Privacy & terms

The tools remember what you enter — stress-check answers, daily check-ins, anxiety waves, gratitude notes, parked worries, habit choices, breathing preferences, dreams, and reminder settings — in local storage on the device you are using. It is never uploaded, and I could not read it if I wanted to: unstress has no server-side database at all.

A few things worth knowing about how that works:

• Each tool has its own clear or reset button that removes what it stored.
• Clearing everything at once is done where your device keeps it: this site’s data in your browser settings, or unstress’s storage in your phone’s app settings.
• It stays on the device you entered it on — it does not follow you to other devices, and anyone who can open unstress there can read it. On a shared or unlocked device, consider clearing when you are done.
• If you turn on a daily reminder, it is scheduled on your device itself — no server is involved, and the reminder says nothing about what you have written.
• Why there is no consent banner: the rules on storing things on your device cover more than cookies — local storage counts too — but they carve out storage that is strictly necessary for what you actually asked the site to do. Everything unstress keeps is that kind: your own entries, your light-or-dark preference, and a cached copy of the app so it opens offline. None of it profiles you or leaves the device. So the reason is not that nothing is saved; it is that nothing is saved for anyone but you.

If you tap “Send” on a “Was this helpful?” prompt, your message is delivered through a form service run by my host, Netlify. Nothing is ever sent without that explicit tap — sending feedback is entirely voluntary, and that consent is the only legal basis we rely on.

What a submission contains: whether unstress helped, which tools you credited, your comment, and the page you sent it from. I ask for no name, no email and no account, and unstress attaches no identifier of its own — though, as with any form on the web, Netlify sees the IP address the submission arrives from.

Feedback is read by the founder, used to improve unstress, and deleted once it has been acted on — it is not kept as a record, and nothing is built from it.

The form deliberately asks you not to include your name, contact details, or anything about your health. Information about health gets stronger protection under the GDPR, and the surest way to honour that is not to gather it in the first place. If something sensitive reaches me anyway, it is deleted rather than kept.

The site is served by Netlify. Like nearly every host on the internet, Netlify processes visitors’ IP addresses in standard connection and security logs, kept briefly to run the service and protect it from abuse. That is a property of being on the web, not something we add — unstress itself layers no analytics, tracking, or fingerprinting on top.

Netlify is a US company, so those logs — and any feedback you choose to send through its form service — may be handled outside the EU. Netlify processes it on my behalf under its Data Processing Agreement, which is part of the terms every Netlify site is hosted under. For the transfer itself, Netlify is certified under the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework, with the EU Standard Contractual Clauses as the fallback should that framework ever fall away. It is worth saying plainly, because it is the one place anything crosses a border, even though what reaches it is so little.

Crisis and support resources link to external organisations, the About page may link to a tip jar, and the library may contain clearly marked affiliate links — always disclosed on the page whenever present, and never on crisis or help-seeking content. Once you follow a link away from unstress, that site’s own privacy policy applies.

unstress is made and run by Henning Dall, a solo developer in Denmark — dalls.dk. That makes me the data controller for the little that is processed here, and the person who answers for it.

Privacy laws like the GDPR give you rights over personal data an organisation holds about you. unstress is built so that I hold essentially none — your entries never reach me. The one exception is feedback you have chosen to send, which you can ask me to delete at any time.

To reach me — about privacy or anything else — use the contact details on my site, linked below. The in-app feedback form is deliberately anonymous and one-way, so it is the right way to tell me something and the wrong way to ask for a reply.

This tool is for education and self-reflection only. It does not diagnose stress, burnout, anxiety, depression, illness, or any medical or mental health condition. If you are concerned about your health or wellbeing, consider speaking with a qualified healthcare professional.

Using unstress does not create a clinician–patient relationship. The scales and tools here are self-reflection aids with honest, non-clinical framing — not measurements, screenings, or treatment.

If you feel at risk of harming yourself or someone else, or if you feel unable to stay safe, contact emergency services or a local crisis line immediately.

Crisis resources are linked at the bottom of every page, always free of any money ask.

unstress is offered free, as-is and as-available, in the hope that it helps. I work carefully — especially on safety-related content — but I cannot promise the site is error-free or always available, and to the fullest extent permitted by law I accept no liability for decisions made on the basis of it. When something important is at stake, please involve a qualified professional.

As unstress grows, this page may be updated — the “last updated” date above always reflects the latest revision, and meaningful changes will be called out here rather than made quietly.