Terms of Service
Index
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- Introduction
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- Our Service
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- How old do I have to be to use Healthwords?
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- Ordering and Purchase Terms
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- Links to other websites
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- Accessing our Platform or Service
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- What am I allowed to do on Healthwords?
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- What am I not allowed to do on Healthwords?
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- User content
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- Intellectual Property Rights
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- Our Platform Features and Content
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- Our liability
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- General
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- How can I contact you?
1. Introduction
We are Healthwords Limited (or simply "Healthwords"). Healthwords is a UK & US based, global digital healthcare company providing health and wellness solutions. Healthwords is our flagship digital product. Throughout these Terms, "we", "us", "our" or "Healthwords" means Healthwords Limited (including our Healthwords app).
Healthwords is committed to making the world a healthier place while making sure our actions are not only legal, but ethical, moral, and just. You can read more about our core values in the Healthwords credo, which is also on our website.
Credo
Our aim is to help make the world a healthier place, but we also care how we do this. From the beginning of our story, we have been guided by the belief of doing the right thing, making sure our actions are legal, ethical, moral and just. We will ensure all contact between people is based on trust and absolute integrity and this will be of benefit to all parties. We expect and require all associations and external partners to be organised by a similar ethos.
We are committed to producing innovative, high quality, efficacious and safe healthcare solutions. We will ensure that Healthwords's products have passed the appropriate standards related to research, regulations, licensing, legal requirements, manufacturing, scientific testing, packaging and marketing. We will never stop innovating, creating, developing and researching. We aim to provide real and lasting satisfaction.
We will need knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork to succeed. We will seek to recruit and partner with the best. Remuneration will be fair. Loyalty and performance will be rewarded. We must recognise our people's merits and provide them with adequate opportunities to advance their knowledge, roles and positions. The work environment will be safe, clean and attractive. We accept that our people's religious beliefs, family responsibilities and personal wellbeing are more important than Healthwords, and we will at all times help our partners fulfil and prioritise their private duties. We will ensure that competent and fair leaders run our places of work.
We are a UK-based international company and we will strive to respect local traditions, customs and sensitivities as long as our actions fall within the realms of English law and good UK corporate governance. We must always pay appropriate and fair tax and our principal tax base will always remain His Majesty's Revenue and Customs. We have a duty to respect the communities and environment in which we live and work.
Healthcare is for the patient, not for the profit, but to enable us to continue our journey we must make a reasonable financial reward. New solutions must be discovered, research must be continued, and tomorrow's products created. Our products will be priced fairly and competitively. We will aim to develop products that provide innovative, novel, practical and cost-effective solutions. We will offer solutions to people's needs rather than selling products; this is and always has been our only priority.
We believe that when we look back, the big things will be the small things and the small things will be the big things. Our industriousness will be the basis of our achievements. We will try our best to make sure that the values of our business remain a priority for everyone, every day, at every level of our organisation. We promise to continue to help make the world a healthier place.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") apply when you use healthwords.ai (the "Site") and our Healthwords app (together, the "Platform"), as well as to all information, recommendations and/or services provided to you on or through the Platform. Section 4 of these Terms (the "Purchase Terms") applies when you order a product or a consultation through the Platform and replaces our former Purchase Policy.
We are a limited company, registered in England. Our registered company number is 05826113, and our registered office is at 2 Sycamore Street, London, EC1Y 0SF, United Kingdom. Our VAT registration number is 887451576.
The personal information you provide via the Platform will be collected, used, managed and disclosed in accordance with our Privacy Notice. When you use the service of an Affiliated Healthcare Partner (defined in section 4), that partner's own terms and privacy notice also apply; we list and link to them in section 4.
Please read these Terms carefully before using our Platform.
By using or accessing any part of the Platform or ordering products via the Platform (whether now or in the future), you agree to be bound by these Terms. You should print a copy of these Terms for future reference.
We may update these Terms from time to time. These Terms were last updated on 22 October 2026. By continuing to use or access any part of the Platform, you are agreeing to the current version of the Terms, except that no change to the Terms will affect any Order you have already placed with us. We will tell you about significant changes before they take effect.
2. Our Service
The Platform provides general health and wellness information. The Platform allows you to use our health and wellness features, including: Healthwords Search, Conversational Search, Symptom Checker, Travel Health, Sexual Health, Messages, and Shop.
Healthwords is not a doctor, pharmacist or healthcare provider. Information on the Platform, including AI-generated responses and Symptom Checker results, is for information and education. It is not a diagnosis, treatment plan or prescription and does not replace advice from a qualified healthcare professional who knows your circumstances. In an emergency, call 999 (UK) or 911 (US).
