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What we agree to do, what we refuse to do, what you undertake, what each side pays and owns, and the law that governs the whole of it. Read clause 2 before you read anything else: it is the clause most services leave vague.

Instrument
Terms of service
Governing law
Laws of India
Jurisdiction
Courts at Punjab, India
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Privacy policy · Refund policy · Ethics charter
Last reviewed
Revision 2

The agreement

Part I

Who these terms bind, and what the words mean

  1. Clause 1.1

    Parties and acceptance

    These terms are the agreement between you — the postgraduate who commissions the work — and MDThesis, a brand of REDENN Informatics Private Limited. They apply from the moment you commission a service or sign in to the dashboard, whichever is earlier. If you are commissioning on behalf of a student, you confirm that the student has agreed to these terms, because every obligation about authorship in Part II is theirs to keep.

  2. Clause 1.2

    Definitions

    “The work” is the service described in your written scope. “A milestone” is a stage of that scope with its own deliverable and its own instalment. “A deliverable” is a document we place in your record for review. “Your record” is the dated project file in the dashboard. “The panel” is the doctors, medical writers and statisticians who work on projects; they are a panel of mentors and not a faculty of any institution.

  3. Clause 1.3

    Which document prevails

    Your written scope or quotation prevails over the general service description on this site. Your university's own ordinance, and the regulations of your registering body, prevail over both. Where a rule of your institution conflicts with anything we have written, follow your institution and tell us what it says, and we will work to it.

Nature of service

Part II

Mentoring and editing — not ghostwriting, and not authorship

The single clause a postgraduate most needs in writing. It is stated here in the same words as the ethics charter, because the two must never be able to drift apart.

  1. Clause 2.1

    What we provide

    Academic mentoring, editing, biostatistical consulting, formatting to your university's ordinance, and academic-integrity review. A senior doctor from your own specialty advises on feasibility, design and methodology and reads your chapters. A medical writer edits your text for structure, argument and language. A statistician plans and runs the analysis and explains the output in terms you can defend. Deliverables are learning aids, edits and drafts for your own work, prepared for a thesis that remains a requirement of your own degree[1].

    See ethics charter · article 1

  2. Clause 2.2

    What we do not provide

    We do not ghost-author. We will not produce a synopsis, a chapter or a thesis to be submitted as your own unaided work, we will not fabricate or supply data, and we will not appear as you before your guide, your department, your ethics committee or your university. A request of that kind ends the enquiry; it does not open a negotiation.

    See ethics charter · article 3

  3. Clause 2.3

    You are the sole author

    You choose the topic, obtain ethics approval in your own name, collect your own data, approve every chapter and sign the thesis. You remain its sole author on the ICMJE criteria[4], and you are responsible for compliance with your institution's academic-integrity policies. We claim no authorship and no co-authorship, we do not ask to be acknowledged, and our name appears nowhere in your thesis.

    See ethics charter · article 2

  4. Clause 2.4

    No outcome is promised

    We do not promise, and cannot promise, a grade, a pass, approval by any committee, acceptance by any university, or publication in any journal. We hold no influence over any examiner, guide, committee or editor, and we are not affiliated with, approved by or endorsed by the NMC, NBEMS, the UGC or any university.

Your undertakings

Part III

What you undertake, and what is prohibited

These undertakings are the reason the service can be delivered honestly. A breach of any of them entitles us to stop work under clause 6.4.

  1. Clause 3.1

    Prohibited use

    You agree not to ask us for, and not to use our work for, any of the following:

    • Submission of text we drafted as your own unaided writing, in any examination or submission where unaided work is required.
    • Fabrication, alteration or padding of data, cases, investigations or results.
    • Correspondence or attendance in your name before your guide, department, ethics committee, registering body or university.
    • Defeating or disguising the result of your institution's own academic-integrity process.
    • Resale, redistribution or supply of any deliverable to another student.

    See ethics charter · article 3

  2. Clause 3.2

    Data and ethics approval

    You warrant that Institutional Ethics Committee approval was obtained before data collection began[5], that consent was taken where it was required, and that every dataset you send us is anonymised. Identifiable patient information must not be uploaded. If it arrives, we stop, tell you and delete our copy — see privacy §3.2.

  3. Clause 3.3

    Integrity checking

    Every draft we return carries a word-level uniqueness report, and we work to the UGC 2018 convention that similarity below 10% is acceptable[3]. That is the standard we work to, not a result we promise. Your institution will run its own check with its own tool and its own index, and we have no access to either.

    See ethics charter · article 4

  4. Clause 3.4

    Your account

    Keep your sign-in credentials to yourself. One record belongs to one student. Do not share the draft viewer, its contents or your watermarked copies with anyone outside your project, and tell us promptly if you think someone else has reached your account.

