Terms of Service

1. Nature of Service

MedCite is an AI-assisted medical reference and evidence search platform. It helps users search, summarise, and verify information from biomedical literature, clinical guidelines, review articles, and other trusted medical sources.

MedCite is designed for professional reference, research, and educational use. It provides source-linked summaries and citation trails to help users navigate medical evidence more efficiently.

MedCite does not diagnose, treat, triage, prescribe, or make patient-specific clinical decisions. It is not a substitute for professional judgement, local protocols, specialist consultation, peer review, or direct verification of original sources.

2. Publicly Available and Lawfully Accessible Sources

MedCite is based on publicly available and lawfully accessible medical information, including indexed biomedical literature, abstracts, clinical guidelines, review articles, society publications, and other accessible medical reference sources.

MedCite does not access private medical records, electronic health records, hospital systems, closed institutional databases, subscription-only content, paywalled full text, confidential documents, or non-public patient information unless a separate institutional integration or data processing agreement explicitly provides for this.

Source literature, publisher content, guideline documents, and external databases remain the property of their respective authors, publishers, institutions, or rights holders. MedCite provides references and links where available, but users are responsible for complying with any applicable access, copyright, licensing, and usage restrictions.

3. Intended Users

MedCite is intended for healthcare professionals, medical researchers, biomedical scientists, medical students, educators, and institutional users.

By using MedCite, you confirm that you are using the Service for professional reference, research, educational, or institutional knowledge purposes. Users remain responsible for interpreting the information appropriately and verifying it against original sources, current guidelines, and local institutional protocols.

4. Not a Medical Device

MedCite is not intended to be used as:

• A medical device under the EU Medical Device Regulation
• A clinical decision support system that drives patient-specific clinical actions
• A diagnostic system or differential diagnosis generator
• A patient management or treatment planning tool
• A prescribing, dosing, or medication selection system
• A triage, emergency, or urgent-care tool

MedCite provides evidence summaries for informational, educational, research, and reference purposes. It does not provide individualised clinical recommendations.

5. No Emergency Use

MedCite must not be used in emergencies, urgent care situations, triage, or time-critical clinical decision-making. The Service is not designed for real-time emergency assessment and may return incomplete, outdated, or irrelevant information. In urgent situations, users must contact local emergency services or follow applicable institutional emergency protocols.

6. Source Verification and Limitations

MedCite uses retrieval and AI-assisted summarisation to help users navigate medical evidence. Outputs may contain errors, omissions, outdated information, incomplete source coverage, or misinterpretation of source nuance. Users must independently verify all information against original sources before relying on it.

The Service:

• May not index every relevant publication, guideline, or source
• May not include the most recent publications
• May prioritise sources based on retrieval and ranking algorithms
• May summarise evidence incompletely or incorrectly
• Does not replace systematic review methodology, formal guideline development, peer review, or expert appraisal
• Does not guarantee that retrieved sources are complete, current, or sufficient for a given purpose

7. No Patient-Specific Recommendations

Users must not rely on MedCite as the sole basis for:

• Diagnosis or differential diagnosis
• Treatment selection or modification
• Prescribing or dosing decisions
• Admission, discharge, referral, or follow-up decisions
• Any patient-specific clinical management

MedCite may respond to patient-specific questions with general evidence summaries only. Any such response is informational and must not be interpreted as individual medical advice.

8. User Input and Patient Data

Users should not enter directly identifiable patient information into MedCite. This includes names, civil registration numbers, addresses, contact details, medical record numbers, or other information that can directly identify an individual patient.

MedCite is designed for medical reference, research, and evidence search. It is not designed to process identifiable patient data or protected health information.

If an institution wishes to use MedCite with confidential, internal, or patient-related data, this requires a separate written agreement, appropriate legal basis, data processing terms, and technical safeguards.

9. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service for:

• Unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful activities
• Emergency medical decision-making or patient-specific care decisions
• Uploading or entering identifiable patient data without an appropriate legal basis
• Hate, harassment, violence, or political manipulation
• Spam, malware, scraping, or abusive automated use
• Reverse engineering, excessive automated querying, or attempts to bypass rate limits
• Republishing source content or generated outputs in a way that violates copyright, database rights, or licensing terms
• Presenting MedCite outputs as independently verified medical advice without appropriate source review

10. Intellectual Property

MedCite, including its interface, software, generated summaries, metadata structure, and platform design, is owned by or licensed to the operators of MedCite.

Source literature, guidelines, abstracts, publisher content, and external database records remain the intellectual property of their respective authors, publishers, institutions, and rights holders.

MedCite may generate summaries or references based on retrieved source material. Users are responsible for ensuring that any copying, redistribution, publication, or reuse of source material or generated outputs complies with applicable copyright, licensing, attribution, and database rights.

11. Availability and Beta Access

MedCite may be offered free of charge during a beta or early-access phase. Features, limits, pricing, availability, and access conditions may change over time.

We may modify, suspend, limit, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, including during maintenance, development, or infrastructure changes.

12. Limitation of Liability

MedCite is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the creators and operators of MedCite accept no liability for:

• Clinical, research, educational, or institutional decisions made based on Service outputs
• Errors, omissions, inaccuracies, or outdated information
• Incomplete or irrelevant sources
• Misinterpretation of generated summaries
• Outcomes resulting from reliance on Service outputs
• Unavailability, interruption, data loss, or technical failure of the Service
• Third-party content, external sources, or websites linked from the Service

Nothing in these Terms limits liability where such limitation is not permitted under applicable law.

13. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page. Continued use of MedCite after changes are published constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

14. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by Danish law. Any disputes shall be resolved by the courts of Denmark.

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