Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 19, 2026

1. Introduction Welcome to our plant identification and diagnostic application ("Flora," "we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a safe, transparent experience. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application.

2. Information We Collect To provide you with accurate plant diagnostics and a personalized tracking experience, we collect the following types of information:

  • Camera and Photos: With your explicit permission, we access your device's camera and photo library to capture or upload images of your plants for health analysis.

  • Account Information: When you create an account, we may collect your email address and authentication credentials.

  • Profile and App Data: We collect and store your saved plant history, diagnostic results, and treatment plans to build your digital garden profile.

  • Subscription Data: We track your account tier to manage access to Premium features and content limits.

  • Automatically Collected Data: We automatically collect standard usage information, such as device type, operating system, crash reports, and app interactions to improve performance.

3. How We Use Your Information We do not sell your personal data. We use the information we collect strictly to operate and improve the app:

  • Diagnostic Services: To securely transmit your plant photos to our identification API to detect diseases and generate custom treatment plans.

  • Personalization: To save your history so you can track your plants' health and recovery over time.

  • Functionality: To enforce Premium tier access and validate in-app purchases.

  • Communication: To send you essential account updates, security alerts, or subscription notifications.

  • App Improvement: To debug crashes, analyze usage trends, and improve our diagnostic accuracy.

4. Third-Party Services We utilize trusted third-party service providers to operate our app. These services may collect information sent by your device as part of a service request:

  • Supabase: We use Supabase to securely host our databases, manage user authentication, and provide encrypted cloud storage for your saved plant images.

  • Plant.id API: We securely transmit your plant photos to Plant.id solely for the purpose of identifying the plant species, diagnosing diseases, and generating treatment data.

  • RevenueCat: We use RevenueCat to manage your subscription status, sync premium entitlements across devices, and track purchase history securely.

  • App Stores: We utilize Apple App Store and Google Play Store services for processing in-app purchases. We do not collect or store your raw credit card information.

5. Data Retention and Account Deletion We retain your personal information, including plant images and history, only for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services.

  • Your Right to Delete: You have the right to request the complete deletion of your account and associated personal data at any time.

  • How to Delete: You can delete your account directly within the app's settings menu or by contacting us. Upon deletion, your user profile, saved plant history, and all associated images will be permanently erased from our active Supabase servers.

6. Security of Your Information We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures—including strict database security rules and HTTPS encryption—to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

7. Children’s Privacy Our application is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this policy and, where required by law, by providing a prominent notice within the app.

9. Contact Us If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you need to submit a data deletion request, please contact us at: