• Using Content From CHFpatients.com, Inc.
• Telling Others About Our Web Site
• Using Our Heart-Related Content
• Making Money From Our Heart-Related Content
• Assigning Credit To Our Heart-Related Content
• Using Our Non-Heart-Related Content
• Making Money From Our Non-Heart-Related Content
• Assigning Credit To Our Heart-Related Content
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1. All content on www.chfpatients.com is copyrighted either by Jon C., or by CHFpatients.com, Inc. All other existing copyrights remain in force.
2. No exceptions to the following guidelines are allowed without the written permission of at least two Directors of CHFpatients.com, Inc.

The Internet addresses for www.chfpatients.com pages (Urls) may be freely handed out to anyone. In fact, we would appreciate it.

1. No biographies or Me Too listings may be printed or distributed for other than personal use; biographies being listed through the series of pages starting at www.chfpatients.com/biosgate.htm and Me Too listings being listed through the series of pages starting at www.chfpatients.com/biosgate2.htm.
2. No content from The Beat Goes On message boards or its Archives, including e-mail addresses, may be printed, distributed, or used in any way other than for personal use or as free educational materials to another person who has heart failure or who is personally involved with heart failure diagnosis, treatment, or management. No commercial or mass distribution, or use of addresses or names on these pages, is allowed without the written consent of two Directors of CHFpatients.com, Inc.; The Beat Goes On being the message board located at www.chfpatients.com/heartforum.htm and its Archives being the series of pages starting at www.chfpatients.com/archives/archives.htm and www.chfpatients.com/archives/archives_search.htm.
3. No contact information anywhere on the CHFpatients.com web site may be used for advertising or commercial purposes of any kind without the written consent of two Directors of CHFpatients.com, Inc. This includes the Heart Failure Specialist Directory located at www.chfpatients.com/docs/docs_list.htm.

All other heart-related content on www.chfpatients.com may be converted to hard copy and freely given to the following, but may not be electronically distributed in any form except for personal use only (the Url of the page containing said content may be sent instead):

1. people who have or are at risk of developing: heart failure, cardiac device implant, heart transplant, or other heart-related medical intervention or therapy;
2. caregivers for same;
3. loved ones, family members, and friends of same;
4. health care professionals involved in caring for same;
5. health care researchers involved in research to benefit same.

No one other than CHFpatients.com, Inc. is allowed to profit or be reimbursed in any form including but not limited to monies, services, stocks, bonds, credits, or barter for using, providing, printing, copying, or distributing CHFpatients.com, Inc.'s content in any form including but not limited to printed, faxed, handwritten, typed, e-mailed, or electronically reproduced forms. Quite simply, it must be given away for free or not at all.

No credit for CHFpatients.com Inc.'s content may be claimed or stated except as attributed exclusively to CHFpatients.com, Inc. or Jon of CHFpatients.com, Inc. All other existing copyrights remain in force.

All pages pertaining to spiritual issues or to games, jokes, non-heart-related downloads, or any other non-heart-related content may be copied and freely given out to anyone.

No one other than CHFpatients.com, Inc. is allowed to profit or be reimbursed in any form including but not limited to monies, services, stocks, bonds, credits, or barter for using, providing, printing, copying, or distributing CHFpatients.com, Inc.'s pages pertaining to spiritual issues or to games, jokes, non-heart-related downloads, or any other non-heart-related content in any form including but not limited to printed, faxed, handwritten, typed, e-mailed, or electronically reproduced forms. Quite simply, it must be given away for free or not at all.

No credit for CHFpatients.com Inc.'s pages pertaining to spiritual issues or to games, jokes, non-heart-related downloads, or any other non-heart-related content may be claimed or stated except as attributed exclusively to CHFpatients.com, Inc. or Jon of CHFpatients.com, Inc. All other existing copyrights remain in force.

If you have any specific questions about this policy, please contact the web master of CHFpatients.com at www.chfpatients.com/contact.htm.  Updated July 27, 2004

All information on this site is opinion only. All concepts, explanations, trials, and studies have been re-written in plain English and may contain errors. I am not a doctor. Use the reference information at the end of each article to search MedLine for more complete and accurate information. All original copyrights apply. No information on this page should be used by any person to affect their medical, legal, educational, social, or psychological treatment in any way. I am not a doctor. This web site and all its pages, graphics, and content copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Jon C.