Our AI features generate responses using our clinically reviewed content and a third-party language model. Responses may be incomplete or wrong. Our AI does not make clinical decisions about you, and our commercial relationships with Affiliated Healthcare Partners do not influence what it tells you.
We may also provide a way for you to communicate your orders ("Orders") for products or services ("Products"), which may be requested through the use of the Healthwords Platform. We provide a range of Products, but please note that Healthwords itself does not prescribe, dispense or sell pharmacy or prescription medicines. Where the Platform lets you obtain a pharmacy or prescription medicine, or consult a clinician, that product or service is provided by an Affiliated Healthcare Partner named on the Platform before you proceed (see section 4). All services provided by Healthwords to you by means of your use of the Platform are hereafter referred to as the "Service". When we talk about Healthwords, this includes our Products and our Service.
You may also use Healthwords to locate the nearest chemists/pharmacies, doctors or travel clinic locations, and to receive local pollen/allergen alerts. If you choose to use any of these feature(s), then the GPS receiver (on the mobile device which you are using Healthwords on) detects your location and uses your location to optimise the Platform and Service for you.
3. How old do I have to be to use Healthwords?
The Platform is intended for use only by persons who are at least 16 years of age. By using the Platform, you confirm to us that you meet this requirement.
To order any Product, you must be at least 16 years of age in the UK (or any older age legally required under local law to bind yourself legally to these Terms). By doing so, you confirm to us that you meet this requirement.
You must also be 18 or over to use Affiliated Healthcare Partner pharmacy or consultation services in the United States. Consultation services are currently available only to residents of the US who are in the US at the time of their consultation. You must give your true date of birth and state of residence.
4. Ordering and Purchase Terms
Who you are buying from
"Affiliated Healthcare Partners" means the independent, regulated healthcare providers listed in the table below, through which you can consult a clinician or obtain medicines on the Platform. They are not owned or controlled by Healthwords.
(a) General health and wellbeing products that are not medicines are sold by Healthwords Limited.
(b) Pharmacy (P) medicines, prescription-only medicines and any other medicine supplied following a pharmacist or prescriber review are sold and supplied by the Affiliated Healthcare Partner named at checkout. Your contract for that medicine is with that partner, which decides whether to accept your order. Where we take your payment for it, we do so as that partner's commercial agent.
(c) Consultations through US consultation services are provided by Abi Global Health Limited ("Abi"). Where we take the consultation fee, we do so as Abi's commercial agent.
(d) Each Affiliated Healthcare Partner is responsible for the care, advice, prescribing, dispensing, medicines and records it provides, and may decide not to treat you or not to supply a product. Their own terms and policies, linked below, apply alongside these Purchase Terms. If a partner's terms are more protective of you than these Purchase Terms, you keep that protection.
| Affiliated Healthcare Partner | Service | Terms and policies | | :---- | :---- | :---- | | ABSM Healthcare Ltd, trading as The Independent Pharmacy, 14-16 Dixon Road, Brislington, Bristol BS4 5QW. GPhC premises 9012559. Prescribing by Red Label Medical Ltd (company 08676338), CQC location 1-10976213225 | UK registered pharmacy and online prescribing | Terms: theindependentpharmacy.co.uk/terms-and-conditions. Privacy: theindependentpharmacy.co.uk/privacy-and-security-policy. Returns and cancellations: theindependentpharmacy.co.uk/returns-policy | | Health Counter Limited, trading as Cedarwood Pharmacy, 5 Peterwood Park, Peterwood Way, Croydon CR0 4UQ. GPhC premises 1121830 | UK registered pharmacy | Privacy: cedarwoodpharmacy.co.uk/privacy-policy | | HealthWarehouse.com, Inc., 7107 Industrial Road, Florence, Kentucky 41042, USA | US licensed pharmacy and fulfilment partner | Terms of use: healthwarehouse.com/terms-and-conditions. Prescription order terms: healthwarehouse.com/rx-orders-terms-and-conditions. Privacy and Notice of Privacy Practices: healthwarehouse.com/privacy-policy. Returns: healthwarehouse.com/return-policy. Cancellations: healthwarehouse.com/cancellation-policy. Shipping: healthwarehouse.com/shipping-policy | | Abi Global Health Limited (Ireland) and its licensed clinicians | US online consultations (consultation services) | Terms: abi.ai/en-GB/terms-of-use. Privacy: abi.ai/en-GB/privacy |
We will update this table before we start working with a new Affiliated Healthcare Partner.
We offer different ways of ordering Products.
- We provide external links to other websites
- We enable you to buy Products from Healthwords and from our Affiliated Healthcare Partners through the Platform
Depending on how you order, different terms and conditions will apply. We explain these below.
