Optical Express Ruined My Life

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This section relates to use of the Optical Express Ruined My Life website and discussion forum, applicable to all users, directly or indirectly, registered or not.

Referred to herein as OERML, the Optical Express Ruined My Life forum is an open platform for the exchange of information and discussion relating to all refractive eye surgery procedures. 

Whilst primarily intended for the use of pre & post op eye surgery patients, contributions from clinic staff & surgeons are welcome, but any form of direct or indirect advertising will be removed without notice.

Forum posts should be factual, of personal opinion and/or experience.

OERML team reserves the right to exclude, modify, grammatically correct/discontinue threads and topics.

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Please contact us immediately by email if you consider a posted message inappropriate. If we determine that removal is necessary we will make every effort  to do so within a reasonable time frame as OERML moderators are volunteers and do not monitor the forum 24/7.

Although OERML is not responsible for the content of posts, we reserve the right to remove entirely at our discretion any contribution you post without warning or explanation.

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