You must agree to the following Copyright Notice, Terms & Conditions and the Legal Notice before you can apply for membership in our group. Please read the following page carefully and indicate your agreement or disagreement at the end of the page. This page was last updated on 2/19/2007. If there are subsequent changes made, all active members of Fuchs’ Friends will be notified of the changes by Special Notice on the Message Board.  If a member declines those changes he or she must unsubscribe from the group.  It is not necessary to specifically accept the changes; those who do not unsubscribe will be considered to have accepted the changes.

 

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2002 -2007 - The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation.  All rights reserved.  No part of this web site may, for commercial, profit-making or other non-personal purposes, be reproduced in any form, or stored in a database or retrieval system, or transmitted or distributed in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior written or electronic permission of the The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation, a California Nonprofit Corporation.

Terms and Conditions

The following items are non-negotiable.

If you cannot agree to them, click the I disagree link at the bottom of the page.
 
  1. Our group is called Fuchs' Friends (FF), with members in all of the United States of America and over 40 other countries.
  2. We are a private group, not listed in the YahooGroups directory.
  3. Fuchs' Friends founded their first message board in 1999.  Fuchs’ Friends is the original support group for Fuchs' Corneal Dystrophy.
  4. We are connected to these groups only: Fuchsorama (private sister group), FuchsFriendsUK, fuchs_corneal_dystrophy@yahoogroups.com, cornea_transplant@yahoogroups.com, www.corneatransplant.org and The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation.
  5. Fuchs' Friends owners founded The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation which is an IRS 501(c)(3) approved Tax Exempt Charitable organization.  You can list any deductions to this organization on your Federal Income Tax Schedule A under Charitable Contributions
  6. When you join Fuchs' Friends, nobody asks you for your telephone number or street address. We encourage, but don't require, that you have a Yahoo ID  linked to your email address so that you may more easily manage your Yahoo Groups logon, password, profile, message settings and changes in email addresses.  We discourage members from sharing phone numbers with strangers.  We take privacy seriously.
  7. We do not ask members for money for paid search engine advertisements.  Members join free.  If members wish to contribute, they may claim a taxable deduction (see 5. above) by donating to The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation which supports us.
  8. Fuchs’ Friends does not preach religion nor argue politics.  Members must refrain from discussing religion or politics on our Sites and Message board because they are subjects that can cause serious and disruptive disagreements between members.  Our mission is eye information and support.
  9. We require members to agree to a privacy statement before joining.  You must promise that you will not use member's private email addresses without permission of the emailee. If you are spammed, receive unwanted & unsolicited email from members or are harassed, let a Moderator or Owner know. We report abusers to their ISP and Yahoo.
  10. The FF message board is private, for the personal use of Fuchs' Friends members and not available to the public under any circumstances.  You are not to provide anyone who is not a member of Fuchs’ Friends any of our Members’ Only URLs (web addresses).  Our public and private web sites are and always have been copyrighted under law and may not be copied in whole or in part without prior written permission from The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation. 
  11. The Owners of the Fuchs' Friends Message Board and the related  websites may:
    • Delete any post or message they consider inappropriate, offensive or detrimental to the best interests of the group.
    • Privately email any member requesting  that they refrain from actions that are considered by the Owners to be contrary  to the best interests of the group.
    • Ban any member who fails to heed the advice  or warning of the Owners.
    • Decisions made by the Owners are not subject to negotiation.
       

Legal Notice

This group provides on-line information for communication and support purposes only  and the web sites should not be construed as medical advice.

Information published on this web site is not intended to replace, supplant, or  augment a consultation with an eye-care professional regarding the viewer or user's own medical care, but to provide links to educational  sites.

This group, including The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation, disclaims any and all liability for injury or other damages  that could result from use of the information obtained from this  site.

 

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