Terms & Conditions

This website is owned and operated by the Medical Clerical Bureau, and the following terms and conditions are applicable to all users of this site, and by using the site and services you are therefore agreeing to these current, and future updates of our terms and conditions and the privacy policy. These terms and conditions and the privacy policy can be changed at any time and without any prior notice, so we therefore recommend that you periodically check this information on our website. These policies refer to the entire content of the website accessible at www.medicalclericalbureau.com.

Our privacy policy includes: Your Information, Access of Information, Security, Updating Your Information, Your access to uploaded files and creating guest users, Adobe Reader download, Our policy regarding children, the Data Protection Act, and our Office Opening Hours. Please click on the website link at the bottom of this page to view our privacy policy.

Governing Law

These terms and conditions shall be interpreted in accordance with English/UK Law and/or any European Law that is applicable to UK legislation and all disputes shall be decided by the English courts.

Use of the Medical Clerical Bureau Website

The website can be used by individuals or businesses to store files from a variety of programs, to have their paperwork scanned in and either uploaded for archive purposes or to be turned into Interactive Documents. The Interactive Documents have a variety of functions as set out in our User Guide, which is available to registered users on our website. Users may use, print or download the information stored on their files, and may share these files for the same purposes with other designated users to be determined by the registered client.

You may not otherwise copy, modify, transfer, post, display, transmit, or distribute any material from the website or its content without prior permission from the Medical Clerical Bureau. In the case of guest users being created, the client who has allowed them access to their files or documents should inform the guest user directly if there are any restrictions on the viewing or use of these files or documents, which they wish to, impose on the content. Please also read the Security Section of our Privacy Policy.

All copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the site and the material available on the site belongs to the Medical Clerical Bureau, and the use of the site does not give users any proprietary rights in such materials. The client and the Medical Clerical Bureau are independent contractors and no relationship such as an agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee is intended or created as a consequence of the client’s registration to upload their files.

No competitor business, company, or other interested party are permitted to register as a client with the Medical Clerical Bureau for the purposes of obtaining information regarding our products and services, and are prohibited from replicating our interactive documents.

Interference and Violation of Website

Any violations or attempts to violate or interrupt the Medical Clerical Bureau services are strictly prohibited, and may result in criminal or civil liability.

The following activities are also expressly prohibited without the Medical Clerical Bureau’s prior written permission: any non-personal or commercial use; use of any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy the website or any of its content; to reproduce the website or any content on any other server, website, public electronic retrieval system or service; the collection or use of product listings, descriptions, or prices for a competitor or comparable products; and any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Medical Clerical Bureau’s website infrastructure or otherwise interferes with its functioning.

The unauthorised access or use of the Medical Clerical Bureau services, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or to breach security or authentication measures without the express authorisation of the Medical Clerical Bureau is prohibited. The interference with service to any client or network including and without limitation, includes flooding, or deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. The use of any device, software, or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the services is prohibited. Users should not decompile, dissemble, decrypt, extract, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the “software” tools (including the tools, methods, processes and infrastructure) underlying the Services or any other software on the Medical Clerical Bureau website.

Service Availability & Limitation of Liability

We aim to ensure the continuous 24/7 availability of this website and its services. However, the Medical Clerical Bureau accepts no responsibility for direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive loss or damage caused by interruptions, delays or inability to use or access any part of the website or the stored files, however caused or under any circumstances, in respect of any claims or damages.  You  understand and agree that the Medical Clerical Bureau shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for any loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even in the event that we have been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from the use or inability of use of the Website Services, the unauthorised access to or alteration of your transmission or data, statements of conduct of any third party on the service or any other matter relating to the Service.

 Access to the site may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair work beyond the company’s control.Therefore you use or access this website and its files at your own risk. If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of our Service, with the terms and conditions, with the privacy policy or with any other rules of policies, your sole remedy is to discontinue your use of this service and to inform the Medical Clerical Bureau in writing  of your termination of the service. We also reserve the right to alter the design or specification of the site at any time. The office opening hours are between 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, except Bank Holidays, and we are therefore only able to respond to email or telephone enquiries during these times.

Ownership

The material on this website is protected by law, including, but not limited to UK copyright law. The copyright in the content of the Website is owned by the Medical Clerical Bureau. All trademarks are the property of the Medical Clerical Bureau, with the exception of the program logos for the files, and the Adobe logo, FSB Logo and APIL, indicated by the link to their website.

Adobe Reader

In order to view our Interactive Documents you are directed on our website, to download the latest version of Adobe Reader from the Adobe website. Any information collected by the Adobe website as a result of the download and the content of the Adobe website is the responsibility of Adobe and we advise that you read their Terms of Use and Online Privacy Policy via the www.adobe.com website links.

Copyright Act Compliance or Trademark Infringement

Medical Clerical Bureau may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or reputation, including export laws, is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by patent, copyright, trademark, service mark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights or moral right or right of publicity. If you use another party’s material, you must obtain prior authorisation.  By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are the author and copyright owner and/or a proper licensee with respect to any hosted content and you further represent and warrant that no content violates the trademark or rights of any third party. The Medical Clerical Bureau reserves the right to suspend, restrict or terminate a client’s transmission(s) that, at the Medical Clerical Bureau’s discretion, violates these policies or violates any law or regulation. Copyright laws, patents and international treaties, in addition to the dispositions of laws and treaties are applicable to the protection of intellectual property rights.

Details of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 can be found on the Office of Public Sector Information website: www.opsi.gov.uk if you require further information on this Act or any future changes to this legislation.

Misuse of System Resources

Clients shall not misuse the system resources including, but not limited to, employing content, which consume excessive CPU time or storage space, utilising excessive bandwidth; or the resale of the access to content hosted on the Medical Clerical Bureau servers.

Other Activities

Whether lawful or unlawful, the Medical Clerical Bureau reserves the right to determine what is harmful to its clients, operations or reputation, including any activities that restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Service or the Internet.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Medical Clerical Bureau, directors and employees from and against any claims, actions or demands, recoveries, losses, damages, fines, penalties, including and without limitation reasonable legal fees, alleging or resulting from your use of the Service, or violation of the rights of a third party or your breach of this Agreement or other Medical Clerical Bureau policies, terms and conditions.

Billing

Upon client registration a current copy of the billing terms and conditions will be submitted to you. Any changes to our billing terms and conditions stating the date that these will come into effect will be forwarded to our clients

Termination of Service

We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service temporarily or permanently, with or without notice to you. You agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuation of the Service. Without limiting other remedies, the Medical Clerical Bureau may immediately issue a warning, suspend (i.e. lock out access and operation of Services for the Client) or restrict either temporarily or indefinitely or to terminate the Client’s account and refuse to provide Services to the Client if the Medical Clerical Bureau believes that the Client has violated or acted inconsistently with this agreement or any of our policies, the client has failed to pay a their invoice or other payments due to the Medical Clerical Bureau, if the Medical Clerical Bureau is unable to verify or authenticate any information that the customer provides to the Medical Clerical Bureau or if the Medical Clerical Bureau believes that the client’s actions may cause legal liability for the client, the Medical Clerical Bureau’s other clients or for the Medical Clerical Bureau. The Medical Clerical Bureau may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing the Service or any part of thereof, with or without notice.  You agree that any termination of your access to the Service under any provision of these terms and conditions may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that the Medical Clerical Bureau may immediately deactivate, archive or delete your account and all related information and data and/or any further access  to such data of the Service. Further, you agree that the Medical Clerical Bureau shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your success to the Service. Upon the termination of this Agreement by either the client or the Medical Clerical Bureau’s provision of services, will terminate immediately.

Force Majeure

Operation of our services may be interfered with by numerous factors outside our control and we shall not be liable to you for any delay or failure in performance under this Agreement resulting directly or indirectly from causes beyond the Medical Clerical Bureau’s control.

Waiver

The failure of the Medical Clerical Bureau to enforce any right or provision of these Terms and Conditions will not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision.

Any violations of or questions regarding our Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy should be emailed to: services@medicalclericalbureau.com