Last updated: October 5, 2016

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Welcome to the Align Web Site ("Web Site"), a web site operated by Align Technology, BV(referred to as "Align", "we" or "us" in these Terms of Use). We are a company registered in Amsterdam. The Netherlands with company registration number 34207531.  

Please carefully review the following terms and conditions concerning your use of the Web Site. By accessing, using or downloading any information and/or materials from the Web Site, you agree to follow and be bound by the terms and conditions below(the "Terms of Use"). If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, please do not use or access this Web Site(or any material contained on it).

It is important for you to note that when using certain sections of this Web Site, your use may be subject to other proprietary notices and copyright information. If this is the case, you will be required to read and confirm your acceptance of any such notices before accessing the relevant section.

Please note that we may amend these Terms of Use from time to time. If we do, we will publish the changes on the Web Site so please review the Web Site periodically for changes. By continuing to use the Web Site after we have made such changes, you will be deemed to be expressing acceptance of the updated Terms of Use. The date at the top of this webpage indicates when these Terms of Use were last updated.

1. Medical Disclaimer

All information contained on this Web Site, including information relating to dental, medical and health conditions, products and treatments, is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete and is not intended to be used in place of a patient visit, call, consultation or advice of a medical professional or any information contained on or in any product packaging or labels.

Information obtained by using the Web Site is not exhaustive and does not cover all the ailments, physical conditions or their treatment. The information posted is for informational purposes only and is to be used at your own risk.

You should never disregard providing dental or medical advice or delay in providing medical advice because of something you have read on this Web Site, and you should not use the information contained on this Web Site for diagnosing a dental or health problem or prescribing any medication.

2. Use of Web Site's content

The intellectual property rights in the Web Site (including, for example, our trade marks) and copyright in all material stored ,displayed and accessible on the Web Site is either owned by us or licensed to us by third parties ("Content"). All such rights are reserved by us or our licensors.

You are not permitted to use, modify ,copy, reproduce ,republish ,upload ,post ,transmit ,distribute ,sell ,license ,rent ,publically display or perform, edit, adapt or create a derivative work of, in any manner, any Content or any other part of the Web Site, without our written content to do so.

You are also not permitted by us to use the Web Site or access the Web Site or any of the Content for commercial purposes.

In spite of this, you may view, use, download, and print selected portions of the Web Site solely for your own personal, non-commercial, informational use, provided that you do not republish the Content and that you keep intact and do not obscure, alter or destroy any copyright, trade marks, service marks, attributions, patent, and other proprietary notices.

3. User conduct

Please note that you are responsible for making all the arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Web Site including ensuring you have sufficient equipment and internet connectivity to enable your device to access the Web Site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Web Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and any other applicable terms and conditions notified to you, and that they comply with them.

When using the Web Site, you promise not to:

use the Web Site or access it for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose;
use the Web Site or access it to impersonate any person or entity, or to falsely state or otherwise misrepresent its affiliation with any person or entity;
interfere with or disrupt the operation of the Web Site or access to it;
transmit or otherwise make available in connection with the Web Site or access to it any virus, worm, Trojan horse, time bomb, spyware, or other computer code, file or any programme that is harmful or invasive or may or is intended to damage or hijack the operation of, or to monitor the use of, any hardware, software, or equipment;
restrict or inhibit the ability of any other person to access or use the Web Site;
modify, adapt or translate any portion of the Web Site;
remove, obscure or modify any copyright, trade mark, or other proprietary rights notice from the Web Site; or
use any robot, spider, search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device to retrieve ,index, "scrape", "data-mine", or in any way gather or reproduce the Web Site or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Web Site.

4. Feedback

Any feedback, information, suggestions, submissions or materials you submit through or related to this Web Site (a "Submission") will be considered non-confidential by Align unless you inform us otherwise. By providing such Submissions to Align, you agree that Align shall have, at no charge and without the need to attribute the Submission to you, the right to copy, display, distribute and use the Submission.

You also grant us the right to make, display and distribute any copyrights and other intellectual property rights in and to, or based upon, the Submissions. Align shall be free to use and/or disseminate such Submissions on an unrestricted basis for any purpose. Submissions shall not include any patient or doctor confidential information.

5. Modification, suspension and termination of the Web Site

It is important to note that we reserve the right to modify, suspend or terminate operation of or access to the Web Site, or any portion of the Web Site, at our direction. For example, we may terminate operation of the Web Site for all users if we no longer provide invisalign services and product in your region or we may suspend your access to the Web Site for your violation of these Terms of Use.

We may also update the Web Site and change the content at any time. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on the Web Site, please note that any of the content on our Web Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.