Terms of use | Louie Gayao MD

In short

By using this website, you accept these terms. In short:

The site is for education and general information. It does not make you a patient.
You may read and print pages for your own use, but not copy or republish them without written permission.
Please do not send medical details through the site. It is not a consultation channel.
The terms are governed by Philippine law.

Agreeing to these terms

These are the terms you accept when you use this website. They form an agreement between you and Louie Leonides M. Gayao, MD, who runs the site.

If you do not accept them, please do not use the site. By using it, you also agree to follow the laws and regulations that apply to you.

What this site is for

Everything here is written for education and general information. It is not a substitute for a consultation, a diagnosis or treatment.

Using the site does not make you a patient or create a doctor–patient relationship. The disclaimer explains this in full.

What to do

If you want your own situation looked at, please book a consultation.

Who owns the content

The writing on this site belongs to Louie Gayao MD unless stated otherwise. Logos and the design of the site are also ours, and some material is used with the permission of its owner.

You may read pages and print them for your own personal, non-commercial use.
Please do not copy, reproduce, distribute, change or republish any part of the site without written permission first.

Images follow their own terms, set out on the image use page.

How you may use the site

When you use this site, you agree not to:

use it for anything unlawful, or in a way that could damage it or stop it working properly;
try to get into any part of the site, or any system behind it, that you are not meant to reach;
post or send anything offensive or defamatory, or anything that violates another person’s rights;
copy or scrape the site’s content for republication, for training machine learning or AI systems, or for commercial reuse, without written permission.

We may restrict or end access for anyone who breaks these terms.

Anything you send us

Where this site, or a page or account connected with it, lets you send something, such as a comment, feedback, a report or a file, the following applies.

It stays yours. You keep ownership of what you send. You give Louie Gayao MD a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, display and share it for running and improving the site.
You are responsible for it. Please do not send anything unlawful, abusive or defamatory, or anything that infringes another person’s intellectual property or privacy.
We may remove it. We may remove, edit or refuse anything sent to the site, without notice.

Before you write

Before you send anything, please leave out:

your own or anyone else’s medical information;
test results;
scans;
clinical photographs.

This is not a consultation channel, and what you send is not a confidential health communication.

Content is provided as it is

All content on this site, including its medical content, is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

For advice about your own health, please consult a licensed doctor who can examine you.

Links to other websites

Some pages link to other websites, such as research journals, videos and social media. These links are there for information only.

We do not control those sites, and we are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Louie Gayao MD is not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from your use of this website, or from being unable to use it.

You use the site and its content at your own risk.

When the site is down

We try to keep the site running, but we cannot promise that it will always be available, uninterrupted or free of errors. It may be down from time to time for maintenance, updates or technical reasons.

Your privacy

We handle personal information under the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173), following the principles of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. How we do this is explained in the privacy policy.

Cookies and scripts are explained in the cookies and scripts policy.

Governing law

These terms are governed by and interpreted under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines.

Any dispute arising from or connected with these terms falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Quezon City, Philippines.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms at any time, without notice beforehand. The version on this page is the current one.

If you keep using the site after the terms change, you accept the updated terms.

These terms sit alongside:

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