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Terms of Use
Last updated 17 October 2026.
What changed on 17 October 2026
On 17 October 2026, these Terms changed as follows:
- The Community content section is removed, because comments are gone. The sections after it moved up one number.
- Community features is now Share links (section 7): leaderboards, study groups and display handles are gone, and a share card never shows who you are.
- What you create (section 6) covers your own version of one of our flashcards, which you may use only for your own study, and the cards you import, which you must have the right to use. Copies people made of decks you shared, or added to a study group, before those features closed stay in their library.
- Our content (section 5) now says how to tell us if something on the Service infringes your rights.
- Your account (section 3) and Acceptable use (section 4) no longer mention comments.
The Privacy Policy changed on the same day.
The update of 7 October 2026 is listed below as the Terms were on that date.
What changed on 7 October 2026
On 7 October 2026, these Terms changed as follows:
- Section 8, Community features, covers display handles, study group names and what a group’s owner can do, decks added to a study group, share links, and when we may remove a score that comes from automated answering, which you can ask us to review. The sections after it moved down one number.
- The minimum age in the “Who may use it” section rose from 16 to 18.
- The Disclaimers section added that the readiness estimate is a study aid, not a prediction of any exam result.
- The “What you create” section added that when you share a deck or add it to a study group, the copies people make stay in their library, for their own study.
- The “Changes to these Terms” section now promises that we tell you about a material change no later than the day it takes effect, and that rules for a new feature apply only once you use it. It no longer says that continuing to use the Service means you accept a change.
- Spelling and punctuation moved to US style, with no change in meaning.
The Privacy Policy changed on the same day.
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are the agreement between you and Mohammed Abunayan, who operates UroCompanion (“we”, “us”). They cover your access to and use of the UroCompanion website and everything on it (the “Service”). By using the Service or creating an account, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Service. They work alongside our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which are part of this agreement.
Educational use only, not medical advice
UroCompanion is a study aid for urology residents, fellows, and students. Everything on it (topics, procedures, guideline summaries, flowcharts, calculators, questions, and answers from the UroBot AI assistant) is provided for education and revision only. It is not medical advice, does not create a doctor–patient relationship, and is not a substitute for official guidelines, local protocols, formal training, or your own clinical judgment.
Never rely on it for a decision affecting patient care. Always verify against the primary source and the current official guideline. Medicine changes; content here may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. Clinical responsibility for any decision you make remains entirely yours.
1. What UroCompanion is
UroCompanion brings urology topics, surgical approaches and procedures, guideline summaries, clinical flowcharts, calculators, practice questions, and flashcards into one place, alongside UroBot, an AI assistant that answers from the Service’s own content and links to the source page. It is a study companion. It is not a clinical decision support system, a diagnostic tool, or a medical device, and it is not certified, approved, or regulated as any of those.
2. Who may use it
You may use the Service if you are at least 18 years old (or older, where your country requires it to agree to online services) and you are a medical professional, trainee, or student, or otherwise have a genuine educational reason to use it. If you are agreeing on behalf of an institution, you confirm you are authorized to bind it.
We may suspend or close an account we reasonably believe does not meet these conditions.
3. Your account
You can read almost all of the Service as a guest. An account adds the personal features: bookmarks, highlights, notes, flashcard scheduling, personal tests, decks, progress tracking, and UroBot.
- Give accurate information when you register, and keep it current.
- An account is personal to you. Do not share it, sell it, or let anyone else sign in with it.
- Keep your password secure. You are responsible for what happens under your account, unless it results from our own failure.
- Tell us promptly at urocompanion@gmail.com if you think someone has accessed your account without permission.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that could harm, disable, overburden, or impair it;
- scrape, crawl, bulk-download, mirror, resell, or redistribute the content, or use it to build or train a competing product or any machine-learning model;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, its systems, its administrative areas, or any other user’s data, or probe or test its security without our written permission;
- reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source of any part of the Service, except where the law expressly allows it;
- upload anything unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, deliberately misleading on a clinical point, or infected with malware;
- upload or enter any information that identifies a real patient, including in notes, cards, or questions to UroBot;
- impersonate anyone, misrepresent your clinical credentials, or use the content to hold yourself out as a clinical authority; or
- use automated systems to interact with the Service in a way that imposes an unreasonable load.
We may investigate suspected breaches and take proportionate action, including removing content or suspending access.
