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These terms are the agreement between you and Pscholar. By creating an account or using Pscholar you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use Pscholar.

Last updated: 5 October 2026.

1. Who we are, and what Pscholar is

Pscholar (pscholar.net) is operated by Pscholar, an independent project based in Saudi Arabia and currently in a trial run ("we", "us"). You can reach us at support@pscholar.net.

Pscholar is a psychiatry education platform. It gives you practice questions written for Pscholar, with an explanation and a reference for each one, tools to build your own sets of questions, timed sets, clinical station practice, and a record of how you are doing.

Pscholar is independent. It is not affiliated with, produced by, endorsed by or connected to any examination body, licensing body, university, hospital or training programme. No examination body has reviewed, approved or licensed anything on Pscholar.

Every question on Pscholar is written for Pscholar. We do not reproduce questions from any examination, past paper or third-party question bank. If you believe any item on Pscholar reproduces material from somewhere else, tell us at support@pscholar.net and we will remove it while we investigate.

2. No promise about any examination

Practising on Pscholar does not qualify you for anything and does not predict, guarantee or improve any examination result. Your scores on Pscholar are scores on Pscholar. They are not a mark, a grade, a qualification, or an assessment recognised by any examination body, employer or training programme. Any report you download from Pscholar is a record of your own practice activity, nothing more.

3. Not medical advice

Pscholar is educational material. It is not clinical guidance and not medical advice, for you or for anyone else.

• Do not use Pscholar to decide how to treat a patient. Questions, options, explanations and references are written to teach and to test reasoning, and they are deliberately simplified.
• Drug names, doses, thresholds and diagnostic criteria on Pscholar may be out of date at the moment you read them. Always check the current summary of product characteristics, your local formulary, and current guidelines before acting.
• Nothing on Pscholar creates a doctor–patient relationship, and nothing on it is a second opinion.
• If you are a patient, or the family of a patient, looking for help: Pscholar is not for you. Speak to your own doctor. In an emergency, contact your local emergency services.

You remain fully responsible for your own clinical decisions and for your own professional obligations.

4. Who may use Pscholar

You may create an account if all of the following are true:

• You are at least 18 years old.
• You are a doctor or a medical student studying psychiatry.
• The information you give us when you register, including your name, email address and level, is true.

Pscholar is not for members of the public and is not for anyone under 18.

5. Your account

• Your account is personal. One person, one account. Do not share your password or let anyone else sit tests as you.
• Keep your password safe and tell us at once if you think someone else has used your account.
• You are responsible for everything done through your account.
• You may delete your account at any time — see the Privacy Policy for what happens to your data.

6. Price

Pscholar is in a trial run. During it there is no charge, the bank is still growing, and features may change or be withdrawn. We may charge for Pscholar in the future. If we do, we will tell you before any charge applies to you, and you will never be charged without agreeing to it first. Nothing you have already used will become retrospectively payable.

7. What you may not do

You may use Pscholar for your own study. You may not:

• copy, save, screenshot, transcribe, record, publish, share, sell or redistribute questions, options, explanations, references, stations, checklists or any other Pscholar content, in any medium, to anyone;
• use Pscholar to build, train or improve any other question bank, course, revision resource, machine-learning model or dataset;
• use any automated means (scraper, crawler, bot, script, headless browser) to read Pscholar or to extract content from it;
• attempt to bypass the login, access another user's data, probe or test the security of the site, or interfere with its operation;
• let anyone who is not entitled to an account use yours, or open an account for someone else;
• reverse engineer or attempt to obtain the source of any part of Pscholar that is not published as open source;
• use Pscholar in any way that breaks the law, or that breaches your own professional obligations.

If you break this clause we may suspend or close your account immediately.

8. Our content, and yours

All Pscholar content — questions, options, explanations, references, stations, checklists, text, design, code written for Pscholar, and the Pscholar name and mark — belongs to us or to our licensors and is protected by copyright and other rights. You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use it for your own study while your account is open. You get nothing else.

Pscholar runs on Moodle, which is open-source software published under the GNU General Public Licence. Nothing here restricts your rights under that licence in respect of Moodle itself.

