Terms Of Service

Legal Contract

The Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and all other stated rules constitute a legally binding agreement between you and CaSES. Your use of the website and/or forums constitutes your agreement and acceptance to be bound by and comply with the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and all other stated rules. If you do not agree to the Terms and Conditions you must immediately terminate use of the website and/or forums.

CaSES reserves the right to make changes to the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and all other stated rules at its sole discretion. CaSES  may make improvements and/or changes in the product(s), service(s), and/or the literature, information, text or content described on the website and forums at any time. Your use of the website constitutes your acceptance of these changes.

Rules of Conduct – Blogs, Social Networking Sites and Other Commenting forums

We welcome and encourage open discussions on blogs, listservs, social networking sites or other commenting forums and look forward to your participation. However, you must follow various legal parameters. By choosing to participate in any blog, listserv, message board, social networking site or other commenting forum you must comply with all laws. Note that third party sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, are governed by the terms and conditions and privacy policies of these third parties.

You alone are responsible for any consequences of any posting. CaSES is not responsible for any material posted by any third party. Please note the following rules of conduct:

  • Do not post any materials that violate any federal or state laws, including but not limited to libel, slander, antitrust, trademark, copyright, patent, or unfair competition.
  • Do not advocate or discuss illegal activity.
  • Do not post anything that could encourage or facilitate discussions about salaries, prices, discounts, terms of sales, profits, profit margins, cost data, or market shares.
  • Do not post any materials that do not pertain to the discussion, topic or theme of the forum.
  • Do not Infringe upon a third-party copyright, nor invade the privacy or publicity rights of others.
  • Do not post anything protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright owner.
  • Do not post anything that is knowingly false, defamatory, profane, vulgar, obscene, threatening, abusive, hateful, bigoted, racially offensive, pornographic, embarrassing, or that has any potential to cause any harm or damage to anyone as determined by CaSES in its sole discretion.
  • Do not post anything of a sexual nature.
  • Do not use the website for junk mail, spam, chain letters, or pyramid schemes.
  • Do not impersonate anyone or misrepresent who you are.
  • Do not advertise, sell, or solicit others.
  • Do not use any forum for any commercial purposes, even if you disclose that you are doing so.
  • 3 STRIKES RULE: We believe in 3 strikes, you’re out. 1st violation, gentle warning and reminder of the rules. 2nd violation, ban warning. 3rd infraction and you are out. Exceptions to the rule are blatant spam or overt guideline violations which can result in an instant ban.
  • Report violations of these terms and conditions, including copyright issues to support@casesendo.com.

Lawful Purpose

The website and forums may be used only for lawful purposes. As one of the conditions of your use of the website and forums, you represent, warrant, and agree that you will not use (or assist others to use) the website and forums for any purpose or in any manner that is prohibited by these terms, conditions and notices or by applicable law (including but not limited to any applicable export controls.)

Passwords/Security

Once you have been provided with a username and password to access sections of the website and/or forums, you understand and agree that your username and password is unique to you and the username and password cannot be shared with or used by anyone other than yourself. You agree that you will not provide anyone else other than yourself with access to the website and/or forums via your username and password. If you do not have a valid username and password, you are not authorized to use or access password protected areas.

Privacy Policy and Other Stated Rules

For information about CaSES data protection and protection of your privacy, please read CaSES Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference and made a part of these Terms & Conditions.

Links, Ads, Vendors, and Third-Party Materials

The website and forums contain links to third-party web sites, banner ads, vendor lists, and other third-party materials that CaSES does not own or control. CaSES  does not make any representation about any other website, advertisement, or third-party entity to which you may learn about or access through the website and forums. When you access another website or company, you do so at your own risk and CaSES is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information, opinions, statements, or advice made on these sites or by these companies. A link to another website or a listing of another company does not constitute CaSES’s endorsement of that site or company, nor does CaSES accept any responsibility for the content or uses of other websites or companies.

CaSES assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the information or other documents which are referenced by or linked to the website and forums. References to corporations, their services and products, are provided “as is” without any express, implied or other warranties.

Notice of Copyright Infringement

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide the following information in writing to our Copyright Agent via support@casesendo.com:

  1. A description of the copyrighted work or other material that you claim has been infringed.
  2. A description of the material that you claim is infringing and where it can be found on the site.
  3. Your address, telephone number, and email address.
  4. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest.
  5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the complained of use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement by you that the information provided in your notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest or you are the copyright or intellectual property owner.

Rights/CaSES’s Official Logo/Copyright and Reprint Permissions

The content of the website and forums includes, without limitation, (i) CaSES trademarks, logos, service marks, brands, trade names, and other distinctive identification; (ii) information, data, directories, materials, computer code, products, services, software applications, text, images, photographs, audio and video materials, podcasts, webinars, publications, online courses, and artwork; and (iii) content contained in, displayed or available through the website and forums (the items in section (i), (ii) and (iii) are collectively referred to herein as “CaSES Content”). CaSES  Content is the property of CaSES its licensors, sponsors, partners, advertisers, content providers or other third parties and is protected by law including, but not limited to, copyright, trade secret and trademark law, as well as other laws, rules and regulations. All rights are reserved. The reproduction, transmission, distribution, sale, publication, broadcast, exploitation, circulation or dissemination of any CaSES Content by you, or by you through any other person or entity, is strictly prohibited unless express written consent is obtained from CaSES or the owner of the content if CaSES  is not the owner.

For permission to use CaSES’s logo, please see our terms of use for the CaSES logo.

License to Use

By submitting, posting, displaying or providing any information (including, without limitation, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, drawings, notes, concepts or any other material) to the website and forums, you automatically grant to CaSES, without limitation, a worldwide, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free license, authorization and permission, in any form or format, on or through any media or medium now known or hereafter developed or discovered, to maintain, use, reproduce, distribute, display, exhibit, perform, publish, broadcast, transmit, modify, prepare derivative works of, reformat, and otherwise use all or any portion of such information, for any purpose whatsoever without accounting, notification, credit or other obligation to you, and the right to license and sub-license and authorize others to exercise any of the rights granted in CaSES’s sole discretion.

Our Affliations



The CaSES is linked and affiliated to different quality-control societies and organizations. Through their specialties the CaSES surgeons are also members, board members and founding members of different surgical specialty field organizations such as the the Caribbean College of Surgeons (CCOS), the Caribbean Obesity Forum (COF) and the Caribbean Society for Hepatobiliary Surgery (CSHS).