TERMS OF USE

About MediOpinions:

MediOpinions is a platform instituted by Philomath Research, the defining provider of online panel services, through the website https://www.mediopinions.com. This website is maintained by Philomath Research.

These Terms and Conditions applies to all users of MediOpinions.

By using MediOpinions you undertake to abide and agree to be bound by the privacy policy of the company.

By joining as a member of MediOpinions panels, you agree to receive invitations to participate in Surveys via e-mail, text messages or push notifications. MediOpinions does not guarantee that you will receive a certain minimum volume of invitations or any invitations at all. Your participation in any Survey and your disclosure of any personally-identifiable information is completely voluntary and so whether you accept or reject any invitations to participate in surveys is entirely up to you.

Data Protection

MediOpinions will not disclose respondent personal to any third party.

We follow the guidelines for medical research and are compliant with all medical research guidelines including but not limited to GDPR, the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and any other such applicable regulations.

Right to Change Terms and Conditions

These Terms and Conditions shall be free to modify at any time by MediOpinions without informing you of such changes. Any changes to these terms and conditions will be effective immediately upon posting of the changed terms and conditions on the Site. You agree to review these terms and conditions periodically, and use of the Site following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the terms and conditions as changed.

Consequently, it is recommended that you refer to the latest version of the Terms & Conditions regularly, which are available on the site at all times.

Without exception, once registered, you agree to accept these general Terms and Conditions beforehand, the purpose of which is to define the terms under which you benefit from the Service. Your active participation in our site is subject to adhering to these general conditions.

MediOpinions reserves the right to modify or discontinue MediOpinions program with or without notice to you.

Obligations of a member

The Panel Member warrants that:

  • They are 18 years old or above. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and legal capacity to enter into this agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions
  • They are not a member or employee of Market Research Company.
  • They shall not register with MediOpinions more than once
  • They will not attempt to answer a survey more than once, either by using more than one name or more than one email address to enter a survey.
  • They will be honest in their approach to the research, for example they will not provide confusing or meaningless answers, randomly select answer options without reading the questions etc.
  • MediOpinions has no obligation in respect of any tax due on the reward given to a member and the member shall be responsible for declaring any income received.

Materials:

The information and materials provided through this site, including, without limitation, any data, text, graphics, images, audio and video clips, logos, icons, software and/or links are intended to educate and inform you about us, our business and the services that we provide. The use, reproduction, and/or re-transmission by any means of any of the material contained in this site without the written permission of MediOpinions is strictly prohibited.

While MediOpinions attempts to keep all the information on the Site up-to-date, medical treatment and knowledge change quickly, and this Site should not be considered error-free or as a comprehensive source of all information on a particular topic. MediOpinions makes no warranties or representations as to the accuracy of the content of the Site, and assumes no responsibility for any consequences relating directly or indirectly to any action or inaction you take based upon the information and material on this Site.

Third Party Sites and Information:

The Website may contain links to third party websites. The content on third party and linked websites is not under the control of Company and Company is not responsible for the contents of any linked website. Company is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any linked site, nor is Company responsible if the linked site is not functioning properly.

IN PARTICULAR, WE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF ANY ALLEGATION THAT ANY THIRD PARTY-OWNED CONTENT (WHETHER PUBLISHED ON THIS, OR ANY OTHER, WEB SITE) INFRINGES THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY PERSON OR ANY LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF ANY INFORMATION OR OPINION CONTAINED ON SUCH THIRD PARTY WEB SITE OR CONTENT.

Your Information/Usernames & Passwords:

In order to access certain areas of or participate in certain activities contained on the Website, we may require you to provide us with certain information about you (e.g., your name and email address). Providing us with your personal information is your choice. Each time you decide to provide us with your personal information, you agree to:

  • 1. Provide accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by our registration form (including your current email address)
  • 2. Maintain and update your information (including your email address) to keep it accurate, current and complete. You acknowledge that, if any information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we have the right to terminate the Terms of Use and your use of the Website (or any portion thereof) or your participation in any activity contained on the Website. In order to access certain areas of or participate in certain activities contained on the Website, we may require you to select a username and password. We may refuse to grant you a username that impersonates someone else, is or may be illegal, is or may be protected by trademark or other proprietary rights law, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or may cause confusion, or for any other reason as determined by us in our sole discretion. You will be responsible for the confidentiality and use of your username and password and agree not to transfer or resell your right to use or access to the Website or participate in any activities contained on the Website to any third person or party. If you have reason to believe that your username or password is no longer secure, you must: (i) promptly change your password by visiting the Website, and (ii) immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us support@mediopinions.com

YOU ARE ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD AND FOR ANY AND ALL ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING USE OF THE SERVICES ON THIS WEBSITE, AS APPLICABLE) THAT ARE CONDUCTED THROUGH THE USE OF YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD.

