PRIVACY — FOUNDING PUBLIC BETA
Useful navigation without building a central case database.
Military Disability Navigator™ is operated by Military Disability Navigator LLC. MDN is designed to minimize the personal information it collects and to keep private case work local whenever practical.
Public website analytics
The public website uses first-party site analytics and performance measurement to understand basic traffic, page use, and site speed. MDN does not intentionally send Free Navigator selections, condition labels, ratings, claim facts, Problem Navigator search terms, Life Events selections, Support & Recovery pathway choices or directory search/filter terms, Life Situations pathway choices or search/filter terms, or private case answers to analytics.
Local-first interactive tools
Free Navigator, Condition Review, Service History checks, calculators, Problem Navigator search/filtering, Life Events interactions, Support & Recovery pathway/directory interactions, and Life Situations search/filtering and pathway selection are designed to run in the browser. These tools do not require an MDN account. Support & Recovery does not require GPS, a street address, a diagnosis, suicide history, or medical-record upload to show resources. Life Situations does not require a case number, charge sheet, court filing, clearance details, diagnosis, Social Security number, DoD ID, VA number, or other personal case record to show navigation. Private app tools are also designed around local-first processing; Process Navigator can persist only when the user deliberately creates an encrypted local save.
What MDN does not ask you to upload
MDN does not operate a medical-record, court-record, criminal-case, command-investigation, or legal-document upload workflow in the current public beta. Do not enter or submit Social Security numbers, DoD IDs, VA file or claim numbers, full addresses, medical records, police reports, charge sheets, court filings, protective orders, passwords, banking information, or other sensitive identifiers into public-beta forms or feedback.
Beta feedback
If you choose to submit beta feedback, the feedback you type is sent to MDN's feedback endpoint so the product can be improved. The feedback form warns users not to include identifiers or private case details. Feedback infrastructure is still being hardened; do not use beta feedback as a place to store records, disclose sensitive legal facts, or communicate time-sensitive case information.
Hosting and security metadata
Hosting and security providers may process ordinary request metadata such as IP address, timestamp, requested page or file, browser or user-agent information, and security events as part of delivering and protecting the service. MDN is designed so questionnaire answers, condition wording, Life Situations selections, and Support & Recovery selections are not placed in public URLs beyond a non-identifying pathway anchor.
No advertising or behavioral profiling
The current public beta does not use advertising networks, session replay, behavioral advertising profiles, or third-party health-data mining. MDN does not sell user data to advertisers.
Local storage and deletion
Some app preferences and deliberately saved encrypted Process Navigator data may be stored on the user's device. The passphrase for an encrypted local save is not stored by MDN. Local purge controls cannot erase copies a user already printed, exported, screenshotted, backed up, or shared elsewhere.
Health information and regulated relationships
The current beta is not designed to act on behalf of a healthcare provider or health plan, and it does not ask users to upload medical records or combine health information from multiple sources into a personal health record. Whether HIPAA, the FTC Health Breach Notification Rule, or another health-privacy law applies depends on the actual product function, data flow, and business relationships. Any future medical-record intake, health-system integration, cross-source health-data aggregation, or covered-entity/business-associate relationship requires a new legal, privacy, and security review before activation.
Children and family information
MDN is designed for adult users and does not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 in the current beta. Family and dependent pathways are designed to work without a child's name, address, identifier, medical record, or other personal case data.
Future product changes
Accounts, cloud synchronization, record uploads, professional dashboards, legal-document intake, health-system integrations, remote AI case processing, materially broader analytics, advertising, or paid subscription workflows would change the data flow and require a new privacy, security, and legal review before activation.
Current status
Effective: October 7, 2026.
This notice describes the current Founding Public Beta architecture. It is not a substitute for a final paid-product privacy policy or outside legal review.