REFUND POLICY
This Payment and Refund Policy sets out the terms and conditions on the basis of which we, APEX PATHLABS (collectively, “APL”, “ApexPathLabs”, “we”, “us” or “our”), will process payments and refunds for transactions carried on Apex Pathlabs through your use of the website ( https://apexpathlabs.com ) (collectively referred to as the “Platform”)] while availing services (detailed in the Terms and Conditions available at: ( https://apexpathlabs.com/terms.php/) made available to you over the Platform (the “Services”). Apex Pathlabs may assign, transfer, and subcontract its rights and/or obligations under this Payment and Refund Policy to any third party, as it may deem fit, and you shall continue to be bound by this Payment and Refund Policy in the event of such assignment or transfer.
a. Payment
- You may use any payment service, like UPI, internet banking or debit or credit cards for making payments for availing any of the Services over the Platform (“Fees”). You shall be directed to our third-party payment aggregation/gateway partners (“Payment Aggregator(s)”) once you proceed to make payment of the Fees. Once re-directed to the Payment Aggregator, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions and privacy policy prescribed by the third party payment gateway/aggregation partner, basis on which, the transaction shall take place. We will share your details with the Payment Aggregator as per the terms of our privacy policy ( )and the same shall be processed in accordance with the respective Payment Aggregator’s privacy policy as may be made available to you by such Payment Aggregator.https://apexpathlabs.com/privacy.php
- Apex PathLabs shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever, if incorrect or inaccurate details (including those concerning credit or debit card(s)) are provided by you for making the payment of the Fees or if you use a credit or debit card which is not lawfully owned by you or if you permit a third party to use your password or any other means of accessing your bank account or credit card or debit card. Please note that neither we nor the Payment Aggregator will be monitoring your use of any payment channel and you are required to use the payment modes at your sole option and risks.
- The Payment Aggregator may block any card number, account numbers, group of cards or transactions from any specific blocked or blacklisted customer cards, accounts, group of IP addresses, devices, geographic locations as deemed fit.
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The Payment Aggregator and banks reserve the right to reject payments with respect for any order including for suspicious and unlawful transactions, potential or actual fraud, suspicious activities, card authentication and authorization issues, over payment made due to mathematical errors or any other issue.
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Apex PathLabs shall keep the financial information as referred to in the Apex Pathlabs Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) confidential at all times and shall not utilize and share the same with any of the third parties unless it is a third party consented to by you and/or required by law, regulation or court order.
- Apex PathLabs shall not be liable for the rejection of any authorization request placed by you for payment of the Fees, by any bank, payment gateway, Payment Aggregator, or other relevant third party, for any reason including but not limited to risk management, suspicion of fraudulent, illegal or doubtful transactions, use of blacklisted/banned cards or pursuant to applicable laws, rules or regulations or any instructions from (or contained in) any guidelines or instructions by the Reserve Bank of India or any internal policies, etc., of such bank, payment gateway or other relevant third party.
b. Specific Payment Modes
- Please note that whenever you choose to utilize any mode of payment, you must fulfil the terms and conditions, as applicable to that mode of payment.
- Specifically for QR code payment, you note that:
• QR Code is provided by the Payment Aggregator(s).
• You can make payments through UPI or a valid card by scanning the QR Code correctly through any of the payment apps available with you and entering the correct amount.
Your data will be processed in accordance with the relevant Payment Aggregator’s privacy policy and terms, which you should comply with, as applicable.
c. Cancellation of Lab Tests
- You may cancel an order for diagnostic tests placed by you at any point 2 hours prior to your scheduled sample collection and reschedule as per your convenience.
- Payments for diagnostic tests made directly on the Platform will be processed as provided in the ‘Refunds’ section below.
d. Cancellation / Rescheduling / Booking of Medical Consultations
- Consultations can be booked, rescheduled or cancelled free of cost up to fifteen minutes prior to the start of the appointment for an audio/video / chat-based consultation (“”) and up to thirty minutes prior to the start of the appointment for a physical consultation. You are allowed to reschedule an Online Medical Consultation up to a maximum of three times for free and are allowed to reschedule a physical consultation once for free.Online Medical Consultation
- Payments for Online Medical Consultation or physical consultation made directly on the Platform will be processed as provided in the ‘Refunds’ section below.
e. Refunds
- Refunds for all eligible cancellations are issued through the payment method used at the time of purchase, except for cash payments made under the Pay on Delivery mode of payment.
- You will not receive cash refunds in connection with a card sale.
- Refunds cannot be processed to third-party accounts. The name on your Apex PathLabs account should match with the name of the bank account holder.
- Refunds will only be made against genuine and trackable cancellation requests generated by you.
- Refunds may be processed within 15 working days from the receipt of a request from you.
- No refund for any eligible cancellation will be processed beyond 6 months of placing a cancellation or return request. However in exceptional circumstances, you may claim a refund beyond this stipulated period at the sole discretion of Apex PathLabs. The refunds for such exceptional circumstances will be in the form of “health credits” that you may be able to use for purchase of goods and services from the same company.
- ApexPathLabs / third party sellers on the Platform reserves the right to modify / implement a new pricing structure at any time prior to billing you for your initial payment of the Fees or for future payments of the Fees.
- The E-Health Package is valid for the [7] days from the time and date of invoice generation.
- After 7 days, the Customer shall not be entitled to claim for Services and the company shall have the right to forfeit the fees already paid in such a case.
- Cancellation shall be acceptable only if the Customer informs the Company within 72 hours from the time of booking. 3% cancellation charges will be applicable on the total amount of invoice.
- The Customer can contact us through e-mail id, admin@apexpathlabs.com in case of cancellation and refund.
- Refund in case of non-satisfaction with test results
Just support with related reports/documents to claim refund.
- Report comparisons after 8 days will not be considered for refund except in case of chronic diseases (Max 16 Days).
- TSH values may differ due to various factorslike:-
i. Time of the day has influence on the value of TSH (reaching peak levels between 2-4 am and a minimum between 6-10 pm).
ii. TSH levels may be transiently altered because of non-thyroid illness,like severe infection, renal disease, liver disease, heart disease,
iii. Severe burns, trauma, surgery etc.
iv. Few drugs can also alter the TSH values.
v. TSH levels between 6.3 and 15.0 may represent subclinical or compensated hypothyroidism or show considerable physiological & seasonal variation,
- Suggest clinical correlation or repeat testing recommended with fresh sample.
- Variation in Triglycerides(one of the parameters of Lipid profile) will not be considered.
