Terms of use

1. The service

SPU Academy is a video-on-demand platform dedicated to continuing surgical and medical education: complete procedures, narrated step by step, with chapters and subtitles depending on the content.

The platform currently runs as a demonstration: the catalogue is shown for illustration and no payment is collected. The plans described in section 5 will apply when subscriptions open.

2. The publisher

The publisher's full identity (company name, registered office, registration, publishing director) appears in the legal notice, available from the footer. This information will be completed before paid subscriptions open.

3. Your account

Creating an account requires a valid email address, a name and a password. You agree to provide accurate information and to keep your credentials confidential: anything done from your account is deemed done by you.

An account is personal. It may be signed in on at most two devices, website and app combined; the “My devices” page lets you disconnect one remotely, and every new sign-in is notified to you by email.

You may delete your account at any time from “My account”. Deletion is final and covers the data described in the privacy policy.

4. Intellectual property and copyright

All content on the platform — videos, commentary, texts, logo, brand, interface — is protected by copyright and remains the property of the publisher or its licensors. © SPU Academy, all rights reserved.

Your subscription or purchase grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable streaming licence, for private or individual training use. No rights are transferred.

Without prior written permission, the following are prohibited: recording, capturing, downloading, reproducing, publicly performing, redistributing or reselling the content, in whole or in part, and circumventing technical protection measures (short-lived signed links, screen-capture blocking in the app).

Filmed procedures are recorded with patient consent and systematically anonymised. Any report about a piece of content can be sent through the Contact page.

5. Plans, duration and cancellation

The plans are: a monthly subscription opening the whole catalogue; a yearly subscription per specialty; and single-video purchase, which opens that video with no time limit for as long as it remains available on the platform. Prices are shown on the Subscription page; a launch price is reserved for the first thousand seats and is kept by a member who resumes their subscription.

A monthly subscription runs one month, a yearly one twelve months, from the moment of subscription. Nothing renews automatically today: the end date is set at subscription, a reminder email is sent seven days before, then access closes — subscribing again opens a new period. If automatic renewal is introduced, it will be announced and cancellable under the same conditions.

A subscription can be cancelled at any time from “My account”, without notice, up to the last moment of the period: access then runs until the end date already paid, and stops, with no refund of the current period. Until the end date, a cancellation can be undone (“resume my subscription”) with no change of price or end date. A single-video purchase is final and cannot be cancelled.

A member can hold only one identical subscription at a time. As the monthly plan covers the whole catalogue, a specialty yearly plan cannot be added to it, nor can an already-open video be purchased again.

Price changes apply to future periods only, never to periods already paid, after prior notice by email.

6. Right of withdrawal

As the content is supplied immediately in digital form, by subscribing you request immediate performance and acknowledge, in accordance with consumer law applicable to digital content, that you waive your fourteen-day right of withdrawal from your first access to paid content.

7. Medical disclaimer

The content is training material intended for healthcare professionals and students. It is neither medical advice, nor a treatment recommendation, nor a binding protocol: every practitioner remains solely responsible for their clinical decisions, within the rules of their art and jurisdiction.

If you are not a healthcare professional, this content is no substitute for a consultation: for any health question, see a professional.

8. Sensitive content and minimum age

The platform shows footage of real procedures that may be disturbing. It is restricted to adults: by creating an account you declare that you are at least eighteen years old.

Access to sensitive content requires accepting a warning before playback and, for professional-only content, a sworn declaration whose text, date and version are kept as evidence.

9. Prohibited uses

Breaking these rules may lead to suspension or closure of the account, without prejudice to any claim for damages. Amounts corresponding to unused periods are not refunded where closure follows a clear violation.

• sharing your credentials or letting a third party use your account;
• recording, capturing or rebroadcasting the content by any means;
• circumventing, or attempting to circumvent, technical protection or access measures;
• using the platform for unlawful purposes, or in a way that degrades its operation;
• reselling, renting out or commercially exploiting access to the service.

10. Availability and changes to the service

The publisher strives to keep the service available without being able to guarantee it: maintenance windows and incidents may occur. The catalogue evolves; a video may be added, modified or withdrawn.

If a video purchased individually is permanently withdrawn, or if the platform shuts down, the publisher will inform the buyers concerned and state the applicable arrangements.

11. Liability

The publisher cannot be held liable for indirect damages, nor for damages resulting from a use of the content contrary to section 7, from the user's own fault or from force majeure. Nothing in these terms limits the publisher's liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, nor the mandatory rights granted to you as a consumer by the law of your country of residence.

12. Governing law and disputes

The governing law and competent courts will be stated in the legal notice together with the publisher's identity. If you live in the European Union, you keep in any event the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and the option of consumer mediation or the European online dispute resolution platform.

Any complaint can first be sent through the Contact page: most difficulties are solved there, quickly.

13. Changes to these terms

These terms may change, in particular when payments open or new features are introduced. The version date appears at the top of the page; any substantial change will be announced to account holders by email or at sign-in, before it takes effect.