Effective Date: 2025-07-29
Last Updated: 2025-07-29
Your privacy is important to us. Time Garden is built on a simple principle: your thoughts and personal data belong to you, not to us or any cloud service. This policy explains what minimal information we collect and how we protect your privacy.
Let's start with what makes Time Garden different: Your journal entries, AI conversations, and personal insights never leave your device. All AI processing happens locally via Ollama on your computer. We cannot read your journal because we never have access to it. Your thoughts remain completely private.
We only collect information we truly need to provide Time Garden to you:
We use the information we collect to deliver Time Garden, provide customer support, send you important updates (you can opt out of marketing emails anytime), improve our website, and meet legal requirements like tax compliance. We will never sell your data or use your email for unrelated marketing.
We work with a few trusted partners:
We ensure our use of these services complies with data protection laws. However, we encourage you to review their privacy policies for detailed information on how they process data.
Under GDPR and German data protection law, you have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. You can also request data portability or withdraw consent for marketing emails. We'll respond to requests within 30 days. Your journal data is already under your complete control since it never leaves your device.
We protect your data with encryption, secure hosting, and access controls. We keep account data until you request deletion or 2 years after inactivity. Purchase records are kept for 7 years (German tax law requirement). Marketing data is deleted 30 days after you unsubscribe. Remember: your most important data (your journal) stays on your device where you control it completely.
Our website uses minimal, cookieless analytics for performance optimization. We don't use advertising cookies, social media tracking, or cross-site tracking. You can disable analytics through your browser settings if preferred.
Time Garden is available worldwide. Data processing primarily occurs within the EU, but some partners (like LemonSqueezy) may process data globally with appropriate safeguards. Your journal data stays on your device regardless of location.
Time Garden is designed for users 16 and older. We don't knowingly collect data from children under 16. If we discover we have collected such data, we'll delete it immediately.
We may update this policy to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. Material changes will be announced via email to registered users. Continued use after changes indicates acceptance.
Privacy questions: business@timegarden.app
Technical support: support@timegarden.app
Location: Hamburg, Germany
If you're not satisfied with our response, you can contact the German data protection authority (BfDI).
We built Time Garden because we believe your personal thoughts and productivity data should remain private. Local AI processing isn't just a feature - it's our core philosophy. Your privacy isn't protected by this policy alone; it's protected by how Time Garden fundamentally works.
This privacy policy complies with GDPR, German BDSG, and applicable privacy laws. It's written to be comprehensive yet readable by humans, not just lawyers.