Terms of Use

Welcome to SHIZAM.ca. These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the SHIZAM website, including its reference articles, educational materials, ingredient encyclopedia, medical and health condition encyclopedia, images, graphics, and related content.

By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use this website.

1. Informational and Educational Purpose Only

SHIZAM provides structured, evidence-based reference content on supplement ingredients, medical ingredients, health conditions, clinical topics, human research findings, dosage and exposure context, and intervention-related research.

All content is provided for informational and educational purposes only. SHIZAM content is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or manage any disease or medical condition.

Nothing on this website should be interpreted as medical advice, dietary advice, treatment advice, product recommendation, prescribing guidance, or individualized health guidance.

2. No Medical Advice or Professional Relationship

Use of this website does not create a doctor-patient relationship, pharmacist-patient relationship, dietitian-client relationship, or any other professional healthcare relationship between you and SHIZAM, SHIZAM Limited, the SHIZAM Editorial Team, or any person associated with this website.

You should consult a qualified healthcare professional before making decisions about medical care, medications, supplements, diet, lifestyle interventions, diagnostic testing, or treatment options.

If you have a medical emergency, contact emergency services or seek immediate medical attention.

3. Research Context and Evidence Limitations

SHIZAM articles are designed to summarize and organize available evidence, including human research findings, clinical guidelines, systematic reviews, regulatory materials, and other source-based information where relevant.

However, scientific and medical evidence changes over time. Research findings may be limited by study design, population, dose, formulation, route of use, duration, clinical context, publication quality, or source availability.

A reference to a study, regulatory source, clinical guideline, ingredient, intervention, or therapy does not mean that SHIZAM endorses a treatment, ingredient, product, therapy, diet, or intervention.

SHIZAM does not guarantee that any article is complete, current, exhaustive, error-free, or applicable to your individual circumstances.

4. Ingredient and Supplement Content

Ingredient articles may discuss dietary supplement ingredients, nutrients, botanical extracts, pharmaceutical compounds, over-the-counter ingredients, topical ingredients, excipients, and other medically relevant substances.

Such content is provided for research-context interpretation only. It should not be interpreted as a recommendation to use, avoid, combine, dose, substitute, or discontinue any supplement, medication, ingredient, or product.

Dose and exposure information discussed in SHIZAM articles reflects research context only. It is not dosing advice.

Different formulations, extracts, delivery formats, routes of use, and product qualities may produce different effects or risks. Evidence for one preparation should not be assumed to apply to another preparation unless the article specifically supports that comparison.

5. Medical and Health Condition Content

Medical and health condition articles may discuss diseases, disorders, symptoms, mechanisms, diagnostic context, standard care, prescription therapies, procedures, dietary interventions, supplemental interventions, topical or local-use interventions, lifestyle factors, and evidence gaps.

This content is not a substitute for professional evaluation, diagnosis, or treatment. Symptoms and medical conditions require assessment by qualified healthcare professionals.

SHIZAM does not provide personal medical opinions, treatment plans, emergency guidance, or individualized recommendations.

6. No Product Claims or Commercial Recommendation

SHIZAM.ca includes educational reference content managed by SHIZAM Limited. SHIZAM Limited is also associated with commercial supplement activities under the SHIZAM brand.

The educational reference content on this website is intended to remain separate from commercial product promotion. Reference articles should not be interpreted as claims that any SHIZAM product, or any third-party product, can diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or manage any disease or medical condition.

Any discussion of ingredients, compounds, mechanisms, studies, therapies, interventions, or health topics is for informational research context only and does not constitute product endorsement.

7. Automated Retrieval, AI Systems, and Third-Party Summaries

SHIZAM content may be accessed, indexed, summarized, or interpreted by search engines, automated systems, artificial intelligence systems, browser tools, plugins, or third-party platforms.

SHIZAM is not responsible for how third-party systems summarize, extract, modify, rank, cite, or present SHIZAM content.

Users should review the original SHIZAM article and its cited sources rather than relying solely on third-party summaries, AI-generated answers, snippets, previews, or search-result descriptions.

8. External Links and Third-Party Sources

SHIZAM articles may link to external sources, including research databases, journals, regulatory agencies, government websites, professional organizations, academic institutions, and other third-party materials.

External links are provided for reference and source transparency. SHIZAM does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for their availability, accuracy, security, content, policies, or changes over time.

A link to an external source does not imply endorsement of that source’s broader views, products, services, or conclusions beyond the specific context cited.

9. Accuracy, Availability, and Updates

SHIZAM aims to provide structured and source-traceable content, but we do not warrant that the website or its content will be error-free, uninterrupted, complete, current, or suitable for any particular purpose.

Articles may be updated, revised, expanded, removed, reorganized, or corrected at any time without notice.

Medical, scientific, regulatory, and legal information may change. Users are responsible for verifying information before relying on it.

10. User Responsibility

By using this website, you agree that you are responsible for your own decisions and actions based on any information you read, access, or interpret.

You agree not to use SHIZAM content as a substitute for professional medical care, professional advice, emergency services, regulatory review, legal advice, or individualized health guidance.

You also agree not to misuse the website, interfere with its operation, attempt unauthorized access, scrape or copy content in violation of applicable law, or use the website for unlawful purposes.

11. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the content on SHIZAM.ca, including text, article structure, headings, graphics, images, logos, design elements, and other materials, is owned by or licensed to SHIZAM Limited.

You may access and read the website for personal, educational, or informational use.

You may not reproduce, republish, sell, modify, distribute, scrape, systematically copy, or create derivative works from SHIZAM content without prior written permission, except where permitted by applicable law.

Short quotations with appropriate attribution may be permitted for commentary, research, or reference purposes, provided they do not misrepresent the original content or imply endorsement.

12. Trademarks

SHIZAM® is a brand and trademark used by SHIZAM Limited in connection with dietary supplement products and SHIZAM’s health, supplement-ingredient, medical-ingredient, and health-condition reference publishing activities.

SHIZAM Limited reserves all rights in the SHIZAM® name, logo, trade dress, website presentation, and related brand elements to the extent recognized under applicable trademark, copyright, unfair competition, and related laws.

Nothing in these Terms of Use is intended to claim ownership of unrelated third-party trademarks, product names, company names, logos, or brand assets. Third-party names and marks appearing on this website are the property of their respective owners and are used only for identification, source attribution, comparison, research discussion, or editorial context.

You may not use SHIZAM® branding in a way that falsely suggests sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, approval, or authorization by SHIZAM Limited.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, SHIZAM Limited, the SHIZAM Editorial Team, and related parties are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or other damages arising from or related to your use of, or reliance on, this website or its content.

This includes, but is not limited to, damages related to medical decisions, supplement use, product use, third-party summaries, incomplete information, errors, omissions, website interruptions, or external links.

14. No Warranties

This website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

SHIZAM makes no warranties or representations, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, suitability, non-infringement, or fitness for any particular purpose of the website or its content.

15. Changes to These Terms

SHIZAM may update these Terms of Use at any time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms of Use.