Terms and Conditions

Doctor Chat does not provide medical advice similar to that offered by doctors who will consult you in person. Doctor Chat does not intend to replace the specialized medical consultation. Users should not base their future actions on the advice provided on Doctor Chat, as this is only advice and does not constitute a medical diagnosis. The medical diagnosis requires the consultation of a specialist in person.

Doctor Chat seeks to provide professional information, accessible to all users interested in their health. It is important to point out that the information presented on this platform is additional and in no way can it replace the recommendations given by doctors who come into contact with the reality of your cases. The purpose of this platform is to provide you with general advice. This platform should only be used to obtain general information to better understand your health. Doctor Chat is not a medical emergency service.

The materials and advice provided by the Doctor Chat platform should be seen as simple information and not as complete medical analysis or advice. Our advice is given only on the basis of the symptoms you describe. Because of this, you should assume that an incorrect or incomplete description of the symptoms may cause discrepancies between the advice given and your actual state of health.

The answers offered through the platform are only of an educational and informative nature and cannot be considered, in any situation, as equivalent to specialized medical consultations or analyzes. Due to the very way in which internet-mediated communications work, a thorough medical consultation is not possible, therefore, the medical information presented by our platform should not be used as an alternative to the medical consultation performed in person by a specialist. The Doctor Chat Platform, the Platform Administrator, and all collaborators whose advice can be received through Doctor Chat cannot be held liable for any damage / loss of any kind.

Terms and conditions for the doctorchat.co.uk website

1. General terms

This document containing the terms and conditions of use of the www.doctorchat.co.uk Platform (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms and Conditions") sets out the conditions under which any person may visit or access the Doctor Chat platform (www.doctorchat.co.uk), or may use (in any way) the services provided through the platform.

For the purposes of the Terms and Conditions: "Platform" means the platform / web application www.doctorchat.co.uk; "Platform Administrator" means Digicore Systems S.R.L. based in Str. Icoanei, Nr. 66, Sector 2, Bucharest; "Service" means any service offered on the Platform, and / or any module or component thereof; "User" means any person who visits or accesses the Platform, creates an account on the Platform or wishes to use in any way or actually use the Service, "Physicians" means collaborating physicians who provide answers to questions from Users through the Platform. .

Failure to accept these Terms and Conditions, or any provision thereof, as set forth in this Act, will result in the User's obligation to immediately cease accessing the Platform. Further access to or visit to the platform, any page thereof and / or use of the Service, and any component thereof constitutes your full and unconditional acceptance of the Terms and Conditions and any provision thereof.

The user expressly understands and accepts, in full and unconditionally, the provisions of these Terms and Conditions (the Agreement between the User and the Platform Administrator) and understands to use the Service in strict accordance with them. Users who have an account created on the Platform understand and agree that the continued use of their account, as well as any further access or visit to the platform, any page on it and / or the use of the Service, and any component thereof constitutes a full and unconditional acceptance of the Terms and Conditions and any provision thereof; non-acceptance of the Terms and Conditions by the Users mentioned above entails their obligation to immediately stop accessing the platform.

If you do not agree with the terms of these Terms and Conditions, please do not use the Services provided by the Site.

The Platform Administrator may assign at any time to a third party the rights and obligations arising from the provisions of these Terms and Conditions, including by assigning to a third party the Contract (Terms and Conditions), and the User consents in advance to this assignment, according to art. 1315 and the following from the Civil Code. To remove any doubt, users of the www.doctorchat.co.uk platform agree in advance to replace Digicore Systems S.R.L. with a third party in the relationship between him and the Users under the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

2. Rights for the website content

The content and graphics of the Platform, including, but not limited to, the entire content in text format and any other material, transmitted in any form by and to Users (by direct viewing on the Platform, by newsletters or by any other materials directly or indirectly related to the Platform) belong to the Platform Administrator and its partners and represent the content of the Platform. By way of derogation from the previous provision, the materials for which another rights holder, or another holder or another source is indicated on the Platform do not belong to the Platform Administrator or its partners.

