Privacy
Last updated 6 September 2026
The short version. House & Hedge has no accounts and no database of visitors. Your plant list is written to your own browser and never sent to us. We count visits with a cookieless analytics service. The one thing that reaches a third party beyond that is advertising, and only after you have agreed to it.
1. Your plant list
When you add a plant, the journal saves it in your browser's local storage under the keyhh.garden.v1. That record holds the plants you added, the nickname and room you gave each one, its pot size and the light where it stands, the days you ticked things off, any interval you set yourself, the hemisphere you are in, and a copy of the care figures for each entry so the log works without a connection.
None of it is uploaded. There is no request that carries it, no account it belongs to, and no way for us to read it. Two things follow. We cannot recover your list if you lose it, and we cannot see it to help you with it.
To delete it, open My plants, go to Settings and use Remove all, which empties it immediately. Clearing your browser's site data for this site does the same thing and also removes everything else listed below.
2. The other things kept on your device
hh.settings, your temperature unit, which day your week starts on, the region you chose in the almanac, and whether you have dismissed the note about saving a copy.hh.home.v1, which jobs on the house maintenance list you have ticked off this year, and the year itself so that the ticks clear when it changes.hh.log.height, a number of pixels, used to stop the page jumping while the log loads.hh.consent, written only if the advertising banner is shown to you, recording whether you accepted or declined.- A cache of the pages you have visited, so the journal opens without a connection. It holds copies of pages from this site and nothing else.
All of these are storage on your own machine rather than cookies. Nothing in them identifies you, and none of them is sent anywhere.
3. The share link
Copy link in Settings makes an address with your whole plant list encoded inside it. It is not a reference to something we hold; the list is in the address itself. That means it works forever and without us, and it also means the link is exactly as private as the place you put it. Anyone who has the address can open your list. The part of a web address after the hash is not sent to the server, so even when you open your own link, the list does not reach us.
4. The backup file and the calendar file
Save a copy and Calendar file are both made in your browser and saved straight to your downloads. Neither is uploaded, and neither passes through us on the way.
5. Ordinary web serving
Serving a page needs your device's address, the page you asked for, and what your browser tells every site it visits. Our host, Cloudflare, keeps short lived operational logs of that kind to serve the site and to defend it against abuse. We do not use them to build a picture of you, and we do not combine them with anything else.
6. Counting visits
We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It adds a small script to every page that records that the page was viewed, its address, the page that linked to it, the kind of browser and device, the country the request came from, and how quickly the page loaded. It sets no cookie, writes nothing to your device, and gives us no way to identify you. We see totals only: how many visits, which pages, from which countries. We cannot see who you are or connect one visit to another. Cloudflare's own privacy policy governs what it does with that data.
7. Advertising
The journal is paid for by advertising supplied by Google. We set Google's consent signals to denied before anything loads, and when advertising is switched on you will also be asked directly before anything more happens. If you decline, no advertising script runs and no advertising cookie is set. If you accept, third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other sites. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google's consent message asks you first and lets you refuse, which gives you non-personalised ads instead. What they collect and why is theirs to explain, and they do so in their own policies.
You can change what Google shows you atGoogle's ad settings, and you can see the wider industry controls ataboutads.info andYour Online Choices. Ourcookies page lists what is set and when.
8. Email
If you write to us, we keep your message for up to twelve months, then delete it, which gives us time to check that a correction was made. We do not add you to anything, because there is nothing to be added to.
9. Your rights
Rules in your country may give you the right to see, correct, delete or object to what a site holds about you, by emailing hello@houseandhedge.com. Almost always the answer here is that we hold nothing: your list is on your device and you can delete it yourself in one press. If you have written to us and want that correspondence deleted, ask and it will be. You can also complain to South Africa's Information Regulator (inforegulator.org.za); if you are in the UK, to the Information Commissioner's Office; and in the EU, to your own supervisory authority.
10. Children
The journal is not aimed at children and asks nobody their age, because it asks nobody anything. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age. South African law treats anyone under 18 as a child; the United States' COPPA rule treats anyone under 13 as a child. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, write tohello@houseandhedge.com and we will delete it.
11. Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be plain rather than buried.
12. Who runs the journal
House & Hedge is operated by Inyonitech Solutions (Pty) Ltd, a company registered in South Africa and based in Cape Town. Under the Protection of Personal Information Act it is the responsible party for any personal information this site processes, and under the GDPR and the UK GDPR it is the controller. Its Information Officer is registered with South Africa's Information Regulator and can be reached athello@houseandhedge.com.