PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

GlobalSkincare.net (GlobalSkinCare) provides complimentary Internet-based communications and information services to the consumer. By using this site, you signify your agreement to these Terms and Conditions of use. You must agree to these Terms and Conditions in order to use the GlobalSkinCare website. Please read this document carefully. If you do not agree to all of the Terms and Conditions of this agreement, do not use this site!

GlobalSkinCare may revise and update these Terms and Conditions at anytime. Please periodically review the Terms and Conditions posted at the GlobalSkinCare Website because your continued usage of the GlobalSkinCare website will mean you accept those changes.

Section 1.

General Disclaimer; No Medical Advice. THE CONTENT ON THE GlobalSkinCare SITE IS PRESENTED IN SUMMARY FORM, IS GENERAL IN NATURE, AND IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE CONTENT IS NOT INTENDED IN ANY WAY TO BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER QUALIFIED HEALTH PROVIDER WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING A MEDICAL CONDITION. NEITHER THE CONTENT NOR ANY OTHER SERVICE OFFERED BY OR THROUGH GlobalSkinCare OR THE GlobalSkinCare SITE IS INTENDED TO BE RELIED ON FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT. NEVER DISREGARD MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY IN SEEKING IT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON THE GlobalSkinCare SITE! GlobalSkinCare does not recommend or endorse any specific test, products, or procedures that may be mentioned on the Site. Any opinions expressed on the Site are the opinions of the authors. GlobalSkinCare does not assume any liability for the contents of any material provided on the Site. Reliance on any information provided by GlobalSkinCare, its Health Experts, or other visitor s to the Site is solely at your own risk. GlobalSkinCare assumes no liability or responsibility for damage or injury to persons or property arising from any use of any product, information, idea, or instruction contained in the materials provided to you. GlobalSkinCare reserves the right to change or discontinue at any time any aspect or feature of this Site. You understand further that the Internet contains unedited materials som e of which are sexually explicit and may be offensive to you. You access this material at your own risk. GlobalSkinCare, its licensors and its suppliers have no control over and accept no responsibility whatsoever for such materials.

Section 2.

GlobalSkinCare's Position on Your Privacy. Click the back button on your browser to return to the previous page

a. General. GlobalSkinCare recognizes the premium you place on privacy protection on the Internet. Our employees share the same concerns! Working together, we strive to protect your privacy, including the non-identifying information you share in the personal profile that you must complete in order to become a participating member (Member) within the Interactive Areas of this Site. GlobalSkinCare subscribes to the Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct for medical and health web sites. To learn more click here: (http://www.hon.ch/Conduct.html). GlobalSkinCare does not collect personally identifiable information about Members or other GlobalSkinCare users (Users) except when such individuals specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis. A Member's or User's access to and use of the GlobalSkinCare Site or services constitutes information voluntarily given by the Member or User.

b. Use of Registration Information. Personally identifiable information of individual Members and Users will not be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the Member's or User's prior consent. GlobalSkinCare stores the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer when you visit our site. This information is only used to create broad demographic summaries of where our Members and Users come from: for example, we know what percentage of Members or Users come from Europe or Africa, but our use of th e IP addresses does not include identifying who those users actually are. However, GlobalSkinCare may use registration information and other voluntarily submitted information in the following ways: * To provide our editors with information that is useful in developing new features and services for GlobalSkinCare Members and Users; * To provide advertisers with aggregate - never individual - information about our Member base and User usage patterns; and * To allow us to potentially vary advertising based on Member and User preference. GlobalSkinCare reserves the right to perform statistical analyses and profiling of Member and User behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such information. GlobalSkinCare will provide only aggregate dat a from these analyses to third parties; no personally identifiable information will be disclosed. GlobalSkinCare may sometimes permit third parties to offer subscription and/or registration-based services through GlobalSkinCare. In this event, GlobalSkinCare is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and Members and Users should check the applicable privacy policy of such party before providing personally identifiable information. It is not possible for a Member or User to delete his or her profile fro m our database, nor is it feasible to delete all traces of a Member's or User' s activity in the system. Messages posted to the boards are examples of user activities that are not feasible to delete. However, we do offer you the opportunity to request deletion of your email address-the only individually identifiable piece of information about your account - from GlobalSkinCare's database. GlobalSkinCare sends regular email updates to Members. If you wish to have your email address deleted from our database, email us at info@USMDDirect.com and include the EXACT words "CANCEL MAIL" in the body of your email. Please allo w two to three business days for the actual cancellation to take effect. We will not share your email address with third parties without first receiving your permission.

