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Silent Spring Institute--Terms
of Use Agreement |
YOUR USE OF THE HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION
SYSTEM (HEIS) IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE. YOUR USE
OF THE HEIS WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS. IF
YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO USE THE
HEIS.
I. License and Use
1. The Silent Spring Institute (“SSI”) hereby permits
you to use the Health and Environment Information System (“HEIS”),
free of any license fee or charge, provided you adhere to each
and all of the conditions set forth in these Terms of Use.
2.
You may not transfer or reassign this license to any other user,
but should direct any prospective user to the HEIS homepage
and this Terms of Use Agreement, so the user can become familiar
with and accept these Terms of Use if he or she wishes to use
any HEIS webpage or dataset.
3. Pursuant to law, data made available by SSI in the HEIS
that originated from the Massachusetts Department of Public
Health
(“MDPH”) may be used only for the purposes for
which they were obtained; any effort to determine the identity
of any
reported cases or to use the information for any purpose other
than for health statistical reporting and analysis is prohibited.
These data include all spatial and tabular information concerning
asthma, birth weight, births to smokers, blood lead, and cancers.
SSI acts with great caution to assure that the identity of
data subjects cannot be disclosed; all direct identifiers,
as well
as characteristics that might lead to identifications, are
omitted from datasets.
Nevertheless, it may be possible, in rare instances, through
complex analysis and/or with outside information, to ascertain
the identity of particular persons from a dataset. Considerable
harm could ensue if this were done, and the legal rights of others
could be infringed by your taking such action. Therefore, SSI
requires all users to make, and you hereby make, the following
assurances with respect to all datasets accessible by you in
using the HEIS:
a. You will not attempt to link, and will not permit others to
attempt to link, the dataset with individually-identified records
from any other dataset of any other entity.
b. You will not attempt to use the datasets, nor permit others
to use them, to learn the identity of any person included in
any dataset.
c. If you inadvertently discover the identity of a person, then
(1) you will immediately advise SSI of the incident by telephone
at (617) 332-4288, or by mail sent to HEIS Coordinator, Silent
Spring Institute, Newton, MA 02458; (2) you will safeguard or
destroy the information that would identify the individual as
requested by SSI; and (3) you will make no further disclosure
or use of this identity.
Failure to adhere to the foregoing rules will automatically terminate
these Terms of Use and revoke all of your rights to use the HEIS.
4. As noted above, many of these terms are required by, and are
included for the benefit of, MDPH. As the intended beneficiary
of these contractual requirements, MDPH shall have the right
to bring suit in its own name and on its own behalf to enforce
these Terms of Use.
II. General Terms.
LINKS AND REFERENCES. This Site hyperlinks
to Web sites operated by unrelated parties. These links are
provided for your convenience
and reference only. SSI does not control these sites and is
not responsible for their contents or policies. Our inclusion
of
these links does not imply any association with or any endorsement
or approval of the services, merchandise, materials or contents
available from or on these sites. In particular, you should
review the Terms of Use and Privacy Policies of these third
party sites,
since these may differ from SSI’s terms and policies
and may be governed by different laws and legal systems.
This
Site may contain descriptions of and references to services
and entities. These references do not imply our endorsement
of them. Under no circumstances shall any of our data or service
providers be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance
on or exposure to information obtained from or contained on
the
Site. Rather, you are responsible to evaluate the information,
advice, and other content available through the Site and any
data or services referenced here.
SSI has provided this data
for convenience only. Because the data has been compiled from
a number of sources, SSI makes no
representation, express or implied, as to its accuracy, completeness,
and currency or that its use would not violate the intellectual
property rights of others.
SSI reserves the right to modify this agreement in the future
without notification to the users.
Privacy
SSI respects the privacy of the users of this web site (the “Site”).
Please click
here to review our Privacy Policy. Your use of the
Site is subject to your acceptance of our privacy terms.
Last Revision Date - 4/4/2006 |
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