Disclosures and Disclaimers

Spa Index Media dba Spa Index Guide to Spas (collectively Spa Index) publishes www.SpaIndex.com as a service to the public and business owners.

Spa Index is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to, or reliance on any information contained within the site. While the information contained within the site is periodically updated, no guarantee is given that the information provided in this website is correct, complete, and up-to-date.

Although the Spa Index website may include links providing direct access to other digital resources, including websites, Spa Index is not responsible for the accuracy or content of information contained in these sites.

Spa Index Media publishes both unique and original content, and, content on behalf of its members, partners, and business establishments marketed on our lifestyle website.

For our unique content, Spa Index Media owns the copyright to all unique written and created material, including text and graphics, including without limitation the text, HTML or other creation code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, videos).

For our shared content contributed by our members and partners, the copyrights to that shared content should be construed to belong to each individual member or partner (e.g., a spa, hotel, resort or other wellness business marketed on this website) as represented by the content.

Spa Index Media only grants its visitors a limited and non-exclusive royalty-free revocable license to view this website and its content on a computer or digital device, to store this website’s information and materials within a user’s browser or cache, and, to print pages from this article for personal use, non-revenue producing use.

Spa Index Media reserves all remaining rights.

Spa Index Media takes the protection of its copyright seriously and will seek to enforce it when necessary.  This includes discovery that our copyrighted materials have been used outside of these terms, which will result in legal proceedings against you for monetary damages and a cease and desist order or similar injunction to stop use of the materials and prevent further abuses.

If you become aware of or suspect any material on the website infringes on your copyright or the copyright of any other individual or organization, please use our contact form to report the matter so that an investigation may ensue.

Links from Spa Index to third-party sites do not constitute an endorsement by Spa Index of the parties or their products and services unless language to that effect is expressly and specifically made.

The appearance on the website of advertisements and product or service information does not constitute an endorsement or guarantee by Spa Index, and Spa Index has not investigated the claims made by any advertiser.

Product information is based solely on material received from suppliers.

Inbound links (functional URLs) pointing to this website should not be misidentified, misleading, vague, inaccurate, or confusing.  Inbound links should be identified with either the complete and full title of the content, category, list, article, section, or name of this website.

The name of this website should be referenced as “Spa Index Guide to Spa” and the URL shall always be https://www.SpaIndex.com, together with any URL structure from the referenced post, article, page, or section.   Spa Index reserves the right to update or change this structure at any time.

Websites, whether personal or business, commercial or public, may not reference Spa Index Media or publish our logo, unique content, recipes, articles, images or designs, without our permission.

Please note that product information, health tips, tools and recommendations presented on this website are intended only as guidelines based on expertise of contributing health, wellness, spa and salon professionals. Not all products are licensed in every country and may be subject to further local variations. For specific product information you should always consult the local summary of product characteristics.  For advice on medical issues you should always consult your local medical practitioner.

While there may be information on this web site related to certain medical conditions and their treatment, should a medical condition exist, promptly see your own physician or health provider. Only your doctor or other healthcare professional, as a learned intermediary, can determine if a product described in our health and wellness tips are appropriate for you.

For that reason, please consult with your physician, or other qualified health care professional, before using any products or foods recommended in our articles.

For the purposes of this policy, SPAM is defined as the unsolicited, bulk or indiscriminate sending of messages, whether by text message on an electronic device, or email.

Spa Index Media has a zero-tolerance spam policy.

Spa Index Media has never and will never generate any form of automated, “blind” or bulk text messaging using electronic devices (phones or text message applications).

Spa Index Media has never and will never send unsolicited emails.  All emails sent by Spa Index Media, to users or members, are in 1) response to requests for information or 2) after receiving permission through an opt-in newsletter or email service.

Spa Index Media automatically scans all incoming website (posts and pages) comments, and filters and deletes any comments  which appear to be bogus, malicious, nuisance, or spam — particularly if the messages are unrelated to the content on which the comments are seeking to appear.  Frequent abusers posting spam comments are blocked from accessing the website.

Spa Index Media also scans all incoming email and attempts to filter and delete any email messages which appear to be bogus, malicious, nuisance, or spam — particularly if the messages are unrelated to the theme, content or demographic of Spa Index.  Frequent senders of spam email are blocked from accessing the website.

Spa Index Media provides a contact form for users, members and visitors to the website to contact Spa Index Media.  If senders use this contact form to send unsolicited advertisements, fake or bogus information, fake or bogus links, or include commercial links designed to create or drive revenue, or collect digital information, those users will be blocked from accessing the site via IP Address.

In the unlikely event that you receive any message from Spa Index which you believe to be unsolicited or spam, please contact us so that we may initiate a full investigation.

Credit

This cookie policy was created using a Contractology template available at http://www.contractology.com.   

About cookies

This website uses cookies.  By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Cookies are files sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers.

The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.  This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies.  Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

Cookies on our website

Spa Index uses visitor cookies to determine popularity, trends, and user interest in our content 

Google cookies 

Spa Index uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website.  Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers.  The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information.  Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

Refusing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.

In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.

Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.

Spa Index Media reserves the right to amend and update these policies at any time.