Balcony Plants

Privacy policy

Last updated: 19 July 2026

What we store, and why

If you only use the free checker: nothing lands on our servers under your name. Your location, balcony orientation, and the optional personalization answers are used to compute the forecast and are kept in your own browser (localStorage) so the page remembers you. Clearing your browser data removes them.

If you buy a season pass: we store your balcony setup (coordinates, location name, orientation, floor, plant list, temperature unit) and your email address, so your verdict page works and danger alerts can reach you. That is the whole record. No passwords, no accounts, no tracking profile.

Who processes it for us

Weather comes from Open-Meteo: your coordinates are sent to their API to fetch the forecast. Location search uses OpenStreetMap Nominatim and, for some postcodes, Google Geocoding: only the text you type in the location box (or the coordinates from the location button, if you use it) is sent, never your identity.

Hosting runs on Vercel, stored data lives in Upstash Redis, emails go out through Resend, and payments are handled entirely by our payment provider (currently Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record): we never see or store your card details.

Email

We send exactly one kind of email: an alert on a day one of your plants is in danger, plus the transactional emails around your purchase. Every alert has a one-click unsubscribe link, and there is an alerts on/off switch on your verdict page. No newsletters, no marketing list.

No ads, no third-party trackers

There is no advertising, no analytics profile, and no cross-site tracking on this site. Standard server logs (IP, request path) exist for security and debugging and rotate away on their own.

Deleting your data

Reply to any of our emails from the address you bought with and ask for deletion: we remove your config and email from storage. Free-tier data you delete yourself by clearing your browser storage.

Also see the terms of service. Questions about your data: write support@balconyplants.co.