Please Read This Terms of Use Agreement Carefully Before Using This Site.

These terms and conditions of use apply exclusively to your access to and use of the Northstar Neuroscience Inc. (“Northstar”) website (the “Site”) and do not alter in any way the terms and conditions of any other agreement you may have with Northstar for products, services or otherwise.

Legal Terms of Use: By using this site, you signify your assent to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not use this site. This Terms of Use Agreement may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. You agree that your continued use of the site after such modifications have been made constitutes your acceptance of such revised terms.

Disclaimer: This site may contain information relating to various medical, health and fitness conditions and their treatment. This is for informational purposes only and is not meant to be a substitute for the advice provided by your own physician or other medical professional. You should not use the information contained herein for diagnosing a medical, health or fitness condition or disease. You should always consult your own physician or medical advisors.

Northstar Neuroscience and its Third Party Beneficiaries disclaim all warranties, express, implied and statutory, regarding the service, site, content, or the quality, suitability, truth, accuracy, timeliness, relevance and completeness of any content contained on the site or included as part of the service.  

Limitation of Liability: In no event will Northstar Neuroscience or its Third Party Beneficiaries be liable to you or any third party claiming through you for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, punitive, special or incidental damages, including without limitation, damages arising from claims related to personal injury or death, loss of data, lost revenue, lost profits, loss of use or other economic advantage, change in applicable government regulations, regardless of the form of the action and regardless of whether Northstar Neuroscience or its Third Party Beneficiaries have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding the foregoing limitations, in no event will the total, cumulative liability of Northstar Neuroscience or its Third Party Beneficiaries for damages under this Agreement exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00). 

Links to Third Party Sites: The links on our site will allow you to leave our site and transfer to sites that are not under the control of Northstar Neuroscience, Inc. Northstar does not review or monitor the content of the linked sites. Northstar is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any links contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. Northstar is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Northstar of that site.

Hyperlink to this site: You are granted a limited, nonexclusive right to create a "hypertext" link to the Site provided that such link is to the entry page of this website and does not portray Northstar Neuroscience or any of its other products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise defamatory manner. This limited right may be revoked at any time for any reason whatsoever. You may not use, frame, or utilize framing techniques to enclose any Northstar trademark, logo or trade name or other proprietary information including the images found at the Site, the content of any text or the layout/design of any page or any form contained on a page without the express written consent of Northstar.  

Applicable Laws: This site is controlled and operated in the United States of America. Northstar Neuroscience, Inc. makes no representations that materials in the site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Although accessible by others, the product information on the Northstar site is intended for use by U.S. residents only. This site contains information about products which may or may not be available in any particular country, may be available under different trademarks or names, and if applicable, may have received approval or market clearance by a governmental regulatory body for sale or use with different indications and restrictions in different countries. Each country has specific laws, regulations and medical practices governing the communication of medical information and information about medical products in the Internet. You should not construe anything on this site as a promotion or solicitation for any product or for the use of any product that is not authorized by the laws and regulations of the country where you are located.

Submissions: You acknowledge that you are responsible for the information and material that you submit to the Site though email or otherwise (each a "Submission"), and that you, and not Northstar, will have full responsibility for each of your Submissions, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright. As such, you agree to indemnify and hold Northstar entirely harmless from and against any and all costs, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by Northstar in relation to your use of the Site. Any material, information or ideas you transmit to or post on the Site by any means will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and may be disseminated or used by Northstar or its affiliates for any purpose whatsoever.

Northstar is not responsible for and does not endorse any information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics or other materials, including without limitation any information relating to procedures or applications which are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (i.e., off-label uses) submitted to us or posted on such forums by site users.

Use of copyrighted materials/Trademarks:Any materials on the Site, including without limitation any documentation, content, text, data, graphics, images, interfaces or other materials or works of authorship, (the "Materials") are copyrighted materials owned by or licensed to Northstar Neuroscience. All rights are reserved. The Materials contain trademarks, service marks and trade names which are owned by Northstar and its affiliates, and may also contain brand and product names which are trademarks, service marks or trade names of third parties which are owned by their respective owners. Except as otherwise noted in the Site, you are hereby authorized to view, download, cache, copy and print the Materials solely for your personal use and not for resale or further distribution, subject to the following conditions:

1. Any copy of the Materials or portion thereof must include the Northstar copyright notice.

2. Northstar Neuroscience reserves the right to revoke such authorization at any time, and any such use by you shall be discontinued immediately upon notice from Northstar.

Any product, process or technology described in the Materials or offered for sale through the Site may be subject to other intellectual property rights reserved by Northstar Neuroscience, its affiliates, or third parties. Nothing contained in the Site shall be construed as conferring any license or right under any copyright, trade secret, patent, trademark or other intellectual property rights ("IP Rights") of Northstar, its affiliates, or any third party, and, except as expressly provided herein, all such IP Rights in the Materials on the Site are expressly reserved to Northstar, its affiliates, and/or any third party, as applicable.