Website privacy
Privacy
Your assessment answers
Assessment scoring happens in your browser. At completion, your answers are also sent securely to our email service so it can verify the score and generate your requested report. Raw answers are processed transiently and are not retained by that service. Your email is required before starting; no account or password is needed. Full results and the PDF download remain available even if email delivery fails.
Information on your device
The flagship relationship checkup automatically saves unfinished answers in your browser so you can return after refreshing or closing the page. No account is required. Saved progress expires after 24 hours without a new response and is discarded when the checkup next checks it. Safety-screening answers are not saved; you must answer those screening questions again when returning. Saved progress is removed when results are generated or when you confirm Start over. Other checkups keep answers and results in the open page only. Another person with access to this browser or device may see saved information. You can delete it with Start over. Unfinished answers are not submitted to the email service. Completed answers are processed for report delivery as described above; they are not sent to advertising analytics.
Your reports
Your downloaded report may contain scores, personalized interpretations, recommendations, and relationship or personal context you supplied. Leaving or clearing the checkup does not erase downloaded PDFs, screenshots, printouts, browser history, or other saved or shared copies. Choose carefully where you keep and share them.
Email and contact
Our contact mailbox is hosted by Namecheap. The questions and direct professional addresses are aliases delivering to that same mailbox. John is the only person with mailbox access and uses browser webmail.
Email is not a secure method for communicating confidential clinical or mental-health information. The delivery service can send the report you request after email confirmation. Keep that report private. Do not send raw assessment answers, clinical records, or sensitive relationship details to the general contact mailbox.
The following manual email-retention and cleanup policy applies from public launch. The mailbox is scheduled for monthly retention and cleanup review. Conversations inactive for 12 months will be deleted, including related sent messages and attachments. Routine spam and test messages will be deleted within 30 days. Unsolicited sensitive information will be deleted promptly after necessary handling unless it must be preserved. The policy allows messages to be kept longer for active matters, contractual obligations, legal requirements, or disputes. This policy does not cover clinical records or future transaction records. Mailbox trash is emptied during scheduled cleanup. Namecheap has advised that copies remain on its servers for four weeks after permanent deletion, after which they are permanently deleted. Deletion does not remove copies held by recipients.
Relationship education—not therapy
No Nonsense with Dr. John provides educational relationship information and tools. Using the website, completing an assessment, downloading a report, or contacting the website does not establish a therapist-client relationship with John W. Edwards, PhD, or any counseling practice with which he is affiliated. Do not use this site for clinical records, therapy communications, or emergency information.
Website hosting and security
Cloudflare Pages and Workers host the website and run assessment email processing and scheduling. Cloudflare may process technical connection, device/browser, page-request and security information to provide and protect the service. Separate private areas use Cloudflare Access and additional application authorization. Public visitors do not receive access to private reader, reviewer or owner records.
Operator and privacy questions
John W. Edwards, PhD, an individual/sole proprietor in North Carolina, operates under the No Nonsense with Dr. John brand. Contact [email protected] with website privacy questions.
Assessment email delivery and follow-up
Starting an assessment records your email, disclosure version, signup time and assessment source for report delivery and your choice to subscribe or receive results only. We send a confirmation request before releasing a private report to a new address or browser. A secure, opaque confirmation cookie remembers address ownership for up to 90 days on that browser. It contains no answers or scores and is not used for analytics. Results appear immediately and PDF download remains available.
The email service stores an encrypted report and derived follow-up content, not raw assessment answers. New report delivery copies expire after 30 days; expired copies are excluded from sending. Assessment subscriber retention is separate from beta readers and website reviewers. Assessment subscriber records and delivery copies remain stored until the owner deletes them. Expiry prevents delivery but does not erase the stored copy. Automatic deletion is disabled.
We use Cloudflare for hosting and scheduling. Resend is the configured email provider; message delivery begins only when sending is enabled. The provider receives the email and message content when real sending is authorized. Email is not a confidential therapy channel. Keep reports private. No assessment scores or answers are sent to advertising analytics. The optional short series includes practical Day 2 and Day 4 guidance, a usefulness question and occasional relevant book or tool recommendations. Choosing “Subscribe and start my assessment” records an explicit subscription request. The results-only option does not subscribe you. Only people who choose to subscribe and confirm their address are eligible. Unsubscribe stops follow-ups promptly and a later assessment does not resubscribe you. Minimal keyed suppression records may remain after deletion to honor that choice.
Mock messages are captured during development testing, and authorized delivery testing is restricted to the owner. Visitor email sending remains disabled until delivery checks are complete and activation is separately authorized. Contact [email protected] for assessment email questions or deletion requests.
Browser apps and saved writing
The browser apps on this website keep journal entries, saved reads, reset drafts, timer settings and similar saved app information in local storage in your browser on this device. These app features do not send that writing to our server or synchronize it with another device. Clearing browser data can remove saved work. Use available export or backup controls to keep a copy.
A screen cover or app PIN helps with casual viewing; it does not encrypt browser storage or protect it from someone with access to your device. Sharing or exporting a result can include information you entered: review it before sharing. Timers and sounds may pause when a browser is closed, suspended or a phone is locked.
Toolbox purchases
When purchasing is enabled, Stripe handles payment details. The website stores an order reference, purchased items and price, payment status, your receipt email address, and purchase-access records so it can provide your files and handle payment events. Card details are not entered on this website. Resend sends transactional purchase-access emails separately from assessment follow-ups. Buying a toolbox does not subscribe you to marketing emails.
Your browser stores a private purchase-access code for your order. Receipt links also grant purchase access; keep them private. Download links expire after a short period and can be requested again from an eligible paid order. Contact [email protected] for purchase or privacy questions.
Book and product email updates
This separate signup records your email address, selected topics, disclosure version, signup source and times of signup and confirmation. We use it for the updates you request. Joining does not require a purchase or assessment. Assessment results are not included in this list. Buyers, beta readers and reviewers are not automatically enrolled. Use the unsubscribe link to stop promotional follow-ups, or contact [email protected] about access or deletion. Bounce, complaint and deletion suppression records help prevent unwanted messages.