These Terms of Use apply to your access to and use of healthandclimateresilience.net, including its information, tools, interactive features, and other content. By using the website, you agree to follow these Terms and all applicable laws.
Climate-Ready Healthy Futures provides information for general educational purposes. It is not a healthcare provider, medical practice, emergency service, or replacement for individualized professional care.
Informational and Educational Content
All content published on Climate-Ready Healthy Futures is intended for general information and education only.
Articles may address medical conditions, symptoms, medications, supplements, nutrition, treatments, diagnostic concepts, everyday health questions, and other health-related subjects. Their purpose is to help readers understand these topics; they are not intended to diagnose an individual or provide a treatment plan tailored to a particular person.
Website content should not be treated as medical advice for your specific circumstances.
No Professional Healthcare Relationship
Accessing the website, reading an article, completing a questionnaire, or submitting a question does not establish a doctor-patient, therapist-patient, pharmacist-patient, or other professional healthcare relationship between you and Climate-Ready Healthy Futures, its Editorial Team, or any person involved in running the website.
Answers to visitor questions are general informational material and are not individualized professional advice.
Health Decisions and Professional Care
You remain responsible for decisions concerning your health and medical care. Do not rely solely on website information to start, stop, increase, decrease, or otherwise alter a medication, treatment, supplement, diet, or other health-related practice.
For advice about your own health, symptoms, medications, diagnosis, or treatment, speak with a qualified healthcare professional who can assess your circumstances.
When symptoms are severe, worsening quickly, potentially life-threatening, or otherwise in need of urgent attention, obtain appropriate emergency or urgent medical care. Do not rely on website content or wait for an answer to a question submitted through the website.
Accuracy and Completeness
We make reasonable efforts to keep information on Climate-Ready Healthy Futures useful, clear, and reasonably accurate. Medical and health information changes, people's circumstances differ, and no editorial process can ensure that every statement is complete, up to date, suitable for every person, or free of errors at all times.
The website may include inaccuracies, omissions, outdated material, technical mistakes, or statements that need further explanation or context.
Independently verify information that could affect an important medical, financial, legal, or personal decision, and consult an appropriately qualified professional when needed.
AI-Assisted and Automated Publishing
Climate-Ready Healthy Futures uses generative AI, automated research tools, proprietary software, and a multi-stage editorial workflow to create and process content for the website.
Content is not necessarily written or individually reviewed by a human editor or healthcare professional. Unless a page expressly says otherwise, its publication on this website does not confirm that it has undergone individual medical review by a physician or another healthcare professional.
Automated tools, including generative AI, may produce errors. Our publishing workflow includes additional validation and review mechanisms intended to detect problems, but those processes cannot ensure perfect accuracy.
Further information about our editorial approach is available on our About page and Editorial Team page.
Questions Submitted by Visitors
Some pages may offer visitors the ability to submit questions about an article or health topic.
Submitted questions may be stored, processed, edited for clarity or formatting, answered, and published on the website. A question you submit may therefore become part of the informational content viewed by other visitors.
Questions should be submitted without names, email addresses, telephone numbers, account details, medical record numbers, or other information that directly identifies you. Do not include information in a question that identifies you or another person.
When you submit a question, you give Climate-Ready Healthy Futures permission to store, process, reproduce, edit, display, and use the submitted text to operate, improve, and publish content on the website.
This permission does not give us ownership of unrelated material and does not authorize us to falsely identify you or create a named profile about you based on your submission.
Polls, Quizzes, and Questionnaires
The website may offer polls, quizzes, questionnaires, and other interactive features.
These features may be used for informational, educational, audience-research, or website-improvement purposes. Unless a page specifically says otherwise, they are not medical diagnostic tools.
Responses may be stored and analyzed, combined with responses from other visitors, and used in aggregated form to help us understand visitor interests, improve content, or develop additional website features.
Taking part is voluntary and is not necessary to access the website's ordinary informational content.
Privacy
Your use of the website is also governed by our Privacy Policy. That policy explains how information may be processed through website infrastructure, cookies, visitor questions, polls, questionnaires, and other features.
