Terms of Service

1. Using HISTI

By accessing or using HISTI, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

Age policy. HISTI Full, HISTI-120, and HISTI-60 are not intended for users under age 13. The separate HISTI for Schools activities are Middle School (ages 10–13) and High School (ages 14–18) in an appropriate educational setting, with optional participation and a non-disclosure alternative. Do not collect named student responses or grade individual scores. HISTI does not ask for dates of birth or real private details. Other children’s versions are coming soon.

You may stop using HISTI at any time. You may also reset locally stored check-in data from the check-in interface.

2. What HISTI is

HISTI is a self-guided reflection tool about information sharing. It helps you describe what you did or would share with a person or audience and summarizes those answers using HISTI’s scoring rules.

HISTI is not a diagnosis, legal opinion, safety certificate, professional risk assessment, personality test, or measure of your character. A result cannot determine whether a specific disclosure was safe, unsafe, necessary, lawful, helpful, or harmful.

3. Keep real private information out of HISTI

HISTI is designed so you can answer by choosing descriptions. Do not type or paste the real private or sensitive value into the website.

• do not enter passwords, recovery codes, one-time codes, security answers, private keys, or authentication secrets;
• do not enter full account, card, banking, government-ID, or similar identifying numbers;
• do not enter exact private addresses, private document contents, or other information you do not want disclosed; and
• choose response levels only; the current check-ins do not ask for a name or private-details text.

4. Your choices and rights while using the check-in

• You may refuse any question.
• You may leave sensitive questions unanswered or use the available response options.
• You may go back, review, stop, or reset.
• You are not required to share your result.
• You remain responsible for deciding what information, if any, you disclose outside HISTI.

5. Privacy and local data

Check-in answers and progress are designed to stay in your browser. HISTI uses localStorage for resumable progress, with separate records for each test, language, and recipient. HISTI does not set or use cookies for the check-in.

Reset clears only the current test, language, and recipient’s check-in. Browser site-data controls can remove all local HISTI data for that domain, including older-version records. The current check-ins do not have a JSON export or result-history interface.

The production service uses a Content Security Policy with connect-src 'none' and form-action 'none'. See the Privacy Policy for the technical details and the limits of that statement, including ordinary static hosting requests.

6. Sharing is your action

The current results page does not automatically share, upload, or publish a result. If you choose to copy a result, save a screenshot, or send it to another app or person, HISTI does not control what that destination does with it.

Review anything before sharing it. Do not share a result if doing so would reveal information you want to keep private.

7. Acceptable use

Do not use HISTI to interfere with the service, bypass security controls, harm other users, distribute malware, or use the site in a way that violates applicable law.

Do not represent a HISTI result as a professional diagnosis, legal determination, safety certification, or official judgment about another person.

8. Availability and changes

HISTI may be changed, updated, interrupted, or discontinued. Features, questions, scoring rules, wording, and presentation may change over time.

Locally stored data may become incompatible with a future version or may be lost if your browser clears site data. If a result matters to you, keep your own copy.

9. Website and test licensing

The website. The website’s design, interface, software, branding, logos, graphics, animations, and non-test content are all rights reserved, except where a separate license is expressly stated. Public access to the source repository does not grant permission to reuse those website materials.

The test. HISTI test materials—including question wording, response options, assessment instructions, and scoring rubrics—are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-ND 4.0). This license applies to the assessment content, not to the website or the software that presents and scores it.

You may copy and redistribute the test unchanged, including for commercial purposes, with appropriate attribution and a link to the license. Retain any supplied creator credits, copyright notices, license notices, disclaimer notices, and links to the original material. The license does not permit distributing adapted test material or implying endorsement.

The website’s all-rights-reserved notice and these website terms do not add restrictions to the permissions granted by CC BY-ND 4.0 for the test. Applicable copyright exceptions and limitations remain unaffected. The full license text governs; this section is a summary.

Third-party fonts and other separately licensed assets retain their own licenses. Test materials are provided without warranties, subject to the terms of CC BY-ND 4.0.

10. No warranties

HISTI is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the extent permitted by law. Results may be incomplete, inaccurate, misunderstood, or affected by how questions are interpreted.

No promise is made that the service will always be available, error-free, suitable for a particular purpose, or appropriate for every person or situation.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, HISTI and its operators are not responsible for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or similar losses arising from use of the service, reliance on a result, loss of locally stored data, or a user’s decision to share information.

Nothing in these terms excludes rights or liabilities that cannot legally be excluded.

12. Third-party services

Hosting, browsers, operating systems, and apps you choose for sharing may be operated by third parties under their own terms. HISTI is not responsible for those third-party services.

13. Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated as HISTI changes. The effective date at the top of this page shows when this version took effect. Continued use after an update means you accept the updated terms.

14. Contact

A dedicated HISTI contact email is being set up and will be published on the site once available.

Do not send check-in answers or other sensitive information by email.