Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and TaskNode, operated by Dillon Allen, a sole proprietor in British Columbia, Canada ("we", "us", "our"). They govern your use of the TaskNode mobile application and the tasknode.ca website (together, "the App"). By downloading, installing, or using the App, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live, if higher) and able to form a binding contract to accept these Terms. The App is not directed at children and is not intended for use by anyone under 18. If you let another person, including a child, use your device or the App, you are responsible for that use. If you use the App on behalf of an organization, you confirm you are authorized to bind it, and these Terms then apply to the organization as well as to you. When you first open the App, and again after any material change to these Terms, the App asks you to accept these Terms and the Privacy Policy. You cannot use the App until you accept. The version number and date of your acceptance are recorded on your device.

2. Licence to use the App

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to install and use the App on devices you own or control, for your own lawful use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

3. Your content and your data

TaskNode stores the content you create — tasks, habits, notes, saved places, logs, attachments, and settings — locally on your device. You own your content. Because it is stored on your device and not on our servers:

• You are solely responsible for keeping your own backups using the App's backup feature, and for choosing, recording, and safeguarding your backup passphrase. A backup cannot be opened without its passphrase, and we cannot recover or reset it.
• We have no ability to access, restore, or recover your content.
• We are not responsible for any loss, corruption, exposure, or deletion of your content, including from device failure, loss or theft, app deletion, operating-system or app updates, a lost or forgotten passphrase, storage limits, a rooted or modified device, malware, or your own actions.
• Anything you export or back up is outside the App's control once it is saved or shared. Files you export, such as spreadsheet (CSV) files, are plain and unencrypted. What happens to them afterward is your responsibility.

You are responsible for what you choose to store in the App. We do not review it and have no duty to. Do not store information in the App that you are not permitted to store, or that you could not afford to lose.

4. You are responsible for how you use the App

TaskNode is a general-purpose tool. We do not know, supervise, or control what you or anyone else records in it or uses it for. As between you and us:

• You alone decide what tasks, habits, notes, places, reminders, and settings to create, and when and whether to act on them.
• You are solely responsible for your own use of the App, for every decision or action you take or do not take in reliance on it, and for the results.
• You are responsible for making sure your use is lawful and complies with any rules that apply to you, including workplace, professional, school, licensing, contractual, and household rules.
• The App does not create any professional, advisory, fiduciary, caregiving, or supervisory relationship between you and us.
• Nothing the App displays, schedules, counts, or suggests is advice or a recommendation of any kind.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any harm, loss, or claim that results from the purposes for which you or others use the App, or from the manner in which it is used.

5. Medical, health, and safety use

TaskNode is not a medical device, health service, or safety system, and it is not intended to diagnose, treat, monitor, prevent, or manage any condition. Do not use the App as your only or primary means of remembering or managing medication, insulin or other injections, treatment plans, appointments with medical consequences, food or allergy safety, fertility or pregnancy tracking, mental-health routines, or any health or safety routine. A missed, late, silent, or wrong reminder could have serious consequences in those cases, and you accept that risk if you choose to use the App for them anyway.

Habit logs, streaks, scores, and measurements you enter are for your own information only. They are not medical records or professional guidance. Always follow the advice of your healthcare provider, pharmacist, or other qualified professional, and use a method that does not depend on this App. In an emergency, contact your local emergency services; the App cannot do this for you.

6. Critical, regulated, and professional use

The App is built for personal task and habit management. It is not designed, tested, or licensed for use where a failure, delay, or error could lead to death, injury, property damage, financial loss, or a legal or regulatory breach. That includes, for example: operating vehicles, machinery, or aircraft; food safety, temperature, or sanitation logs; workplace safety, inspection, or compliance records; legal, court, tax, or contract deadlines; caring for children, elderly people, or dependants; animal or pet medication; security or access control; and any record you may need to show to an employer, regulator, auditor, or court. If you use the App for any of these, you do so at your own risk and must keep an independent, reliable system that does not depend on the App. We make no representation that any record in the App is accurate, complete, tamper-proof, or admissible.

7. Location features

The App offers optional location-based ("geofenced") lists that need precise location and, to trigger while the App is closed, background location permission. You choose whether to grant these permissions and which places to save. You can revoke them at any time in your device settings, and the rest of the App keeps working.

