Terms of service

The portal is built and operated by:

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redazione@anatomiavariabile.net

It is the counterparty to these terms and the data controller. Scientific direction of the content is separate from technical operation: whoever builds the infrastructure does not answer for scientific merit, and vice versa.

AVA publishes documentation on human anatomical variation. Reading is free and requires no account. An account is needed only by those who wish to propose content, and proposing content additionally requires a professional profile verified by the editorial team.

The portal is under construction. Some features — registration, password recovery, professional verification, the assistant — stay closed when the external services they depend on are not configured, and in that case they say so instead of failing. Reading depends on none of them.

Every article declares its own licence at the foot of the page, and that licence — not these terms — determines what may be done with it. Entries translated from other people’s works carry the licence of the source work: attribution, non-commercial use, same licence on any further derivative.

Licences, attribution and reuse rules

Automated use that impairs the availability of the service is not permitted, nor is the removal of attribution and licence statements from reused content: these are the two conditions whose breach harms readers and authors respectively.

• The account is personal and the details given must be true. Professional verification rests on what the user declares, and that declaration is an act of responsibility, not a formality.
• Credentials must be kept safe: whoever acts through an account is answerable for what happens under it.
• The editorial team may suspend an account, stating its reasons, if the declarations turn out to be untrue or if the use harms the portal or its readers.

Anyone proposing an article warrants that they have the right to publish its content and to distribute it under the declared licence. The text must state its sources, the provenance of anything that is not original, and the mandatory declarations: conflicts of interest, funding, ethical aspects, consent, data availability and any use of artificial-intelligence tools.

The decision to publish rests with the editorial team and is reasoned. Content that turns out to be wrong is corrected or retracted visibly and stays readable: others may have cited it, and making it vanish would render those citations unverifiable.

The editorial method

The content is published for scientific documentation and teaching purposes. It is not medical advice and does not replace the judgement of a healthcare professional: using it to make decisions about a person is a use the portal neither anticipates nor supports.

Full medical disclaimer

The portal is offered as it is, with no guarantee of continuity: it may be interrupted for maintenance, because of a fault, or because a service it depends on is unavailable. Its features and content may change.

To the extent the law allows it to be agreed, the operator is not liable for damage arising from the unavailability of the service, nor for damage caused by a use of the content contrary to these terms or to the medical disclaimer — in particular by using the content to make clinical decisions, which the portal expressly excludes. Nothing in this clause excludes or limits liability where the law does not permit it to be excluded or limited, including intent and gross negligence.

How the data of account holders is handled is described in the privacy notice.

These terms are governed by Italian law. For anyone using the portal as a consumer, the mandatory forum of their place of residence or domicile applies; in every other case the courts of the operator’s seat have jurisdiction. Before any action, a report to the address below is the quickest way to resolve a problem.

Substantial changes to these terms are flagged on this page, with the new version and effective date stated below; account holders are also notified at their registered email address before they take effect. Continuing to use the account after that date counts as acceptance; anyone who does not accept may close their account by writing to the address given. For any question: redazione@anatomiavariabile.net.

Version 2.0, effective 12 August 2026. Later versions replace the previous one from the stated date; substantial changes are flagged on this page.