Last updated September 27, 2026

Privacy Policy

Plants Won't Freeze has no accounts and no server of its own. Your garden lives on your phone. This page lists everything that leaves it, who gets it, how long it's kept, and how to have it removed.

Who we are

Plants Won't Freeze is made by Denis Vorotyntsev, an independent developer, who is responsible for the data described here. Write to support@plantswontfreeze.com about anything on this page.

What stays on your phone

Your garden's location, the plant groups you pick, your alert time, the kind of spot you garden in, your frost history and every other setting are stored only on your iPhone. Notifications are scheduled on the phone as well. Deleting the app deletes all of it.

What leaves your phone, and who gets it

• Apple Weather (WeatherKit). To get the forecast, the app sends your garden's coordinates to Apple. Apple uses them to answer the request and does not tie them to your Apple ID. See Apple's privacy policy.
• Apple Maps. If you search for your town, the text you type is sent to Apple to find the place. If you use your location, its coordinates are sent to Apple to look up the town's name.
• Your location. If you tap "Use my location", the app asks iOS for your location once, while you're using it, to set your garden's spot. It does not track you in the background.
• Purchases (Apple and RevenueCat). Subscriptions are handled by the App Store, so we never see your name, email or payment details. The app uses RevenueCat to show prices and check your subscription. RevenueCat receives a random ID the app creates, your purchases in this app (plan, price, currency, dates and Apple's transaction numbers), Apple's device identifier for our apps (IDFV), your IP address and your device's language. The app also gives RevenueCat its analytics ID (below), so purchases can be counted alongside app use. See RevenueCat's privacy policy.
• Usage analytics (Google Analytics for Firebase). To learn which parts of the app help and where people get stuck, the app sends usage events to Google: screens opened, onboarding steps, whether notes are allowed, when you open the app from a note, when the Pro page is shown and from where, purchases and restores with their price and currency, and broad settings: °F or °C, how many plant groups you picked, the kind of spot and your plan. With each event Google records a random ID for this app install, Apple's device identifier for our apps (IDFV), your device model, iOS and app version, language, and an approximate location (country, region, city) that it works out from your IP address. These events are pseudonymous: they carry no name, email, garden coordinates, garden name or temperatures. The app uses the version of Firebase without advertising features: no advertising identifier, no Google signals, no tracking across apps. See Firebase's privacy information.

Why

We use this data to run the app (forecasts, notes and your subscription) and, in our legitimate interest in making the app better, to count how it's used. We don't use it for advertising or to build profiles of people.

How long it's kept

• On your phone: until you delete the app.
• Google Analytics: event-level data for 2 months and user-level data for 14 months. After that only totals remain, which can't be traced back to a phone.
• RevenueCat: purchase records are kept while the app uses RevenueCat, because they're needed to give you your subscription, handle refunds and keep the accounts. We delete them when you ask, unless the law requires us to keep them.
• Apple: under Apple's privacy policy.

The companies that help

Apple, Google (Firebase) and RevenueCat receive only what they need to do their job for us. Their terms and data processing agreements require them to give your data the same or equal protection as this policy. They may process it outside your country, including in the United States, under safeguards such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

What we never do

• No account, email or name is collected.
• No advertising, and no tracking across other companies' apps or websites.
• No selling, renting or sharing of any data for advertising.

Children

The app is a general-audience gardening tool and doesn't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Your choices and rights

• Turn location access off at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services, and set your garden by searching for your town instead.
• Turn notifications off in Settings › Notifications.
• Stop analytics by deleting the app. A new install starts with new random IDs, so it can't be linked to the old one.
• Delete the app to remove everything it stored on your phone.
• Ask us to delete your data: write to support@plantswontfreeze.com. To find your purchase record, include the order ID from Apple's receipt email. Analytics data isn't tied to your name or email, so we can only find it with your install's random ID; otherwise it expires on the schedule above.
• You can also ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or object to how it's used. We answer within 30 days. If you're in the EU, the UK or a place with similar laws, you can also complain to your data protection authority.

This website

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Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will appear here with a new date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@plantswontfreeze.com.