The Health on the Net Foundation is an international not-for-profit organization based in Switzerland. Its Code of Conduct (HONcode) addresses one of the main issues of the Internet: the reliability and credibility of medical and health information.
HONcode does not purport to rate the quality or the information provided by a Web site, rather, HONcode seeks to define a set of rules that will help visitors to sites know the source of the information that is provided and the purpose of site.
