The deal, in plain English.

By using CODE IV— subscribing, reading, replying, submitting a story — you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the site or the newsletter.

CODE IVis a weekly newsletter for EMS workers and nurses, published by GuyFin LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company (“we,” “us”). We write about clinical practice, news, career, pay, gear, and burnout, in a voice meant for working clinicians.

We are not your medical director. We are not your employer. We are not a regulator, an insurer, or a HIPAA covered entity. Nothing we publish is medical advice for a specific patient. Make your scene, your shift, and your patient decisions with your agency’s protocols, your medical director, and your scope of practice.

You need to be at least 16 years old to subscribe. We expect most of our readers to be working EMS or nursing professionals, students in those programs, or people who care about the work, but we don’t check credentials and there’s no membership wall.

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• Forward it to colleagues — that's how we grow.
• Quote a sentence or two with attribution.
• Unsubscribe whenever you want, no questions asked.

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• Republish a full issue or article without written permission.
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The newsletter publishes reader-submitted stories from the field, anonymously by default. When you submit a story to submit@codeiv.coor through any submission form on the site, here’s the deal:

• You confirm the story is yours to tell, and that you've stripped anything that could identify a patient, coworker, or facility.
• You give us a non-exclusive license to edit, lightly rewrite, and publish your story in the newsletter and the site archive. You keep the underlying ownership.
• We may decline to publish for any reason. Receiving a submission does not guarantee publication.
• Once published, you can ask us to remove the piece at any time. We will, within 14 days.
• Anonymous means anonymous — we don't share your identity with sponsors, third parties, or anyone else without your written consent.

If you submit something that contains patient-identifying information, we will reject it and ask you to rewrite. We will delete the original submission within 30 days and not retain the content. If you keep submitting identifying information, we will stop accepting submissions from you.

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A sponsorship is not an endorsement. We don’t verify clinical claims by sponsors and you should evaluate their products on your own.

Articles, designs, and original code on this site are owned by the publisher or its contributors. The CODE IV name and logo are not yours to use without written permission.

Linking to a piece, screenshotting a paragraph in a group chat, or quoting a sentence with attribution is fine and encouraged. Republishing in full, claiming the work as your own, or using the brand for your own purposes is not.

We link to outside resources — crisis lines, articles, products. We don’t control those sites and we’re not responsible for what they do or say.

The crisis resources we list (988, Safe Call Now, FRSN, etc.) are real and we update them when we learn of changes. They are independent organizations, not partners. If a number stops working, email us and we’ll fix it.

The site and newsletter are provided “as is.” We work hard to be accurate but we don’t guarantee that everything is free of errors, always available, fully secure, or up to date the moment a guideline changes. You read at your own discretion.

To the extent allowed by law, the publisher is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages from your use of the site or the newsletter. The publisher’s total liability for any claim is capped at the amount you’ve paid us, which for a free newsletter is zero.

If you make a clinical decision based on something you read here and it goes sideways, that is on you and your scope of practice. Not us.

If your use of the site, your story submission, or your other interactions with us causes a third-party legal claim against the publisher, you agree to cover the resulting costs and defend us, to the extent the law permits.

You can stop using the site and unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. We can also stop sending you the newsletter or block access to the site if you violate these terms or try to harm the publication or its readers. We’ll tell you why if we do.

If we make material changes, we’ll update the “Last updated” date at the top and call it out in the next dispatch. We won’t change terms quietly.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in New Jersey, or by mutual agreement to mediation if both sides prefer.

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