TERMS — FOUNDING PUBLIC BETA
Educational navigation, with the boundary kept clear.
Military Disability Navigator™ is operated by Military Disability Navigator LLC. By using the Founding Public Beta, you agree to use MDN as an educational navigation and organization product—not as a substitute for an official decision or individualized professional representation.
Independent product
MDN is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, any military department, court, law-enforcement agency, healthcare provider, law firm, or other government agency.
No professional or government relationship
Use of MDN does not create an attorney-client, criminal-defense, clinician-patient, fiduciary, Veterans Service Organization, accredited claims-representative, PEBLO, security-management, victim-advocacy, command, court, or government relationship.
Educational purpose
MDN organizes published information, separates interacting systems, identifies questions and missing facts, performs educational calculations, and routes users to official resources or qualified professionals. MDN does not make medical diagnoses, treatment recommendations, fitness findings, nexus opinions, disability-rating guarantees, legal determinations, criminal-defense strategies, court predictions, military-justice outcomes, clearance determinations, or government eligibility decisions.
Life Situations legal boundary
Life Situations may help a user identify whether a problem appears to belong with military defense counsel, military legal assistance, civilian criminal defense, civil legal aid, family-law counsel, a victim advocate, security office, accredited VA representative, clinician, or another official resource. It does not tell a user how to evade law enforcement, obstruct an investigation, destroy or conceal evidence, violate a court or command order, contact a protected person, avoid a reporting obligation, or obtain a particular legal outcome. State law, local court rules, service regulations, actual orders, and individualized legal advice control.
VA claims boundary
The current public beta does not charge users to prepare, present, or prosecute VA benefit claims and does not act as a VA-accredited representative. Users seeking individualized claim representation should use a VA-accredited VSO representative, attorney, or claims agent.
Official information controls
Actual court orders, protective orders, bond or release conditions, command directives, security-reporting requirements, notices, decision letters, deadlines, medical records, military findings, governing law and regulations, agency guidance, and advice from qualified professionals control over MDN. Do not miss a deadline, violate an order, delay medical care, or ignore an official notice because of information displayed by MDN.
Beta status and coverage
MDN is under active public-beta development. Coverage, source depth, legal-resource routing, calculators, pathways, browser compatibility, and accessibility may be incomplete or uneven. MDN preserves uncertainty where practical instead of silently filling gaps, but errors and omissions can still occur.
Privacy and user responsibility
Do not enter sensitive identifiers, legal documents, criminal-case materials, medical records, or other records where MDN does not request them. You are responsible for copies you print, save, screenshot, export, or share. Review the current Privacy Notice before using interactive tools.
Safety
Do not use MDN for emergencies, crisis diagnosis, urgent medical triage, or as a reason to delay a court, command, law-enforcement, security, or counsel deadline. Time-sensitive benefit, legal, military, housing, financial, family-safety, or health matters should be handled through the responsible official source or qualified professional. Review the Safety page.
Age and children
MDN is designed primarily for adult users. The local-first case-organization tools are intended for adults age 18 or older. The current beta does not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13, and family/dependent pathways should be used without entering a child's personal identifiers or records.
No guarantee
MDN does not guarantee any benefit, rating, military disposition, legal result, dismissal, diversion, discharge outcome, clearance result, employment result, claim result, effective date, payment amount, approval, or timeline. Calculator outputs and pathway recommendations are educational estimates or navigation aids.
Product content and official sources
MDN's original product design, software, organization, explanatory text, and branding may be protected by applicable intellectual-property laws and contractual rights. Government publications, statutes, regulations, agency materials, and third-party resources remain subject to their own ownership and terms. Links to an official source or outside provider do not imply endorsement of MDN or endorsement by MDN.
Availability and changes
Features may be added, changed, suspended, or removed during public beta. Material changes to data practices, paid services, legal-resource intake, or user obligations should be accompanied by updated notices before those changes take effect.
Current status
Effective: October 7, 2026.
MDN's privacy, VA-accreditation/UPL, security, accessibility, clinical-safety, legal-resource, service-specific, and paid-product legal reviews remain ongoing. These Terms do not represent those external reviews as completed.