Kannada History Taker — the same terms shown inside the application
Please read these Terms carefully. They govern your access to and use of this application.
1.1 These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") constitute a binding agreement between the developer of this application ("the Developer") and any person who accesses, installs or uses it ("the User").
1.2 By pressing "OK" and proceeding beyond this screen, the User acknowledges that they have read, understood and accepted these Terms in their entirety.
1.3 A User who does not accept these Terms must discontinue use and uninstall the application forthwith.
2.1 This application ("the Application") is an educational aid. It provides a curated set of clinical history-taking questions in colloquial spoken Kannada, transliterated into the Roman script, together with their English meanings and illustrative patient responses.
2.2 The Application is intended solely to assist students of medicine in acquiring familiarity with the Kannada language as it is used in a clinical setting, and to complement, and not to replace, their formal instruction in clinical methods.
2.3 The Application is a conduit for learning and nothing more. It does not, in any manner or form, substitute the obligation of the User to learn the Kannada language. Every person residing in the State of Karnataka ought to learn Kannada, and the User acknowledges that no application can displace that obligation.
2.4 The Application does not teach clinical medicine, does not confer competence in history taking, and must not be treated as a source of clinical knowledge.
3.1 THE APPLICATION IS PROVIDED FOR MEDICAL EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND SHALL NOT BE USED FOR ACTUAL THERAPEUTIC, DIAGNOSTIC OR INPATIENT HISTORY TAKING IN ANY CLINICAL SETTING WHATSOEVER.
3.2 Without limiting clause 3.1, the Application shall not be used, whether directly or indirectly, for:
3.2 (a) obtaining, recording or documenting a history from any patient for the purposes of diagnosis, treatment, referral or clinical decision-making;
3.2 (b) obtaining informed consent for any procedure, investigation, treatment, research study or transfer of care;
3.2 (c) the preparation of any case record, discharge summary, certificate, report or other document forming part of a patient's medical record;
3.2 (d) communication with a patient or attendant in any emergency, critical care or medico-legal situation; or
3.2 (e) any purpose for which a certified interpreter, a qualified translator or a fluent clinician is required.
3.3 The User shall at all times act within the supervision, curriculum, clinical governance framework and disciplinary rules of their institution, and nothing in the Application authorises any departure from them.
3.4 The Application is intended for students of medicine and allied health professionals. It is not intended for use by the general public, by patients, or by any person seeking information about their own health or that of another.
4.1 Use of the Application creates no doctor-patient relationship, no teacher-student relationship and no professional relationship of any kind between the User and the Developer.
4.2 The content of the Application does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, treatment or a recommendation of any kind, and must not be relied upon as such by any person.
5.1 The Application is not a certified translation or interpretation service and has not been certified, validated or approved by any linguistic, academic, medical or regulatory authority.
5.2 The Kannada content reflects colloquial usage current in and around Bengaluru and Mysuru. Vocabulary, idiom and pronunciation vary materially across the regions of Karnataka and between urban and rural speakers, and a phrase intelligible to one patient may be unintelligible or misleading to another.
5.3 The transliteration scheme is phonetic and approximate, and is not a substitute for instruction in the Kannada script.
6.1 The Application is not immune to error. Notwithstanding the best efforts of the Developer, the content may contain mistakes of language, transliteration, clinical emphasis, sequence or fact.
6.2 The Developer makes no representation that the content is complete, current, exhaustive or suited to any particular examination, institution, syllabus or patient population.
6.3 Users are strongly encouraged to report any error, ambiguity or unsafe phrasing to the Developer, so that it may be corrected for the benefit of all other Users.
6.4 Reports may be made through the contact channel notified within the Application. The Developer is under no obligation to act upon any report, to correct any error, to issue any update, or to continue making the Application available.
7.1 The Application collects no personal data, transmits nothing to the Developer or to any third party, requires no account, and functions entirely offline. The only information it stores on the device is the User's own progress markers and acceptance of these Terms.
7.2 The User shall not enter, record, photograph, transcribe or store within the Application, or in any note taken from it, any information by which a patient may be identified.
7.3 The User remains bound by all obligations of patient confidentiality imposed by law, by their institution and by professional regulation, and nothing in the Application dilutes those obligations.
8.1 All content within the Application, including its questions, translations, structure, arrangement, data files, source code and design, is the intellectual property of the Developer and is protected by applicable law.
8.2 The User is granted a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to use the Application for their own study.
8.3 The User shall not copy, reproduce, screenshot, record, extract, translate, publish, distribute, sell, sub-licence, decompile or reverse engineer the Application or any part of its content, nor create any derivative work from it, nor make it available to any third party, without the prior written permission of the Developer.
8.4 Technical measures restricting screen capture form part of the protection of the content, and the User shall not circumvent them.
9.1 The clinical structure of the content follows standard case proformas and textbooks of clinical medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology and community medicine. The Developer claims no right, title or interest in those sources, which remain the property of their respective authors and publishers.
9.2 Where any statement, schedule, figure or programme detail is reproduced, it may have been superseded. The User must verify every such particular against the current edition of a standard text or the current official guidance before relying upon it for any purpose.
10.1 Any feedback, correction, suggestion or contribution submitted by the User may be used, adapted, incorporated or published by the Developer without restriction, acknowledgement, obligation or payment.
11.1 The Application is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including without limitation any warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability or freedom from error.
11.2 The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of the Application rests with the User.
12.1 To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Developer shall not be liable for any loss, injury, harm, damage, claim, cost or liability of any nature whatsoever - whether direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary, and including without limitation any clinical error, misdiagnosis, delay in treatment, miscommunication with a patient, academic penalty, professional censure or reputational harm - arising out of or in connection with the use of, or inability to use, the Application, or reliance upon any part of its content.
12.2 This limitation applies irrespective of the form of action, whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, and notwithstanding that the Developer may have been advised of the possibility of such loss.
13.1 The User shall indemnify and hold harmless the Developer against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss or expense arising from the User's use of the Application in breach of these Terms, in particular any use in contravention of clause 3.
14.1 The Developer may amend these Terms, modify the content, or suspend or discontinue the Application, at any time and without notice. Continued use following any amendment constitutes acceptance of the amended Terms.
14.2 The licence granted under clause 8.2 terminates automatically upon any breach of these Terms.
15.1 If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be severed and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force.
15.2 These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the User and the Developer in respect of the Application and supersede all prior understandings relating to it.
15.3 No failure or delay by the Developer in enforcing any provision shall operate as a waiver of it.
16.1 By proceeding, the User acknowledges that the Application is an educational aid only; that it must not be used for actual patient history taking in any setting; that it may contain errors; that it does not replace learning the Kannada language; and that the User assumes full responsibility for any use made of it.