  5. Clause 3.5

    Accuracy of what you tell us

    Dates, course, registering body, university and ordinance requirements are taken from what you tell us. If any of them is wrong, the plan built on it will be wrong, and correcting the consequences is chargeable work rather than a revision.

Fees and scope

Part IV

Scope, revisions, fees and payment

Published fees, a written scope, instalments tied to milestones, and one condition on the final download. Nothing here depends on a conversation you cannot produce later.

  1. Clause 4.1

    Written scope

    Each service has a written scope that states what is included, what is delivered and the typical duration of each stage. The scope you agreed is the scope of the engagement.

  2. Clause 4.2

    Revisions

    Revisions are included as stated for your plan, counted per stage, and are for the work inside that stage. A revision is a correction, refinement or reworking of what was delivered. A change of topic, of design, of dataset or of university format after a stage has been approved is new work.

  3. Clause 4.3

    Work outside scope

    Work outside the written scope is quoted separately and begins only when you accept the quotation in writing. We will not do unscoped work and invoice for it afterwards.

  4. Clause 4.4

    Duration, and dates we do not control

    Typical durations are stated per service and assume that your inputs — approvals, data, decisions and replies — arrive as scheduled. Statutory dates belong to your registering body: the NBEMS protocol and submission windows, for example, run from your own joining date[2]. We track those dates with you; we cannot extend them, and no duration stated by us is a guarantee of submission by any date.

  5. Clause 4.5

    Fees and currency

    Fees are billed in Indian rupees. Amounts shown in another currency are indicative conversions for your convenience; the rupee amount is the amount due, and your bank's own conversion and charges apply.

  6. Clause 4.6

    Milestone instalments

    Fees are payable in milestone instalments, due as scheduled in your written scope. Work on a milestone begins when the instalment for it is settled, so a delayed instalment delays the stage rather than compressing it.

  7. Clause 4.7

    Download on full payment

    Until the fee for a deliverable is settled in full, the deliverable is available to read in the secure viewer, watermarked, for review and comment. The download of the final deliverable unlocks on full payment. Nothing is withheld from your review before then; only the file is.

  8. Clause 4.8

    Taxes

    Any tax payable on the fee is charged in addition where it applies, and shown separately on your invoice.

IP and secrecy

Part V

Intellectual property and confidentiality

  1. Clause 5.1

    Your material stays yours

    Your topic, your data, your text and your approvals are yours throughout. Nothing in this agreement transfers any right in them to us, and we acquire no interest in your thesis.

  2. Clause 5.2

    Licence in deliverables

    On full payment, the deliverables we prepared are licensed to you for your own academic use, including submission to your institution. Until full payment they are provided for review only, through the secure viewer. The licence does not permit resale or supply to another student.

  3. Clause 5.3

    Confidentiality, both ways

    Each side keeps the other's project information confidential. Drafts are watermarked and access-controlled, and access is limited to the people working on your project — see privacy §4.3. A non-disclosure agreement is signed on request.

  4. Clause 5.4

    We do not use you as a reference

    We do not publish your name, your institution or your topic, and we do not describe your project as a case study or a testimonial, without your written permission. Your work is never recycled into another student's project.

Liability

Part VI

Liability, suspension and ending the engagement

  1. Clause 6.1

    Limit of liability

    Our liability arising out of or in connection with a service is limited to the fees you have paid for that service. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for loss of opportunity, or for a delay caused by something outside our control.

  2. Clause 6.2

    Institutional decisions

    We are not liable for an institutional decision: a grade, an examiner's view, a rejection or condition imposed by an ethics committee, a guide's instruction, a university's refusal, or an editor's decision on a paper. Those judgements belong to the people who make them.

  3. Clause 6.3

    What cannot be excluded

    Nothing in these terms excludes or limits a liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under the law of India.

  4. Clause 6.4

    When we stop work

    We may decline an engagement, or stop work on one, where a request breaches Part II or Part III, where a dataset cannot be used honestly, or where the time remaining does not allow the work to be done properly. We tell you why in writing, and the refund position is then the one in the refund policy.

  5. Clause 6.5

    When you stop

    You may end the engagement at any time by telling us in writing. What is returned is governed by the refund policy, which forms part of these terms.

Law

Part VII

Governing law, changes and notices

  1. Clause 7.1

    Governing law

    These terms, and any dispute arising out of them, are governed by the laws of India.

  2. Clause 7.2

    Jurisdiction

    Disputes are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts at Punjab, India. Before a dispute is filed, each side agrees to set out its position in writing and give the other fourteen days to answer, because most disagreements are resolved by that exchange alone.

  3. Clause 7.3

    Changes to these terms

    The revision number and the date of the last review are printed at the foot of this page. A change applies to work commissioned after that date. It does not alter the scope, the fee or the revision count already agreed for work in progress.

  4. Clause 7.4

    Notices

    Notices to us go to info@mdthesis.com. Notices to you go to the email address on your account, so keep it current. A message in your project thread is a valid notice about that project.

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