1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing, browsing, interacting with, or completing the assessment on Mental Health Score ("the Service", "the Application"), you explicitly acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms and Conditions and our accompanying Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree with any part of these terms, your sole and immediate remedy is to refrain from using the application and to close your browser session.

2. Nature of the Service (Non-Medical & Informational)

Mental Health Score is an independent, non-commercial self-reflection and digital habit awareness tool designed exclusively for personal introspection, general wellness education, and lifestyle habit tracking.

3. Strict No Medical Diagnosis Provision

The composite 100-point Vitality Index score, category percentages, radar visualization points, and accompanying behavioral reflections generated by this application are mathematical aggregations of your self-reported inputs.

Under no circumstances should any result, tier description, or feedback provided by Mental Health Score be construed as a confirmed diagnosis of depression, clinical anxiety, major depressive disorder (MDD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), bipolar disorder, attention deficit disorder (ADHD), or any other clinical psychological condition.

The developer strictly refrains from making diagnostic assertions (e.g., "You have depression" or "You have an anxiety disorder"). All metrics represent an exploratory, moment-in-time reflection.

4. User Responsibility & Agency

As a user of the Service, you hold sole responsibility for:

• The honesty, accuracy, and subjective truthfulness of the answers you select during the assessment.
• How you perceive, interpret, contextualize, and internalize the score, vitality tier, and dimension recommendations.
• Any personal, medical, professional, or lifestyle decisions made following your use of this reflection tool.
• Seeking independent evaluation from licensed healthcare professionals whenever experiencing chronic distress, mood volatility, or cognitive strain.

5. Professional Healthcare & Help

If you find yourself struggling with persistent sadness, debilitating stress, insomnia, burnout, or emotional overwhelm, we strongly advise you to contact a licensed psychologist, certified counselor, or general healthcare practitioner.

The micro-habits and educational suggestions (such as the 10-3-2-1 sleep wind-down or physiological sigh) are general wellness best-practices and should never supersede prescribed clinical treatment regimens or medical advice.

6. Strict No Emergency or Crisis Intervention Service

7. Accuracy, Self-Reporting, and "As-Is" Disclaimer

The Service and all associated scoring algorithms, visualizations, and content are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, statutory, or implied.

While the developer strives to calibrate questions against respected psychological and circadian models, self-reported data carries inherent subjectivity. The developer makes no guarantees regarding the scientific accuracy, reliability, therapeutic suitability, or completeness of the assessment outcomes for any individual user.

8. Availability & Modifications

The developer reserves the unrestricted right to modify, refine, update, pause, or permanently discontinue any feature, question, dimension, visual layer, or URL of the Service at any time without prior notice or liability.

9. Intellectual Property & Permitted Use

All original design architectures, user interfaces, branding assets ("Mental Health Score", "Reflective Vitality Index"), customized CSS styles, SVG iconography, curated questionnaire taxonomies, and Javascript code are the intellectual property of the developer (credited as "scripted by dev").

Users are granted a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to interact with the assessment for private, non-commercial self-reflection. You may not scrape, reverse-engineer, repackage, sell, or commercially exploit this application or its original assets without express prior written authorization.

Open-source libraries incorporated in the presentation layer (such as the Three.js 3D rendering library under the MIT license) remain the intellectual property of their respective maintainers.

10. Third-Party Resources & Links

The application may reference external telephone numbers, government portals (e.g., MoHFW Tele-MANAS), or load third-party static assets (e.g., Google Fonts or unpkg CDNs). Mental Health Score does not exercise editorial or operational control over third-party infrastructure and assumes no responsibility for external availability, uptime, or privacy standards.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the developer ("scripted by dev") shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising out of or in connection with:

• Your access to, use of, or inability to access or use the application;
• Any interpretation, belief, conclusion, or personal life decision formed as a result of viewing an assessment score;
• Failure to seek professional medical or psychiatric consultation;
• Temporary browser malfunctions, local storage cache loss, or unexpected client-side device errors.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the developer from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) resulting from or alleged to result from your unauthorized misuse of the service or your violation of these Terms and Conditions.

13. Governing Law & Jurisdiction (India)

This application is developed and operated from within the Republic of India. These Terms and Conditions and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the Republic of India, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

Any legal proceeding arising from or relating to the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of law in India.

14. Modifications to Terms

We may revise these Terms and Conditions periodically to reflect technical enhancements, architectural updates, or regulatory alignments. When modifications occur, the "Effective Date" at the top of this document will be updated accordingly. Continued interaction with the site following any update constitutes acceptance of the amended terms.

15. Developer Contact Information

For inquiries regarding these Terms and Conditions, operational queries, or feedback, please contact the developer directly at:

1. Architectural Core & Privacy-First Philosophy

Mental Health Score is engineered with a strict Privacy-by-Design foundation. In an era where personal health inquiries are frequently collected, profiled, and monetized by digital advertisers, this application deliberately removes cloud tracking from its architecture.

2. Local Browser Processing (Zero Transmission)

When you interact with selection buttons, numerical chips, or continuous sliders on the assessment page, all mathematical weighting, dimension aggregations, and score computations are performed locally in your device's browser memory via client-side JavaScript (scoring.js).

