Terms of Service

These terms explain what Dietitians Without Borders is, what it is not, and the agreement between us and you when you read our guides. We have written them in the same plain language we use everywhere else on the site — no dense legalese for its own sake — because terms you cannot understand protect nobody.

Dietitians Without Borders (dietitianwithoutborders.com, “we,” “us,” “our”) publishes dietitian-led editorial guides to home medical nutrition equipment and to nutrition and diet topics. By accessing or using this website, you agree to the terms set out below. If you do not agree with any part of them, please stop using the site. We may update these terms as the site grows; the version posted here is the one in effect, and continued use after a change means you accept the revised terms.

Last updated: June 2026.

The medical and editorial disclaimer — read this first

This is the most important section on the page, so we have put it near the top rather than buried it at the bottom. Everything published on Dietitians Without Borders is educational and general in nature. It is not personalized medical advice, dietetic advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and it is not a substitute for the judgment of a clinician who knows your case.

We write for patients, caregivers, clinicians, and students, but we cannot see your prescription, your care plan, your allergies, or your specific condition. That matters enormously in this field. Tube-feeding rates and formulas, insulin dosing, fluid restrictions, blood-glucose targets, and dysphagia texture levels are individual clinical decisions made for one person, by the team responsible for that person’s care. A guide that is correct in general can be wrong — even dangerous — when applied to a particular situation it was never written for.

So please use our content the way it is intended:

To understand the equipment before an appointment, so you can ask sharper questions.
To recognize the jargon a clinician uses, so you are not nodding along to terms you do not know.
To prepare for a hospital discharge or a change in care, so the practical side feels less overwhelming.

And please do not use it:

To start, stop, or change how you feed, dose, monitor, or thicken at home without speaking to your dietitian, physician, or clinical team first.
To self-diagnose or to interpret a symptom that needs professional assessment.
As a reason to delay seeking care. If you think you are having a medical emergency, contact your local emergency services immediately.

Nothing on this site creates a clinician–patient relationship between you and Dietitians Without Borders or any member of our editorial team. Reading a guide does not make us your dietitian. Use our guides to ask better questions — not to replace the answers from the people who actually know your case.

Accuracy, evidence, and the limits of “current”

We work hard to keep our guidance evidence-informed and current. Each guide is grounded in clinical evidence, manufacturer specifications, professional dietetic practice, and peer-reviewed literature where it exists, and we revisit guides as devices, formulations, and best-practice guidance change. Where the evidence is thin or contested, we say so plainly rather than dress it up as certainty.

That said, home-care equipment and nutrition science both move quickly. Specifications get revised, products are discontinued, formulations change, and guidelines are updated. We cannot guarantee that every detail on every page reflects the very latest information at the moment you read it. The content is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind — express or implied — including any implied warranty that the information is complete, accurate, up to date, or fit for a particular purpose. Always confirm device-specific details, dosing, and compatibility against the manufacturer’s current instructions and your own care team before acting.

Intellectual property — our guides are original work

The content on this site — the written guides, explainers, checklists, the way they are organized and worded, the original illustrations and graphics, and the Dietitians Without Borders name and wordmark — is our original work, created by our editorial team, and is protected by copyright and other intellectual-property rights. We invested real effort in writing guidance we would be comfortable handing to a patient, and we ask that you respect it.

You are welcome to:

Read, screenshot, and print our guides and checklists for your own personal, non-commercial use, or to share with the family member or patient you are caring for.
Link to our pages from your own website, social posts, or class materials — we encourage it, and a link is the kindest form of credit.
Quote a short, attributed excerpt with a clear link back to the original page.

You may not, without our written permission:

Copy, republish, or redistribute substantial portions of our content as if it were your own.
Use our content to train or fine-tune machine-learning models, or scrape the site at scale.
Use the Dietitians Without Borders name, wordmark, or branding in a way that implies we endorse, are affiliated with, or have reviewed your product, service, or organization when we have not.
Resell or commercially exploit our guides, checklists, or graphics.

Manufacturer names, device names, and third-party trademarks mentioned in our guides belong to their respective owners and are referenced descriptively, for clinical clarity, not to claim any affiliation.

Outbound links and sourcing-link disclosure

We keep a clear, deliberate line between two kinds of content, and our linking policy follows that line exactly.

Editorial nutrition content stays commercial-free

Our nutrition and diet articles — the FODMAP, gluten-free, sugars, and plant-based material, and any disease-state nutrition explainers — are written to be neutral and free of calls to action. We do not place sourcing links or sponsored recommendations inside that editorial content, because doing so would quietly erode the very credibility those articles are meant to carry.

Equipment guides close with a sourcing note

Our equipment guides do end with a genuinely useful “where to source these supplies” note, because a family that has just learned what a feeding set or a thickener is reasonably wants to know where to get one. Where those notes link out — for example, to our resources for enteral feeding sets, thickeners, glucometers, or adaptive feeding aids — we want you to understand the relationship honestly:

These are sourcing and outbound links, clearly marked as such within the guide.
Some outbound links may be affiliate or referral links, which means we could earn a small commission if you make a purchase after following them. This comes at no extra cost to you and never changes the price you pay.
A commission, where one exists, does not buy a recommendation. We point you toward a supplier because the products fit the clinical need we just described — not because a placement was paid for. We do not fabricate reviews, invent testimonials, or publish pay-for-praise.
We do not control third-party websites. Once you follow an outbound link, that site’s own terms, privacy practices, and accuracy are its responsibility, not ours. Always check device compatibility and confirm what your own prescription or insurance covers before buying anything.

If a sourcing note ever feels like a sales pitch rather than a helpful pointer, that is a bug, not the design — tell us and we will fix it.

Acceptable use

We ask you to use the site fairly and lawfully. When you use Dietitians Without Borders, you agree that you will not:

Use the site for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that breaches any applicable law or regulation.
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the site, its servers, or any connected systems, or interfere with its normal operation.
Introduce malware, attempt to disrupt the service, or place an unreasonable load on our infrastructure through automated scraping, scanning, or bulk requests.
Copy, harvest, or republish our content in breach of the intellectual-property terms above.
Misrepresent your identity or impersonate Dietitians Without Borders, our editorial team, or any other person when contacting us or referencing the site.
Use anything you read here to provide what amounts to professional medical or dietetic advice to others as if it were individualized clinical care — that is not what this content is for.

We reserve the right to restrict or block access to the site, without notice, for anyone who breaches these terms or whose use threatens the site’s security or availability.

Limitation of liability

We provide this site in good faith and take real care with what we publish, but you use the information on it at your own discretion and risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law:

Dietitians Without Borders and its editorial team are not liable for any loss, injury, or damage — direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential — arising from your use of, or reliance on, anything published on this site, or from any decision you make based on it.
We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, products, services, or practices of any third-party website we link to, including suppliers reached through sourcing notes.
We do not warrant that the site will be available without interruption, error-free, or free of harmful components, although we will make reasonable efforts to keep it running well.

Nothing in these terms is intended to exclude or limit any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, and nothing here removes your statutory rights. Because clinical decisions are personal and consequential, this limitation is not us avoiding responsibility for careful editorial work — it is us being honest that general guidance cannot safely carry the weight of an individual care decision. That weight belongs with you and your clinical team.

Changes to these terms and to the site

The internet, the science, and the equipment all change, and so will this site. We may update, add to, reorganize, or remove content and pages, and we may revise these terms from time to time to keep them accurate and fair. When we make a material change to the terms, the “Last updated” date above will reflect it. Your continued use of the site after a revision means you accept the updated terms, so it is worth glancing at this page now and then if you rely on the site regularly.

Questions, corrections, or concerns

If anything in these terms is unclear, or if you spot content that is out of date or wrong, we genuinely want to hear from you — accuracy and fairness are processes, not one-time events. We would rather fix a problem you noticed than have it sit there.

Contact our editorial team

You may also want to read how we handle your information in our Privacy Policy, or learn who we are and how we work on our About page.