Agreement in Regard to Your Use of the The Christ Hospital Health Network Website
Your use of the www.thechristhospital.com website, digital content, and related services and links (collectively, the “Website”) are provided subject to your agreement to comply with the provisions of this Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”). By accessing, browsing, and/or using Website, you accept, without limitation, these Terms.
The Christ Hospital Health Network may change the Terms at any time without notice by posting amended Terms on the Website. Such changes are effective upon posting on the Website. You should review the Terms, as well as the other Website policies, at regular intervals.
Please note that these Terms do not apply to MyChart, or www.thechristhospitalmychart.com, which are subject to their own Terms and Conditions.
THESE TERMS CONTAIN VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS AS WELL AS CONDITIONS, LIMITATIONS, AND EXCLUSIONS THAT MIGHT APPLY TO YOU. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.
Consent
You agree that your use of the Website or any services or materials on the Website is subject to your agreement with the Terms, Website Privacy Statement and The Christ Hospital Health Network’s Notice of Privacy Practices (the “HIPAA Notice”). You agree that you will not violate any applicable local, state, federal or international laws in using or accessing any material on the Website. If you do not agree, do not use this website.
Not Medical Advice
The content, products, and services offered herein are here to educate individuals on health care and medical issues that may affect their daily lives. Nothing in the content, products, or services should be considered, or used as a substitute for, medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The Website and its services do not constitute the practice of any medical, nursing, or other professional health care advice, diagnosis, or treatment. You should always talk to your health care provider for diagnosis and treatment, including your specific medical needs. Nothing on this Website represents or warrants that any particular service or product is safe, appropriate, or effective for you. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions regarding personal health or medical conditions.
The information on the Website should not be considered complete, nor should it be relied upon to suggest a course of treatment for a particular individual. You should never disregard medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the Website. Never discontinue treatment or medication without first consulting your physician, clinicians or therapists.
IF THIS IS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY CALL EMERGENCY PERSONNEL (911) TO GET PROMPT MEDICAL ATTENTION. DO NOT RELY ON ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR ASSISTANCE IN REGARD TO YOUR IMMEDIATE, URGENT NEEDS.
Disclaimer
The Website is owned and operated by The Christ Hospital Health Network. The Website allows users to access health-related information that is provided by us and by third-party content suppliers. Your reliance on content obtained by you at or through the Website is solely at your own risk. The information provided on the Website is for general informational purposes only.
The Website may provide links and pointers to other websites on the Internet (“Third-Party Sites”). The Christ Hospital Health Network has not investigated the content of information provided on Third-Party Sites and does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, reliability or timeliness of such information or the performance of the Third-Party Sites. The Christ Hospital Health Network’s inclusion of links to Third-Party Sites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such Third-Party Sites or any association with their operators. You acknowledge and agree that The Christ Hospital Health Network is not responsible for the availability of such external Third-Party Sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such Third-Party Sites or resources. You agree that The Christ Hospital Health Network shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, products, or services available on such Third-Party Sites or resources.
Once you follow a link to another site outside of the Website, you are subject to the privacy policy and practices of that Third-Party Site, over which The Christ Hospital Health Network has no control. When you are leaving The Christ Hospital Health Network Website, you should review the privacy statements of each and every website you visit before providing any personal information.
To the extent the Website provides links to a variety of third-party or unaffiliated commercial websites offering products and services, we assume no responsibility for the appropriateness, fitness or reliability of the products or services offered for sale on such websites. You enter into any transactions with these companies at your own risk, under the terms and conditions of each website. We make no representations, warranties, or covenants about these companies, products or services.
We do not warrant against human and machine errors, omissions, delays, interruptions or losses, including loss of data. We cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the Website will be free of infection, viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, or other codes that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. We do not warrant or guarantee that the functions or services provided by us will be uninterrupted or error-free or that defects in the Website will be corrected.
The Christ Hospital Health Network does not make any representations or warranties as to the opinions or other service data you may access, download, or use as a result of this Website. Nor does The Christ Hospital Health Network make any warranty that the content contained on the Website satisfies government regulations requiring disclosure of information on prescription drug products.
THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, USEFULNESS, OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THE WEBSITE ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED.
The Christ Hospital Health Network also reserves the right to withdraw or amend this Website, and any service or material we provide on the Website, in its sole discretion without notice. The Christ Hospital Health Network will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict user access, including registered user access, to some parts of the Website or the entire Website.
Prohibited Uses
You may use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to use the Website:
- In any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation (including, without limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the US or other countries).