If you follow an external link to make an order
Any websites Healthwords may link to (including affiliate links) have their own separate terms and conditions. We are not party to any such terms and conditions, or to any agreement in relation to orders for products or services you may place through such websites.
Healthwords does not directly handle the sale and supply of prescription-only medicines (POMs) or pharmacy medicines. Instead, we work in collaboration with our regulated and licensed Affiliated Healthcare Partners, which are registered to supply medicines under UK law or, in the United States, the law of the relevant state, and to fulfil orders which are screened by registered pharmacists and doctors.
In the UK, pharmacy-only or prescription products will always be provided by one of the following regulated partners, which are registered by the General Pharmaceutical Council. Our pharmacy and fulfilment partner for US orders is HealthWarehouse (see "US consultation services" below).
- Health Counter Limited (trading as Cedarwood Pharmacy), a licensed UK pharmacy with registered premises at Cedarwood Pharmacy, 5 Peterwood Park, Peterwood Way, Croydon, CR0 4UQ. Registration number 1121830
- ABSM Healthcare Ltd, a company incorporated in England and Wales (company number 08515600) trading as The Independent Pharmacy, a registered UK pharmacy, with registered premises at 14-16 Dixon Road, Brislington, Bristol, BS4 5QW. Registration number 9012559
To ensure that the prescription and dispensing of medicines are conducted in compliance with regulations, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in the UK regulates the prescribing service of Red Label Medical Ltd (company number 08676338), also known as The Independent Pharmacy, Registration number: 1-10976213225.
All consultations and assessments are screened by UK medical professionals registered with the General Medical Council (GMC), or accredited practitioners registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
US consultation services
In the US, our consultation service lets you consult a licensed clinician through Abi and, if a prescription is issued, have it dispensed and shipped by HealthWarehouse. Prescriptions go directly from Abi to HealthWarehouse and never pass through Healthwords. Abi's terms, linked in the table above, also apply. When you order a prescription medicine from HealthWarehouse, you also accept its Terms and Conditions for Ordering Prescription Medications, which are governed by Kentucky law.
Sharing your information with Affiliated Healthcare Partners
We send an Affiliated Healthcare Partner only the information needed for the service you ask for, and only after you have reviewed it and given your consent (and, in the US, signed an authorisation). Our Privacy Notice explains this in full.
4.1. Ordering and availability
Products may be ordered by clicking on the items you wish to purchase and then following the prompts that will appear on-screen. You may check and correct any input errors in your order up until the point at which you submit your order to us by clicking the "Buy Now" button on the checkout page.
After placing an order, you will receive an acknowledgment from us that we have received your order, and giving you an order reference number.
Please note that this does not mean that your order has been accepted. Your order constitutes an offer to the seller identified in "Who you are buying from" to buy the Product(s) ordered. All orders are subject to acceptance by that seller. The seller is not obliged to accept your order and may, at its discretion, decline to accept any order, including where a pharmacist or prescriber decides that a product is not clinically suitable for you.
While we use reasonable endeavours to work with our Affiliated Healthcare Partners to carry sufficient stock, if your order includes any Product(s) not available from stock or which have been discontinued, we will let you know. We will not substitute appropriate similar product(s) without your agreement. Please be aware that the number of packs of certain medicines that you can purchase may be limited and details of the restrictions are available on the product page.
Confirming an order
You acknowledge that by clicking on the "Buy Now" button, you enter into an obligation to pay for the Product(s). If the seller accepts your order, we will confirm such acceptance by sending you a confirmation that your order has been despatched or, if you opt (where available) to collect, when it will be ready for collection ("Order Confirmation").
The contract between you and the seller in relation to the Product(s) ordered ("Contract") will only be formed when we send you the Order Confirmation. After entering into the Contract, the seller will be under a legal duty to supply you with goods that are in conformity with the Contract.
The Contract will relate only to the Product(s) which have been confirmed in the Order Confirmation. The seller will not be obliged to supply any other Product(s) which may have been part of your order until such Product(s) have been confirmed in a separate Order Confirmation.
If you have any issues with your order, or wish to change or cancel your order, you may contact us directly (orders@healthwords.ai) and we will assist you in resolving your issue. However, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to change or cancel an order.
4.2. Delivery or collection
Your order will be fulfilled by us or by our Affiliated Healthcare Partner by the delivery date set out in the Order Confirmation or, if no delivery date is specified, then within 30 days after the date of the Order Confirmation, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Your order will be delivered to the delivery address within the United Kingdom you specify when placing your order unless you opt (where available) to collect it from one of our pharmacy partner locations from time to time. If you opt for this collection service, your entire order will be delivered to your chosen collection point and will be available for collection by you from the date specified in the Order Confirmation. When collecting your order, you should take the Order Confirmation, along with a form of photographic identification (such as a driving licence or passport) with you.
