Provider Listing Agreement

This is the agreement between OpenTaper (operated as a sole proprietorship) and the prescriber listed in the directory. By clicking accept during signup, you agree to it. We have tried to keep it short and plain.

What you get

A listing on opentaper.com showing your name, credentials, practice description, contact information, and other professional details you submit. Access to the provider portal at opentaper.com, where you'll find:

• A pack of clinician reference handouts on tapering psychiatric medications (foundational concepts, operational practice, clinical disposition)
• A patient-facing handout you can share with your own patients
• A visit assessment tool for use during appointments
• A foundational bibliography
• Recordings of OpenTaper webinars
• Whatever else we add over time

We won't reduce what's in the resource pack during your paid subscription, but we may add to it, update individual documents, or improve them.

What we ask of you

That the information you submit for your listing is accurate. That you hold a current, active, unrestricted license to prescribe in at least one U.S. state. That you are in good standing with your licensing authority. That you keep the listing reasonably up to date when things change.

That your tapering practice is genuinely informed by the published clinical literature on careful deprescribing — the work of Horowitz, Taylor, Framer, Read, and others, and the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines. We're not asking you to be certified in deprescribing (no such standardized credential exists). We are asking that the published frameworks are the basis of your approach and that you can discuss patient experiences in terms consistent with that evidence.

That you tell us if any of this stops being true — if you lose your license, change your practice substantially, or stop applying the published frameworks. We'll work with you on whether continued listing makes sense.

What we are and aren't

OpenTaper is a directory. We're not your employer, your supervisor, your business partner, or your referral source in any regulated sense. We don't direct patients to specific providers or take per-patient fees. Your clinical practice is entirely yours. Your patients are entirely yours. We just list you.

We don't certify your clinical competence or guarantee the quality of your care or the outcomes your patients experience. The attestation is your representation that your practice is informed by the published evidence, not OpenTaper's verification that it is.

Using the resource pack

During your subscription, you can:

• Use the resource pack documents in your clinical practice
• Share the patient-facing handout with your own patients, in print or electronically
• Reference the documents in your patient education and clinical documentation

Please don't:

• Post resource pack documents on a public website
• Sell or sublicense them
• Modify them and present them as your own work
• Remove OpenTaper's attribution
• Use them as the basis for a service that competes with OpenTaper
• Share your provider portal login with people outside your practice

If your subscription ends, you can still use copies of documents already shared with specific patients in their ongoing care, but please stop using the resource pack actively in new work.

Fees and payment

The subscription fee is shown on the OpenTaper website at the time you subscribe or renew. Payments are processed by Stripe. By subscribing, you authorize us (through Stripe) to charge the payment method on file at the start of each billing period.

Subscriptions auto-renew unless you cancel.

If a payment fails, we'll try again and let you know. If it stays unresolved after a couple of weeks, we'll suspend your listing. If still unresolved after thirty days, we'll end the subscription.

We may change prices with at least thirty days' notice. The new price applies to your next renewal, not the current term.

Cancellations and refunds

You can cancel anytime through the provider portal or by emailing us. If you cancel, your listing remains active through the end of the current paid period; we don't pro-rate or refund the unused portion.

Subscription fees are non-refundable. If you believe you have genuinely exceptional circumstances, you're welcome to contact us — we're a small, mission-driven directory and we'll consider special cases individually, at our discretion. But as a rule, we don't offer refunds.

If we need to remove your listing

We may suspend or remove a listing for reasons including:

• Loss, suspension, or restriction of your prescribing license
• Information you submitted being materially inaccurate
• Your practice no longer matching the attestation
• Complaints about your conduct that we consider serious enough to warrant concern
• Breach of this agreement, including non-payment
• A material change in your practice such that the listing no longer fits

When this comes up, we will usually talk with you first. We will explain what we're seeing, hear your response, and make a decision in good faith. License issues, or other situations serious enough that we think immediate suspension is appropriate, may not include that conversation in advance.

We are not trying to be aggressive about removals — we vetted you to list you, and we'd much rather keep working with you than not. But we reserve the right to remove listings when we believe the directory's integrity requires it.

After a removal for cause, your access to the resource pack and provider portal ends. We don't owe refunds in this case, but if your situation is genuinely complicated and you ask, we'll work with you.

Some legal basics

Your responsibility, our responsibility. You are responsible for your clinical practice and for any consequences of the care you provide. OpenTaper is not part of that care and is not responsible for it. If a patient or anyone else has a claim related to your clinical care, the claim is between them and you, not us.

Limits on what either of us owes the other. Neither of us is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages. Our total liability to you for any claim related to this agreement is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Intellectual property.The OpenTaper name, logo, website, and resource pack are ours. The license in this agreement is the only authorization to use them. Your listing content is yours; you grant us a license to display it as part of the directory while you're listed.

No special endorsement either way.You can factually say “Listed on OpenTaper” in your own marketing. Please don't represent OpenTaper as certifying your services. We don't.

Confidentiality.You may receive non-public materials through the provider portal (resource pack documents, webinar discussions, etc.). Please don't share them outside your practice.

If something goes wrong between us

Please email us first. We'd much rather work it out directly than escalate. If it can't be resolved that way, disputes are handled under the laws of Texas, in the courts located there.

Changes

We may update this agreement. When we make meaningful changes, we'll let you know and post the updated version. If a change doesn't work for you, you can cancel before it takes effect.

A few small things

This is the whole agreement between us, along with the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can't transfer it to someone else without our consent. If any part of it turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still applies.

Contact

For questions about this agreement, email us at hello@opentaper.com.

By clicking the acceptance checkbox during signup, you agree to these terms.

OpenTaper is a directory service. We do not provide medical advice. Always consult a licensed healthcare provider before making changes to your medication.