Users understand and agree that the Platform Administrator is exempt from any liability for materials, data and information, but not limited to, taken from any official sources, including those that have been published for the purpose and character of "communications of press". Users understand and accept that all information, data, materials posted on the Platform are for information and guidance only and that the Platform Administrator cannot be held liable in any case and in any way for the veracity and validity of the Platform Content or for any legal effect arising from from its use.

Users agree to respect all copyright and related rights and any other intellectual property rights that the Platform Administrator and its partners hold over / in connection with the Platform, its Content, the Service, any module or component thereof. or in connection with their use. Users understand and agree that in the event of any violation of any of the above provisions, they may be held liable to the authors / owners of the Content of the Platform.

The content of the Platform, regardless of the area in which it is located on the Platform and regardless of the type, may be used exclusively for personal purposes, defined according to this document as purely non-commercial purposes, without any direct or indirect intention to obtain profits or gains. of any kind from such use. Any use of content by third parties for any purpose other than personal may be made only with the written, express and prior consent of the Platform Administrator.

It is forbidden to copy, take over, reproduce, publish, transmit, sell, distribute in whole or in part, in whole or in part the content of this Platform or any part thereof made for any purpose other than personal; The administrator of the Platform reserves the right to sue any person and / or entity that violates in any way the above provisions.

Requests to use the content of the Platform for any purpose other than personal may be sent to the email address clients@doctorchat.co.uk.

It is strictly forbidden to post on the Platform any content, including materials, comments, images, videos, but not limited to those that have obscene or vulgar language, contain illegal, threatening, abusive, indecent, messages racist, chauvinistic or that could discriminate against any person in any way or that would violate any other human rights and freedoms in accordance with applicable law.

Users understand and agree that in the event of any breach of any of the provisions of the Terms and Conditions, the Platform Administrator may choose at its discretion to suspend in whole or in part the User's access to any Platform Service, or to not to publish any content sent by the User in order to post to the Platform or to modify in any way such content, to definitively prohibit access to one or more of the facilities offered by the Platform or to cancel the User's account on the Platform, without any warnings or prior notifications and without the need for any other formalities.

3. Information note on the protection of personal data

According to the requirements of the applicable legislation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, as amended and supplemented, and of Law no. 506/2004 regarding the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector, the Platform Administrator will administer in safe conditions and only for the specified purposes, the personal data provided by the Users. We inform you that the personal data that Users provide to the Platform Administrator are processed for the purpose of providing the Service in optimal conditions.

4. Rates and payments

With regard to Services for a fee available through the Platform, the User undertakes to pay to the Platform Administrator the tariff for the respective Services, according to the information available on the Platform. A User will be able to access the respective Services according to the provisions of these Terms and Conditions and according to the information available on the Platform only after authentication and payment of the corresponding tariffs.

The Platform Administrator will not claim and the User is not obliged to pay any additional fees other than those mentioned on the Platform. The user cannot request a refund of this fee in any situation in which he has violated any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

The Platform Administrator reserves the right to change the tariffs for any of the Services and to set new tariffs at any time, according to its own option. Any change in tariffs will become effective immediately upon notification to this effect by the User (by e-mail or by posting it on the Platform, according to the option of the Platform Administrator).

In view of making the payment by card, the User fully submits to the terms and conditions of the payment operator, Digicore Systems S.R.L. being fully absolved of any liability in respect of any problems encountered in making the payment.

5. Payment refunds

The request for return of payment can be made by the User only in cases where his question has not been answered by the time of request for return of payment, and more than 10 calendar days have passed since its publication. In order to return the payment, the User will have to contact in writing the customer relations department specifying the email corresponding to his user account.

6. Links to other websites

Users understand and agree that the Platform may contain links or links to other Internet sites, which are not under its control or guidance. The administrator of the Platform is absolved of any responsibility regarding the content or opinions expressed on these other websites, as well as their correctness and accuracy, and Users understand and accept that these websites are not monitored, controlled or verified. in any way by the Platform Administrator. The inclusion of a link or link to other Internet sites does not imply endorsement in any way by the Platform Administrator. When users access these websites, they do so at their own risk, knowing that the use of the services provided by these sites is subject to the conditions set by the administrators of these sites.

7. Limitation of liability

The Administrator of the Platform does not assume the obligation and does not guarantee implicitly or expressly for the content of any kind of the Platform or for the entire content offered by the Users. The Platform Administrator will make every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the Platform and will endeavor to correct errors and omissions as soon as possible.

The Platform Administrator makes no representations or warranties regarding the Content of the Platform and in no event shall it be liable for any loss or damage that may result from the use of any part, sequence, module of the Content on the Platform or the impossibility. its use, regardless of its cause or misinterpretation of any provision of the Platform Content.

Users understand and agree that the provision of the Service may be affected by certain objective conditions, and that any services offered through the Platform are provided in accordance with the "as is", "as available" principle, and Users use these services on their risk. Accordingly, the Platform Administrator cannot be held responsible for any information and data in the Content of the Platform, including, but not limited to, text, images, video footage, or any other use-related activity, and no other effects. legally deriving from them

Users understand and accept that the Platform Administrator is discharged from any liability in the event of any outage, interruption, difficulty, malfunction or error in the operation of the Platform, in the event of a technical error of any kind or any error in providing the Service, and in any situation in which it would not prove certain that any errors or technical problems of the above mentioned are directly and exclusively due to the serious fault of the Platform Administrator.

Users expressly understand and agree that the Platform Administrator is discharged from any liability for any direct or indirect damages, including but not limited to loss of profit, trade or other intangible loss, resulting from the use of the Service. or any other aspect related to the Service as well as the use of the Content of the Platform in any way or any legal effects deriving from it.

In cases of force majeure, the Administrator of the Platform and / or the operators, directors, employees, branches, subsidiaries and its representatives, are totally exonerated from liability. Cases of force majeure include, but are not limited to, malfunctions of the technical equipment of the Platform Administrator, failure of the internet connection, failure of the telephone connections, computer viruses, computer attacks of any kind and interference with malicious software, unauthorized access to the Platform's systems, operating errors, strikes, etc.

8. Doctors

(1) Users understand and accept that Physicians who provide answers through the Platform are not employees of the Platform and cannot be considered to exercise their medical profession as an independent natural person based on a contract concluded with the Platform / Platform Administrator, in the meaning of art. 385 para. (3) of Law no. 95/2006 on health care reform ("Law no. 95/2006"). Therefore, they are exempt from any liability for providing medical information through the Platform.

(2) Users understand and agree that Physicians are not liable for damages caused in the exercise of the profession: (i) when they are due to working conditions or (ii) when acting in good faith in emergency situations, with compliance with the competence granted. In the situation where a court will establish that the Doctors are not fully exonerated from liability under art. 1 above, they will be exonerated from liability on the basis of the cases of limitation of liability provided for in this article, according to art. 654 (2) of Law no. 95/2006.

(3) The users understand and accept that the Platform / Platform Administrator is not a public or private health unit, provider of medical services, therefore it cannot be held liable under art. 657 of Law no. 95/2006 or on the basis of any other legal basis.

The users understand and expressly accept the provisions provided in art. (1), (2), (3) above, according to art. 1203 Civil Code.

9. Applicable law. Disputes

The rights and obligations of the Users and the Administrator of the Platform, provided by the Terms and Conditions, as well as all the legal effects that the Terms and Conditions produce will be interpreted and governed in accordance with the Romanian law in force. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with the Terms and Conditions will be settled amicably. In case of impossibility to reach an agreement, the dispute will be solved by the competent Romanian court located in the territorial area of Bucharest.

10. Changes to the Terms and Conditions

The Administrator of the Platform has the right to modify at any time and in any way any of the provisions of the Terms and Conditions or the Terms and Conditions in full, without any prior notice and without being obliged to fulfill any other formality towards Users. Any modification will be considered as fully and unconditionally accepted by any of the Users by simply using or accessing any facility offered by the Platform or the Service or by accessing the Platform, which occurred at any time after the modification operation, and non-acceptance of any modification entails the obligation of immediately cease accessing the Platform and / or using the Service in any way.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS REGARDING USE OF THE "ONLINE DOCTOR SERVICE"

The above-mentioned services for providing information regarding certain medical issues and medical referrals (the "Service") available through the Platform are accessed by you in accordance with the following terms and conditions.

Accessing the Services

1. The Platform Administrator provides information services on medical matters and medical recommendations, in accordance with the provisions of this Convention and the explanations provided on the Platform. In this Convention, the terms "medical recommendations" have the following meanings: general information relating to certain medical conditions and should not be construed as meaning a specialist medical consultation. Through the Service, the Administrator of the Platform does not offer medical consultations regarding the health problems of the user or of any other person, does not offer a diagnosis, nor indications of treatment for any condition; through the Service, the Platform Administrator provides information on general medical issues, but also information on customized medical issues. The Platform Administrator provides the Service subject to the User's compliance with the provisions of this Agreement.

2. In all cases that are directly related to a person's health, seek the services of your family doctor or a specialist. The services provided through the Platform have an exclusively educational and informative role and cannot be considered, in any situation, as being assimilated to specialized medical consultations or analyzes. Given the way in which internet-mediated communications work, a thorough medical consultation is not possible, therefore, the medical information transmitted through the Services should not be used as an alternative to the medical consultation performed in person by a specialist. The services do not in any way replace the specialized medical consultation. The Platform Administrator makes no warranty that the medical information and recommendations provided through the Services are appropriate to the health or needs of Users. Consequently, the Users do not have to base their future actions on the medical recommendations provided through the Services, because the medical diagnosis always requires the consultation in person of a specialist doctor. Never neglect or postpone the specialist medical consultation due to the information obtained through the Services.

3. The user certifies that the Platform Administrator is at least 18 years of age by simply accepting this Agreement. The user also certifies by simply accepting this Convention that, according to the relevant legal provisions, he has the right to use the Services and to access the pages related to the Service, and assumes full responsibility for the choice and use of the Service.

4. In order to obtain information related to the desired medical topic, the User will fill in a questionnaire that will provide information about it, the purpose being to provide a clearer picture to the collaborators of the Platform Administrator on the desired topic. Users will turn to the Service provided by the Platform Administrator especially in situations where they already have a medical opinion or a diagnosis and want additional information about them, or in similar situations. Under no circumstances will the User resort to these services by substituting them for a specialist medical consultation.

5. The user is responsible for his / her entire activity regarding the Services or in connection with them. Any attempt by any User to use the Services fraudulently, abusively or illegally or any attempt by any User to use the Services contrary to the provisions of this Convention or the interests of the Platform Administrator or other persons, gives the Platform Administrator the right to interrupt or suspend The Platform Administrator reserves the right for the User to use all or part of the Services or to access the Platform.

6. The User understands and accepts that through the Services, the Platform Administrator provides directly or through its collaborators only certain medical information on certain general or specialized topics indicated by the User and that he has no obligation or responsibility regarding the following, but without the limit to these: Users who access the Services through the Platform; the content of the files sent by the Users to the Platform Administrator, the collaborators and the contractual partners of the Platform Administrator by using the Services; information received by Users following the use of the Services; any consequences that may arise from the above; the actions that may / may not be undertaken by any User or any person, as a direct or indirect result of the use of the Services. The Administrator of the Platform cannot be held liable in any way or measure for any kind of actions performed by the User nor for the use in any way of the Services or any other activity related to the Services. The user uses the Services at his own risk. If you believe that your symptoms are a medical emergency, contact the appropriate emergency services. Doctor Chat is not a medical emergency service. The Platform Administrator does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, procedures, physicians, opinions, or information. The use of any information provided through the Services will be made by the User entirely at his own risk.