Granular Privacy Controls | TaskTroll

A family management app that handles chores, location, communication, financial tracking, and legal documents has to be extraordinarily careful about privacy. TaskTroll is designed around the principle that you control exactly what each person in and adjacent to your household can see — and that the default is always the most restrictive setting, not the most permissive. No data is shared with a co-parent, a professional, or another household member without your explicit, per-category permission.

The privacy matrix is the heart of this system. For every person with any role in your TaskTroll ecosystem — children, co-parents, step-parents, grandparent users, professional observers — you configure a separate permission set. A co-parent might have access to the shared custody calendar and the co-parent message log, but not your personal task list or your household’s financial data. A family therapist might have read-only access to the communication log during an active proceeding but no access to location data. A grandparent might see the family calendar but not the chore completion history. Every dimension is independently controllable.

For children, age-appropriate privacy is built in as a baseline. A 7-year-old’s TaskTroll profile shows only their tasks. A 15-year-old’s profile can have more visibility configurable by the parent based on maturity and trust. The system does not assume that a child having access to the app means a child should have access to all household data — each child’s view is deliberately scoped.

Use-case story: When Veronica’s attorney requested access to her TaskTroll communication log during a custody proceeding, she didn’t want to hand over her entire account. In Privacy Controls, she granted her attorney a read-only observer link scoped to: co-parent messages only, date range last 18 months, no access to chores, financials, or location data. The attorney got exactly what was needed for the case. Veronica’s household’s full profile remained private. The proceeding resolved and she revoked the access with a single tap.

How to use it

• Navigate to Settings > Privacy & Sharing to open your permission matrix
• Select any person connected to your account (co-parent, professional, grandparent, step-parent) to configure their access level
• For each data category, set access to Off, View Only, or Full — access can be changed at any time and takes effect immediately
• Review the Active Access report monthly to see a log of who has viewed any shared data and when

Who needs this most

Co-parents who want the benefits of shared data without giving a co-parent full account visibility, and families who share their TaskTroll account with extended family or professional observers and need precise control over what each person can access.