Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026

Who we are

The Eternal Garden (oureternalgarden.com) is a hobby project run by Andras Gergely Csenteri, a private individual in Romania, who is responsible for your personal data (the "controller"). For anything about your data, write to hello@oureternalgarden.com.

What we collect

  • Your email address when you buy a garden, and your partner's email address if you add it. If you add someone else's email address, please make sure they know about it.
  • The start date you choose and your time zone, so your garden grows on the right days.
  • Your garden code and garden settings, such as the weather and an optional countdown date.
  • A record of your payment: Stripe's checkout reference and the amount. Your card details go straight to Stripe. We never see or store them.
  • A record that you accepted our terms: the date, the version of the terms and that you agreed to immediate access. It is stored with your payment at Stripe.

How we use it, and why we may

We use your data to create and show your garden, to take payment, to email you your garden code when you buy and when you ask us to resend it, to answer your messages, to keep the service secure and prevent abuse, and to keep records of purchases and of what you agreed to. We may do this because it is necessary to provide the garden you bought, because the law requires us to keep payment records, and because we have a legitimate interest in running the service securely and in being able to show what you agreed to. We do not sell your data and we do not use it for advertising.

Who helps us run the service

Stripe takes payments, Supabase stores our database, Vercel hosts the website and Resend sends our emails. They handle your data only to do that work for us. Some of them process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States, under safeguards such as standard contractual clauses. The payment page itself is hosted by Stripe and is covered by Stripe's privacy policy.

Cookies and local storage

We do not use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers. Your browser's local storage keeps your garden code, a saved copy of your garden, and your weather and tilt preferences, so you stay signed in on that device. Clearing your browser data removes them. Our fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address and browser details when a page loads.

How long we keep it

We keep your data for as long as your garden exists. If you ask us to delete it, we delete your garden and the email addresses linked to it. If we close the service, we delete everything when it closes (see our terms). We may keep the record of your payment, and of your acceptance of our terms, for as long as accounting or tax rules require or while a claim could still be made.

Your rights

You can ask us at any time to show you the data we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, to limit how we use it, or to send you a copy, and you can object to how we use it. Just write to hello@oureternalgarden.com. If you live in the EU, the EEA or the UK, you can also complain to your data protection authority. In Romania that is the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP).

Children

The Eternal Garden is not meant for anyone under 18.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page.

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