Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 October 2026

Tend collects no personal data. Everything you put into the app stays on your device.

Plain English

• No accounts. You don't need to sign up. There's no log-in.
• No tracking. Tend has no analytics SDK, no third-party scripts, no advertising identifiers.
• No cloud storage. Your habits, your tend history, and your settings live in the app's local sandbox on your iPhone. They never leave it.
• No network of our own. Tend does not contact any server, including ours. The one exception is Apple's: if you buy the optional Greenhouse, the purchase goes through Apple's App Store, which tells Tend only that it was bought — never who you are.
• No ads. Tend has no advertising of any kind.
• No sharing. We do not share, sell, transfer, or rent your information to anyone — because we don't have it.

What Tend stores on your device

The only data Tend stores on your device is:

• The habits you create (name, plant type, creation date)
• The dates on which you tended each habit
• A few preferences and settings (sound, appearance, App Lock, pot glazes)
• A few small flags (whether you've seen the welcome flow, milestones already celebrated)
• A small copy of your garden for the Home Screen widgets, kept in the app's own shared container on your iPhone (without plant names if App Lock is on)
• If you use the garden in AR, a map of the spot where you placed it, so it can find that spot again

This data is stored using Apple's standard SwiftData and UserDefaults. It is automatically backed up to your personal iCloud Backup if (and only if) you have iCloud Backup enabled for the device — that backup is encrypted and inaccessible to us.

Camera and Photos

• Camera. Only the AR garden uses the camera, to place your garden in your room. The camera image is processed on your iPhone and is never recorded, stored or sent anywhere.
• Photos. Prints from AR, look-back videos and garden snapshots open in the standard share sheet. Nothing is saved or sent unless you choose where it goes. If you choose Save to Photos, iOS asks for add-only access, which lets Tend add that one picture but never see your library.

Purchases

The Greenhouse is an optional, one-time purchase handled entirely by Apple. Tend never sees your name, Apple Account or payment details.

Required Reason API declarations

Apple requires apps to declare reasons for using certain system APIs. Tend uses:

• NSUserDefaults — to store preferences and onboarding flags (CA92.1: access info from the same app, per documentation).

The full declaration is shipped in the app bundle as PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy.

Children

Tend is rated 4+. It collects no personal information from any user, including children.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change anything about how Tend handles data, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change. Because we don't collect contact information, we cannot notify you directly — please check this page if you're curious.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@aithelianlabs.com.

If you would like a copy of the data Tend has stored on your device, you can find it under your iPhone's Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Tend → Show All Data, or by opening Tend and tapping into each plant.