GardenGrid Privacy Policy
Effective October 29, 2026 ยท Developer: Unpossible Apps
GardenGrid is an offline garden planner: it lays out raised beds, containers and plots on a grid, checks companion plants, builds a planting calendar from your frost dates, and keeps a garden journal, harvest log and seed inventory. It has no account, no cloud service and no servers of its own. This policy explains what the app does and doesn't do with information.
Your data stays on your device
Your beds and plantings, custom plants, journal entries and photos, harvests, tasks, seed inventory, hardiness zone, frost dates and settings are stored only in the app's private storage on your device. We don't operate any servers for GardenGrid, so we can't see, access, back up or recover your data, and we never receive it. The plant and companion-planting database is built into the app, and the planting calendar, reminders, companion checks and harvest totals are all worked out on your device.
GardenGrid never asks for your location. You choose your hardiness zone and frost dates yourself.
Information processed by Google services in the app
- Google Play Billing processes purchases of GardenGrid Pro subscriptions (monthly or yearly). Payments are handled entirely by Google Play; we never receive your payment details. The app checks with Google Play on your device to confirm whether your subscription is active. Like any app that sells through Google Play, the Google Play Billing library also sends Google diagnostic information about these billing requests, such as whether connecting to Google Play or loading a purchase succeeded, under Google's Privacy Policy. This doesn't include anything you enter in GardenGrid.
- Advertising. Version 1.0 shows no ads, and the advertising SDK included in the app is never started. A future version may show ads to free users through Google AdMob. If it does, this policy will be updated before that version is released, you'll be asked for consent where the law requires it, and GardenGrid Pro will remain ad-free.
Apart from Google Play Billing, the app makes no network connections.
Permissions
- Camera (optional) is used only when you choose to take a photo for your garden journal. Photos are saved in the app's private storage. You can also pick existing photos with Android's photo picker, which needs no permission and shares only the photos you select.
- Notifications (optional) remind you when it's time to start seeds, plant out, sow or harvest, warn you a few days before your average frost dates, and tell you when tasks you added are due.
- Network access is used only by Google Play Billing (and, if ever enabled, the advertising SDK described above).
- GardenGrid doesn't access your location, contacts, microphone or other files. Files you export (layout images and PDFs, and backups) are written only where you choose, and files you restore are opened only when you pick them.
Home-screen widgets
If you add GardenGrid widgets to your home screen, they show your upcoming garden jobs, frost countdown and bed layouts. Anyone who can see your home screen can see that information. The widgets read the same on-device data as the app and send nothing anywhere.
Things we don't do
- No account or sign-in, and no analytics, crash reporting or tracking.
- We don't sell, rent or share your personal information.
- We don't build a profile of you or your garden.
Exports, sharing and backups
Android's automatic cloud backup is turned off for GardenGrid. When you share a bed layout as an image or PDF, or create a backup file, the file goes only where you choose: a folder on your device, a cloud drive you pick, or an app you share it with. Those destinations are governed by their own privacy policies. Backup files contain your garden data and journal photos and are not encrypted, so store them somewhere you trust. We never receive these files.
Deleting your data
You can delete any bed, planting, custom plant, journal entry, photo, harvest, task or seed packet in the app; deleting a bed also deletes all of its plantings, and deleting a journal entry deletes its photos. Uninstalling the app permanently removes all of its data from your device. To end a GardenGrid Pro subscription, cancel it in Google Play under Payments & subscriptions.
Children
GardenGrid isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: hasan.bayramoglu.developer@gmail.com