Terms of Use
These Terms of Use apply to your access to and use of Hypothyroid Support at https://hypothyroidsupport.org.
By accessing or using the website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the website.
You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of agreeing to these Terms in order to use the website.
Purpose of the website
Hypothyroid Support is an independent community companion website for the Hypothyroidism Advice & Support Group.
It provides general information, browser-based organization tools, downloadable printables, links to the Facebook community and optional links to third-party resources.
Hypothyroid Support is not a clinic, healthcare provider, medical practice, pharmacy or emergency service.
The website is provided primarily for personal organization, general educational purposes and access to community resources.
No medical advice or professional relationship
Website content, browser-based tools, printables, community-related information and external links are not medical advice and are not substitutes for professional diagnosis or treatment.
Use of the website does not create a doctor-patient, clinician-patient, pharmacist-patient or other professional healthcare relationship.
Do not use website content to diagnose symptoms, interpret laboratory results or start, stop, replace or change medication, supplements or treatment.
Consult a qualified healthcare professional regarding your individual circumstances.
If you believe that you or another person may be experiencing a medical emergency, contact your local emergency services or seek immediate professional medical assistance.
Browser-based tools
The browser-based tools are provided for personal organization.
Their output depends entirely on information entered by the user and should not be treated as a diagnosis, clinical interpretation, medical record or professional recommendation.
Hypothyroid Support does not guarantee that:
- Locally saved information will remain available.
- Tool entries will be complete or accurate.
- Printed output will meet every personal, clinical or administrative need.
- A browser, device or printer will preserve the intended formatting.
- A healthcare professional will rely on or accept the resulting record.
- A particular browser, device or software version will remain compatible with a tool.
Browser information may be lost through clearing storage, private browsing, device changes, browser settings, software updates, technical failure or changes to website storage.
You are responsible for deciding what information you enter into a tool, maintaining control of the device or browser in which the information is stored, and printing or otherwise preserving any record that you consider important.
Locally stored browser information should not be treated as permanent storage or as a substitute for professional medical records.
Printable resources
Printable PDFs are provided free of charge for personal, non-commercial use.
Subject to these Terms, Hypothyroid Support grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to download and print the resources for your own personal use.
You may bring completed copies to your own healthcare appointments.
You may not, without prior written permission:
- Sell or resell the printables.
- Charge others for access to the printables.
- Redistribute the original PDF files.
- Upload the files to another website, marketplace, cloud library or file-sharing service for public distribution.
- Remove or obscure branding, copyright notices, disclaimers or attribution.
- Claim the resources as your own work.
- Modify and distribute derivative versions.
- Incorporate the printables into a paid product, membership, course or commercial service.
- Use the files commercially or for mass distribution.
No ownership rights are transferred when a printable is viewed, downloaded or printed.
Facebook community
The Hypothyroidism Advice & Support Group is hosted on Facebook and is subject to Facebook’s own terms, policies, moderation systems and technical services.
Community posts and comments are created by individual members. They may include personal opinions, experiences or statements about symptoms, laboratory results, medications, conventional care, complementary approaches, lifestyle choices or treatment decisions.
Member-generated content is not medical advice and is not automatically reviewed, verified, approved or endorsed by Hypothyroid Support.
Community information may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated or unsuitable for another person’s circumstances.
Questions about Facebook accounts, group membership, platform functionality or member content may also be subject to Facebook’s own systems and policies.
Affiliate links and external services
Some optional pages contain affiliate links.
Hypothyroid Support currently participates in a ClickBank affiliate relationship involving The Hypothyroidism Solution and may earn a commission from qualifying purchases at no additional charge to the visitor.
External presentations, products, case studies, guarantees, seller policies, websites and services are controlled by their respective third-party providers.
Hypothyroid Support does not own or control those external services and does not independently verify, adopt or guarantee every external claim, testimonial, case study or reported result.
Selecting an external link does not mean that Hypothyroid Support medically endorses the destination website or product.
Purchases, payments, payment information, product delivery, refunds, cancellations, guarantees and product support are handled by the applicable third-party seller or platform.
Hypothyroid Support is not the seller of The Hypothyroidism Solution and does not process the purchase through this website.
Your use of an external website is governed by that provider’s own terms, privacy policy and other applicable policies.
No guaranteed health or product outcomes
Health experiences and treatment responses vary between individuals.
Hypothyroid Support does not promise or guarantee symptom improvement, weight loss, recovery, treatment success or any other health outcome.
Hypothyroid Support also does not guarantee the availability, suitability, performance or results of a third-party product or service.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the website for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive or harmful activity.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, its infrastructure or another person’s device or information.
- Introduce malware, malicious code or deliberately disruptive traffic.
- Interfere with website security, availability or normal operation.
- Misrepresent an association with Hypothyroid Support.
- Impersonate another person.
- Circumvent technical restrictions or security measures.
- Resell or commercially redistribute the tools or printables.
- Reproduce or republish substantial portions of the website without permission.
- Use automated systems to extract, reproduce or republish substantial portions of the website except where permitted by applicable law, the website’s crawler directives or prior written permission.
Ordinary use by search engines and other crawlers consistent with the website’s published crawler directives is not prohibited by the final item above.
Intellectual property
Unless otherwise stated, the website’s original design, text, branding, browser tools, downloadable resources, graphics and other original materials are owned by or licensed to Hypothyroid Support and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
Third-party names, trademarks, logos, content and services remain the property of their respective owners.
Except for the limited personal-use permission expressly provided for printables and ordinary access to the website, no intellectual-property right or licence is transferred to you.
User responsibility
You are responsible for deciding how you use information and resources provided through the website.
You are responsible for reviewing important health information with a qualified healthcare professional who understands your individual circumstances.
You are also responsible for:
- Protecting access to your own device and browser.
- Preserving important locally stored records.
- Checking information you enter into a tool.
- Deciding whether a printable or tool is suitable for your own organizational needs.
- Reviewing the terms and policies of third-party websites before using or purchasing from them.
Availability and changes to the website
The website, its tools, printables, content and external links may be changed, corrected, updated, suspended or discontinued at any time.
Hypothyroid Support does not guarantee uninterrupted access, permanent storage, compatibility with every device or browser, continued availability of any particular feature or continued availability of an external website.
Access may also be restricted where reasonably necessary to protect the website, address misuse, comply with law or maintain security.
Accuracy and completeness
Hypothyroid Support aims to provide useful and responsible information, but website content may contain errors, omissions or information that later becomes outdated.
Hypothyroid Support does not guarantee that all website information is complete, current, error-free or appropriate for every individual circumstance.
Health-related information should be independently reviewed with an appropriately qualified healthcare professional where relevant.
Disclaimer of warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the website and its resources are provided on an “as is” and“as available” basis.
Hypothyroid Support does not guarantee that the website will be uninterrupted, error-free, completely secure, permanently available, compatible with every device or suitable for every purpose.
No statement on the website creates a warranty regarding health outcomes, tool results, printable suitability, community content or third-party products unless such a warranty is expressly required by applicable law.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any warranty, guarantee, consumer protection or other right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Hypothyroid Support will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or similar losses arising from or connected with use of, or inability to use, the website, browser tools, printables, community links or third-party resources.
This may include loss arising from:
- Reliance on website or community information.
- Loss, corruption or deletion of locally stored tool entries.
- Printing or device problems.
- Inaccurate information entered by a user.
- External websites or third-party content.
- Purchases or dealings with third parties.
- Unauthorized access to a user’s own device or browser.
- Temporary or permanent website unavailability.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where exclusion or limitation is prohibited by applicable law.
Nothing in these Terms removes any mandatory rights or remedies available to a consumer under applicable law.
This section should be interpreted only to the maximum extent that the applicable law permits.
Indemnity
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to be responsible for reasonable losses, claims, liabilities or expenses resulting directly from:
- Your unlawful misuse of the website.
- Your infringement of another person’s intellectual-property or other legal rights.
- Your material breach of these Terms.
- Your unauthorized commercial redistribution of Hypothyroid Support resources.
This section does not require you to indemnify Hypothyroid Support for losses caused by Hypothyroid Support where such responsibility cannot lawfully be transferred to you.
Privacy
Information associated with use of the website is handled in accordance with the Hypothyroid Support Privacy Policy and applicable law.
The browser tools are designed so that information entered into tool fields remains locally in the visitor’s browser rather than being intentionally transmitted to Hypothyroid Support.
Please review the Privacy Policy for information about browser storage, Cloudflare, Google Analytics, email enquiries, external links and privacy choices.
Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws applicable to the website operator in Malaysia.
Subject to any mandatory consumer-protection, jurisdiction or other rights that apply to you under applicable law, disputes relating to these Terms or use of Hypothyroid Support may be brought before the courts having jurisdiction in Malaysia.
Nothing in this section prevents a person from relying on mandatory rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded by a choice-of-law or jurisdiction provision.
Changes to these Terms
These Terms may be updated when website features, operating practices, legal requirements or third-party relationships change.
The updated version will display a revised effective or last-updated date.
Where permitted by applicable law, continued use of the website after revised Terms become effective indicates acceptance of the revised Terms.
If you do not agree with revised Terms, you should stop using the website.
Severability and no waiver
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, that provision will be applied or limited to the greatest extent permitted by law and the remaining provisions will continue to apply.
A failure by Hypothyroid Support to enforce a provision of these Terms on one occasion does not automatically waive the right to enforce that provision later.
Contact
Questions about these Terms may be emailed to: