy, overtly sexual, sexist or racist content

• pornographic - sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other related content

• misleading - material that causes someone to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true.

• invasive of privacy - material that intrudes or encroaches upon someone's privacy.

• copyrighted - do not post any material that infringes any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary right of any party, unless you personally control these rights. Please also refrain from offering to sell commercial goods or services.

• purporting to be posted by someone else or purporting to be validated or authorised by someone when it has not been - impersonating someone (including other members) is unacceptable, as is falsely claiming third party endorsement for your submissions.

• intended to damage or adversely affect other computers - this refers to any material designed to transmit a virus, worm, trojan horse or with harmful or destructive features. Likewise, you should not post or conduct surveys, pyramid schemes or similar operations

• download any information file posted by another user of the Forum that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner without our express written permission.

All the above guidance applies to avatars and signature text, as well as forum postings.

IMPORTANT:
The forum is not intended as a correspondence channel between Optimax and its patients. Specific complaints or issues requiring urgent attention should be submitted to Optimax directly, where they will be properly investigated.

You must accept that in uploading any content to this website you are granting us a licence to use it for as long as we wish. You will continue to have ownership of your material and may continue to use it outside this website however you want, but please be aware that by uploading it you are granting us an unlimited license to use it or remove it at our discretion.

You take full responsibility for any use you may make of our website. You agree that we will not be liable for any loss or injury resulting from your use of, or downloading from the website, or for any use made by any third party of information posted by you on the website.

We are authorised by you to remove, block or modify your use of this website for any reason we feel constitutes a violation of our policies, whether stated, implied or not.  We are also entitled to exclude you from using the website by whatever technical means prove necessary

You are responsible for anti – virus protection and safeguards during your use of this website. Views and opinions expressed by users of this website are the user's own and do not necessarily reflect those of Optimax.