Rules for Specific Services or Areas of the Website:

Certain specific services provided on the Website and/or entry into certain areas of the Website may be governed by additional specific rules and/or additional terms of use. By using such services or entering such areas of the Website you will become subject to any those rules or additional terms of use. We urge you to read the applicable rules, which are linked to such services or areas of the Website, and to review our Privacy Policy which, in addition to these Terms of Use, governs any information you submit in connection with such services or areas of the Website.

Code of Conduct:

While using the Website and/or Materials you agree not to:

  • Use the Website or Materials for any unlawful purpose or in any manner not intended by Company or as contemplated herein and on the Website;
  • While using the Website, engage in rude, unlawful, harassing, vulgar, obscene, hateful, threatening, abusive or otherwise objectionable behaviour;
  • Institute an attack upon any server used in connection with the Website or any portion thereof or otherwise attempt to disrupts such servers;
  • Express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent;
  • Transmit: (a) any content or information that is unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable, or infringes our or any third party's intellectual property or other rights; (b) any material, non-public information about companies without the authorization to do so; (c) any trade secret of any third party; or (d) any advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, investment opportunities or other unsolicited commercial communication (except as otherwise expressly permitted by us);
  • Engage in spamming or flooding;
  • Transmit any software or other materials that contain any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, defects, date bombs, time bombs or other items of a destructive nature;
  • Modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble all or any portion of the Website or Materials;
  • Remove, alter, conceal any copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary rights notices contained in the Website or Materials;
  • "Frame" or "mirror" any part of the Website without our prior written authorization;
  • Link the Website or any content thereon to any third party website or portion thereof that contains any gambling, pornographic, obscene, vulgar, illegal or otherwise objectionable or questionable content;
  • Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, "data mine" or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Website or its contents; or
  • Harvest or collect information about Website users without their express consent.
  • While using the Website or Materials, you agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.

User Content

You are responsible for all User Content. You are also responsible to obtain, where relevant, third party’s approvals, consents, and/or authorizations for Your and Our use of Your User Content. User Content, including photographs, sound or video recordings may be considered to be Personal Data. Your User Content may become publicly available and shared with third parties including, but not limited to, Our Clients, clients of Our Clients, Survey Owners, Panel Owners, Partners and third party service providers. You shall ensure that User Content does not contain copyrighted or trademarked content or material of any third party, including audio, video, images, or the likeness of anyone other than You, unless You have procured the approvals, consents and/or authorizations from such third parties required for Your and Our use of such User Content. You will not receive compensation for Our, Our Partners’ or Our Clients’ use of any User Content.

By using, uploading, posting, submitting or permitting Us to collect (such permission deemed granted upon Your consent with these Terms and use of the relevant Service) User Content in connection with the Services, You hereby grant to Us a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, transferrable, sub-licensable, world-wide, royalty free, right and license to edit, copy, transmit, publish, display, create derivative works of, reproduce, modify, distribute, and otherwise use Your User Content at Our own discretion. You will not receive any compensation for Your User Content or Our use of it, except where expressly agreed.

You are solely responsible to ensure that Your User Content, and Our use of it according to these Terms, will not infringe any third parties’ intellectual property rights. We do not and cannot review all User Content and We accept no liability whatsoever for Your User Content. We have the right, but not an obligation, to delete, remove, or edit Your User Content, which We, at Our sole discretion, deem to: (a) violate these Terms; (b) violate intellectual property rights; or (c) be abusive, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise unacceptable.

Termination

  • MediOpinions may terminate this Agreement and your membership immediately or by written notice if you are in breach of this agreement or not showing interest in our research
  • You can terminate this Agreement at any time by unsubscribing from MediOpinions.

Limitations on Liability

  • MediOpinions shall not be liable to you or to any other person or entity in any way for damages of any kind arising from the use of this website, including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, punitive or consequential damages, lost revenue or profits, lost or damaged data or other commercial or economic loss, that result from your use of, or inability to use, this website.

Member Code of Conduct:

MediOpinions is an Online HealthCare Community dedicated to making your voice heard and allowing you to tell leading providers of products and services what you think. When you are a part of the MediOpinions HealthCare Community, we request that you observe the following rules:

