Terms and Conditions

Effective Date: 02 February 2021

Medical disclaimer

The Medistudents website and applications (apps) are designed to aid medical students in preparing for examinations. Information on the provided is not designed to make diagnosis or to prescribe medical treatment, and does not substitute professional clinical consultation.

The content of the Medistudents website and applications has been reviewed by qualified doctors who practice medicine within the UK, and whilst every effort has been made to ensure factual accuracy, Medistudents accept no responsibility for any inaccuracies or variations dependent upon location. Medistudents under no circumstances shall be liable, directly or indirectly, for any damages that occur as the result of using the information on the Medistudents website and/or applications.

If you discover content which requires editing or updating, we would be very grateful if inform us at: hello@medistudents.com.

Terms of use

Welcome to Medistudents (“The Website”). There are a some rules which our visitors must follow when using The Website and services, so please read these Terms and Conditions carefully.

The Website is brought to you by Medistudents, (“Medistudents”, or “we” or “us”) and all rights, including copyright, in regards to the design, code, textual content and photography is owned or controlled by Medistudents.

Medistudents and its affiliates provide access to The Website and sells its products and services to you subject to the Terms and Conditions set out on this page.

If you have any comments or queries relating to The Website, contact us at: legal@medistudents.com.

What do I agree to by entering and using The Website and its services?

You are invited to use The Website on the basis of the Terms and Conditions set out below.

By entering The Website and using its services (as defined below) you are deemed to have read and accepted these Terms and Conditions. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions or any part of them, you should not enter or use The Website. Medistudents may modify or update these Terms and Conditions from time to time. If you continue to use The Website after any changes, this means you agree to be bound by the modified Terms and Conditions.

The services

The Website may offer the following services to you: purchase of products, purchase fo subscriptions, competitions, prize draws, newsletters, video clips, downloading of documents and media files.

Conditions of using the services

You agree to use the services on The Website in good faith and in the spirit in which they are made available to you. In particular you agree:

  • Not to send to us or our partners any content which is obscene or vulgar, offensive, abusive, harmful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, discriminatory, in breach of confidence, in breach of or invasive of another’s privacy, racially or ethically or religiously insulting or otherwise unlawful.
  • Not to use services on The Website for any purpose which would be considered a criminal offence, or give rise to civil liability or which is or may be damaging to the rights or interests of any user or other third party in any country in the world.
  • Not to post or transmit material on The Website which is technically harmful (e.g. computer viruses, corrupted data, Trojans, worms or any other harmful software or data).
  • If you or any other party has any issues or concerns with the content of any communications generated via The Website, please contact The Website moderator as soon as possible.
  • That all services will be used entirely at your own risk and Medistudents accepts no responsibility for any losses or consequences suffered by you or a third party as a result of your use of The Website.

If Medistudents is informed or has any reason to believe that any of the services on The Website are being used by a user other than in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, Medistudents reserves the right to suspend or permanently prevent access by the user to the services and shall have no liability to the user whatsoever in such event.

Sending us information

We are happy to receive from you any ideas, suggestions, graphics, pictures or anything else, but do please remember that, by sending us your submission (the “Material”) you will be deemed to have granted Medistudents (and any of its subsidiaries or associated companies) a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any such work worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in the Material.

Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under our Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to The Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.

By submitting your Material to this site, you also warrant that:

  • You have the right to make it available to Medistudents.
  • The Material is not defamatory.
  • The Material does not infringe any law or rights or interests of any third party in any country of the world, in particular that the Material does not plagiarise, or infringe on the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secret, privacy, personal, publicity, or proprietary rights.
  • You agree to indemnify Medistudents against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Medistudents as a result of your breach of the above warranty. You also agree to waive any moral rights in the Material for the purposes of its submission to and publication on The Website and the other purposes specified above.

This means that all stories, comments, suggestions, ideas, graphics or other information sent to us can be used by us as we see fit. This includes using it for promotional, marketing or any other commercial purpose, whether in advertising, or in developing, manufacturing or marketing products. Under no circumstances are you entitled to any payment if we do use your Material for any purpose. So remember, don’t send us your Material if you don’t want us to use it or the world to know about it.

Access to The Website

We will do our utmost to ensure uninterrupted availability of The Website and that transmissions will be without errors. However, due to the nature of the Internet, this cannot be guaranteed. It is your responsibility to evaluate the information and content provided on The Website. Your access to The Website may also be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.

Licence for access to The Website

Medistudents grants you a limited licence to access and make personal non-commercial use of The Website. The licence does not allow you to download, extract or re-utilise (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of Medistudents. This licence expressly prohibits:

  • Any resale or commercial use of The Website or its contents.
  • Any derivative use of The Website or its contents.
  • Any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

The Website or any portion of The Website may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without Medistudents’ express written consent.

