Privacy Policy

Effective date: 4 October 2026

Patchwise is an edible-gardening companion app developed by parkdeve (contact: support@parktechsystems.com). This policy describes exactly what the app does with your information — which is, deliberately, almost nothing.

The short version

• No account, no sign-up, no email address required.
• No advertising, garden-activity tracking or crash-reporting SDKs. Purchase processing uses RevenueCat and Apple or Google as described below.
• Garden records are stored on your phone. There is no Patchwise garden-data server; exports and your device’s system backups are under your control.

What Patchwise stores, and where

All of your garden data lives in the app’s private storage on your device:

• Your selected country, postcode/ZIP and climate zone, used to match advice to your area
• Your beds and containers, plantings, tasks, care routines and harvest records
• Journal entries and the photos you attach to them
• Your seed box, saved plant favourites and app settings (including reminder preferences)

The developer has no access to these records. The app reads them locally and can export them when you choose; it does not send garden records to a Patchwise server.

Camera and photo library

The camera and photo picker are used solely when you choose to photograph a planting or attach a picture to a journal entry. Those photos are stored in the app’s private storage on your device. They are not uploaded by Patchwise to a garden service. You may export them in a backup or plant-story PDF. Android and iOS may also include them in system backups or device transfers if your device’s backup settings permit it.

Plant photos from Wikimedia Commons

Plant guide photos are public images from Wikimedia Commons. Thumbnails ship inside the app, so browsing works fully offline. When you open a plant guide while online, your phone may download the full-resolution photo from upload.wikimedia.org (and cache it). Fetching that image contacts Wikimedia, which receives normal connection details such as your IP address. Patchwise does not attach your garden records or postcode to that request. Wikimedia handles connection data under its privacy policy. Each photo is credited to its photographer, with its licence, on the in-app Credits screen.

Notifications

Reminders are scheduled entirely on your device using the local notification system on iOS and Android. No push service is involved and no data leaves the phone.

Purchases (Patchwise Plus)

Plus is a one-time lifetime purchase with no recurring charge. The Android and iOS apps use RevenueCat to load the store offer and check whether Plus is active, at startup, on return to the app and when you use Restore Purchases. The purchase itself is processed by Apple’s App Store or Google Play Billing, with RevenueCat as the purchase-status provider. RevenueCat receives your store receipt or Play purchase token, transaction history, technical app and device information, and a generated anonymous app-user ID (no name, no email — Patchwise has no accounts) so the app can tell whether Plus is active on your device. The ID allows purchase records to be associated with the same app user. Apple or Google handles the payment under its own privacy policy. Patchwise itself never sees your payment details; the app only records whether your Plus entitlement is active, on your device. Purchase history is used to provide Plus and for purchase analytics shared with the developer; garden records and journal photos are not sent to RevenueCat. Subscriptions sold before lifetime access was introduced are checked the same way so existing owners keep their access.

See the Apple, Google and RevenueCat privacy policies.

Ratings and reviews

After you have been using Patchwise for a while, the app may once ask the App Store or Google Play to show its own in-app review sheet. Patchwise sends the store nothing to make that happen, and the store tells Patchwise nothing back: the app cannot see whether the sheet appeared, whether you rated it, or what you wrote. All the app records is a single flag on your device noting that it has asked, so it never asks you again. Any review you leave is handled by the store under its own privacy policy.

Backups

Exporting a backup creates a single file (garden data plus photos) that you choose where to keep — for example a cloud drive or email. That file, and where you store it, is under your control and the privacy terms of wherever you put it. Deleting the app (or its data) removes records from that installation. Copies you exported, or system backups, remain subject to the destination service and your device settings. On Android, folder exports are read back and verified; returning from a share sheet does not confirm that another app saved the file.

Deleting your data

Uninstalling Patchwise removes its local installation data. Offloading an iOS app can retain its data. Copies you exported and system backups are not deleted by an uninstall; manage those with their destination service or device backup settings. There is no Patchwise garden-data server copy to ask us for.

The one exception is the purchase record described under Purchases: if you have bought Patchwise Plus, RevenueCat holds your store receipt or Play purchase token against an anonymous app-user ID. To have that record deleted, email support@parktechsystems.com with the subject “Delete my Patchwise data”. We will action it within 30 days and confirm by reply. Lifetime access is a one-time purchase with no recurring charge. If you have an older subscription, deleting app data or a purchase record does not cancel it; cancel through your Apple account subscriptions or Google Play subscriptions.

Children

Patchwise does not ask for an account, name or email address. The purchase processing and user-controlled backup provisions above apply to all users. Purchases are controlled by the store account and its family settings.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at the same URL with a new effective date. Material changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes.

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