When you send us something — a problem report on a question, a note, a suggestion, feedback, an email — you keep whatever rights you have in it, and you give us a free, worldwide, perpetual licence to use it to run and improve Pscholar, including to correct and rewrite questions. We will not publish your name alongside it without asking you first.

9. Statistics and research

We measure how questions perform and how people use Pscholar, so that we can fix bad questions, decide what to write next, and show you useful comparisons. This includes aggregated and de-identified statistics — for example the proportion of users who answer a question correctly, or the average score in a topic at a given level.

We may use, publish and present those aggregated and de-identified statistics, including in academic work. We only ever publish figures for groups large enough that no individual can be identified from them, and we never publish your name, email address or any other detail that identifies you.

Anything beyond that — research on individual-level records, or contacting you about a study — needs your separate, explicit consent, which you can give or refuse on the research consent page and withdraw at any time. Refusing it changes nothing about your access to Pscholar. The Privacy Policy explains all of this in detail.

10. Availability

Pscholar is a small service run by a team of two psychiatrists. We try to keep it available and correct, but we do not promise that it will be available at any particular time, that it will be free of errors, or that any question is free of mistakes. We may change, add to, withdraw or stop any part of Pscholar, and we may stop the service entirely. If we plan to close Pscholar we will give you reasonable notice and time to download your own data.

11. Suspending or closing your account

We may suspend or close your account if you break these terms, if we are required to by law, or if we close Pscholar. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond. You may close your account at any time.

12. Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

• Pscholar is provided "as is". We give no warranties beyond those that cannot be excluded by law.
• We are not liable for any examination result, career outcome, clinical decision, patient outcome, lost time, lost data, lost profit or indirect loss arising from your use of Pscholar.
• Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim — which, while Pscholar charges nothing, is nothing.
• Nothing in these terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and costs arising from your breach of these terms or from your own clinical practice.

13. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. If a change matters to you, we will ask you to accept the new version the next time you log in, and the previous version stays on record. Continuing to use Pscholar after a change means you accept it.

14. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the competent courts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have jurisdiction. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

15. Contact

Questions, complaints, copyright concerns and requests about your data: support@pscholar.net.

Full policy

This policy explains what Pscholar records about you, why, who can see it, and what you can ask us to do about it. It is written to be read, not to be skimmed past.

Last updated: 13 October 2026.

1. Who is responsible for your data

Pscholar (pscholar.net) is operated by Pscholar, an independent project based in Saudi Arabia and currently in a trial run. We are the party responsible for the personal data described here. Contact us about anything in this policy at support@pscholar.net.

2. What we collect

a. What you give us when you register

• Your first and last name.
• Your email address.
• Your username and a one-way encrypted form of your password. We never see your password itself.
• Your residency level (R1–R4, fellow, and so on), and any other profile detail you choose to fill in.

b. What you tell us in Pscholar

• What you are working on, and an exam date if you enter one.
• The settings you choose when you build a test: topics, levels, question types, number of questions, mode, timer.
• Problems you report on a question or a clinical station, including anything you write in the report.
• Questions you flag, and any note you save on a question.

c. What we record while you practise

This is the part that makes Pscholar useful, so it is worth being precise. For every question you are shown, we record:

• which question it was, which version of it, and its topic, level and type;
• whether you had ever seen it before;
• the option you first chose, the option you ended on, and how many times you changed your mind;
• which options you crossed out;
• whether you got it right;
• how long it was on your screen, and when.

We also keep a log of each action on the test screen — showing a question, choosing an option, submitting, flagging, crossing out, pausing, resuming, finishing — with its time. This is what lets us rebuild a report later, measure how hard a question really is, and investigate a complaint about a question or a score.

At a clinical station we record which stations were drawn, when each part started and ended, the notes and answers you type, and each checklist item as marked, with when and by whom.

If you invite a partner — an examiner or an actor — into a clinical session, they join with a code and need no account. We record the name they type, their role, what they do in the session, the marks they give and any problem they report with a station, and a cookie on their device holds their seat. Their name is shown to you and on your results.

If you make a study plan, we keep its name, the books, dates and rest days you chose, the name and page count of any book you add yourself, the timetable made from them, and the days you tick as done. Deleting a plan deletes all of it. If you share a plan by a code, anyone who has the code can copy the plan as you made it (its books, chapters and dates): not your name, and not what you have ticked. You can stop sharing at any time.

d. What the system records automatically

• Standard web server and application logs: your IP address, the pages you requested, the time, and your browser's user-agent string.
• A session cookie so you stay logged in, and cookies that remember your preferences (for example dark mode). We do not use advertising cookies, and we do not run third-party analytics or advertising trackers.
• Email we send you: account confirmation, password reset, any reply from support, and, only if you turn them on, a reminder on the study days of your plan.
• On the public pages, a count per day of how many visitors open the landing page, try a sample question or start creating an account. Only the daily totals are kept: no cookie is set for this, and nothing about the visitor is recorded.
• If you ask to be told when Pscholar opens, the email address you leave on the welcome page. It is used for one email, on the day Pscholar opens, and for nothing else, and it is deleted once that email has been sent. To have it removed sooner, write to us.

3. Why we hold it, and on what basis

Why	Basis
To give you an account and run the service you asked for	Performance of our agreement with you (the Terms of Use)
To show you your own results, history and reports, and to let you resume a test	Performance of our agreement with you
To keep the service secure, to investigate misuse, and to keep records of consent	Our legitimate interest in running a safe service, and our legal obligations
To find and fix bad questions, and to decide what to write next	Our legitimate interest in the quality of the material
To produce aggregated, de-identified statistics and comparisons	Our legitimate interest in a useful product, with individuals not identifiable
Research on individual-level records, or contacting you about a study	Your separate, explicit consent, which you may withdraw at any time

4. Who can see your results

This is the promise Pscholar is built on, so it is stated plainly:

• Your individual results are visible to you and to the site administrator. Nobody else — no other user, no supervisor, no programme director, no hospital, no examination body — can see your scores, your answers or your history.
• We do not report you to anyone. We will never tell your programme, your supervisor or your employer that you use Pscholar, or how you did.
• Other users see only averages across groups, and only once a group is large enough that no individual can be identified from it. Pscholar keeps a counter for this and holds the comparisons back until the numbers are there.
• Where an average is shown, each person counts once, so no single heavy user shapes it.
• If you invite a partner into a clinical session, they see that session's stations while it runs and the marks they give you — nothing else of yours, and nothing once the session ends.

The only exceptions are the ordinary ones: where you ask us to share something, where we must disclose it by law or to a competent authority, or where it is necessary to investigate a serious breach of the Terms of Use.

5. Our suppliers

We keep this list short on purpose.

• Hosting. Pscholar runs on servers rented from a commercial web-hosting provider. Your data is stored there. Those servers are located outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which means your data is transferred and stored abroad; we choose providers that contract to keep it confidential and secure.
• Email. Account and support email is sent through our hosting provider's mail service.

We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers, data brokers, recruiters, insurers, employers or training programmes. We do not use it to train anyone else's artificial-intelligence model, and we do not send it to a third-party model to be trained on.

6. Research

Pscholar exists partly to answer questions that matter to psychiatry education: which topics people find hardest, how learning curves look over time, whether a question actually discriminates. Research on this is a stated purpose of the site, and it is split into two levels.

Without any extra consent from you, we use aggregated and de-identified data — figures about groups, never about an identifiable person — to improve Pscholar and to produce and publish statistics, including in academic work. Published figures always cover groups large enough that no individual can be identified.

With your separate, explicit consent, we may also use your de-identified individual-level records in research studies, and invite you to take part in a survey or interview. That consent:

• is optional — Pscholar works exactly the same if you decline;
• is recorded with a date, so there is a clear record of what you agreed to;
• can be withdrawn at any time, which stops any further use of your records in research;
• never allows your name or email address to appear in any publication or dataset shared outside Pscholar;
• does not replace ethics approval. Any study that needs approval from a research ethics committee will have it before that study starts.

You will be asked about this separately, and you can change your answer whenever you like.

