Compliance with all eight HON principles

Principle 1 - Information must be authoritative Listen / Stop:

All medical information presented on our site is selected and extracted by health professionals and are then validated by medical doctors in the HON staff. Although the contents of our site are verified on a daily basis to ensure its relevance, the Health On the Net Foundation and the Provisu Foundation do not in any way guarantee the medical veracity of the information published and cannot be held responsible for the' use of the contents of the site. The reproduction of all content extracted from other sites remains under the right of its author.

Principle 2 - Purpose of the Website Listen / Stop:

The purpose of our Website is to improve the awareness of eye diseases in the community. To achieve this objective provisu is developing a useful catalog of trustworthy Internet documents on visual diseases. This site gives access to a comfort of reading for visually impaired persons. The information provided on provisu is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a site visitor and his physician. The content provided by Health On the Net Foundation is for information purposes only and is in no way intended to be a substitute for medical consultation with a qualified professional. The Foundation encourages Internet users to be careful when using medical information. Please, always share the information your read on the Web with your medical professional and consult a physician.

Principle 3 - Confidentiality Listen / Stop:

Personal information concerning visitors, including your identity if given, email address, name, personal or medical data are strictly confidential. We use cookies to adapt dynamically the display of the provisu site according to your choice. No information will be submitted to an external organization. HON is committed to working with the Internet community in cultivating and maintaining trust between all its members. The only information we collect is Non-Personal Information through the logs of our Web server. The provisu Website contains links to other sites. Once you enter another Website (whether through a service, or content link), be aware that provisu is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Website that you visit through a link on provisu.

Principle 4 - Information must be documented: Referenced and dated Listen / Stop:

The information given on provisu is always associated with a reference to the source data (Web address). The date of last modification (Update) is included on every page of the site.

Principle 5 - Justification of claims Listen / Stop:

Our site does not make any claims relating to the benefit or performance of a specific medical treatment, commercial product or service. provisu does not endorse any product or services you might found on the proposed links. Please, always share the information your read on the Web with your medical professional and consult a physician.

Principle 6 - Website contact details Listen / Stop:

Postal Address :
Health On the Net Foundation
Medical Informatics Service, University Hospital of Geneva
24, rue Micheli-du-Crest
1211 Geneva 14
Switzerland

Secretariat :
Tel: +41 22 372 62 50
Fax: +41 22 372 88 85
E-mail:

Webmaster :
E-mail:

Principle 7 - Disclosure of funding sources Listen / Stop:

Our Website is funded by the provisu foundation. The site provisu is the result of a close collaboration between the provisu foundation and the Health On the Net Foundation. All the provided tools and services are developed by the HON team.

Principle 8 - Advertising policy Listen / Stop:

Our Website does not accept or host any advertisement.

Governing Law Listen / Stop:

Access and use of this Website are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Canton and State of Geneva. The users of this Website agree to submit themselves to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Canton and State of Geneva, Switzerland and to waive any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such courts.

Copyright Listen / Stop:

All information (including graphics and web site design) contained on the www.provisu.ch site is copyright © Provisu and Health On the Net Foundations and shall remain the property of the Provisu and Health On the Net Foundations.

HON material (information, text, image) can be used or distributed for non-commercial purposes if the copyright notice © Provisu and Health On the Net Foundations remains intact in every document or piece of information, and a link to the provisu web site source is provided. Please send an e-mail to webmaster@healthonnet.org notifying the use of HON material.

The content of the provisu site could not be used for commercial purposes.