Terms of use
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These terms govern your use of Worth Publishing Affiliate Blog. By reading the site you accept them.
No professional advice, and no professional relationship
Articles here are the professional opinion of the named contributor, written for a general readership. They are not medical, legal, tax, financial, engineering or any other professional advice, and they are not a substitute for retaining someone who can examine your actual facts.
Reading an article, contacting a contributor through the business details published with it, or corresponding with the editors does not create a doctor–patient relationship, an attorney–client relationship, an accountant–client relationship, or any other professional or fiduciary relationship. Do not send confidential or time-sensitive information to a contributor through this site; a message sent to a firm’s public address is not privileged and may not be read in time to help you.
Whose opinions these are
Each article is the work and the responsibility of the contributor named on it. Contributors are independently practising professionals. They are not employees or agents of Worth Publishing Affiliate Blog, and their views are their own, not the publication’s, their firm’s, or their employer’s.
Verification, and what it means
Before a contributor publishes here, we verify their identity, check their license or registration with the issuing board or registry, confirm that they wrote the piece themselves, and require disclosure of any commercial interest touching the subject. That is a real check and we take it seriously.
It is not a guarantee that any particular statement in any particular article is correct, current, or applicable to your circumstances. Professional standards, statutes and clinical guidance change, and an article accurate on the day it was published may not be accurate when you read it. Verification tells you who is speaking and that they are qualified to speak. It does not transfer their judgement to your situation.
Contributor content and copyright
Contributors retain copyright in their own articles and grant us a non-exclusive licence to publish, display and archive them. Everything else on the site — the design, the trade marks, the editorial apparatus — belongs to Worth Publishing.
You may quote briefly from an article with attribution and a link. You may not republish an article in whole or in substantial part, use the content to train a machine learning model, or scrape the site systematically, without written permission.
Corrections and removal
We correct errors of fact, mark corrections openly, and offer a right of reply where an article’s account of a named party is disputed. The process is set out in our corrections policy. Contributors may withdraw their own work at any time.
External links
Articles and Contributor Records include links to firms and outside sources. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, their accuracy, or their privacy practices. A link is not an endorsement of the services offered on the other end of it.
Acceptable use
Do not use this site to break the law, to harass a contributor, to misrepresent yourself as a contributor or an editor, or to interfere with the operation of the site. We may restrict access where any of that occurs.
Disclaimer and limitation of liability
The site is provided as it stands, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Worth Publishing, its editors and its contributors are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the site or from reliance on anything published here. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of [state/jurisdiction], and disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of its courts.
Changes
We may update these terms. The date at the top shows when they last changed, and continued use of the site means you accept the current version.