These Website Terms of Sale - Online Physiotherapy (B2C) are designed for physiotherapists to provide services online for their patients.
There is an attachment to the main body of the terms. The physiotherapy services offered can be outlined in that attachment. The services might embrace any of the services which a physiotherapist is able to
provide subject to the intrinsic limitations imposed by interacting online
rather than in person. For example, the physiotherapist can provide advice,
guidance and information; they can examine, assess, diagnose, triage, or take a case
history; they can explain, prescribe or demonstrate exercises and movements, or watch the patient carry out exercises and movements.
Whatever the services offered, in every case the services are provided through the medium of online
video streaming of sessions which are live (one way or two way) or recorded
(one way).
The video streaming is made available via a cloud-based web conferencing
platform (such as Zoom or Physitrack). Provisions specifically relating to
use of a video streaming platform are in the attachment. If a platform
other than Zoom is to be used, the attachment can easily be adapted as
necessary.
The physiotherapist may be a self-employed individual (sole trader), in
which case he/she will contract personally on these terms and conditions
with the patient. However, where the provider is a company or partnership
which engages a physiotherapist to provide the services, it will contract
with the patient. In each case the patient will be contracting as a
consumer, not as a business patient.
This document provides for either a single session or a series/package of
physiotherapy sessions to be purchased. It also provides for text/graphics
items to be downloaded (at any time after any session/s have been
purchased) without further charge.
Each session may be in any one or more of the following video-streamed
formats:
(a) Live private one-to-one session which only one patient can access. It is “two way” so that the physiotherapist and patient can see, hear and talk to each other. This session can be tailored to the needs of the particular patient; or
(b) Pre-recorded physiotherapy session capable of being accessed on demand at any
time/s by one or more patients when convenient to each patient. Its nature is such that it is a “one way”
event with no communication between patient and physiotherapist; or
(c) Live “one way” session (where no patient can communicate with the
physiotherapist or any other patient). This can be accessed by one or more
patients at the same time. If the live session is also recorded by the
physiotherapist, it can then also be made accessible for patients as a
session available as outlined at "(b)" above; or
(d) Live group session where a number of patients access it at the same
time and it is “two way” so that patients can, in real time, see, hear, and
be seen and heard by the physiotherapist, and, if the physiotherapist
permits, each other. This might lend itself to a lecture or discussion about aspects of physiotherapy rather than treatment of, or discussion about, any of the participants. (The physiotherapist will probably need to limit the
number of patients who can have access on each occasion to a manageable
number if the physiotherapist needs or expects to have substantial
interaction with patients in the online session).
This document is only suitable for online physiotherapy services: it anticipates that everything that the physiotherapist
sells on these terms via its website will be digital content (i.e. intangible content) provided
online only. No tangible items such as books, CDs, or DVDs will be supplied
on these terms.
Under these Terms of Sale, the patient has to set up an Account before
purchasing any sessions. He/she can do so without charge and without
committing to purchase any digital content. He/she can then purchase a
Subscription comprising any online sessions offered on your website. So,
for example, a Subscription might comprise a particular single live or
pre-recorded session or a package/series of live and/or pre-recorded
sessions. The Terms of Sale provide that each Subscription provides access
to a relevant session on a specific date (if live) or during a stated
period (if pre-recorded). The sessions, dates and periods in each case
should be defined on your website in an appropriate place and confirmed in
the patient’s order details.
These Terms of Sale guide the patient through the order process, explaining
the formation of the contract between you and them for the Subscription,
also setting out details about the content and its availability and
provision, pricing, payment and licensing.
Particular attention should be given to content descriptions when selling
content. This should be reflected in the definition of “Paid Content” and
elsewhere in these terms and also in the information available on the
website or given to a patient before they sign up for a Subscription.
Cancellation rights are addressed in detail in the terms, including the
14-day cooling off period granted to consumers under the 2013 Consumer
Contracts Regulations.
Further key provisions deal with liability, patient complaints (with
reference to complaints handling policies and procedures, templates for
which are also available from Simply-Docs), contact information, and data
protection.
This template applies only to the sale of content, leaving the terms
governing the use of the website itself to a separate document.
Optional phrases / clauses are enclosed in square brackets. These should be
read carefully and selected so as to be compatible with one another. Unused
options should be removed from the document.
These Website Terms of Sale - Online Physiotherapy (B2C) contain the
following clauses:
Background
1. Definitions and Interpretation
2. Information About Us
3. Contacting Us
4. Age Restrictions and Consumers only
5. Business Patients
6. Subscriptions, Paid Content, Pricing and Availability
7. Orders – How Contracts are Formed
8. Payment for Subscriptions
9. Provision of Paid Content
10. Licence
11. Problems with the Paid Content
12. Cancelling Your Subscription
13. Your Other Rights to End the Contract
14. Our Liability to Consumers
15. Complaints and Feedback
16. How We Use Your Personal Information (Data Protection)
17. Other Important Terms
18. Law and Jurisdiction
Attachment:
1. Physiotherapy
2. Use of [Physitrack][Zoom][Other online service delivery platform]
web-conferencing platform to access online physiotherapy
3. The technology that We will be responsible for providing
4. The technology and other items that You will be responsible for
providing
5. Scope of what We provide: (1) Technology (2) Equipment etc.
6. Account setup needed
7. Your responsibility for Your Account and its security
8. Your privacy and security on each occasion when You access physiotherapy
9. Fitness, Health and Safety
10. Advising Us about Your Health etc
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