Social Media Policy

Current as of 01/09/2022
(Our email policy is revised on a regular basis) 
 
BY POSTING ON ANY BEACHES FAMILY PRACTICE SOCIAL MEDIA SITE YOU
AGREE TO THESE TERMS. Beaches Family Practice (BFP) has opened publicly
facing pages on social media sites for viewing content and/or videos and posting
comments about BFP. These social media sites include but are not limited to various
blogs, bulletin boards, networks, multi-media and news media sites or other user
generated content sites (“Social Media Sites”). By accessing, viewing and/or posting
any content related directly or indirectly to BFP on any Social Media Site on the
internet, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the following terms of use. If
you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, you may not view or post any content to
any Social Media Site on the internet. Your use of Social Media Sites is acceptance
of this Policy and has the same effect as if you had actually physically signed an
agreement.

1. If you are a BFP employee you must adhere to the BFP MEDIA AND SOCIAL
NETWORKING POLICY.

2. You must be at least 18 years old to post any content on any Social Media Site.

3. You are prohibited from posting any content that is personal health information
including patient images on any Social Media Site. You are also prohibited from
using the Social Media Site to provide medical advice or medical commentary by
non-BFP Doctors or to use the Social Media Site to make, recommend or increase
referrals to physicians who are not employed by BFP.

4. As a guest posting content to any Social Media Site on the internet, you agree that
you will not: violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations,
including but not limited to copyright and intellectual property rights laws regarding
any content that you send or receive via this Policy; transmit any material (by
uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that is unlawful, disruptive, threatening,
profane, abusive, harassing, embarrassing, tortuous, defamatory, obscene, libellous,
or is an invasion of another's privacy, is hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable as solely determined in BFP’s discretion; impersonate any person or
entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or
entity; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that you do
not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary
relationships; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that
infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of
any party; transmit (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) any unsolicited or
unauthorized advertising (including advertising of non BFP services or products),
promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes" or any
other form of solicitation; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or
otherwise) that contains software viruses, worms, disabling code, or any other
computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the
functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications
equipment; harass another; or collect or store, or attempt to collect or store, personal
data about third parties without their knowledge or consent; or to share confidential
pricing information of any party.

5. BFP reserves the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate,
delete, or discontinue your access to any Social Media Site, at any time, without
notice and for any reason and in its sole discretion. BFP may remove, delete, block,
filter or restrict by any other means any materials in BFP’s sole discretion. You
understand and agree that BFP may disclose your communications and activities
with BFP in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, including
Patriot Act requests, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of
BFP rights. You agree that in the event that BFP exercises any of its rights
hereunder for any reason, BFP will have no liability to you.

6. By posting any content on any Social Media Site, you grant to BFP the irrevocable
right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display such content and the right to create
derivative works from your content, edit or modify such content and use such content
for any BFP purpose.

7. You shall defend, indemnify, and hold BFP and its corporate affiliates and their
respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, successors and
assigns harmless from and against, and shall promptly reimburse them for, any and
all losses, claims, damages, settlements, costs, and liabilities of any nature
whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys' fees) to which any of them may become
subject arising out of, based upon, as a result of, or in any way connected with, your
posting of any content to a Social Media Site, any third party claims of infringement
or any breach of this Policy.

8. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ASSUME ALL
RESPONSIBILITY RELATED TO THE SECURITY, PRIVACY, AND
CONFIDENTIALITY RISKS INHERENT IN SENDING ANY CONTENT OVER THE
INTERNET. By its very nature, a website AND THE INTERNET cannot be absolutely
protected against intentional or malicious intrusion attempts. BFP does not control
the THIRD PARTY SITES AND THE Internet over which you may choose to send
confidential personal or health information OR OTHER CONTENT and, therefore,
BFP DOES NOT WARRANT ANY SAFEGUARD AGAINST ANY such interceptions
or compromises to your information. when posting any content on an internet site,
you should think carefully about your own privacy in disclosing detailed or private
information about yourself and your family.
FURTHERMORE, BFP DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY PRODUCT, SERVICE, VIEWS
OR CONTENT DISPLAYED ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA SITE.

9. You agree that any claim or dispute relating to your posting of any content on a
Social Media Site on the internet shall be construed in accordance with the laws of
Australia without regard to its conflict of law’s provisions and you agree to be bound
and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local, state or federal courts
located in Australia.

10. You may not provide any content to a Social Media Site that contains any
product or service endorsements or any content that may be construed as political
lobbying, solicitations or contributions or use the Social Media Site to link to any sites
or political candidates or parties or use the Social Media Site to discuss political
campaigns, issues or for taking a position on any legislation or law.

11. THIS POLICY MAY BE UPDATED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND
EACH TIME A USER ACCESSES A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE, THE NEW
POLICY WILL GOVERN, USAGE, EFFECTIVE UPON POSTING. To remain in
compliance, BFP suggests that you review the Policy, as well as the other website
policies, at regular intervals. By continuing to post any content after such new terms
are posted, you accept and agree to any and all such modifications to this Policy.