  • Be courteous and respect the opinions of others and behave in a manner that supports a safe and comfortable environment for all members.
  • Do not post any of the following.
  • Personal information (including any financial information).
  • Material that advocates illegal activity or political, religious or ideological beliefs.
  • Personal attacks or anything (including "jokes" that may be misconstrued) obscene, vulgar, illegal, harmful, insulting, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, untrue, misleading or invasive of someone else's privacy.
  • Advertising and solicitations - Do not use any community areas to buy or solicit for goods, services, or money, or to advertise or sell products or services to others. For example, do not post any advertising, referrals, promotional materials, junk mail, "spam", chain letters, pyramid schemes or any other form of solicitation.
  • Any content that infringes any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right of another.
  • Any statement that expresses or implies that any actions you take are endorsed by MediOpinions.
  • Do not take any Survey other than in good faith, such as providing false answers or speeding through a Survey or answering each question the same way. MediOpinions reserves the right to withhold awarding Points to you if, in MediOpinions reasonable view, your Survey responses are untruthful or not well considered.
  • Do not access or use any part of the Site in any way that may violate any applicable local, or international law, regulation, or other governmental requirement and/or regulation, treaty or tariff.
  • Do not resell, barter, trade or otherwise attempt to generate income by providing access to your MediOpoinions Points to others.
  • Do not impersonate any individual or entity, including, without limitation, a MediOpinions employee, agent or client, or other MediOpinions members or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, including by "framing" any portion of this Site to make it look like you have a relationship with us or that we have endorsed you for any purpose.
  • Do not publish or make reference in any media to any Survey or Site content without our prior written permission.
  • Do not collect or store any personal information about other members.
  • Do not attempt to access any service or area of the Site that you are not authorized to access.
  • Do not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access the Site or extract data.
  • Do not send to or otherwise impact us or this Site (or anything or anyone else) with harmful, illegal, deceptive or disruptive code such as a virus, "spyware", "adware" or other code that could adversely impact this Site or any recipient or take any action, such as a denial of service attack, that might impose a significant burden on this Site's infrastructure or interfere with the ordinary operation of this Site.
  • Do not re-post on the Site any statements you receive from the MediOpinions help desk.
  • Do not communicate with the MediOpinions help desk in a manner which is obscene, vulgar, harmful, insulting, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, untrue or misleading.
  • Do not, under any circumstances, contact MediOpinions’ clients or the sponsor of any survey
  • Do not engage in any other activity that the Company reasonably deems improper or abusive.
  • Failure to comply with this Code of Conduct may result in termination of your membership account and forfeiture of any Points.

Reward Points

What are Points?

MediOpinions values our members’ opinions, and to show our appreciation, we offer incentives in the form of credits called “Points,” which are credited to your account maintained by MediOpinions. Points are redeemable for cash or rewards as specified and subject to the terms below.

Earning Points

Your ability to earn points is not time-based and we will only award you points, which will be deposited into your account in return for your participation in activities authorised by MediOpinions, which include, but are not limited to, registration as a panellist, completion of demographic profiles and completion of qualitative or quantitative marketing research activities conducted by MediOpinions, and only in accordance with the specific incentive offer disclosed for each activity.

MediOpinions is dedicated to providing quality data to our clients. To ensure this level of quality, please note that you might not qualify for all Surveys, in which case, the Survey will close, and you will not receive Points. The reasons you might not qualify include but are not limited to:

  • Your profile not corresponding to our client’s target audience
  • Discrepancy in logical suite of responses
  • Untruthful responses or false answers
  • Inappropriate or abusive replies
  • Going too quickly through the questions to properly consider your answers
  • Lapse in attention leading to failed quality checks
  • You may earn Points as follows:
  • Survey Completion: Earn Points for each Survey you qualify for and complete. Points awarded vary by Survey.
  • Personal Interest Survey (Profile) Completion: Panellists can earn additional Points by completing the member Profiles.

The timing of credits for Points depends on the Survey. For some Surveys, credits are applied within a few days; for others, the credits are applied after the Survey has closed.

Although MediOpinions makes every effort to ensure that accounts are credited correctly, it is your responsibility to verify that your Points have been credited properly. If you feel the incentive amounts credited to your account are incorrect, you need to contact MediOpinions by email within 30 days, explaining in full the basis of your claim. Upon receipt of your notice, we will investigate your claim and notify you of our decision to adjust or maintain the amount of Points credited to your account, as we deem appropriate, within thirty (30) days. If we need additional time to decide your claim, we will notify you and will endeavour to render a decision as soon as reasonably practicable. Any decision by us with regard to such a claim will be final.

Expiration of Points

When Points are credited to your account, they will remain valid for a period of 1 year from the date they are earned. If after this period the Points have not been used, they will automatically expire and be deleted from your account. This deduction will always occur towards the end of the month, usually on the 28th day. Points cannot be redeemed after the expiration date.

In addition, all of your Points will immediately expire and be forfeited in the event that you cancel your account with MediOpinions or if your account becomes "inactive." To be an active member means that you have joined MediOpinions and participated in a Survey or other activities on this Site within 12 months from your initial registration or within the preceding 12 months. We will not provide you with any notice of the cancellation and forfeiture of any of your Points. MediOpinions reserves the right to amend these cancellation and forfeiture rules in its sole discretion.

Transferability

Points may not be assigned, transferred and/or pledged to any third party. You have no property rights or other legal interests in any Points granted pursuant to the MediOpinions Points Program.