5. Our content and your license to use it
The Service, its design, and its content are owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual-property laws. Clinical guidelines, atlas material, and other third-party sources referenced or summarized on the Service remain the property of their respective owners, and we make no claim over them.
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the content for your own study and clinical education. You may not use it commercially, publish it, or share it beyond that without our written permission. This license ends when your account or these Terms end.
If you think something on the Service infringes your rights, tell us at urocompanion@gmail.com with enough detail to identify it, and we will look into it promptly.
6. What you create
Anything you create on the Service (notes, highlights, flashcards, decks) remains yours. We claim no ownership of it.
By storing it on the Service you give us a limited license to host, store, back up, and display it back to you so the features work. The license exists solely to operate the Service, is free of charge, and ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in routine backups, which cycle out on their own.
When you edit one of our flashcards, you make your own version of it, which only you see. Your changes are yours, but the card remains our content under section 5, so you may use your version only for your own study.
Before deck sharing and study groups closed, people who received a deck from you could copy it into their own library. Those copies are an exception to the end date above: they stay in their library, and we keep hosting them for those people, after you delete the deck or your account. They may use their copy for their own study.
You are responsible for what you upload or import, including the cards of an Anki deck, and you confirm you have the right to upload it and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights or contain patient-identifiable information.
7. Share links
Share links are optional. A share link shows a card, such as your streak, your readiness estimate or the topic of the day’s question, to anyone who has the link. A card never shows who you are, and never shows a question or its answers, which section 5 does not let you publish. You can revoke a link in Settings at any time. The Privacy Policy explains what a card shows and to whom.
8. The UroBot AI assistant
UroBot answers using the Service’s own content rather than the open internet, and links to its sources. Even so, AI answers can be incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and can state a wrong answer confidently. Treat UroBot as a study aid, open its cited page, and never act on its output for patient care without independent verification.
To use UroBot you must be signed in, and fair-use limits apply so the service stays available and affordable for everyone. Do not enter personal or patient-identifiable information into it. As explained in the Privacy Policy, questions are cached and a question may be shown to other users as a popular suggestion.
9. Availability and changes to the Service
We work to keep the Service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may change, add, or remove features, and may suspend the Service for maintenance or for reasons outside our control. Where a change is significant and we can reasonably give notice, we will.
10. Price
UroCompanion is free to use. No payment is required, and we do not collect payment details.
11. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service and all content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the content is accurate, complete, current, or suitable for any clinical purpose. Any reliance you place on it is at your own risk, and section 12 explains the limits of what we are liable for.
The readiness estimate is a study aid, not a prediction of any exam result.
12. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law:
- we are not liable for any clinical or professional decision made in reliance on the Service, or for any harm arising from one;
- we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss, or for lost profits, data, goodwill, or opportunity;
- we are not liable for content posted by other users, or for third-party services the Service links to or relies on; and
- our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to SAR 500 (or the equivalent in your currency). The Service is provided free of charge, and this cap reflects that.
If you are a consumer, you may have rights under the mandatory law of your own country that these Terms cannot reduce; nothing here affects them.
13. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Service, or content you upload, including any claim that your content infringes someone’s rights or discloses patient information. This does not apply to the extent the claim results from our own act or omission.
14. Suspension, termination, and closing your account
You can stop using the Service at any time and delete your account yourself from your settings. Deletion signs you out on every device within the hour. For 30 days you can restore your account by signing in; once the 30 days are up, your data is permanently erased. The detail is in the Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the Service. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will give you notice and a chance to retrieve your content first. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, and 15, do so.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the courts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection rules of your own country, or of the right to bring proceedings there where the law gives you that right.
Before starting formal proceedings, please email urocompanion@gmail.com. Most disagreements are quicker to fix directly.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as the Service develops or the law changes. The date at the top always reflects the current version. If a change is material we will tell you by email or a notice in the Service no later than the day it takes effect, and rules for a new feature apply only once you use it. If you do not accept a change, you can close your account.
17. General
- Whole agreement. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service.
- Severability. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that provision is applied as far as it lawfully can be.
- No waiver. If we do not enforce a right straight away, we have not given it up.
- Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours if the Service changes hands, and will tell you if that happens.
- No third-party rights. Nobody outside this agreement can enforce it.
- Language. These Terms are written in English; an English version governs if a translation differs.
18. Contact
Questions about these Terms? Email urocompanion@gmail.com.
UroCompanion is an educational study aid, not medical advice. Always verify clinical decisions against official guidelines and your own judgment.