What serenify is
Serenify is a workplace wellbeing tool. It reads signs of stress from a webcam during a monitoring session you start yourself, shows you what it noticed, and offers a conversation with an in-app companion called Ren if you want one. It also collects a short weekly work-environment check-in, which is a text questionnaire about your working conditions rather than about you.
Before your first monitoring session, Serenify records a short calibration — a brief webcam capture that establishes what your ordinary, unstressed face looks like, so later readings are compared against you rather than against an average stranger.
Serenify is a demonstration build of a graduation project. It is not a commercial product, it is not sold, and it carries no service-level promise. Features described here may change or be withdrawn as the project develops.
serenify is not medical care
Serenify is not a medical device, and nothing it shows you is a diagnosis. A reading is a signal, not a clinical finding. Ren is a scripted software companion, not a therapist, counsellor, or clinician, and a conversation with Ren is not treatment.
Serenify is not an emergency service and does not monitor for emergencies. It cannot call anyone on your behalf, and no one is watching it on the other end. If you are in danger or in crisis, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line directly. Where Serenify recognises that a conversation has turned to crisis, it responds by showing you external support resources, and it does nothing else with that fact.
Do not use Serenify as a substitute for medical or psychological care, and do not delay seeking care because of anything Serenify showed you.
Who is legally responsible
Serenify is provided by Mohamed Assem, as an individual. There is no company and no legal entity behind it. He is also the data controller for the personal data Serenify handles, and he can be reached at mohamedasem318@gmail.com.
He is the single point of legal responsibility for Serenify: the data controller under Egypt's Personal Data Protection Law and under the General Data Protection Regulation, the person these terms form an agreement with, and the person to write to about anything in either document. That is a legal role with duties attached, and it rests with him alone.
Who built serenify
Serenify is a graduation project, and four people built it. Naming only the data controller above would leave the impression that it is one person's work. It is not.
- Mohamed Assem Adel
- Fatma Al-Zahraa Emad
- Hebatullah El Gazoly
- Gehad Mohamed
The project was supervised by Dr. Lamees Nasser and Dr. Safaa Mouneer.
This section is authorship, not data protection law. The three authors other than Mohamed Assem are not data controllers, joint controllers, or processors of your personal data, and nothing here makes them any of those — those are legal designations that carry their own duties, and they rest with the controller named in the previous section. Who built something and who is answerable for what it does with your data are two different questions, and this document answers them separately on purpose.
Serenify was carried out in an academic setting. That context explains why the project exists; it does not make the university a party to these terms, a controller of your data, or answerable for anything Serenify does.
Who may use serenify
Serenify is intended for adults using it in a demonstration capacity. It is not designed for children, and it is not offered to anyone under eighteen.
Stated plainly, because the alternative would be misleading: Serenify performs no age verification. The requirement above is a term of use, not a control the software enforces. Egyptian law requires a guardian's explicit written consent before personal data of anyone under fifteen is processed, and Serenify has no flow that could obtain or record such consent. That is one of the gaps qualified legal review would need to close before real user data is processed.
You are responsible for the account you create and for keeping your password to yourself. Tell the contact address below if you believe someone else has reached your account.
What you agree to
In using Serenify, you agree to the following.
- Point the camera at yourself, and only when you have chosen to start a calibration or a monitoring session. Do not capture other people.
- Do not use Serenify to observe, assess, or draw conclusions about another person.
- Do not attempt to reach another person's account, readings, or conversations.
- Do not attempt to work around the technical limits described in the Privacy Policy, or to extract data the system does not offer you.
- Do not upload anything unlawful, and do not use Serenify to harass anyone.
Serenify may be made unavailable to an account that is used in any of these ways.
The consents you give
Serenify asks for two separate consents, and keeps them separate on purpose.
- Terms and Privacy — accepting this document and the Privacy Policy. This is the basis on which Serenify is used at all, so declining it means the application is not available to you.
- Camera and inference — permission to capture webcam video for calibration and monitoring sessions and to run inference on it. Declining this blocks calibration and monitoring sessions, and nothing else. The weekly work-environment check-in and the companion conversation both keep working.
Each acceptance is recorded as its own entry: which document you accepted, which published revision of it you were shown, and when. Accepting a later revision adds an entry; it never overwrites or erases an earlier one. That history is what makes it possible to answer, later, exactly which wording you agreed to.
Declining writes nothing at all. No record of the refusal is stored, nothing already held is deleted, and no withdrawal state is written anywhere. Declining is a pause, not a terminal decision: you can reach the same prompt again and accept it whenever you want to.
Withdrawing a consent you have already given is not yet built. Egyptian and European law both require withdrawal to be as straightforward as giving consent, and Serenify does not meet that standard today. Until it does, the way to stop Serenify processing your data is to write to the contact address below. This gap is one of the reasons qualified legal review is required before real user data is processed.
Changes to these terms
Each published revision of this document and of the Privacy Policy carries a version identifier and a publication date, both shown at the top of the page you are reading. A revision is classified by hand, at the time it is published, as either material or cosmetic, and the reason is recorded alongside it in the project's source repository.
A material revision changes what you are agreeing to, so everyone whose recorded acceptance predates it is asked again before they can carry on using the application. A cosmetic revision — a typo, a clearer sentence, a corrected link — changes nothing you agreed to and asks nobody again. Which of the two a revision is, is a judgement made by a person and written down, never inferred by comparing texts.
While a material revision is waiting for your acceptance, you can still read this document and the Privacy Policy in full, and you can still sign out. A consent you cannot read your way out of is not consent.
Availability
Serenify is offered as it is, with no promise that it will be available, accurate, or uninterrupted. It runs on hosted services that can fail, and inference can be wrong in both directions — it can notice strain that is not there, and miss strain that is. The interface is written to make that uncertainty visible rather than hide it.
Serenify may be changed, suspended, or shut down at any time. If the project ends, the data it holds is deleted rather than transferred anywhere.
Liability
Serenify is a non-commercial project provided free of charge, and its provider accepts no liability for loss arising from your use of it, to the extent the law allows that. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and liability for fraud.
Your rights under Egypt's Consumer Protection Law No. 181 of 2018 and under Egypt's Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020 are not affected by anything in this document.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and the Egyptian courts have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. Because personal data is stored inside the European Union, the European General Data Protection Regulation also applies to how that data is handled; the Privacy Policy explains what that means in practice.
Contact
Questions about these terms, about your data, or about anything Serenify did that you did not expect, go to Mohamed Assem at mohamedasem318@gmail.com. There is no support desk behind that address — it reaches one person, who wrote this.