HIPAAsuite Terms of Service

These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of HIPAAsuite software, documentation, APIs, downloads, hosted services, and related support offerings provided by Martin Scholl Consulting, Inc. dba HIPAAsuite. By purchasing, accessing, installing, or using the service, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

This page clarifies the commercial rules around licensing, acceptable use, support, data handling, and legal limitations for Aurora Parser and related HIPAAsuite products. If you need a separate enterprise agreement, business associate agreement, or procurement addendum, contact HIPAAsuite before production deployment.

1. License and Service Access

HIPAAsuite products are licensed, not sold. Subject to these terms and any order form, invoice, or written quote, HIPAAsuite grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the licensed software and related materials for your internal business operations.

• Perpetual use for purchased versions: Unless your order states otherwise, your purchased license continues for the licensed version you acquired, subject to compliance with these terms.
• Permitted deployment: You may install and run the software in environments you control for development, testing, staging, and production, within the scope of the plan you purchased.
• Compiled application distribution: If your plan includes redistribution rights, you may ship your own compiled applications that depend on HIPAAsuite libraries, but you may not expose the libraries themselves as a standalone commercial offering.

2. Prohibited Conduct

• No resale of the product itself: You may not resell, sublicense, lease, publish, white-label, or distribute HIPAAsuite libraries, DLLs, packages, source code, or documentation as a standalone product, competing SDK, or reusable developer toolkit.
• No unauthorized reverse engineering: Except where applicable law expressly forbids contractual restriction, you may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive source, internal rules, licensing logic, or proprietary processing flows from the product.
• No misuse of service capacity: You may not use the service to benchmark for public competitive claims, bypass usage or license limits, or run abusive workloads that materially degrade hosted systems.
• Remedies for breach: A material violation may result in suspension of support, hosted access, license keys, downloads, or future updates until the issue is cured.

3. Maintenance, Updates, and Support

• Maintenance term: Commercial licenses may include a maintenance and support period that covers updates, fixes, and reasonable support access for the purchased term.
• Renewals: Continued access to new releases, upgrade assistance, and support may require an active maintenance plan or renewal.
• Support standard: Support is provided on a commercially reasonable basis and response times depend on severity, environment details, and reproduction quality.

4. Customer Responsibilities and Compliance

You are responsible for configuring, validating, and monitoring your own production workflows, message transformations, partner mappings, and downstream business logic. You remain responsible for verifying that outputs are accurate and appropriate for your operational and regulatory use case.

• HIPAA obligations remain yours: HIPAAsuite software can support HIPAA workflows, but your organization remains responsible for privacy, security, retention, access control, and compliance decisions.
• Business associate terms: If your usage requires a separate BAA or security review, those obligations must be addressed in a separate signed agreement where applicable.

5. Intellectual Property

All rights, title, and interest in the HIPAAsuite platform, including software, documentation, design assets, product names, and derivative improvements made by HIPAAsuite, remain the exclusive property of Martin Scholl Consulting, Inc. No implied rights are granted.

6. Warranties and Disclaimers

HIPAAsuite does not warrant that the product will meet every payer, clearinghouse, partner, or custom workflow requirement without customer-side configuration, testing, or adaptation.

7. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, HIPAAsuite will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost revenue, lost data, lost profits, business interruption, replacement costs, or procurement of substitute services, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, HIPAAsuite's aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the service will not exceed the fees paid by you for the applicable product or service during the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

You are solely responsible for backup strategy, validation of outputs, release management, and review of any files or transactions processed using the service.

8. Termination

These terms remain in effect until terminated. HIPAAsuite may suspend or terminate access for material breach, non-payment, unlawful use, or misuse of the product. Upon termination, you must stop using the affected service and, where applicable, destroy or uninstall unlicensed copies.

9. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, USA, excluding conflict-of-law principles, unless a separate written agreement states otherwise.

10. Contact

Contract, licensing, and support questions may be directed through HIPAAsuite commercial support channels or through the main website at hipaasuite.com.