A Hundred Years From Now...it will not matter how much was in my bank account, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove......but the world may be different because I was important in the life of ONE CHILD! Dr. Da Costa believes that parents should have easy access to their Pediatrician and, a parent can speak directly to her after-hours for a MEDICAL consultation, without having to
go through an answering service. Dr. Da Costa's focuses treatment to the cause of your child's symptoms and believes Good Nutrition is an important part of preventing both acute and chronic illness. Da Costa Pediatrics' staff, parents themselves, understand what it is to be a parent and are dedicated to helping minimize your child's anxiety during their visit to our office and to also minimize the disruption to your family and employment, whether due to an illness or to a yearly check-up. We are open at least two Saturdays of every month. DISCLAIMER:
Our goal is to educate, encourage, and entertain as we provide general pediatric advice. However, please understand that information on the Da Costa Pediatrics Facebook site does not replace your relationship with your pediatric health care provider. Parents should address specific questions about their child’s health with their child’s health care provider and not delay seeking this advice because of content learned from the Da Costa Pediatrics Facebook site. PLEASE READ! BY POSTING ON THE DA COSTA PEDIATRICS (DCP) SITE YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. Da Costa Pediatrics (DCP) has opened a public page for viewing content and/or videos and posting comments. By accessing, viewing and/or posting any content to the DCP Facebook site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the following terms of use. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, you may not view or post any content to the DCP Facebook Site on the internet. Your use of the DCP Facebook site is acceptance of this Policy and has the same effect as if you had actually physically signed an agreement.
1. If you are a DCP Practice employee you must adhere to the Employee Social Media Guidelines. Failure to comply with these policies and procedures may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
2. You must be at least 18 years old to interact with any content on the DCP Facebook site.
3. You are prohibited from posting any content that could be construed as personal, patient or patients’ health information including patient names, health details or images on the DCP Facebook site. You are also prohibited from using the DCP Facebook site to provide medical advice or medical commentary by non-DCP physicians or to use the DCP Facebook site to make, recommend or increase referrals to physicians who are not employed by Da Costa Pediatrics. Compliance with ALL HIPAA and PHI regulations is required at all times.
4. As a guest posting content to the DCP Facebook site on the internet, you agree that you will not: violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including but not limited to copyright and intellectual property rights laws regarding any content that you send or receive via this Policy; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that is unlawful, disruptive, threatening, profane, abusive, harassing, embarrassing, tortuous, defamatory, obscene, libelous, or is an invasion of another's privacy, is hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable as solely determined in Practice discretion; impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; transmit (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising (including advertising of non Practice services or products), promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that contains software viruses, worms, disabling code, 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; harass another; or collect or store, or attempt to collect or store, personal data about third parties without their knowledge or consent; or to share confidential pricing information of any party.
5. DCP reserves the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue your access to the DCP Facebook site, at any time, without notice and for any reason and in its sole discretion. Practice may remove, delete, block, filter or restrict by any other means any materials in DCP's sole discretion. You understand and agree that DCP may disclose your communications and activities with DCP in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, including Patriot Act requests, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of Practice rights. You agree that in the event that DCP exercises any of its rights hereunder for any reason, DCP will have no liability to you.
6. By posting any content on the DCP Facebook site, you grant to DCP the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display such content and the right to create derivative works from your content, edit or modify such content and use such content for any DCP purpose.
7. You shall defend, indemnify, and hold DCP and its corporate affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, successors and assigns harmless from and against, and shall promptly reimburse them for, any and all losses, claims, damages, settlements, costs, and liabilities of any nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys' fees) to which any of them may become subject arising out of, based upon, as a result of, or in any way connected with, your posting of any content to the DCP Facebook site, any third party claims of infringement or any breach of this Policy.
8. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY RELATED TO THE SECURITY, PRIVACY, AND CONFIDENTIALITY RISKS INHERENT IN SENDING ANY CONTENT OVER THE INTERNET. BY ITS VERY NATURE, A WEBSITE AND THE INTERNET CANNOT BE ABSOLUTELY PROTECTED AGAINST INTENTIONAL OR MALICIOUS INTRUSION ATTEMPTS. DCP DOES NOT CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SITES AND THE INTERNET OVER WHICH YOU MAY CHOOSE TO SEND CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL OR HEALTH INFORMATION OR OTHER CONTENT AND, THEREFORE, DCP DOES NOT WARRANT ANY SAFEGUARD AGAINST ANY SUCH INTERCEPTIONS OR COMPROMISES TO YOUR INFORMATION. WHEN POSTING ANY CONTENT ON AN INTERNET SITE, YOU SHOULD THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT YOUR OWN PRIVACY IN DISCLOSING DETAILED OR PRIVATE INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY. FURTHERMORE, DCP DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY PRODUCT, SERVICE, VIEWS OR CONTENT DISPLAYED ON THE DCP FACEBOOK SITE.
9. You agree that any claim or dispute relating to your posting of any content on the DCP Facebook Site on the internet shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida without regard to its conflict of law provisions and you agree to be bound and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local, state or federal courts located in the city of Miami.
10. You may not provide any content to the DCP Facebook Site that contains any product or service endorsements or any content that may be construed as political lobbying, solicitations or contributions or use the DCP Facebook Site to link to any sites or political candidates or parties or use the DCP Facebook Site to discuss political campaigns, issues or for taking a position on any legislation or law.
1. THIS POLICY MAY BE UPDATED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND EACH TIME A USER ACCESSES THE DCP FACEBOOK SITE, THE NEW POLICY WILL GOVERN, USAGE, EFFECTIVE UPON POSTING. To remain in compliance, the DCP suggests that you review the Policy, as well as the other website policies, at regular intervals. By continuing to post any content after such new terms are posted, you accept and agree to any and all such modifications to this Policy.
