Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Trellis handles information for the Trellis garden planning application.
Overview
Features, data models, and retention practices may change as Trellis improves. This page is a product and engineering privacy summary, not a complete legal privacy policy.
Information We Collect
Trellis may store account identifiers from Clerk, garden names, ZIP/location information, frost dates, garden notes, plans, beds, plant placements, generated tasks, journal entries, Viridia chat conversations and messages, and technical diagnostics needed to run and debug the service.
Weather and Location Context
When you enter a ZIP code, Trellis resolves city/state, latitude, and longitude so it can provide weather and frost-date context. Do not enter a ZIP code if you do not want Trellis to store approximate garden location information. We do not sell your location information.
Viridia and Groq
Viridia uses Groq as the hosted AI provider for chat responses. When you ask Viridia a question, Trellis may send selected context to Groq, including garden profile details, plans, plants, tasks, weather summaries, journal entries, and recent chat history. Trellis does not intentionally send API keys, database URLs, Clerk secrets, or other users' private data. Viridia does not automatically create, edit, or delete your garden data in the MVP.
Sensitive Information
Please do not enter sensitive personal information into garden notes, journal entries, or Viridia chat. Trellis is designed for garden context, not sensitive medical, legal, financial, or identity information.
Data Sharing
We do not sell personal data. We may share limited information with service providers that help us run authentication, hosting, databases, analytics, weather, and AI features.
Debugging and Support
Maintainers may review limited account, garden, task, journal, or chat records when needed to troubleshoot bugs, investigate abuse, improve data quality, or support users. Avoid entering anything you would not want reviewed for those purposes.
Data Deletion or Reset
Self-serve data deletion is not complete yet. If you want your account or garden data deleted or reset, contact the Trellis maintainers through the support channel.
Privacy Concerns
Report privacy or security concerns through the support channel. Include what happened, when it happened, and the account email you used, but do not send passwords, API keys, or other secrets.