Location triggers rely on device GPS, cellular signals, Wi-Fi networks, and operating-system background processing. Buildings, weather, battery-saver modes, permission changes, device restarts, poor signal, and map or address errors can stop them from working. We do not guarantee that any location trigger will fire accurately, on time, only once, or at all. You are responsible for using location features safely and lawfully, including not using or interacting with the App while driving or otherwise where it would be unsafe or unlawful.

The App is designed to use the location of the device it is installed on. You must not use the App, or any feature of it, to track, monitor, follow, or locate another person without that person's knowledge and consent, or to harass, stalk, or intimidate anyone. You are solely responsible for complying with all laws on location monitoring, privacy, and surveillance that apply to you.

8. Reminders, alarms, and notifications

The App can schedule reminders and full-screen alarms. Delivery depends on your device, operating system, permission settings, battery optimization, Do Not Disturb, silent or focus modes, volume, time-zone and daylight-saving changes, an inaccurate device clock, restarts, low storage, and available resources. Operating-system or device-maker updates can change or block these features without notice. Check that reminders work on your device before you rely on them. Do not rely on the App for medication reminders, medical or emergency alerts, or any safety-critical or time-critical purpose. We are not liable for a missed, delayed, silenced, early, or duplicated notification or alarm.

9. Habits, streaks, scores, and statistics

Streaks, scores, badges, counts, and charts are calculated from what you enter, on your device, using rules that may change between versions. They can be wrong or reset because of edits, skipped days, time-zone or clock changes, data restores, bugs, or your own entries. They are motivational and informational only. They carry no value, prize, or guarantee, and you should not rely on them for any decision, claim, or dispute.

10. People, delegation, and messages

The App lets you add people and share task lists with them using your device's own messaging and sharing apps. If you use these features:

• You are responsible for the personal information of anyone you add (such as their name or role), and you confirm you have any consent required to record and use it.
• You are solely responsible for the content of any message you send and for complying with anti-spam, privacy, employment, and other laws.
• Messages are sent through the third-party app you choose. We do not send, receive, store, or deliver them, and we cannot retract them. We do not guarantee that anyone will receive, read, or act on a message or a delegated task.
• Delegating a task does not transfer any responsibility to us. You remain responsible for following up.
• Do not use these features to harass, threaten, or spam anyone.

11. Acceptable use

You agree not to: (a) use the App for any unlawful, harmful, or fraudulent purpose; (b) store or share content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or that you have no right to hold; (c) track, stalk, harass, threaten, or surveil any person, or collect anyone's information without any consent the law requires; (d) copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to extract the source code of the App, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law; (e) rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the App; (f) interfere with, disrupt, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the App or any system or service it touches, including attempts to bypass or tamper with purchases or Pro entitlements; (g) use automated means to access the App or the website, other than ordinary search-engine indexing; (h) remove or alter any proprietary notices; (i) use the App to build a competing product; or (j) help or allow anyone else to do any of these things.

12. Purchases, subscriptions, and refunds

The App is free to download. Optional "Pro" features may be offered as one-time purchases or auto-renewing subscriptions.

• All purchases are final, non-refundable, and non-transferable to the fullest extent permitted by law and the applicable store's policies.
• All purchases are processed by the applicable app store (Google Play or the Apple App Store) and are subject to that store's terms and payment policies, which we do not control. Formal refund requests are governed by the store's refund policy; we do not process payments and generally cannot issue refunds directly.
• Operating-system updates that affect app compatibility do not entitle you to a refund.
• Subscriptions, where offered, renew automatically at the then-current price until cancelled through your app store account before the renewal date. Deleting the App does not cancel a subscription. Pricing, billing period, and any free-trial terms are shown at the point of purchase. A free trial converts to a paid subscription at the end of the trial unless you cancel in your app store account before it ends.
• We may change Pro pricing or features prospectively; changes do not affect a subscription period you have already paid for.
• Your Pro access is determined by your app store purchase, confirmed through our purchase provider. When a subscription ends or is not renewed, the App returns to the free version. Your data is kept on your device, and nothing is deleted. Pro-only features, including location automations, pause until Pro is active again. The App may keep Pro features available briefly after expiry while it confirms your status, but we do not promise this period.
• You are responsible for keeping your app store account in good standing and for any taxes that apply to you.

