Our Terms and conditions (Updated in Aug 2022)
Index
- Terms and conditions
- Important terms Interpretation
- Terms of acceptance
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- Access to our website and services
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- Health specialists
- Customer / patient
- Feedback about specialist or services
- Website terms
- Memberships and communication
- BMACS – Law, liabilities, limitations
- Breach of Our T&Cs resulting in Suspension or termination
- Transferring rights
- T&Cs for linking up with our website or sharing part of our website.
- Medical or nonmedical Specialist, Client / patient or third party generated content
14.Third party links in our website
- Our contact
PLEASE TAKE YOUR TIME TO READ OUR TERMS OF USE BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITE. OTHERWISE USING THE WEBSITE WILL INDICATE THAT YOU ACCEPTED OUR TERMS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU CHOOSE TO REGISTER WITH US.
IF THERE IS SOME THING IN OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS WHICH YOU DO NOT AGREE, PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR WEBSITE. OTHERWISE, YOU AUTOMATICALLY AGREE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE CONTENT OF OUR WEBSITE IS PROVIDED SOLELY FOR YOUR INFORMATION. THE CONTENT ON OUR WEBSITE DOES NOT PROVIDE YOU WITH ANY RECOMMENDATION OR ADVICE OF ANY KIND AND MUST NEVER BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR ADVICE PROVIDED BY A DOCTOR OR OTHER www.bmacs.org.uk
QUALIFIED HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS.
- Important terms Interpretation
Please go through following interpretations to understand Terms of use BMACS of our website
2.1. “Content” It includes every information including text, images, audio, video, or other information made available on our website may include content which is controlled or owned by third parties which we have taken permission to make available to you through the Website.
2.2. BMACS (Brits Medical and Cosmetic Services) which is private medical service provider. www.privatemedicalservice.com , , www.bmacs.org.uk , www.bloodtestexpert.com
Our company is registered in England and Wales with company registration number 12512117. Our registered office is at Westerly the green, Horton Road, Horton, SL39NU, United Kingdom.
2.3. “Specialist” means a health specialist listed on the Website.
2.3. User, you or your – referring to the person using our website.
2.4. We, our or us – BMACS team
2.5. Our website – www.privatemedicalservice.com , www.bmacs.org.uk , www.bloodtestexpert.com related services and information content, provided on our website.
2.6. Person – Can be representing Individual person / corporate company / organisation.
2.7. Working day – Any day other than Saturday, Sunday, Public or Bank holiday in UK.
- Terms of acceptance
3.1. This is a legal agreement between user of website / our services and our professional team member.
3.2. Before using our website / services you must read carefully, all the terms and conditions. If you are using our website or services without reading our terms and conditions, it will indicate that you have accepted our terms and conditions. If there are terms and conditions you are not in agreement with, please do not use our website or services.
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3.3. You must also agree with our following policies.
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Our website use policy – which sets out the permitted and prohibited uses of the Website and our services;
Privacy policy BMACS – which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us; and Cookie policy BMACS – which sets out information about the cookies on the Website.
- Access to our website and services
4.1. You can search the services listed on our website in various specialized fields. You may also find the information you are looking for or you have an option available to request further information if you may wish.
4.2. We reserve the right to amend or remove the information provided on our website without notice. There might be sections of website for which you might need to register to view. We may restrict your access to some or all parts of our website at any point if feel necessary.
4.3. We will not be responsible for the website to be unavailable at any point.
4.4. You can only take active part, post reviews, ratings, or opinions if you are registered member.
4.5. You should not misuse the website by introducing trojans, viruses or by any other illegal technological harmful means.
