Privacy, plainly

Your answers never leave your device

Every screening on this site is scored by JavaScript running in your own browser. Your answers are held in the page's memory and are gone the moment you close or reload the tab. Specifically:

• No answers are written to cookies, local storage, or session storage.
• No answers are sent to Guardian Recovery or any third party while you take a screening.
• Fonts and images are served from this domain, so taking a screening does not reveal your visit to any outside company.
• There is no account, no login, and no email required.

If you close the tab halfway through, that progress is simply gone. That is deliberate, and the tradeoff is worth it.

The one exception: the contact form

At the end of each screening there is an optional form for requesting a call from our admissions team. That form is the only thing on this site that transmits anything. If you fill it in and submit it, we receive what you typed and, unless you uncheck the box, your score and answers, so that whoever calls you has context and you do not have to start over.

If you never submit that form, we never receive anything about your screening.

What we do collect

This site is served through Cloudflare, which processes standard web request data (IP address, browser type, requested page) in order to deliver pages and block abuse. Any analytics, if enabled, are configured to record which pages were visited and whether a screening was started or completed, never which answers were selected.

Guardian Recovery's full privacy policy and notice of privacy practices govern any information you choose to send us, including protected health information you may share when speaking with our admissions team.

Instruments and attribution

These screenings reproduce published clinical instruments. Each screening page cites its source and permission terms in full at the bottom of the questions and again on the results page:

• PSC-17 and PSC Youth Self-Report: Massachusetts General Hospital; made freely available for clinical and research use.
• EPDS / EPDS-US: Cox, Holden & Sagovsky (1987); Moyer et al. (2023). Reproducible with citation.
• Mood Disorder Questionnaire: Hirschfeld et al. (2000); permission for use granted by R. M. A. Hirschfeld, MD.
• DSM-5 criteria: paraphrased in plain language for screening; criteria are copyright of the American Psychiatric Association.