If your delivery address is geographically remote, for example certain outlying islands or other isolated locations, it is possible that we may not be able to deliver there. If that is the case, we will notify you before we accept your order. We reserve the right not to deliver to any country that is prohibited by applicable export laws. We do not deliver to Northern Ireland. Orders cannot be delivered to PO Box or similar addresses.
Products within the same order cannot be delivered to different addresses.
Deliveries are made in the UK by Royal Mail (within the United Kingdom), or other national mail service, or courier if applicable, and take place on Monday to Saturday (or other normal working week days in your country), excluding Sundays and bank and public holidays. It is not possible to specify a precise time at which a delivery will take place. Please note that the courier may require deliveries to be signed for.
Deliveries will be made to your door or mailbox, and may require signature. Our courier will not be responsible for any additional carrying, unpacking or positioning of Product(s). You should ensure you, or someone else who is aged 18 or over, is available to accept the delivery. By ordering a medicine you confirm that it is safe for a package containing medicines to be delivered through the letterbox at your address; tell us if it is not, for example because of children or animals.
US orders supplied through consultation services are shipped by HealthWarehouse under its Shipping Policy (healthwarehouse.com/shipping-policy).
4.3. Risk and ownership
The Product(s) ordered will be at your risk from the time of delivery or collection (as the case may be). Ownership of the Product(s) ordered will also pass to you on delivery or collection (as the case may be), provided full payment of all sums due in respect of the Product(s), including any delivery charges, has been received.
4.4. Price and payment
If you purchase Products from Healthwords
Healthwords shall charge you for the Order placed by you. You agree that you will pay for all Products you purchase through the Platform, and that Healthwords may charge you the total amount for your Order using the payment method provided by you when registering for the Service for the Products (including any taxes and late fees, as applicable), acting for itself or as the commercial agent of the relevant Affiliated Healthcare Partner.
Whoever you purchase Products from
The price of Products is as quoted on the Platform from time to time.
Prices include VAT (for UK orders) but exclude delivery costs, which will be automatically added (at the cost shown) to the total amount due when you view the items in your shopping basket, once you have selected your chosen delivery method.
Prices and delivery costs are liable to change at any time, but changes will not affect orders in respect of which we have already sent you an Order Confirmation.
The Platform contains a large number of Products and it is always possible that, despite our best efforts, some of the Products listed on the Platform may be incorrectly priced. We will normally verify prices as part of our despatch procedures so that, where a Product's correct price is less than our stated price, we will charge you the lower amount. If a Product's correct price is higher than the price stated on the Platform, we will normally, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before despatching the Product, or reject your order and notify you of such rejection.
Healthwords uses a third-party payment processor, Stripe (the "Payment Processor"), to link the payment card you provide to the Platform and Service.
Payment for all orders must be made by credit or debit card on the checkout page. We accept payment by most major credit and debit cards. Your billing and delivery address must be in the same country.
We will charge your credit or debit card when you place your order.
You should be aware that online payment transactions are subject to validation checks by your card issuer and we are not responsible if your card issuer declines to authorise payment for any reason. Please note, it is possible that your card issuer may charge you an online handling fee or processing fee. We are not responsible for this.
From time to time we may run promotions where we issue discount codes. These can be used in part-payment of the price of Product(s) ordered online, subject to the terms under which they were issued (as indicated in our relevant promotion from which you got the code). Discount codes can only be used once, and only during the period of validity stated and only in respect of the relevant Product(s) stated. Discount codes cannot be redeemed for cash. Discount codes cannot be used on prescription-only medicines.
4.5. Can I change or cancel my order?
Changes
If you would like to change your Order please contact us at orders@healthwords.ai as soon as possible, and we will assist you with your issue. We can let you know if changing it is possible, and if changing it would require any changes to the price, timing or anything else. If we cannot make the change or you decided not to go ahead with the change, you may want to cancel your Order (see below)
We cannot guarantee that we will be able to change or cancel an order.
Cancelling
You will not have any right to cancel a Contract for the supply of any of the following Products:
- hygiene-sealed items or tamper-proof items, in each case, where the sealed packaging has been opened; or
- medicines or healthcare products if they have been dispatched to you; or
- products that have been personalised or made to your own bespoke specifications (if we offer such options);
unless such Product(s) were damaged or faulty when delivered to you or have been incorrectly delivered. Medicines cannot be checked, reused or resold once they have left the pharmacy.
