Terms of Service

Time & Effort Check-in · Operated by {{OPERATOR}} · Last updated 2026-09-13

Using this product means you accept these terms. They state what the product can and cannot do — nothing is overstated on its behalf.

1. What this service is

Time & Effort Check-in is a reminder and self-reassessment tool: you set a reassessment point before you start, or jump straight into a reassessment when you are already stuck. When the time comes, you pick one of three options — stop here, try another way, or put in a bit more time.

The product does not decide for you and does not judge whether your choice was right. It provides no investment, financial, legal, medical or psychological advice, does not assess the economic return of any effort, does not advise whether to end a relationship, and constitutes no treatment plan. The consequences of your decisions are yours.

There is no coercion built in: no app blocking, no sleep policing, no penalties, no leaderboards. A due reminder repeats at most twice at 60-second intervals and stops as soon as you confirm a decision, mute, or cancel. We will not escalate volume or use prompts you cannot dismiss to force a response.

2. The limits of our reminders (please read this section)

• Web: the due chime is scheduled on the Web Audio clock, so it does not drift even when the tab is throttled in the background — but this requires the page to still be running. Close the tab or the browser and it will not sound. Browsers require a user interaction before audio may play, so the chime cannot be unlocked before your first click on the page.
• System notifications: shown only if you have already granted notification permission. Without it you get the chime and in-page prompts only; we will not nag for permission repeatedly.
• WeChat Mini Program: our commitment covers foreground use. WeChat suspends mini programs in the background, so background reminders can only use one-off subscription messages — you must re-authorise each time you start a round, and each authorisation permits exactly one message. That is not laziness: long-term subscriptions are not available to individual-operator accounts.
• Native apps: until Android and iOS each complete on-device verification, we make no reliability claims for them; the interface will honestly show states such as "background reminders unavailable" rather than pretend otherwise.
• If the system denies notification, exact-alarm or full-screen permissions, the product says so plainly. A denied permission, an unanswered reminder, or a lost connection never substitutes for your decision — the product will not end or continue anything on your behalf because of them.

3. Accounts and recovery

• The product is fully usable signed out, with data on your device. Registering is your choice.
• Account recovery has exactly one path: the 12-character one-time recovery code shown once at registration, regenerable in settings (which invalidates the old one immediately).
• If you lose the recovery code, we cannot restore your account either — the server stores only its hash, never the plaintext. That is by design, not a fault. Keep it in a password manager. There is no email binding in the interface, so there is no "email me a reset" fallback.
• You are responsible for your own password and recovery code. Resetting via a recovery code revokes every existing session on that account.
• Tokens last 30 days. After expiry the client falls back to local mode and tells you so; your data is still on the device.

4. Data, sync and availability

• Sync uses optimistic concurrency: your submission carries the revision you hold, and if both sides changed you get an explicit conflict prompt with a choice of keep-cloud / keep-local / merge / export-local. Until you choose, the local copy is not lost. We never overwrite silently.
• Local changes are written locally first, then batched into roughly one upload every 5 seconds. If you go offline or close the page immediately after acting, up to 5 seconds of changes may not have reached the cloud; they are already stored locally and are pushed next time you open the app. That is the price of conserving the cloud write quota, stated plainly.
• Per-account capacity: 500 tasks, 3,000 rounds, 3,000 decisions. At 90% you are prompted to export; at the limit writes are refused with an export path offered — never silently truncated.
• The service runs on Cloudflare's free tier (1,000 cloud writes per day, among other caps). When a quota is exhausted, sync fails temporarily — your data is not lost; the local copy is intact and pushes once service resumes. We do not guarantee 100% availability or any response time.
• Event counters are not atomic, so concurrent reports can undercount. They show scale and trend only and are not an audit record.
• When migrating old data, the original snapshot, version number and rollback path are preserved in full; old names, notes and decisions are never rewritten.

5. The Pro purchase: what we promise, and what we do not

Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. No auto-renewal, no membership tiers, no countdown promotions.

We promise

• The Pro features listed at the time of purchase remain available, with no expiry date.
• Features you have already bought will not be moved back behind a paywall; any genuinely new service in future will be described separately.
• The web client and the WeChat Mini Program recognise the same entitlement under the same product account.
• The free core loop — reassessing, stopping, notes, basic history and data export — will not be locked after you have invested time in it. Existing account sync is not withdrawn for commercial reasons.
• The sales page states which features are included, which platforms are supported and in what state, how to restore a purchase, how to get a refund, and how to export your data. Where reminder permissions are denied or background operation is unavailable, we will not show you a paid capability we cannot deliver.

We do not promise

• No promise of unlimited storage, unlimited cloud sync, or every future feature. Existing sync continues. If cloud capacity or pricing ever has to change, we will give migration options, an export path and an arrangement for existing users first — not after the fact.
• Whether native apps fall under the same entitlement must be checked against each app store's rules when those apps are commissioned; we do not make promises about platforms that do not yet exist.
• The iOS app neither offers nor advertises "import your own audio": the system's custom alarm sound has unfixed defects on the target OS version and exposes no volume API. Without on-device evidence, we will not sell that capability.
• The iOS app does not sell Pro; it only displays your entitlement state and tells you to unlock on the web.
• We do not claim conflict-free concurrent editing across devices — simultaneous multi-device collaboration is out of scope for this version.

Entitlements follow orders verified on our server. A client-side "payment succeeded" message is not the basis for granting anything; every grant and revocation is written to the account ledger and is traceable.

6. Payment, refunds and restoring a purchase

Prices, channels and refund paths are in the Refund Policy. In short: international sales go through Lemon Squeezy (the Merchant of Record); mainland China sales go through WeChat virtual payment inside the Mini Program; redeem codes are a gift and compensation channel and are non-refundable. To restore a purchase, sign in and claim it with your license key or purchase email.

7. What you may not do

• Do not circumvent, forge or load-test the API rate limits (5 registrations/hour, 10 sign-ins/5 minutes, 120 reads/minute, 30 writes/minute, and so on), and do not script bulk registrations, redeem-code guessing or event flooding.
• Do not forge payment callbacks or otherwise attempt to obtain an entitlement without paying.
• Do not use the service for purposes that break the law where you are.
• Breaching any of the above allows us to restrict or terminate that account without prior notice and revoke its entitlement. Accounts terminated for such breaches are not refunded.

8. Intellectual property

What you write into the product is yours — tasks, conditions, notes, feelings. We acquire no right to use, display or sublicense them, and we do not train any model on them. The software, interface and copy of the product itself belong to the operator.

9. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The service is provided "as is". To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses; for direct losses attributable to the operator, total liability is capped at the amount you actually paid for this service in the preceding 12 months (zero for free users).

Nothing above excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law.

10. Termination

You may stop using the service at any time and request deletion under section 6 of the Privacy Policy. If we ever discontinue the service entirely, we will announce it in advance and keep export working; we will not shut down without an export path.

11. Changes and governing law

Changes update the date at the top of this page. Changes that reduce paid entitlements are not retroactive; features already purchased remain available under section 5.

These terms are governed by the laws of {{GOVERNING_LAW}}, with disputes subject to {{JURISDICTION}}. This does not affect mandatory consumer rights you hold where you live.

12. Contact

support@{{DOMAIN}}. Operator: {{OPERATOR}}.