Privacy Policy
The last update to our Privacy Policy was posted on June 16, 2021.
This document governs the privacy policy of our website, www.themontfortgroup.com.
Any capitalized terms not defined herein will have the same meaning as where they are defined elsewhere on our website.
Definitions
“Non-Personal Information” (NPI) is information that is in no way personally identifiable and that is obtained automatically when you access our Website with a web browser.
“Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is non-public information that is personally identifiable to you and obtained for us to provide you with a product or service. PII may include information such as your name, address, phone number, credit card information, and other related information that you provide to us.
Our Commitment to Your Privacy
Our Privacy Policy tells you what PII we may collect from you, how we may share your PII, and how you can limit our sharing of your PII.
The Montfort Group, PLLC is committed to the security and privacy of all our clients. We take your privacy seriously, and we will work with you to ensure that you have an enjoyable online experience.
The Montfort Group, PLLC and our affiliates respect your privacy and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of your PII you share with us.
As a part of our commitment, we have adopted the guidelines used by the Direct Marketing Association Privacy Promise to American consumers. Other than as necessary to provide you with goods and services, we agree to (1) provide our clients with notice of their ability to opt out of information exchanges with our affiliates; (2) honor our clients’ requests not to have their information transferred to our affiliates; and (3) honor our clients’ requests not to receive solicitations from our affiliates.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. You understand that these websites are not under our control and are not subject to our Privacy Policy. These websites will likely have their own privacy policies. We have no responsibility for these websites and provide links to these websites solely for your convenience.
You acknowledge that your use and access of these websites is solely at your own risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy policies of these websites to see how they treat your personal information.
Information We Collect
Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide to us when using our website. As a visitor to our website, you can browse our website to find out more about us. You are not required to provide us with any PII as a visitor.
However, if you register as a member to use our Website, you must provide PII in order for us to provide you with various features and/or functionality from our website. As a member, we collect your PII in the following ways:
Online Forms
There may be online forms used on our website. The information you enter into these online forms may contain PII.
Computer Information Collected
When you use our website, we automatically collect certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our website. Such information is typically considered NPI. We may also collect any of the following:
Web Beacons
We may also use a technology called, web beacons, to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people that open our emails. Our web beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our website. We do not link NPI from web beacons to PII without your permission.
Automatic Information
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you’re headed when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the internet, your internet website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our website.
Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the
DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following link:
Google ad and content network policies
How Information is Used
We use PII that you provide for our internal purposes, such as offering our services to you, confirming and tracking your order, subscription or registration; analyzing statistics and demographics; and informing you of new products, services, and offers as provided by us and/or our affiliates.
Our affiliates may have products, services, or offers about which you may be interested in receiving information and they may use the PII we have for you to contact you. If you don’t want to receive information from our affiliates, you can let us know so you’re no longer contacted by our affiliates about their products, services, or offers.
We may also combine information you give us online or through printed forms; publicly available information; and information we receive from other parties. We use this combined information for your online experience and to let you know about new products, services, offers, and other promotions.
To give you the best possible service, we may use our affiliates to provide contracted services for our business, including, but not limited to processing credit cards, hosting our website, shipping products to you, or advertising. In many cases, we will need to provide some if not all the PII you provide to use so our affiliates can perform these services. Our affiliates are only authorized to use your PII as provided within this Privacy Policy.
There are times that we may have to disclose your PII to comply with state and federal laws; to assist law enforcement and governmental agencies in preventing or investigating fraud or other crimes, or in response to a court order. In such instances, we will only provide the PII requested and your PII will only be used for legal purposes as opposed to marketing.
Finally, if we sold or transferred our business, we would transfer your PII to the purchaser as appropriate and might also retain a copy of your PII for any new business ventures we would start.
Changing Your Information
You may change your PII at any time using facilities found on our website. If you need assistance with updating your PII or removing yourself from our mailing lists, just send us an email with your request or contact us using the Contact Us information found on our website.
Opting Out of Sharing Information
You can always opt out of future unaffiliated third-party disclosures of your information. Such opt-out will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers who provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management, or promotional services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments or otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept.
“Do Not Track” Settings
Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website does not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website.
Change and turn off tracking features in your browser.
