Privacy Policy
Effective 31 July 2026 · updated 10 September 2026 · applies to the GrowChronicle Android app and growchronicle.com
Who we are
GrowChronicle is published by Kormatic Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17428119), registered office 66 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NA, United Kingdom. Kormatic Ltd is the data controller for any personal data described on this page — which, for the app, is none. The app was built and is maintained by its founder, M.T. Kornaus. Contact: support@growchronicle.com.
Data in the app
Everything you record in GrowChronicle — grows, plants, feed entries, measurements, schedules, photos, inventory and settings — is stored locally on your device. We do not collect, receive, transmit, sell or share any of it. There is no sign-up and no user account.
Backups are created only when you choose to export one. A backup is a file you own: you decide where it goes (your files, your cloud drive, an email). Restoring a backup reads that file locally.
The app opts out of Android’s automatic backup. When your phone backs itself up to Google, the backup notes that GrowChronicle is installed — so a restored phone gets the app back — but it does not include your journal, photos or settings. Nothing inside the app is copied. The only copy of your data that ever leaves the phone is a backup you export yourself.
Photos and the label scanner
Photos you attach are stored on your device. The label scanner reads text from photos entirely on your device using Google’s ML Kit; label images are not uploaded anywhere by the app. If the on-device reader is unavailable the scan simply fails and you can type the details in by hand — the app never sends your image anywhere to read it.
Permissions
The app requests network access so it can reach Google Play — restoring a previous purchase when it starts, and the optional review prompt. Your grow data is never part of that. It does not request location, contacts or background access. Camera images come through the standard system photo picker, which you control.
The website
growchronicle.com is a static site with no tracking cookies or analytics. If you join the wait-list, the email address you submit is stored by our form provider and used only to tell you about GrowChronicle’s launch and major updates. Every email includes an unsubscribe link, and you can ask us to delete your address at any time.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR you have rights of access, correction, deletion and portability. For app data these are in your hands already — the data lives on your device and can be exported or deleted in Settings. For wait-list emails, contact us and we will act within one month. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).
Children
GrowChronicle is a general-audience gardening tool and does not knowingly collect any personal data from anyone, including children.
Changes
If a future version of the app adds optional online features (such as cloud backup), this policy will be updated first, the change will be dated, and nothing will sync without you signing up and opting in.