Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

This South Asian Health Project website ("our site" or "this site") is owned and operated by South Asian Health Project, Inc. a New York-based not-for-profit corporation ("SAH Project").

By using this site, you automatically agree to all of these terms of use. SAH Project may revise these terms from time to time. If you continue to use our site after we post changes to these terms and conditions, it will mean that you accept those changes. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using our site.

Use of Materials on this Site
SAH Project maintains this site for your information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse our site.

All materials on our site, including but not limited to artwork, photographs, graphics, audio clips, video clips, text, and trademarks, are the sole property of SAH Project or its licensors. The exclusive rights to all materials on this site are protected by U.S. and international laws of copyright, trademark, and unfair competition. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, prepare derivative works based on, republish, transmit, repost or otherwise use the content of our site, without prior written authorization from SAH Project. To request such permission, contact us. In no event may SAH Project trademarks, symbols, artwork, or other visual or audio elements be reproduced separately from the textual content associated with them on the site.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by SAH Project. SAH Project shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as the result of a breach of confidentiality with respect to information you transmit to the site.

Content
The information contained on our site is of a general nature only and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment. No person should act in reliance on any statement contained herein, and SAH Project recommends consultation with your doctor, health care professional, or legal professional, as the case may be, for specific advice. The authors, editors, and individuals involved in creating and maintaining this South Asian Health Project web site do not accept any liability of any nature for any use or misuse of this material and do not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage caused by reliance on any statement contained herein, made negligently or otherwise, including work(s) by other authors.

Posted Materials
The information and opinions expressed in materials posted by visitors on the chat areas, bulletin boards, lists, or other venues connected with our site (collectively, "forums") are not necessarily those of SAH Project or its affiliates, and SAH Project makes no representations or warranties regarding such posted materials. Users should be aware that our forums are public, not private communications. When you voluntarily disclose personal information on our forums, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people. You shall not submit, upload, or post to our forums any content, which (1) libels, defames, invades privacy, or is obscene, pornographic, abusive, or threatening; (2) infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity, including but not limited to, violating anyone's copyrights or trademarks; (3) falsifies or deletes author attributions, legal notices or other proprietary designations; (4) violates any law; (5) advocates illegal activity; (6) contains viruses, corrupted files, or other materials that may cause damage to another's computer, or (7) advertises or otherwise solicits funds or sales of goods or services. By posting any content on our forums, you automatically agree to indemnify SAH Project from and against any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs, or expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from your breach of these posting restrictions. By posting any content on our forums, you automatically grant to SAH Project a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, and unrestricted worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute the posted content or incorporate the posted content into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed for any purpose, including advertising and promotion, and you automatically waive all "moral rights" with respect to the posted content.

Outside Links
SAH Project has not reviewed all of the sites linked to this site and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to this site, whether or not they are affiliated with SAH Project. Such linked sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. SAH Project makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or functioning of any such link. That another web site is linked to our site does not constitute endorsement by SAH Project of the owner of the other site, the content of its site, or its products or services.

Privacy

a. Normal website usage
SAH Project has a firm commitment to internet privacy. You can visit most portions of www.southasianhealth.org without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. The only information we collect from a normal web site visit is the name of your internet service provider, the browser, type of machine you are using, the website that referred you to us, and the pages you request and the date and time you request them. We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity to improve the usefulness of the site to our visitors.

b. Collection of personally identifiable information
SAH Project may collect email addresses and other personally identifiable data about visitors when such data is voluntarily submitted to www.southasianhealth.org. For example, our site uses submission forms for visitors to contact us, to request information, products, and services, to share personal stories, or to join mailing list. Contact information from the order form is used notify visitors of SAH Project news and information that is related to our mission.

c. Secure collection
SAH Project makes every effort to ensure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information using industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies.

d. User information
SAH Project does not sell or otherwise disclose such user information outside the organization.

e. Cookies
Like most websites, SAH Project may place a "cookie," or small file, in the browser files of a visitor's computer. We use cookies to save information you give us so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. This allows us to personalize the site to your taste and provide the best web experience possible to our visitors.

f. Special Notification with Respect to Children's Privacy (Users under age of 13)
In response to concerns about protecting children's privacy online, Congress enacted the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), which sets forth rules and procedures governing the ways in which Web sites may collect, use, and disclose any personal information for children under the age of 13. In accordance with COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:

1. Request or knowingly collect personally identifiable online or offline contact information from users under 13 years of age;
2. Knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13 years of age with third parties;
3. Give children the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information;
4. Entice children with the prospect of a special game, prize,or other activity to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity.

Questions regarding children's privacy should be directed to us through our contact page.

Limitations on Liability
The materials on this site are provided solely for educational and promotional purposes. Your use and browsing of this site is at your own risk. The materials could include technical inaccuracies or other errors. They are provided to you "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. SAH Project does not warrant that the functions contained in our site's materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that our site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. SAH Project does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials on our site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You (and not SAH Project) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall SAH Project be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or inability to use, the materials on our site, even if SAH Project or a SAH Project-authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation may not apply to you. In no event shall SAH Project 's total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action, including but not limited to negligence, arising out of our in connection with your use of this site, exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

General Provisions
The materials on our site are presented solely for promotional purposes in the United States. This site is operated under the supervision of SAH Project from its offices within the state of New York. SAH Project website is available in many parts of the world. However, our site may provide information that may not be relevant worldwide. SAH Project does not warrant or represent that materials on our site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you choose to access our site from outside the United States, you do so at your own initiative and you are responsible for complying with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. You may not download or otherwise export or re-export software from our site in violation of United States export controls.

These terms shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the state of New York, as they are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within New York. Any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to these terms shall be barred unless such claim or cause of action is brought within one year after it arises; any such claim or cause of action shall be brought only in the state or federal courts in the District of New York, and you consent to jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating such actions.

Whenever possible, each provision of these terms shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision is deemed prohibited or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of these terms.

SAH Project reserves the right to remove for any reason posted materials from our forums, and the right to deny in its sole discretion any user access to our site or our forums, without notice.

This is the entire agreement between us relating to your use of this site. These terms may not be modified by you, in writing or otherwise, unless agreed to in a written document signed by SAH Project.

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