Welcome to the P.A.R.T. Texas website. These Terms and Conditions explain the rules, limitations, and expectations for using this website, communicating with P.A.R.T. Texas, participating in advocacy efforts, submitting information, making donations, joining as a member, or otherwise interacting with P.A.R.T. Texas online or through organizational communications.

By using this website, submitting a form, joining P.A.R.T. Texas, donating, volunteering, purchasing or requesting organization-related materials, or communicating with us by phone, email, text message, or online form, you agree to these Terms and Conditions.

1. Who We Are

P.A.R.T. Texas is a Texas advocacy organization focused on protecting chronic pain patient rights, supporting patient-centered policy reform, educating the public, and encouraging access to appropriate medical care.

P.A.R.T. Texas may provide educational information, advocacy updates, public policy information, membership opportunities, volunteer opportunities, donation options, event information, and related organizational communications.

2. Website Use

You agree to use this website only for lawful purposes and in a manner that does not interfere with the operation, security, or availability of the website or the rights of others.

You may not use this website to submit false information, impersonate another person, attempt to gain unauthorized access to website systems, interfere with website functionality, upload harmful code, spam the organization, harass others, or misuse P.A.R.T. Texas communications channels.

3. Educational and Advocacy Information Only

Information provided by P.A.R.T. Texas is for general educational, advocacy, and informational purposes only. Nothing on this website should be interpreted as medical advice, legal advice, mental health advice, professional counseling, or a substitute for guidance from a qualified professional.

P.A.R.T. Texas does not diagnose medical conditions, prescribe treatment, direct individual medical care, create attorney-client relationships, or provide individualized legal representation through this website or through general communications.

4. No Guarantee of Results

P.A.R.T. Texas works to support advocacy, education, public awareness, and policy reform. However, P.A.R.T. Texas does not guarantee any particular legislative result, medical outcome, insurance outcome, legal result, government response, media response, membership benefit, public policy change, or individual case result.

Participation in P.A.R.T. Texas advocacy efforts does not guarantee that a lawmaker, agency, insurer, medical provider, pharmacy, court, media outlet, or any other person or organization will take a specific action.

5. Memberships, Donations, and Contributions

P.A.R.T. Texas may offer free memberships, paid memberships, volunteer opportunities, donations, fundraising efforts, advocacy campaigns, merchandise-related fundraising, event-related fundraising, or other support options.

Unless clearly stated otherwise, donations and contributions made to P.A.R.T. Texas are voluntary and may be used to support the organization’s advocacy, education, communications, website, outreach, events, administrative needs, travel-related advocacy efforts, and other mission-related activities.

Membership levels, donation options, benefits, features, and participation opportunities may be changed, updated, paused, or discontinued by P.A.R.T. Texas at any time.

6. Payments, Third-Party Processors, and Refunds

If P.A.R.T. Texas accepts donations, memberships, merchandise-related contributions, event payments, or other payments through third-party processors, those payments may be handled by outside payment platforms. P.A.R.T. Texas does not control every aspect of third-party payment processing systems.

Refund availability may depend on the type of payment, the payment processor, whether funds have already been committed to organizational purposes, and the circumstances of the request. P.A.R.T. Texas may review refund requests individually but does not guarantee that all payments, donations, contributions, or membership fees are refundable.

Payment or donation questions: info@parttexas.com

7. Merchandise and Fundraising Items

P.A.R.T. Texas may offer shirts, printed materials, advocacy items, or other fundraising-related materials from time to time. Availability, pricing, designs, fulfillment timing, and related details may change.

Unless otherwise stated, merchandise-related fundraising items are intended to support P.A.R.T. Texas mission-related work and advocacy efforts. Delays may occur due to printing, shipping, supplier schedules, order batching, technical issues, or other circumstances outside the organization’s direct control.

8. Volunteer and Advocacy Participation

P.A.R.T. Texas may allow individuals to participate in advocacy, outreach, public education, volunteer work, events, interviews, testimony, communications, or other mission-related activities.

Participation as a volunteer, advocate, member, supporter, or participant does not create employment, contractor status, officer status, board membership, agency authority, or legal authority to bind P.A.R.T. Texas unless specifically authorized in writing by P.A.R.T. Texas.

Volunteers and advocates may be expected to follow P.A.R.T. Texas messaging guidelines, confidentiality expectations, communication standards, and any written policies or instructions provided by the organization.

