Fair Use Policy
Tasktastic is free while it is in beta. To keep it fast and free for everyone, we ask you to use it the way it is meant to be used: for your own task lists and the lists you share with the people you live, plan or work with. This policy explains what that means in practice and what we do when use goes beyond it. It sits alongside our Terms of Service, in particular section 5 (Acceptable use), section 6 (no copying or reselling the service) and section 10 (Termination), and our Privacy Policy.
1. Why this policy exists
Every Tasktastic user shares the same servers, the same database and the same daily allowance of requests to Google Tasks. One account sending thousands of requests, or one list with hundreds of members, slows the service down for everyone else and can use up the Google allowance that every other user depends on. Fair use keeps the service working for the households, couples and small teams it is built for.
2. What Tasktastic is for
- Personal task lists and lists shared with people you know.
- Small groups: a household, a couple, a group of friends, a club committee or a small team.
- People using the Tasktastic app, or Google Tasks, by hand.
3. What is not allowed
Automated or heavy use
- Using scripts, bots, scrapers or any client other than the Tasktastic app to call our servers or API.
- Automating Google Tasks so that it pushes large or constant changes through a shared list.
- Load testing, stress testing or probing the service, or trying to find or get around its limits.
- Creating several accounts, or asking others to, to get around a limit.
Using Tasktastic as storage
- Using tasks, notes or list names to store data that is not a task, such as files, encoded data, logs, backups or records for another system.
- Building up very large lists that nobody works through, for example importing thousands of tasks at once.
Reselling or building on Tasktastic
- Selling, renting or charging for access to Tasktastic or to a shared list.
- Offering Tasktastic, or anything built on it, as part of a paid product or service.
- Rebranding the service, or presenting it as your own.
Sharing at scale
- Adding people to a list who have not asked to be on it.
- Posting invite links publicly, for example on social media or forums, to fill a list with strangers.
- Using a shared list as a broadcast channel, newsletter or mailing list.
Spam and harassment
- Using invitations, nudges or task assignments to send unwanted messages or to pressure or harass someone.
- Putting links to malware, scams or phishing pages in tasks or notes.
- Storing content that is unlawful, or that you do not have the right to share, including other people's personal data.
4. Usage limits
To make the rules above concrete, Tasktastic has the limits below. They are set well above what a household or small team needs. If you reach one, the app tells you and the action becomes available again once the limit resets. Limits marked “coming soon” are being introduced during the beta.
| What | Limit |
|---|---|
| People on one shared list, including the owner | 10 (coming soon) |
| Shared lists you own | 10 (coming soon) |
| Shared lists you belong to, including your own | 20 (coming soon) |
| Tasks on one shared list, including completed tasks not yet cleared | 500 (coming soon) |
| Task title / notes length | 1,024 / 8,192 characters |
| Invitation emails you can send | 20 an hour, and one to the same list every 15 minutes |
| Nudges | One per task a day; 10 a day per person; each person receives at most one nudge email a day |
| Sync now button | Once a minute |
| Requests from the app to our servers | 120 a minute per person; over it, the app asks you to wait a moment (coming soon) |
Google also sets its own limits on Google Tasks, which apply whether or not you use Tasktastic. We may change these limits as the service grows. If we lower one, we will tell you before it affects lists you already have.
5. What happens if use goes beyond fair use
- Automatic limits. Most of the time, a limit simply slows things down or asks you to try again later. Nothing else happens.
- We get in touch. If your use keeps going over the limits, or looks like one of the things in section 3, we email the address on your Google account to explain what we have seen and ask you to change it.
- Temporary restriction. If it continues, we may restrict the account or list involved, for example by pausing syncing or invitations, until it is resolved.
- Suspension or closure. As a last step, and under section 10 of the Terms, we may suspend or close the account.
We skip straight to restriction or suspension, without warning, when use puts the service, its security or other people at risk, for example an attack on the service, malware, or harassment. Whenever we act, we tell you why unless the law or a security reason stops us. Your own Google Tasks stay in your Google account whatever happens to your Tasktastic account.
6. Free while in beta
Tasktastic costs nothing during the beta. If we introduce paid plans later, we will tell you in advance, and you will never be charged without agreeing to it first.
7. Questions, appeals and reporting abuse
If you think we have restricted your account by mistake, or you need more than a limit allows for a good reason, email support@tasktastic.app. The same address is the place to report a list, invitation or nudge that is being used to spam or harass you.
8. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as Tasktastic changes. When we do, we publish the new version number and the date it takes effect at the top of this page.