You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by visiting the following links:
For Internet Explorer visit: http://goo.gl/0taI7I
For Mozilla Firefox visit: http://goo.gl/IKxt9l
For Google Chrome visit: http://goo.gl/NQIkqE
For Safari visit: http://goo.gl/7XCOzL
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Google provides a free add-on to most major browsers that you can install to prevent your data from being collected and used by Google Analytics. Visit the following link to download the free
Google Opt-out Add-on Tool: http://goo.gl/Ls82zv
Protecting Your Child’s Privacy
We follow the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Even though our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 18 (child), we realize that a child may attempt to access our website. We do not knowingly collect PII from a child. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child is using our website, please contact us. We may ask for proof of identification before we remove any information to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover on our own that a child is accessing our website, we will delete the information as soon as we discover it, we will not use the information for any purpose, and we will not disclose the information to third parties. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so. If you are a child, please seek the permission of a parent or guardian before accessing our website.
Our Email Policy
Our affiliates and we fully comply with the federal CAN-SPAM Act. You can always opt out of receipt of further email correspondence from us or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third-party without your permission.
Our Security Policy
We have taken steps to build our website using sophisticated encryption and authentication tools to protect the security of your PII. When we collect your PII through our website, we will encrypt your PII before it travels over the internet using industry standards as established for conducting secure online transactions. We also use industry standard technologies such as secure routers and firewalls to make sure that your PII is safe. Unfortunately, we cannot fully guarantee secure data transmission over the internet because of its nature.
Once we receive your PII, we have industry standard security measures in place to protect against the loss or misuse of your PII, though again, we cannot fully guarantee against such loss or misuse. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you are done using it, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.
Use of Credit Cards
You may have to provide a credit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and HAVE NO CONTROL over these services. We use our commercially reasonable efforts to make sure that your credit card number is kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.
Once we receive your PII, we have industry standard security measures in place to protect against the loss or misuse of your PII, though again, we cannot fully guarantee against such loss or misuse. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you are done using it, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
As necessary to address changes in laws or our business practices, we may modify our Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, to address these changes. We will typically notify users by some message on our website home page that our Privacy Policy has changed. We will also change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy are effective as of this last updated date and replace any prior Privacy Policies. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy periodically to make sure you still agree with it.Once we receive your PII, we have industry standard security measures in place to protect against the loss or misuse of your PII, though again, we cannot fully guarantee against such loss or misuse. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you are done using it, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.
Questions about Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us using the Contact Us information found on our website.
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions, as well as, HIPAA privacy information pages.
Terms & Conditions
Published by The Montfort Group, PLLC | 5309 Village Creek Dr. Ste. 100 | Plano, TX 75093
This web page represents a legal document and is the Terms of Use (Agreement) for our website, www.themontfortgroup.com (website). By using our website, you agree to fully comply with and be bound by the following agreement each time you use our website. Please review the following terms carefully.
Our Services
This website provides information on the services provided by The Montfort Group, PLLC and its affiliates, as well as, company contact and location information. The website provides basic information on a variety of mental health topics, and is solely intended for the use of information purposes. The website also provides the consumer the opportunity to contact The Montfort Group, PLLC with any inquiries. No content on this website, including suggestions, advice or information is intended to be considered or used as medical or mental health treatment. Any attempt to treat a medical or mental health condition should come under the direction of a licensed and credentialed professional. This website is not intended to be used as healthcare treatment (Services).
Definitions
The terms “us” or “we” or “our” refers to The Montfort Group, PLLC, the owner of this website. A “visitor” is someone that merely browses our website. A “member” is someone who has registered with our website to use our services. The term “user” is a collective identifier that refers to either a visitor or a member.
All text, information, graphics, design, and data offered through our website or services, whether produced by our members or by us, are collectively known as our “content”. We distinguish content posted by our members as “member content”.
Acceptance of Agreement
This agreement is between you and The Montfort Group, PLLC.
THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND OTHER PROVISIONS THAT LIMITS OUR LIABILITY TO YOU. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY, AS USING, ACCESSING AND/OR BROWSING OUR WEBSITE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND TO EACH AND EVERY TERM AND CONDITION SET FORTH HEREIN, PLEASE EXIT OUR WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY AND DO NOT USE, ACCESS AND/OR BROWSE IT FURTHER.
Except as otherwise noted, this agreement constitutes the entire and only agreement between you and The Montfort Group, PLLC, and supersedes all other agreements, representations, warranties and understandings with respect to our website, services, and the subject matter contained herein. However, in order for you to use our website and/or services, you may also be required to agree to additional terms and conditions. Those additional terms and conditions will be incorporated into this agreement unless otherwise stated.
We may amend this agreement at any time without specific notice to you. The latest agreement will be posted on our website, and you should review this agreement prior to using our website. After any revisions to this agreement are posted, you agree to be bound to any changes to this agreement. Therefore, it is important for you to visit this page periodically to review the agreement. Please read this agreement carefully and save it. If you do not accept this agreement, do not access and use our website. If you have already accessed our website and do not accept this agreement, you should immediately discontinue use of our website and services.
Limited License
The Montfort Group, PLLC grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use our website and services strictly in accordance with this agreement. Your use of our website and services are solely for internal, personal, non-commercial purposes, unless otherwise provided in this agreement. No print out or electronic version of any part of our website or services may be used by you in any litigation or arbitration matter whatsoever under any circumstances.
Legal Compliance
You agree to comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our website, content, services, and any software provided therein.
Our Relationship to You
This agreement in no way creates any agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship between you and The Montfort Group, PLLC.
Our Intellectual Property
Our website may contain our service marks or trademarks as well as those of our affiliates or other companies, in the form of words, graphics, and logos. Your use of our website or services does not constitute any right or license for you to use our service marks or trademarks, without the prior written permission of The Montfort Group, PLLC.
The Montfort Group logo, colors, and taglines are the sole intellectual property of The Montfort Group, PLLC.
The copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any such content, is strictly prohibited. Your use of our website and services does not grant you any ownership rights to our content.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act Compliance
Our website will respond quickly to claims of copyright infringement as found in our content, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) as found under United States law (17 USC. § 512). If you believe any of your copyrights are infringed by our content, please provide us with a written notice via mail, fax, or email that contains the following information:
1) An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
2) A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
3) A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on our website;
4) Your address, telephone number, and email address;
5) A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6) A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
We are only required to respond to those notices that substantially comply with the above requirements. We will investigate your claim and will notify by the method of contact you used to file your notice with us.
Eligibility and Registration for Membership
To use some of our services, you might need to register with our website to become a member. Your membership is not transferable or assignable and is void where prohibited. This is intended solely for users who are at least age (18) years of age or older.
Any registration by, use of or access to our website by anyone under such, is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of these Terms of Use. By using our website and/or service, you represent and warrant that you are (18) or older and that you agree to and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this agreement. The Montfort Group, PLLC has sole right and discretion to determine whether to accept a member, and may reject a member’s registration, with or without explanation.
When you complete the registration process, you will receive a password that will allow you to access certain Services. You agree to maintain the confidentiality of your password and are fully responsible for all liability and damages resulting from your failure to maintain that confidentiality and all activities that occur through the use of your password.
You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or any other breach of security. You agree that Our Website cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with password security as discussed herein.
Content Disclaimer
The opinions expressed on our website are not necessarily the opinions of The Montfort Group, PLLC. Any blog content provided by our bloggers are of the blogger’s opinion, and is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything.
The content may be changed without notice and is not guaranteed to be complete, correct, timely, current or up-to-date. Similar to any printed materials, the content may become out-of-date.
We undertake no obligation to update any content on our website. Members are responsible for their own content, where applicable, and may update their content at any time without notice and at their sole discretion. We reserve the right to make alterations or deletions to the content at any time without notice.
Errors, Corrections and Changes
We do not represent or otherwise warrant that our website will be error-free, free from viruses or other harmful components, or that we will correct any errors. We do not represent or otherwise warrant that the information available on or through our website will be correct, accurate, timely or otherwise reliable.
We may make changes to the features, functionality or content of our website or services at any time. We reserve the right in our sole discretion to edit or remove any documents, information or other content appearing on our website or services.
Financial, Legal and Other Advice Disclaimer
You hereby acknowledge that nothing contained in our website shall constitute financial, investment, legal and/or other professional advice and that no professional relationship of any kind is created between you and The Montfort Group, PLLC or our members. You hereby agree that you shall not make any financial, investment, legal and/or other decision based in whole or in part on anything contained in our website or services.
Advertisers and Sponsors Disclaimer
Our website may contain advertising and sponsorships. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on our website is accurate and complies with applicable laws. We are not responsible for the illegality or any error, inaccuracy or problem in the advertiser’s or sponsor’s materials.
THE INCLUSION OF THIRD PARTY ADVERTISEMENTS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN ENDORSEMENT, GUARANTEE, WARRANTY, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE MONTFORT GROUP, PLLC AND WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE CONTAINED THEREIN.
Merchant and Advertisement Disclaimer
We may allow access to or advertise certain third-party product or service providers (“merchants”) from which you may purchase certain goods or services. You understand that we do not operate or control the products or services offered by merchants. Merchants are responsible for all aspects of order processing, fulfillment, billing and customer service. We are not a party to the transactions entered into between you and merchants.
You agree that use of or purchase from such merchants is AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND IS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND BY US, EXPRESSED, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF TITLE, FITNESS FOR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE ARE NOT LIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ARE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN YOU AND MERCHANTS OR FOR ANY INFORMATION APPEARING ON MERCHANT WEBSITES OR ANY OTHER WEBSITE LINKED TO OUR WEBSITE.
All rules, legal documents (including privacy policies) and operating procedures of merchants will apply to you while on any merchant websites. We are not responsible for information provided by you to merchants. Our relationship to merchants is solely as independent contractors and neither party has authority to make any representations or commitments on behalf of the other.
Warranty Disclaimer
The Montfort Group, PLLC is not responsible or liable in any manner for any content posted on our website or in connection with our services, whether posted or caused by members of our website, or by The Montfort Group, PLLC. Although we provide rules for member conduct and postings, we do not control and are not responsible for what members post, transmit or share on our website or services, and are not responsible for any offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable content you may encounter on our website or services. The Montfort Group, PLLC is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of our website or services.
Our website or services may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. The Montfort Group, PLLC assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, member communications.
The Montfort Group, PLLC is not responsible for any technical malfunction or other problems of any telephone network or service, computer systems, servers or providers, computer or mobile phone equipment, software, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or any combination thereof, including injury or damage to Member’s or to any other person’s computer, mobile phone, or other hardware or software, related to or resulting from using or downloading materials in connection with the our website or services, including without limitation any software provide through our website or services.
Under no circumstances will The Montfort Group, PLLC be responsible for any loss or damage, including any loss or damage or personal injury or death, resulting from anyone’s use of our website or services, or any interactions between users of our website or services, whether online or offline.
The Montfort Group, PLLC reserves the right to change any and all content, software and other items used or contained in our website or services, at any time without notice. Reference to any products, services, processes or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by our website, by third parties or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized by our services.
THE INFORMATION, CONTENT AND DOCUMENTS FROM OR THROUGH OUR WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS-IS,” “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH “ALL FAULTS”, AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE DISCLAIMED (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE DISCLAIMER OF ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE). OUR WEBSITE AND SERVICES MAY CONTAIN BUGS, ERRORS, PROBLEMS OR OTHER LIMITATIONS. THE MONTFORT GROUP, PLLC, INCLUDING ALL OUR AFFILIATES, HAVE NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES. THE MONTFORT GROUP, PLLC CANNOT GUARANTEE AND DOES NOT PROMISE ANY SPECIFIC RESULTS FROM USE OF OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, RELATED SOFTWARE. THE MONTFORT GROUP, PLLC DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT OUR CONTENT, OUR SERVICES, OR ANY SOFTWARE FOUND WITHIN ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, CURRENT OR ERROR-FREE OR THAT ANY SUCH ITEMS ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IN THE USE AND DOWNLOADING OF ANY SUCH CONTENT OR SOFTWARE AND USE INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED SOFTWARE TO DETECT AND REMOVE VIRUSES. ALL RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY VIRUSES SOMEHOW ATTRIBUTED TO OUR CONTENT, SERVICES, AND RELATED SOFTWARE IS DISCLAIMED. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU DOWNLOAD OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN CONTENT AND RELATED SOFTWARE FROM OR THROUGH OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR USE THEREOF AND ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR MOBILE DEVICE OR COMPUTER SYSTEM, LOSS OF DATA OR OTHER HARM OF ANY KIND THAT MAY RESULT. WE, AS WELL AS ALL OF OUR AFFILIATES, ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF PROFITS, LITIGATION, OR THE LIKE), WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE NEGATION AND LIMITATION OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND [OUR COMPANY]. OUR WEBSITE AND SERVICES WOULD NOT BE PROVIDED WITHOUT SUCH LIMITATIONS. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US THROUGH OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION OR GUARANTEE NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS AGREEMENT.
Limitation of Liability
The Montfort Group, PLLC, as well as all our affiliates, shall not be liable for any loss, injury, claim, liability, or damage of any kind resulting in any way from (a) any errors in or omissions from our website or services, (b) any product liability issues to the extent that we are not involved with the manufacturer of the product(s) giving rise to liability, (c) the unavailability or interruption of our website or services, (d) your use of our website our content, (e) the content contained on our website or services, or (f) any delay or failure in performance of our website and services beyond our control.
IN NO EVENT WILL THE MONTFORT GROUP, PLLC OR ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR LOST DATA ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE, CONTENT, SERVICES, OR ANY RELATED SOFTWARE, ACCESSED THROUGH OR DOWNLOADED FROM OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES, EVEN IF THE MONTFORT GROUP, PLLC IS AWARE OR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, THE MONTFORT GROUP, PLLC’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO US FOR WEBSITE AND/OR SERVICES ACCESS DURING THE PREVIOUS MONTH OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY.
User Conduct
Users may post their own content to our website through our services (user content). Members and visitors understand that by using our website or service, they may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent, or objectionable. We have no control over user content and do not in any way guarantee the quality, accuracy or integrity of such content. The Montfort Group, PLLC is not responsible for the monitoring or filtering of any user content. Should any user content be found illegal, The Montfort Group, PLLC will submit all necessary information to the proper authorities.
If any user content is reported to The Montfort Group, PLLC as being offensive or appropriate, we may ask the user to retract or otherwise modify the questionable content within 24 hours of being notified by The Montfort Group, PLLC. Should the user fail to meet such a request, The Montfort Group, PLLC has full authority to either restrict the users’ ability to post user content OR to immediately terminate the membership of the member, without further notification to the member.
Without limiting the foregoing, we have sole discretion to remove any user content that violates this agreement or is otherwise objectionable in our sole discretion.
Users are responsible for complying with all applicable federal and state laws for their content, including copyright and trademark laws. Users shall respect copyright and trademark laws.
You warrant that you will not use our services to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way. In accordance with the DMCA and other applicable law, we have adopted a policy of terminating members who we deem, in our sole discretion, to be infringers of other’s intellectual property rights.
As a member, you agree not to use our services to do any of the following:
1) Upload, post or otherwise transmit any member content that:
a. Violates any local, state, federal, or international laws.
b. Infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party.
c. Harms, threatens, defames, promotes violence or illegal activities, or is otherwise vulgar, obscene, abusive, harassing, tortuous, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethically or otherwise objectionable.
d. Links directly or indirectly to any materials to which you do not have a right to link.
e. Contains any private information of any third party, including, without limitation, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers and credit card numbers.
f. contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment, or to extract information from our website or services.
g. Contains any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation.
h. You do not have a right to transmit under any law (i.e. intellectual property laws) or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (i.e. non-disclosure agreements).
i. In the sole judgment of The Montfort Group, PLLC, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying our website or services, or which may expose The Montfort Group, PLLC, our affiliates, or our users to any harm or liability of any type.
2) Use our content to:
a. Develop a competing website.
b. Create compilations or derivative works as defined under United States copyright laws.
c. Re-distribute it in any manner, including, but not limited to, sale, license, lease, rental, subscription, or any other distribution mechanism.
3) Decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer our website, services, and any related software.
4) Use our website or services in any manner that violates this agreement or any local, state, federal, or international laws.
In general, The Montfort Group, PLLC does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from users under the age of eighteen. If you are under 18, you may use www.themontfortgroup.com only with permission of a parent or guardian.
Use of Information
We reserve the right, and you authorize us, to the use and assignment of all of your information regarding your use of our website and services in any manner consistent with our Privacy Policy.