Except in relation to certain Products set out above, you may cancel a Contract at any time before your order is delivered and up to 14 days afterwards, beginning on the day after your order (in its entirety) is delivered to you or, if you opt (where available) to collect it from our pharmacy partner, the day after it is delivered to that third party.
If you cancel, you will receive a full refund of the price paid for the Product(s) in accordance with our refunds policy (see below).
To cancel a Contract, you must clearly inform us, preferably:
- in writing to orders@healthwords.ai, giving us your name, address and order reference (which you can find on the Order Confirmation); or
- by completing and submitting our cancellation form, a copy of which is also enclosed with the Product(s) on delivery.
We may ask you to destroy any damaged or faulty Product(s), or to return the Product(s) to us within 14 days after the day of notifying us of the cancellation, in the same condition in which you receive them (which does not interfere with your right to take any reasonable steps to examine the Product(s) and make sure they conform to your order). You have a legal obligation to take reasonable care of the Product(s) while in your possession. If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right to deduct the cost of any deterioration (due, for example, to your having used the Product(s)), up to the price of the Product(s), from the refund to which you are otherwise entitled.
Details of the consumer rights described above, and an explanation of how to exercise them, are provided in the Order Confirmation. Nothing in this section affects your legal rights.
4.6. Returns
Returns must be approved before you send anything back. Contact orders@healthwords.ai with your name, order reference and the reason for the return. If we approve it, we will send you a returns authorisation and the returns address. Items sent back without an approved returns authorisation may not be refunded and may be disposed of.
We do not accept returns of any medicine once it has left the pharmacy. This applies to prescription-only medicines, pharmacy medicines and general sale (over-the-counter) medicines, whether or not the packaging has been opened. Once a medicine has left the pharmacy its storage and handling can no longer be guaranteed, so it cannot be checked, reused or resold. This does not affect your rights if a medicine is faulty, damaged or not what you ordered (see section 4.9).
To return an approved non-medicine product, package it securely with your name, address and returns authorisation inside, and send it by tracked or recorded delivery to the address in your returns authorisation. Keep proof of posting until your refund is processed. You are responsible for the cost and risk of the return unless the product was damaged, faulty or sent in error. Products cannot be returned to any store or pharmacy counter.
Do not post unwanted medicines back to us or to any pharmacy. In the UK, take them to any community pharmacy for safe disposal. In the US, use a drug take-back location or follow FDA disposal guidance; HealthWarehouse's guidance is at healthwarehouse.com/drug-disposal.
For items supplied by an Affiliated Healthcare Partner, that partner's returns policy (linked in the table in section 4) also applies. Where it is more generous to you for a non-medicine product, you may rely on it. In all cases we will not accept the return of a medicine.
4.7. Our refunds policy
If you cancel a Contract within the 14-day cooling-off period (see above, and please note some Product(s) may not be eligible for cancellation), we will process any refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 14 days after the day on which we receive the Product(s) back or, if earlier, the day on which we receive evidence that you have returned the Product(s) to our returns address (see above). If you cancel before dispatch, we will refund you within 14 days of your cancellation. We will refund the price paid in full (subject to any deduction we are entitled to make due to your use of or damage to the Product(s)), including the cost of standard delivery. However, we will not refund your cost of returning the Product(s) to us. If you received any promotional or other discount when you paid, any refund will only reflect the amount you actually paid. Medicines cannot be refunded once dispatched unless they are faulty, damaged or incorrect.
Refunds are made using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase, unless agreed otherwise. Refunds normally appear in your account within five to seven working days of being processed, depending on your bank.
4.8. If we cannot fulfil your order
If we cannot supply all or part of your order (for example because of stock shortages, supplier disruption or other operational constraints beyond our reasonable control), we will tell you as soon as practicable. If no part of the order can be supplied, we will refund you in full. If only part can be supplied, we will try to contact you before dispatch to ask whether you want us to send the available items and refund the rest, or cancel and refund everything. If we cannot reach you within 2 working days, we will send the available items and refund the rest automatically. A pharmacist or prescriber may decide not to supply a medicine for clinical reasons; if so, we refund that item in full.
4.9. Faulty Products
If any Product you order is damaged or faulty when delivered to you or has developed a fault, you may have one or more legal remedies available to you, depending on when you make us aware of the problem, in accordance with your legal rights. If you believe a Product was delivered damaged or faulty or has developed a fault, you should inform us as soon as possible, preferably in writing to orders@healthwords.ai, giving your name, address and order reference and, if possible, a photograph. Do not use a medicine you believe is faulty. We may ask you to destroy a faulty medicine safely rather than return it; you will not need to send it back to receive your refund or replacement. Nothing in this section affects your legal rights.
