Terms of Service

This is the most important term on the page. Mediverse is a teaching tool for medical learners. It is not a clinical decision support system, not a diagnostic device, and not a source of medical advice.

• Nothing here may be used to diagnose, treat, or make any decision about the care of a real patient.
• Case diagnoses and labels are taken from published source datasets and from our own authoring, and are presented for teaching. They are not a clinician’s reading of that patient’s study.
• Some localization targets are machine-estimated and pending clinician review. Where that is true, the case says so.
• Always verify against an authoritative reference and qualified supervision before applying anything you learn here.

The AI tutor, and the questions and flashcards generated by QSpace and AnkiGen, are produced by language models. They can be confidently incorrect. We run automated accuracy checks and label items that fail them, but those checks are not a substitute for your own judgement. Treat every generated item as a draft to be verified, not as a fact.

• You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping access to it secure.
• One account per person. Do not share credentials.
• Provide accurate details. Elevated roles, reviewer, admin, are granted by us, not self-selected, and misrepresenting credentials is grounds for removal.

You keep ownership of the notes and files you bring to QSpace and AnkiGen. You grant us only the permission needed to process them and return your questions or deck, as described in the Privacy Policy.

You must not upload:

• Patient-identifiable information of any kind. This is a hard rule, and it protects people who never agreed to be here.
• Material you do not have the right to use.
• Anything unlawful, or intended to attack or disrupt the service.

Case images come from openly-licensed sources and are used under their licences, with attribution shown on each case. Those licences belong to the original authors and survive anything in these terms. Our own written material, explanations, questions, interfaces and code, remains ours, and you may use it for your personal study but not republish or resell it.

The service is provided as it is, without warranty. We may change, suspend, or discontinue features. Question banks and decks generated in your browser are not stored on our servers, so export anything you want to keep.

Mediverse is provided as is and as available, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that the platform will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, that defects will be corrected, or that the content is accurate, complete or current.

In particular, we make no warranty that any case, explanation, answer, image annotation or AI-generated study material is clinically correct. Content is written and reviewed by people, and people make mistakes. To the extent your local law does not permit the exclusion of implied warranties, those warranties are limited to the shortest period that law allows.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for any loss arising out of or connected with the platform. “We” here means Mediverse and its founder, contributors, reviewers, platform leads and volunteers. This applies whether the claim is brought in contract, in negligence, in statute or on any other basis, whether or not we were told the loss was possible, and whether the loss is direct or indirect.

Without limiting that, we are not liable for:

• any clinical decision, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, prescription or omission influenced by anything you read, saw, generated or practised here, whether the content was correct, incorrect, incomplete or out of date;
• indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive loss, including loss of profit, revenue, opportunity, goodwill, reputation, examination results, academic standing, professional standing or registration;
• loss, corruption or disclosure of data, including study material you uploaded, decks and question banks you generated, and your learning history;
• interruption, delay, unavailability, degradation or permanent discontinuation of the platform or any part of it, with or without notice;
• anything done by a third party we rely on, including our hosting, database and AI model providers, and anything done by another user;
• the accuracy, safety or legality of material you or another user uploads, and any consequence of that material.

Aggregate cap. Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total liability to you for all claims taken together, arising in any twelve month period, is capped at the greater of (a) the total amount you actually paid us in that period and (b) one hundred Canadian dollars. Mediverse is free to use, so for essentially everyone (a) is zero. This cap applies once across all claims, not once per claim, and it survives any termination of these terms or of your account.

What cannot be excluded. Nothing here excludes or limits liability that the law does not permit us to exclude, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for fraudulent misrepresentation. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or of incidental or consequential damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Where a part is held unenforceable, it is limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest of this section continues to apply.

You are a learner using a study aid. Clinical responsibility for any patient remains entirely yours and your supervisors', and is governed by your licence, your training programme and your regulator, not by this website.

If something here contradicts your local guidelines, your institution's protocols or your supervisor, follow them and not us. If you are unsure about something you read here, the correct next step is a textbook and a supervisor, not this website.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Mediverse and its founder, contributors, reviewers, platform leads and volunteers from and against any claim, demand, investigation, proceeding, loss, liability, damages, fine, penalty, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) brought by a third party and arising out of or connected with:

• your use of the platform, or use by anyone using your account;
• your breach of these terms, in particular the upload rules, and above all the prohibition on patient-identifiable information;
• material you upload, submit, generate or share, including any claim that it infringes copyright, breaches confidence or privacy, or was uploaded without the rights to do so;
• your breach of any law, regulation, institutional policy, professional obligation or third-party right, including data-protection and health-privacy law;
• any clinical act or omission by you, or by anyone you supervise, connected with something on this platform.

We will tell you promptly about any claim covered by this section and will not settle it in a way that admits fault on your behalf without asking you first. We may take over the defence of any such claim at our own expense, and you agree to cooperate reasonably if we do. This obligation survives the ending of your account and of these terms.

The Privacy Policy is the full account of what we collect and why. The commitments that belong in these terms are these:

• We keep it only while you have an account. Your profile, learning history, bookmarks and any stored AI conversations exist for as long as the account does, and are deleted with it. We do not keep a shadow copy.
• You can take a copy at any time. Your account settings include a download of everything we hold about you, as a machine-readable file. No reason required, no charge, no waiting.
• You can delete it yourself. Your account settings include permanent deletion. It removes the account and the data attached to it, not just your ability to sign in, and it cannot be undone. Export first if you want a copy.

Retention schedule. Concretely: account and profile data, and learning data (attempts, scores, bookmarks, progress) are held until you delete your account, then removed immediately. Stored AI conversations are held only with your consent and are deleted when you withdraw it or delete the account. Study material you put into QSpace or AnkiGen is read in your browser and never stored on our servers at all; the short excerpts sent to the AI provider are processed and not retained by us. Server and security logs are kept for up to 30 days for abuse and reliability investigation, then discarded. Backups of the database roll off within 30 days, so a deleted account can persist in a backup for at most that long before it is gone permanently. Where the law requires us to keep something longer, we keep only that, only for as long as required.

If you are in the EU, the UK, Canada or anywhere with comparable law, you also have rights of access, correction, portability, erasure, restriction and objection. We honour those for everyone rather than sorting people by jurisdiction. The self-serve controls cover access, portability and erasure immediately; for anything else, email us and we will respond within 30 days.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of Ontario have jurisdiction. If you use the platform from somewhere else, you may also have rights under your local consumer law that this clause does not take away.

You may delete your account at any time from your account settings, as described above. We may suspend or remove accounts that breach these terms, particularly the upload rules, and we may withdraw the service entirely. Sections that by their nature should survive do survive: the disclaimers, the limitation of liability, the indemnification, and the governing-law clause.

If these terms change we will update the date at the top of this page. Questions go to mediverse.space@gmail.com.