Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and using WhatIsBrainFog.com ("the Site"), you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the Site.

2. No Medical Advice or Doctor-Patient Relationship

3. Assumption of Risk

You acknowledge and agree that:

• You use the information on this Site at your own risk
• Any actions you take based on information from this Site are your sole responsibility
• Individual responses to lifestyle changes, supplements, or other interventions vary significantly
• What works for one person may not work for another and may cause harm
• Always verify information with a qualified doctor

4. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WHATISBRAINFOG.COM, ITS OWNERS, OPERATORS, CONTRIBUTORS, AND AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING FROM:

• Your use of or inability to use the Site
• Any information obtained from the Site
• Any decisions made or actions taken based on information from the Site
• Any health outcomes, whether positive or negative
• Delays or interruptions in treatment you may experience

This limitation applies regardless of the theory of liability, including negligence, strict liability, or any other legal theory.

5. Supplements and Products Disclaimer

Any discussion of dietary supplements, products, or interventions on this Site:

• Has not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or equivalent regulatory bodies
• Is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease
• Should not replace guidance from qualified doctors
• May interact with medications or have contraindications for certain conditions

6. Intellectual Property and User-Submitted Content

WhatIsBrainFog or its content suppliers own all editorial content on this Site, including text, graphics, logos, illustrations, citation structures, tools, and design elements. Copyright protects this content. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works of our editorial content without express written permission.

User-submitted content. When you voluntarily submit a My Fog check-in, saved item, note, comment, feedback, or any other content (“User Content”), you retain ownership of it. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable, and irrevocable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt, moderate, redact, aggregate, translate, analyze (including with automated and AI tools), and display your User Content for the purpose of operating the Site, improving our editorial content, and publishing derived summaries. We will honor the consent scope you select at submission time (for example, private or research) for any aggregated display. This improvement license does not apply to Buddy conversations. Buddy messages are processed to produce replies and, if you choose, to continue a saved chat. WBF does not use them to train or fine-tune AI, create research datasets, produce editorial summaries, or supply other public content. You represent that any content you submit is yours to share, does not contain another person’s identifying information without their consent, and does not contain protected health information that you are not authorized to disclose.

Takedown and withdrawal. You may request deletion of your User Content at any time via the data-subject request flow at our Privacy page. We will delete identifiable records within a reasonable period. Aggregated or anonymized derivations that no longer identify you may remain in our historical artifacts.

7. Prohibited Uses

You agree not to:

• Use the Site for any unlawful purpose
• Reproduce or redistribute content without permission
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Site
• Use the Site in any way that could damage, disable, or impair it
• Use automated means to access the Site without permission

7A. AI Training, Data Mining, and Automated Access

The content on this Site (including all editorial text, citations, summaries, comparisons, tools, calculators, doctor handouts, supplement recommendations, lab interpreter outputs, glossary entries, and other published material) is the product of substantial human editorial effort. The publisher expressly reserves its rights for text-and-data-mining and AI training purposes.

By accessing the Site you agree to the following restrictions:

• No AI training. You may not use, copy, scrape, extract, or otherwise reproduce any portion of the Site to train, fine-tune, prompt-engineer, evaluate, embed, vectorize, distill, or develop any generative AI model, large language model, multimodal model, embedding model, or derivative AI system, whether for research, commercial, or any other purpose.
• No dataset inclusion. You may not include any portion of the Site in any public or private dataset, corpus, archive, or aggregation distributed for AI training, model evaluation, benchmarking, retrieval-augmented generation indexing, or any related purpose.
• No commercial reuse. You may not reproduce, syndicate, paraphrase, or repackage any portion of the Site for commercial use by any party other than the publisher, including derivative AI-generated content based on Site material.
• No automated extraction without verifiable bot identity. Scraping, crawling, indexing, or systematic extraction by any agent that has not obtained verifiable bot identity from the publisher (via contact email below) is prohibited. This includes residential-proxy-routed automated access and headless-browser scraping.

Machine-readable opt-out. The publisher states its rights reservation under EU Copyright Directive 2019/790 Article 4 (text-and-data-mining), the United Kingdom Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 section 29A, and the Berne Convention in machine-readable form through:

• HTTP response header TDM-Reservation: 1 with policy URL TDM-Policy: https://whatisbrainfog.com/tdm-policy.json
• HTML <meta name="tdm-reservation" content="1"> and <meta name="tdm-policy" content="..."> on every page
• HTTP response header and HTML meta X-Robots-Tag: noai, noimageai
• robots.txt with explicit Disallow blocks for AI bots
• /tdm-policy.json machine-readable policy declaration following the W3C TDM Reservation Protocol

Technical access controls. The Site is protected by Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, edge access gates, application-layer middleware, IP and ASN blocking, and bot-management heuristics. Bypassing or attempting to bypass these technical controls (for example, by rotating user agents, using residential proxy networks, spoofing verified-bot identity, or otherwise concealing the source of requests) is a violation of these Terms and may constitute circumvention of technical protection measures under applicable digital copyright law.

Research access by request. Research organizations as defined in EU CDSM Article 2(1) acting in the public interest may request written permission for limited content access by emailing hello@whatisbrainfog.com with institution, project description, corpus use, and publication plan. Any extraction needs written permission first. Approval does not transfer downstream commercial rights, dataset distribution rights, or AI training rights.

Continued access constitutes agreement. Continued access, scraping, or extraction after publication of these Terms and the machine-readable opt-outs listed above constitutes willful, knowing access in violation of the publisher's reserved rights.

8. Third-Party Links

This Site may contain links to third-party websites. We provide these links for convenience only. We do not endorse, control, or assume responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites.

8A. Optional Reader Contributions

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A contribution isn't a charitable donation, and you won't get a charitable tax receipt. It is not an investment, grant, membership, or purchase of any part of WBF.

9. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of the Site after changes constitutes acceptance of the modified terms.

10. Contact

Send questions about these Terms to hello@whatisbrainfog.com