The application does not send your question answers across any network request or API endpoint. You can inspect your browser's Network tab at any time: submitting the assessment makes zero outbound network requests containing your answers.

3. Sensitive Mental Health Data & Zero Personal Identifiers

We recognize that self-reflection responses concerning mood, stress, sleep patterns, and physical vitality constitute deeply sensitive human experiences. To ensure total anonymity:

• We never request your full name, email address, physical address, date of birth, phone number, or government identifiers (e.g., Aadhaar number, PAN, voter ID, passport details).
• The assessment employs strictly controlled inputs (fixed option buttons and numerical sliders). There are zero open free-text fields where personally identifiable information (PII) could be inadvertently submitted.
• If you choose to communicate with the developer via email (scriptedbydev@gmail.com), your email address is used solely to respond to your inquiry and is never associated with any assessment score.

4. Detailed Browser Storage (localStorage) Disclosure & Erasure

To provide a smooth user experience without requiring accounts, the application uses your browser's standard HTML5 Local Storage (localStorage). The data stored is confined strictly to your local device sandbox. Below is an exhaustive disclosure of every key utilized:

5. Cookies & Tracking Technologies (Zero Cookies)

Mental Health Score does not set, read, or utilize any first-party HTTP cookies, tracking cookies, flash cookies, canvas fingerprinting scripts, or local shared objects.

The application operates seamlessly with third-party cookies blocked in strict privacy modes (e.g., Brave Shield, Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention, Firefox Strict Mode, and Chrome Incognito).

6. Advertising & Commercial Analytics (Zero Trackers)

We do not include commercial advertising banners, affiliate tracking pixels, or third-party behavioral analytics suites. Specifically, this website contains:

• NO Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager
• NO Meta (Facebook) Pixel
• NO Hotjar / FullStory session replay recorders
• NO Mixpanel / PostHog / Amplitude product telemetry
• NO Sentry / Datadog client-side crash telemetry capturing user inputs

7. Third-Party Static Asset Providers

To deliver typography and interactive visual background rendering, the application requests the following external static assets:

• Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com): Serves the Plus Jakarta Sans, Fraunces, and JetBrains Mono typefaces. In loading font files, your browser sends an HTTP request to Google's CDN, which may log your IP address and User-Agent under Google's Privacy Policy.
• Three.js via unpkg CDN (unpkg.com): Delivers the open-source Three.js JavaScript 3D engine used exclusively to render the ambient glowing particle background in the_sun.html. Governed by unpkg / Cloudflare CDN infrastructure privacy terms.

Neither Google Fonts nor unpkg receives, possesses, or has access to your assessment responses, scores, or wellness indicators.

8. Data Collection: Application vs. Hosting Infrastructure

Application Layer: Genuinely zero personal information or assessment records are collected by the developer.

Hosting Infrastructure Layer: Like all websites delivered over the World Wide Web, when your browser requests the HTML, CSS, and JS files, the hosting web server (such as GitHub Pages or a web server host) automatically processes standard technical access logs (including your IP address, requesting URL, device User-Agent string, and timestamp). These standard server logs are collected for network security, DDoS defense, and infrastructure integrity by the host. The developer does not cross-reference server IP logs with user self-reflections.

9. Data Sharing, Sale, & AI Training Prohibition

Because assessment answers never reach a developer server, we do not—and mathematically cannot—sell, monetize, rent, disclose, or trade your survey responses with data brokers, commercial advertisers, insurance companies, or employers.

Furthermore, your individual responses are never used to train public or private Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Large Language Models (LLMs).

10. Data Retention & User Purging

Assessment answers exist in temporary browser memory while you complete the questionnaire. If saved to localStorage, your latest score remains in your browser until you choose to erase it. If you close the browser without saving, or click the "Clear All Local Data" button, all assessment values are permanently deleted from your device.

11. Indian DPDP Act 2023 Alignment

Mental Health Score is operated from India and purposefully respects the core tenets of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and applicable Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) guidelines:

• Principle of Data Minimisation: The application collects zero personal identifying data.
• Purpose Limitation: Information entered into the client interface is used strictly for generating your immediate on-screen vitality reflection.
• Storage Limitation: Governed directly by the user via local device storage.
• Right to Erasure: Realized directly and immediately via the one-click local purge feature.
• Grievance Redressal: Dedicated developer contact via scriptedbydev@gmail.com.

12. Children & Minors Protection

Mental Health Score is not intentionally designed or targeted at children under 18 years of age without parental or guardian oversight. Because self-reflection questions touch on stress, sleep habits, and emotions, we recommend that minors engage with the assessment only with the knowledge and support of a parent, guardian, or certified school counselor.

13. Practical Technical Security

Rather than claiming "military-grade" marketing buzzwords, Mental Health Score relies on architectural minimization:

• By refusing to store mental health survey records on remote cloud servers, the risk of mass database breaches, SQL injections, or credential leaks is systematically eliminated.
• The website is served over modern Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), ensuring that transit between the host and your browser is encrypted with TLS.
• Local storage is isolated to the specific origin of this application under the browser's Same-Origin Policy (SOP).

14. Grievance Redressal & Inquiries

If you have questions, feedback, or concerns regarding your privacy or the technical operation of this application, you may communicate directly with the developer: