Terms of use

These terms describe the agreement proposed between you and the operator of VerbalWars for access to its application, educational case materials and related features (the “Service”). “We,” “us” and “our” refer to the operator identified below. “You” means the individual using the Service, or an organization only where that organization has separately authorized and agreed to its use.

Opening this page does not record acceptance. During account setup, we record the document version you acknowledge. Updated terms will be presented for review when renewed agreement is required.

The Privacy notice describes information handling, including administrator review. Acknowledging that notice is not a blanket waiver of privacy rights or consent to every possible use of information. Separate permissions will be sought where required by law.

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VerbalWars is a radiology oral-exam practice and coaching tool. It provides simulated cases, examiner questions, feedback and practice scores. It is not medical advice, a clinical decision-support service for patient care, a diagnostic service, an emergency service or a substitute for qualified professional judgment. No clinician–patient, supervisory, fiduciary or professional advisory relationship is created by using it.

Do not use the Service to diagnose or treat a person, direct a real procedure, triage an emergency, determine a real patient’s management or replace authoritative clinical guidance. You remain responsible for independently verifying clinical information and meeting your professional, institutional and legal obligations. Educational material can be incomplete, outdated or inaccurate, including source material, AI output and administrator-reviewed content.

Scores, passing markers, domain bands, checklists and “outstanding” example responses are internal practice feedback. They are not official ABR scores, credentialing decisions, validated predictions of examination performance or guarantees of competence or passing an examination. An illustrative strong answer may not be the only reasonable answer. Review may identify errors that lead to revised cases or scoring criteria.

VerbalWars is independent of examination boards and third-party publishers. References to examination boards or source publishers do not imply sponsorship, certification or endorsement. All third-party names and marks belong to their respective owners.

The intended beta is limited to invited adults aged 18 or over who are radiology professionals or trainees and can enter a binding agreement under applicable law. An invitation is personal and does not authorize transferring access, sharing credentials, reselling participation or giving an institution’s entire staff access. You must provide accurate information and have authority to submit anything you provide.

Access requires an administrator-approved account and Clerk email verification. Practice records belong to the authenticated account; a display name or typed email alone does not authorize access. Keep access to your email and signed-in browser secure. The administrator can pause or revoke beta access.

Where an account is provided, take reasonable steps to protect it and report suspected unauthorized use promptly. You are responsible for your own use and any use you knowingly authorize; this does not make you automatically responsible for activity outside your control or waive protections provided by law.

The planned invite-only beta is free. There is no active subscription checkout or automatic conversion to a paid plan in this version. We may later offer paid access with pricing, billing periods, renewal, cancellation, refund and tax terms shown before you choose to purchase. Participation in the beta does not authorize future charges or require you to subscribe.

Beta features, model availability, case selection, capacity and usage limits can change. The Service may be interrupted, reset or discontinued, and beta participation does not entitle you to permanent access, a particular future feature, a service-level commitment or ongoing free use. We will provide reasonable notice of a material planned reduction where practicable, subject to urgent security, legal or operational needs and any mandatory rights.

You are responsible for your internet connection, compatible device and any independent services you arrange. If you operate the app with your own AI-provider account, that provider can charge you under your agreement with it even while VerbalWars access is free. We do not control those separate fees.

Subject to these terms and any applicable source restrictions, you receive a limited, personal, nonexclusive, nontransferable permission to access the Service and its supplied case materials for your own educational practice while your access remains authorized. This is access to study material, not a transfer of copyright or a license to redistribute the library.

The operator and the applicable publishers, authors and licensors retain their respective rights in the application, source articles, images, captions, case materials, trademarks and other content. Our provision of material does not give you rights beyond those we may lawfully provide. Open-source components remain subject to their own licenses.

Except where the law or an express written license permits, do not copy, scrape, systematically download, extract, publish, sell, sublicense, distribute, use to train an external model, or build a competing content collection from the library or its derived case material. Do not remove ownership notices, bypass technical restrictions or expose materials to people without authorized access. Any expressly available personal export remains subject to these restrictions.

Restrictions on library material do not prohibit lawful fair use, protected disclosures, or honest reviews of your experience. You may discuss the app without publishing restricted case images, source text, private information or confidential credentials.