4.10. Pharmacy and over-the-counter medicines
A pharmacist or prescriber at the relevant Affiliated Healthcare Partner reviews every order for a pharmacy or prescription medicine. When you order one:
- you must answer the questionnaire or consultation fully and truthfully, and tell the partner if anything changes before you receive the medicine. Withholding or giving incorrect information can cause you serious harm;
- the medicine is for your own use only and must not be passed or sold to anyone else;
- the pharmacist or prescriber may contact you, ask you to verify your identity or age, supply a smaller quantity, or decline to supply. Their clinical decision is final, and you receive a full refund for any item they decline;
- quantity limits apply to some medicines (for example, pack-size limits on paracetamol and aspirin, and limits on codeine-containing products, sedating antihistamines and stimulant laxatives), and repeat orders that suggest inappropriate use may be declined;
- we do not supply controlled drugs through the Platform;
- packaging may differ from the image shown, but the active ingredient, strength and form will be as described;
- always read the label and patient information leaflet before use, keep medicines out of the sight and reach of children, and store them as directed;
- speak to your doctor or pharmacist before use if you take other medicines, have a long-term condition, are pregnant or breastfeeding;
- if symptoms persist or worsen, seek medical advice; in an emergency call 999 (UK) or 911 (US); and
- report suspected side effects to the supplying partner and to the MHRA Yellow Card scheme (yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk) in the UK or FDA MedWatch (fda.gov/medwatch) in the US.
4.11. Consultation services fees
The consultation fee is shown before you pay and is taken before the consultation. You receive a full refund if you cancel before a clinician starts reviewing your case, if Abi cannot see you (for example because you are outside US state-specific coverage or under 18), or if the consultation does not take place because of a fault on our side or Abi's. The fee is not refundable once a clinician has reviewed your case, whether or not a prescription is issued: it pays for the clinical assessment, not for a prescription. Medicines dispensed by HealthWarehouse are paid for and refunded under HealthWarehouse's own terms.
4.12. Product information
Whilst we try to make sure that all information contained on the Platform (other than any user-generated content) is correct, it is not intended to amount to authority or advice on which reliance should be placed. You should check with us or the relevant information source before acting on any such information.
Whilst we have taken reasonable steps to depict Products as accurately as possible through the photographs and other images featured on the Platform, the detailing (such as colour, pattern and texture, etc.) you see on-screen will depend on your monitor and, as such, may not exactly reflect the actual detailing of a Product when you receive it.
We are not responsible for Product information provided by our Affiliated Healthcare Partners or third parties, including patient information leaflets, instructions for use etc. Information on the Platform is not intended to substitute for medical or healthcare advice. You should check with your doctor, pharmacist or other qualified healthcare professional if you are unsure if a medicine or healthcare product is suitable for you, e.g. if you are taking any other medication, have an existing condition, or are pregnant. The Platform is not intended to diagnose, treat or prevent any diseases or conditions. In the UK, healthwords.ai is registered with the MHRA UKCA as a Class I medical device (patient health self-management software).
5. Links to other websites
The Platform may, from time to time, include links to external sites (including affiliate partners' sites) which may include links to third party e-commerce sites, offers and promotions. We include these to provide you with access to information, products or services that you may find useful or interesting. We are not responsible for the content of these sites or for anything provided by them. We do not guarantee that they will be continuously available. Links to external sites do not imply any endorsement of, or association with, their operators or promoters. This section does not apply to our Affiliated Healthcare Partners, whose role is described in section 4.
6. Accessing our Platform or Service
It is your responsibility to ensure your equipment (computer, laptop, netbook, tablet or other mobile device) meets all the necessary technical specifications to enable you to access and use the Platform and is compatible with the Platform. The Platform is designed to work best with iOS 10.0 or Android 5.0 (API 21) and above.
We may, from time to time, restrict access to certain features, parts or content of the Platform, or the entire Platform, to users who have registered with us.
You must ensure that any registration details you provide are accurate. If you choose, or you are provided with, a log-on ID (such as a username and password or other identifier) as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and must not reveal it to anyone else. You are responsible for all activities that occur under your log-on ID and must notify us immediately of any unauthorised use or other security breach of which you become aware. We reserve the right to disable any log-on ID, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms or if any details you provide for the purposes of registering as a user prove to be false.
If you sign in using an account from an Affiliated Healthcare Partner (for example, single sign-on from healthwarehouse.com), your Healthwords account remains a separate account governed by these Terms. Signing in this way does not give us access to your partner records unless you separately authorise it.
Healthwords reserves the right to introduce a fee for the use of the Platform and/or the Service. If Healthwords decides to introduce such a fee, Healthwords shall inform you accordingly and allow you to either continue or terminate your use of the Service before any such fee becomes due.
