Terms of Service

thesutureself is a study tool for surgery exams: flashcards, a question bank and an Ask box. By creating an account or using the service, you accept these terms and our Privacy Policy. If you don't accept them, please don't use the service.

You must be 18 or older. The service is meant for surgical residents, medical students and other clinicians preparing for exams such as the ABSITE.

• Give your real name and an email you can reach.
• An account is for one person. Don't share your login or let anyone else study on your plan.
• Keep your password safe, and tell us at support@thesutureself.com if you think someone else has used your account.
• You're responsible for what happens in your account.

We may suspend an account that's shared or misused.

The free plan includes a sample of the content. Paid plans, monthly or yearly, unlock everything listed on the pricing page.

Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.

Paid plans renew automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. Taxes are added where the law requires.

If we change a price, we'll tell you before it applies, and it starts at your next renewal.

You can cancel at any time from Settings. Your plan then stops renewing, and you keep access until the end of the period you've paid for. Refunds are covered in our Refund Policy.

thesutureself is for exam preparation only. It isn't medical advice, and it isn't meant for diagnosing or treating patients. We don't promise any exam result. Our Disclaimer says more.

The flashcards, questions, explanations, summaries, design and software belong to thesutureself or to those who license them to us.

While your account is open, you may use the content for your own study. You may not copy, share, sell, publish or record it, collect it with scripts or bots, or use it to train an AI model.

Our content is drafted with the help of AI from Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, and doctors review every item before it's published. Answers in the Ask box are written by AI from that approved content. AI can still get things wrong, so check the cited source when it matters.

Don't enter details about a real patient, or any other person's health information, in the Ask box, in notes or in error reports.

Your notes stay yours, and only you can see them. Error reports go to our reviewers so they can fix the item. You allow us to store and use both to run and improve the service.

When you use the service, please don't:

• try to get around the paywall, the daily limits or the copy protection
• probe, attack or overload the service, or try to reach data that isn't yours
• copy the software, or take it apart to rebuild it
• use the service to break the law or to harm anyone

We keep improving the service, so features and content change: items are added, corrected or retired. We work to keep it running, but it may sometimes be down or slow, and we can't promise it will always be available.

You can stop using the service at any time, and ask us at support@thesutureself.com to delete your account. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms; the time left on its plan isn't refunded.

As far as the law allows, the service is provided as it is and as available, without warranties of any kind, including that it is accurate, complete or fit for a particular purpose.

As far as the law allows, thesutureself isn't liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of the service, such as lost data, lost earnings or exam results. Our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow us to limit.

We may update these terms. We'll change the date at the top, and for important changes we'll tell you by email or in the app before they apply. If you keep using the service after that, the new terms apply.

These terms are governed by the laws of [state or country].

Questions about these terms: support@thesutureself.com.