- In any way that violates or infringes the rights of The Christ Hospital Health Network or others including, without limitation, patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, publicity, privacy, proprietary and/or intellectual property rights;
- In any way that is inaccurate, unlawful, discriminatory, threatening, abusive, harmful, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another’s privacy, tortious, pornographic, obscene, offensive, or otherwise objectionable to The Christ Hospital Health Network or other uses of the Site;
- In any way that victimizes, harasses, degrades, intimidates, discriminates against, or retaliates against an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, sex, race, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or other characteristics protected by applicable state or federal law;
- For the purpose of exploiting, harming, or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information, or otherwise.
- To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use, or re-use any material in a way that does not comply with these Terms.
- To transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material, including any “junk mail,” “chain letter,” “spam,” or any other similar solicitation.
- To impersonate or attempt to impersonate The Christ Hospital Health Network or an employee, another user, or any other person or entity (including, without limitation, by using email addresses associated with any of the foregoing).
- To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Website, or which, as determined by us, may harm The Christ Hospital Health Network or users of the Website, or expose them to liability.
Additionally, you agree not to:
- Use the Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the site or interfere with any other party’s use of the Website, including their ability to engage in real time activities through the Website.
- Use any robot, spider, or other automatic device, process, or means to access the Website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Website.
- Use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on the Website, or for any other purpose not expressly authorized in these Terms, without our prior written consent.
- Use any device, software, or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website.
- Introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of the Website, the server on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to the Website.
- Attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
- Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website.
Assumption of Risk and Waiver: LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Your use of the Website is solely at your own risk. Neither The Christ Hospital Health Network nor any entity or individual with which The Christ Hospital Health Network contracts in connection with the operation of the Website shall be liable or responsible to any person or entity for any loss or damage, including special, incidental, consequential, punitive or indirect damages, or attorneys’ fees, caused, or to have been caused (including, but not limited to, liability arising out of contract, negligence, strict liability, tort, patent or copyright infringement), including fees and penalties, directly or indirectly, by or from the information or ideas contained, suggested, or referenced on the Website, for any errors, misstatements, inaccuracies, or omissions in the information or ideas contained on the Website, or any delays or interruptions in the use of Website or the materials posted on this Website or connectivity to or from this Website to any other site.
You hereby release and forever waive any and all claims you may have against The Christ Hospital Health Network, its contractors, and any of their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents, if any, for losses or damages you sustain in connection with your use of the Website, even if you have advised The Christ Hospital Health Network or any contractor of the possibility of such damages.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF THE CHRIST HOSPITAL HEALTH NETWORK, ITS CONTRACTORS, THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND AGENTS, IF ANY, FOR LOSSES OR DAMAGES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE LESSER OF $1,000 OR THE AMOUNT, IF ANY, PAID BY YOU FOR THE PARTICULAR INFORMATION OR SERVICE PROVIDED. AS SET FORTH ABOVE, USE OF THE WEBSITE CONSTITUTES AN ACCEPTANCE OF THESE PROVISIONS.
Web Traffic Data Collected
When you use our Website, we may collect information about how you use our Website. Please review our Website Privacy Statement, incorporated herein, for information on the types of data we collect and how that data is used.
Find a Provider
The Website provides information about healthcare providers (“Providers”) who are members in good standing of The Christ Hospital Health Network medical staff or who are employed by The Christ Hospital Health Network or one of its affiliates. The Website can also help you find a Provider who meets your specifications. Please note that when we provide you with the name of a Provider who meets your specifications, we are not recommending that Provider or referring you to that Provider. Information about a Provider’s specific area of practice is provided by the Provider, who is solely responsible for the accuracy of that information. We do not guarantee the reliability, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of information contained on the Website about a particular Provider. If you are seeking information about a Provider’s participation with a specific healthcare plan, that information may be available; however, due to frequent changes in insurance coverage, we recommend that you always check with the Provider’s office regarding insurance specifics.
How You May Use Our Materials
The content of this Website is protected by copyright under both United States and foreign law. You may download, use, and copy the materials found on the Website for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copies that you make of the material must retain any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notice located on the Website, which pertain to the material being copied. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the material or the products, services, processes or technology described therein. All such rights are retained by The Christ Hospital Health Network, its subsidiaries, and/or any third-party owner of such rights. Nothing in this site should be construed as granting any right or license to use any copyright or trademark without the written permission of the owner.
You may not sell or modify the content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use of the content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. None of the content, including any software, may be reverse engineered, disassembled, decompiled, reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo reproduction, recordation, or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of The Christ Hospital Health Network, except as expressly set forth above.
The Christ Hospital Health Network names and logos, all related product and service names, design marks and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of The Christ Hospital Health Network, or its subsidiaries or affiliates (collectively “TCHHN”). You are not authorized to use any TCHHN name or mark in any advertising, publicity or in any other commercial manner without the prior written consent of The Christ Hospital Health Network.
