Terms of Use

Acceptance of these terms

These terms govern your use of this website. By opening any page here you accept them, and continued reading means continued acceptance. References to "we" mean the operator of this website. If a separate agreement ever governs a specific part of this website, that agreement wins for that part and these terms keep governing everything else.

What this website is

This website publishes editorial articles about human biochemistry, written for interested readers without a laboratory background. It is a reading offer, nothing more: there is no shop, no membership, and no user-contributed content. The articles are prepared with care and reviewed against the sources named in them, but they remain journalism about a moving field, not a closed textbook.

Content and intellectual property

The articles, images, layout, and code of this website are protected by copyright and remain the property of the operator or their licensors. All rights not expressly granted below are reserved.

Rules of use

The following rules draw the line between welcome and unwelcome use:

• You may read every published page and link to them freely.
• You may quote short passages, provided the quote carries a visible link back to the original page.
• You may not republish whole articles, mirror the website, or sell its content in any form.
• You may not copy the content into other publications, databases, or training collections without permission.
• You may not interfere with the availability of the website, probe its security, or place unreasonable load on it through automated bulk requests.

Breaking these rules ends the permission to use the website, and we reserve the right to take the measures that the situation allows.

External links

Articles on this website sometimes point at other websites. Those offers are run by other parties under their own terms, and we neither check them continuously nor adopt their content as our own. At the time a link was set, it did not point at anything unlawful; if the target changes later, that change is outside this website's reach. Your use of any external offer is a matter between you and its operator.

No professional advice

The articles explain physiology in plain language, and nothing on this website is medical, legal, or financial advice. A well-written explanation is not a diagnosis, and a general mechanism does not describe your individual situation. If a topic touches your health, the decisions remain yours to make with a qualified professional who can actually examine you. Use this website to understand the background, not to replace the conversation that matters.

Availability and no warranty

This website is provided as is and as available. We work to keep it online, correct, and current, but we do not promise that:

• access will be uninterrupted or error-free,
• every detail stays free of inaccuracies or typographical errors,
• the content matches your individual requirements or expectations.

Parts of the website may be changed, moved, or taken down at any time without notice. The articles carry dates because the field moves, and an article is a picture of what was known when it was written.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the applicable law allows, we are not liable for damage that arises from the use of this website or from reliance on its content, including indirect damage, lost profit, or lost data. Nothing in these terms excludes liability where doing so would be unlawful, for example liability for intent or gross negligence. Where the law caps liability, the cap applies; where it does not, the bare rule applies. Using a free reading offer does not create the kind of relationship that makes its operator an insurer of its readers.

Changes to these terms

These terms may change as the website changes. The version published on this page is the one in force. Changes become effective once they are posted here, and reading the website after that point counts as acceptance. The date an article was published never changes the terms; only this page does.

Applicable law

Your use of this website and these terms are governed by the law that applies to the operator of this website. Disputes fall to the courts that have jurisdiction under that law. Should a single provision of these terms prove invalid, the rest stands, and the invalid provision is replaced by the valid regulation that comes closest to its intent.