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Terms of use of POS and the pos-pal.org web site
POS and the related system of questionnaires, including STAS and the POS family of measures, are copyright. License for use of any version of POS is granted free of charge. However you may not charge for use of POS. If you provide POS to others you must ensure that they register and adhere to these conditions.
 
POS and the related system of questionnaires can be used in clinical practice, clinical audit and research. We provide POS free of charge because we want it to be used to help support clinical care, audit, research and education to improve the care and support for patients and those close to them.
 
POS users and investigators are required to notify us of any related reports or publications as they become available. Since scale construction and validation are developmental processes, we also appreciate a willingness on the part of clinicians and investigator(s) to share relevant components of results to further reliability and validity testing (where applicable and appropriate).
 
You may not change the wording or phrasing of any POS item without previous permission. You may, however, add items - e.g. additional symptoms to POS-S, or items of particular interest to POS. This may be useful for your circumstances. Please notify us if you do this and follow the same format of POS questions. These addition items cannot be considered to be part of POS, until they have been subject to appropriate testing, but can be used alongside POS.
 
All reproductions of the POS family of measures questionnaires should contain the statement: "Reproduced with the permission of Irene Higginson, Cicely Saunders Institute and King's College London as the Intellectual Property owners of the [insert POS version title]".
 
In all publications, presentations and when the POS is used, relevant POS papers should be referenced, and permission for use of POS should be acknowledged.

Use of your information

We will use your information to provide you with the information, services or products that you have requested, any updates on POS and related questionnaires, and to undertake anonymous analysis of POS users and their needs. If you have requested this, we may also send you information on related activities.
 
We require you to register to access some parts of the site and to download POS documents. This helps us to understand POS use, to provide better support for those using POS and assists in research and improving care. As a legitimate interest, we record which documents you download. Where you provide optional information, we use that for general research into POS and Palliative Care. Where you provide extra contact details we may also use those to contact you – generally only if email has failed.
 
All of your data is stored and processed within the European Union and the UK. We never share personal information with third parties. We do not use cookies to track your activities and we neither attempt to correlate your activities on other sites nor give information that would permit others to do so.
 
When you register you agree to receive emails about POS and may also opt for additional information. You may change this at any time via your profile page on the web site or by emailing . If you wish to retain your account but no longer wish to receive any emails you should email . Provided you have not downloaded any documents you can also request that all information we hold on you be deleted.
 
You can read our detailed POS privacy statement here.

Cookie use

This site uses two cookies to track registered users. "MoodleSession" is used to record your status as logged in and expires when you close your browser. "MOODLEID_" is used to remind you of your username on future visits and has a lifetime of six months.

Liabilities

The POS web site comes under the same terms and conditions of use as the Cicely Saunders Institute site at www.csi.kcl.ac.uk and the main King's College London website at www.kcl.ac.uk.
 
We give no warranty as to the accuracy of the information or guidance for any specific purpose. The information and guidance contained on the website does not constitute legal or professional advice. All implied warranties and conditions are excluded, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
 
We are in no way responsible or liable for any damage or loss whatsoever arising from viewing or downloading information from this website and from the use of, or reliance on, the information and guidance on this website, although this does not affect claims in respect of death or personal injury caused by negligence.
 
Any links to third parties websites are provided for convenience only. We have no control over such websites and accept no liability for their content.
 
We reserve the right at all times to vary, change, alter, amend or remove any of these terms. By browsing the website you accept that you are bound by the current terms and conditions and notices, and we therefore recommend that you check these each time you revisit the site.
 
You must not use this website, and/or any interactive facilities which are available through it to: commit or encourage unlawful acts or in breach of these terms of use; misrepresent your identity; hack, or attempt to hack, any part of the website or any system used to run it; store personal data derived from the website; post material that is obscene, offensive, or otherwise unlawful; technically harm the website and/or its systems (including, without limitation, computer viruses or malicious software or harmful data).
 
While we try to make this website available 24 hours a day, we reserve the right to suspend or withdraw access, without notice, to either the whole or part of the website, for any reason.

Copyright

This site and its content are protected by copyright. The content of this website may be viewed, printed or downloaded for personal, non-commercial use only. It is not to be modified, reproduced, transmitted, published or otherwise made available in whole or in part without our prior written consent.
 
In no event shall any user of this website use the name or logo of POS, King's College London, or Cicely Saunders Institute or any of its trademarks, other than on POS questionnaires or with the express written consent of an authorised representative.
 
These terms and conditions represent the entire agreement between the parties in regard to the website. We are entitled to alter or amend the website and the terms and conditions without notice. English law governs these terms and your use of this website and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
 
 
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