Disclaimer

1. Educational and Advocacy Purposes Only

Information provided by P.A.R.T. USA is for general educational, public-awareness, advocacy, policy, and informational purposes.

P.A.R.T. USA works to support chronic pain patients, promote individualized and patient-centered care, educate the public, advance policy reform, support appropriate access to medical care, and advocate regarding federal and state laws, regulations, policies, and practices affecting patients and healthcare professionals.

Information provided through this website or other P.A.R.T. USA communications is not intended to replace professional advice from qualified medical, legal, financial, mental-health, insurance, or other licensed professionals.

2. Not Medical Advice

Nothing on this website or in P.A.R.T. USA communications should be considered medical advice, diagnosis, treatment instruction, medication guidance, prescription guidance, or a recommendation to start, stop, increase, decrease, or otherwise change any medication or medical treatment.

Medical decisions should be made between patients and qualified, licensed healthcare professionals who understand the patient’s medical history, condition, risks, needs, and individual circumstances.

P.A.R.T. USA does not practice medicine, prescribe medication, diagnose medical conditions, or direct individual medical care.

3. Not Legal Advice

Nothing on this website or in P.A.R.T. USA communications should be considered individualized legal advice, legal representation, or a substitute for consulting with a qualified attorney.

P.A.R.T. USA may discuss existing laws, proposed legislation, regulations, agency actions, public policy, patient rights, constitutional issues, administrative procedures, litigation, or advocacy strategies for educational and advocacy purposes.

Laws and legal circumstances vary by jurisdiction and may depend on individual facts, timing, documentation, procedural requirements, and applicable federal, state, or local law.

Individuals needing legal advice about a specific situation should consult a licensed attorney.

4. Not Emergency Assistance

P.A.R.T. USA is not an emergency service, crisis hotline, medical provider, pharmacy, law-enforcement agency, mental-health crisis service, or government agency.

P.A.R.T. USA cannot guarantee immediate responses to emails, telephone calls, text messages, forms, social-media messages, or other communications.

If you are unsure whether a situation is an emergency and there is immediate danger or a serious threat to someone’s health or safety, contact 911 or an appropriate emergency professional rather than waiting for a response from P.A.R.T. USA.

5. No Guarantee of Results

P.A.R.T. USA works to advance advocacy, education, public awareness, patient-centered policy reform, appropriate treatment access, and protection of chronic pain patient rights.

Advocacy efforts cannot guarantee any particular result.

P.A.R.T. USA does not guarantee any specific medical outcome, legal outcome, insurance decision, pharmacy decision, legislative result, regulatory result, government response, provider response, media response, court result, agency decision, public-policy change, or individual case result.

P.A.R.T. USA may communicate with lawmakers, agencies, healthcare organizations, medical boards, insurers, pharmacies, professional organizations, media outlets, and other parties, but cannot require those third parties to take any particular action.

6. Individual Responsibility

Visitors, members, volunteers, donors, advocates, supporters, and other participants are responsible for their own decisions, actions, communications, submissions, and use of information.

Individuals should independently evaluate information, seek appropriate professional guidance when necessary, and make decisions based on their own circumstances.

P.A.R.T. USA is not responsible for decisions made or actions taken or not taken solely on the basis of general website content, advocacy materials, public statements, social-media content, interviews, emails, text messages, events, or other organizational communications.

7. Accuracy and Updates

P.A.R.T. USA makes reasonable efforts to provide accurate, useful, and current information.

Laws, regulations, agency policies, medical guidance, insurance rules, pharmacy practices, government procedures, court decisions, legislative proposals, and organizational information may change over time.

P.A.R.T. USA does not guarantee that all website content, advocacy materials, public information, links, or communications will always be complete, current, accurate, or free from error.

Information may be updated, corrected, revised, removed, or replaced as circumstances change.

8. Third-Party Information and Links

This website may contain links to third-party websites, government resources, news articles, research, organizations, payment processors, social-media platforms, videos, forms, documents, or other external resources.

P.A.R.T. USA may provide these links for convenience, education, advocacy, research, or reference purposes.

P.A.R.T. USA does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, privacy practices, security, policies, or actions.

Visiting or relying upon third-party websites or resources is done at the user’s own discretion.

9. Personal Stories and Advocacy Materials

P.A.R.T. USA may share patient experiences, personal stories, interviews, testimony, public comments, advocacy examples, quotations, videos, or other individual experiences when permission has been provided or when information is already lawfully available in a public advocacy context.

Personal experiences reflect individual circumstances and should not be interpreted as medical advice, legal advice, guaranteed outcomes, or proof that another person will experience the same result.

Every patient’s medical circumstances are different, and legal, insurance, pharmacy, regulatory, and advocacy situations may involve different facts and outcomes.

10. Membership, Donations, Volunteers, and Chapters

Membership, donations, fundraising participation, volunteer activity, advocacy involvement, chapter participation, or other support of P.A.R.T. USA does not by itself create a professional advisory relationship, medical relationship, attorney-client relationship, employment relationship, contractor relationship, officer position, board position, fiduciary relationship, or agency authority.

Members, volunteers, supporters, advocates, and chapter participants may not bind P.A.R.T. USA, commit the organization to legal or financial obligations, or represent themselves as authorized organizational representatives unless they have been given specific authority to do so by P.A.R.T. USA.

State chapters and affiliated organizations may have separate leadership structures, policies, responsibilities, and legal obligations.

11. Communications Disclaimer

Communications from P.A.R.T. USA may include advocacy alerts, legislative updates, organizational announcements, public education, membership information, event information, volunteer information, fundraising information, responses to inquiries, and other mission-related communications.

P.A.R.T. USA may communicate by email, telephone, text message, website form, social media, video meeting, postal mail, or other reasonable methods.

Electronic communications cannot be guaranteed to be private, immediate, error-free, or secure.

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12. SMS / Text Message Disclaimer

P.A.R.T. USA may communicate by text message using its toll-free telephone number: 833-401-PART (7278).

Text messages may include advocacy alerts, legislative updates, organizational announcements, event information, membership information, volunteer opportunities, donation-related information, and responses to inquiries.

Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply. You may opt out of text messages at any time by replying STOP. You may request assistance by replying HELP.

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13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, P.A.R.T. USA and its officers, directors, volunteers, representatives, contributors, affiliates, and authorized organizational participants are not responsible for losses or damages arising solely from reliance on general website information, participation in advocacy efforts, third-party links, communications, technical issues, delays, website errors, payment processor issues, or actions taken independently by third parties.

Nothing in this Disclaimer is intended to waive rights, responsibilities, or liabilities that cannot lawfully be waived or limited under applicable law.

14. No Professional Relationship Created

Using this website, contacting P.A.R.T. USA, submitting a form, sharing information or a personal story, becoming a member, donating, volunteering, attending an event, participating in advocacy, or receiving communications from P.A.R.T. USA does not create a doctor-patient relationship, attorney-client relationship, therapist-client relationship, fiduciary relationship, employment relationship, contractor relationship, or other professional relationship.

15. Related Policies

This Disclaimer should be read together with the P.A.R.T. USA Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. Those documents provide additional information regarding privacy, website use, communications, organizational expectations, and other applicable policies.

16. Updates to This Disclaimer

P.A.R.T. USA may revise this Disclaimer as the organization, website, programs, technology, laws, regulations, or communications practices change.

Material updates may be reflected on this page by changing the “Last Updated” date.

Continued use of the website after an updated Disclaimer is posted constitutes acknowledgment of the revised terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.

17. Contact Us

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