All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information communicated by you to us (collectively, “submission”) is considered assigned to us and is as such considered our property. We will not be required to treat any submission as confidential, and will not be liable for any ideas (including without limitation, product, service or advertising ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in our future products, services or operations.
Without limitation, we will have exclusive ownership of all present and future existing rights to the submission of every kind and nature everywhere. We will be entitled to use the submission for any commercial or other purpose whatsoever, without compensation to you or any other person sending the submission. You acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material you submit, and you, not us, have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.
Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy is considered part of this Agreement. You must review this Privacy Policy by clicking on this link.
Unlawful Activity
We reserve the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of this agreement and to take any action we deem appropriate, including but not limited to reporting any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties and disclosing any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities relating to your profile, email addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP addresses and traffic information.
Linking to Our Website
You may provide links to our website, provided (a) that you do not remove or obscure, by framing or otherwise, any portion of our website, (b) your website does not engage in illegal or pornographic activities, and (c) you discontinue providing links to our website immediately upon request by us.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may, from time to time, contain links to third party websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you. By linking to these websites, we do not create or have an affiliation with, or sponsor such third party websites. Inclusion of links for any website on our website does not mean that we endorse, guarantee, warrant, or recommend the services, information, content and/or data of such third party websites. The Montfort Group, PLLC has no control over the legal documents and privacy practices of third party websites; as such, you access any such third party websites at your own risk.
Payments
You represent and warrant that if you are purchasing something from us that (i) any credit information you supply is true and complete, (ii) charges incurred by you will be honored by your bank or credit card company, (iii) you will pay the charges incurred by you at the posted prices, including any applicable taxes, and (iv) if your initial payment method is dishonored, you will still pay the charges incurred, including any surcharge we may incur due to such dishonored payment.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us and our partners, agents, officers, directors, employees, subcontractors, successors, assigns, third party suppliers of information and documents, attorneys, advertisers, product and service providers, and affiliates harmless from any liability, loss, claim and expense, including reasonable attorney’s fees, related to your violation of this agreement or use of our website or services.
Arbitration
Any legal controversy or legal claim arising out of or relating to this agreement and/or our service, excluding legal action taken by us to collect or recover damages for, or obtain any injunction relating to, website operations, intellectual property, and our service, shall be settled solely by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party.
The arbitration shall be conducted in Collin County, Texas and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or us may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in Collin County, Texas necessary to protect the rights or property of you and us pending the completion of arbitration. Each party shall bear one-half of the arbitration fees and costs.
General Terms
This agreement shall be treated as though it were executed and performed in Collin County, Texas, and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas without regard to conflict of law principles. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts. Any cause of action by you with respect to our website or service must be instituted within one (1) year after the cause of action arose or be forever waived and barred. Should any part of this agreement be held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed consistent with applicable law and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. To the extent that any content is in conflict or inconsistent with this agreement, this agreement shall take precedence. Our failure to enforce any provision of this agreement shall not be deemed a waiver of such provision nor of the right to enforce such provision. Our rights under this agreement shall survive any termination of this agreement.
Please also visit our Privacy Policy, as well as, HIPAA privacy information pages.
HIPAA Privacy
This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.
Your Rights
- Get a copy of your paper or electronic medical record
- Correct your paper or electronic medical record
- Request confidential communication
- Ask us to limit the information we share
- Get a list of those with whom we’ve shared your information
- Get a copy of this privacy notice
- Choose someone to act for you
- File a complaint if you believe your privacy rights have been violated
Your Choice
- Tell family and friends about your condition
- Provide disaster relief
- Include you in a hospital directory
- Provide mental health care
- Market our services and sell your information
- Raise funds
Our Uses and Disclosures
- Treat you
- Run our organization
- Bill for your services
Your Rights
Get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record
- You can ask to see or get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record and other health information we have about you. Ask us how to do this.
- We will provide a copy or a summary of your health information, usually within 30 days of your request. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
Ask us to correct your medical record
- You can ask us to correct health information about you that you think is incorrect or incomplete. Ask us how to do this.
- We may say “no” to your request, but we’ll tell you why in writing within 60 days.
Request confidential communications
- You can ask us to contact you in a specific way (for example, home or office phone) or to send mail to a different address.
