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There may be special rules for the use of materials provided on certain parts of this web site. These special rules will be posted near the materials.

For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from this web site other than in accordance with these Terms of Use is prohibited. If you use the materials or trademarks on this web site in a way that is not clearly allowed by these Terms of Use, you are violating your agreement with us and may be violating copyright, trademark, and other laws. In that case, we automatically revoke your permission to use this web site. In the event permission to use this web site is revoked you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this web site. Title to the materials remains with us or with the authors of the materials contained on this web site. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, and revocable license to link to this web site. Medtronic reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to use specific links, at any time. If Medtronic revokes this license, you agree to remove and disable any and all of your links to this web site immediately.

You agree not to present the link to this web site in such a way that it is associated with advertising or appears to be an endorsement of any organization, product, or service. You agree that the link will not appear on a web site that a reasonable person may consider obscene, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, malicious, controversial, or on a web site that infringes intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person and does not otherwise comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Under no circumstances may you 'frame' this web site or any of its content or copy portions of this web site to a server. You agree not to display or use the Medtronic logo or trademark in any manner without our prior written permission. You also agree not to link from a web site that is not owned by you and not to misrepresent your relationship with, nor present any other false information about Medtronic.

This web site may contain links to web sites not operated by Medtronic. We provide these links for your convenience, but we do not review, control, or monitor the materials on any other web sites. We are not responsible for the performance of those web sites or for your business dealings with them. Your use of other web sites is subject to the terms of use of those web sites, including the privacy policies and copyrights policies of those web sites.

LINKS ON THIS WEB SITE MAY DIRECT YOU TO WEB SITES THAT CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT THE USES OF MEDTRONIC PRODUCTS OR THERAPIES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED IN THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU RESIDE MEDTRONIC DOES NOT CONTROL OR ENDORSE OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT, ANY MATERIAL FOUND WITHIN OR ANY RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED BY USING ANY OF THE LINKS ON THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU DECIDE TO ACCESS ANY OF THE THIRD PARTY WEBSITES LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE, YOU DO SO ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOUR FEEDBACK, COMMENTS AND IDEAS

While we are pleased to receive feedback, comments and ideas from visitors to this web site, please note that any information that you submit through this web site (other than personal information) will be considered non-personal, non-confidential, and non-proprietary. If you submit personal information to us using this web-site, Medtronic’s processing of such personal information shall be subject to our Privacy Statement. Medtronic shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use, information, concepts, know-how or techniques, data, images, sounds, text, materials and other things embodied therein that are submitted for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes to us through this web site and you hereby grant Medtronic an unrestricted, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute them in any medium, and agree that Medtronic is free to use them for any purpose. Medtronic shall have no obligations with respect to material submitted that is not personal.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this web site any material that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance, harassment or inconvenience, or for which you have not obtained all necessary licenses and/or approvals, or which constitutes or encourages conduct that could be considered a criminal offence, could give rise to civil liability or is otherwise contrary to the law of, or infringes the rights of any third party in, the UK or any other country in the world. You shall not post or transmit material which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data). You may not decompile, reverse-engineer or disassemble any part of the web site or its contents or any software used in connection with the web site. You agree not to misuse this web site by hacking or to send or distribute multiple unsolicited junk emails or messages, chain letters or otherwise to interface with or disrupt the service or the networks through which you have access. You may not use this web site for any commercial, profit-making or re-sale purposes, including the systematic extraction and/or re-utilisation of any part of a service or its content. Medtronic shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Medtronic to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of these terms of use.

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LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. YOU AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER MEDTRONIC NOR ANY PERSON OR COMPANY ASSOCIATED WITH MEDTRONIC SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY KIND OF LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT MAY RESULT TO YOU OR A THIRD PARTY FROM YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEB SITE OR THE RESULTS AND THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEB SITE, OR ANY WEB SITE LINKED TO THIS WEB SITE. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES TO ALL CLAIMS HOWSOEVER ARISING AND INCLUDING BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO CLAIMS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, AND ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY. THIS LIMITATION IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF MEDTRONIC, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND SUPPLIERS MENTIONED ON THIS WEB SITE. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES TO ALL TYPES OF LOSSES HOWSOEVER ARISING INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT OR INDIRECT (INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF REVENUE OR BUSINESS OR LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY), SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES, DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY WHICH HAS BEEN CAUSED OTHER THAN BY OUR NEGLIGENCE (AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED BY THE UNFAIR CONTRACT TERMS ACT 1977) , OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION. NOTHING IN THIS LEGAL NOTICE SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT MEDTRONIC'S LIABILITY FOR FRAUD OR MISREPRESENTATION AS TO A FUNDAMENTAL MATTER, OR ANY LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

In addition to the rules in these Terms of Use and the Privacy Statement, you may be subject to additional terms that may apply when you access particular services or materials on certain areas in this web site, such as by following a link from this web site. Please read our Privacy Statement to learn how we protect and use information that we gather through this web site.

If you violate these Terms of Use or the Privacy Statement in a way that causes harm to others, you agree to hold Medtronic harmless against any liability for that harm.

By using this web site, you agree that the only proper jurisdiction and venue for any dispute with Medtronic, or in any way relating to your use of this web site, is in the courts of England and Wales. You further agree and consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in these courts in connection with any dispute involving Medtronic or its affiliates, employees, officers, directors, agents, or suppliers. These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the England and Wales.

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Last updated: 22 Sep 2010