7. What am I allowed to do on Healthwords?
You may only use the Platform for non-commercial use and only in accordance with these Terms. You may retrieve and display content from the Platform on a computer or smartphone screen, print and copy individual pages and, subject to the next section, store such pages in electronic form. Additional terms may also apply to certain features, parts or content of the Platform and, where they apply, will be displayed on-screen or accessible via a link.
8. What am I not allowed to do on Healthwords?
Except to the extent expressly set out in these Terms, you are not allowed to:
- use the Platform if you are under 16 years of age;
- use the Platform to seek emergency, acute or urgent medical care. If you think you or someone else needs urgent help, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. For non-emergency urgent care, contact NHS 111;
- use the Platform to manage complex medical needs that need active supervision by a clinician;
- rely on the Platform to diagnose, prevent, monitor, treat or predict any medical condition or disease. Do not treat information on the Platform as personalised medical advice or as a replacement for a consultation with a qualified healthcare professional;
- use the Platform, if you are a healthcare professional, as a clinical decision support tool or as part of diagnosis, treatment planning or any other clinical workflow;
- use the Platform to make diagnostic, prescribing or emergency medical decisions;
- use the Platform to request controlled substances, help with euthanasia or an unsafe abortion, or information to support illicit drug use, violence or terrorism;
- repeatedly submit malicious, false or vexatious complaints or reports;
- 'scrape' content or store content of the Platform on a server or other storage device connected to a network, or create an electronic database by systematically downloading and storing all of the content of the Platform;
- remove or change any content of the Platform, attempt to circumvent security, or interfere with the proper working of the Platform or the servers on which it is hosted;
- attempt to make our AI produce harmful, unlawful or misleading content, or extract its instructions or underlying data;
- give false information to a clinician or pharmacist, or use the Platform to obtain medicines for someone else; or
- create links to the Platform from any other website without our prior written consent. You may link from a website that you operate, provided that: the link is not misleading or deceptive and fairly indicates its destination; you do not imply that we endorse you, your website, or any products or services you offer; you link to (and do not frame or replicate) the home page of the Platform; and the linked website does not contain any content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, vulgar, indecent, offensive, or which infringes the intellectual property rights or other rights of any third party.
When we will end a conversation
To protect your safety, the Platform will stop the conversation and direct you to emergency, crisis or specialist services if your query indicates: you are under 16; suicidal ideation or self-harm; severe depression, psychosis or paranoia; violent thoughts or terrorism-related activity; stroke, seizure, trauma, overdose or poisoning; anaphylaxis or acute breathing difficulty; pregnancy complications; abuse (child, elder, domestic or sexual); or requests for controlled substances or euthanasia. We will also decline to engage with unscientific or disproven health claims.
You must only use the Platform and anything available from the Platform for lawful purposes (complying with all applicable laws and regulations), in a responsible manner, and not in a way that might damage our name or reputation or that of any of our affiliates.
All rights granted to you under these Terms will terminate immediately in the event that you are in breach of any of them.
9. User content
The Platform may, from time to time, allow you to upload user-generated content, for example to make use of an assessment tool ("User Content"). We do not moderate User Content. You are solely responsible for the content of your User Content as submitted by you.
If you submit any User Content, you must ensure it is relevant to the purpose of the relevant Platform feature.
User Content must not: contain, transmit, distribute, link to or otherwise make available, or advertise or promote any content that infringes any intellectual property rights or data protection, privacy or other rights of any other person, is defamatory or in breach of any contractual duty or any obligation of confidence, is obscene, sexually explicit, threatening, abusive, harassing, inciteful of violence or hatred, blasphemous, discriminatory (on any ground), liable to cause anxiety, alarm or embarrassment, knowingly false or misleading, or that does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations or is otherwise objectionable ("Prohibited Content"); impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your relationship with any person or entity; contain, transmit or distribute any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, marketing or promotional material or other form of solicitation (spam); or transmit or distribute any virus and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive elements.
You agree that, by submitting any User Content, you'll allow us to use and reproduce that User Content to provide the Service to you and as described in our Privacy Notice. We will not use User Content that identifies you or contains your health information to train artificial intelligence models. We may use de-identified content to test and improve the safety and accuracy of the Service.
If we would like to use any User Content in any way that would identify you, then we would ask you first.
Whilst we do not pre-screen User Content, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to delete, edit or modify any User Content submitted by you, at any time without notice to you.
10. Intellectual Property Rights
All intellectual property rights in any content of the Platform (including text, graphics, software, photographs and other images, videos, sound, trade marks and logos) are owned by us or our licensors.
Except as expressly set out here, nothing in these Terms gives you any rights in respect of any intellectual property owned by us or our licensors and you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by accessing, viewing or downloading content from the Platform.
