These terms and conditions form an agreement between you, as the user, and Nixon Global Health Foundation, as the service provider of the Kito Health services and owner of the Kito Health software, website and application (hereinafter referred to, respectively, as the “Terms and Conditions”, the “Agreement”, the “User”, the “Foundation” or “Kito Health”, and “Kito Health Services”). Together, referred as the Parties.
These Terms and Conditions specify the principles under which Kito Health Services are provided, through its website and application (“https://www.kitohealth.org/” hereinafter referred to, respectively, as the “Website”, and the “Application” or “App”), and establish the rights and obligations of both Parties;
By using our Website and Application the User agrees to these Terms and Conditions along with our Privacy Policy, available at Privacy Policy.
The Foundation has the right to prevent the User from using Kito Health Services in case the User fails to comply with these Terms and Conditions, or for any other reason.
Our services
Kito Health Services consist, mainly, on granting the use of a pediatric symptom checker which allows for a tailored advice and health information (hereinafter referred to as “User Advice”), based on a calculated triage risk score (hereinafter referred to as “User Output”);
Kito Health Services are provided free of charge and made available through the Website and/or the Application;
User Outputs are automatically generated by answering a series of questions (hereinafter referred to as “Questionnaire”) regarding a child’s symptoms;
The Questionnaire is a set of questions based on the main symptom, child’s age and gender, whereby possible related symptoms, predispositions and history of medical conditions, as these are captured to generate the most accurate User Output;
The User Advice includes information and primary medical advice based on the answers given throughout the Questionnaire and based on the User Output;
Kito Health or its Services will not issue medical prescriptions, of any kind;
Kito Health or its Services will not provide online or face-to-face medical consultations;
Kito Health or its Services shall not replace a medical consultation, and shall not provide medical diagnosis. You, as the User, should never disregard a health professional’s advice over the information provided by Kito Health;
Kito Health and its Services must not be used in case of emergency. In such cases, the User should seek for immediate medical help, provided by recognized and certified medical professionals;
Kito Health reserves the right to freely alter, at any time, the content and / or form through which it displays information to / and interacts with the User;
Kito Health may, at any time, interrupt the operation of any of its Services, for maintenance purposes or for any other reason or event deemed appropriate or convenient.
Use of the Website and/or Application
In order to benefit from Kito Health Services and use the Website or the Application, the User should have use an electronic device that he/she/they control, with access to the internet and with technical characteristics that are able to allow the Website or the Application to properly run;
The User must be of age according to the law of his/her/their nationality;
The User may benefit from Kito Health Services and use and interact with the Website and / or the Application on behalf of a minor if, at the moment of use and interaction, is considered by law to be the legal responsible for the latter’s care;
The User does not need to create an account / profile in order to use the Website or the Application;
The User may not use the Website and / or the Application for commercial reasons, or for any other reasons strange to the purposes set forth in these Terms and Conditions;
The User must not use any content provided in the Website or the Application, being any copy, reproduction, or modification, in full or partial, strictly forbidden;
The User must not use any content provided in the Website or the Application for commercial or advertising purposes, or any other strange and unauthorized purposes;
The attempt to change or break any security system of the Website or the Application, or to alter its functioning, shall result in termination of this Agreement, to us being reserved the right to resort to all legal and judicial means within our reach for the protection of our rights on the platform and its source code.
Kito Health and personal data
In order to provide accurate advice, Kito Health, through the Website or the Application, will request the input of some personal data of the subject to whom the User Advice refers, such as gender, age group and medical-related details;
Kito Health is in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation - Regulation 2016/679, for the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”);
In compliance with GDPR, Kito Health collects, processes, stores, and protects your personal data, in accordance with the applicable EU law;
You may find more detailed information on how and for what purposes we collect and use the information you provide, as well as the use of cookies, by reading our Privacy Policy, available at Privacy Policy.
Liability
The Foundation assumes no liability for the use of Kito Health Service through its Website and / or Application, for any losses or damages, temporary or permanent, of any kind and nature, that the User may face or feel entitled to, related to the Services the first provides, in the form and designated as “User Advice”, which is subject to errors of any sort. Therefore, the User should never act blindly in accordance with the information or advice provided by Kito Health Services;
Without prejudice to the former paragraph, it should be of perfect knowledge of the User that the Foundation will never, in any circumstance, be liable for: (i) the misuse or misunderstanding of the information obtained through Kito Health Services; (ii) damage caused in the case of such misuse or misunderstanding; (iii) poor performance or non-performance of Kito Health Services, through the Website and / or the Application, due to outdated or defective hardware or software, or for any other reason; (iv) any Force Majeure, or any extraordinary external event, that may cause interruption or malfunction of Kito Health Services, through the Website and / or the Application; (v) misuse of the content provided through the Website and / or the Application by any other party not owned or controlled by the Foundation.
The User shall perceive these Terms of Service as the one and only binding terms, that foresee, identify and limit the User’s rights and obligations as user of Kito Health Services, through the Website and / or the Application, and the Foundation rights and obligations as the service provider of Kito Health Services, through the Website and / or the Application.
Changes to these Terms and Conditions
The Foundation reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions, freely, at any time and for whatever reason, as it improves and / or adds new features to the current Services;
The User may, at any time, read the current version of these Terms and Conditions on the Website;
The use of Kito Health Services, through the Website and / or the Application by the User always presumes its full knowledge and acceptance of the current version of the Terms and Conditions. By continuing to use Kito Health Services, through the Website and / or the Application, the User agrees to the new Terms and Conditions;
The User shall be notified of any changes to these Terms and Conditions, whenever these affect his/her/their rights as a User of Kito Health Services, through the Website and / or the Application;
In case the User does not agree with the amendments put in place to the Terms and Conditions, he/she/they shall terminate or withdraw from this Agreement, and must immediately stop using Kito Health Services, the Website and the Application.
Termination and/or Withdrawal
The User is allowed, at any time, to terminate or withdraw from this Agreement (and from these Terms and Conditions);
The User may terminate or withdraw from this Agreement (and from these Terms and Conditions) by ceasing use of Kito Health Services, through the Website and the Application, deleting / uninstalling the Application from any of his/her/their controlled devices;
The Foundation reserves the right to freely and immediately terminate this Agreement, with no need to present or call for a cause or event, meaning that the Foundation may, at any time and without the need to justify, terminate this Agreement and cease to provide any Kito Health Services to the User, whether it be for the cases when the User fails to comply with or acts in breach of any of these Terms and Conditions, or for any other reason as the Foundation may see fit.
Intellectual Property
The Foundation owns all proprietary rights derived from Kito Health Services, through the Website and / or the Application, and of all the information, media and content provided in such platforms or, when it is not, has the legal right to use such information, media and content;
Kito Health Services, the Website and / or the Application, are protected by copyright and any unauthorized violation or infringement of such rights may face legal prosecution;
Kito Health Services, the Website and / or the Application, are owned by the Foundation (Nixon Global Health Foundation).
Contact
The User may contact the team of Kito Health directly on the Website’s contact form or through email, sent to: “info@kitohealth.org”.