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Privacy Policy
PlantBirth helps users identify, propagate, care for, and share plants. This Policy explains what we collect, how we use and share information, and the choices available to users.
1. Information We Collect
- Account information such as your name, email address, user ID, and authentication details.
- Plant photographs, identification requests, propagation projects, care notes, saved guides, plant history, and community content.
- Device, browser, IP address, approximate location, diagnostics, performance, and usage information.
- Marketing and communication preferences.
2. How We Use Information
- Provide plant identification, propagation, plant-health, project-history, and community features.
- Generate and save AI-assisted guides and educational information.
- Operate, secure, troubleshoot, personalize, and improve PlantBirth.
- Measure engagement, marketing effectiveness, and platform performance.
- Provide support and send account, service, educational, and promotional communications.
3. Artificial Intelligence
PlantBirth uses artificial intelligence and third-party technology providers to analyze uploaded photographs, assist with plant identification, recommend propagation methods, organize research, and generate educational content.
AI-generated information may be incomplete or incorrect. PlantBirth is an educational tool and does not replace advice from a qualified horticulturist, botanist, arborist, veterinarian, medical professional, poison-control service, or other appropriate professional.
4. Photos and User Content
You retain ownership of photographs and other content you upload.
You grant PlantBirth a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, process, reproduce, display, and use submitted content as reasonably necessary to operate, improve, secure, and promote PlantBirth.
Content shared through community features may be visible to other users according to the available sharing settings.
5. Marketing, Sponsors, and Business Partners
PlantBirth may work with nurseries, garden centers, plant brands, horticultural suppliers, educational organizations, sponsors, advertising partners, affiliates, and other commercial partners.
These relationships may include sponsored content, advertisements, affiliate links, product recommendations, promotional offers, local nursery recommendations, community campaigns, and other revenue-generating activities.
Where permitted by law, PlantBirth may use or share information with partners to measure engagement, personalize marketing, deliver relevant offers, understand audiences, support advertising, and develop business insights.
PlantBirth may create and use aggregated or de-identified information for analytics, research, product development, market intelligence, and commercial purposes.
6. Information Sharing
- Service providers supporting hosting, authentication, storage, AI processing, search, analytics, communications, payments, customer support, security, and infrastructure.
- Sponsors, advertising partners, affiliates, nurseries, retailers, and other business partners as described in this Policy.
- Government authorities, courts, regulators, or other parties when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, security, or property.
- A buyer, investor, successor, or other party in connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, restructuring, bankruptcy, or sale of assets.
- Other parties when you direct us to share information or provide consent.
7. Marketing Choices and Opt-Out
PlantBirth may send educational messages, product updates, community announcements, sponsor messages, nursery promotions, and other promotional communications.
You may opt out of promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link, changing available account preferences, or contacting us.
Opting out of marketing does not prevent account, transaction, security, legal, or service-related messages.
8. Cookies and Similar Technologies
PlantBirth and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, local storage, software development kits, and similar technologies to keep users signed in, remember preferences, secure the platform, measure usage, improve performance, personalize experiences, and support analytics and marketing.
9. Data Retention and Security
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide PlantBirth, maintain plant and project history, support business operations, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent abuse, and maintain backups.
We use commercially reasonable safeguards designed to protect information, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.
10. Your Choices
- Review or update account information.
- Delete projects, photographs, community content, or your account.
- Request access to, correction of, deletion of, or export of certain personal information.
- Manage marketing preferences and unsubscribe from promotional emails.
11. Children's Privacy
PlantBirth is not directed to children under 13 without the involvement of a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as PlantBirth, technology, legal requirements, and business practices change. The updated policy will be posted with a new effective date.
13. Contact
Questions, privacy requests, and marketing opt-out requests may be sent to:
support@plantbirth.app