🔒 Privacy First
The Short Version
We collect the minimum data needed to run Garden.
We never sell your data. We never share it with advertisers.
Your health information is yours.
- ✅ We store your email address to identify you
- ✅ We store your user/plant profile plant data to fit the AI advice
- ✅ We store your scan history
- ❌ We do NOT sell your data
- ❌ We do NOT share your data with advertisers
- ❌ We do NOT store your food photos (deleted immediately after analysis)
- ❌ We do NOT use cookies for tracking
1. Who We Are
Garden is an independent app created by Lefteris Ktenidis,
This is a personal project, not a company product.
You can contact us at: lef1@protonmail.com
2. What Data We Collect
2.1 Account Data
When you sign in with a magic link, we collect and store:
- Your email address — used to identify your account and send login links
- Your registration date — to manage your trial period
- Your subscription status — free or premium
2.2 User/Plant Profile
You voluntarily provide plant/crop information to get the best advice:
- Room humidity, temperature, light/dark condition,if you have plants in a pot or not
- Crop area, age plantation, soil type
- Crop location
⚠️ Important: This plant data we store it securely
in our database and use it ONLY to personalize the AI plant analysis for you.
We never share it with anyone.
2.3 Scan History
- Plant name identified from your photo
- Date and time of each scan
- Your photos are NOT stored — they are sent to the AI, analyzed, and immediately deleted from our server
3. How We Use Your Data
- To send you magic login links via email
- To recognized and predict plant condition with AI
- To enforce trial and premium subscription limits
We do NOT use your data for:
- Advertising or marketing to third parties
- Selling to data brokers
- Building advertising profiles
- Any purpose not listed above
4. Third-Party Services
NutriLens uses these third-party services:
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Groq AI — processes your food photos for analysis.
Photos are sent to Groq's API and immediately discarded.
See Groq Privacy Policy
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Resend — sends magic login link emails.
Only your email address is shared.
See Resend Privacy Policy
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MongoDB — stores your account data and health profile securely
5. Data Storage & Security
- Your data is stored on a secure server in a private MongoDB database
- All connections use HTTPS/TLS encryption
- Passwords are never stored (we use magic links)
- Food photos are deleted immediately after AI analysis
- Session tokens expire after 30 days
- Magic login links expire after 15 minutes
6. Your Rights (GDPR)
If you are in the EU/EEA, you have the right to:
- ✅ Access — request a copy of your data
- ✅ Rectification — correct inaccurate data
- ✅ Erasure — request deletion of your account and all data
- ✅ Portability — receive your data in a machine-readable format
- ✅ Objection — object to processing of your data
To exercise any of these rights, email us at: lef1@protonmail.com
7. Data Retention
- Active accounts: data retained as long as account is active
- Inactive accounts: data deleted after 12 months of inactivity
- Deleted accounts: all data permanently deleted within 30 days
- Food photos: deleted immediately after analysis (within seconds)
8. Children's Privacy
NutriLens is not intended for children under 13 years of age.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
9. Cookies
NutriLens uses only one cookie: a session cookie (`connect.sid`)
to keep you logged in. We do not use advertising cookies, tracking cookies,
or analytics cookies.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy occasionally. We will notify you by email
if we make significant changes. The date at the top of this page shows
when it was last updated.
11. Contact
For any privacy questions or requests:
📧 lef1@protonmail.com
🌐 garden.devs-app.xyz
👤 Lefteris Ktenidis, Greece 🇬🇷
12. Plant Safety
WARNING! The AI app Garden maybe made mistakes, if you are not sure about the suggested treatment ask an agronomist