c. Voluntary Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information on Bulletin Boards, Chat Rooms, and other Interactive Areas (collectively referred to as Interactive Areas). Subscribers and Users should beaware that when they voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (for example, user name, e-mail address) on the bulletin boards or chat areas of GlobalSkinCare, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in the Subscriber's or User's communication, can be collected and correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of GlobalSkinCare. GlobalSkinCare makes no warranties about the discoverability of members' identit y by methods beyond our control. d. Cookie Technology. GlobalSkinCare may employ cookie technology to allow Subscribers and Users to move more quickly through our site. Cookies are small text files a website can use to recognize repeat users and facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site. They do not come onto a user's system nor do they pose a threat to a user's files. Subscribers and Users should be aware that GlobalSkinCare cannot control the use of cookies by advertisers or third parties hosting data for GlobalSkinCare. However, if a Subscriber or User does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedur e in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the cookie feature. Please note that cookies may be necessary to provide the Subscriber or User with certain features (for example, customized delivery of information) available on GlobalSkinCare. e. Encryption Technology. GlobalSkinCare uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL ) encryption technology to ensure the integrity and privacy of the information you pass to us via the Internet; however, to take advantage of this, you mus t use utilize a browser that maintains 128bit encryption support.

Section 3.

Use of Content; Copyright. Upon acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, GlobalSkinCare authorizes yo u to view or download a single copy of the material on this website solely for your personal, noncommercial use. Special rules may apply to the use of certain software and other items provided on the GlobalSkinCare Site. Any such special rules are listed as Legal Notices on the GlobalSkinCare Site and a re incorporated into these Terms and Conditions by reference. The contents of the GlobalSkinCare Site, such as text, graphics, images and other material including software licensed by GlobalSkinCare to permit Users to access the GlobalSkinCare Site (Content), are protected by copyright under both United States and foreign laws, and title to the Content shall not pass to you or any other User. Unauthorized use of the Content may violate copyright , trademark, and other laws. None of the Content may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, decompiled, reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, re-transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photoreproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of GlobalSkinCare, except that you may reproduce limited excerpts of the data for personal use only, provided that each such copy contains a copyright notice as follows: Copyright  1998 - 1999, USMDDirect.com, Los Angeles, California. All rights reserved. For information obtained from GlobalSkinCare's licensors, you are solely responsible for compliance with any copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights and restrictions and are referred to the publication data appearing in bibliographic citations, as well as to the copyright notices appearing in the original publications. You may not sell or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use of the Content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. Content is subject to change without notice at the editorial discretion of GlobalSkinCare. If you violate any of these Terms and Conditions, your permissio n to use the Content automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of any portion of the Content.

Section 4.

