Privacy Policy
1. Your data stays on your phone
Your trees, tree photos, care log and notes are stored only on this phone, in the app's private storage. There is no account and we run no server that receives your collection. Photos you take with the in-app camera (including the faded “ghost” overlay of your last photo, used to line up the same angle) are saved straight into the app; photos you import are chosen with the Android Photo Picker, so the app sees only the pictures you pick and never asks for access to your whole gallery. Backups and exports use the Android system file picker: a ZIP backup (database, photos, CSV), a tree passport PDF or a timelapse video leaves the phone only when you export it and choose where it goes.
Your collection is excluded from Android's cloud backup to your Google account. When you move to a new phone with Android's phone-to-phone transfer (cable or Wi-Fi between the two phones), the collection and its photos move with it. You can also save everything yourself as a backup file (Settings › Backup) and restore it on any phone. Ads and analytics (sections 3 and 4) never receive tree names, notes or photos.
2. Permissions
- Camera — asked the first time you open the photo-timeline camera, to take your tree photos. Frames are never uploaded.
- Notifications — asked when you turn on care reminders: one combined care reminder a day (by species and season). You can turn it off any time.
- Run at startup — only to re-schedule that daily reminder after the phone restarts.
- No location and no storage permission — your hemisphere comes from your language/region or your own choice; photos are imported with the Android Photo Picker and backups use the system file picker.
- Internet — ads, analytics, purchases and consent. Your content is never sent.
3. Analytics and crash reports (Google Firebase)
With your consent where required, we use Google Analytics for Firebase and Firebase Crashlytics to understand how the app is used and to fix crashes. We log anonymous events such as “paywall viewed” or “purchase completed”, plus device model, OS and app version, approximate region and an app-instance identifier. We never log your content; the app enforces this with an allow-list of event parameters. Crash reports contain the error type and stack trace only. Firebase Remote Config is used to tune paywall and ad settings.
4. Advertising (Google AdMob and Unity Ads)
The free version shows ads: one slim banner on a list screen, an occasional full-screen ad after you save something, and optional rewarded ads you choose to watch to unlock a Pro tool for a while. Ads never cover a live tool, onboarding or the paywall, and never appear in the first two minutes of first use. Bonsaily Pro removes all ads.
Ads are served by Google AdMob, with Unity Ads competing through AdMob mediation and serving the banner directly. These partners may collect the advertising ID, device and usage information and approximate location derived from your IP address to serve and measure ads. See Google's and Unity's privacy policies.
5. Your choices (GDPR, UK GDPR, Swiss FADP, US state laws)
In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Bonsaily asks for your consent through Google's consent message (IAB TCF) before personalised ads or analytics are used. If you decline, ads are non-personalised and analytics stays off. In US states with privacy laws (such as California, Virginia, Colorado), you can opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information and targeted advertising. You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Privacy choices.
Legal bases (GDPR): consent for analytics and personalised ads; performance of a contract for the features you use and for purchases; legitimate interest for crash diagnostics where consent is not required. You may request access, deletion, correction or portability of data we control, object to processing, or lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority. California residents (CCPA/CPRA): we do not sell personal information for money; ad partners may receive identifiers as described above, which you can opt out of in Privacy choices. We do not discriminate against users who exercise their rights.
6. Purchases
Subscriptions and the lifetime purchase are processed by Google Play. We never receive your payment details; Google tells the app whether Pro is active.
7. Retention and deletion
Your content remains on your device until you delete it or uninstall the app. Analytics data is retained by Google for up to 14 months. See how to delete your data.
8. Children
Bonsaily is not directed to children under 13 (under 16 in the EEA) and we do not knowingly collect their data.
9. Changes
We will update this page if our practices change and revise the date above.