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## Terms

WEBSITE TERMS & CONDITIONS

Last Updated and Effective as of November 9, 2021

Please read these Terms & Conditions carefully before you start to use https://drvaleriegettings.com/ (the “Website). This Website is owned and operated by Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC (“we,” “our,” or “us”). The terms “you” or “yours” refer to the user of our Website. 

By visiting, using, viewing, or accessing the Website, and/or any content contained on, accessible through or downloadable through this Website, whether available for free or by purchase, accessing the Website and Dr. Valerie Gettings’ social media or otherwise signing up to receive any of our emails, newsletter, social media posts or content or by purchasing any products from the Website if that option is offered, you are voluntarily agreeing to these Terms & Conditions and accept and agree to be bound and abide by them, and you are legally agreeing that you have read, understand, and fully consent to the terms below. 

Please also review our Website Privacy Policy and Disclaimer which are incorporated by reference into these Terms & Conditions. These Terms & Conditions, along with the Disclaimer and Privacy Policy of the Website, govern your access to and use of the Website. If you have any questions about any of these Terms & Conditions, please contact us at drgettings@drvaleriegettings.com before using this Website.

Changes to Terms & Conditions 

We reserve our right to change, modify or update these Terms & Conditions at any time in our sole discretion, in which case we’ll update the Effective Date of the Terms & Conditions located at the top of this Terms & Conditions page to reflect the date of the changes. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and apply to all access to and use of the Website and its contents, products, and services thereafter. By continuing to use the Website after we post any such changes, you accept and agree to be bound by the Terms & Conditions as modified, so please check these Terms & Conditions from time to time to be aware of any modifications.

Information on Website for Educational And Informational Purposes Only and Not Medical Advice

This Website has been created to provide information about the naturopathic medicine services of Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, and also provides blogs and information relating to health and wellness; however, any information found on this Website is for educational and informational purposes only and is NOT intended as, and must not be understood or construed as, medical care or advice. Nothing found on this Website is intended to substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment of a qualified healthcare professional familiar with your situation. Your use of the Website alone DOES NOT create a doctor-patient relationship between you and Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD.  

If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult one-on-one with a licensed health care professional. Do not disregard, avoid or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have read on this Website.  

Valerie Gettings, NMD, disclaims any liability for your reliance on any blogs, opinions, or information contained in this Website. Neither Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC, nor its owners, officers, contractors, affiliates, or suppliers shall be held liable or responsible for any errors or omissions on this Website or for any damage you may suffer as a result of failing to seek medical or health advice from a licensed medical or health care professional who has knowledge of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.

Information and statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products sold on or through this Website are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Always consult your licensed medical or health care professional before taking any medication or nutritional, herbal, or homeopathic supplement or using any treatment or product for any health problem.

Intellectual Property Rights

This Website includes materials protected by intellectual property laws, including but not limited to written text, logos, photos, videos, music, art, designs, and graphics. When you access the Website or access or purchase any of its contents, products or services, Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC is granting you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Website and its content, for your own personal, non-commercial use and NOT for your business or commercial use or in any way that earns you money, unless you get written permission from the owner of Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC that you may do so. 

This means that when you access the Website or any contents on or available through the Website, you agree that you will only use them for your individual, personal and noncommercial purposes, and you will NOT copy, duplicate, share, republish, reproduce, display, distribute, modify, sell, resell, or otherwise use any material from or portion of this Website for any commercial purposes or any other purpose without express written permission from Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC. Any reproduction or unauthorized use of any materials found on this Website shall constitute infringement and theft and could result in criminal or civil penalties.

You agree and understand that you do NOT acquire any ownership rights in the Website content by your use of the Website or its content, and we do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC or our licensors, as applicable, unless expressly authorized. Furthermore, you agree and understand that you are not permitted to delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices on or in the Website or any of its contents, products or services such as the copyright notice © or trademark notice such as TM or ®.

Any trademarks, taglines, and logos displayed on the Website are trademarks belonging to Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC. Any trademarks reproduced on this Website, which are not the property of, or are licensed to Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC, are the property of their respective owners. Any use, including framing, meta tags or other text utilizing these trademarks, or other trademarks displayed, is strictly prohibited without Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC’s express written consent.