You may not frame or use similar techniques to enclose any trade mark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Medistudents and its affiliates. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilising Medistudents or its affiliates’ names or trade marks. Any unauthorised use terminates the permission or licence granted by Medistudents.

You may not use any logo or trade mark which is featured on The Website or other proprietary graphic or trade mark as part of the link without our express written consent.

You may not use The Website, or any of the material appearing on The Website from time to time to further any commercial purpose, including (but not limited to) selling on of any products purchased from The Website to any ecommerce or auction site advertising or to promote or encourage traffic to any other website.

Any use of The Website or extracts of The Website other than in accordance with this clause is strictly prohibited.

Links to and from other websites

The Website may contain links to third party websites and, likewise, third party websites may contain links to The Website. Medistudents is not responsible for the availability of, or any content or material contained in, or obtained through, any such third party websites, nor does Medistudents recommend, endorse or accept responsibility for the content of any third party websites. If you decide to access any third party website linked to The Website, you do so entirely at your own risk. Any questions or comments relating to third party websites should be addressed directly to the operator of those third party websites.

You may not include a link to The Website or display any of its contents, in any format, in any other website without Medistudents’ written consent. Such consent, if given, may be withdrawn, without notice, at any time and in this event you must remove the relevant link and/or content within 24 hours.

Privacy Policy

Please ensure that you read our Privacy Policy to learn about what personal information we collect at The Website, how we handle it and for what purposes we use it.

Website content

Medistudents makes every effort to ensure that the content of The Website is accurate and up-to-date, but Medistudents does not offer any warranties (whether express, implied or otherwise) as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of the information appearing on The Website.

Medistudents may remove material or Features from The Website at its own discretion, at any time and without notice. The material in The Website may be out of date and Medistudents makes no commitment to update such material.

Intellectual Property Rights

All content and compilation of such content together with all software included on The Website, including without limitation text, graphics, logos, button icons, images and software, is the property of Medistudents or its subsidiaries, its affiliates or its content suppliers and is protected by UK, European and International laws.

You acknowledge and agree that all copyright, rights in data, databases, trade marks, names, images, logos and other intellectual property rights in The Website content, software and all HTML and other code involved in The Website (“Intellectual Property Rights”) shall remain at all times vested in Medistudents and that these are protected by copyright and other laws and international treaty provisions.

You may not create and/or publish your own database which features substantial parts of The Website.

You may not, other than in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, redistribute, transfer, or sell in whole or in part, The Website or any of the Intellectual Property Rights relating thereto, without first obtaining written permission from Medistudents to do so.

Nothing contained in The Website shall be construed as conferring by implication or otherwise any licence or right to use any of the Intellectual Property Rights displayed or subsisting on or in The Website other than in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

Limitation of Liability

The Internet is by its nature an unreliable medium. Consequently, you accept that The Website is offered on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

While Medistudents takes all reasonable steps to ensure that The Website is properly functioning at all times, Medistudents does not warrant that The Website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that The Website or the server that makes it available are free of software viruses or bugs or other defects.

Medistudents has no control over, and disclaims all responsibility for, any content you encounter, or events which may occur as a result of your use of the services and Medistudents shall not be liable for any damages or other losses of any type whatsoever incurred by you as a result of your use of The Website or the services.

Medistudents shall not be liable to you for any loss or damage you suffer as a result of visiting The Website or making use of the services or information available on The Website. You must take your own precautions (including, but not limited to, installing adequate protective measures to guard against software viruses and ensuring that you retain up-to-date copies of all data) to protect yourself against loss or damage.

Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit Medistudents’ liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or fraud or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter or any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Whole Agreement and Governing Law

Your use of The Website, any purchase by you on The Website of any products and these Terms and Conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and will be deemed to have occurred in England.

By accepting these Terms and Conditions and using The Website, you accept that any dispute under these Terms and Conditions or arising out of use of The Website shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Medistudents’ intellectual property rights, Medistudents may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any court in any country in the world, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction of such courts. By using The Website you hereby submit to the jurisdiction of such courts for such purposes and waive any and all objections to jurisdiction or venue in such courts.

If any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions are deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining conditions.

Legal Statement

Medistudents, and the Medistudents logo are trade marks of Medistudents.

www.medistudents.com is a registered domain name of Medistudents.

Registered Office: AG Education Ltd, 7 Bell Yard, London, WC2A 2JR.

If you have any questions regarding these Terms and Conditions, please contact us at: legal@medistudents.com

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