Privacy & Cookie Policy

Garden Genius AI ("we", "us") respects your privacy. This policy explains what we collect when you use gardengeniustoolkit.com, why we collect it, and the choices you have.

Information we collect

• Account data — if you create an account, your email address and sign-in details, handled by our authentication provider.
• Content you submit — photos you upload for identification, journal entries, notes and planner inputs. Photos and journal entries are stored privately and are only visible to your account.
• AI prompts — questions and images are sent to our AI provider to generate a response.
• Technical data — IP address, browser type, device and pages visited, collected through standard server logs and cookies.

How we use it

• To provide identification, chat, planner, calculator and journal features.
• To keep your account secure and prevent abuse.
• To measure and improve how the site performs.
• To display advertising that keeps the free tools free.

Cookies

We use essential cookies to keep you signed in and remember your preferences. With your consent, we also allow advertising cookies. You can change your choice at any time by clearing your browser storage for this site, which will show the consent banner again.

Advertising and Google AdSense

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
• You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendor cookies at aboutads.info/choices.
• More detail is available in Google's partner-sites policy.

Sharing your data

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with service providers who help us run the site — hosting, database and authentication, AI model providers, and advertising partners — and only as far as needed to deliver the service.

Your rights

If you are in the UK or EU, you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data, and you may withdraw consent for advertising cookies at any time. Contact us and we will respond within 30 days. You can delete journal entries yourself at any time from your account.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email hello@gardengeniustoolkit.com.