Company's Liability; Disclaimer of Consequential Damages. The Content comes from sources believed to be accurate, but may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. GlobalSkinCare makes no representations about the results to be obtained from using the GlobalSkinCare Site or the Content. The use of the GlobalSkinCare Site and the Content is at your own risk. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IN CONNECTION WITH THE GlobalSkinCare Site, INFORMATION WILL BE TRANSMITTED OVER LOCAL EXCHANGE, INTEREXCHANGE AND INTERNET BACKBONE CARRIER LINES AND THROUGH ROUTERS, SWITCHES AND OTHER DEVICES OWNED, MAINTAINED AND SERVICED BY THIRD PARTY LOCAL EXCHANGE AND LONG DISTANCE CARRIERS, UTILITIES, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS AND OTHERS, ALL OF WHICH ARE BEYOND THE CONTROL AND JURISDICTION OF GlobalSkinCare AND ITS SUPPLIERS. ACCORDINGLY, GlobalSkinCare ASSUMES NO LIABILITY FOR OR RELATING TO THE DELAY, FAILURE, INTERRUPTION OR CORRUPTION OF ANY DATA OR OTHER INFORMATION TRANSMITTED IN CONNECTION WITH USE OF THE GlobalSkinCare Site. THE GlobalSkinCare SITE AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. GlobalSkinCare, ITS LICENSORS, AND ITS SUPPLIERS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES' RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. GlobalSkinCare, ITS LICENSORS, AND ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS OR TIMELINESS OF THE CONTENT, SOFTWARE, TEXT, GRAPHICS, LINKS, OR COMMUNICATIONS PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE USE OF THE GlobalSkinCare SITE OR GlobalSkinCare. GlobalSkinCare, ITS LICENSORS, AND ITS SUPPLIERS DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY THAT THE CONTENT CONTAINED ON THE GlobalSkinCare SITE SATISFIES GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS REQUIRING DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION ON PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRODUCTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL GlobalSkinCare, ITS LICENSORS, ITS SUPPLIERS OR ANY THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED AT THE GlobalSkinCare SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVE R (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE GlobalSkinCare SITE OR THE CONTEN T WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT GlobalSkinCare IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. GlobalSkinCare SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU ONLY FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT OF ACTUAL DAMAGES INCURRED BY YOU, NOT TO EXCEED US $1000.00 (ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS). REMEDIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE EXCLUSIVE AND ARE LIMITED TO THOSE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED FOR IN THIS AGREEMENT.

Section 5.

User Submissions. Except as described herein, any communication which you post on the GlobalSkinCare Site is considered to be non-confidential. You agree that you wil l not upload or transmit any communications that infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. By submitting communications to any part of this Site, you automatically grant -- or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted -- GlobalSkinCare a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known o r hereafter developed, and to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses.

Section 6.

Use of Interactive Areas. GlobalSkinCare may provide Interactive Areas on the GlobalSkinCare Site. If you use an Interactive Area, you are solely responsible for your own communications and the consequences of posting those communications. GlobalSkinCare does not assume any responsibility for the consequences of any Interactive Area communications on or arising from use of the GlobalSkinCare Site. In cases where you feel threatened or believe someone else is in danger, you should contact your local law enforcement agency immediately. In consideration of being allowed to use the Interactive Areas, you agre e that the following actions shall constitute a material breach of these Terms and Conditions: 1. Use of an Interactive Area for any purpose in violation of local, state, national, or international laws; 2. Post material that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others; 3. Post material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to another Member or any other person or entity as determined by GlobalSkinCare at its sole discretion pursuant to this Section 6; 4. Post advertisements or solicitations of business; 5. After receiving a warning, continue to disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, or post comments that are not related to the topic being discussed (unless it is clear the discussion is free form); 6. Post chain letters or pyramid schemes; 7. Impersonate another person; 8. Allow any other person or entity to use your identification to post or view comments 9. Post the same note more than once (The online word for posting many time s on one topic is "spamming." Spamming is strictly prohibited); or 10. Engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Interactive Areas, or which, in the judgment of GlobalSkinCare, exposes GlobalSkinCare or any of its customers or suppliers to any liability or detriment of any type. GlobalSkinCare reserves the right to record the dialogue in public chat rooms. GlobalSkinCare does not screen communications in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material posted by Members or any other person or entity. If notified by a Member of communication(s) which ar e alleged not to conform to the terms of this Section, GlobalSkinCare may investigate the allegation and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the communication(s). GlobalSkinCare reserves the right t o remove communications which are abusive, illegal, disruptive, or that otherwise fail to conform with these Terms and Conditions In addition to the removal rights described above, GlobalSkinCare reserves the right to terminate a Member's access to any or all Interactive Area upon Member's breach of these Terms and Conditions. GlobalSkinCare reserves the right (but is not obligated) t o edit or delete any communication(s) posted on the GlobalSkinCare Site, regardles s of whether such communication(s) violate these standards for content. Furthermore, GlobalSkinCare reserves the right (but is not obligated) to monitor, edit, or disclose any type of posting on the Interactive Areas for adherence to the Terms and Conditions, if required in the course of normal operation and maintenance of GlobalSkinCare, or if required to do so by law or i n the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (i) comply with the law or comply with legal process served; (ii) protect and defend the rights of GlobalSkinCare or others; or (iii) act in an emergency to protect the persona l safety of our guests or the public. GlobalSkinCare HAS NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY TO SUBSCRIBERS OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR PERFORMANCE OR NONPERFORMANCE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED SCREENING ACTIVITIES. GlobalSkinCare does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, o r reliability of any of the material posted by Interactive Area users or endorse any opinions expressed by such users. ANY RELIANCE ON CONTENT POSTED IN AN INTERACTIVE AREA IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Through your use of a the GlobalSkinCare Site's Interactive Areas, you are agreeing to all of the aforementioned Terms and Conditions for the use of such Interactive Areas contained herein.

