Disclaimer, Intellectual Property and quality information
- Provision of Education Information Only
This web site is presented by the CRUfAD team consisting of employees and contractors of the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD) 299 Forbes Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre based at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) at St Vincents Hospital, Sydney for the purpose of disseminating health information. The information available through this web site is for use by trained and accredited health clinicians. It is not a substitute for independent professional advice in respect to a certain patient. CRUfAD and its staff make no claims that information in the CRUfAD website will be helpful for every individual.
The CRUfAD team does not accept any liability for any injury, loss or damage incurred by use of or reliance on the information. Such damages include, without limitation, direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages. YOUR USE OF the CRUfAD website www.crufad.com or www.crufad.org WEB SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE DISCLAIMER.
- Security of CRUfAD web resources
Users should be aware that the World Wide Web is an insecure public network that gives rise to a potential risk that a user’s transactions are being viewed, intercepted or modified by third parties or that files which the user downloads may contain computer viruses or other defects.
The CRUfAD team accepts no liability for any interference with or damage to a users computer system, software or data occurring in connection with this web site. Users are encouraged to take appropriate and adequate precautions to ensure that whatever is selected from this site is free of viruses or other contamination that may interfere with or damage the users computer system, software or data.
- Links to External Web Sites
This web site contains links to other web sites which are external to CRUfAD. It is the responsibility of the user to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information contained in linked external web sites.
Linkage to external web sites should not be taken to be an endorsement or a recommendation of any third party products or services offered by virtue of any information, material or content linked from or to this site. Users of links provided by this site are responsible for being aware of which organization is hosting the site they visit.
Views or recommendations provided in linked sites do not necessarily reflect those of CRUfAD.
- Intellectual Property and Copyright
Copyright
Information and materials on the CRUfAD websites, including data, pages, documents, online graphics, images and web pages, audio and video are protected by copyright, unless specifically notified to the contrary.
Use of Materials and Information
You may download, store in cache, display, print and copy information or material from this site only for personal or educational non-commercial use and only in an unaltered form.
Any permitted reproduction made must acknowledge the CRUfAD source of any selected passage, extract, diagram or other information or material reproduced. Any reproduction made of the information or material must include a copy of the original copyright and disclaimer notices as set out here.
Commercial and Other Use
You are not permitted to re-transmit, distribute or commercialise the information or material without seeking prior written approval from the CRUfAD team. For written permission to use the information or material from this site, please contact us. You may not use the CRUfAD websites to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your website for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales.
Linking to this Site
You may link to this site, but permission is restricted to making a link without any alteration of the site's contents. Permission is not granted to reproduce, frame or reformat the files, pages, images, information and materials from this site on any other site unless express written permission has been obtained from the CRUfAD team.
The CRUfAD team reserves the right to prevent linking by giving notice.
Authorship of resources
The principal authors of CRUfAD are the CRUfAD team and contractors. All information is approved by the Director, Professor John Gavin Andrews (Psychiatrist), who has overall responsibility for approval and review of all clinical content.
Review process
The CRUfAD team has a regular review process for information on its website according to its nature:
- Regularly changing information, such as news items and contact details are reviewed and updated whenever the need arises (usually weekly or more often).
- Internal and external links are checked monthly.
- Periodic reviews of the clinical content are scheduled to occur annually, but may be reviewed more regularly as the need arises.
Conflict of interest
It is the policy of the CRUfAD team to avoid conflicts of interest in its activities including the operation of the website. There are management processes in place to confirm that conflicts of interest are not present in relation to the management of the website and materials made available via the website.
If a situation does arise where a potential conflict of interest exists the conflict will be fully explored and disclosed.
CRUfAD team members who are employees of the University of New South Wales must abide by the UNSW Conflict of Interest Policy http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/employee/conflict.html
Policy on advertising
The CRUfAD website does not receive any funding from advertising products or services of others.
The CRUfAD team makes information available on its website with the primary objective of providing a helpful service to users of that information and not to promote the interests of any person or organisation who may financially benefit as a result of information placed on the website.
Consultation
Where relevant it is the CRUfAD team’s policy and practice to consult with the community on the development of its website through appropriate channels.
Compliance with standards
The CRUfAD team seeks to comply with relevant external standards for websites, including:
- the HealthInsite www.healthinsite.com.au Federal Government Initiative. Both CRUfAD and CLIMATE are ‘Information partners’ and as such are subject to the independent quality requirements.
- University of New South Wales policies and procedures are adhered to in regards to the research undertaken by the CRUfAD team including publications data collection and human ethics approval where appropriate http://www.ro.unsw.edu.au/
The CRUfAD team also has its own internal quality assurance standards for the websites (covering tone and style of language, accuracy, attribution and verification of sources and links among other things).
