Privacy Policy
The short version. You can play without telling us who you are. If you save your gardens to your email, we keep your email address, your saved gardens and your choice about news by email. We use them to sign you in, keep your gardens, and send you news and offers if you haven’t turned that off. We don’t sell your information. You can delete your account at any time.
1. Who we are
The Garden (at thegarden.wtf) is run by 240yrolds (“we”, “us”), who decides how your information is used. Contact us at [email protected].
2. What we collect
| What | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address | If you create an account | To send sign-in links, keep your gardens on your account, send service notices, and send news and offers unless you turn them off |
| When and which version of the Terms you accepted, and your choice about news by email (with when it changed) | If you create an account | To keep a record of what you agreed to and respect your choice |
| Your gardens: the gardener name you pick, how your gardener looks, where you are in each garden, what you carry, build and plant, your scores | Whenever you play | To run the game and keep your progress |
| A creator profile name and password (stored only as a secure hash), and your saved creations | If you make a creator profile in the builder | To keep the creations you save |
| Your IP address and basic request details (browser type, pages and times) | Whenever you connect | To deliver the game, limit abuse (for example too many sign-in emails), and fix problems |
| Your voice, if you turn voice chat on | Only while voice is on | So nearby gardeners can hear you. It goes to them live and is not recorded |
| What you type into the live builder’s AI tools | If you use them | To make what you asked for |
Your browser also keeps a few small items in its own storage (not cookies): your current garden place, your sign-in if you have an account, your gardener’s name and look, and a few settings. They stay on your device and you can clear them in your browser settings.
3. Emails we send
We send sign-in links when you ask for one, and occasional notices about your account or our terms. If you have an account, we may also send news, updates and offers about The Garden and our other products and services. Accepting the Terms of Service when you create an account includes agreeing to receive these. You can stop them at any time with the unsubscribe link in any such email, or by unticking “Email me news and offers” when signed in.
4. Who we share it with
We don’t sell your personal information, and we don’t share it for anyone else’s advertising. We share it only with the companies that help us run The Garden, who may use it only to provide their service to us:
- Hosting: Railway, which runs our servers and stores the game’s data (in the United States).
- Email delivery: Resend, which delivers our emails.
- Voice relay: Cloudflare, whose relay servers can carry voice chat between players when a direct connection isn’t possible.
- AI: our AI provider (OpenAI), only for what you type into the builder’s AI tools.
Other players in your garden see your gardener’s name, how it looks, where it is and what it does, and hear your voice if you turn voice on. They never see your email address. We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect people’s safety, or as part of a sale or merger of The Garden (in which case this policy keeps applying to it).
5. How long we keep it
- Your account, until you delete it. Deleting it removes your email address and your list of saved gardens.
- Sign-in links stop working after 15 minutes and are deleted. Signed-in sessions end after a year, or when you sign out.
- Gardens may be removed after a while with nobody playing them.
- Our hosting provider keeps request logs for a limited time.
6. Your choices and rights
- Stop news by email with any email’s unsubscribe link, or when signed in.
- Delete your account from the title screen when signed in.
- Ask us for a copy of your information, or to correct or delete it, at [email protected].
If you live in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we use your information to provide the service you asked for (our contract with you), with your consent for news and offers (which you can withdraw at any time), and for our legitimate interests in keeping The Garden safe and working. You also have the right to object, to restrict how we use your information, and to complain to your local data protection authority.
If you live in California or another US state with privacy laws, you have the right to know what we collect, to ask for it to be deleted or corrected, and not to be treated differently for using these rights. We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising.
7. Children
Accounts are for people aged 13 or older (older where the law requires it). We don’t knowingly collect email addresses or other personal information from children under 13. If you think a child under 13 has given us their information, contact us at [email protected] and we will delete it.
8. Keeping it safe
Connections to The Garden are encrypted. Sign-in links and sessions are stored only as one-way hashes, and creator profile passwords are hashed. No system is perfectly secure, so please keep your email account safe: anyone who can read your email can sign in to your account.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. We will change the date at the top, and for important changes we will let account holders know, for example by email or when they next sign in.
10. Contact
240yrolds · [email protected]