Materials Provide by You to the Website and Your Use of Communication Services 

The Website may contain blog comment sections and/or other messages or similar communication features designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”). When you voluntarily submit, post or upload any material on or through the Website or its Communication Services, including, without limitation, any comment, photo, image, video, or any other submission or contribution, you represent and warrant that: (1) you are at least 13 years old or the age of majority in the state in which you reside; (2) you are the owner of or have permission to share such materials; (3) you grant Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide non-exclusive license to use, copy, reproduce, publish, distribute, display and publicly perform those materials, in whole or part, in any manner or medium, now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose, including commercial purposes and advertising; and (4) you grant Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC, a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide non-exclusive license and release to use your name and likeness in connection with such materials for any purposes, including commercial purposes and advertising. Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC, does not claim any ownership rights in your materials. You may, however, at any time, ask us to delete this information. Your rights regarding this personal information can be found in the Website’s Privacy Policy. 

Please choose carefully the materials that you upload to, submit to, or embed on this Website. Any material you post on this Website becomes public. Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself in any Communication Service. You are responsible for your material and for any liability that may result from the material you post on this Website. You participate, comment, and post material on this Website or any social media sites of Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC at your own risk.  

You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service, and you agree to post comments or other material only one time. Any communication by you on this Website and its Communication Services, must be respectful. You may not communicate or submit any content or material that is abusive, vulgar, threatening, harassing, knowingly false, defamatory or obscene or otherwise in violation of any law or the rights of others.  

Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC has no obligation to monitor the posts, comments, or materials submitted on Communication Services or to enforce any intellectual property rights you may have in the material you post. However, Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC, in our sole discretion, may delete or modify, in whole or part, any post, comment, or submission to this Website. Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC neither endorses nor makes any representations as to the truthfulness or validity of any third-party posts, comments, or material on this Website. Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage caused by your use of any Communication Services or third-party posts, comments, or materials on this Website.

Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever. And we reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post, or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in our sole discretion.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use or Conduct

You agree that you will not use the Website in any way that causes or is likely to cause the Website or its contents, or access to them, to be interrupted, damaged, or impaired in any way. You understand that you are solely responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to this Website. 

As a condition of your use of the Website and its contents, you agree to use the Website and its contents only for lawful, legitimate, non-commercial purposes and that you will NOT use the Website its contents for any purpose that is illegal, false, fraudulent or prohibited by these Terms & Conditions. You agree that you will NOT use and understand that you are strictly forbidden from using the Website or its contents in any of the following ways: 

- In any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Website or its contents or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Website, its contents;
- To conduct or carry out any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful activity or conduct activity with any such purpose; 
- To send any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, harmful, defamatory, obscene, menacing, threatening, objectionable, invasive of privacy, in breach of confidence, infringing of any intellectual property rights, or that may otherwise injure others;
- To send, negatively impact, or infect our Website or its contents with software viruses or any other harmful or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware;
- To send or infect our Website or its with software viruses or any other similar computer code designed to commercially solicit, or send chain letters, mass mailings or any spam, whether intended or not;
- To cause annoyance, inconvenience, anxiety, or fear; 
- To impersonate any third party or otherwise mislead as to the origin of your contributions;
- To reproduce, duplicate, copy or resell any part of our Website or its contents in a way that is not in compliance with these Terms & Conditions or any other applicable terms of use to which you have agreed or any other agreement you have with us. 
- To obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Website or its contents to you.
- To transmit, send or deliver unsolicited communications or for other marketing or advertising purposes.
- To systematically or automatically collect data from this Website.
- Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC, may, without notice, refuse access to the Website, in whole or part, to any person that fails to comply with these Terms & Conditions.

Email And Other Electronic Communications

We would be pleased to communicate with you electronically, and there are various places on this Website that provide you the ability to send an electronic communication to Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC. Any such electronic communication, however, does not create a doctor-patient relationship between you and Valerie Gettings, NMD. As set forth more fully in our Privacy Policy, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that any communications remain confidential, but we cannot guarantee the security of such communications and cannot guarantee that we would not be required to disclose such communications as a result of a court or other legal order.

