Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-05-25. This is an initial technical draft and is not a substitute for review by qualified legal counsel before public launch.

1. What Endo Lab is

Endo Lab is a research-only aggregation of publicly available metadata about endometriosis and adenomyosis literature, clinical trials, and grants. It is provided to the research community on a best-effort, no-charge basis. Endo Lab does not produce primary scientific content: every record is sourced from a public upstream (OpenAlex, PubMed, Crossref, Europe PMC, Unpaywall, PMC, SciLite, ClinicalTrials.gov, WHO ICTRP, NIH RePORTER, EU CORDIS).

2. Not medical advice

The contents of Endo Lab are intended for research and educational use. Nothing on this site constitutes medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Readers should consult a qualified clinician for any decision about their own health or that of others. Endo Lab makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of any record.

3. Source licenses inherit

Every record displayed on Endo Lab carries the license of its upstream source. The licenses are listed on each record and span the public-domain (CC0, US government works), permissive (CC-BY 4.0), and restricted (CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, all-rights-reserved) ranges. When you reuse data obtained through Endo Lab, you must honour the per-record source license — not the (more permissive) license of any aggregation Endo Lab may add on top.

Records originating from WHO ICTRP are licensed for non-commercial research use only. Records originating from PMC full-text under CC-BY-NC similarly require non-commercial use. Endo Lab surfaces a click-through and a per-record badge to make these conditions visible.

4. Acceptable use

Endo Lab is a research tool, not a clinical tool. It is intended for researchers, students, and members of the public seeking general information about endometriosis and adenomyosis literature. It is not designed or supported for clinical decision- making, patient case research, or any workflow involving identifiable information about other people (e.g. a third party's medical history).

• Do not enter identifiable information about other people — names, dates of birth, contact details, medical record numbers, or any other detail that could identify a specific patient — into search queries, the chat surface, the fact-check tool, or any other input field.
• Do not upload personally identifiable information (PII) about yourself or others into search queries or any other input field.
• Do not attempt to circumvent the rate limit, scrape the site at industrial volume, or use Endo Lab as a free reverse proxy for the underlying APIs.
• Do not represent Endo Lab data as medical advice or use it to make individual clinical decisions, whether for yourself or anyone you care for professionally or personally.
• Respect the source-license terms on every record you copy or redistribute.

5. AI-generated content

Endo Lab uses large language models for several features: paper summaries (one-sentence and deep), the yes/no/possibly verdict on search, the fact-check tool, and the chat surface. AI-generated outputs are labelled with the model name and generation date.

AI outputs are a reading aid, not a substitute for reading the source paper. They may omit important caveats, misread context, or paraphrase imprecisely. Endo Lab does not review individual generations. If you act on a paper, read the paper. The "Not medical advice" clause in section 2 applies to AI outputs with the same force as to any other content.

Third-party AI processors: some AI features send your input text to third-party LLM providers (currently OpenAI for most generations, Google Gemini for the fact-check multimodal path). Those providers may retain inputs for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring under their standard terms. Do not enter identifiable information about other people (e.g. patient details) into any AI-backed surface. See the Privacy Policy for the full third-party processor list.

6. Liability

Endo Lab is provided as is. The operators make no warranty of fitness for any particular purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operators are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from use of the site.

7. Changes

These terms may be updated. The "last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the current version. Continued use of the site after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

9. Fact-check query logging

When you submit a query to the Fact-check tool, Endo Lab stores a content-only hash (SHA-256) of your input alongside a sample of the query text (truncated to 1,000 characters). No user identifier — IP address, session token, or account — is recorded alongside the query. The same query submitted by different people is counted as one record; repeated submissions increment a counter on that single record.

This anonymised log powers two public pages: Frequently asked (top 50 queries by submission count) and Research gaps (top 50 queries where the literature returned no corpus evidence for at least one claim). Both pages display the anonymised question text as submitted; they do not identify who asked.

If you do not wish your query text to appear on these pages, avoid submitting sensitive personal information via the fact-check tool. The tool is designed for checking published claims and media content, not for entering personal health details.

10. Contact

Questions, errata, takedown requests, or data-subject requests under GDPR can be sent to the operator's contact address as listed in the Privacy Policy.