Terms and Conditions

Purpose of the Website

SmokeFreePakistan.org provides information, research, educational resources, public-health content, legal and policy documents, audio/radio programs, AI-supported explanations, and awareness material related to tobacco control, smoking cessation, nicotine use, harm reduction, and public health.

The website is intended to support public understanding, research, policy discussion, education, and awareness. It is not intended to replace professional medical advice, legal advice, official government guidance, or expert consultation.

Acceptable Use

Users agree to use SmokeFreePakistan.org only for lawful, educational, research, awareness, and informational purposes.

• Do not use the website for unlawful, harmful, misleading, abusive, or fraudulent activity.
• Do not attempt to damage, overload, hack, disrupt, or misuse the website or its systems.
• Do not submit harmful code, spam, fake requests, or automated abuse through forms, search, or AI tools.
• Do not copy, republish, or misuse website content in a way that misrepresents ARI or SmokeFreePakistan.org.
• Do not use AI tools to generate harmful, misleading, illegal, or abusive content.

We may restrict, block, or take action against activity that harms the website, its users, or its public-health purpose.

Health Information Notice

The health-related information available on SmokeFreePakistan.org is provided for general awareness and educational purposes only.

The website may discuss smoking, tobacco use, nicotine, quitting smoking, second-hand smoke, public-health risks, harm reduction, and related research. This information should not be treated as personal medical advice.

Users should consult qualified health professionals for personal medical concerns, diagnosis, treatment, smoking cessation support, or health-related decisions.

Use of AI Features

SmokeFreePakistan.org may provide AI-powered features to help users understand website content in simple formats such as summaries, bullet points, Q&A, reports, Urdu explanations, social media messages, and other educational outputs.

AI-generated responses are provided to support understanding and convenience. They may be incomplete, simplified, or may require verification from original website content, official documents, research papers, or expert sources.

• AI responses should not be treated as final professional advice.
• Users should verify important information from original sources.
• Users should avoid submitting private, confidential, medical, legal, or sensitive personal information into AI tools.
• AI outputs may be changed, improved, limited, or discontinued at any time.

ARI is not responsible for decisions made only on the basis of AI-generated responses.

Accuracy of Information

We aim to provide accurate, useful, and responsible public-health information. However, content may contain summaries, interpretations, older documents, external references, AI-generated explanations, or information that may change over time.

Users should not assume that all information is complete, current, or suitable for every situation. Where official legal, medical, policy, or technical accuracy is required, users should consult the original source or a qualified professional.

SmokeFreePakistan.org may update, revise, remove, or correct content at any time without prior notice.

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the content, layout, design, text, graphics, summaries, website structure, and other materials on SmokeFreePakistan.org belong to or are used by Alternative Research Initiative (ARI) for public-health, research, education, and awareness purposes.

Users may read, share, cite, and use website content for educational, research, awareness, and non-commercial purposes, provided that proper credit is given to SmokeFreePakistan.org and ARI where appropriate.

Users may not misuse, alter, sell, misrepresent, or republish website content in a way that creates confusion, damages the website’s purpose, or falsely suggests endorsement by ARI.

External Links and Third-Party Content

SmokeFreePakistan.org may include links to external websites, government documents, research papers, partner organizations, public-health resources, media content, journals, and other third-party sources.

These links are provided for reference and convenience. We do not control external websites and are not responsible for their content, availability, security, privacy practices, or accuracy.

Visiting external links is at the user’s own discretion and subject to the terms and policies of those external websites.

User Submissions

Users may submit information through contact forms, search boxes, AI tools, feedback forms, or other website features. Users are responsible for the content they submit.

• Do not submit false, unlawful, abusive, defamatory, harmful, or misleading content.
• Do not submit private information about other people without permission.
• Do not submit confidential, highly sensitive, or personal medical information through public website features.
• Do not submit copyrighted material unless you have permission to do so.

We may review, remove, ignore, or restrict user submissions where necessary for security, legal, editorial, or operational reasons.

Limitation of Liability

SmokeFreePakistan.org is provided as an informational and educational resource. While we aim to keep the website useful and accessible, we cannot guarantee that the website will always be error-free, uninterrupted, fully updated, or suitable for every user’s needs.

Alternative Research Initiative (ARI), its team, contributors, partners, or related persons shall not be liable for any direct or indirect loss, damage, misunderstanding, decision, or action taken on the basis of website content, AI-generated output, external links, or technical issues.

Users are responsible for verifying important information before relying on it.

Website Availability and Changes

We may update, improve, suspend, modify, or remove any part of SmokeFreePakistan.org at any time. This may include pages, content, AI tools, audio features, search tools, downloads, forms, links, or website design.

We are not responsible if any part of the website becomes unavailable temporarily or permanently due to maintenance, technical issues, hosting issues, security concerns, or other reasons.

Privacy

Use of this website is also subject to our Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, protected, and handled when users visit the website or use its features.

Please read our Privacy Policy for more information.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time. Any updated version will be posted on this page with a revised update date.

Continued use of the website after updates means that users accept the revised Terms and Conditions.

Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms and Conditions, please contact:

Alternative Research Initiative (ARI)

Website: www.smokefreepakistan.org

Main organization website: www.aripk.com