Principle 1. Information must be authoritative

1. My site provides general information about the organization or individual responsible for its operation and content, and a person is named as editor or principal author.

"This forum is moderated daily by the forum Admininistrator with a forum name of "Admin" and the global moderator "Sereneoa".

"Forum users, administrators and moderators must behave at all times with respect and honesty. Forum administrators and moderators will give 1 warning to forum members who are inciting violence, flaming the forum, posting excessive advertisements, cursing and the use of foul language". If the forum member still continues his/her bad behavior in the forum, he/she would be immediately banned after 1 warning."

“Healthmedicinetalk.com is an open forum about health and medicine. Forum posters and thread starters are the author of the health and medicine information provided on this message board”. The non-medical staff of Healthmedicinetalk.com edits the information posted on this forum for a more timely and accurate presentation. Non-medical staffs ( Megumi Sy, Mike Lee and Jacynda Sy)

“The medical information provided on this site is given by non-medical professional forum members. Some posted medical information may provide reference to medical publication or journals. Forum members are required to post the most accurate and up to date medical information to the best of their ability.”

Principle 2. Complementarity/Mission/Assistance

“The mission of Healthmedicinetalk.com is to provide a website for exchanging information about diseases, treatments and information on how to stay fit and healthy. This health and medicine forum is intended for the general public.“

“Any information found on this website is designed to support, not to replace the relationship between patient/physician. The information on this site should not be considered complete and should not replace the advice or consultation of your medical doctor.”

Principle 3. Privacy – Confidentiality

"Any posts or thread that is posted by forum member is visible to everyone that visits the forum. Forum members are allowed to erase or modify their posts within 30 minutes. If a forum member wants to deleted or edit their posts after 30 minutes, he/she must send a private message to the moderator/administrator to edit his/her posts."

“As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.”
 

“We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.”

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Principle 4. Information must be documented: Referenced and dated

“Forum members are asked to put dates on medical references whenever possible.”

“Forum posts and threads are always marked with time and date stamps during the time of posting”

“Forum posts and threads may or may not contain references to medical publications and journals. However, forum members are asked to provide links to medical references whenever possible”

Principle 5. Justification of claims

“Claims may or may not be supported by scientific research or published articles”

“When no reference is given, the forum post or thread is considered as claims only”

Principle 6. Website contact details

“Email link is provided below the forum

Principle 7. Disclosure of funding sources

The cost of operation and maintenance of the site is funded by means of contextual advertising ( Google Adsense ).

Principle 8. Advertising policy

" The administrators and moderators of this forum allow banners, links and advertisements on one specific board of this forum which is the "Buy/Sell, Classified Ads, Promotion" section of the forum. We do not support or endorse products that are shown in this forum".

"Forum users are not allowed to post banners, links and advertisements on all the sections of the forum related to health and medicine"

“ We accept advertisement from Google Adsense  contextual ads. Advertisements on this site are clearly marked as “Ads by Google” as in the case of contextual advertising. We are not related to and do not endorse any product or service being advertised on this site. Advertisers on this site did not in anyway influence the editorial team in creating the site content.

"This site does not display advertisements related to Gambling and Pornography"

“Our site allows Link Exchange Banners from other websites as long as it is not related to Gambling and Pornography. We are not in anyway connected to the websites displayed on the link exchange banners nor do we endorse them. The link exchange partners of our site did not in anyway influence the editorial team in creating our website content.

Last Modified: March 26, 2009