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A. YOUR USE OF THE SITE

Submission of Information

Certain areas of the Site may ask you to provide information to participate in certain features. The decision to provide this information is purely optional, however if you elect not to provide such information, you may not be able to benefit from various components of the Site. When you provide information to us in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information on all registration pages. Using a name other than your own legal name is prohibited. You agree that we may use the information you provide to us according to the PRIVACY POLICY on the Site.

Prohibited Activities

Except in connection with your authorized use of this Site, you may not copy, modify, display, license, distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, create derivative works from, transfer, or download any information, software, services, copy or provide code/software that copies any material on this Site to republish any or all of the contents of this Site on a proxy server, cache or other similar form of storage.

You may not copy, edit, modify, re-render, frame, mirror, truncate, add to, inject, filter or change the order of the information contained on any page of this Site, including, without limitation, by any way of reproducing DoH web pages.

You may not copy, derive, edit, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, modify, use, or reproduce any code or source code relating to this Site, including, without limitation, any service or product DoH offers.

You may not cause to appear any pop-up, pop-under, exit windows, expanding buttons, banners, advertisement, or anything else which minimizes, covers, or otherwise inhibits the full display of this Site.

You may not use any deep-link, page-scrape, robot, crawl, index, spider, click spam, macro programs, Internet agent, or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology which does the same things, to use, access, copy, acquire information, generate impressions or clicks, input information, store information, search, generate searches, or monitor any portion of this Site.

You may not use this Site in any way which depletes website infrastructural resources, slows the websites, or interferes with the normal operation of the Sites.

You may not upload or transmit to the Site any device, software, program, or file that may damage the operation of any computer or this Site, including without limitation, viruses or corrupt files.

You may not disguise the origin of information transmitted to, from, or through the Site. You may not circumvent any measures by DoH aimed at preventing violations of these Terms of Use. You may not violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion header.

When you use the Site for an authorized purpose, you must include all proprietary notices without changing or hiding them.

You may not engage in any conduct that is, or that DoH deems to be, in violation of these Terms of Use.

B. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Copyright

All of the information, content, services and software displayed on, transmitted through, or used in connection with this Site, including for example directories, guides, news articles, opinions, reviews, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, html, source and object code, software, data, and the like (collectively, the “Content”), as well as its selection and arrangement, is owned by us, or our affiliated companies, licensors and suppliers. You may not use such material except as provided in these Terms of Use.

You may use the Content online and solely for your personal, non-commercial use, and you may download or print a single copy of any portion of the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright or other notice contained in such Content. No other use is permitted. You may not, for example, republish the Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the Content in any database, compilation, archive or cache. You may not distribute any of the Content to others, whether or not for payment or other consideration, and you may not modify, copy, frame, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display or otherwise use any portion of the Content without our written consent. Requests to use of the Content for any purpose other than as permitted in this section should be directed to DoH Customer Services & Corporate Communication Department, www.doh.gov.ae editor.

Trademarks

The Content includes logotypes, trademarks and service marks (collectively “Marks”) owned by DoH, and Marks owned by other information providers and third parties. No Marks may be used in any manner unless approved in writing in advance by DoH.

Copyright Notice

The materials provided herein are for internal, non-commercial use only, and any copies of documents contained within this server or portions thereof must include the above copyright notice.

Each document published by DoH on this server may contain other proprietary notices or describe products, services, processes or technologies owned by DoH or third parties. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as granting to the user a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of DoH or any third party.

C. THIRD PARTY CONTENT

Links to Third Party Sites

The Site may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other world wide websites or resources. Because we have no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such external websites or resources, and do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such websites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such website or resource. DoH is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement of the website by DoH.

Disclaimer of Endorsement

Reference herein to any products, services, processes, hypertext links to third parties or other information by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by DoH. Product and service information is the sole responsibility of each individual vendor.

Links to, and frames of, the Site.

If you operate a website and wish to link to this Site, you must first obtain our express written consent, and then may link only to the home page of the Site and not to any other page or subdomain of DoH. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques that involve any Marks, copyrighted material or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of any portion of the Site or suggest any relationship between our Site and you without DoH’s express written consent. In addition, you agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through the Site, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of the Site in any way that affects the user’s experience, and not to use any data mining, robots, cancelbots, spiders, Trojan horse, or any data gathering or extraction method in connection with your use of the Site.

D. GENERAL DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

While we use reasonable efforts to include accurate information on the Site, we make no warranties or representations as to the accuracy of the Content and assume no liability or responsibility for any error or omission in the Content. We do not represent or warrant that use of any Content, when authorized, will not infringe the rights of third parties. In addition, in some cases, Content available on the Site may be provided and/or hosted by third parties. We have not reviewed all of the websites linked to this Site and are not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or links to or from any other websites. While we encourage such third parties to abide by the terms of these Terms of Use, we have no responsibility for actions of third parties.

You expressly understand and agree that use of the site is at your own risk. All content available through the site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Neither we, nor our affiliated or related companies, or any of our or their shareholders, employees, agents, content providers or licensors (collectively, the “parties”), make any representation or warranty of any kind regarding the site, the content, downloads available at the site, any advertising material displayed on the site, or the results that may be obtained from use of such services or sites, including but not limited to that the site will meet your requirements, be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error free, or that the site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components or destructive files.

We specifically disclaim any and all express or implied warranties regarding the site or any content, services or products provided through or in connection with the site, including without limitation warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, warranties against infringement, and warranties as to the availability, accuracy, completeness or content of any information, downloads, products or services available on or through the site.

In no event shall we be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, special, incidental or punitive damages including, without limitation, damages related to unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data, the content or any errors or omissions in the content, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Consent to Monitoring and Disclosure

DoH is under no obligation to monitor the information residing on or transmitted to this Site. However, anyone using this Site agrees that DoH may monitor the Site contents periodically (1) to comply with any necessary laws, regulations or other governmental requests; (2) to operate the Site properly or to protect itself and its users. DoH reserves the right to modify, reject or eliminate any information residing on or transmitted to its Site that it, in its sole discretion, believes is unacceptable or in violation of these Terms and Conditions.

Should any user of information on this Site provide DoH with information, including but not limited to feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, plans, ideas or the like, such information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and DoH assumes no obligation to protect such information from disclosure. The submission of such information to DoH shall in no way prevent the purchase, manufacture or use of similar products, services, plans and ideas by DoH for any purpose whatever and DoH shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the information to others without restriction.

E. MISCELLANEOUS

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and federal laws of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), without regard to its conflicts of law provisions. You hereby agree that any cause of action you may have with respect to the Site must be filed in a court in Abu Dhabi, within two (2) months of the time in which the events giving rise to such claim began, or you agree to waive such claim. If for any reason any provision of the Terms of Use is found by a court in Abu Dhabi unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to effect the intent of DoH as reflected in that provision, and the remainder of the Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect. Any failure of ours to enforce or exercise any provision of the Terms of Use or related right shall not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.

Questions and comments

We hope you enjoy using www.doh.gov.ae. If you have any questions or comments regarding these Terms of Use and/or the Site, please contact DoH Customer Services & Corporate Communication Department, DoH Site editor.

Technical questions regarding your software, your configuration or your connection should be directed to your Internet access provider. www.doh.gov.ae cannot address questions except those specifically about content and services that we provide.