13. Lifetime purchases

Pro may be offered as a one-time "lifetime" purchase. "Lifetime" refers to the operational lifetime of the App — for as long as we make TaskNode commercially available — not your lifetime or any fixed period. A lifetime purchase unlocks the Pro features that exist at the time of purchase; it does not entitle you to future updates, new features, or ongoing maintenance, and it is not a subscription. We reserve the right to modify, discontinue, or cease operation of the App at any time. Because TaskNode runs locally on your device, a version you have installed keeps working after discontinuation, but we have no obligation to keep it compatible with future devices or operating systems, and no refunds, credits, or compensation will be provided for any unused portion of a lifetime licence, except where required by law. Sections 17–18 (liability and consumer rights) still apply.

14. Security, your device and your responsibility

TaskNode keeps everything on your device. That makes your device, and everything you connect it to, entirely your responsibility. As between you and us, you alone are responsible for the security, condition and use of your device and for every consequence of what happens to it or to anything stored on it, including:

• loss, theft, damage, repair, trade-in, resale, factory reset, or handing the device to anyone else;
• malware, viruses, spyware, hacking, phishing, or any unauthorized access to the device, its accounts, or its contents;
• connecting the device to a computer, charger, USB port, vehicle, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi network, or any other device, and anything that happens through that connection;
• rooting, jailbreaking, unlocking the bootloader, installing unofficial software, or otherwise modifying the device or the App;
• other apps, accessibility tools, screen readers, screen recorders, keyboards, launchers, smartwatches, notification-mirroring tools, assistants, and cloud or computer backups that can see, copy, or transmit what appears on your screen or in your notifications or files;
• device-management software from an employer, school, or anyone else, and anything they can see or do;
• other people who can see or use your device, including family, co-workers, and anyone who knows or can guess your lock-screen code;
• weak, shared, lost, or disclosed lock-screen codes, passphrases, and account passwords;
• files you export, back up, copy, share, or move to any other device, service, or person; and
• your failure to keep your operating system, app store account, and security settings up to date and secure.

We do not hold, receive, or control your data and cannot protect, retrieve, or delete it. The App may use protections that your device provides, but we make no promise that any protection will work or be enough. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss, exposure, corruption, theft, or misuse of your data, or for any harm to your device or to you or anyone else, that arises from your device, from anything connected to it, from third-party software, or from the actions or inaction of you or anyone with access to your device. This applies whether or not the App was in use at the time and whether or not you knew of the risk.

Reminder and task text can appear on your lock screen, in notifications, and in home-screen widgets, where anyone who can see your phone may read it. You are responsible for your device's lock-screen and notification privacy settings and for what you choose to put in a reminder. We do not warrant that the App is free of vulnerabilities. Tell us promptly at support@tasknode.ca if you believe you have found a security problem in the App.

15. Disclaimer of warranties

The App is provided "as is" and "as available," with all faults and defects, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure; that it will meet your requirements or remain compatible with future device hardware or operating systems; that location triggers, alarms, reminders, or notifications will fire; that streaks, scores, or statistics will be accurate; that map, place, or address information will be correct; or that data will be preserved or recoverable. You use the App at your own risk.

16. Assumption of risk and release

You understand that the App is a self-managed personal tool and that relying on it, or on any device or network, involves risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you accept those risks, and you release us from claims arising from your decisions, your reliance on reminders, alarms, triggers, or records, and the way you or anyone you share with uses the App. This section does not apply to anything the law does not allow to be released.

17. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we and our suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, goodwill, or business, missed tasks, missed or late medication or appointments, missed deadlines, any data breach, hacking, malware, or unauthorized access to or through your device, accidents, broken devices, property damage, or personal injuries connected to your use of the App, or to any third party's use of it — even if advised of the possibility. Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the App will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us through the App in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) CAD $50.

18. Consumer rights

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy you have under applicable law that cannot lawfully be excluded — including under Canadian provincial consumer protection legislation. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, or the exclusion or limitation of liability for gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or personal injury; in those places, Sections 15–17 apply only to the greatest extent permitted, and your mandatory rights are unaffected.

19. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless, and to defend us if we ask, from any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of: your use or misuse of the App; the purposes for which you use it; your content; your use of location or delegation features, including any tracking or monitoring of another person; any person's reliance on a reminder, record, or message you created or sent; your violation of these Terms, any law, or any third-party right. We will tell you of a claim in reasonable time, but a delay does not release you except to the extent it harms you.

