Posting Policy

Swedish Health Services (Swedish) recognizes the importance of engaging its community and encourages participation in comments and discussions on a variety of topics. Swedish is unable to respond to every comment and will not respond to individual medical cases and issues.

Swedish will be moderating comments – in particular so we can block any blog spam and comments that contravene the rules above. This means there may be a time delay before your comment goes live. Swedish operates a ‘notice and take down’ policy which means that if Swedish notices or is made aware of a post that contravenes these rules, Swedish reserves the right in its absolute discretion and without assigning a reason to amend or remove the comment or prevent it from appearing on the site. Posts that are off-topic, discuss specific medical cases, include names of individuals or other personally identifiable information will not be posted. Posts that are clearly promoting a commercial product will also not be posted. Comments should be respectful of others and not include personal attacks, profanity or abusive language.

Terms and Conditions of Use

By posting any comment or other material on Swedish-sponsored blogs, Websites and/or forums, you give Swedish the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display, edit, modify, create derivative works from, and otherwise use your submission for any purpose in any form and on any media. You also agree that you will not:

1. Post material that infringes on the rights of any third party, including intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights.
2. Post material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by Swedish in its sole discretion.
3. Post personally identifiable information such as, but not limited to, full names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
4. Post information about personal medical information of any kind.
5. Post advertisements or solicitations of business.
6. Post chain letters or pyramid schemes.
7. Impersonate another person.
8. Allow any other person or entity to use your identification for posting or viewing comments.
9. Post the same note more than once or "spam."

Swedish reserves the right (but is not obligated) to do any or all of the following:

1. Remove communications that are abusive, illegal or disruptive, or that otherwise fail to conform with these Terms and Conditions.
2. Terminate a user's access to the posting features.
3. Edit or delete any communications on the posting features, regardless of whether such communications violate these standards.

Finally, you agree that you will indemnify Swedish against any damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs) arising out of a claim by a third party relating to any material you have posted. You are personally liable and responsible for the contents of any post.

Comments by users are not endorsed by Swedish. Swedish does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted by users. Any information or material placed online by users, including advice and opinions, is the view and responsibility of those users and does not represent the view of Swedish. You agree that Swedish is not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to any information or materials posted by others, including without limitation, defamatory, offensive or illicit material.

You further understand and agree that neither Swedish nor its affiliates nor any participant in the site/blog/forum is providing professional advice of any kind through this site/blog/forum and/or its comments or responses, and that use of any information herein is solely at your own risk and without liability to Swedish of any kind.