Terms & Conditions

The Website and all material contained on the Website (including images, text, documents and look and feel attributes) is protected by law, including but not limited to, United States and international copyright law, trademark, and other intellectual property laws, and is owned, controlled, or licensed by L.A. Care Health Plan. L.A. Care Health Plan reserves all rights. ANY UNAUTHORIZED COPYING, REPRODUCTION, REPUBLISHING, UPLOADING, DOWNLOADING, POSTING, TRANSMITTING OR DUPLICATING THE MATERIAL, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IS PROHIBITED. In addition, removing or altering any copyright or proprietary rights notice on any material on the Website is prohibited. L.A. Care Health Plan also owns a copyright for this Website as a collective work and/or compilation, and in the selection, coordination, arrangement, organization and enhancement of Website content. Provided that you agree to and accept without modification these Terms and Conditions, L.A. Care Health Plan grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable, terminable, limited, and non-transferable license to visit, view, and retain a copy of pages of the Website for your own personal, non-commercial use only. You may not modify, copy (except as set forth in the preceding sentence), distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, create derivative works from, license or sublicense, assign, or otherwise transfer this license or any of the information, material, software, products or services from this Website. Unless specifically authorized in writing by L.A. Care Health Plan, any commercial use of the Website or materials therein is prohibited. Modification of any L.A. Care Health Plan materials for any commercial use is a violation of these Terms and Conditions and

L.A. Care Health Plan’s copyright, service mark, and other proprietary rights. Use or misuse of these materials or any trademarks, service mark, logos or other proprietary rights is expressly prohibited and may violate federal and state law. The law provides for civil and criminal penalties for copyright and other intellectual property law infringements.

Nothing contained, expressed or implied on the Website is intended as nor shall be construed as medical advice. No doctor-patient relationship is established between L.A. Care Health Plan and you by reason of your use of this Website or under any circumstances whatsoever. Individual inquiries about medical issues, or sensitive or confidential matters should be addressed to appropriate health care professionals. IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, YOU SHOULD NOT RELY ON THIS WEBSITE FOR ASSISTANCE, BUT SHOULD INSTEAD PROMPTLY SEEK APPROPRIATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE.

Please be advised that any communication or material transmitted to L.A. Care Health Plan via www.lacare.org or Internet electronic mail is sent via non-secure transmissions, including personal information such as your address or social security number. When you transmit information via the Internet, your information will be transmitted over a medium that is beyond our control, and therefore the security of the transmission may be compromised before it reaches us. Accordingly, L.A. Care Health Plan makes no guarantee, warranty or representation as to confidentiality or security. To help provide private and personalized attention, you may contact L.A. Care Health Plan by telephone at (213) 694-1250, or write us at L.A. Care Health Plan, 555 West Fifth Street 29th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90013, Attn. Web Team.

Use of this Website is entirely at your own risk. Neither L.A. Care Health Plan nor its affiliates are responsible for the consequences of reliance on any information contained in or submitted to the Website, nor do we guarantee that this Website will be error-free and continuously available. The risk of injury from the forgoing rests entirely with you. The Website and the materials on the Website are provided “as is” without guarantee, warranty or representation of any kind, either expressed or implied. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, L.A. CARE HEALTH PLAN, ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND SUPPLIERS, SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL GUARANTEES, WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITATION, L.A. CARE HEALTH PLAN, ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND SUPPLIERS MAKE NO GUARANTEES, WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE WEBSITE, OR ANY SERVERS ARE OR WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. IN ADDITION, L.A. CARE HEALTH PLAN, ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND SUPPLIERS MAKE NO GUARANTEES, WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE CONTENT OR MATERIALS ON THE WEBSITE OR ON ANY OTHER SITE. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

This Website may, for the convenience of users in locating information and services that may be of interest, reference or link to other third-party sites throughout the Web (“Third-Party Sites”). Users of the Website acknowledge that these third-party sites are maintained by persons or organizations over which L.A. Care Health Plan exercises no control, and L.A. Care Health Plan expressly disclaims any responsibility for the content, the accuracy of the information and/or quality of products or services provided by or advertised on these third-party sites. L.A. Care Health Plan does not control, endorse, promote, or have any affiliation with any other Website unless expressly stated in the Website. Your use of Third-Party Sites is solely at your own risk. By using this Website, you understand and agree that you may not make any claim against L.A. Care Health Plan for any damages or losses, whatsoever arising from your the Third-Party Sites.

You acknowledge that L.A. Care Health Plan may or may not pre-screen Forum Contributions, but that L.A. Care Health Plan will have the right in its sole discretion, for any reason whatsoever (or for no reason) to pre-screen, refuse, move, or remove any Forum Contributions that are available via the Website. Without limiting the foregoing, L.A. Care Health Plan may remove any Forum Contributions that violate these Terms and Conditions or are otherwise objectionable in L.A. Care Health Plan’s sole discretion.

You represent and warrant that any registration information you provide to L.A. Care Health Plan is and will remain true and accurate. You are entirely responsible for the security and confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You are responsible for changing your password if you feel that your account has been compromised. You are responsible for taking precautions and providing security measures best suited for your situation and intended use of the Website. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security of which you become aware. Please note that anyone able to provide your personally identifiable information will be able access your account so you should take reasonable steps to protect this information. We have the right to provide user billing, account, content or use records, and related information under certain circumstances (such as in response to legal responsibility, lawful process, orders, subpoenas, or warrants, or to protect our rights, members or the public).

You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Website for any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or any activities conducted on the Website; or (iii) bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Website.

You may establish a hypertext link to this Website from your Website, so long as the page containing the link properly attributes the linked Website to L.A. Care Health Plan and does not state or imply any sponsorship of your Website by L.A. Care Health Plan. We may revoke this permission at any time. Without prior written consent of L.A. Care Health Plan, you may not create a link to this Website that incorporates or relies upon, in whole or in part, any content from any page on this Website, or that incorporates any copyrighted or otherwise intellectual property of L.A. Care Health Plan.

These Terms and Conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without reference to its choice of law rules. By accessing, viewing, or using the Website or materials contained therein, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal and state courts presiding in Los Angeles, California, and agree to accept service of process by mail and hereby waive any and all jurisdictional and venue defenses otherwise available, including any claim or defense that such forum is not convenient or proper. Any claim or dispute between you and L.A. Care Health Plan that arises in whole or in part from the Website will be decided exclusively by the foregoing courts. These provisions herein also apply to anyone claiming on your behalf.

L.A. Care Health Plan welcomes your feedback and suggestions about how to improve our products and services and this Website. By transmitting any suggestions, information, ideas, material, or other content, including any Forum Contributions (collectively, “Feedback”) to L.A. Care Health Plan, you automatically grant L.A. Care Health Plan, its affiliates, and successors and assigns a royalty-free, fully paid up, perpetual, irrevocable, non-terminable, non-exclusive right and license, under all intellectual property rights, to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, redistribute, transmit, perform and display such Feedback (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such Content. Further, L.A. Care Health Plan is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, techniques, and suggestions contained in any communications you send to this Website for any purpose whatever, including but not limited to creating and marketing products and/or services using such information.

This Website is being provided by L.A. Care Health Plan as a courtesy to you, and L.A. Care Health Plan reserves the right to modify, discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this Website, or any part thereof, at any time, with or without notice. In addition, your access to the Website may be discontinued at any time if you violate these Terms and Conditions or if we determine, for any other reason (or for no reason), that it is no longer appropriate for you to have access to the Website. In the event of termination, you are no longer authorized to access the Website and all limitations on L.A. Care Health Plan’s liability and disclaimers regarding your use of the Website, Third Party Sites, and any Forum Contributions will survive.