Links to Third-Party Websites, Services or Social Media 

The Website may contain links to third-party websites or social media sites (“Linked Websites”). The Linked Websites are not under the control of Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC, and Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC is not responsible or liable for any content of any Linked Website, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Website or actions taken by the Linked Websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information and to allow you to visit other website(s) or social media sites that you may find of interest. While Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC only provides Linked Websites that Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD believes in and trusts, the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC of the views, opinions, facts, advice or statements in such Linked Websites or any association with its operators. Although Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC may provide these links, it is your responsibility to fully research such third parties before entering into any transaction or relationship with them. Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC has no control over the contents, actions or functionality of the Linked Websites and is not responsible for any loss, damage, or otherwise that may arise from your use of any Linked Website. It is your responsibility to review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the Linked Websites to confirm that you understand and agree with those policies. Likewise, if our Website is linked or referenced in someone else’s website or social media, we are not liable for any information provided on or through their website or social media as it is not under our control in any way whatsoever. 

No Guarantees 

You agree that Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC has not made any guarantees about the results of taking any action, whether recommended on or in this Website or not. This Website provides educational and informational resources that are intended to help users of this Website succeed in health or otherwise. You nevertheless recognize that your ultimate success or failure will be the result of your own efforts, your particular situation, and innumerable other circumstances beyond the control and/or knowledge of Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC and any individuals associated with Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC.

You also recognize that prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Thus, the results obtained by others - whether patients of Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC or otherwise - applying the principles set out in this Website, its contents, products and/or services are no guarantee that you or any other person or entity will be able to obtain similar results.

Any testimonials or examples shown through the Website are truthful reports stated by real people (not actors), but they do not guarantee or promise in any way that you might achieve the same outcome as each situation varies.

User’s Personal Responsibility and Assumption of Risk

We have done our best to ensure that the Website and its contents are accurate and provide valuable information, but we cannot guarantee the accuracy of such information. Neither Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC nor its owners, officers, managers, directors, or contractors are responsible for any errors or omissions on or in this Website or for any damage you may suffer as a result of failing to seek competent advice from a professional who is familiar with your situation.

By accessing this Website and its contents in any way you accept personal responsibility for the results of your actions. Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC is not responsible for your personal actions or choices before, during or after use of our Website. Notwithstanding any limitations by law, your use, misuse or non-use of any information on this Website is at your own risk, and you agree to take full responsibility for any harm or damage you suffer as a result of your use, misuse or non-use, of the information available on or in this Website and to absolve Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC of any liability or loss that you, your business, or your family, children or heirs (if applicable) or any other person, may incur. 

Additionally, you acknowledge that when making your own decisions and taking any actions or implementing anything suggested on this Website, which is all information and education, you are using your own judgment and conducting your own due diligence and assessment of risk, and you are voluntarily making those decisions with the full awareness that there may be risk involved. 

Termination and Access Restriction

Dr. Valerie Gettings, NMD, PLLC reserves the right, in her sole discretion, to refuse or terminate your access to the Website, in full or in part, at any time without notice. In the event of cancellation or termination, you are no longer authorized to access the part of the Website affected by such cancellation or termination. The restrictions imposed on you in these Terms & Conditions with respect to the Website will still apply even after such termination.

No Warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE WEBSITE AND ALL INFORMATION ON AND IN THE WEBSITE, AND ITS CONTENT, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. 

DR. VALERIE GETTINGS, NMD, PLLC MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ABOUT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, SUITABILITY AND APPROPRIATENESS OF OUR WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENTS FOR ANY PURPOSE. 

DR. VALERIE GETTINGS, NMD, PLLC MAKES NO WARRANTIES REGARDING THE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION OF THIS WEBSITE, ITS CONTENTS, ITS PRODUCTS, OR ITS SERVICES. FURTHERMORE, DR. VALERIE GETTINGS, NMD, PLLC MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT THE WEBSITE OR ANY OF ITS CONTENT, PRODUCTS, SERVICES OR FUNCTIONS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY PART OF THIS WEBSITE, ITS…