Acceptance

By using healthcaptain.com you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site.

No medical advice

Health Captain provides general educational information and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional regarding questions about your health, symptoms, medications, or treatment.

Nothing on this site — no page, tool, calculator, game or email — is medical advice, a diagnosis, a treatment recommendation, or a substitute for consultation with a qualified healthcare professional. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking it because of something you read here.

If you believe you are experiencing a medical emergency, call emergency services immediately (911 in the United States).

No doctor-patient relationship

Using this site, contacting us, or corresponding with anyone associated with Health Captain does not create a doctor-patient, pharmacist-patient or any other professional healthcare relationship. Where a page names a medical reviewer, that reviewer has checked the general accuracy of that page; they have not assessed you, are not your clinician, and cannot advise you individually.

Acceptable use

You may read, print and share our pages for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not:

  • Republish, sell or redistribute our content commercially without written permission.
  • Scrape, harvest or systematically copy the site, or use automated means that place unreasonable load on it.
  • Present our content as your own, or strip attribution and disclaimers from it.
  • Use the site to break the law, to harass anyone, or to attempt to compromise its security or availability.
  • Reverse engineer or repurpose our tools to provide diagnostic or clinical services.

Accuracy and limitations

We work hard to be accurate and to keep pages current, and our editorial, sources and corrections policies describe how. Even so, the site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability.

Medical knowledge changes. A page reflects our understanding on the date shown on it. Calculators and trackers produce estimates from the numbers you enter, and an estimate is not a clinical measurement or an assessment of your health.

We link to external organisations because we want you to be able to read the original material. We do not control those sites, are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability or practices, and a link is not an endorsement of everything the organisation publishes. Blog content, comments and any user-contributed material are the responsibility of whoever wrote them.

Intellectual property

The written content, illustrations, icons, page designs, tools and games on this site are the property of Health Captain or its licensors and are protected by copyright and other laws. The Health Captain name, the captain's-cap mark and associated branding are our trademarks.

You may quote short extracts with clear attribution and a link back to the page. For anything more — syndication, translation, teaching materials, commercial reuse — write to editorial@healthcaptain.com. If you believe content here infringes your copyright, contact us with the details and we will act on it.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Health Captain and its contributors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, this site or anything on it — including any decision made or action taken on the basis of information found here.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The current version always appears on this page with its last-updated date, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised terms. Material changes will be flagged on the page rather than made silently.

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Last updated: 24 August 2026. Questions about these terms: editorial@healthcaptain.com.