These Terms of Use are a general description of the agreement between you and the cliniq QBank platform team. They are not legal advice. If you do not agree with these terms, do not create an account or use the platform.
Agreement and scope
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of cliniq QBank, including the website, account areas, MCCQE1 question banks, discipline pages, medication references, ECG and radiology cases, objectives, calculators, AI-assisted tools, and related services (together, the Platform).
By visiting the Platform, creating an account, or using any feature, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy & Use of Information notice. If you use the Platform on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms for that organization.
Eligibility and accounts
You must provide information that is accurate and keep it current. You may use email and password sign-in or an available social sign-in provider such as Google or LinkedIn. Information supplied through a social provider remains subject to that provider's own terms and privacy practices.
You are responsible for protecting your password, sign-in methods, and session access. You are also responsible for activity performed through your account. Notify us through the contact page if you believe an account or session has been accessed without permission.
Do not create an account for another person without permission, impersonate another person, or maintain multiple accounts to bypass a restriction or abuse a promotion.
Educational purpose only
The Platform is designed to support medical education and preparation for the MCCQE1. It is not a medical practice, clinical decision-support system, diagnostic service, treatment recommendation, or substitute for education, supervision, institutional policy, or the judgment of a qualified health professional.
Never use a question, explanation, medication entry, score, image, ECG interpretation, or AI-generated response as the sole basis for diagnosing, treating, triaging, prescribing, or making any patient-care decision. Do not enter identifiable patient information or confidential clinical information into the Platform.
If a real patient may be at risk, use appropriate clinical resources and contact the relevant emergency or professional service. The Platform does not monitor users for emergencies and cannot provide urgent assistance.
Content and AI-assisted tools
We aim to provide useful, current, and well-organized learning material, but medical knowledge changes and no question bank or reference is error-free. Content may be incomplete, simplified, out of date, unavailable in a particular region, or inconsistent with a current guideline or exam blueprint.
Some features may use automated or AI-assisted generation to explain medical concepts or help you review. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or confidently wrong. You are responsible for checking important information against authoritative sources and for deciding whether an explanation is suitable for your learning needs.
We do not guarantee that the Platform reflects the current MCCQE1 examination, predicts examination questions, or produces a particular score, result, residency outcome, or other academic or professional outcome.
Access, donations, and supporter plans
The Platform may provide free access to questions, references, and study tools. Free access does not create a promise that every feature, item, or level of access will remain free or available indefinitely.
Donations are voluntary and are not required to use the Platform or receive educational access. A donation does not purchase ownership of Platform content or guarantee a particular feature, service level, or outcome.
If recurring supporter plans or other paid services are offered, the price, currency, billing interval, and included features will be shown at checkout. By starting a plan, you authorize the applicable payment provider to charge the selected payment method. The payment provider may apply its own terms, taxes, fees, and verification requirements.
You may cancel a recurring plan using the available provider controls or by contacting us. Cancellation generally stops future renewals; charges already processed are handled under the offer displayed at checkout and applicable law. Contact us promptly if you believe a payment was made in error.
Acceptable use
Use the Platform only for lawful, personal, and educational purposes. You must not:
- Copy, scrape, crawl, bulk-download, mirror, sell, publish, redistribute, or build a competing database from Platform content without written permission.
- Share credentials, transfer an account, or allow others to use your account in a way that defeats access controls.
- Probe, scan, overload, interfere with, reverse engineer, or attempt to bypass Platform security or rate limits.
- Upload malware, harmful code, unlawful material, or content that infringes another person's rights.
- Submit fabricated, abusive, discriminatory, harassing, or misleading information.
- Use automated tools or the Platform's content to train, evaluate, or operate a competing model or service without permission.
- Use the Platform to provide clinical services or to make decisions about a specific patient.
Feedback and user-submitted content
If you send feedback, corrections, questions, or other material to us, you retain any rights you have in that material. You grant the Platform team a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, adapt, and use it to operate, improve, secure, and communicate about the Platform.
Do not submit confidential information, identifiable patient information, or material you do not have permission to share. You confirm that your submission does not violate law or another person's rights. We may remove or decline to use a submission at any time.
Intellectual property
The Platform, its design, software, branding, question bank, explanations, organization, illustrations, and other materials are owned by or licensed to the Platform team and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Platform for your personal, non-commercial study. No ownership rights are transferred to you. cliniq, HyperQbank, and related marks may not be used without permission.
Third-party services and links
The Platform may rely on or link to third-party services, including authentication providers, payment services, hosting and database providers, and AI providers. Those services may have separate terms, availability, security practices, and privacy notices. We are not responsible for third-party services that we do not control.
A link to another website is provided for convenience and does not mean that we endorse its content, accuracy, safety, or availability. Review the relevant third-party terms before using an external service or relying on its information.
Availability and changes
We may update, redesign, restrict, suspend, or discontinue the Platform or any content or feature at any time. We may do so for maintenance, security, legal, operational, or product reasons. We will try to provide reasonable notice for material changes when practical, but we cannot guarantee uninterrupted access.
You are responsible for maintaining the device, browser, internet connection, and software needed to access the Platform. We do not guarantee that the Platform will be error-free, uninterrupted, secure, or compatible with every device or configuration.
Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Platform and its content are provided on an as-is and as-available basis. We disclaim warranties and conditions, express or implied, including accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, availability, security, and suitability for examination or clinical use.
Nothing in these Terms excludes a consumer right or legal protection that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where a disclaimer or limitation is not permitted, it applies only to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Platform team and its contributors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive loss, or for loss of data, revenue, opportunity, goodwill, examination results, or professional opportunity arising from or related to your use of the Platform.
Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability for claims arising from the Platform will be limited to the amount you paid us for the relevant service during the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or CAD $100 if you paid nothing, unless applicable law requires a different result.
Your responsibility to us
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Platform team and its contributors from claims, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from your unlawful use of the Platform, your breach of these Terms, your violation of another person's rights, or content you submit.
Suspension and termination
You may stop using the Platform at any time. We may suspend or terminate access, remove content, or close an account when we reasonably believe that you violated these Terms, created risk, abused the Platform, failed to pay an amount due, or when continued access is no longer commercially or legally practical.
Sections that by their nature should survive termination will continue, including provisions about intellectual property, user content, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, governing law, and interpretation.
Governing law and changes to these Terms
These Terms are governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction where the Platform operator is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where mandatory consumer law provides otherwise. Any dispute should first be raised through the contact page so that we have a reasonable opportunity to resolve it informally.
We may revise these Terms as the Platform, law, or services change. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new last-updated date. Your continued use after an update means that you accept the revised Terms. If a change is material, we will use a reasonable notice method when practical.
Contact
If you have a question about these Terms, an account concern, or a payment issue, contact the Platform team through the contact page. Please do not include passwords, patient information, or other sensitive information in your message.