AMA Alliance

Digital Code of Conduct (Revised by AMA 2-1-19)

To help the American Medical Association Alliance maintain dialogue that is relevant and respectful of the rights of others, submission of comments, posts or images on AMA Alliance digital mediums, a person will not:

1. Post content that is discriminatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy or right to publicity, or otherwise violative of any law.

3. Post content that includes private and/or personal information, such as home phone numbers and email addresses.

5. Seek medical advice or disclose personal health information.

6. Promote commercial services, products or causes.

7. Post in a manner that would constitute spamming (e.g., posts that are frequent, repetitive, irrelevant to the AMA Alliance mission) or trolling (defined as comments that appear intended to send the discussion in a fruitless direction). The AMA Alliance does not have the obligation to monitor user-generated content but reserves the right to do so. Content that is posted in violation of this policy may be blocked or removed in the AMA Alliance’s sole discretion. Violations of this Code of Conduct may cause access to this site or ability to post content to be suspended or terminated. By submitting content online, you grant to the AMA Alliance a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, download, duplicate, display, distribute, modify and create derivative works of that content without your further approval or permission and without compensation by the AMA Alliance. As a courtesy, please do not send commercial messages directly to participants on this social media platform unless specifically invited to do so by such individual. Complaints about unsolicited commercial messages are taken very seriously. The AMA Alliance is not responsible for the opinions or claims of other users posted to our digital channels and we do not typically confirm the accuracy of postings. User-generated content, such as comments or posts, represent the views of those providing the content, and do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the AMA Alliance. References or links (provided by the AMA Alliance or by a user) to products or services do not constitute endorsements by the AMA Alliance. Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, 17 U.S.C. § 512 (c), if you believe in good faith that a copyrighted work has been reproduced on AMA Alliance digital platforms without authorization that would constitute copyright infringement, please send a notice to: American Medical Association Alliance, Inc., 5329 Fayette Avenue, Madison, WI 53713. The notice must contain, at a minimum,
(a) A statement that you believe in good faith that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner
(b) The identification and location of the material claimed to be infringing
(c) Reasonably sufficient information for AMA Alliance to identify and contact the infringer
(d) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate
(e) A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner
(f) Your contact information, and
(g) Your physical or electronic signature. See 17 U.S.C. § 512 (c) for further information. This American Medical Association Alliance Digital Code of Conduct may be amended or modified at any time. Reviewed March 2021