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Advertising Policy
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All advertising on Medindia websites (www.medindia.com or www.medindia.net) including Strategic Partner sites linking directly from Medindia websites licensed to use any Medindia brand or content, is subject to this policy. Links from advertisements are subject to the same criteria. Advertisements may not link to pictures or text that do not follow these criteria or are deemed inappropriate by Medindia.com.
Advertisement must not contain the following
- Pictures or texts that expose cruelty, physical, or emotional abuse against any person or animal intended to hurt or cause pain
- Obscene words, phrases, and profanity
- Pictures that expose the female breast or male or female buttocks fully any or all portions of the human genitalia; swimsuits maybe included
- Sexual Acts (graphics or text) in any form; phone sex ads, dating services, and adult personals, CD-ROM's and videos are not accepted
- Gross Depictions (graphic or text) of any kind which are crudely vulgar or grossly deficient in civility or behavior or which show scatological impropriety
- Pictures or text advocating prejudice or discrimination against any race, color, national origin, religion, disability or handicap, gender, or sexual orientation
- Any intolerant jokes or slurs
- Link to any cult or group advocating devil worship, an affinity for evil, or wickedness in any form advocating illegal use of drugs of any kind
- Militant/Extremist/Arms /Unlawful propagation or propaganda of any kind
- Questionable/dubious activities that may be illegal anywhere or everywhere such as copyright infringement, computer hacking software piracy, gambling relating to casinos, betting, numbers games, on-line sports or financial betting, including non-monetary dares etc.; lottery ads are exempted
- Odds related info
- Promotions or other mentions for direct competitors of Medindia.com
ADVERTISEMENTS CLEARLY IDENTIFIED
All advertisements are segregated from our consumer health information. Each advertisement is distinct and easily identifiable.
CLICKING ON ADVERTISEMENTS
Clicking on a third-party advertisement will direct you to the advertiser's site; you will navigate away from Medindia.com, at your own risk. Medindia has no control over such websites nor does our security and privacy policies cover cookies posted by these websites.
ADVERTISEMENTS ARE NOT TARGETED TO YOU
You are free to choose and link to any advertisement on our site; we do not use your personal information to determine which advertisements you will see when you visit our site.
MEDINDIA.COM DOES NOT ENDORSE PRODUCTS
We do not endorse or guarantee any product advertised by third-party advertisements on our site.
EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE AND WEBSITE FUNDING
Medindia wields absolute control and independence throughout the website. Medindia being a commercial website, receives funding from third parties who pay for the right to advertise their companies and products on our site. This funding supports Medindia.com's efforts to develop comprehensive and credible consumer health information.
COMMISSIONS
Medindia purchases and post advertisements on its site. Medindia does not receive commissions whatsoever on purchases made by you when navigating to advertisement sites posted on our web site.
SHARING AGGREGATE USER INFORMATION
While Medindia may share accumulated, anonymous statistical information regarding site usage and traffic patterns with our advertisers and sponsors, it does not control any user information provided by you to the advertiser.
TYPES OF ADVERTISEMENTS NOT ACCEPTED
Medindia does not accept advertising that contains false or misleading claims or promotes ineffective or dangerous products. Medindia also does not accept advertising for alcohol, tobacco, firearms or pornography.
NO ADVERTORIALS
Medindia does not accept "advertorial" articles provided by companies who advertise on our site. Information about how our consumer health articles are developed can be obtained by contacting our Medical Content Editor by completing a User Comment Form online.
DEALINGS WITH ADVERTISERS AND/OR MERCHANTS
Your correspondence or business relationship(s) with advertisers and/or merchants found on or through any of the services contained on this the website, are solely between you and such advertiser or merchant. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that: (a) Medindia.com or its parent company shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as the result of any such relationships or as the result of the presence of such advertisers and/or merchants on the Service, and (b) any orders placed by you on, and any product specifications and product availability appearing on, the Service are subject to confirmation by, and the terms and conditions of business of, the relevant merchant.
UPDATING THIS POLICY
Our advertising policy may be revised periodically; most recent changes will be noted in a different color within the policy. When we make significant changes that affect our advertising policies and practices, we will post a notice on the Medindia.com home page for 30 days. We recommend that you read our advertising policy whenever you visit our site in case you missed our notice
CONTACT US
For further queries regarding the Terms of Use, Copyright Policy, Privacy Policy, and/or Advertising Policy or any other questions about the site you can complete a User Feedback Form online and we will respond to your comments with an individual and prompt reply.
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