Terms of use
In short
Coloscopy.com is a free patient reference, made available on the terms set out below. It is patient education — not medical, legal, or financial advice. You may read, link to, and quote pages with attribution. You may not scrape the site at scale, republish it without permission, or strip the disclaimer when quoting.
What this page covers
Who the site is for, what you may and may not do with the content, the intellectual property notice, the limits of what the site is, and how to contact us with legal correspondence. Plain language, no warranty disclaimers in twelve-point capitals.
Who these terms apply to
These terms apply to anyone who accesses Coloscopy.com or its pages — readers, linking sites, researchers, and the operators of any system that retrieves content from the site. By using the site, you accept these terms; if you do not, please do not use the site.
What the site is — and is not
Coloscopy.com is a patient-information reference focused on coloscopy and the conditions, decisions, and procedures around it. It is intended to help readers understand what they have been offered, what to expect, and what questions to ask their own clinician.
The site is not medical advice. It does not establish a clinician-patient relationship between you and anyone associated with the site. It cannot account for your medical history, medications, or circumstances. Decisions about your care should be made with a qualified clinician who knows you. If you have a medical emergency, contact your local emergency service immediately.
The site is not legal advice. Discussions of insurance coverage, billing, or jurisdictional differences are descriptive, not advice on your particular situation; consult a qualified professional in your jurisdiction for advice on your circumstances.
The site is not financial advice. Pages that touch on cost or coverage describe how systems generally work, not what you personally should pay or claim.
Permitted use
You may:
- Read the site in your browser, save pages for personal reference, and print them.
- Link to any page from your own site, blog, social-media post, patient leaflet, or clinical handout. We welcome incoming links.
- Quote short passages from a page, with attribution to Coloscopy.com and a link back to the original page where the medium allows. "Short" here is meant in the sense of fair dealing or fair use — typically a paragraph or two.
- Use the site in a clinical or teaching setting — for example, to direct a patient to a page during a consultation, or to refer a colleague to a passage.
If you would like to reproduce a longer extract, translate a page, or use site material in a publication of your own, write to [email protected] describing what you would like to do. We are generally willing to grant permission for non-commercial educational use, on the condition that the source is acknowledged and the disclaimer is preserved.
Prohibited use
You may not:
- Scrape the site at scale, whether for the purpose of training a model, building a derived database, or republishing the content on another site or app. Routine indexing by general-purpose search engines is welcome; bulk extraction is not.
- Republish full pages on other sites, in apps, or in any medium without prior written permission.
- Remove, obscure, or alter the disclaimer, the corrections note, the source citations, or the attribution to Coloscopy.com when quoting or reproducing material.
- Present site content in a way that suggests endorsement of a particular product, clinic, or service that the site does not in fact endorse.
- Frame the site or its pages within another site in a way that obscures the source.
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site's infrastructure, interfere with its operation, or use the site to distribute malware or to attack other systems.
Intellectual property
The text, structure, and visual design of Coloscopy.com are the intellectual property of the site's publisher, except where third-party material is identified as such. The Coloscopy.com name and the visual mark are used by the publisher to identify this reference. Permitted use is described above; all other rights are reserved.
Citations, summaries, and references to material published by guideline bodies (for example, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) remain the intellectual property of those bodies. Coloscopy.com paraphrases and links to such material; readers should consult the original sources for the authoritative text.
No warranty
The site is provided in good faith and with reasonable care. Clinical content is reviewed by clinicians prior to publication, errors are corrected through the published corrections policy, and the editorial process is described on editorial standards.
Notwithstanding that care, the site is provided "as is". Medicine moves; guidelines change; individual circumstances vary. We do not warrant that every page is correct in every respect at every moment, that links to external sources will always resolve, or that the site will be available without interruption. To the extent permitted by law, the publisher accepts no liability for loss or damage arising from reliance on site content, save where such liability cannot be excluded under the applicable law (for example, in respect of fraud or death or personal injury caused by negligence).
Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have as a consumer under mandatory consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction.
External links
The site links to external sources — guideline bodies, professional societies, government health agencies — for the convenience of readers and to allow verification. Coloscopy.com is not responsible for the content of external sites and does not endorse particular products or services that those sites may discuss. Where an external page is found to no longer exist or to have been superseded, the link is updated through the corrections process.
Changes to these terms
These terms may be revised from time to time. Substantive changes are recorded with a date at the foot of this page; minor wording corrections are made silently. Continued use of the site after a revision constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the country in which the publisher is established. Where a dispute cannot be resolved through correspondence, it shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that country, save that this does not deprive you of any right of action you may have under the mandatory consumer-protection law of your own country of residence.
Common worries, briefly addressed
Can I quote a page on my own site?
Yes — a paragraph or two, with attribution to Coloscopy.com and a link back to the original page. For longer extracts, translations, or reproduction in a publication, write to [email protected].
Can I print a page and give it to a patient?
Yes. Personal and clinical use of printed pages is welcome, provided the disclaimer and the source are kept intact.
Can I train an AI model on this site?
No. Bulk extraction of site content for the purpose of training a model is a prohibited use. Site content is written and reviewed by humans for human readers.
I am a journalist or researcher and would like to use site material.
Write to [email protected]. Routine quotation with attribution does not require permission; longer extracts and reproductions usually do, and are usually granted for non-commercial work.
Contact for legal questions
For legal correspondence, including notices of alleged copyright infringement, requests to reproduce material beyond fair dealing, and any other matter requiring a formal reply, write to [email protected] with "Legal" in the subject line. We do not maintain a public postal address; the site is operated remotely and email is the preferred channel.