20. Third-party services

The App relies on third parties, including the app stores, your device maker and operating system, purchase processing (RevenueCat), mapping and place-search providers (Google Maps and Google Places), notification and background-task components, and the messaging or sharing apps you choose. We are not responsible for the acts, omissions, availability, accuracy, or policies of any third party, including map errors, wrong address pins, missing or outdated places, and service downtime or changes.

RevenueCat: in-app purchase verification depends on services provided by RevenueCat. By completing a purchase, you agree to the RevenueCat Terms of Service.

Google Maps: by using the App's map and place-search features, you agree to be bound by Google's Terms of Service (including the Google Maps / Google Earth Additional Terms) and acknowledge Google's Privacy Policy. Map data and place results are provided by third parties and may be inaccurate or out of date.

21. Intellectual property and open-source software

The App, its design, text, graphics, and the name and logo "TaskNode" belong to us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. You get no ownership of them and no right to use our name or logo, except as these Terms allow. The App includes open-source and third-party components, which are licensed under their own terms; those terms apply to those components instead of these Terms to the extent they conflict. You are responsible for your own content and confirm that you have the right to store and share it. If you believe content or the App infringes your rights, write to support@tasknode.ca with enough detail for us to find and assess it.

22. App store terms

These Terms are between you and us only — not with Apple or Google. You also agree to the applicable store's terms. In addition:

Apple: Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App. If the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the App, including product liability, legal or regulatory non-compliance, or consumer protection claims. Apple is not responsible for investigating, defending, settling, or discharging any third-party intellectual property claim relating to the App. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting," and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government prohibited or restricted-party list. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

Google: your use of the App obtained through Google Play is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service.

23. Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, bug reports, or other feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use it to improve our products, without any obligation or compensation to you. Please don't send us anything you consider confidential, and please don't send us health, financial, or other sensitive personal information.

24. Export and sanctions

You agree to follow the export-control, sanctions, and import laws that apply to your use of the App. You confirm that you are not on a government list of restricted or prohibited parties and are not located in a place where the App's use is prohibited by law.

25. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada, and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Before filing any claim, you agree to contact us at support@tasknode.ca and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days. Any dispute not resolved informally will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of British Columbia, Canada, and you consent to venue there — except where applicable consumer-protection law gives you the right to bring a claim in your own jurisdiction, which we do not seek to remove. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to bring claims against us only in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative proceeding. Any claim you bring must be started within one year after it arises, to the extent the law allows a shorter limit than the usual one.

26. Suspension and termination

These Terms apply for as long as you use the App. You may stop at any time by deleting it. We may suspend or terminate your licence, or stop offering the App or any part of it, if you breach these Terms, if we must for legal reasons, or if we discontinue the App. Sections 3 to 11, 14 to 21, and 23 to 29 survive termination.

27. Changes to the App and these Terms

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the App, or any feature of it, at any time. We may also update these Terms; the updated version will be posted with a new "Last updated" date. For a material change, the App will also show a notice and ask you to accept the revised Terms before you continue using it, and the change applies from that point on. If you don't agree, stop using the App and delete it. The version of these Terms posted at tasknode.ca is the current one.

28. Pre-release versions

If you use a beta, preview, or test build (including a closed or open test on Google Play), it may be incomplete, unstable, or change without notice, and your data may be lost or reset. Pre-release versions are provided strictly "as is," and the disclaimers and liability limits above apply with full force. Do not store anything you cannot afford to lose in a pre-release build.

29. Notices and general terms

We may give you notice by posting it on tasknode.ca or in the App. You may give us legal notices at support@tasknode.ca, and we may reply by email. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be limited or severed and the remainder stays in effect, and the unenforceable part will be replaced by a valid provision as close as possible to its intent. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the App and replace any earlier understanding. Headings are for reference only. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or to a successor. We are not liable for any delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages, device or network failures, and changes by app stores or operating-system makers. Nobody other than you and us, apart from Apple and its subsidiaries as stated above, has rights under these Terms. We and you are independent parties; nothing in these Terms makes either of us the other's agent, partner, employee, or fiduciary. These Terms are written in English, and if they are translated, the English version controls where the law allows.

30. Contact

TaskNode · support@tasknode.ca