7. How long we keep it

• While your account is open: we keep your account details and your practice record, because that record is the service — your history, your progress and your reports depend on it.
• If you delete your account: we delete your account details and your practice record. What remains is aggregated and de-identified data that cannot be traced back to you — for example the fact that a question was answered correctly 62% of the time. That cannot be unpicked into your records, and it does not identify you.
• Server logs: kept for a limited period for security and troubleshooting, then deleted or overwritten in the ordinary course.
• Records of consent (which policy version you accepted and when): kept for as long as we may need to show what you agreed to.

8. Your rights

You can ask us to:

• tell you what we hold about you, and give you a copy of it;
• correct anything that is wrong;
• delete your account and your data;
• stop using your data for a particular purpose, or withdraw a consent you gave;
• explain anything in this policy that is not clear.

The quickest route is to write to support@pscholar.net from the email address on your account. We will answer within 30 days. There is no charge. Deleting your account is free and permanent, and we will not argue with you about it.

If you think we have handled your data badly, tell us first — we would rather fix it. You also have the right to complain to the competent data protection authority in your country.

9. Security

Pscholar is served over an encrypted connection, passwords are stored only as one-way hashes, and access to the database is limited to the administrator. We take backups so that your record is not lost. No system is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise: if a breach affects your data, we will tell you and the relevant authority as the law requires.

10. Not for children

Pscholar is for doctors and medical students aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly collect data about anyone under 18. If you believe a child has an account, tell us and we will remove it.

11. Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will ask you to read and accept the new version the next time you log in, and the previous version stays on record.

12. Contact

support@pscholar.net — for any question, request or complaint about your data.

Full policy

This one is optional. Pscholar works exactly the same whether you agree or not, and you can change your answer whenever you like. Please read it and decide.

Last updated: 5 October 2026.

Why we are asking

Almost nothing is published about how doctors actually learn psychiatry: which topics are hardest and at which stage of training, how quickly a topic improves with practice, whether a question separates those who know a topic from those who do not, how much answer-changing helps or hurts. Pscholar records exactly the data that could answer those questions, and answering them would improve psychiatry education for the doctors who come after you.

What happens without this consent

We already use aggregated, de-identified data to run and improve Pscholar, and we may publish it — for example "62% of users answered this question correctly", or "the average score in this topic at R2 is 58%". That is covered by the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, needs no separate consent, and describes groups, never you.

What this consent adds

If you agree, then in addition:

• Your individual-level practice records — the questions you were shown, your answers, your timings, your topics, your training level — may be used in research studies, with your name, email address and username removed and replaced by a code.
• We may invite you to take part in a survey or a short interview about how you study. An invitation is only ever an invitation.
• De-identified datasets may be shared with named collaborators or a journal for the purpose of a specific study, or deposited where a journal requires it, always de-identified.

What this consent never allows

• Your name, email address or username in any publication, dataset or presentation.
• Any report about you to your programme, your supervisor, your employer or any examination or licensing body.
• Selling your data, or passing it to advertisers, recruiters, insurers or data brokers.
• Using your data to identify or single you out for any purpose other than research you have agreed to.
• Marketing. This is not a mailing list.

Your control

• Optional. Declining costs you nothing. You keep every feature, every question and every report.
• Withdrawable. Change your answer in Your settings at any time, or email support@pscholar.net. Withdrawal stops any further use of your records in research from that moment. Analyses already published cannot be unpublished, and de-identified data already released to a journal or a collaborator cannot always be recalled — which is one reason to read this before agreeing.
• Recorded. Your answer is stored with its date, so there is always a clear record of what you agreed to.

Ethics

Any study that requires approval from a research ethics committee or institutional review board will have that approval before the study begins, and will follow whatever the approval requires — including a narrower consent than this one, if that is what is asked for. This page is a general permission, not a substitute for a specific study's ethics approval.

Risk

The realistic risk is re-identification: a de-identified record that still carries a rare combination of details (an unusual training level, a small region, an unusual pattern of activity) can in principle be linked back to a person. We reduce that risk by stripping identifiers, by reporting only groups large enough to hide an individual, and by not releasing raw records publicly. We cannot reduce it to zero, and we are telling you so rather than promising otherwise.

Questions

Ask before you agree, if you want to: support@pscholar.net.