What this policy covers
In plain terms
This policy covers the words on this website, in the Tend app, and on every guide and methods page.
Off Script Foundry, Inc. writes and maintains this website, the text in the app, and the guides and methods pages. It is responsible for every statement in them.
All of it is written in plain language, to be understood on the first read, including on a day with brain fog.
No medical advice
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Tend does not tell you what to take, stop, or change. Those decisions belong to you and your doctor.
Tend is a self-tracking tool. It is not a medical device, and nothing on this site or in the app is medical advice.
When something may matter for your care, Tend says it is worth discussing with your doctor. It does not say what to do about it.
Statements about your own record
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Tend only describes patterns in your own record, and only when there is enough of it to describe.
- Every summary is computed on your device from your own record: your check-ins and flares, plus Health, weather and Apple Watch data only if you connect them.
- A skipped answer stays missing. It never counts as zero.
- A finding waits until it rests on enough of your record. Then it states what it rests on: paired days, recorded flares, or baseline nights.
- Tend describes association and timing, never cause. A pattern in your own days is not a diagnosis, a prediction, or a treatment.
Every rule and threshold behind those summaries is listed on How Tend finds patterns, so a reader can check the words against the method.
General statements about fibromyalgia
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A general health statement needs a source that can be checked. Mixed evidence is described as mixed.
Tend makes few general statements about fibromyalgia. One that it does make must rest on a source a reader can check. The sources that count are a government health agency, a professional medical body, a primary study, or a systematic review. A news story, a product page, or a post is not a source for a health statement.
Where the evidence is mixed or small, Tend says so. Tend may say what many people with fibromyalgia report. It does not turn that into a statement about what will happen to you.
Sources are evidence, not endorsement
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A cited source supports one sentence. It has not checked Tend, does not endorse Tend, and has no connection to Tend.
When Tend cites a source, the source is evidence for the sentence it sits beside and nothing more. Citing an agency, a medical body, a study or a review never means that source has checked Tend, endorses Tend, works with Tend, or knows Tend exists.
Tend never presents a source as a reviewer of Tend or an endorser of Tend, and never quotes a source, a study, an agency or a person praising Tend. Source names appear only next to the statement they support, in the wording the source used.
What Tend never claims
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Tend does not claim to diagnose, treat, or improve anything, and does not say what a medication, supplement or diet does.
Nothing on this site, in the app, or on a guide or methods page:
- diagnoses a condition or says whether you have one;
- treats a condition or says how to treat one;
- claims that using Tend improves any symptom, outcome or measure. Tend has not been tested for that, and it does not say it has;
- says what a medication, supplement or diet does, or whether you should take, stop or change one;
- interprets your own results for your care. Tend describes your record. What it means for you is a question for your doctor.
Ratings, testimonials and endorsements
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This site shows no ratings, reviews, testimonials, user counts or endorsements.
Tend does not publish figures it does not maintain, and it does not quote praise it cannot show. There are no testimonials from people who use Tend, no star ratings, no user counts, no press quotes, and no quotes from any source praising Tend. The quotes on the home page are lines from the app itself. Each one is labelled with where it appears.
Tend carries no advertising.
Guides and methods pages
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Every guide and methods page says who wrote it, when, and that no clinician has checked it.
Each page in the library carries a byline at the top: written by Off Script Foundry, Inc., the date it was published, the date it was last updated, and a statement that no clinician has checked it. That statement stays until a named person actually does the review, and then the page names them and what they reviewed.
A methods page describes what the app’s code does with your record, read from the code itself. It makes no claim about any body. A guide is added to the library when it is written to these rules, not before, and no page is listed as coming soon.
Images on this site
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Photographs on this site are AI-generated and show no real people. App screenshots show sample data.
The photographs on this site, and the video at the top of the home page, are AI-generated. They do not show real people or people who use Tend.
The app screenshots are real captures of Tend. They show the sample record the app ships with, not a real person’s record.
Who reviews this
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Off Script Foundry, Inc. writes and checks this site, the app, and the library. No clinician reviews them.
Tend has no medical reviewer and no medical advisory board. Nothing on this site or in the app has been reviewed or approved by a clinician.
If that changes, this page will name the reviewer and say what they reviewed. Read About Tend for who publishes Tend.
Report a mistake
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If something here is wrong, unclear, or out of date, email us. A person reads it.
Email contact@offscriptfoundry.com. It helps to include the page or the screen in the app, and what looks wrong.
When a mistake is confirmed, Tend corrects the text. Pages like this one show the date they were last updated.