1. What we own
All content on the Service is owned by Utricle or licensed to it, and is protected by copyright, database rights, trademark, and related law. That includes:
- every question stem, answer choice, and explanation;
- illustrations, diagrams, annotated images, and photography;
- the structure of the bank — the subject and system taxonomy, the mapping of questions to objectives, and the selection and arrangement of the whole, which is protected independently of the individual items;
- the software, including our rebuild of the examination interface, its analytics, and its spaced-repetition scheduling;
- the Utricle name, wordmark, logo, and visual identity.
2. Your licence
While your subscription is active, you have a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access and use the content of the products you have paid for, for your own exam preparation.
The licence ends when the subscription ends. It does not permit you to:
- reproduce content in any medium — screenshot, photograph, transcription, screen recording, copy-paste, print, or automated extraction;
- distribute, publish, post, transmit, or make content available to anyone else;
- sell, rent, sublicense, or bundle content;
- create derivative works outside the Service — including exported flashcard decks, summaries, translations, or reformatted versions. Turning a question into a flashcard inside Utricle's own flashcard builder is part of the product and is expressly permitted; taking those cards out of it is not;
- use content as training data, fine-tuning data, or retrieval corpus for a machine learning system, or publish output derived from it;
- remove or obscure any proprietary notice.
These restrictions are enforced under the Acceptable Use Policy, and breaking them ends the account without a refund.
What you may keep
Notes you write in your own words are yours, and you may keep and use them after your subscription ends. Learning a fact from a Utricle explanation and writing it down in your own language is not copying — it is the point of the product. The line is verbatim or near-verbatim reproduction of our text and images.
3. Content you create
Notes, highlights, and flashcards you author remain your intellectual property. You grant us only the licence needed to store, back up, and display that content back to you inside the Service. We do not publish it, sell it, or show it to other users, and the licence ends when you delete the content or the account.
Feedback and suggestions are the exception: if you tell us how to improve the product we may act on it freely, with no obligation and no compensation.
4. Third-party material
Some images and open-source components are used under licences that require attribution. Those credits are published in full at Credits & Attributions. Where an image is used under a Creative Commons licence, the author, the licence, and any modification we made are named there.
Trademarks belonging to examination bodies are addressed in the Medical & Exam Disclaimer. In short: they are used descriptively to say which exam a product prepares you for, and nowhere in our name, mark, or domain.
5. Reporting infringement
What this section is, and is not. We have not registered a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, so what follows is not a statutory notice-and-takedown procedure under 17 U.S.C. §512 and should not be read as one. It is how we actually handle an infringement complaint today, and complaints reach us through the same channel as everything else.
If you own copyright in material you believe is being used on Utricle without permission, write to our contact form with a notice containing:
- your name, address, and a contact address, and your relationship to the owner;
- identification of the work you say is infringed;
- identification of the material on Utricle you are complaining about, precise enough for us to find it — a URL and a question identifier where possible;
- a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent, or the law;
- a statement that the information in the notice is accurate.
On receiving a complete notice we will look at the material promptly and remove or disable it where the complaint is made out, and tell whoever supplied it. Knowingly filing a false notice carries liability for damages — including our costs — under the law of most jurisdictions, so please be sure before you send one.
If we removed something of yours
If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, write to the same address with your contact details, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, and why you believe the removal was wrong. We will put your account of it alongside the complainant's and restore the material if we got it wrong. Because no designated agent is registered, the statutory counter-notice procedure and its waiting period do not apply here.
Repeat infringers
We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe the copyright of others.
6. If you find our content elsewhere
Utricle questions posted to a forum, a shared drive, a messaging group, or a competing product are stolen from every subscriber who paid honestly. If you see it, send us a link at our contact form. A link is enough — you do not need to prove anything, and we will not name you.
7. Permissions
Want to quote us in a review, a talk, or a piece of research? Ask. Short, attributed quotation for genuine commentary is normally fine and we will usually say yes in writing within a few days. Write to our contact form.