Privacy Policy

We collect only what we need to run the app for you:

• Account info: the email address you sign up with, or the unique ID provided by Apple or Google when you use those sign-in options. Plus an optional display name and profile photo you choose.
• Gardening data: the gardens, plants, areas, placements, journal entries, harvests, and seed inventory you create. This is your own record, scoped to your account.
• Location info: if you enter a zip code, we use it to look up your USDA hardiness zone and frost dates so we can schedule your planting tasks. We don't track your real-time location.
• Photos: any images you attach to journal entries or plant records. These are stored privately, scoped to your account.
• Settings: display preferences (units, theme) and task completion state.

• We don't run ads.
• We don't run third-party analytics or tracking SDKs.
• We don't sell your data. To anyone. Ever.
• We don't access your device contacts, calendar, microphone, or real-time location.

Your data is stored in Google Firebase (Firestore for structured data, Cloud Storage for photos, Authentication for accounts). Firebase is a Google Cloud product. Their security and privacy practices apply on top of ours; you can read theirs at firebase.google.com/support/privacy.

Firestore security rules ensure each user can only read and write their own records. We never access your gardening data manually unless you ask us to (e.g. for a support request).

• Firebase (Google) — authentication, database, file storage, and serverless functions.
• Mapbox — used to render the map when you draw garden beds. Your drawn shapes are stored in your account; Mapbox sees the map tiles you load while editing.
• Open-Meteo — weather forecasts. We send a latitude/longitude derived from your zip code; we do not send any account info.
• OpenAI — used to power some Premium features (Garden Plan, Insights, plant autofill). When you trigger one of those features, we send the inputs needed for that specific request (e.g. your plant kind and growing zone). We do not send your photos, journal text, or email address.