Terms of Use

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE (Effective 1st May 2025)

Terms of websites and Apps use including, British Medical Surgical Academy & Journal (BMSAJ) & GynaeFellow Products & Platforms

The page is regularly updated. It is your responsibility to review our Terms of Use and other policies updates. 

The following terms of use (including the documents referred to in it) informs you of your rights and responsibilities when you use our websites, platforms and the Apps whether as a guest or a registered user. The term (Use) of our websites, platforms and Apps includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our services.

Please read the terms of use carefully before you start. You may wish to print a copy of the terms for future your reference.

By using this site, you confirm that you accept the terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our site.

Other applicable terms

The terms of use includes the following additional terms, which apply to your use of this site:

• Privacy Policy (www.gynaefellow.com/privacy-policy). This section sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using the site, you consent to such processing and you confirm that all data provided by you is accurate.
• Customer Use Policy (www.gynaefellow.com/cutomer-use-policy). This section sets out the permitted and the prohibited uses of our site. By using our site, you confirm you will comply with our Customer Use Policy.
• Cookie Policy (www.gynaefellow.com/cookie-policy). This section sets out our cookie policy and information about the cookies we use.
• If you decide to purchase products or services from this site then you confirm your acceptance to our Terms & Conditions of Sale.

Information about us

BMSAJ  & GynaeFellow Platforms &  Apps  are operated by GynaeFellow Limited (“We”). We are a UK registered company.

Changes to these terms

We reserve the right to revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You need to check this page from time to time and ensure you take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding to you.

Changes to our site

We may update our site and App from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site or App may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

We do not guarantee that our site or App, or any content on either, will be free from errors or omissions.

Accessing www.gynaefellow.com and Gynaefellow App

The web sites and Apps are available on a mixed subscription plans; free and paid plans.

We do not guarantee that our site/App, or any content on them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our services is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site or the App without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site and App.

Our services are directed to professionals who work or interested female surgery (gynaecology). Although membership is open to all people, we do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate to other specialities or general use . We may limit the availability of our site or any service or product described on our site to any person or geographic area at any time.

Your account and password

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We reserve the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion we conclude that you failed to comply with the provisions of the terms of use. should we decide so, our decision is final.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you know your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at contact@gynaefellow.com

Intellectual property rights

We are the owners and the licensee holders of all intellectual property rights in our site, and of the material published on it. All works in our sites are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

• You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.
• You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
• If You quote a material from our sites then You must acknowledge our site(s) and the author (s) of that material. Failure to do so will be considered violation to our intellectual property rights.
• You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
• If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site(s) will cease immediately. You must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

No reliance on information

• The content on our site(s) is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
• Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up-to-date.

Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

• use of, or inability to use, our site; or
• use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

• loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
• business interruption;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
• any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the sale of any product or supply of any services by use to you, which will be set out in our terms and conditions of sale.

Uploading content to our site

• The Site(s)/Platforms may offer you the opportunity to submit, post, display, publish, distribute or broadcast content and materials, including, without limitation, photographs, text, music, video, audio recordings, computer graphics, pictures, data, questions, comments, suggestions or personally identifiable information (“Content”). You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in the Content.
• It is our sole discretion whether or not we choose to publish or otherwise make available Content on the Site(s)/Platforms.
• For the avoidance of any doubt, you acknowledge and agree that we may:
  • continue to publish all or part of your Content even if you change your mind and want us to remove it and/or you are no longer registered with the Site(s)/Platforms;
  • remove your Content at our sole discretion (even if you have not breached these Terms);
  • use all or part of your Content in promoting our products and services;
  • reproduce your trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos, domain names or other identifying signs or images;
  • publish and/or distribute widgets and other applications similar to yours and bearing our or another user’s branding or logo without any liability or responsibility to you;
  • modify your Content in any way at our sole discretion.

• Notwithstanding, you acknowledge that we are not responsible for checking, monitoring or moderating any Content and you remain solely responsible for all Content that you upload or submit.
• By uploading or submitting Content to the Site/Platforms, you warrant and represent that you are the sole author of and owner of all proprietary rights in the Content. If the Content includes any material proprietary to a third party, you warrant that you have obtained the permission of such third party owners to use their material in accordance with the provisions of these Terms.
• You warrant and represent that your Content will not be inappropriate. Without limitation, Content will be considered inappropriate if:
  • It is defamatory, plagiarised, abusive, malicious, threatening, false, misleading, offensive, insulting, discriminatory, profane, harassing, racist, sexist, indecent, obscene, pornographic or hateful;
  • It is in breach of confidentiality or another person’s privacy,
  • It prejudices any active legal proceedings of which you are aware;
  • It contains accusations of impropriety or personal criticism of our staff;
  • It infringes any intellectual property rights proprietary to us or any other third party;
  • It is technically harmful (including without limitation computer viruses, logic bombs, trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software, harmful data or conduct);
  • It is spam or junk content;
  • It impersonates another person or otherwise misrepresents your identity, affiliation or status;
  • It would be considered a criminal offence, or gives rise to civil liability, or is otherwise unlawful; and/or
  • is in breach of these Terms