Section 7.

Links to Other Sites. The GlobalSkinCare Site contains links to third party websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by GlobalSkinCare of the content on such third-party websites. GlobalSkinCare is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make an y representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party websites. If you decide to access linked third-party websites, you do so at your own risk. Your use of third- party websites is subject to the Terms and Conditions of use for such sites.

Section 8.

Advertisements. The GlobalSkinCare Site contains advertisements by third parties, and these advertisements may contain links to other websites. Unless otherwise specifically stated, GlobalSkinCare does not endorse any product or make any representation regarding the content or accuracy of any materials contained in, or linked to, any advertisement on the GlobalSkinCare Site.

Section 9.

Indemnity. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold GlobalSkinCare, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers, harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements includin g without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of the Content (including Software), or the Interactive Areas in a manner that violates or is alleged to violate these Terms and Conditions. GlobalSkinCare shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall reasonably cooperate with you, at your expense, in your defense of any such claim, suit or proceeding.

Section 10.

Export Control. The United States controls the export of products and information. You agree to comply with such restrictions and not to export or re-export the Contents (including Software) to countries or persons prohibited under the export control laws. By downloading the Contents (including Software), you are agreeing that you are not in a country where such export is prohibited o r are a person or entity to which such export is prohibited. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of your local jurisdiction regarding the import, export, or re-export of the Contents (including Software).

Section 11.

General. GlobalSkinCare is based in Los Angeles, California , in the United States of America . GlobalSkinCare makes no claims the Content is appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the United States . Access to the Content (including Software) may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If yo u access the GlobalSkinCare Site from outside the United States , you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.

Section 12.

Jurisdiction. You expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute with GlobalSkinCare, or in any way relating to your membership or use of GlobalSkinCare, resides in the courts of the State of California and you further agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the courts of the State of California in connection with any such dispute including any claim involving GlobalSkinCare or its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, contractors, officers, directors, telecommunication providers and content providers. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of California, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition.

Section 13.

Complete Agreement. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN A PARTICULAR "LEGAL NOTICE" ON THE GlobalSkinCare SITE, THESE Terms and Conditions CONSTITUTE THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND GlobalSkinCare WITH RESPECT TO THE USE OF THE GlobalSkinCare SITE AN D ANY SOFTWARE AND CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN. Thank you for your cooperation with these Terms and Conditions. We hope you find the GlobalSkinCare Site helpful and convenient to use! Questions or comments regarding this Site should be directed by electronic mail to info@USMDDirect.com.