You retain rights you hold in your original answers and feedback. To operate the Service, you grant the operator a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to receive, store, reproduce, process, transmit to relevant service providers, assess and display your submissions to you and authorized administrators. This permission includes the internal review needed to evaluate and improve the Service, subject to the Privacy notice and applicable law.

This license is limited to those purposes. It does not transfer ownership of your submissions, authorize public use of your identity or testimonial, or grant us ownership of your reviews. It continues only as necessary for those purposes and applicable retention requirements. Deletion requests and exceptions are described in Privacy.

You may voluntarily suggest improvements without an obligation on us to adopt them or pay for the suggestion. We may implement the general ideas you suggest without identifying you or publishing your private practice records. Do not submit confidential third-party ideas or material you lack permission to provide.

You are responsible for ensuring your submissions are lawful and do not violate another person’s rights. This responsibility applies to what you contribute; it does not transfer responsibility for the app-supplied library or our own conduct to you. AI output may resemble output given to others, and we do not promise that you own exclusive rights in generated material.

Use the Service lawfully and for its intended educational purpose. In particular, you must not:

• Submit sensitive third-party information. Do not include identifiable patient data, protected health information, confidential workplace records, other people’s recordings without authority, secrets or credentials. The Service is not a patient-record system and these terms are not a business associate agreement.
• Compromise the service or another user. Do not access records without authorization, impersonate another person, introduce malicious code, bypass authentication or limits, overload endpoints, harvest personal information or probe security outside express authorization or rights protected by law.
• Misuse access or outputs. Do not resell access, share invitations or credentials, facilitate examination cheating, represent AI output as official examination content, falsify scores or use practice results to misrepresent qualifications.
• Infringe or abuse. Do not upload or submit unlawful material, violate intellectual-property or privacy rights, threaten or harass others, or use the Service in violation of applicable export controls, sanctions or other laws.

Examiner messages, synthetic speech, transcriptions, scores and coaching may be generated by AI. AI can invent facts, omit important information, misinterpret an answer or produce inconsistent results. Verify clinically significant statements against authoritative material. The Service does not guarantee that every response or case is reviewed by a human before you see it.

Voice features require your activation and browser microphone permission. Live mode may submit transcribed speech automatically. You can use text instead. Information is processed by the applicable AI provider as described in Privacy. A subscription to ChatGPT or another consumer AI service does not itself provide or govern access to this application’s API usage.

The owner and beta administrator can inspect all information recorded by the Service, including your attempts, transcripts, scores, feedback and usage records, for the purposes described in Privacy. Recorded beta practice is not anonymous to the administrator. We do not promise continuous monitoring, intervention or a response within a particular time unless separately agreed.

If you believe material in the Service infringes your rights, contact the operator with your contact details, identification of the protected work or right, the location of the disputed material, and an explanation of your authority and concern. For a copyright notice, include a good-faith statement that the use is unauthorized, a statement that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act for the rightsholder, made under penalty of perjury where required, and your physical or electronic signature.

We will assess complaints and may restrict or remove material, preserve necessary records, seek clarification or notify affected participants where appropriate. Access may be terminated for repeat infringement in appropriate circumstances. Do not knowingly submit false claims. Statutory notice, counter-notice and court procedures remain available where they apply.

This contact process does not represent that a DMCA agent has been registered or that a statutory safe harbor applies to the Service or its supplied library. Any designated-agent details and applicable formal notice procedure will be published if established.

You may stop using the Service at any time and request deletion as described in Privacy. We may limit or suspend access where reasonably necessary to address abuse, a material breach, a security incident, a legal requirement or a threat to the Service or other users. We may end the beta or discontinue the Service. Where practicable and lawful, we will explain the action and allow relevant concerns to be raised with the operator.

Urgent protective action may occur without advance notice. Suspension does not by itself erase records, and stopping use does not automatically delete them. Deletion, retention exceptions and provider-held records are governed by Privacy and applicable law. We do not guarantee recovery of deleted attempts. Keep any personal study notes you need outside the app, without copying restricted library content.

When access ends, permission to use the Service ends. Provisions that by their nature need to continue—including ownership, permitted retention and processing, lawful confidentiality obligations, liability limits, applicable indemnification and dispute provisions—survive to the extent enforceable. Termination does not waive accrued rights or mandatory consumer protections.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” The operator disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and noninfringement, and warranties arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade, to the extent those warranties can lawfully be disclaimed.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, available at a particular time, entirely secure, error-free, compatible with every device or suitable for any particular clinical or examination objective. We do not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of content, transcription, scoring or coaching, preservation of records, correction of every defect, or any examination, educational, employment or professional outcome.

