Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy

1. 1.1
   HTI content. The Service — its software, design, text, graphics, guides, fact sheets, comparison tools, data compilations, quality scores, the “Health-Tourism.com” name and heart-and-h logo, the slogan “Medical Tourism Made Simple” and other marks — is owned by Health Tourism Inc. (“HTI”) or its licensors and protected by copyright, database, trademark, trade-dress and other laws worldwide. HTI has succeeded Find Global Care Ltd. as owner or licensee of all such rights relating to the Service.
2. 1.2
   Provider content. Listings, photographs, videos, logos, prices and replies supplied by Providers are owned by the Provider or its licensors and licensed to HTI under the Provider Terms. Providers are responsible for having the rights to what they supply.
3. 1.3
   User content. Reviews, stories, photographs and videos submitted by users remain the user's property and are licensed to HTI under Section 9 of the Terms of Use.
4. 1.4
   Third-party marks. Accreditation seals (JCI, ISO, TEMOS, Thai HA, MSQH, NABH, CSG and others) and Providers' marks belong to their owners and are shown to identify the accreditation or Provider concerned; no endorsement of HTI by their owners is implied.

1. 2.1
   Personal use. You may view, download and print pages for your personal, non-commercial use in planning medical travel for yourself or someone you are entitled to act for.
2. 2.2
   Linking and quoting. You may link to any page of the Service. You may quote short extracts (as a guide, up to 150 words of text) with attribution to “Health-Tourism.com” and a link to the source page, for non-commercial purposes or for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research. Do not alter quotations so that they misrepresent us or a Provider, present our content as your own, or imply our endorsement.
3. 2.3
   Search and AI systems. Search engines, answer engines and AI agents may crawl, index, quote and summarise our public pages — including their Markdown twins — with attribution and a link to the canonical URL, as our robots.txt and llms.txt describe. They may not use our content to train or fine-tune models, reproduce pages substantially in full, extract listings, prices, reviews or personal data at scale, or access pages marked noindex or behind sign-in. Programmatic access to Provider data requires a written API agreement; write to us through our legal contact form.
4. 2.4
   Press and partners. Journalists may use our published statistics with attribution and may request our logo and brand guidelines through our legal contact form. Providers may use the “Listed on” and “Verified” badges only as the Provider Terms allow.
5. 2.5
   Not permitted. Reproducing, republishing, scraping, mirroring, framing or creating derivative works from the Service or its content beyond the above; removing or altering copyright, trademark or source notices; using our marks in domain names, metadata, paid search or in a way likely to confuse; or using Provider or user content for any purpose other than the Service.

1. 3.1
   Designated agent. Notices of claimed copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §512[1], and equivalent laws, must be sent to our designated agent: Copyright Agent, Health Tourism Inc., [registered office address], United States · our copyright notice form. The agent's details are registered in the U.S. Copyright Office's DMCA Designated Agent Directory.
2. 3.2
   What a notice must contain.

   • a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorised to act on their behalf;
   • identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or a representative list if several);
   • identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to locate it on the Service (the URL);
   • your name, address, telephone number and email address;
   • a statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
   • a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
3. 3.3
   What we do. On receiving a valid notice we expeditiously remove or disable access to the material, notify the person who posted it and provide them a copy of the notice (redacting your contact details where the law allows), and record the notice. Where the Digital Services Act applies we also give the poster a statement of reasons and the notifier our decision[2].
4. 3.4
   Misrepresentation. A person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, under 17 U.S.C. §512(f). Consider whether the use is a fair use or otherwise lawful before sending a notice.
5. 3.5
   Trademark and other rights. Reports of trademark infringement, rights of publicity, privacy or other rights in content follow the same procedure, adapted to the right concerned, and may also be made through the notice-and-action process.

1. 4.1
   How to respond. If you believe material you posted was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, send our designated agent a counter-notice containing: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the material and its location before removal; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification; your name, address and telephone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, any district in which HTI may be found) and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or their agent.
2. 4.2
   Restoration. On receiving a valid counter-notice we forward it to the complainant and tell them that we will restore the material in 10 business days. Unless the complainant notifies us within that period that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the use, we restore the material between 10 and 14 business days after receiving the counter-notice.
3. 4.3
   Appeals under the DSA. Where the Digital Services Act applies you may also use the internal complaint-handling system within six months of the removal.

1. 5.1
   Termination. In appropriate circumstances we terminate the accounts and Listings of users and Providers who are repeat infringers. As a guide, three substantiated notices within 12 months without a successful counter-notice lead to termination; a single egregious infringement may suffice.
2. 5.2
   Abuse of notices. We may decline to process further notices from a person who repeatedly submits manifestly unfounded or abusive notices, after a warning.
3. 5.3
   Hosting liability. HTI hosts content supplied by others and acts under the safe harbours of 17 U.S.C. §512 and, where applicable, Articles 4–6 of the Digital Services Act and 47 U.S.C. §230[3].

1. 6.1
   Changes. We may update this Policy as Section 20 of the Terms of Use describes; the version and effective date appear at the top.
2. 6.2
   Contact. Copyright agent: our copyright notice form · Permissions and brand: our legal contact form · Health Tourism Inc., 7 Times Square, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10036, United States

We keep every published version. Ask us through our legal contact form for a copy of an earlier version or a redline between two versions.