Terms and Conditions

Access to and use of drmargotholloman.com (including any on-line courses, training material and tutorials) (“the service”) within the United States of America (US) and Internationally is provided by Margot A Holloman, PhD (“we”, “us” or “our”) on the following Terms and Conditions.  When we use the word “works” we mean the written material, videos and other printed or visual material, training materials, and other works owned by Margot A. Holloman, PhD.

By using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the Service.  If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following Terms and Conditions please do not access, use and/or contribute to the Service.

You agree that by using the Service you present that you are legally able to enter into this agreement and you certify to drmargotholloman.com that (a) you are at least eighteen (18) years of age, or an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent.  You affirm that you are over the age of 13.  drmargotholloman.com is not intended for children under 13, (b) you are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations and warranties herein and you assume full responsibility for the use of the Service by any minors: (c) you agree that all information you have submitted through the Service, online or otherwise, is accurate and complete and that you have not knowingly submitted false information on or throughout the site: and (d) your use of the Service is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

 We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the service (or any part thereof) by notifying you of the effective date of any such changes through posting the notice on the service. 

 General Disclaimer

drmargotholloman.com shall not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or reliance on the information and/or resources found on or linked to this website.  Nor shall drmargotholloman.com be liable for any damages of any kind caused directly or indirectly by destructive forces, including but not limited to computer viruses arising from using or accessing this website.  Users of this website agree to indemnify and hold harmless drmargothollomana.com, and it’s officers, employees, contractors and directors, from and against any and all claims and expenses arising out of any use of this website.

Content Disclaimer

The contents of this site are for informational and educational purposes only.  Nothing found on our website is intended to be a substitute for professional psychological, psychiatric or medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR MEDICAL OR OTHER QUALIFIED MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING A MEDICAL CONDITION OR MENTAL DISORDER.  NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY IN SEEKING IT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON OUR SITE.

If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.  drmargotholloman .com does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, options, or other information that may be mentioned on our website.

Reliance on any information provided by Margot A. Holloman, PhD or drmargotholloman.com or by any person or professional appearing on our website is solely at your own risk.  drmargotholloman.com is not liable for any advice or information provided on the site, all of which is provided on an “as-is” basis.  No warranties, either expressed or implied, are made on the information we provide.

The site contains mental health-, health-, and medical-related materials that may be considered sexually explicit.  If you find these materials offensive, you may not want to use our website.

Opinions and other statements expressed by authors and third parties (including drmargotholloman.com bloggers) are theirs alone, and are not necessarily the opinion of Margot A. Holloman, PhD.

This website provides general guidance and information about mental health, lifestyle issues and parenting, including parenting philosophies, and techniques.  drmargotholloman.com makes every effort to offer only legitimate, reliable, and accurate information: but cannot and does not warrant the truth or efficacy of any information, advice or materials on this website or linked to or from this website.  Moreover, the materials on this website cannot and should not be construed as medical or psychiatric advice.  Some behaviors may be symptoms of serious medical, developmental, emotional, family, or psychiatric issues.  If this is suspected, parents and individuals should consult with medical and other professionals.  All content on this website is provided as is, and all products purchased from this website are sold as is, without warranty of any kind expressed or implied: including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.  This website could include typographical or factual errors.  Additions, deletions, and revisions may be made to the content of this website from time to time without notice.

Links Disclaimer

Links to other websites are included on this website in order to provide you with additional useful information.  The inclusion of these links is not intended to be and should not be interpreted as an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of the third party information, products, or services found on the linked websites.  Since drmargotholloman.com cannot and does not maintain or control these linked websites, we cannot make any guarantee concerning the accuracy, reliability, or legitimacy of the content of such websites.

 Linking to Our Site

Appropriate third party websites are welcome to link to this website or any page in this website.  We appreciate your letting us know, so that we are aware of who is linking to our site.  You can email us at drmargotholloman@gmail.com.

Disclosure

drmargotholloman.com is an independent publisher of mental health information and resources.  We may accept advertising from many different companies, including pharmaceutical companies who develop, research and sell psychiatric medications.  We want you to be clear that we do accept pharmaceutical company funding.

No advertiser, organization or pharmaceutical company, at any time, has any direct influence or impact on our editorial decisions, editorial direction, or what we publish on the site.

Our Website hosts advertisement banners and, from time to time, sponsored content.  Advertising is distinguished by the word “Advertisement” on the website. 

Dr. Holloman has never received any research grants, honoraria, consulting or teaching fees from any pharmaceutical company. She has never been on any pharmaceutical company’s payroll or advisory board.

Use of the Service

  • You agree to the Service only for lawful purposes. You may not use the Service or any part of it for commercial purposes.
  • You must only use the Service in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of drmargotholloman.com. Prohibited behavior includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within the Service.
  • We operate a “fair use” policy to protect the quality of service to our users. If we believe you are using excessive bandwidth or your use of the Service is adversely affecting our network (or any part of it) or our other users we reserve the right to manage or regulate your usage of the Service.  This may include temporarily suspending your user account.
  • You may not use any portion of the Service as a destination linked from any unsolicited bulk messages or unsolicited commercial messages (“spam”) or for any phishing. You may not modify, adapt or hack the Service or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with the Service or us.  You may not use any automated process or other means to access and/or use the Service such as a BOT, a spider, or “meta-searching”.  You may not use any means to modify or reroute, or attempt to modify or reroute, the Service.  You may not use any device, software, or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Service.
  • You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless us from any losses, liabilities, damages, expenses or costs (including without limitations court costs and attorney fees) arising from relating to or in connection with your violation of any of the Terms herein.

Amendments

 Margot A. Holloman PhD reserves the right to make changes to these Terms and Conditions from time to time and so you should check these Terms and Conditions regularly.  Your continued use of the Service will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended Terms and Conditions.  If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using the Service.

Intellectual Property

All copyright, trademarks, design rights, patents, and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on the Service and all content (including all applications and materials) located on or available throughout the Service shall remain vested in drmargotholloman.com.

You must not copy reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post-broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use drmargotholloman.com content in any way, except, for your own personal, noncommercial use. 

 You also agree not to adapt, alter, or create a derivative work from any drmargotholloman.com content except for your own personal, non-commercial use.  Any other use of drmargotholloman.com content requires the prior written permission of Margot A. Holloman PhD.   You may use temporary caching-only on the Web browser in order to play videos or see images or listen to sound files or to view text. No videos or photos may be saved, copied, modified, used, distributed or otherwise published by any means.   You may draw the attention of others to material posted on our site if the material is not restricted to members only.  You may also share our pages by using the social share buttons on our website.  Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.  If you want to use another method to share non-restricted information on our website, please ask us for permission first by emailing drmargotholloman@gmail.com.   Please state specifically what information-test, graphic, photography etc. you wish permission to reuse and describe the manner in which you intend to reuse it.  Also include the URL of the content you wish to use and a daytime phone number and contact name.

The names, images, and logos identifying drmargotholloman.com or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights, and trademarks of drmargotholloman.com and/or third parties.  Nothing contained in these Terms and Conditions shall be construed as conferring any license or right to use any trademark, design right or copyright of drmargotholloman.com or any other third party.

 Availability of the Service

 Although we aim to offer you the best service possible, we make no promise that the services available at drmargotholloman.com will meet your requirements/needs.  We cannot guarantee that the Service will be fault-free.  If a fault occurs with the Service you should report it to drmargotholloman.com and we will attempt to correct the fault as soon as we reasonably can.

Your access to the Service may be occasionally restricted to allow for repair, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services.  We will attempt to restore the Service as soon as we reasonably can.  If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely.  Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Advertisements

drmargotholloman.com allows non-profit and for profit organizations to advertise on our website.  The advertisements do not influence editorial decisions or content.  The appearance of advertising on drmargotholloman.com is neither a gurarantee nor an endorsement by drmargotholloman of the product, service, company, or the claims made for the product or service in such advertising.

Posts of Others

Our service may have sections in which visitors and users can post comments, threads and discussions.  These posts will be monitored, moderated, and/or approved by us only occasionally and you agree that we are not responsible and liable for this content.  We reserve the right to delete any posts on our website without notice. 

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

  1. ALL CONTENT PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, INCLUDING THE INFORMATION, NAMES, IMAGES, PICTURES, LOGOS, AND ICONS REGARDING OR RELATING TO DRMARGOTHOLLOMAN.COM, IT’S PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (OR TO THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES), IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ON AN “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DRMARGOTHOLLOMAN EXCLUDES ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES (WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED BY LAW), INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, COMPATIBILITY, SECURITY AND ACCURACY,  COM DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE TIMELINESS, COMPLETENESS OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY ASPECT OF THE SERVICE OR ANY OT IT’S CONTENT.  WHILE WE TRY TO ENSURE THAT ALL CONTENT PROVIDED BY DRMARGOTHOLLOMAN.COM IS CORRECT AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION, NO RESPONSIBILITY IS ACCEPTED BY OR ON BEHALF OF DRMARGOTHOLLOMAN.COM FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR INACCURATE CONTENT ON THE SERVICE.

