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No medical advice

• The content on this Site, including but not limited to text, graphics, images, and other material, is provided for informational purposes only.
• Always seek the advice of your neurosurgeon, medical specialist, physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
• Never disregard professional advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this Site.

No Doctor-Patient Relationship

• Use of this Site does not establish a doctor-patient relationship.
• The Site does not offer personalised medical advice or treatment plans.

Limitation of liability

• The Site owner, authors, contributors, and affiliates assume no responsibility or liability for any consequences resulting directly or indirectly from any action or inaction you take based on the information found on or linked to this website
• You agree that you use the information at your own risk

Emergency situation

• If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor, emergency services, or go to the nearest hospital immediately.

User conduct

• By using our Site, you agree to abide by the following rules of conduct:
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  • You will not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Site or its systems
• We reserve the right to terminate your access to the Site if you violate these rules of conduct.

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By using this Site, you agree to respect the intellectual property rights of the website and third parties.

Brain Connect Privacy Collection Notice

Policy Statement

Welcome to Brain Connect (“we”, “our”, or “us”). Your privacy is important to us. Brain Connect is committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto.

Definitions

Service users = individuals that uses, benefits or accesses Brain Connect such as children or adult family members with a connection to a special person who has sustained a brain injury, survivors themselves, carers or any other connection.

Health professionals = any clinician, student, casual, agency or professional who accesses the website.

Stakeholders = any individual, group or organisation that has an interest or comes into contact with Brain Connect.

Information we may collect

Personal data

We may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address and phone number, that you voluntarily give to us when you register or contact us.

Derivative data

This includes information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and pages viewed.

Cookies and tracking technologies

We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to improve your experience on our Site.

Photographs and videos

We may also collect photographs and videos you upload onto the Brain Connect connectivity platform which you will post online yourself.

Our commitment to privacy

Brain Connect is committed to protecting the privacy of our users and the personal information provided to us. We will take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of the personal information we collect, and will only collect minimally relevant information. We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect information from misuse, interference, and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification, and disclosure.

Why we collect personal information

Brain Connect collects personal information from you when you register for our online connectivity portal so you can set up a profile and engage in private or public conversations with other users of the platform. More specifically, the personal information we collect allows us to:

• Respond to your comments or inquiries
• Operate and maintain our Site
• Improve your experience on our Site
• To send you promotional information, such as newsletters (if you opt-in)
• To comply with legal obligations

How we may collect personal information

• When you use Brain Connect, our data systems may automatically collect Personal Information about you, such as your IP address, what web pages are accessed and when
• We may record your online session to understand how you use Brain Connect
• When you give it to us directly through our contact page
• Depending on your settings or privacy policies for social media and messaging services like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or Twitter, you might give us permission to access information from those accounts or services

Providing your name and information

You do not have to tell us your name when using Brain Connect. You may choose not to give any identifying information, or you may choose to use a different name (such as a ‘nickname’).

Not giving us your real name, and/or not giving us relevant or accurate Personal Information (such as your contact details) may affect the level of service and response we can provide you and the outcomes you achieve from using Brain Connect.

Sharing your information

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information with any business partners and/or trusted affiliates.

Third party services

We may use third-party services (e.g. Google Analytics) that collect, monitor, and analyse this type of information to increase our Site’s functionality. These third parties have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.

Securing your information

We use administrative, and technical measures to help protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.

Accessing Our Privacy Policy

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