Watered privacy policy.

01The short version

Watered has no accounts and no sign-up. Your plants, your photos and your watering history live on your phone, not on our servers. We do not have a copy of them and we cannot see them.

One thing does leave your phone: when you ask Watered to identify a plant, that single photo is sent to OpenAI to work out what the plant is. That is the only time your data travels anywhere, and it is covered in detail below.

02What stays on your phone

Everything you add to Watered is stored on your device:

• The plants you add, including their names and species
• Photos you take of them
• Watering schedules and the record of when you last watered each plant
• Your reminder settings

If you back up your phone through iCloud or Google, that backup may include Watered's data. Those backups are controlled by Apple or Google under your own account settings and are governed by their privacy policies, not this one. We have no access to them.

03Identifying a plant

Watered can identify a plant from a photo. To do that, the app sends a copy of that one photo to OpenAI, which processes it and returns the species and its typical watering needs. OpenAI is based in the United States, so this photo is transferred outside the European Economic Area.

OpenAI does not use data sent through its API to train its models. It holds the photo briefly for abuse monitoring and then deletes it. The transfer is protected by the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.

We do not run a server of our own, so we never receive or store the photo. The original stays on your phone with the rest of your plant's record. If you never use the identification feature, no photo ever leaves your device.

The legal basis for this is that it is necessary to provide the feature you asked for — identification only happens when you point the camera at a plant and request it.

04What we do not collect

We want to be specific here, because most apps do collect these things and Watered does not:

• No account, so no name, email address or password
• No analytics or usage tracking
• No advertising, no ad identifiers and no third-party ad networks
• No location data
• No contacts, calendar or health data
• No selling or sharing of personal data with anyone, for any purpose

05Permissions the app asks for

Watered asks for the minimum it needs, and only at the moment it needs it. You can refuse any of these and still use the rest of the app.

• Camera and photo library — to take or choose a picture of a plant. Used only for the photo you select.
• Notifications — to remind you when a plant needs water. Reminders are scheduled on your device; we do not send them from a server.

06If you email us

If you write to us for support, we will have your email address and whatever you tell us. We use it to answer you and nothing else. We keep support conversations for up to two years so we have context if you write again, then delete them.

07Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access your personal data, correct it, delete it, object to how it is used, and receive a copy of it. In Watered's case most of this is in your hands already: the data is on your phone, so you can view, edit and delete it directly in the app at any time.

For anything we do hold — realistically, an email conversation — write to support@nextpace.app and we will respond within 30 days.

If you think we have handled your data badly, you can complain to the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection in Cyprus, or to the data protection authority in your own country.

08Deleting your data

There is no account to close. Deleting the app from your phone deletes everything Watered stored, and you can delete individual plants and their photos inside the app whenever you like. Full details are on the account deletion page.

09Children

Watered is not made for children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16. Since the app has no accounts and collects nothing about who you are, there is little for us to hold in any case.

10Changes to this policy

If we change how Watered handles data, we will update this page and change the date at the top. If a change is significant — a new service receiving your data, for example — we will say so in the app before it takes effect.

11Contact

Watered is published by NEXTPACE APP, registered in Cyprus under number HE475440, at Αγίου Παύλου 115, Office 3, 2360 - 2373 Άγιος Δομέτιος, Cyprus. We are the data controller for the processing described here.

Questions about this policy go to igor@nextpace.app. Support questions go to support@nextpace.app.