Disclaimer

Disclaimer

The website as a whole
Whilst the Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association website provides information on Eating Disorders and Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association makes every effort to ensure the quality and accuracy of this information, please be fully aware that the information provided on our website appears in summarised form only and as such is not to be considered complete, exhaustive or authoritative.

The information provided, and the website itself, should not be used as a substitute for professional care (whether from a GP, counsellor or any other health care professional) or to replace any ongoing treatment and should not be used for self-diagnosis, an Eating Disorder and associated conditions can only be diagnosed by a qualified health care professional. The Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association website, and information contained within, does not represent a therapeutic programme in itself and is certainly not to be considered instruction of any kind. If you have any health concerns or health care related questions please raise them with you General Practitioner or other appropriate health care professional.

Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association provides no warranty as to the website information's completeness, reliability or accuracy or to how current and up to date the supplied information may be.

You use the Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association website and its content entirely at your own risk.

Message Boards
The Message Boards provide public forums for people to communicate with each other, ask questions and express their views and are to be considered soley as a means of, and place for, peer support. Posting does not guarantee a response nor is there any obligation on any party to supply one. These boards are not manned and are not a support service.

Any material or views posted to the site or the forums by online users in any context whatsoever (including individuals connected to SWEDA) represents the personal views of the individual poster only, and as such Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association cannot be held responsible or liable for the content or accuracy of any posted (or any other form of transmited) material in any way, or for any consequences resulting from its use. The inclusion of such material within the website does not necessarily represent the position of, or an endorsement by, Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association or any participating health care professionals, organisations or individuals. SWEDA's message boards may be moderated and we reserve the right to remove posts that are inappropriate or offensive.

Should you choose to post to the boards and/or use, or act upon, any information contained within, you do so entirely at your own risk and accept sole responsibility and liability for doing so and for any consequences that may result. These Message Boards and the content herein are used entirely at your own risk.

SWEDA does not encourage people to post email and other contact details or to contact eachother away from the boards, however if you choose to do so please be aware that you do so at your own risk and SWEDA cannot be held responsible for any consequences that may arise from this.

At all times you remain responsible for yourself and your wellbeing.

Personal Information
At certain places on the site Online users may include an email address and other personal information with material posted (e.g.Guestbook). In some instances an email address may be required in registering for specific areas of the site (e.g. Message Boards). Users choosing to post or provide an such information do so at their own risk. The Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association site is open to all and consequently any email address or personal information posted becomes available to any viewing the site. Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association is in no way responsible or liable for any contact, or contents thereof, made as a result of disclosing or responding to, an email address or any other personal information.

The Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association website is a public place and materials posted by online users become publicly available. Such material is not under the control, or the responsibility, of Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association. Please exercise caution when deciding what information to disclose.

External Links
The Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association website provides links to other sites. The inclusion of a site link does not represent an endorsement of the site by Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association nor can Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association be held responsible or liable for the content therein.

Likewise, the inclusion of a link to Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association from a 3rd party site does not represent an endorsement of the site by Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association nor can Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association be held responsible or liable for the content therein. Such links do not necessarily represent and endorsement of Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association by that 3rd party.

Please be advised that you use such sites and information at your own discretion and risk!

Using our site

It is our intention to make the SWEDA website a place where people, whether sufferers or carers or indeed concerned parties of any kind, can come for accurate information and support and hopefully reassurance and inspiration too! SWEDA believes in, and practices, the principles of 'Self Help', recognises the validity and great value of 'peer support' and has an unshakeable belief that individuals experiencing an eating disorder and those caring for them should be enabled to access the tools and information that they feel they need in order to affect their own recoveries, and to be supported and held during this process and beyond.

We sincerely hope, therefore, that you will find our website both useful and supportive (and perhaps at times fun too) and that, should you wish too, you feel able to use it as a complementary part of whatever route to recovery you choose to travel.