The South African Medical Association (SAMA) strongly believes in the freedom of expression as long as legal or morally accepted standards of expression are not crossed. In this web site SAMA is offering you several services and products that may expand your communication with the general public. We trust that you will use these facilities to promote the flowing exchange of information and exercise your freedom of expression in accordance with SAMA's Acceptable Use Policy. User violation of this Policy may result, among other things, in the suspension or cancellation of the user's access to SAMA's services.

SAMA does not actively monitor nor does SAMA exercise any editorial control over the content of any web site, messages or other material or information created or accessible through SAMA services. However, SAMA reserves the right to remove any materials it becomes aware of that are, in SAMA's sole discretion, potentially illegal, could subject SAMA to liability, violate this Acceptable Use Policy or otherwise inappropriate.

You agree not to post any message containing or otherwise use any obscene or offensive language or post anywhere else on or through the SAMA site and services any material that is an invitation to fast money making schemes, defamatory, pornographic, racial, abusive or hateful, constitutes junk mail or unauthorised advertising, harassment, invades anyone's privacy, or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, national, or international law or regulation. You agree to use the service only for lawful purposes.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that any material or information you post anywhere on or through the site - including but not limited to text, photographs, and sound - does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret, or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party or is posted with the permission of the owner(s) of such rights. You agree that by posting any material or information anywhere on the site you surrender your copyright rights in the posted material or information. You further agree that SAMA is entitled to use the posted material or information in any manner it deems fit, including, but not limited to, publishing the material or distributing it.

IT IS SOLELY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO EVALUATE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AND USEFULNESS OF ALL OPINIONS, ADVICE, SERVICES AND OTHER INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICES.

You agree to indemnify SAMA, its employees, directors, officers, attorneys, shareholders, agents, assigns, and representatives, and to hold them harmless, from any and all losses, claims, and liabilities (including attorneys' fees) which may arise from your submissions or deletion thereof, from your use of any service and/or material obtained from or through any services provided on this site, or from your breach of these rules or any other agreement between you and SAMA. You further agree that SAMA is not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, for any material posted by others, including defamatory, offensive, or illicit material, and that the risk of damage from such material rests entirely with you.

You agree not to disrupt or interfere with the services provided on this site, nor to alter or tamper with any information or materials on or associated with this site.

You agree not to attempt to penetrate security measures of SAMA, whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of data. The access to SAMA's Directory is provided by SAMA as a convenience. SAMA users and those wishing to contact SAMA users are granted a limited access to the SAMA Directory solely for the purpose of allowing more convenient personal communication through the system, services, or products offered or otherwise made available through SAMA. Any other use or attempt to use SAMA's Directory for commercial or other purposes or for systematic retrieval of data stored in the SAMA Directory and any kind of copying or reproduction of the data, or any part thereof, stored in the SAMA Directory to any other location or server for further reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

You acknowledge that you are expressly prohibited from utilising SAMA Discussion Forum or SAMA's Directory in connection with data mining of any kind, commercial use, the sending of unsolicited electronic mail or other forms of messages, whether commercial or not, to a large number of recipients. This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from another service which in any way implicates the use of the SAMA Discussion Forum or SAMA's Directory.

A message is unsolicited if it is sent to a recipient who has not requested or invited the message. Mass mailing is mailing of messages in quantities exceeding reasonable personal use. For purposes of this provision, merely making one's e-mail address accessible to the public shall not constitute a request or invitation to receive messages.

You agree to refrain from revealing your password to others or allowing others to use your passwords (other than authorised users in your household).You agree to refrain from forging any message header, in part or whole, of any electronic transmission, originating or passing through SAMA, distributing viruses to, from, or through this SAMA site, and allowing access to SAMA through your passwords for the purpose of operating a server of any type or for any other purpose which is not common personal use to receive viewable pages on SAMA.

SAMA has no practical ability to restrict all conduct, communications, or content which might violate this Policy prior to its transmission on or through SAMA's site, nor can SAMA ensure prompt removal of any such communications or content after transmission or posting. Accordingly, SAMA does not assume liability to users or others for any failure to enforce the terms of this Policy. SAMA reserves the right to modify these policies at any time. These policies do not supersede any other policies, or terms and conditions adopted or stated by SAMA.