GC America's Terms & Conditions of Use

GC America Inc. ("GC") maintains this site ("Site") to provide information about GC and its products and services. While this Site provides general information about GC intended for any interested Internet visitor, the interactive features and detailed content are intended only for dental professionals and others in the industry residing in the United States. GC makes no representations that the information in this Site is appropriate for users in countries other than the United States. By using the interactive features on this Site and accessing the detailed information about GC, its products, and its services, you represent that you are a U.S. dental professional or otherwise part of the U.S. dental industry.

Acceptance of Terms: Your access to and use of the Site is subject to these Terms of Use and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site you accept, without limitation or qualification, these Terms of Use. GC may at any time revise or delete the contents of the Site, including these Terms of Use, by updating this posting. We encourage you to periodically visit this page to review the then-current Terms of Use to which you are bound. GC reserves the right to revoke your access to the Site at any time, including for violation of these Terms of Use.

Dental and Medical Information: All content on this Site is intended for the educational and informational purposes of U.S. dental professionals and members of the U.S. dental industry. This Site may from time to time contain information relating to various medical, health and fitness conditions of people. This is not meant to be a substitute for the advice provided by your own dental professional or other medical professional, and in no manner should this Site be considered for medical emergencies or should the Site be used for diagnosing a health problem or disease. You should always consult your own dental and medical advisors, and if you are a medical professional, you should not use the Site for adverse-event reporting, but should instead follow all applicable U.S. laws on adverse event reporting.

Intellectual Property: Unless otherwise noted, all Site content, including trademarks, logos, service marks, art work, graphics, images, screen shots, text, music, digitally downloadable files, multimedia clips, images of people or places (“Content”) are property of GC or its licensees, and are protected in the U.S. and internationally under trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property laws. Content may not be used except as provided in these Terms of Use without the written permission of GC, and any unauthorized use may violate copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity laws and regulations. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting – by implication, estoppel or otherwise – any license or right to use any Content without GC’s express written permission. You are also advised that GC will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of criminal prosecution.

Use of Content: Content, such as multimedia clips, may be used and viewed for your informational and educational purposes. You may not make permanent copies of any material including permanent copies on your own computer, nor may you otherwise copy or distribute any Content except as provided herein. Limited Content is available for use by members of the press in order for them to report on or promote GC, its products, or its services. Such Content is specifically identified, and cannot be used without GC’s prior express permission. Once permission is granted, GC grants authorized members of the press a limited, non-exclusive, nontransferable, royalty free, revocable license to use Content that is specifically identified as available for license (“Licensable Content”) to report on or promote GC, its products or its services, only in connection with legitimate editorial purposes, including the reporting to the public of GC products and services through print, television, or electronic format. Licensable Content must be used only in the form and manner as it appears on this Site and copyright, trademark or other ownership notices may not be obscured. Authorized users of Licensable Content understand the importance to GC of its reputation and goodwill in the goods and services sold in connection with its Content, agree at all times to use the Content only in connection with legitimate editorial purposes, and further agree to provide GC, on GC’s request, with copies of the editorial pieces with which the Content is used to ensure that the quality standards required herein have been followed. Use of the Content for any other purpose, including in a manner that is likely to cause confusion among consumers, that disparages or discredits GC and/or its licensors, that dilutes the strength of GC’s or its licensors’ property, or that otherwise infringes GC’s or its licensors’ intellectual property rights is expressly forbidden.

Disclaimer: While GC uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information in the Site, GC makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. GC assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Site, including the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability or availability of any information you receive as a result of your use of the Site. Your use of the Site is at your own risk. Neither GC nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, special or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site and data available to you through the Site is provided to you "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. GC also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable, for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video or audio from the Site.

Indemnification: You agree to indemnify and hold harmless GC and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, third-party information providers, licensors and others involved in the Site from and against any and all liabilities, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees, arising from any violation by you of these Terms of Use or your use of the Site or any products, services or information obtained from this Site.

User Communications: Any communication or material you transmit to the Site will be used in accordance with GC’s Privacy Policy. The Internet is not a secure medium, however, and GC cannot be responsible for any communications by you that may be intercepted by a third party. GC urges you to use caution when communicating over the Internet. GC reserves the right to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information, and by sending such information you hereby grant to GC an unlimited license to use such information for any purpose without further consideration to you.

Links: GC provides links to third-party web sites as a convenience to you. These links do not constitute an affiliation with, endorsement or sponsorship of the third parties that operate such web sites, and GC is not responsible for the practices of these third parties, including their information collection and use practices, nor is GC responsible for the availability or reliability of the content of these third party web sites. Any information you provide to those third parties is not subject to these Terms of Use or GC’s Privacy Statement, and GC is not responsible for the treatment of the information you provide to those third parties. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of that third party, and of any third party to whom you provide personally identifiable information online. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.

Children: This Site is not intended for, nor do we believe is the Site appealing to, children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect information from the Site visitors in this age group. We encourage parents to talk to their children about their use of the Internet and the information they disclose online.

Miscellaneous: These Terms of Use are the only understanding and agreement between you and GC regarding your use of the Site. It supersedes all other communications or agreements we may have had prior to this Agreement. These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America and the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflicts of laws provisions. If any of these Terms of Use is determined to be void, unlawful, or unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms shall not thereby be affected or impaired.

Contacting GC: If you have any questions or comments about GC America Inc. or this Site please contact GC America Inc. at 3737 W. 127th Street, Alsip, Illinois 60803. You may also call us by phone at 800-323-7063.

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