Your privacy is of paramount importance

If you’re going to get the most from Moodscope, you’re going to need to be honest when you take the test each day, and that means you’ll be entrusting us with personal, sensitive information.

You’ll also, if you choose, be giving access to your Moodscope scores and graphs to a trusted friend or friends.

Let’s start with what happens to your data as far as Moodscope itself is concerned. When you take the test, your ratings for each of the twenty adjectives will be stored in our database, which only we have access to. The ratings will be used to calculate your daily scores. We will also use the complete membership’s anonymised data to look at overall trends - to see whether the average mood varies by the day of the week, for instance; or whether average moods vary seasonally. Your individual ratings will never be revealed to anyone. You have our absolute word on that.

If you want to stop using the Moodscope service and wish all your data to be erased from the database, please let us know. We’ll remove all trace of you.

From time to time Moodscope collaborates with independent researchers who are interested in better understanding this new mood management tool. Whenever we share data with researchers it always has any identifying information removed first of all, making it impossible for any data to be linked to the person who recorded it.

When you give a friend access to your daily scores by email, please remember that they’ll get them for ever, or at least until either you or they ask us to stop sending them. At no time will anyone see the ratings you have given to the individual adjectives: they’ll only see your overall Moodscope score.

You’ll be given a link to your Moodscope graphs which you can pass to others. The address of the link will never change, so once someone has it, they have it. Please be really careful about who it goes to, if you think you might want to withdraw privileges at some future stage.

Finally, if you have any concerns at all about aspects relating to privacy, please get in touch with us. We’ll do whatever it takes to sort things out for you.

Moodscope is © Moodscope Ltd 2010. Worldwide patents pending. Developed from scales which are © American Psychological Association.