Terms Of Service

Website Terms Of Use And Service

These terms and conditions set out the basis upon which Dr Peter A Sloane is prepared to allow you (“You”, “Your” “Yourself”) to use our website and content, as well as the other resources and services found on our website https://sloanefamilypractice.ie and its subdomains, unless Dr Peter A Sloane has agreed different Terms with you in writing.

Dr Peter A Sloane cannot provide you with the Services until you have agreed to these terms of service. They represent the contract between you and Dr Peter A Sloane. When you use any of our Services you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

We hope that you find them to be useful, helpful and insightful and we’d be delighted to answer any questions you have about them.

In this website terms of service, We, Us or Our means Dr Peter A Sloane.

Republic Of Ireland Only

Our website is intended for residents of the Republic of Ireland only. Other countries’ laws may restrict the distribution of the information and products available on our website, so the website is not applicable to or aimed at residents of other countries. If you are a non-Irish resident and you have chosen to access this website from outside the Republic of Ireland, this is at your own risk.

How You Consent To These Terms Of Service

If you access or use our website you are taken to have agreed to these terms and conditions (Terms), and our privacy policy. We ask you to please read these Terms carefully. If you are not happy with any of our Terms, please leave our website immediately. It’s the only way that you can prevent our Terms from applying to you. You can ask us questions about our Terms by contacting us at admin@sloanefamilypractice.ie.

Our Content

Our website is designed to provide basic information about staff and services at Sloane Family Practice including our opening hours and how, where, and when we can be contacted, the facility to order prescriptions and from time to time book vaccination clinics, and also to provide links to websites operated by third parties that provide information of relevance to the services offered at Sloane Family Practice. Our Content is designed for you to be able to inform yourself about Sloane Family Practice and also find links to sources of information from third parties in relation to health matters that we believe are of high quality.

Using this website doesn’t mean that you become our patient, or that we become your doctor or health care provider. If you use this website or access any of the linked third party content, this does not mean that we become your health care provider or that a doctor-patient relationship is created.

We Give You A Licence To Use Our Website

So that you can use and access our website, we grant you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable, non-transferable licence to use our website in accordance with these Terms. All other uses of our website are prohibited unless we give you our written consent.

Our Services

The services that we offer are for existing patients of Sloane Family Practice to order prescriptions via the website, and at various times of the year, for existing patients of Sloane Family Practice to book vaccination clinics. For patients who do not have a State Medical Card or State Doctor Only Visit Card, a Fee will be charged for ordering a prescription.

You Can’t Do Certain Things On This Website

To use our website and our Content, we expect you to abide by a certain standard of behaviour. You must not do or attempt to do anything that is unlawful, prohibited by any laws applicable to our website, anything which we would consider inappropriate, or which might bring us or our website into disrepute. This includes:

Anything that would be a breach of any other person’s privacy (including if you upload personal information about an individual without their consent) or any other legal rights.
Using our website to defame, harass, threaten, menace or offend any person.
Interfering with anyone using our website.
Tampering with or modifying our website, knowingly transmitting viruses or other disabling features, or damaging or interfering with our website, including using trojan horses, viruses or piracy or programming routines that may damage or interfere with our website.
Using our website to send unsolicited email messages.
Facilitating or assisting a third party to do any of the above acts.

Competitors Are Excluded From Using Our Website To Compete

You are prohibited from using our website and the Content in any way that competes with our business.

Availability

We want you to have access to https://sloanefamilypractice.ie whenever you need it, on any device and as quickly and easily as possible. That means that we diligently monitor and protect our website, like any good business.

Sometimes we will need to interrupt the availability of our services to perform routine maintenance and upgrades. This agreement gives us the right to do so. We will always strive to do this during low usage hours and to keep these disruptions to a minimum, although this intention is not a contractual obligation.

Because we are dealing with the internet there will always be some things that we cannot control or guarantee and that may cause unscheduled disruption to the website’s availability. Like all other good website providers, we provide our website on an ’as available’ basis. This means that, if for any reason, our website is suddenly unavailable, for reasons beyond our control such as governmental order, extreme weather, disease, war or other extreme event, at any time and for any period, we will not be liable to you, including for any loss, damage or inconvenience this causes you. Having said that, you can rest assured that even though we’re not contractually bound to do so, we will be working hard to prevent this from happening and to remedy any interruption in availability to you should this happen.

Our Intellectual Property

Creative effort and expertise has contributed to the creation of this website and Our Content. The designs, logos, photos, pictures, documentation, information and our Content on this website are owned by or licensed to Us, unless we indicate otherwise. Your use of our website and your use of and access to any of our Content does not grant or transfer to you any rights, title or interest in relation to our website or our Content.

You agree not to use any of Our Content and material on Our Website that would in any way infringe the intellectual property rights that protect that material and respect those creative and expert efforts.

