These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Pocket POCUS iOS application ("the App"). By downloading, installing, or using the App, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
Last updated: June 24, 2026
The App is an educational and informational reference tool intended for use by licensed healthcare professionals and healthcare trainees acting under appropriate supervision. The App's content — including scan protocols, probe-positioning guidance, ultrasound images and cine clips, 3D models, indications and findings, calculators, and references — is provided for general informational purposes only.
The App does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and it does not interpret images or studies for you. Nothing in the App constitutes, or is a substitute for, professional medical judgment, formal medical or sonographic training, supervision by qualified personnel, or consultation with appropriately credentialed practitioners.
Content in the App is general in nature and may differ from the policies, protocols, procedures, scanning and documentation standards, and credentialing requirements of your hospital, health system, training program, or other institution. In all cases, your institution's policies and protocols, applicable laws and regulations, and the direction of your supervising and credentialing authorities take precedence over any content in the App. You are solely responsible for knowing and following the rules that govern your practice.
Clinical decisions and patient care must always be guided by your own professional training, scope of practice, licensure, institutional privileges, and clinical judgment, taking into account the individual circumstances of each patient. You agree that:
Use of the App does not create a doctor–patient, provider–patient, or any other professional relationship between you (or any patient) and the App's developers or contributors.
Medical knowledge changes continuously. While the App's content is prepared with care and supported by cited references, we make no representation or warranty that the content is accurate, complete, current, or applicable to any particular clinical situation. Calculators and indices provide estimates based solely on the values you enter and published formulas, and must be interpreted within the full clinical context; they do not independently determine diagnosis or management. References reflect the literature available at the time of writing and may become outdated. If you identify an error, please report it to pocketpocus@outlook.com.
The App is developed and published in the United States and reflects clinical practices, equipment, terminology, and regulatory standards generally applicable in the United States. Medical practices, devices, standards of care, and credentialing requirements vary between countries and regions. If you access or use the App from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are solely responsible for verifying that any content is accurate, lawful, and appropriate for use in your jurisdiction, and for compliance with all applicable local laws, regulations, and professional standards. We make no representation that the App or its content is appropriate or available for use in any particular location.
You acknowledge that medical, sonographic, and procedural practice involves inherent risks and that you assume full responsibility for, and all risks arising from, your use of the App and any reliance you place on its content. Any reliance you place on the App's content is strictly at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you hereby release, waive, and discharge the App's developers and contributors, and their respective owners, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates (the "Released Parties"), from any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses of any kind, whether known or unknown, arising out of or relating to your use of the App or its content. This release is in addition to, and does not limit, the disclaimers and limitations of liability set out elsewhere in these Terms.
THE APP AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF DEFECTS.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE APP'S DEVELOPERS, CONTRIBUTORS, OR ANYONE INVOLVED IN CREATING OR DISTRIBUTING THE APP BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES — INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CLAIMS, LOSS OF DATA, OR LOSS OF PROFITS — ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE APP OR ITS CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU; IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the App's developers and contributors, and their respective owners, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to your use or misuse of the App, your violation of these Terms, your violation of any applicable law or regulation or the rights of any third party, or your provision of medical care. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defense of that claim.
The App and its original content, features, images, videos, models, and design are owned by the App's developers and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the App for personal, professional reference purposes. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from the App's content without prior written permission. This restriction does not limit any personal accessibility modifications you are permitted to make through features of your device's operating system (for example, adjusting font size or colors, or generating captions, translations, or summaries of content for your own personal use). Cited references remain the property of their respective publishers.
You agree to use the App only for its intended, lawful purpose and in accordance with these Terms. You agree that you will not, and will not authorize or permit any third party to:
These Terms remain in effect while you use the App. We may suspend or terminate your access to and license to use the App at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice, including if we believe you have violated these Terms. You may terminate these Terms at any time by ceasing all use of the App and deleting it from your devices. Upon any termination, the rights and licenses granted to you under these Terms will immediately end and you must stop using the App. All provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination — including, without limitation, the disclaimers of warranties, limitations of liability, release, indemnification, intellectual-property, and governing-law provisions — will survive.
The App is distributed through the Apple App Store, and these Terms incorporate the following terms required by Apple. In the event of any conflict between this Section 14 and the remainder of these Terms with respect to your relationship with Apple, this Section 14 governs.
Relationship to Apple's terms. Your use of the App is also subject to the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, the Apple Licensed Application End User License Agreement, and any usage rules established by Apple (collectively, the "Apple Terms"). These Terms are supplemental to, and do not replace or override, the Apple Terms. To the extent anything in these Terms is inconsistent with the Apple Terms as they govern your relationship with Apple, the Apple Terms control.
Acknowledgement. These Terms are an agreement between you and the App's developer only, and not with Apple. The App's developer, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and its content.
Scope of license. The license granted to you for the App is a limited, non-transferable license to use the App on any Apple-branded product that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the App may be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
Maintenance and support. The App's developer is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the App, as required by these Terms or applicable law. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services for the App.
Warranty. The App's developer is solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the App to you; to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App.
Product and intellectual-property claims. The App's developer, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the App or your possession or use of the App, including product-liability claims, claims that the App fails to conform to any legal or regulatory requirement, claims arising under consumer-protection or similar law, and claims that the App infringes a third party's intellectual-property rights.
Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist-supporting" country, and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Third-party terms. You agree to comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App.
Third-party beneficiary. You acknowledge and agree that Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
Developer contact. Questions, complaints, or claims regarding the App should be directed to Pocket POCUS, pocketpocus@outlook.com.
We may add, change, suspend, remove, or discontinue the App, any content, or any feature, in whole or in part, at any time and without notice or liability. We do not guarantee that the App or its content will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, and we may impose limits on or restrict access to all or part of the App without notice or liability. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any loss, damage, or inconvenience arising from any modification, suspension, interruption, or discontinuance of the App or its content. We may revise these Terms from time to time; the "Last updated" date above reflects the most recent version. Your continued use of the App after any change to the App or these Terms constitutes your acceptance of the change.
If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
These Terms, and any dispute or claim of any kind arising out of or relating to them, the App, or your use of the App, are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. You agree that the state and federal courts located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will have exclusive jurisdiction and venue over any such dispute or claim, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum. Nothing in this section limits any mandatory consumer-protection rights that may apply to you under the laws of your place of residence.
Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any other policies or notices we post in connection with the App, constitute the entire agreement between you and the App's developers regarding the App and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings, communications, and agreements, whether written or oral, on that subject. These Terms do not supersede, and are in addition to, the Apple Terms described in Section 14, which separately govern your relationship with Apple.
No Waiver. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not operate as a waiver of that or any other right or provision. Any waiver must be in writing to be effective.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms, or any of your rights or obligations under them, without our prior written consent, and any attempted assignment in violation of this provision is void. We may freely assign or transfer these Terms and any of our rights and obligations under them, in whole or in part, without restriction or notice, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.
Force Majeure. We will not be liable or responsible for any failure or delay in performance, or for any loss or damage, caused by events or conditions beyond our reasonable control, including natural disasters, epidemics or pandemics, power or internet failures, acts of government, or failures of third-party services or infrastructure.
Electronic Communications. When you use the App or send communications to us, you are communicating with us electronically and you consent to receive communications from us electronically. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing, and you consent to the use of electronic records and signatures.
Relationship of the Parties. No agency, partnership, joint venture, employment, or other relationship is created between you and the App's developers by these Terms or your use of the App.
Questions about these Terms? Email pocketpocus@outlook.com.
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