Terms of use

The short version

Use Tachy to move your own files between your own devices, or to send something to someone who wants it. Do not use it to store or distribute anything illegal, anything that is not yours to send, or anything designed to harm whoever opens it. The service is free, provided as-is, and may lose your transfer or disappear entirely without warning — so never let it hold your only copy of anything.

Using the service at all means you accept what follows. If you do not, simply do not use it.

What the service does

Tachy accepts files or a text note, holds them temporarily, and hands them to whoever has the six-character code. Transfers are capped at 10 files, 100 MB per file and 250 MB in total, and are deleted automatically when they expire. The about page explains the mechanics in more detail.

What you may not send

You agree not to upload, transmit or share anything that:

• is unlawful where you are or where the service is hosted, or that promotes or facilitates unlawful activity;
• sexually exploits or endangers children, in any form or depiction;
• you do not have the right to send — copyrighted material that is not yours to distribute, confidential material belonging to someone else, or personal information about another person that you have no permission to share;
• contains malware, ransomware, or anything else built to damage or gain unauthorised access to a device;
• is intended to harass, threaten, defame or impersonate someone, or to deceive someone into handing over credentials or money;
• is being placed here to be linked to from elsewhere as though this were a hosting or backup service, or to distribute content at scale to strangers.

You also agree not to attack the service itself: no guessing at codes you were not given, no attempting to reach transfers that are not yours, no working around the size limits or rate limits, and no automated bulk use that degrades it for everyone else.

You are responsible for what you upload and for who you give a code to. A code is the only thing standing between a transfer and anyone who has it.

Reporting something

If a transfer breaks these rules — including if it contains your copyrighted work, or your personal information, sent by someone with no right to do so — tell us and it will be removed. Reports are acted on as quickly as one person reasonably can.

Write to abuse@tachy.app.

Include the six-character code or the pickup link if you still have it, and be aware of what that can and cannot do. While a transfer is alive, the code is what lets us delete it outright. Once it expires there is nothing left to look up: no copy of it is kept, and no record of what it held. This is described in the privacy policy.

So reporting quickly is what makes a report actionable. Most transfers will have deleted themselves before a message about them can be read — in which case the thing you were reporting is already gone.

Removal and refusal of service

Any transfer may be deleted, and access to the service may be refused, at any time and without notice — whether for breaking the rules above, for putting the service at risk, or for any other reason. Nothing here obliges anyone to review, monitor or retain what is uploaded, and no promise is made to look at any particular transfer.

No warranty, and no guarantees

The service is provided as-is and as-available, with no warranty of any kind. Transfers may be lost, corrupted, delivered late, or become unreachable. The service may go offline permanently at any time, with no notice and no way to recover what was on it. Keep your own copy of anything you care about.

To the fullest extent the law allows, nobody involved in running Tachy is liable for any loss arising from using it or from being unable to use it — including lost data, lost time, or anything that follows from a transfer being seen by someone you did not intend. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, in which case those parts simply do not apply to you.

Because transfers are not encrypted end to end, you should treat anything genuinely sensitive as needing its own encryption before upload. See the privacy policy for what is stored and for how long.

Your content stays yours

You keep every right you had in whatever you upload. The permission you grant is only the narrow, practical one needed to run the service: to store your transfer and hand it to whoever presents the code, until it expires or is deleted. That permission ends when the transfer does.

Changes

These terms may change. The date at the top says when they last did, and continuing to use the service after a change means accepting the revised version.

Governing law

A governing jurisdiction for these terms has not yet been set. Until it is, nothing here is intended to remove any right you have under the consumer law that applies where you live.