Privacy Policy — TaskForce Reminder

Summary

TaskForce Reminder's task management works fully offline — your tasks, projects, and reminders never leave your device, there is no server, and no account system. The one exception is a small banner ad shown on each screen (see "Advertising" below), which uses Google's AdMob service and is the only feature in the app that needs an internet connection.

What data the app stores, and where

Everything you enter — task titles, descriptions, due dates, categories, notes, subtasks, projects (including their optional deadlines and whether they are archived), your settings, and your display name — is stored only in a private database on your own device. This data:

• Is never uploaded to any server operated by us or by any third party.
• Is never shared with advertisers, analytics providers, or any other company.
• Is only accessible to the TaskForce Reminder app itself, protected by your device's normal operating-system app sandboxing.

Smart features run on your device

Features that make the app easier to use — understanding a sentence such as "Call mom tomorrow at 6pm", choosing which task to show as "Next up", suggesting a priority, or suggesting that overdue tasks be moved to tomorrow — are worked out on your phone from your own tasks, using simple rules. They need no internet connection and nothing about them is sent anywhere.

Voice input

The microphone button in the quick-add bar and in "More options" uses your phone's own speech recognition service (on most devices, provided by Google) through Android's standard speech recognizer. TaskForce Reminder never records audio itself and does not request microphone permission; it only receives the text the recognition service returns. How that service processes your voice is governed by its provider's privacy policy, not by this app.

Attachments

If you attach a photo or PDF to a task, the app does not copy or upload that file. It stores a reference to the file's existing location on your device (using Android's standard file-picker permission system) so it can be opened again later. The file itself never leaves your device.

Account and login

There is no account, sign-up, or login of any kind. The app has no way to identify you personally and does not ask for your name, email, phone number, or any other identifying information beyond an optional display name you can type in for the Home screen greeting, which is stored only locally as described above.

Backups

TaskForce Reminder uses Android's standard backup system (the same one many apps use), which may back up your task data to your own Google account as part of your device's normal backup settings. This is a feature of your Android device, controlled by your own Google account settings — it is not a service operated by us, and we have no access to any backup created this way. You can turn this off at any time in your device's system backup settings if you prefer.

Advertising

TaskForce Reminder shows a small banner ad on each screen, served by Google AdMob. This is the only third-party service the app uses, and the only reason it needs an internet connection. AdMob may collect device/advertising identifiers and general usage signals (unrelated to your task data) to serve and measure ads, under Google's own privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and, where applicable, its consent/ad-personalization settings. None of your task, project, or reminder data — which stays in the local database described above — is ever sent to AdMob or any other advertiser. The app contains no other analytics SDKs, no crash-reporting services, and no tracking beyond what AdMob itself requires to serve ads.

Permissions the app requests, and why

• Notifications — to show you task reminders at the time you set.
• Alarms & reminders (exact alarm scheduling) — so reminders fire at the exact minute you chose, rather than being delayed by the system.
• Receive boot completed — so your reminders are re-scheduled automatically after your device restarts (alarms don't otherwise survive a restart).
• File access (via the system file picker only) — only when you choose to attach a photo or PDF to a task; the app never browses your files on its own.
• Internet / network state — used only to load the banner ad described in "Advertising" above. No task, project, or reminder data is ever sent over this connection.
• Microphone — the app does not request microphone permission. Voice input is handled by your phone's speech recognition service, as described under "Voice input" above.

None of these permissions are used to collect or transmit your task data — the only data that leaves the device is what Google AdMob collects to serve the banner ad, as described above.

Children's privacy

TaskForce Reminder is not directed at children under 13. The app itself does not collect personal data from anyone, including children; the only data collected is what Google AdMob collects to serve the banner ad, described under "Advertising" above.

Changes to this policy

If this app ever changes to add features that involve data leaving your device (such as an optional cloud backup), this policy will be updated first, and that update will describe exactly what changes.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to: busr.bd90@gmail.com