4.6. No one should obtain, an unauthorised access to the website, server, database associated to our website.
BREACHING OF CLAUSE 4.5 AND 4.6 IS CRIMINAL OFFENCE UNDER COMPUTER MISUSE ACT 1990 AND YOUR IDENTITY WILL BE REPORTED TO REGULATING AUTHORITIES. IN SUCH CASE YOUR RIGHT TO ACCESS OUR WEBSITE WILL BE TERMINATED AND YOU WILL BE DERIGISTERED. YOU WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED TO OUR ORGANISATION BY BREACHING CLAUSE 4.5 AND 4.6. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE IF THERE IS ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS CAUSED BY trojans, viruses or by any other technological means WHICH IS NOT INFLECTED BY OUR WEBSITE DELIBERATELY.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY LINKS FROM OUR WEBSITE OR CONTENT UNLESS PERMITTED BY US UPON PRIOR REQUEST.
4.7. All the content on BMACS website is our intellectual property and is protected by copyright laws. You can download or print one copy of
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content you desire from BMACS website, but our website must be acknowledged. Copied content from BMACS website which can be either in paper or digital forms must not be modified for commercial purposes without our written permission.
4.8. If our website / content is being used in breach of our terms and conditions mentioned, we reserve the right to cease your permission to use BMACS website and you are expected to either return the material or to destroy with immediate effect.
- Health specialists
5.1. Our listed specialists are registered with UK government recognised institutions and hold active valid licence. Content provided on our website about specialists either by themselves or obtained directly by BMACS or taken from publicly available databases.
5.2. As registered health professional it’s your responsibility to make sure information provided is up to date and accurate. We do not take any guarantees or warranties about the accuracy of the content provided on BMACS website. We reserve the right to use intellectual property, content in accordance with these terms and conditions.
5.3. It’s your responsibility to make sure you are expert in the field mentioned on our website, qualified as per UK healthcare provider eligibility criteria, and have appropriate insurance cover. We are not liable in anyway or form for anyone else, about the diagnosis/decisions made, or treatments provided by yourself.
5.4. We will refer patients for opinions, procedures to you only if you agree with our terms and conditions. You are fully responsible to be capable and eligible for providing the needful service you are providing.
5.5. If as specialist or as practice you are collaborating with BMACS, we will be putting your information on our website to market your services for which you may have to pay fee if agreed prior to collaboration or at any point after.
5.6. As specialist or practice if you are collaborating with BMACS so we can refer patients, you need to give us right to be able to put your profile on our website for which you might or might not have to pay a fee. Your profile or practice will be on our website which will be irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, royalty free, non-exclusive, sublicensable www.bmacs.org.uk licence so we can use information on our website as required or other media source which include any old or new for marketing, research purposes.
5.7. BMACS automatically obtain reasonable consent to offer disclosure of the content / information / services provided by specialist/specialist’s practice for clients / patients visiting our site. The content needs to be continually monitored and updated by the specialist or the practice. The specialist and the practice give BMACS irrevocable consent to disclose the information where necessary.
We might seek evidence of the specialist and/or specialist’s practice entitlement to a level that would reasonably satisfy our code of practice.
We may also ask the Specialist and/or their practice to provide us with suitable documentary evidence that will reasonably satisfy us of the Specialist and/or Specialist’s practice’s entitlement to make use of the intellectual property right in the Content and to permit us to make use of such intellectual property rights and the Specialist and/or Specialist’s practice agree to provide such evidence upon request.
5.8. As per BMACS code of ethics the specialist and specialist’s practice including all involved employees and service providers comply with anticorruption laws.
5.9. If specialist or his employee become aware of any breach of clause including 5.7 and 5.8, they must notify us immediately. We reserve the right to take appropriate action which may include immediate suspension account / contract with us with or without any need to notification. If any investigation takes place their after, the specialist, practice, and employee are expected to assist BMACS in investigation process.
5.10. The specialist and or the specialist’s practice is expected to indemnify BMACS and hold BMACS harmless on demand against any claims, proceedings, actions, costs and compensation (including legal costs and disbursements on a full indemnity basis), damages, losses, fine/fee expenses, and other liabilities of whatsoever nature brought against BMACS arising out of or in connection with such breach.
- Customer / patient
6.1. If you request BMACS to suggest specialist for the health issue you www.bmacs.org.uk
may have, we will do our best to put your case forward to appropriate specialist but as customer or patient you are responsible for selecting your own health care specialist and taking on any offered advice, BMACS
diagnosis, treatment or procedure. As final decision will be yours so BMACS do not take any liability if you may have any grievance, complaint or claim against the specialist or their practice you may have seen the specialist.
6.2. Website content is for your information only, this must not be taken as any kind of recommendation. You must not use content of website against professional medical advice. Do not delay of avoid professional medical advice on basis of content of any website. In case of medical emergency please dial 111.
6.3. We will recommend you healthcare specialist as per the information you provide us which can be as per medical need, location and availability etc. Decision is entirely yours weather you chose or decide to go with someone else and we will support you.
6.4. Healthcare professional listed on BMACS website have contract with us and may or may not be paying fee to be marketed on our website.
6.5. Any fee, payments you incur for treatments, procedures missing / late / change of appointments / penalties etc is your liability directly with specialist.
6.6. Booking specialist via BMACS, we might hold your data as per our privacy policy. By agreeing with us to refer you to specific healthcare specialist, you also agree for us to share your data with third party. If you do not agree, please do inform us prior to referral.
- Feedback about specialist or services
7.1. Our mission is to make sure you and others in need get best possible care, treatment, or procedures, for that reason we would like you to give feedback about your experience with specialist. We request you to submit your review directly to BMACS.
You are obliged to respond and reflect professionally and responsibly when giving feedback.
7.2. We reserve the right to do the final checks to avoid any www.bmacs.org.uk
unprofessional, inappropriate, deceptive, misleading or with identifiable names solely for the purpose of maintaining anonymity and fairness. BMACS
7.3. If you find any review inappropriate, offensive, or discriminatory, please lease with us and we will thoroughly investigate and evaluate, if found appropriate will ask to amend or even remove the review.
7.4. We reserve the right to reject or remove the review if found inappropriate, offensive, or discriminatory. We will also post responses to reviews which can be from either specialist or other patient or customer.
7.5. You are allowed only one review per visit to specialist or healthcare service provider. If we find review unprofessional, inappropriate, deceptive, misleading, we will identify IP address to assess the source of review and take appropriate action where necessary.
7.6. If we find multiple reviews submitted by same reviewer, we may remove the once we feel appropriate.
7.9. Your reviews will might not be published straight away as these are
usually forwarded to our team who post reviews after going through to make sure we are maintaining anonymity and fairness.
7.10. The specialist you see might collect reviews on the basis your experience of visiting them or their premises and might request you to complete questionnaire. This is independent from BMACS and in no way or form should reflect you views, opinions of BMACS.
- Website terms
8.1. You might find content out of date or with errors and we reserve the right to change the content as soon as we can without the obligation of updating it on time or when requested.
8.2. On occasions website might not be available which can be out of our control so we are not obliged to guarantee to provide continuous access. Our team will do everything possible to make sure interruption is for minimal possible time.
8.3. We reserve the right to change domain name or even close the website down if required because of some unforeseen circumstances. BMACS
8.4. We reserve the right to change terms and conditions when feel necessary without any notice and it is your responsibility to check it every time you use our website as every time when you use website, assumption will be that you have read our terms and conditions and you are agreeing. If you find some terms and conditions with which you do not agree please do not use our website.
- Memberships and communication
9.1. As a patient or clinicians if you are granted any type of access to our website, it’s your responsibility not to disclose security information to any third party.
9.2. We reserve the right to limit your access or even disable it if we have any reason to believe you not complying with our terms and conditions.
9.3. We recommend if you find anyone in breach of our terms and conditions to inform us and we will keep the information confidential.
9.4. By accepting BMACS terms and conditions you as clinician / specialist or patient / client you agree for us to communicate with us via paper, website or emails.
9.5. If as clinician / specialist or patient / client you find any of BMACS terms and conditions not in accordance with legal requirements or not legally applicable please do contact us as soon as possible and we with
mend or delete as per legal required. Once appropriate action has been taken, we are not obliged to update you or organisation directly.
