Legal notice and general terms and conditions of use of the website

5.1 The Doctor shall display, on the home page of his or her Professional Website, a link to the directory of the CNOM website and a link to the dedicated page on the CNOM’s public website which displays publications and ordinal recommendations relating to medical ethics on the web.

5.2 The Professional Website provides practical information on the address, specialty, recognised titles, mode of practice, the health establishments in which the Doctor is required to intervene, as well as access to and the situation with regard to social protection bodies.

5.3 The Doctor must mention the working hours, his membership of an approved management association (AGA), the conditions for drawing up estimates when the regulations for the discipline exercised require it and the territorial modalities of response to emergencies and permanence of care.

5.4 The doctor may provide, in the case of publications of health information, any explanation of a purely informative nature on diseases, prevention, treatments and techniques practised.
It presents objectively the advantages and possible disadvantages of procedures, prescriptions and interventions.
He does so in a simple and educational way, and indicates, if necessary, his sources of reference.
This public information can usefully complement the information that has been previously given to a patient during a consultation.
In this case, they can in no way be used to replace them.
The dates of publication and/or update must be mentioned.

5.5 The Physician, when he is unable to ensure regular updates of his professional Website, ensures that the information is then preferably delivered by the creation of links to information sites for the general public that have no commercial interest.

5.6 The Doctor assures that when the Professional Website publishes comments, images or photographs, that no identification of persons is possible and that these publications cannot be presented in such a way as to lead the User to believe that a result could be obtained, which would constitute deception, regardless of the medical or surgical field concerned.
As these are information sheets or technical sheets, they cannot replace oral information delivered during the patient’s consultation.
These sheets can be illustrated with diagrams and/or photos that must be made anonymous.

5.7 The Doctor does not advertise himself/herself, either directly or indirectly, on his/her professional Website, nor on behalf of organizations to which he/she may lend his/her assistance, in accordance with the provisions of Article R. 4127-20 of the Public Health Code.

5.8 The Doctor declares on his professional Website his links of interest with any firm related to the field of health and care and ensures that the confidentiality of the User’s Data is respected.
Where applicable, it specifies the financing of its professional Website and that of its maintenance.

5.9 The Doctor shall ensure, if there is an online agenda, an automated confirmation response so that the User can be assured that his or her appointment has been taken into account.
This online agenda allows the User to be reminded of the appointment by telephone, email or SMS.
The Doctor ensures the masking of appointments already made.

5.10 The configuration of the agenda, for security reasons, must be strictly limited to the making of appointments (surname, first name, telephone number, email address of the User) and may not include an expression area for the explanation of symptoms or for any other reason.
A perfectly legible associated announcement indicates a possible telephone contact in the event of a situation analysed as urgent or confusing for the User.

5.11 The contact icon may allow the User to send a message to the person responsible for the Business Website.
The User must be duly warned, by a pop-up or any other perfectly legible means, that these messages are not read in real time and that this is not a means of obtaining information of a medical nature.
The User must also be warned, by the same means, that the contact address is not a secure address and that, consequently, the User’s email address as well as the content of his message could be read by a third party.