Terms of Service

By using Backyard Farm you agree to what follows. If you don't, please don't use the service.

What Backyard Farm is

A gardening tool. It helps you track plants, identify species from photographs, get AI-generated care suggestions, and swap seeds or surplus produce with other growers.

About the AI identifications and diagnoses

This matters more than anything else on this page.

• Plant identification and disease diagnosis are automated estimates, not expert determinations. They are frequently wrong, particularly on poor photographs or uncommon species.
• Never use Backyard Farm to decide whether a plant is safe to eat, or whether a plant, berry, mushroom or leaf is edible or toxic. Misidentifying a plant can kill you. If you intend to eat something, have it confirmed by a qualified person in front of the actual plant.
• Nothing here is medical, veterinary, nutritional or professional agricultural advice. If someone has eaten something and may be unwell, contact emergency services or a poison control centre — not this app.
• Treatment suggestions, including any mention of chemical products, are general information. Follow the product label and your local regulations, which override anything we say.

Your account

• Give an accurate email address and keep your login secure.
• You are responsible for activity under your account.
• You must be 13 or older.
• We may suspend accounts that abuse the service — automated scraping, attempts to exhaust our API credits, or harassment of other users.

What you upload

You keep ownership of your photos and plant records. You grant us only the licence needed to run the service: to store your content, display it back to you, and send photos to the identification providers listed in our Privacy Policy.

Don't upload anything you don't have the right to share, anything unlawful, or anything containing other people's personal information. Note that photos attached to plant records and listings are stored at public URLs — see the Privacy Policy for what that means.

The marketplace

• Listings are between growers. We are not a party to any exchange, we don't handle payment, and we don't verify listings, sellers or the condition of anything offered.
• Expressing interest sends your email address to the seller so they can reply.
• You are responsible for meeting safely and for complying with any local rules on moving seeds, plants or produce.
• Don't list anything illegal, or anything you cannot legally transfer.

Credits and donations

Accounts include a number of free AI credits. Donations are voluntary, support the project, and are not a purchase of goods or a subscription. Paid plans are not yet available.

Availability

The service is provided as is. We don't promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and features may change or be withdrawn. We rely on third-party services that can fail independently of us.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, Backyard Farm is not liable for loss arising from use of the service — including crop loss, loss of plants, or decisions made on the basis of an AI identification or diagnosis. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms; the date above will change and continued use means you accept the update. Questions: gpere800@gmail.com.