Terms of Use

Last updated: [Effective date. Set it when counsel signs off, and update it whenever these terms materially change.]

1. Acceptance

These terms govern your use of mybrainstimulation.com and its content. By using the site you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

2. The content here is general information, not medical advice

Everything on this website — descriptions of conditions, of treatments, of neuromodulation techniques, of research, and any article or resource published here — is provided for general educational purposes. It is written without knowledge of your history, your examination, your medications, or your circumstances, and it is therefore not a diagnosis, not a treatment recommendation, and not a substitute for consultation with a qualified clinician who has assessed you.

Do not start, stop, or change any medication or treatment on the basis of something you read here. Do not delay seeking care because of something you read here. If you have a question about your own health, ask a clinician who can examine you.

3. No physician–patient relationship

Reading this website, submitting the contact form, or sending email does not create a physician–patient relationship. No such relationship exists until the practice and you have both agreed to it, the appropriate consent and financial agreements are in place, and care has formally begun.

Until that point, no duty of care arises from your use of this site, nothing sent through it is treated as a clinical communication, and no reply — or absence of a reply — should be interpreted as clinical judgement about your situation.

4. Communications through this site are not secure

Messages sent through the contact form or by email are not encrypted end to end and may be read by intermediaries. Do not send confidential health information, records, or anything else you would not want disclosed. How website submissions are handled is described in the Website Privacy Policy; information in your medical record is governed by the Notice of Privacy Practices.

5. Accuracy and availability

Medicine changes, and content that was accurate when written may become outdated. The practice makes a reasonable effort to keep this site current but does not warrant that its content is complete, current, or free of error. Descriptions of research are descriptions of research and should not be read as statements about what treatment is available to you.

The site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. It may be unavailable at times for maintenance, or for reasons outside the practice's control, and no guarantee of uninterrupted access is made.

[Research versus clinical care — state this plainly somewhere prominent, not only here. Dr. Pellionisz's LIFU, fMRI-guided TMS and kTMP work is conducted under research protocols at UCSF and Stanford. A reader who lands on this site after searching for focused ultrasound for depression will assume they can be treated with it. Write one unambiguous sentence naming exactly which services this private practice offers clinically, and state that participation in any research study is separate, is governed by that study's own consent process and eligibility criteria, and cannot be arranged through this practice.]

6. Links to other sites

This site may link to third-party websites — journals, professional bodies, patient organisations, crisis resources. Those sites are not controlled by the practice. A link is not an endorsement of everything on the linked site, and the practice is not responsible for their content, accuracy or privacy practices. When you follow a link, the other site's terms and privacy policy apply, not these.

7. Intellectual property

The text, design, layout, graphics and code of this site are protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. [Name the rights holder — the practice's legal entity or Dr. Pellionisz personally. It should match the copyright line in the site footer and your business registration; a mismatch is the kind of thing that undermines a takedown request when you need one.]

You may read, print and share pages for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not republish, sell, or systematically copy this site's content, or use it to train or fine-tune a machine learning system, without prior written permission.

Third-party material reproduced here — including any publication citations, figures, or logos — remains the property of its owners and is used only as permitted.

8. Your use of the site

You agree not to use this site to transmit malicious code, to attempt to gain unauthorised access to it or to any system connected to it, to scrape or harvest it by automated means beyond ordinary search-engine indexing, or to submit false information or communications on another person's behalf.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the practice is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of your use of, or inability to use, this website or anything you read on it.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded — and in particular, nothing here limits the practice's professional obligations to its patients. The duties owed to a patient in the course of treatment arise from the physician–patient relationship and from professional and licensing law, and are not affected by these website terms.

[Have counsel review this clause specifically. Some states restrict a healthcare provider's ability to disclaim liability at all, and an over-broad clause can be struck as unconscionable — taking the enforceable parts with it. Ask also whether an indemnification clause, an arbitration clause or a class-action waiver belongs here. Many physicians deliberately omit all three, because a mandatory arbitration clause on a psychiatry website reads badly to prospective patients and to regulators, and the litigation risk from a static informational site is low.]

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of [state — the state where the practice is licensed and located. Do not fill this in by inference from an address; it drives which consumer protection statute, which medical practice act and which court applies, and it should be the same state counsel is licensed in.], without regard to its conflict of law rules. Any dispute arising from the use of this website will be brought in the courts of [county and state for venue — confirm with counsel that this matches the governing-law choice above and is a venue you would actually want to litigate in.]

11. Changes to these terms

These terms may be revised from time to time. The revised version applies from the date it is posted, and the "last updated" date at the top of this page will change accordingly. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the revised terms.

12. Severability

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will stay in full effect.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms may be directed to:

• [Practice legal name — the entity that operates this website.]
• [Practice mailing address for legal notices. This should be an address where formal notice can be served or forwarded reliably.]
• [Practice email address on the practice domain — not a university address. A legal notice clause pointing at ppellionisz@stanford.edu would route practice correspondence into a system Stanford controls.]