The American Case Management Association (ACMA), based upon recommendation from the Association of Physician Leadership in Care Management (APLCM), reserves the right to terminate access to any user who does not abide by approved guidelines.
Any and all intellectual property rights (“Intellectual Property”) associated with the Community and its contents (other than User Content), including all information, data, logos, marks, designs, graphics, other files and their selection and arrangement, (collectively, the “Content”), are the sole property of the ACMA, its affiliates or third parties. The Content is protected by copyright and other laws in both the United States and other countries. Elements of the Community are also protected by trade dress, trade secret, unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. Except as otherwise expressly authorized by this Policy, members may not copy, reproduce, modify, lease, loan, sell, create derivative works from, upload, transmit, or distribute the Intellectual Property of the Community in any way without the prior written permission of the ACMA or the appropriate third party. Except as expressly provided herein, the ACMA does not grant members any express or implied rights to our or any third party's Intellectual Property.
User Content remains the property of the subscribing member. However, we need limited rights from members to operate the Community with User Content. By submitting User Content, members grant ACMA, its affiliates, and subsidiaries a non-exclusive, royalty-free, nontransferable right to use, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, publish, modify, adapt, translate, and create derivative works from User Content submitted by members to the Community to the extent necessary to operate the Community and to provide the services provided by the Community, now and in the future.
Further, we do not have an obligation to maintain User Content in perpetuity.
Each member providing User Content represents and warrants that the member owns and controls all of the rights to the User Content, information and data that the member provides to us or that the member otherwise has the lawful right to post and distribute that User Content, information and data to or through the Community and the use and posting or other transmission of such User Content does not violate this Policy and will not violate any rights of or cause injury to any person or entity.
We grant each member a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, license to access the Community and to view, copy and print the portions of the Content available to the members in the Community. Such license is subject to these Terms specifically conditioned upon the member granted the license following the rules and conditions below. The license in this section is revocable by us at any time. Each member represents and warrants that its use of the Community and the Content will be consistent with this license and will not infringe or violate the rights of any other party or breach any contract or legal duty to any other parties or violate any applicable law.
The following rules and conditions are represented:
By using the ACMA Learning Link online community, each member agrees that the member has read and will follow the rules and guidelines established for the Community. Each member also agrees to reserve discussions for topics best suited to the medium.
As with any community, there are guidelines governing behavior. For instance, violating antitrust regulations, libeling others, selling and marketing are not permissible. Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important guidelines. If a member has questions, contact the Learning Link community administrator via email, membership@acmaweb.org. ACMA reserves the right to suspend or terminate subscriptions to Learning Link for members who violate these rules at any time.
Learning Link Rules & Disclaimer
- Do not attack or disparage others. All defamatory, abusive, profane, discriminatory, threatening, explicit, harassing, , fraudulent, obscene, or offensive or illegal materials and statements are strictly prohibited.
- Do not post marketing messages for any goods, services or programs other than ACMA sponsored programs. Contact people directly with products and services that you believe would help them. Materials suggesting tools or documents sent by members are acceptable so long as (1.) they are related to a conversational thread on Learning Link (2.) the information is not sent unsolicited (3.) the content of the message simply reflects that the tool or document may be helpful with respect to the discussion thread and (4.) no reference to the posting party’s services is given. Otherwise, messages may potentially be construed as marketing a company or service.
- Members will not disguise the origin of information you post, post false or misleading information and will provide their contact information on all postings. This adds credibility to your posting, provides readers with the full perspective from which your experience and responses are derived, and allows others to contact you directly if needed for more information. Please note that postings echoing interest in a tool or document after another member has requested the information are prohibited. These “me too” messages clutter other subscribers’ inboxes. Such requests are to be sent directly to the subscriber’s email, not via Learning Link.
- Use discretion when discussing commercial products or services. Members are encouraged to share their experiences and opinions, but keep in mind that information posted on Learning Link is available for all to see and is subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.
- Use discretion when discussing patients or providing case examples or scenarios. Again, members are encouraged to share their experiences and opinions, but keep in mind that information posted on Learning Link is publicly available to all members of the online community. Confidential or protected information cannot be shared.
- Members will not input or upload to the Community any information which contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, the Community or information.
Please note carefully all items listed in the disclaimer and legal rules below, particularly regarding the copyright ownership of information posted to the community. Please be advised that Learning Link is an open forum, and in litigation which involves your employer or you, the comments you post on Learning Link may become subject to review by persons not related to ACMA.
ACMA has the right to publish Learning Link postings.
Participants may share Learning Link information for educational purposes.
Notification of Infringement. Copyrighted information cannot be shared via Learning Link. It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). In addition, we will promptly terminate without notice subscriptions of those Learning Link members determined to be "repeat infringers." If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof, and believe that any user post infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the DMCA by providing our Copyright Agent designated below with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) or consult your own legal counsel to confirm these requirements):
(a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
(b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works on the Service are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works from the Service.
(c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
(d) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
(e) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(f) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Upon removing any allegedly infringing material, we will notify the alleged infringer of such takedown.
Please note that under Section 512(f) of the DMCA, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability.
Designated Copyright Agent. You can contact our Copyright Agent via email at membership@acmaweb.org.
Complaints. Members should report concerns, inappropriate comments and/or policy violations to ACMA in writing via email, membership@acmaweb.org. The submission must specify the objection that violates current policy. The ACMA Ethics Committee will review reported violations and reserve the right to request additional information in writing from the complainant and/or other parties
Consequences of Inappropriate Use. Infractions will be reviewed by the ACMA Ethics Committee and may, in the sole discretion of the ACMA’s Ethics Committee, result in the suspension or termination of membership and/or removal of the member's access to the Learning Link community.
- First infraction: Member will receive electronic notice or a written reminder of Learning Link’s Code of Conduct and online community guidelines.
- Second Infraction: Member will receive electronic notice or a written warning.
- Third Infraction: Member will receive electronic notice or a written notice that member access to the Learning Link community will be immediately removed.
In some instances, a violation may be severe enough, such as posting obscene and illegal content, that the ACMA will disable your account after one occurrence. ACMA reserves the right in its sole discretion to take immediate action or refer directly to the Member Corrective Action and Fair Hearing Policy.
Upon termination of your Learning Link community access, you shall immediately lose access to the Community. You acknowledge and agree that following termination of your access, the ACMA shall have the right to maintain one copy of user data, User Content for archival purposes and compliance with state and federal law. However, ACMA shall have no obligation to maintain or provide any User Content and may, unless legally prohibited, delete in such a manner as prevents recovery through normal means, all User Content in its systems or otherwise in its possession or under its control.
Disclaimer and Legal Rules. Learning Link is provided as a member benefit of The American Case Management Association (ACMA). ACMA makes no representations about the use of the community or the veracity of the information provided therein. The use of same is at your own risk. ACMA accepts no responsibility for the opinions and information posted on this site by others. ACMA disclaims all warranties with regard to information posted on this site. This disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. Any information posted by ACMA on the site is of a general nature and is intended for use by all members. In no event shall ACMA be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of any information posted in the community and community related emails.
ACMA disclaims all responsibility for the content of postings to the discussion list or attachments.
To the extent permitted by law, the remedies stated for you in these terms are exclusive and are limited to those expressly provided for in these terms. Your sole and exclusive remedy for any dispute with the ACMA is to discontinue your use of the community. The ACMA is not responsible for whether online or offline, of any user of the app. Under no circumstances will the ACMA be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone’s use of the community, the content posted in the community or transmitted to users, or any interactions between or among users of the community, whether online or offline.
Some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranty, so the limitations and exclusions in this section may not apply to you. If you are dealing as a consumer, your statutory rights that cannot be waived, if any, are not affected by these provisions. You agree and acknowledge that the limitations and exclusions of liability and warranty provided in these terms are fair and reasonable.
ACMA may not actively monitor the site for inappropriate postings and do not undertake editorial control of postings. However, in the event that any inappropriate postings are brought to the attention of ACMA, ACMA may take appropriate action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, makes posts in violation of this Policy.
Although Learning Link is not actively monitored and/or moderated by ACMA, ACMA reserves the right to remove any posting deemed to potentially break any of the Learning Link rules stated above, including defamatory, abusive, discriminatory, profane, threatening, offensive, illegal or copyrighted materials. ACMA is not responsible for copyrighted material posted on Learning Link. By posting material, the posting party warrants and represents that he or she owns the copyright with respect to such material or has received permission from the copyright owner.
Messages should not be posted if they encourage or facilitate members to arrive at any agreement that either expressly or impliedly leads to price fixing, a boycott of another's business, or other conduct intended to illegally restrict free trade. Messages that encourage or facilitate an agreement about the following subjects are inappropriate and may be rejected: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of sale; salaries; profits, profit margins or cost data; market shares, sales territories or markets; allocation of customers or territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or suppliers.
If any portion of this Policy is found to be unenforceable, the unenforceable portion will be deemed amended to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and if it can’t be made enforceable, then it will be severed and the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect. If we fail to enforce any of this Policy, it will not be considered a waiver. Any amendment to or waiver of this Policy must be made in writing and signed by us.
Privacy. We respect your privacy. Any personal information you provide to us including and similar to your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address will not be released, sold, or rented to any entities or individuals outside of our organization except as noted below.
With Whom Do We Share the Personal Information We Collect Through This Site
- Our Service Providers.
We may share your personal information with companies (including our affiliates) that perform services on our behalf, for example, companies that help process credit card payments. Our service providers are required by contract to protect the confidentiality of the personal information we share with them and to use it only to provide specific services on our behalf.
- Business Transfers.
Your personal information may be transferred to another entity (either an affiliated entity or an unrelated third party) in connection with a merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar corporate event. If such a transfer were ever to occur, the acquiring entity’s use of your personal information will still be subject to this Privacy Policy.
- Government and Legal Disclosures
We may disclose the personal information we collect through this Site, when we, in good faith, believe disclosure is appropriate to comply with the law (or a court order or subpoena); to prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; to enforce our Terms and Conditions or other agreements that govern your use of this Site; or to protect the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, or others.
External Sites - We are not responsible for the content of external internet sites. You are advised to read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.
Cookies - A "cookie" is a small data text file that is placed in your browser and allows us to recognize you each time you visit this site (personalization, etc). Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information, and we do not use cookies to collect personal information. Cookies may also be used by 3rd party content providers such as newsfeeds.
Remember the Risks Whenever You Use the Internet
While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition, other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through our site have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies. For any other information please contact us using the Contact Us page.