Privacy Policy

Backyard Farm helps you track plants, identify species and diagnose plant disease from photographs. This page explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it. If anything here is unclear, email gpere800@gmail.com.

What we collect

• Account details. Your email address, and your name and profile picture if you sign in with Google. We use these to identify your account and send the emails described below.
• Plant records. Names, types, watering schedules, notes and health history you enter.
• Photographs. Images you upload to identify a plant or diagnose disease.
• Marketplace listings. Anything you choose to publish, including the location name you provide.
• Usage data. Basic, aggregated analytics about which pages are visited. We do not build advertising profiles and we do not sell data.

How your photos are used

This is the part worth reading closely. When you upload a photo for identification or disease analysis:

• It is sent to PlantNet, a third-party identification service, so the species or disease can be recognised.
• A text description of the result — not the image — may be sent to an AI model via OpenRouter to generate treatment advice.
• When you ask the in-app assistant a question, a summary of your plant records — names, types, watering schedules, when each was last watered, and your notes — is sent to OpenRouter along with your question, so it can answer about your actual garden rather than in general terms. Your photos are not sent. If you would rather it did not see your records, don't use the assistant.
• If you save the photo to a plant record, it is stored in our Supabase storage bucket. Photos attached to plant records and marketplace listings are stored with public URLs. The address is long and not guessable, but it is not password-protected — so anyone holding the link can open it. Don't upload anything you would mind being seen.
• We do not use your photos to train our own models.

Emails we send

Watering reminders, a welcome email if you subscribe, and a notification when someone expresses interest in your marketplace listing. Reminders can be switched off per plant from your garden. Marketplace enquiry emails share your email address with the seller so they can reply — that is the point of the feature.

Who else handles your data

• Supabase — database, authentication and file storage.
• Vercel — hosting and basic analytics.
• PlantNet — plant and disease identification from your photos.
• OpenRouter — AI-generated care and treatment text.
• Resend — sending the emails described above.
• Paystack — processing donations. We never see or store your card details.

How long we keep things

Your plant records and photos stay until you delete them or ask us to close your account. Email addresses on the newsletter list stay until you ask to be removed.

Your choices

• Edit or delete any plant record, note or photo from your garden at any time.
• Turn watering reminders off per plant.
• Remove a marketplace listing at any time.
• Email gpere800@gmail.com to request a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion of your account and everything in it. We will action deletion requests within 30 days.

Children

Backyard Farm is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If we change this policy materially we will update the date above and, where the change affects how your photos or email are used, tell account holders by email.

Contact

Questions, requests or complaints: gpere800@gmail.com.