Terms

The short version

• It is free, and it comes with no guarantees. It is run by one person, in his own time, and it can go wrong or go away.
• Keep your own backup. Export backup in the cog menu gives you a file holding everything. Nothing here promises to keep your lists safe for you.
• Your lists are yours. Nothing in them is claimed, sold, or used for anything other than showing them to you and to whoever you shared them with.
• Don't use it to hurt anybody.

Using it

By creating an account you accept these terms. If you do not, do not create one. The app also runs entirely on your own device, with no account and no server, through Use on this device only.

You must be 13 or over to create an account. A parent or guardian is welcome to share a list with a younger child from their own account.

You are responsible for what happens under your account, including keeping your password to yourself. Tell me at privacy@co-do.app if you think somebody else has got into it.

What you put in it

Whatever you write stays yours. You give only the permission needed to run the service: to store your lists, to show them on your devices, and to show them to the people you have shared them with. That permission ends when you delete the content or your account.

Anything you upload, a logo for instance, has to be yours to use.

Sharing

Sharing a list gives the other person full access to it: they can read everything in it and change anything in it. There is no read-only sharing. Share accordingly, and remove people from Manage lists when you want to.

A calendar feed address is a secret link that works without signing in. Anyone you give it to can read that list's deadlines and notes, and can pass it on. Revoke it in Manage lists if that stops being what you want.

What not to do

Don't use Co-Do List to store or share anything unlawful, to harass anybody, to send anybody something they don't want, to break into any part of the service or anybody else's account, or to put load on it well beyond what a person keeping lists would generate.

An account doing any of that can be suspended or removed, and if there is time to give notice first, there will be.

What is not promised

This matters more than the rest of the page, so it is in plain words rather than capital letters.

Co-Do List is provided as it is. There is no promise that it will be available, that it will work correctly, that a reminder will arrive, that a deadline will reach your calendar, or that your data will survive. It depends on services run by other people, on your own device and browser, and on a phone actually being switched on. Any of those can fail, and sometimes one will.

Do not rely on it for anything where being told late, or not at all, would actually hurt. It is a checklist, not a safety system.

There are no server-side backups you can ask for. If you delete something, or your account, it is gone. The database provider takes automatic copies for its own recovery, kept briefly, and they are not a service I can restore your list from. Export backup exists precisely because of this, and it is worth using.

Nothing here takes away rights you have under consumer law that cannot be taken away, and nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Beyond that, and as far as the law allows, I am not liable for any loss arising from using the service, including lost data, lost time, or anything that followed from a missed deadline. If a court decides some liability stands regardless, it is limited to what you have paid, which today is nothing.

Changes, and endings

Features will change. Some will be added, some will work differently, and some may go. Anything that changes what is collected or who can see it will be said in the app before it happens, not slipped quietly into a new version of a page.

You can leave at any time, from the cog menu under Delete account. That removes your account, the lists you own, for everybody they were shared with, along with your memberships of other people's lists, your reminder settings and your feed tokens. It cannot be undone. Export a backup first.

The service could also end. It is run by one person and it is free. If it is going to be shut down, there will be reasonable notice and enough time to export your lists. That is a commitment worth making, because the alternative is the thing people rightly fear about a small service: a site that one day does not load.

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them.

If it is ever paid for

Everything described here is free today. If a paid tier is ever added, it will be for things that cost money to run, it will be described before anyone is asked for anything, and what exists for free will not be taken away behind a wall.

Exporting your data will never be a paid feature.

Who is responsible, and the law that applies

Co-Do List is run by Paul Everatt, an individual in the United Kingdom. Contact: privacy@co-do.app.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer living elsewhere in the UK, you keep the right to bring proceedings in your own part of it.

How your data is handled is a separate page: Privacy.