For Content, you must not:

Copy or use it, in whole or in part.
Sell it to any third party.

You must not breach any intellectual property rights connected with our website or our Content, including, without limitation, altering or modifying any of our Content or creating derivative works from the Content.

We Are Not Responsible For Websites Run By Third Parties

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Unless we tell you otherwise, we do not control, endorse or approve, and are not responsible for, the content on those websites. We recommend that you make your own investigations to ensure those websites are suitable for you.

Varying These Terms

We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary these Terms by publishing the varied terms on our website. We recommend you check our website regularly to ensure you are aware of our current terms. Content is subject to change without notice.

Discontinuing Our Website

We have a right to discontinue this website. This can be at any time and may be without notice. We may also exclude any person from using our website, at any time and at our sole discretion. We are not responsible for any liability you may suffer arising from or in connection with any such discontinuance or exclusion.

Warranties And Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representations or warranties about our website or the Content, including that:

They are complete, accurate, reliable, up-to-date and suitable for any particular purpose.
Access will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from viruses.
Our website will be secure.

You read, use and act on our website and the Content at your own risk.

Monitoring

We do lawfully monitor usage of Our Website by Our members, according to the terms of Our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy. We do this to be able continuously to improve Your Website experience and Our products and services, and to ensure that Your needs are being well catered for. We may also do this to comply with the rules of any applicable regulatory or self-regulatory organisation.

Our Liability Is Limited

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any loss, damage or expense, howsoever arising, whether direct or indirect and or whether present, unascertained, future or contingent (liability) suffered by you or any third party, arising from or in connection with your use of our website and or the Content and or any inaccessibility of, interruption to or outage of our website and or any loss or corruption of data and or the fact that the Content is incorrect, incomplete or out-of-date.

We make no representation and give no warranty with respect to any of our Content. We do not suggest any document or Content is suitable for your particular use.

We shall not be liable for:

Any loss resulting from the provision of any of the Services by other Service Providers.
Any loss for which liability is disclaimed elsewhere in the Conditions.
Loss of profits.
Loss of business.
Depletion of goodwill or similar losses.
Loss of anticipated savings.
Loss of goods.
Loss of use.
Loss or corruption of data or information.
Any special, indirect, consequential or pure economic loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses.
Medical harm.

If we are held liable to you for any loss or damage, such liability shall in all cases be limited to the payment of an amount not exceeding €50,000, including costs and expenses in respect of any one claim. By accepting these terms and by using the Website you confirm that you are in agreement with this level of limitation. For the avoidance of doubt, a claim shall be defined as a claim or a series of claims (whether by one or more claimant) arising from, or in connection with, or attributable to, any one act, error, omission or originating cause or source or the dishonesty of any person or group of persons acting together, and any such series of claims shall be deemed to be one claim for all purposes under this clause.

You acknowledge that these exclusions and or limitations are reasonable having regard to the fact that the Website is freely accessible and available at nominal or no cost.

Our Right To Be Indemnified By You

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you must indemnify us, and hold us harmless, against any Liability suffered or incurred by us arising from or in connection with your use of our website or any breach of these Terms or any applicable laws by you. This indemnity is a continuing obligation, independent from the other obligations under these Terms, and continues after these Terms end. It is not necessary for us to suffer or incur any Liability before enforcing a right of indemnity under these Terms.

Bugs, Worms, Viruses, Hacking And Other Offences

Please don’t hurt Our Website. And please don’t put Yourself at risk either. By browsing and otherwise using and interacting with Our Website, You agree not to damage or misuse Our Website in any way, including by knowingly introducing Viruses, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious and or technologically harmful. This also means that You mustn’t attempt to gain unauthorised access to this Website, or attack it via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. We will report any breach of these Terms to the relevant law enforcement authorities and We will co-operate with these authorities by disclosing Your identity to them. It follows that if You commit any of these activities, Your rights to use this Website will immediately and automatically cease.

Complaints

We work really hard to bring you an experience that positively exceeds your expectations at all times. If you’re feeling dissatisfied about any part of your experience, including in relation to how we handle your personal information, please email admin@sloanefamilypractice.ie.

Jurisdiction

Use of our website and these Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Ireland. You irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts operating in the Republic of Ireland and any courts entitled to hear appeals from those courts and waive any right to object to proceedings being brought in those courts.

If you access our website and you are based overseas, we do not represent that our website complies with the laws, including intellectual property laws, of the country in which you reside (if you reside outside Ireland). You are responsible for complying with the laws of the jurisdiction where you access our website and please note that you access our website at your own risk.

If you have any questions for us, we would be delighted to hear from you. You can write to us at Dr Peter A Sloane, Carraroe, County Galway, Ireland, H91 YF62, or email us at admin@sloanefamilypractice.ie.

This document was last updated on 31 May 2023.