9. User Submissions and Shared Stories

If you submit a message, form, personal story, testimony, interview information, photo, document, comment, or other content to P.A.R.T. Texas, you are responsible for making sure the information you provide is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you have the right to share it.

P.A.R.T. Texas may use submitted information to respond to you, support advocacy efforts, organize records, prepare educational materials, communicate with lawmakers or the public, or further the organization’s mission, subject to any privacy, anonymity, permission, or confidentiality limitations agreed to by P.A.R.T. Texas.

P.A.R.T. Texas will make reasonable efforts to respect anonymity requests, privacy requests, and consent boundaries when stories or identifying information are shared for advocacy purposes.

10. Communications by Email, Phone, and Text Message

If you provide your email address or phone number to P.A.R.T. Texas, you may receive communications related to advocacy updates, organizational announcements, membership matters, donation matters, volunteer opportunities, event information, website inquiries, or responses to your messages.

P.A.R.T. Texas may communicate by text message using its toll-free number: 833-PARTTEX / 833-727-8839.

By providing your mobile phone number to P.A.R.T. Texas and agreeing to receive text messages, you consent to receive SMS/text messages from P.A.R.T. Texas. Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply. You may opt out at any time by replying STOP. You may request help by replying HELP.

Email for help: info@parttexas.com

11. Privacy

Your use of this website and your communications with P.A.R.T. Texas may also be governed by the P.A.R.T. Texas Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy explains how P.A.R.T. Texas may collect, use, protect, and share information.

P.A.R.T. Texas encourages visitors, members, donors, volunteers, and supporters to review the Privacy Policy in addition to these Terms and Conditions.

12. Links to Other Websites

This website may include links to third-party websites, resources, articles, payment processors, partner organizations, social media platforms, government websites, or other outside content.

P.A.R.T. Texas is not responsible for the content, policies, availability, accuracy, security, privacy practices, or actions of third-party websites or services. Visiting outside websites is done at your own discretion.

13. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, website text, graphics, logos, designs, page layouts, advocacy materials, written content, images, and other materials created by or for P.A.R.T. Texas are the property of P.A.R.T. Texas or are used with permission.

You may share P.A.R.T. Texas public-facing advocacy materials for educational, awareness, or advocacy purposes as long as you do not alter the meaning, misrepresent the organization, remove attribution, claim ownership, or use the materials for unlawful or misleading purposes.

You may not copy, reproduce, sell, republish, or commercially exploit P.A.R.T. Texas materials without permission unless the material is clearly intended for public sharing.

14. Website Availability and Technical Issues

P.A.R.T. Texas works to keep the website available and functioning, but the website may occasionally be unavailable due to maintenance, hosting issues, security tools, plugin problems, technical errors, internet disruptions, third-party service issues, or other causes.

P.A.R.T. Texas does not guarantee that the website will always be available, error-free, uninterrupted, fully secure, or free of technical problems.

15. Disclaimer of Warranties

This website and its content are provided on an “as available” basis. P.A.R.T. Texas makes reasonable efforts to provide accurate and helpful information, but does not guarantee that all information will always be complete, current, accurate, or free from errors.

P.A.R.T. Texas disclaims warranties to the fullest extent permitted by law, including warranties related to website availability, accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, security, or uninterrupted access.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, P.A.R.T. Texas, its board members, officers, volunteers, representatives, supporters, contributors, and affiliates shall not be liable for damages arising from your use of the website, reliance on website information, participation in advocacy efforts, third-party website use, payment processor issues, technical problems, communication delays, or inability to access the website.

This limitation includes direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or other damages, where permitted by applicable law.

17. Indemnification

You agree not to hold P.A.R.T. Texas responsible for claims, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, or expenses arising from your misuse of the website, violation of these Terms and Conditions, unlawful conduct, unauthorized use of P.A.R.T. Texas materials, or submission of false, misleading, harmful, or unauthorized content.

18. Changes to These Terms

P.A.R.T. Texas may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time. Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Your continued use of the website after updates are posted means you accept the updated Terms and Conditions.

19. Governing Law

These Terms and Conditions are intended to be governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict of law principles, unless another applicable law requires otherwise.

20. Contact Us

For questions about these Terms and Conditions or P.A.R.T. Texas website use, contact: