Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026

This policy covers Yardscaper — the website at yardscaper.app and the iPhone app.

What we collect

Your email address, for sign-in codes and account emails.
Yard photos you upload, the designs we make from them, and what you choose for each design — the style and any instructions you type.
An optional ZIP code or USDA zone and sun setting, used only for that design and sent with it to Google’s AI. We don’t save those fields on our servers, but they accompany your yard photo, which may identify your home.
Your business name and “how did you hear about us” answer, if you give them.
Purchase records — what you bought, when, and whether it’s active — from our payment processor (website) or from Apple (iPhone app). We never see your card or your Apple payment details.
Usage records linked to your account, such as when you sign up, make a design or buy something, so we can run and improve Yardscaper. Page views are counted separately with cookie-free analytics.
Short-lived counts of your requests, so one person or script can’t overload Yardscaper or use up the free demo. They’re labeled with a scrambled, one-way code made from your network (IP) address or account ID — never the address or ID itself. Per-minute counts expire within minutes and daily ones after about a day, and expired counts are deleted every night. When a Contractor trial starts, its usage record keeps that code for the network it came from, so many trials from one network stand out.

Your photos and Google’s AI

To create a design, your yard photo — with the choices above — is sent to Google’s AI. The finished design is sent to Google’s AI once more to write its plant and materials list. Before your first design on each device, the app asks your permission, and nothing is sent unless you allow it. The answer is kept on that device. Signed in, you can withdraw it there any time in Account → AI photo permission; your next design on that device then asks again (do it on each phone or browser you’ve used). Withdrawing doesn’t remove designs already made — they stay in your account until you delete it.

We use Google’s paid service, so Google doesn’t use your photos to train its AI models. Google may keep requests for a limited time to detect abuse, as its terms allow.

Where your designs are kept

The free demo stores no photos or designs — your photo and the design go back to your device without being saved. With an account, your photos and designs are stored privately and only you can see them (through short-lived links), so your designs follow you across devices. If you create a client link for a design, anyone with that link can see that design’s before and after until you turn the link off.

What we don’t do

We don’t sell your data or share it for advertising, we don’t track you across other apps or websites, and we don’t use your photos to train AI models. Because nothing here follows you from site to site, there’s no cross-site tracking for a browser’s “Do Not Track” signal to turn off.

Retention & deletion

Designs and account data are kept while your account is active. You can delete your account yourself any time in Account → Delete account (in the app or on the web) — full instructions are at yardscaper.app/account/delete. Deleting removes your profile, uploaded photos, designs and client links right away, and cancels a subscription bought on our website.

It doesn’t cancel an App Store subscription — Apple bills those, so cancel it in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Apple and our payment providers keep their own records of your purchases, as tax and accounting law requires. A few things of ours outlive the account too: usage records, with your account removed from them, and our internal alert emails, which refer to an account only by its ID (the deletion page above has the full list). You can also email support@yardscaper.app from your account address and we’ll delete your account for you.

Services we rely on

Our cloud database provider (sign-in, accounts, database and photo storage)
Google (the AI that creates designs and plant lists)
Our payment processor (payments on our website)
Apple App Store (payments in the iPhone app)
Our in-app purchase service (manages App Store purchases; receives your account ID and purchase history)
Our hosting provider (hosting and cookie-free page-view analytics)
Our email delivery provider (sign-in codes and account emails)

Each receives only what it needs to do its job for Yardscaper. Want the name of a particular provider? Email us and we’ll tell you.

Children

Yardscaper isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information.

Contact

Questions or requests? Email support@yardscaper.app or see Help & support.