 DRMARGOTHOLLOMAN.COM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT FUNCTIONS AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR BUGS.  YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO IMPLEMENT SUFFICIENT PROCEDURES AND VIRUS CHECKS (INCLUDING ANTI-VIRUS AND OTHER SECURITY CHECKS) TO SATISFY YOUR PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ACCURACY OF DATA INPUT AND OUTPUT.

We provide the Service”as is” with all faults, and “as available”.  You bear the risk of using the Service.  To the maximum extent permitted by law, we provide no express promises, guaranties or warranties for our Service.  You may have some other rights under your local laws that these Terms cannot change.  To the extent permitted by law, however, we exclude any implied warranties or conditions of any kind.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, under no circumstances shall we be liable to you for any specific performance or for any special, indirect, incidental, exemplary, punitive, special, treble or consequential damages of any kind or nature whatsoever, arising out of or in any way relating to your access to our use of our service, or for any damages for  loss of goodwill or lost profits, impairment of business, loss of privacy, failure to meet any duty of good faith or reasonable care, negligence or for any other pecuniary or other losses whatsoever other than direct damages, subject to the cap on damages as explained further below.  These provisions apply even if we or any of our employees have been advised by you of the possibility of such damages or know or should have known of the possibility of such damages.  In no case shall we have any potential for actual liability to you in an aggregate amount of total damages of any kind, (Including without limitation, direct or general damages for any and all claims arising from you for use of the service that in the aggregate exceeds in total one cent.  Nothing herein shall exclude, restrict, or limit in any manner our rights and remedies or your liability if you infringe or misappropriate any of our brands or copyrights or other intellectual property rights or if you violate the terms.  The presiding limitations and cap apply to anything related to:

  • the Service
  • content on the Service or on any links to third party Internet sites
  • any incompatibility between the Service and other Internet software;
  • delays or failures you may have in accessing or using the Service;
  • or any other claims of any kind in connection with your access to or use of the Service

 As previously stated, the above provisions apply even if

-a remedy does not fully compensate your for any losses, or fails of its essential purpose, or we knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages.

Some countries or states may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.

Any claim must be filed within six months.  To the extent permitted by law, any claim related to these Terms or the Service must be brought within six months which begins on the date when the claim first could be filed.  If it is not filed, then that claim is permanently barred.

Applicable Law

These Terms and Conditions will be subject to the laws of the United States.  We will try to solve any disagreements quickly and efficiently.  If you are not happy with the way we deal with any disagreement and you want to take court proceedings, you must do so from a federal or state court situated in Wake County, North Carolina, within the United States of America. 

Force Majeure

Time periods for our performance under any of the Terms shall be extended for periods of time during which our performance is prevented due to circumstances beyond our control, including without limitation, fires, floods, earthquakes, lockouts, strikes, embargos, governmental regulations, acts of God, acts of terrorism, war or other strife.

 International Use

  1. We make no promise that materials available on or through the Service are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United States, and accessing the Service from territories where its contents are illegal or unlawful is prohibited. If you choose to access the Service from locations outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

Miscellaneous

If any of these Terms and Conditions are determined to be illegal, invalid, or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms and Conditions are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these Terms and Conditions, and the remaining Terms and Conditions shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.

You may not transfer any of your rights under these Terms and Conditions to another business or individual where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.

If you breach these Terms and Conditions and drmargotholloman.com chooses to ignore this, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies at a later date or in any other situation where you breach the Terms and Conditions.

drmargotholloman.com shall not be responsible for any breach of these Terms and Conditions caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.

Publicity

The Service is owned and operated by Margot A. Holloman, PhD If you have any questions please contact drmargotholloman@gmail.com.

 Wordpress.org Privacy policy

Our Service is a wordpress.org site and subject to its Privacy Policy which can be viewed at https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/.

No third party shall have any right to enforce any of the Terms regardless of whether such third party has been identified by name, as a member of a class or as answering a particular description.