You may not print off, copy, store or otherwise replicate pages from the Platform (in whole or in part) without our express prior permission or as otherwise permitted in these Terms. In the event you print off, copy, store or otherwise replicate pages from the Platform (only as permitted by us and in accordance with these Terms), you must ensure that any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property right notices contained in the original content are reproduced.
11. Our Platform Features and Content
We may change the Platform & our Service
We may change the format, features and content of the Platform, including our Service(s), from time to time.
Availability
We cannot guarantee the continuous, uninterrupted or error-free operability of the Platform. There may be times when certain features, parts or content of the Platform, or the entire Platform, become unavailable (whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis) or are modified, suspended or withdrawn by us, in our sole discretion, without notice to you.
We do not guarantee that the Platform will always work or be available.
Responsibility for Technical Issues
We cannot and do not guarantee that any content of the Platform will be free from errors, defects, malware, viruses and/or other code that may have contaminating or destructive elements, or that the Platform is correct, up to date or accurate. It is your responsibility to have appropriate IT security safeguards in place (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your own requirements as to the safety and reliability of content.
12. Our liability
Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude our liability to you: for death or personal injury caused by our negligence; for fraudulent misrepresentation; for breach of any term implied by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and which, by law, may not be limited or excluded; under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act 1987; or for any other liability that, by law, may not be limited or excluded.
Subject to this, if you are a consumer and not a business customer, in no event shall we be liable to you for any business losses, and if you are a business customer, in no event shall we be liable to you for any indirect or consequential losses, or for any loss of profit, revenue, contracts, data, goodwill or other similar losses, and any liability we do have for losses you suffer arising from any Contract shall not exceed the purchase price of the relevant Product(s) and is strictly limited to losses that were reasonably foreseeable. Losses are foreseeable where they could be contemplated by you and us at the time your order is accepted by us.
We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under any Contract that is caused by events outside our reasonable control.
We are not responsible for the clinical decisions, advice, prescribing, dispensing or medicines of our Affiliated Healthcare Partners. Your rights in relation to those services are against the partner that provided them. This does not limit any liability of ours that cannot be limited by law, or our responsibility for our own acts and omissions.
Except to the extent provided in these Terms we make or give no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, correctness, reliability, integrity, quality, fitness for purpose or originality of the Products, the Services or any content of the Platform and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all implied representations, warranties, conditions or other terms of any kind are hereby excluded and we accept no liability for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of you or anyone else using the Platform or relying on any of its content.
13. General
You may not transfer or assign any or all of your rights or obligations under any Contract.
All notices given by you to us must be given in writing to the address set out at the end of these Terms. We may give notice to you at either the email or postal address you provide to us when placing an order.
If we fail to enforce any of our rights, that does not result in a waiver of that right.
If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, all other provisions shall remain unaffected.
These Terms may not be varied except with our express written consent.
These Terms and any document expressly referred to in them represent the entire agreement between you and us in relation to the subject matter of any Contract. We are required by law to advise you that Contracts may be concluded in the English language only and that no public filing requirements apply.
These Terms shall be governed by English law for users in the US, UK and the European Union, and, if you are a consumer and not a trader, wherever you live you can bring claims against us in the English courts. If you are a consumer and not a trader and you live in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, or a country of the European Union, you can also bring claims against us in the courts of the country you live in. We can claim against you in the courts of the country you live in. If you live outside England, mandatory consumer protection laws of your country may also apply for your benefit.
For users in the United States, these Terms are governed by the laws of [the State of US / Delaware], without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and nothing in them removes protections you have under the consumer protection laws of your state of residence.
Subject to the next paragraph, you agree that any dispute between you and us regarding these Terms or any Contract will only be dealt with by the English courts, except that (if you are a consumer and not a business user) and if you live in a country (which, for these purposes, includes Scotland or Northern Ireland) other than England, you can choose to bring legal proceedings either in your country or in England, but if we bring legal proceedings, we may only do so in your country.
14. How can I contact you?
If you have any questions about these terms or any problems concerning the Platform, an Order you have placed, or ordering in general, please contact us
- By email at: info@healthwords.ai (general), orders@healthwords.ai (orders, cancellations, returns and refunds) or privacy@healthwords.ai (privacy)
- By writing to us at: Healthwords Limited, 2 Sycamore Street, London, EC1Y 0SF, United Kingdom
For problems with a consultation or a medicine supplied by an Affiliated Healthcare Partner, you can also contact that partner directly using the details in section 4. You can raise concerns about a UK pharmacy with the General Pharmaceutical Council (pharmacyregulation.org) and about a UK prescribing service with the Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk).