(v.1 April 2019)
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We have developed the Symptom Checker - chatbot, providing symptom checking services for Vhi Health Assistant app users (hereinafter referred to as “users”, “you”). The Symptom Checker is embedded to the Vhi Health Assistant app (hereinafter referred to as: “Vhi app”) through Your.MD API. Vhi app is developed by VHI Insurance DAC trading as Vhi Insurance, a company incorporated and registered in Ireland under Company No. 527606, having its registered office at VHI House, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1, Ireland (hereinafter referred as: “Vhi”).
These Your.MD Symptom Checker Terms of Service for Vhi (hereinafter referred to as: “Terms of Service”) and Your.MD Symptom Checker Privacy Policy for Vhi (collectively, the ''Terms'') govern your use of the Symptom Checker and your relationship with us. It is important that you read and understand the Terms before you start using our service. If there is anything that you do not understand, please contact us at care@your.md, subject: Vhi Health Assistant app, to discuss what this means for you.
To access the Symptom Checker, you will need to download Vhi app from the App Store or Google Play https://www.vhi.ie/members/vhiapp. Before starting to use our service you will need to agree with our data processing as described in our Your.MD Symptom Checker Privacy Policy for Vhi (hereinafter referred to as: “Privacy Policy”), confirm that you are over the age of 16 and that you agree with these Your.MD Symptom Checker Terms of Service for Vhi.
If you do not agree to these Terms you should not use our service. You must be at least 16 years or older and capable in your country of residence of entering into a legal binding agreement to use our service in your country of residence.
By using our health chatbot you are able to check symptoms, ask any question, search for health information or just type in a health query. Whilst we are trying our best to help you with providing useful information, please bear in mind that our Symptom Checker is only a bot and not a human doctor therefore not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, therapy or treatment. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or the emergency services immediately.
The bot calculates the likelihood of possible health conditions based on reported symptoms and basic info (gender, age). After inserting your symptoms, the chatbot will ask you additional questions to help search for the possible conditions that match your reported symptoms. It will present you with different likely conditions and assess the seriousness of such conditions. It does this using the best mathematical approach to simulate the thought process of a doctor. The bot may present more than one possible condition. It will share its findings with you via chat. If based on your reported symptoms our bot calculates that a possible cause is worrying, it will assess the need to visit a doctor within 24 or 48 hours without presenting a possible condition. As no bot can be a substitute for a human doctor, it may not be able to calculate any possible condition. In such case, we will use the information we have received from you to improve our Services.
In cases when the bot assesses the likelihood of you having a condition you will be presented with a short description of that condition. You can also click on “READ MORE” for additional information. By clicking “READ MORE” you will be redirected to the Health A-Z available at Your.MD website (our “Site”). Your usage of our Site and the Health A-Z will be governed by Your.MD Terms of Service. Within the Health A-Z you will be able to get more information about specific condition such as symptoms, causes, diagnosing, treating and complications.
While our bot strives to give you the best possible information it cannot consider all factors that your doctor can such as medical and family history, physical examination, tests etc. The medical conditions it calculates based on what you report are merely possible conditions and they do not mean that you have any of these conditions or that you do not have any other worrying conditions, which it did not manage to calculate due to the limited information it uses. You should always consult your doctor before acting on any of the information our bot gives you.
Health tests enable you to test your health knowledge with "Quizzes" (such as first aid, sexual health etc.), check your own health using "Self-Assessments" and calculate your BMI" (Body Mass Index) using “BMI Calculator”. The tests are intended for educational and informational purposes only.
We hope you'll enjoy using our Symptom Checker. We're constantly trying to improve so if you have any comments, suggestions or recommendations, please send us an email to care@your.md, subject: Vhi Health Assistant app.
SYMPTOM CHECKER IS AN AI SOFTWARE AND NOT A PHYSICAL MEDICAL DEVICE. OUR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. THEY DO NOT INCLUDE THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL CARE, DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT, NEITHER INFORMATION REGARDING WHICH DRUGS OR TREATMENT MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR YOU. YOU AGREE, CONFIRM AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT OUR CHECKER DOES NOT SUBSTITUTE YOUR REGULAR DOCTOR, GP, DIAGNOSIS, A FACE-TO-FACE EXAMINATION AND/OR SESSION BY A LICENSED QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL.
You should never rely on or make health or well-being decisions which are based on information provided by our Checker. Furthermore, you should always seek advice by having an in-person appointment with a licensed and qualified professional. Never disregard, avoid, or delay in obtaining medical advice from your doctor or other qualified healthcare professional, by face-to-face appointment, because of information or advice you received through the Checker. You agree, confirm and acknowledge that although our Checker may provide useful information, we cannot assess whether its use is right and suitable for your needs.
You agree, confirm and acknowledge that the information provided by our bot, will in either case be based on the information that you have provided to us via the Checker. It is your responsibility to ensure this information is correct and complete and you accept that any failure to do so (whether intentionally or not) may affect the information we can give to you and may have consequences for which we are not responsible.
THE SYMPTOM CHECKER DOES NOT DIAGNOSE HEALTH CONDITIONS OR PRESCRIBE HOW YOU SHOULD TREAT ANY HEALTH CONDITION YOU MAY HAVE. This should only be done with the help of a health professional (such as a registered doctor). You are ultimately responsible for deciding whether to contact a health professional and/or seek medical advice about any health concerns that you have shared with our bot. NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY IN SEEKING IT BECAUSE OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY OUR BOT. OUR BOT CAN NOT BE USED FOR INFORMATION ABOUT BABIES, CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16, PREGNANT WOMEN, PEOPLE ON IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT AND PEOPLE WITH LONG TERM CONDITIONS SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIABETES.
care@your.md and privacy@your.md emails are not intended for inquiries about your health, medical problems or medical questions. You can send us any other question about our services including your comments and suggestions for improvements. If we receive an email that includes questions about your health, medical problems and/or conditions/symptoms you will receive a standard auto-reply informing you that we do not provide this type of information via email and that you should always consult a medical professional in such cases.
YOUR OBLIGATIONS. You hereby confirm and agree: (a) that you have read and understood these Terms; (b) that you will use our Symptom Checker only in accordance with these terms; (c) that you are at least 16 years old of age; (d) that you are legally able to enter into a contract; (e) that all the information that you provided in or through the bot is accurate, true, current and complete; f) that you will notify us immediately about any unauthorised use of your Account or any other concern about a breach of the security; (g) that your use of our Symptom Checker is for personal use only, all in accordance with these Terms; (h) that you are solely and fully liable and responsible for any activities or omissions that are made by or due to using our chatbot; i) that we will hold you liable and responsible for any damage or loss incurred as a result of the use of your Account by any person whether authorised by you or not, and you agree to indemnify us for any such damage or loss; (j) that you will not to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation or ethical code in relation to your use of the Services and your relationship with us.
Except to the extent as expressly stated to the contrary herein, your right to use the Symptom Checker is personal to you and you are not allowed to give this right to another person or sell it to another person. Your right to use the Services does not stop us from giving other people the right to use the Services. As part of our Symptom Checker, we allow you to download our Services for use on your computer device or Site for the sole purpose of accessing and using our chatbot in accordance with these terms and we grant you a non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable licence for this sole purpose.
Other than as allowed in these terms you are not given a right to use the "Symptom Checker’’, "Your.MD", ''DOT'', ''Mediterm'', ''AIMed'' names or any of the "Your.MD" names, trademarks, logos, domain names and other distinctive brand features. You agree that all confidential information, copyright and other intellectual property rights in our Services or any portion of the Services belong to us or the people who have licenced us to use those rights. You agree that you have no rights in or to our Services or any portion of the Services other than the right to use them in accordance with these Terms. The materials and content comprising the Services belong to us or the people who have licensed them to us and we give you permission to use these materials and content for the sole purpose of using the Services in accordance with these Terms.
Unless allowed by these terms and as permitted by the functionality of the Service, you agree not to:(a) copy our Symptom Checker or any portion of the Services; (b) give or sell or otherwise make available the Symptom Checker or any portion of the Services to anybody else (c) not to change our Symptom Checker or any portion of the Services in any way, (d) look for or access the code of our bot or any portion of the Services that we have not expressly published publicly for general use.
When using our Services you agree not to (a) circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with any security related features of the Services or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of the content accessible via the Services; (b) permit another person to use the Services; (c) use the Services if we have suspended or banned you from using it; (d) engage in any illegal or unlawful conduct; (e) modify, interfere, intercept, disrupt or hack the Services, our servers, network or infrastructure; (f) misuse the Services by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which would harm the Services or any user of the Service's own equipment; (g) collect any data from the Services other than in accordance with these Terms of Services; (h) submit or contribute any information or commentary about another person without that person's permission (i) misuse the Service by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which would harm the Service or any user of the Service's own equipment; (j) collect any data from the Service other than in accordance with these Terms of Service; (k) submit or contribute any information or commentary about another person without that person's permission. Our Services are apps embedded on different operating systems. You agree not to use our Services in any other way than through our unmodified official client software (Vhi app).
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Failure to comply with any of the requirements of these Terms constitutes a serious breach and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions (with or without notice): (a) immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Services; (b) issuing of a warning to you; (c) legal action against you including proceedings for reimbursement of all costs (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach; (d) disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary. These actions are not limited and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
We are constantly updating and improving the Services to try and find ways to provide you with new and innovative features and services. Improvements and updates are also made to reflect changing technologies, tastes, behaviors and the way people use the Internet and our Services. In order to do this, we may need to update, reset, stop offering and/or supporting a particular part of the Services, or feature relating to the Services. These changes to the Services may affect your past activities on the Services and the features that you use. Any changes to the Services could involve your Services elements being deleted or reset.
We make the Symptom Checker and our Website available for access using internet infrastructure but are not responsible for the infrastructure ourselves. If you wish to use our Services, you should ensure that you have an internet-enabled device and a sufficient internet connection available.
By agreeing to these Terms, you also consent to our Your.MD Symptom Checker Privacy Policy for Vhi and third party provider’s terms applicable for your usage and available in section below, all of which is incorporated and deemed a part of these Terms, together with any changes and revisions.
We cannot provide all services necessary for the successful operation of our Services by ourselves. We therefore use various providers for the purposes of offering the Services to you and improve your user experience.
We use Google Analytics to help us constantly improve our Symptom Checker and make it better for you. For more information about how Google Analytics works please see Your.MD Symptom Checker Privacy Policy for Vhi.
We store all your data in the US using AWS Services and the Google Cloud Platform. For more information about our data storage please read our Your.MD Symptom Checker Privacy Policy for Vhi.
Zendesk. We use Zendesk ® as a support ticketing system which enables Your.MD employees who respond to your emails to streamline communications in a single ticket, all within an organised workflow.
Your.md’s managing projects, hosting and building softwares, cloud storage
We use different third party providers for internal and external communications:
Slack, Skype, Google Hangouts , Gmail.
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Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of, or limitations on, implied warranties or the limitations on the applicable statutory rights of a consumer, so some or all of the above exclusions and limitations may not apply to you.
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We may immediately end your use of the Services if you breach these Terms or applicable legislation. We may also withdraw the Services at any time, if we give you reasonable notice that we plan to do this.
If you or we end your use of the Services or we withdraw the Services as described in this section, we may delete any information we hold about you. You will also lose any rights you have to use the Services or access our content. We will not offer you compensation for any losses.
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These Terms incorporating the Your.MD Symptom Checker Privacy Policy for Vhi constitute the entire agreement between you and Your.MD with respect to your use of the Symptom Checker, the Services and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings regarding such subject matter. No amendment to or modification of these Terms will be binding unless made in writing and signed by Your.MD. No failure to exercise, and no delay in exercising, on the part of either party, any right or any power hereunder preclude further exercise of any other right hereunder.
We will occasionally update this Terms as necessary to protect our users, furnish current information and respond to legal and technical changes. Because we are constantly adding new services and features, we might not make an immediate upgrade of the Terms, unless in case of material changes to our practices. The most current version of the Terms will govern your use of our Services and it is available at Your.MD Symptom Checker Terms of Service for Vhi. Because we do not store your profile data you will need to consent to the most recent version of the Terms each time you use the Services.
If any provision of these Terms is illegal or unenforceable under applicable law, the remainder of the provision shall be amended to achieve as closely as possible the effect of the original term and all other provisions of these Terms shall continue in full force and effect.
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**We value hearing from our users, and are always interested in learning about ways we can improve the Services. You are always welcome to send us any comments to: [care@your.md](care@your.md?subject= Vhi Health Assistant app).
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