- BMACS – Law, liabilities, limitations
10.1. The Specialists treating you will be responsible for any negligence, personal injury, death, misrepresentation, or website content as per English law and only permitted representations of conditions and missed treatments or website content can be expectable by UK law.
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10.2. BMACS do not take any responsibility of any negligence or breach of contract between the client / patient and treating specialist / person which can be as per our website content (which is responsibility of each
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specialist or person involved to make sure the content about them or their services / practices is updated on regular basis and is correct).
10.3. BMACS does not take any liability for any damages caused by common cyberattack where malware (normally malicious software) executes unauthorized actions on the victim’s system which may infect your computer and may cause loss or damage to content or website.
10.4. If you are using permitted content of BMACS website but we take no responsibility of any damage which may arise from use of content of our website.
10.5. As per our terms and conditions in all circumstances if considered liable weather in contract which include negligence, our maximum aggregate liability shall be limited not more than £99.
10.6. If you as a client/patient, medical, nonmedical professional or organisation have any contractual or noncontractual dealing with
BMACS, it will be understood that you agree with our terms and conditions.
10.7. If there is any dispute or claim against BMACS terms and conditions use will be subject to jurisdictions of UK courts.
- Breach of Our terms resulting in Suspension or termination (please see our website use policy for further details)
11.1. BMACS reserve right to suspend temporarily or permanently your contract or account with us or for use of our services, website, or use of content of our website immediately if deemed appropriate where found
evidence which satisfy our opinion. Similarly, you (as a client / patient or specialist) have equal right to limit, suspend or terminate established contract with BMACS.
11.2. If your account is suspended temporally / permanently suspended www.bmacs.org.uk
or terminated, you must stop using our website or services until further reinstated. Until your account is reinstated you are expected to not to use your account with and delete it.
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- Transferring rights
12.1. The contract between us of use of services or website is also binding you and our current and future representatives / successors.
12.2. By using our website / services you agree to our terms and conditions according to which you may do not automatically transfer your rights or obligations without our written consent.
12.3. If we find any breach of our terms and conditions, we reserve the right to terminate our contract and permission to use our services and website.
- T&Cs for linking up with our website or sharing part of our website.
13.1. You can only link to our home page and not provide any link any specific part of our website owned by you and have no right to do that for any website which you do not own. You are expected to seek our prior written permission to do and without our permission is not expectable in any circumstances.
13.2. If you are looking to link our website/ content to your site, you need to request our written permission. Linking of website should not cause any type of damage in terms of reputation/ publicity.
13.3. You have no right to allow any third party to link up or use our content in their website which is not owned by yourself.
13.4. Your website can only link up or use our content if follow our terms of use. If at any point we find any breach of our T&Cs, we reserve right to terminate the permission to have any type of link up at any point without any notice.
14 – Medical or nonmedical Specialist, Client / patient or third party generated content
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14.1. When you provide us content, you automatically grant BMACS full right to use throughout the world via websites or any media including to
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modify, translate and publish commercially.
14.2. Your content might be shared with other institutions or organisations.
14.3. As client / patient, medical or nonmedical specialist It’s your responsibility to make sure the content you provided is legitimate, have appropriate consent if required and not breaching any copy or proprietary rights.
14.4. As medical or non-medical professional it’s you upmost responsibility to make sure you hold appropriate licence for the service you provide for BMACS clients / patients.
- Third party links in our website
15.1. You will find some links to other sites in BMACS website which are only to provide you information which are not our direct control, so we
take no responsibility or liability of the contents and information provided.
15.2. If you find any information which you feel is not as per our terms and conditions, you can contact the website directly for any liabilities.
15.3. Any Client/ patient/ specialist or any third party, which include any parent, or affiliated with BMACS not in agreement with BMACS terms and conditions shall not have any rights under the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 which gives powers to third parties in certain circumstances to enforce terms of a contract that confer a benefit upon them, either expressly or as a matter of contractual construction.
- Our contact
If you have any questions regarding our terms and conditions or have any disputes or complaints, please contact us info@bmacs.org.uk