Our interactive features are generally designed to collect as little identifying information as reasonably possible. Even so, visitors should avoid voluntarily providing confidential or personally identifying information unless it is genuinely necessary.
Acceptable Use
You may use Climate-Ready Healthy Futures for lawful personal, informational, educational, and other legitimate purposes.
You must not use the website in a way intended to:
- disrupt the website's normal operation or security;
- seek unauthorized access to servers, systems, databases, or administrative areas;
- introduce malicious code, malware, automated attacks, or other harmful material;
- submit unlawful, threatening, abusive, fraudulent, defamatory, or deliberately harmful content;
- impersonate another person or misrepresent the source of submitted material;
- gather information about other visitors without authorization;
- use website features to send spam or unsolicited commercial material; or
- operate automated systems in a way that materially disrupts, overloads, or interferes with the website or its infrastructure.
Where reasonably necessary to protect the website, its infrastructure, or other visitors from abuse or disruption, we may limit access to website features.
Website Materials and Intellectual Property
Unless stated otherwise, the text, layout, graphics, original images, software elements, branding, and other original materials published on Climate-Ready Healthy Futures are owned, licensed, or otherwise lawfully used by the website.
You may view and read publicly available pages, refer to them, and share links to them for ordinary personal and informational purposes.
Without permission where permission is legally required, you may not reproduce substantial portions of the website, republish articles as your own, systematically copy its content, remove attribution or copyright notices, or commercially redistribute original site materials.
These Terms do not limit rights available to you under applicable copyright exceptions, fair use, fair dealing, quotation rights, or other rights provided by law.
External Links and Third-Party Sources
Climate-Ready Healthy Futures may cite or link to websites operated by other organizations, such as government agencies, medical organizations, scientific publications, educational institutions, manufacturers, and other informational sources.
A citation or link does not indicate that we control or operate the external website, endorse it, or accept responsibility for all of its content.
External websites can change without our knowledge and may follow their own terms, privacy practices, advertising policies, cookie practices, or data-collection practices. Once you leave Climate-Ready Healthy Futures, the external website's policies apply.
Products, Medications, and Services
References on the website to medications, supplements, products, devices, treatments, services, manufacturers, healthcare providers, or other commercial entities are generally provided for informational purposes.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, such a reference is not an endorsement, recommendation, sponsorship, commercial relationship, or guarantee of a particular product or service.
Availability, labeling, approved uses, warnings, prices, and regulatory status can differ by location and may change over time.
Website Availability
We may modify, update, remove, reorganize, or discontinue content or features on the website at any time.
We do not promise that every page, interactive feature, external link, questionnaire, or other part of the website will remain available or function without interruption.
Maintenance, technical failures, network issues, security events, software updates, and other circumstances may temporarily affect access to the website.
No Warranties
The website and its content are provided for informational purposes and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, without guarantees that the website or any particular information will consistently be accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, suitable for a specific purpose, or free of errors.
Nothing published on the website promises a particular medical, health, treatment, diagnostic, or other result.
Limitation of Liability
To the extent applicable law permits, Climate-Ready Healthy Futures and the people involved in operating the website are not responsible for loss or harm resulting solely from using general website information instead of obtaining appropriate individualized professional advice.
We are also not responsible for the content, availability, security, products, services, or practices of independent third-party websites linked from this website.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that applicable law does not allow to be excluded or limited.
Reporting Errors and Other Concerns
If you believe an article includes a significant factual error, outdated information, a technical issue, or other material that requires attention, please contact us.
We may review reported concerns and, where appropriate, correct, update, clarify, or remove content.
Changes to These Terms
These Terms of Use may be revised as the website, its features, technology, editorial processes, or legal requirements change.
The latest version will be posted on this page. If you continue using the website after an updated version is published, your future use will be governed by the updated Terms.
Applicable Law
Your use of the website is governed by applicable laws and regulations. Nothing in these Terms is intended to take away consumer, privacy, or other legal rights that cannot be waived under applicable law.
Contact Us
For questions about these Terms of Use or how the website operates, please contact us.