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privacy disclaimer
Bastian Voice Institute (BVI) is
located in Downers Grove, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago,
in the center of the greater metropolitan area. The mission
of Bastian Voice Institute is to provide the highest quality
medical, surgical, and behavioral care and consideration for
persons with voice, swallowing, and airway disorders. Our
primary concern is patient care, which is supported by ongoing
education and research.
This website primarily serves our
teaching mission, and is not an avenue for patient care. Your
use of BVI’s website indicates prior acceptance of the
following terms and conditions.
- BVI provides this website for
individual use, free of charge. This site should be considered
strictly informational. It should not be used as a stand-alone
source of medical advice. BVI does not assume any responsibility
for actions taken by readers of our content.
- BVI assumes no responsibility
for any damages to users’ computer(s) allegedly arising,
directly or indirectly, from the use of our website.
- BVI may modify contents of, and/or
access to, this website at any time–at will–and
without encumbrance of any expressed or perceived warranty
or obligation to visitors to the site.
- Readers should understand that
different experts of good will may have varying opinions
concerning the same subject material. Where possible, we
will try to indicate when information we supply is controversial,
but we make no warranty that this will always be done.
- Information found here concerning
BVI personnel may have been provided to BVI by that individual
and is not necessarily warranted by BVI in its every detail.
- E-mail you submit to BVI through
this website or your e-mail program (e.g., for appointment
requests) may be intercepted by third parties unknown to
you or to BVI. This risk is intrinsic to the nature of e-mail,
and your submission of e-mail to us is hereby construed
to reflect your acceptance of the risk of interception or
other breaches of confidentiality. You are also acknowledging
that third parties that BVI retains to maintain computer
/software/website functions may also have confidential access
to information you have sent to BVI via e-mail.
- By using this website, you agree
to any and all accompanying risks. Use or failure to use
any information provided here shall be exclusively at your
risk. Again, information provided here is not to be considered
a substitute for the advice of your personal physician or
other healthcare provider, or a consultation with one of
BVI’s clinicians.
- BVI DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANT ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE
AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
- BVI hereby notifies you that your
best option to avoid any and all risks of using this site
is to refrain from using it. Your only redress for alleged
harm you incur due to use of our website is to refrain from
further use.
- It is illegal to post or transmit
any information that is threatening, libelous, defamatory,
obscene, ethnically or racially offensive, discriminatory,
profane, invades the privacy of another person or any other
information or materials that constitute a crime, give rise
to a civil action or otherwise violate any law or confidentiality
agreement. BVI reserves the right to refuse to accept or
transmit any such message.
- BVI did not create the information
contained in websites linked to our site, or those that
have linked us to their site(s). Accordingly, BVI does not
endorse or take responsibility for the content of any other
websites. If you link to other sites, you do so at your
own risk.
- This website contains information
created and copyrighted by BVI. Use of this information
is intended for your personal use only, and may not be used
unlawfully via copying, modifying, “re-publication”
of graphics, computer code, and so forth, without prior
written permission of BVI.
- Limited citations and use of
visual material is allowed as long as BVI is clearly cited,
for each citation/image, as the source.
- This agreement is entered into
in the State of Illinois. By using this site, you agree
to jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, in DuPage County.
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