• You must not attempt to avoid or undermine any protections we put in place for the security and operation of the Site/Platforms.
• You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is hosted or any server, computer or database connected to our Site or to attack our Site via a denial of service attack. By breaching the provisions of this clause, you may be committing a criminal offence. We shall report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them and your right to use our Site shall immediately and automatically cease.
• Unless you have our express permission to do so, you must not re-submit any Content or other material or applications which have previously been removed.
• You shall indemnify us on demand and keep us indemnified against all liabilities, losses, damages, costs, claims and expenses (including any professional costs and expenses) suffered or incurred by us arising out of or in connection with any breach or alleged breach by you of this clause.
• You undertake to defend us from and against any claim or action by a third party that the use or possession of any Content submitted or uploaded to the Site by you infringes the intellectual property of such third party (“IPR Claim”), and shall on demand indemnify us and keep us indemnified against all liabilities, losses, damages, costs, claims and expenses (including any professional costs and expenses) suffered or incurred by us arising out of or in connection with any such IPR Claim.
• Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site(s), or to make contact with other users of our site(s), you must comply with the content standards set out in our Customer Use Policy (www.gynaefellow/cutomer-use-policy).

• You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. If you are a consumer user, this means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
• Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. 
• We reserve the right to disclose your identity to any third party who may claim that some or all of the content posted or uploaded by you to our site(s) constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
• We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.
• We reserve the right to remove any posting you make on our site(s) if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Customer Use Policy (www.gynaefellow.com/customer-use-policy).
• The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
• It is your responsibility to secure and backup your content.

Rights you licence

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following licenses:

• You grant to us a royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable unrestricted license to use, copy, edit, adapt, publish, reproduce, translate, sub-license, create derivative works from, make available, communicate, display, store and distribute your Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, format, media, or technology now known or later developed (including without limitation in print, digital and electronic form) throughout the world in accordance with the provisions of these Terms. By submitting your Content, you warrant that you have the right to grant this license. To the extent permitted by law, you waive all moral rights in your Content. To the extent that you are unable to waive any such moral rights, you agree not to assert the same.

• A worldwide, non-exclusive, unrestricted, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that content in connection with the services provided by our site(s) and across different media and to promote the site or services; and
• A worldwide, non-exclusive, unrestricted, royalty-free, transferable licence to allow third parties to use the content for their purposes.

Viruses and malware

• We will make reasonable efforts to ensure our site(s) are secure, however, we do not guarantee that our site(s) will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
• It is your responsibility to configure your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site(s). You should use your own virus/malware protection software.
• You are prohibited from misuse of our site(s) by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Linking to our site

• You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
• You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
• You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
• Our site must not be framed on any other site.
• You should not create a link to any part of our site other than the home page without prior consent from us.
• We reserve the rights to withdraw any linking permission(s) without notice.
• It is your responsibility to ensure the website(s) in which you are linking is(are) compliant in all respects with the content standards set out in our Customer Use Policy (www.gynaefellow.com/customer-use-policy).
• If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, you must seek our consent first. You can contact us using contact@gynaefellow.com

Third party links and resources in our site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources

Disclaimer

GynaeFellow published materials are intended for use as an educational tool for medical students, residents/trainees and specialists. People seeking specific medical advice or assistance should contact their physician.

Invasive medical procedures can result in harm to patients and practitioners. Procedures/treatments should only be offered by qualified medical professionals. Watching surgical videos does not constitute qualification to perform the procedure. GynaeFellow published videos and other educational materials are intended solely for informational purposes and to supplement, not replace, proper training and supervision.

Medicine is an ever evolving field; platform viewers are advised to check the most current information and to verify the indications, contraindications, and proper procedural technique. 

GynaeFellow does not accept any liability for any injury or damage to any person arising from the use of the educational materials. Published videos and other educational materials are not intended to recommend any measures, techniques, procedures or products, or give advice, and is not a substitute for medical training or your own clinical judgment as a healthcare professional. Although we peer review all published materials; the published videos and other materials may contain errors, inaccuracies and omissions. 

You are solely responsible for how you use GynaeFellow products and the consequences from using them. To the maximum lawful extent, we shall not be liable for any loss or damage, whether direct, indirect, special, punitive or consequential, arising from or caused by statute, warrant, contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise arising from our relationship with you through your use of these educational materials.

Applicable law

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Contact us

To contact us, please email contact@gynaefellow.com

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