CODE OF CONDUCT

As a condition of your access to EPconnect.com, you agree, to strictly observe the following rules:

You are committed to the following:

1. Comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property laws, export control laws, tax laws, any other applicable regulations, ethical requirements, diagnostic-therapeutic and medical-legal requirements expressed in the Code of Medical Deontology;
2. Review our notices and adhere to our requests related to your use of the Site;
3. Use the Services in an ethical and professional manner;
4. Use your real name on your profile and post accurate, current, appropriate and complete information in the designated fields on the profile form.

You will not do the following:

1. Act dishonestly or in an unprofessional or publishing inappropriate, insulting, inaccurate, illegal, defamatory, abusive, obscene, discriminatory or otherwise questionable content on EPconnect;
2. Create a Member profile for anyone other than a natural person;
3. Use or attempt to use someone else's account or create a false identity on EPconnect;
4. Share your account with others;
5. Misrepresent your identity, including but not limited to using a pseudonym, or misrepresent your current or former roles and qualifications or your affiliations with a certain person or entity, past or present;
6. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available or initiate any content that:
   1. Includes information that you do not have the right to disclose such as patient information, inside information, or confidential information learned or disclosed in the course of any employment relationship, statutory legal confidentiality obligation or under any confidentiality agreement;
   2. Infringes any third party’s patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights;
   3. Contains viruses, worms or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, damage or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment of EPconnect or any EPconnect user;
   4. Falsifies headers or otherwise manoeuvres identities to disguise the origin of any communication transmitted with the Services;
7. Duplicate, authorize, sublicense, publish, disseminate, transmit, distribute, perform, display, sell, mark or otherwise transfer information found on EPconnect (except content submitted by you) except as permitted in this Agreement or as expressly authorized by EPconnect;
8. Use the information, content or any data that you view or obtain from EPconnect to provide any service that competes with EPconnect;
9. Rent, lend, market, sell or resell, access to EPconnect or any information or equivalent therein, in whole or in part;
10. Any form of direct or indirect advertising or marketing of products or services on EPconnect;
11. Collect, use or transfer any information, including but not limited to personal information obtained from EPconnect unless expressly permitted in this License Agreement or to the extent the owner of such information expressly permits;
12. Use manual or automated software, devices, robot scripts, other means or processes of access, "crawl" or "spider" scrapes for each Web page or other services on the site;
13. Use bots or other automated methods to upload or download contacts, transmit or redirect messages or other permitted activities except for EPconnect-approved tools.
14. Engage in any action that directly or indirectly interferes with the proper functioning or places an unreasonable burden on our infrastructure, including but not limited to unsolicited communications to other Members or EPconnect personnel, attempts to gain unauthorized access or the transmission or activation of computer viruses.

Your and our Role and responsibility in the interaction

By providing information and contributions to EPconnect, you warrant and represent that you are authorized to submit such information and that it is accurate, non-confidential and not in violation of any law, limitation or other right of any third party. In particular, we remind you not to enter data that may violate any patient’s rights. It is your responsibility to publish correct, truthful and up-to-date information.

You will attain all necessary permissions to share a patient’s case and de-identify all information that could reveal the identity of that patient.

You are personally responsible for interactions with other EPconnect Members.

You, in the exercise of your functions, remain solely responsible for what you have stated in EPconnect, in relation to the health of your patients and the prescription of diagnostic tests and therapeutic treatments

You are fully responsible for the clinical suggestions (proposed diets, advice on preparation for specific diagnostic tests, etc.) that you share with the group members. These suggestions, if not adequately referenced, reflect your experience/opinion as an individual doctor.

Boston Scientific provides the platform as a tool. Under no circumstances will Boston Scientific replace your role as a physician, responsible for the management of your patients, and under no circumstances is Boston Scientific responsible for the statements you publish in EPconnect.

Off-label and product approval

The sharing of off-label uses of Boston Scientific or third-party products or therapies is not endorsed or promoted by us. The Boston Scientific products discussed and displayed on the Site are approved for sale or distribution within Europe. If you are a non-European resident, your access to the Site is at your own risk and you are solely responsible for compliance with the laws and regulations applicable to you.

Adverse events/pharmacovigilance

This site is not intended for the communication of adverse events to the competent authorities. For this purpose, it is necessary to comply with processes implemented by the governing body for your country of residence) and forward it to the competent authority.

If we find information about an adverse event in any Content, we will forward and treat it in accordance with the law.