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Last updated: October 21, 2026
Not medical advice
The First Hour is a free self-help tool with writing grounded in lived experience and published research. It is not medical advice, treatment, or diagnosis, and we are not doctors. It doesn’t replace a doctor, therapist or recovery program.
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In an emergency
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Using the site and tool
- The site and tool are provided free and “as is”, and the tool is a beta that changes often. We do our best to keep it accurate and working, but we can’t guarantee it.
- What you enter is yours and stays on your device. Back it up from the You page, because clearing your browser data deletes it.
- The PIN lock keeps casual snooping out. It isn’t encryption.
- Please don’t misuse the site, try to break it, or send abusive messages through its forms.
Content, copyright and links
© 2026 The First Hour. All rights reserved. The text, guides, articles, tool wording, design, icons and the way the site is organized are protected by copyright. The same goes for the original names, structure and wording of our tools.
You’re welcome to: link to any page, share it, and quote short passages with credit and a link back.
Please don’t: copy, republish, translate or sell our pages or tools; rewrite them to pass them off as your own; or collect them in bulk (scraping) to train AI models or build a competing product, without our written permission.
Copyright protects how something is written and designed, not an idea itself. We can’t stop anyone from making their own tool for the same problem, only from copying ours. To ask permission or report a copy, write to thefirsthourblog@gmail.com. Links to other sites are for your convenience, and we’re not responsible for their content.
Liability
To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for decisions you make based on the site, or for loss of data stored on your device. Nothing here limits rights you have by law.
Contact and changes
Contact person: Auven, thefirsthourblog@gmail.com. If these terms change, we’ll update this page and the date above. See also the Privacy policy and Cookie policy.