Last updated: 9 June 2026
These terms ("Terms") govern your access to and use of OffNook (the "Service"). By creating an account, signing in, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. The Service
OffNook is an independent, non-commercial calendar tool that lets you record your own work pattern and optionally share it with one paired partner. The Service is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of the National Health Service (NHS), any NHS Trust or Health Board, the General Medical Council ("GMC"), or any employer. Nothing in the Service constitutes employment, payroll, rota-management, occupational-health, medico-legal, or clinical decision support.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. You must use the Service only for lawful purposes and in compliance with these Terms, your professional obligations (including, for doctors registered with the GMC, the duties set out in Good Medical Practice), your employer's information-governance policies, and applicable data protection law.
3. Your account
You are responsible for safeguarding the credentials used to access your account and for all activity that occurs under it. Notify us immediately at aimen.8250@gmail.com if you suspect unauthorised access. We may suspend or terminate accounts that, in our reasonable view, breach these Terms.
4. Acceptable use
You must not:
- Enter patient-identifiable information. Do not record any data that could identify a patient (initials, hospital number, ward identifier combined with date, clinical notes, photographs, etc.). The Service is for your own work pattern only.
- Enter information you are not permitted to disclose under your contract of employment, an NDA, or any duty of confidence.
- Share your invite code with anyone other than the partner you intend to pair with.
- Use the Service to harass, defame or impersonate any person, or to upload unlawful, obscene or infringing content.
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any account other than your own, to the underlying infrastructure, or to data of any other user.
- Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or interfere with or disrupt its operation, except as part of a coordinated disclosure agreed with us in writing.
- Use automated means (scrapers, bots) to access the Service except for accessibility tools you personally rely on.
- Use the Service to train machine-learning models on other users' data.
5. Partner sharing
Pairing is opt-in and mutual. By accepting an invite, you grant the inviting user permission to view the shift data and basic profile fields described in our Privacy Policy, and they grant you the equivalent permission in return. Either user can unpair at any time, after which neither user retains live access to the other's data through the Service.
You are responsible for who you pair with. Do not pair with a person you do not trust with your work pattern.
6. Intellectual property
The Service, including its design, code, text, logos and other content (excluding user-generated content), is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property law. You retain ownership of the shift data and other content you submit ("Your Content"). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, transmit and display Your Content solely as necessary to operate the Service for you and your paired partner.
7. Availability, beta nature and changes
The Service is provided on an "as available" basis. It may be modified, suspended or discontinued at any time. Features may be added, changed or removed. We will give reasonable notice of material changes that adversely affect you where it is practical to do so.
8. Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including (but not limited to) implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that data will never be lost. You must maintain your own authoritative record of your rota with your employer.
9. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence; (b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or (c) any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law in your jurisdiction (including, for consumers in the UK, your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and equivalent EU consumer protection).
Subject to the above, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for any loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, business opportunity, anticipated savings, or corruption or loss of data. Our aggregate liability to you arising out of or in connection with the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, shall not exceed one hundred pounds sterling (£100).
10. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) your misuse of the Service, or (c) any patient-identifiable or otherwise confidential information you upload in breach of clause 4.
11. Termination
You can stop using the Service at any time and request account deletion by emailing aimen.8250@gmail.com. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you materially breach these Terms or if we are legally required to do so. Clauses that by their nature should survive termination (including clauses 8 to 10 and 13) will survive.
12. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If a change is material, we will give you reasonable notice (for example, by email or via an in-app notice) before it takes effect. Continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
13. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer resident in another part of the United Kingdom or in the EEA, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, and you have the benefit of any mandatory consumer-law protections of that country.
14. Contact
Questions about these Terms: aimen.8250@gmail.com.
These Terms are provided in good faith. They are not a substitute for independent legal advice; if you operate this Service or a fork of it for your own users, you should have these Terms reviewed by a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction.