Privacy Policy

MyGarden is based in California, USA (“MyGarden,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy applies to the MyGarden iOS application and the website at mygarden.guru (collectively, the “Service”).

Questions about this policy or about your personal data can be sent to privacy@mygarden.guru.

We collect only what we need to operate MyGarden and to improve it. We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertising networks.

We do not collect precise (GPS-level) location, your contacts, your browsing history outside MyGarden, your health or fitness data, your financial information, or biometric data.

MyGarden does not collect health data, financial information, government identifiers, precise location, or other sensitive personal information as defined under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and GDPR.

• Operate the core Service (sign you in, store your plants and photos, send the alerts you’ve enabled).
• Generate AI-based plant identifications, care plans, and health assessments.
• Diagnose crashes and improve performance, reliability, and quality.
• Reply to support requests you send us.

We do not use your data to train third-party AI models for commercial reuse. When we send plant photos to AI providers (currently Google Gemini), they are processed solely to return results for you, under the contractual terms of those providers.

We share the minimum necessary data with a small set of service providers acting on our behalf:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) — hosting, database, image storage.
• Google Gemini — AI plant identification and care advice.
• Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) — delivering notifications.
• Apple WeatherKit and OpenWeather — local weather data.

We do not sell your data, share it with advertising networks, or share it with data brokers. We may disclose data when required by law, valid legal process, or to protect rights, safety, or property.

• Account and plant content: as long as your account is active.
• Crash and performance logs: 90 days.
• Backups: up to 30 days after deletion.

You can delete your account from within the app or by emailing privacy@mygarden.guru. When you delete your account, we remove your personal data from active systems within 30 days and from backups within 60 days, except where retention is required for legal, financial, or fraud-prevention reasons.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access the data we hold about you
• Correct inaccurate data
• Delete your data
• Export your data (data portability)
• Object to certain processing
• Withdraw consent you previously gave

To exercise any of these rights, email privacy@mygarden.guru. We respond within 30 days. If you are in the EU or UK, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. If you are in California, you have rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to know, delete, correct, and limit the use of sensitive personal information.

MyGarden is not directed to children under 13 (or 16 in the European Union). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children below the applicable age. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, email privacy@mygarden.guru and we will delete it.

MyGarden is operated from the United States. If you use the Service from outside the US, your data is transferred to and processed in the US. Where applicable, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent safeguards for cross-border transfers of EU and UK personal data.

We use industry-standard practices to protect your data: TLS encryption in transit, encrypted storage at rest, scoped access controls, and minimal data retention. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your personal data, we will notify you as required by applicable law.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Effective” date at the top of this page reflects the latest revision. For material changes, we will notify you in the app or by email before they take effect.

Privacy questions or rights requests: privacy@mygarden.guru.

Legal inquiries: legal@mygarden.guru.

Mailing address available on request to the addresses above.