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These Terms and Conditions govern your use of our website, operated by Bharath Kumar trading as Methods Clinic. By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms and Conditions.
Where you engage Methods Clinic for paid advisory services, additional terms may be set out in a proposal, engagement letter, statement of work, consultancy agreement, confidentiality agreement, or invoice. Where those terms conflict with these website terms, the signed engagement terms will normally take priority for that service.
Methods Clinic provides strategic methodological, statistical, and research advisory services, including:
Our services are advisory in nature.
We provide methodological, statistical, scientific, and research-development input based on the information and materials supplied to us.
Unless specifically agreed in writing, our services do not constitute:
The investigator, sponsor, institution, or research team remains responsible for final decisions and the conduct of the project.
Website content is provided for general information about Methods Clinic and its services.
Although we aim to keep information clear and current, we do not guarantee that all website content is complete, error-free, or suitable for every project.
You should not rely solely on website content when making clinical, research, ethical, legal, regulatory, or statistical decisions.
Submitting a contact form or sending an email does not automatically create a professional engagement or contractual relationship.
An engagement begins only when:
We may accept or decline a project at our discretion, subject to applicable law.
When engaging Methods Clinic, you agree to:
We are not responsible for errors arising from incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or misleading information supplied to us.
Each party must protect confidential information received from the other party and use it only for the agreed project.
Confidential information may include:
Confidentiality obligations do not normally apply to information that:
More detailed confidentiality obligations may be included in a separate agreement.
You must not send patient-identifiable data, protected health information, or sensitive participant information through the general website form.
Where a project requires access to individual-level data, the parties must agree in advance on:
Methods Clinic may refuse or delete improperly submitted sensitive information.
Fees will be communicated through a quotation, proposal, invoice, or engagement agreement.
Unless otherwise agreed:
Additional work outside the agreed scope may require a revised quotation.
Requests that materially change the project may affect:
We will communicate material scope changes before proceeding.
Any stated timeline is an estimate unless expressly agreed as a fixed deadline.
Completion may depend on:
Methods Clinic is not responsible for delays caused by incomplete information, late feedback, third parties, or events outside reasonable control.
Deliverables may include written advice, reviewed documents, comments, reports, plans, meeting notes, or other agreed materials.
The permitted number of revisions will be specified in the project scope. Additional revisions may be charged separately.
The client is responsible for reviewing final deliverables before using or submitting them.
Each party retains ownership of intellectual property owned before the engagement.
You retain ownership of research materials, data, drafts, and documents supplied by you, subject to any rights belonging to institutions, funders, co-authors, sponsors, or third parties.
Methods Clinic retains ownership of its:
Ownership and permitted use of commissioned deliverables will be stated in the engagement terms.
Unless otherwise agreed, after full payment you may use final deliverables for the agreed research project. You may not resell, commercially redistribute, or present reusable Methods Clinic materials as your proprietary product.
Advisory support does not automatically create a right to authorship.
Authorship should be determined according to applicable journal policies, contributor standards, institutional rules, and the actual contribution made.
Where appropriate, the parties may agree on:
The client is responsible for ensuring accurate authorship and contributor declarations.
You must not use our services to:
We may stop work if we reasonably suspect serious research misconduct or unlawful activity.
The website or service may involve third-party platforms for:
Third-party services are governed by their own terms and policies.
We are not responsible for outages, changes, security incidents, or failures caused solely by third-party providers beyond our reasonable control.
Methods Clinic does not guarantee:
Research, funding, and publication decisions are made by independent third parties.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Methods Clinic will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential loss, including:
Where liability cannot legally be excluded, our aggregate liability relating to a paid engagement will be limited to the fees paid for the specific service giving rise to the claim, unless applicable law requires otherwise.
Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to be responsible for losses or claims arising from:
Cancellation and refund terms will be stated in the relevant proposal or agreement.
We may suspend or terminate an engagement where:
Fees may remain payable for work completed before termination.
You must not:
Links to external websites are provided for convenience and information.
Methods Clinic does not endorse or control all third-party content and is not responsible for external websites, products, services, or privacy practices.
These Terms are governed by the laws of [Country/State].
The courts of [City, Country] will have jurisdiction, unless another dispute-resolution method is specified in a signed agreement or mandatory law requires otherwise.
We may update these Terms to reflect changes in our services, practices, or legal obligations.
The revised Terms will be published on this page with an updated effective date.
Questions about these Terms may be sent to:
Methods Clinic