Floraic — Privacy Policy

Effective date: May 21, 2026

Floraic ("Floraic", "we", "us") is a mobile app that helps you identify houseplants from a photo and keep track of their care. This Privacy Policy explains what information the app handles, why, and the choices you have.

Floraic is provided by Dor Michaeli, an individual developer based in Israel. You can reach us at dortony16@gmail.com.

Floraic is currently in beta testing. The app is still being built, and how it works — including what data it handles — may change. We will update this policy when that happens.

The short version

• You can use Floraic without giving us your name or email. The beta uses anonymous accounts.
• When you ask Floraic to identify a plant, your photo is sent to our AI provider (OpenAI) to generate a result.
• Your plants, notes, care history, and photos are stored with our backend provider (Supabase).
• We do not show ads, and we do not use analytics or tracking software. We do not sell your data.

Who this policy covers

This policy covers the Floraic mobile app distributed for beta testing through Apple TestFlight and Google Play testing. It does not cover Apple's or Google's own handling of data — that is governed by their policies.

Accounts — anonymous by default

The Floraic beta has no email or social login. When you first open the app, it automatically creates an anonymous account for you through our backend provider, Supabase. This account is identified only by a random identifier. It is not linked to your name, email address, or phone number, because the app does not collect those.

What information Floraic handles

Information you create in the app:

• Plant photos you take to identify a plant or to use as a plant's picture.
• Plant details you type — nicknames, location hints (such as "south window"), and free-text care notes.
• Care activity — watering, fertilizing, pruning, repotting, and inspection entries, including any optional notes and the dates you record.
• Care schedules — for example, how often you want to water a plant.

Information the app generates:

• Identification results — the possible plant species, confidence scores, and technical details about which AI model produced them.
• A monthly identification count — used to apply the free monthly identification limit.
• An activity log — a record of actions taken in the app, such as "a plant was identified" or "care was logged." This log stores only the type of action and basic technical details. It does not store your photos, nicknames, or note text.

Information our providers handle to run the service:

• To operate the app, our backend provider (Supabase) processes basic technical information that comes with any internet request, such as your device's IP address. This is standard for running an online service.

Information Floraic does not collect:

• Your name or email address — the beta has no login.
• Your precise location or GPS data.
• Your contacts, microphone input, or health data.
• Advertising identifiers.
• Analytics or usage-tracking data — Floraic does not include any analytics or tracking software.
• Crash-reporting data — Floraic does not include crash-reporting software.

How plant photos are used

When you use the camera to identify a plant, the app first resizes and re-saves the photo. This re-saving step does not keep the original photo's embedded metadata, such as GPS location or camera information.

The resized photo is then used in two ways:

1. Identification. The photo is sent through our backend to our AI provider, OpenAI, which returns possible plant matches. Only the photo is sent — not your name, location, or other plant information. See our How We Use AI document for details.
2. Your plant's picture. If you save the plant, the photo is also stored in a private storage area on our backend (Supabase) and shown as that plant's picture inside the app. Photos in this private storage are not publicly accessible.

Using AI identification is optional — you can also add a plant by simply typing its name, with no photo.

Where your information is stored

Your plants, notes, care history, identification results, and photos are stored by our backend provider, Supabase, which provides our database, file storage, and account system.

Third parties

Floraic relies on a small number of service providers to function. We do not sell your information, and we do not share it for advertising.

• Supabase — provides our database, file storage, and anonymous account system. Your in-app data is stored with Supabase.
• OpenAI — provides the AI model (gpt-4o-mini) used to identify plants from photos. Plant photos you submit for identification are processed by OpenAI to produce a result.
• Apple and Google — distribute the Floraic beta through their testing programs (Apple TestFlight and Google Play testing). Their handling of installation and testing data is governed by their own policies.
• Email (Google / Gmail) — our contact address is a Gmail address. If you email us, your message and email address will be handled by Google as our email provider.

How long we keep information

Your in-app information is kept while it exists in your account — for example, while a plant or a care entry remains in the app. If you delete a plant, its associated data, including its stored photo, is removed.

Because the beta uses anonymous accounts, if you uninstall the app you will lose access to your anonymous account, but information already stored on the backend may remain until it is deleted (see "Your choices" below). Floraic is in active development, and beta data may also be reset during testing.

Your choices

• Identification is optional. You can add and manage plants without using AI identification.
• Deleting a plant. Deleting a plant in the app removes its data, including its stored photo.
• Deleting your data. The beta does not yet have an in-app "delete my account" feature. To request deletion of the data associated with your use of the beta, email dortony16@gmail.com. Because beta accounts are anonymous and are not linked to an email address, our ability to find and delete data tied to a specific person may be limited; please include any details that could help us identify it. We will act on valid requests within a reasonable time, but we cannot promise a specific timeframe during the beta.

Children

Floraic is not intended for children under 13, and you must be at least 13 to use it. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you should use Floraic only with the permission of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect your information — for example, plant photos are kept in a private storage area rather than a public one, and connections to our backend use encryption in transit. However, no app or online service can be completely secure, and Floraic is beta software. We cannot guarantee that your information will always be protected against unauthorized access.

International use

Floraic is provided from Israel and may be used in other countries, including the United States. If you use Floraic, your information may be processed in Israel, the United States, or other countries where our service providers operate.

Changes to this policy

Because Floraic is in beta and still changing, we may update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top. We will note significant changes in the app or its testing notes where practical.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy or your information, contact Dor Michaeli at dortony16@gmail.com.