- We will say “yes” to all reasonable requests.
Ask us to limit what we use or share
- You can ask us not to use or share certain health information for treatment, payment, or our operations. We are not required to agree to your request, and we may say “no” if it would affect your care.
- If you pay for a service or health care item out-of-pocket in full, you can ask us not to share that information for the purpose of payment or our operations with your health insurer. We will say “yes” unless a law requires us to share that information.
Get a list of those with whom we’ve shared information
- You can ask for a list (accounting) of the times we’ve shared your health information for six years prior to the date you ask, who we shared it with, and why.
- We will include all the disclosures except for those about treatment, payment, and health care operations, and certain other disclosures (such as any you asked us to make). We’ll provide one accounting a year for free but will charge a reasonable, cost-based fee if you ask for another one within 12 months.
Get a copy of this privacy notice
- You can ask for a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you have agreed to receive the notice electronically. We will provide you with a paper copy promptly.
Choose someone to act for you
- If you have given someone medical power of attorney or if someone is your legal guardian, that person can exercise your rights and make choices about your health information.
- We will make sure the person has this authority and can act for you before we take any action.
File a complaint if you feel your rights are violated
- You can complain if you feel we have violated your rights by contacting us using the information on page 1.
- You can file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights by sending a letter to 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, calling 1-877-696-6775, or visiting www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/.
- We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Your Choices
In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us to:
- Share information with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care
- Share information in a disaster relief situation
- Include your information in a hospital directory
If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, we may go ahead and share your information if we believe it is in your best interest. We may also share your information when needed to lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.
In these cases we never share your information unless you give us written permission:
- Marketing purposes
- Sale of your information
- Most sharing of psychotherapy notes
In the case of fundraising:
- We may contact you for fundraising efforts, but you can tell us not to contact you again.
How else can we use or share your health information?
Help with public health and safety issues
We can share health information about you for certain situations such as:
- Preventing disease
- Helping with product recalls
- Reporting adverse reactions to medications
- Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence
- Preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety
Do research
- We can use or share your information for health research.
Comply with the law
- We will share information about you if state or federal laws require it, including with the Department of Health and Human Services if it wants to see that we’re complying with federal privacy law.
Respond to organ and tissue donation requests
- We can share health information about you with organ procurement organizations.
- Work with a medical examiner or funeral director
- We can share health information with a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director when an individual dies.
Address workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests
- We can use or share health information about you:
- For workers’ compensation claims
- For law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official
- With health oversight agencies for activities authorized by law
- For special government functions such as military, national security, and presidential protective services
Respond to lawsuits and legal actions
- We can share health information about you in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.
understanding/consumers/index.html.
Help with public health and safety issues
- We can share health information about you for certain situations such as:
- Preventing disease
- Helping with product recalls
- Reporting adverse reactions to medications
- Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence
- Preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety
Do research
- We can use or share your information for health research.
Comply with the law
- We will share information about you if state or federal laws require it, including with the Department of Health and Human Services if it wants to see that we’re complying with federal privacy law.
Respond to organ and tissue donation requests
- We can share health information about you with organ procurement organizations.
- Work with a medical examiner or funeral director
- We can share health information with a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director when an individual dies.
Address workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests
- We can use or share health information about you:
- For workers’ compensation claims
- For law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official
- With health oversight agencies for activities authorized by law
- For special government functions such as military, national security, and presidential protective services
Respond to lawsuits and legal actions
- We can share health information about you in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.
Our Responsibilities
- We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
- We will let you know promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
- We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and give you a copy of it.
- We will not use or share your information other than as described here unless you tell us we can in writing. If you tell us we can, you may change your mind at any time. Let us know in writing if you change your mind.
For more information see: www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/
understanding/consumers/noticepp.html
- We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.
- We will let you know promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
- We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and give you a copy of it.
- We will not use or share your information other than as described here unless you tell us we can in writing. If you tell us we can, you may change your mind at any time. Let us know in writing if you change your mind.
For more information see: www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/noticepp.html
Changes to the Terms of this Notice
Other Notices
- Effective June 16, 2021
- We never market or sell personal information.
- Your use of www.themontfortgroup.com means that you accept this website’s Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