User Contributions
The Website may contain interactive features (collectively, “Interactive Services”) that allow users to post, submit, publish, display, or transmit to other users or other persons (hereinafter, “post”) content or materials (collectively, “User Contributions”) on or through the Website.
Any User Contribution you post to the Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. By providing any User Contribution on the Website, you grant The Christ Hospital Health Network, its affiliates, and its service providers the right to use, reproduce, modify, perform, display, distribute, and otherwise disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose.
You represent and warrant that:
- You own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the right to grant the license granted above to us, our affiliates, and our service providers.
- All of your User Contributions do and will comply with these Terms of Use.
You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions you submit or contribute, and you, not The Christ Hospital Health Network, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy, and appropriateness.
The Christ Hospital Health Network is not responsible or liable to any third party for the content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other user of the Website.
The Christ Hospital Health Network has the right to:
- Remove or refuse to post any User Contributions for any or no reason in our sole discretion.
- Take any action with respect to any User Contribution that The Christ Hospital Health Network deems necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if The Christ Hospital Health Network believes that such User Contribution violates the Terms, infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the Website or the public, or could create liability for The Christ Hospital Health Network.
- Disclose your identity or other information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
- Take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.
- Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Website for any or no reason, including without limitation, any violation of these Terms of Use.
Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Website. YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE CHRIST HOSPITAL HEALTH NETWORK AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSEES, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY ANY OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES DURING, OR TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF, INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER SUCH PARTIES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
However, The Christ Hospital Health Network cannot review all material before it is posted on the Website and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, The Christ Hospital Health Network assumes no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications, or content provided by any user or third party. The Christ Hospital Health Network has no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this section.
Linking
The Christ Hospital Health Network reserves the right to modify, break, or delete hyperlinks at any time, and takes no responsibility for any inbound links established by others that are affected by such changes. Under no circumstances may the Website or any of its content be “framed” or portions of the Website copied to a server, except as part of an Internet service provider’s or Internet search engine’s incidental caching of pages. Each page within the Website must be displayed in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising, and promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border, margin, design, branding, trademark, advertising, or promotional materials not originally displayed on the page within the Website.
Without our prior written consent you will not, and you will not authorize, direct or permit any other party to (1) co-brand the Website or any portion thereof, or (2) frame the Website or any portion thereof (so that the Website appears on the same screen within a portion of another website). "Co-branding" means to display a name, logo, trademark, or other indicia of ownership of any party in a manner reasonably likely to give a user of the Website the impression that the party has the right to display, publish, or market the Website or any content accessible within the Website. You agree to fully cooperate with us in immediately stopping any such unauthorized co-branding, framing, or linking to the Website that you authorized, directed, or permitted.
Online Donations
The Christ Hospital Foundation offers online donation services through a trusted third-party provider. If you choose to use this online service, TCH Foundation will collect data from you through this third-party service. Data can include first and last name, phone number, email address, full mailing address and credit card information. These transactions, while initiated on TheChristHospital.com, are processed through the third-party service. Click here to view the third-party service’s Terms of Use.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Christ Hospital Health Network, its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensors, and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms or your use of the Website, including, but not limited to, any use of the Website’s content, services, and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms or your use of any information obtained from the Website.
Jurisdiction
The Website is operated from a site in the State of Ohio, United States of America. We make no representation that materials found at our sites are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access our sites from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with local laws. These Terms are governed exclusively by the substantive laws of the State of Ohio without regard to its choice of law rules. You expressly agree that sole and exclusive jurisdiction for any claim involving The Christ Hospital Health Network, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers, contributors and editors, or any related affiliate, shall be in the appropriate state or federal court located in Hamilton County, Ohio.
Limitation on Time to File Claims
ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE WEBSITE MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES; OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
Children
Except as otherwise indicated, The Christ Hospital Health Network does not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information from children under age 18. The content of our Website is directed at adults, and therefore this Website is intended for use only by adults at least 18 years of age or older. If you are under the age of 18, please consult a parent or guardian for help in using this Website.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13, or knowingly allow such persons to use the Website. Should we learn that someone under the age of 13 has submitted personal information through the Website, we will remove and destroy that personal information as soon as possible. For full details on our children’s data practices, please see our Website Privacy Statement.
Complete Agreement
Except as expressly provided in a particular legal notice on the site, these Terms and any amendments thereto, constitute the entire agreement between you and The Christ Hospital Health Network with respect to the use of the Website, including, but not limited to, any software and content.
If any provision of these legal notices is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these legal notices, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of the legal notices shall be deemed a waiver of any other legal notice.
BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS.
LAST UPDATED: June 25, 2026