These statements do not exclude an express commitment we separately make in a binding agreement, our obligations under applicable privacy or security law, or any warranty or remedy that cannot legally be excluded. Nothing excuses fraud, deliberate misrepresentation or other conduct for which liability cannot lawfully be excluded.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operator and its personnel and service suppliers are not liable in connection with the Service for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or lost profits, revenue, business opportunities, goodwill or data, even if advised of the possibility of those losses. This limitation applies only where that type of loss can lawfully be limited.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operator’s total aggregate liability arising from or relating to the Service or these terms will not exceed the greater of US$50 or the fees you paid to the operator for the Service in the 12 months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim. Multiple claims do not increase this aggregate cap. The cap applies regardless of the legal theory of liability, but only to claims that may lawfully be capped.

No exclusion or cap applies to liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including applicable liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or infringement of mandatory statutory rights where the applicable law prohibits a limit. Your nonwaivable consumer, privacy and other statutory rights and remedies remain intact. Where a provision is unenforceable, the permissible limits of the applicable law apply instead.

These limits reflect the educational nature of the Service and the free beta. They do not convert an unlawful practice into an authorized one or prevent you from making a complaint to an appropriate authority.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify the operator for reasonable, documented losses, liabilities and costs, including reasonable legal fees, arising from a third-party claim caused by your unlawful submissions, your infringement of another person’s rights, or your intentional or materially negligent breach of these terms. This obligation applies only to the extent the claim is attributable to your conduct.

It does not cover claims caused by the operator’s own breach, negligence or misconduct, the operator’s supplied library, or the mere fact that AI gave an incorrect answer. We must notify you promptly of a claim, provide reasonable information and cooperation, and take reasonable steps to mitigate loss. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault or imposes an obligation on us without our reasonable consent; we may not agree to a settlement requiring payment or an admission by you without yours. Applicable consumer law can limit or prohibit this provision.

If a problem arises, contact the operator with a description and the outcome you seek so we can try to resolve it. Informal contact is encouraged; it does not delay a statutory deadline, prevent urgent relief or make contacting us a condition of exercising a nonwaivable right.

These terms do not select an exclusive court, impose mandatory arbitration, waive class actions or jury trial, or shorten a statutory time limit for bringing a claim. The governing law and courts are determined under applicable law, including mandatory protections where you live. The operator’s location and launch jurisdictions require confirmation before final publication.

Nothing in these terms prevents lawful reporting to a regulator, law-enforcement agency or professional body; cooperation with an investigation; whistleblowing protected by law; or an honest review of the Service. No penalty is imposed for a protected review or for exercising applicable legal rights.

Final terms and any later revision will identify their version and effective date. We will provide reasonable notice of material changes through the app or an established contact channel before they take effect, except where a shorter period is required by law or an urgent protective need. Renewed agreement will be sought where required. A change will not retroactively remove rights accrued under an earlier version, and displaying this page alone will not be treated as a new acceptance.

If a provision cannot lawfully be enforced, it will be limited or severed only to the extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions will continue where possible. Failure to enforce a right on one occasion does not waive it. You may not transfer your access or contractual rights without permission except where applicable law allows; any transfer by us must preserve applicable obligations and your mandatory rights.

These terms and any separate written terms expressly agreed for the Service form the agreement on their subject matter. A specific written agreement controls to the extent of a conflict. The Privacy notice continues to describe processing obligations and does not reduce statutory rights. No employment, agency, partnership or joint venture is created. Headings assist reading and do not change the substance.

Neither party is responsible for delay caused by events genuinely beyond its reasonable control to the extent recognized by applicable law, provided it takes reasonable steps to mitigate the effect. This does not excuse obligations that law requires to continue, including applicable data-protection duties or refund rights.

Use the operator details below for questions, legal notices, rights concerns or requests about these terms. While those details are being confirmed for launch, contact the person who supplied your local workspace or reply to your beta invitation if one has been sent. Do not send sensitive patient information, passwords or entire restricted articles with an initial inquiry.