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Terms and Conditions
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About askmasi.ca
askmasi.ca is a website to support healthcare professionals in the provision of mental health care to their perinatal patients.
Disclaimer
Information published on the Ask Masi website is provided for informational and educational purposes only.
This is a Canadian website and its content is intended for Canadian healthcare providers.
This website does not provide medical advice to patients. Information provided on this site is not designed or intended to constitute medical advice, or to be used for self-diagnosis. Due to unique individual needs and medical histories, care providers must determine the appropriateness of information for each specific situation when making decisions regarding treatment and medication.
Ask Masi and its physicians shall not be liable for any damages, claims, liabilities, costs or obligations arising from the use or misuse of the material contained in this web site.
askmasi.ca makes no guarantee that the Website will be free of viruses, spyware, or other destructive material, and is not liable for any damage to any hardware or software device, or for any inconvenience or difficulty, caused by use of this website. Your sole remedy against askmasi.ca for dissatisfaction with the Website or any content thereon is to stop using the Website.
Specific products, processes or services
Reference to or mention of specific products, processes or services do not constitute or imply a recommendation or endorsement by Ask Masi. They are for informational purposes only.
Third Party Websites and Links
askmasi.ca provides links to external websites. Our provision of links on the Website does not constitute endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of the information or services found on any of these third party websites. We make no guarantees as to the accuracy or quality of the information found on third party websites. Ask Masi is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any third-party website. Should you choose to rely on any information located on these third party websites, you do so at your own risk.
Privacy
Ask Masi does not retain any identifying information and does not monitor or retain the results of the interactive screening tools.
Personal Information
If you choose to provide personal information through the Contact Us feature of the website, the information will only be used for the specific purposes for which it has been provided (e.g. to respond to a specific request).
Access
Access to askmasi.ca and its resources is free to all.
General
These Terms and Conditions represent a complete agreement between you and askmasi.ca in respect of your use of this website and its content.
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is held to be unenforceable for any reason, that provision shall be redrafted and this will not affect any other terms and conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Ontario. Any action arising from the use of the Website shall be brought in the jurisdiction of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Changes to Terms and Conditions
askmasi.ca may from time to time make additions or alterations to these Terms and Conditions These changes will be displayed here, and will be effective once posted. We ask that you check these Terms and Conditions regularly.
HON Code of Conduct
We are pleased to abide by the HON (Health On the Net Foundation) Code of Conduct, whose principles are summarized here:
1. Authoritative:
The content developers of this site are affiliated with the University of Ottawa, Department of Psychiatry, and The Ottawa Hospital, which are government-funded, non-commercial entities.
Our primary content developers (alphabetically listed) includes the following:
Jasmine Gandhi, Psychiatrist
Beth Tupala, RN
With input and review from members of the Ask Masi Advisory Council
Prescribing content has been adapted for the Canadian context based on the MCPAP for Moms Obstetric Provider Toolkit.
Wording for the Symptom Checklists was adapted from the MOVIN project, led by Dr. Simone Vigod.
Information about mental health resources on this site are regularly reviewed by administrators who determine content to be published on the site based on a set of criteria listed here.
2. Complementarity:
Information on this website should support, and not replace, the doctor-patient relationship.
3. Privacy:
Privacy and confidentiality of personal data is respected, as per our Privacy Policy.
4. Attribution:
Where appropriate, information contained on this site will be supported by clear references to source data and, where possible, have specific HTML links to that data. The date when a clinical page was last modified will be clearly displayed (e.g. at the bottom of the page).
5. Justifiability:
We do not make specific claims relating to benefits or performance.
6. Transparency:
The designers of this Website seek to provide information in the clearest possible manner and we provide contact information for visitors that seek further information about our website. Visitors are able to contact us via our Contact Form.
7. Financial disclosure:
Our funding sources have included the following:
The Daymark Foundation
8. Advertising policy:
We do not have advertising on our Website.