Terms of Service

Gadenin is a service for recording and sharing home gardening. By using it you agree to these terms and undertake to look after the account you sign in with.

1. The service and your account

To use Gadenin you must agree to these terms, sign in with a Google or Apple account, and keep that account secure. You are responsible for activity that happens through your account.

2. Premium and billing

Premium is an auto-renewing subscription offered in monthly and annual plans, with a reduced early-adopter rate for a limited number of the earliest paying subscribers.

The amount you pay and its currency are the ones shown on the purchase screen in your app store at the time of purchase, and they are charged to your app store account.

We intend to keep an early-adopter rate for you while the subscription stays active, but it is not guaranteed for life: prices can change in line with the rules of the app store that processes your payment, and we will tell you before a change takes effect. If you cancel and subscribe again later, the standard rate or whatever promotional rate is then running applies instead.

A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled before the end of the current billing period. The detailed renewal, billing, cancellation and refund conditions are those of the app store you bought from. We never see or store your payment card number.

3. Your content and community moderation

You keep the rights in the growing records, photos, videos and comments you post. Making sure you hold the rights needed to post something is your responsibility.

You grant us a licence to host, store, reproduce, process and display that content, limited to what is necessary to provide, operate, maintain and improve Gadenin — which includes backing it up and delivering it to your devices. We show it only to the people your visibility settings allow. We do not use it for advertising or marketing, and we do not use it to train machine learning models.

You agree that what you post complies with the law, these terms and our community guidelines. We may hide content that breaks them, and may suspend an account for serious or repeated breaches. You may appeal any such measure through support; see the community guidelines.

We do not review posts before they appear, and we are under no obligation to monitor what is posted. We act on reports and on what we happen to notice, at our discretion.

You are responsible for the content you post. If a third party brings a claim about something you posted, that is between you and them, and we are not responsible for it. We do not ask you to cover us beyond what the law itself makes you responsible for.

4. Photos: limits and fair use

Each upload must be no larger than 10 MB, in JPEG, PNG or WebP format.

The app removes Exif location from a photo before it is uploaded, and the server refuses photos that still carry it, so you can select a picture straight from your camera roll without exposing where you live.

We place no total storage limit on normal home gardening use. Where use is abnormal enough to affect the running of the service we may apply an individual limit on upload rate or volume. Except in an urgent safety situation we tell you first, and we do not delete existing data when we do so — you keep the ability to view and retrieve it.

5. Things you must not do

Do not attempt unauthorised access, disrupt the service, infringe anyone's rights, post unlawful or harmful material, impersonate others, or otherwise act to the detriment of us or of third parties.

6. Availability, disclaimers and limits on our liability

We may change or suspend the service for maintenance, for safety, or where circumstances leave us no alternative. We may also discontinue Gadenin, in whole or in part. If we do, we will tell you beforehand in the app or by another reasonable means, and any subscription you hold is then dealt with through the procedures of the app store you bought it from.

Gadenin is provided as is and as available. Growing information in the app is general guidance and we do not warrant any particular result in your garden. To the extent the law allows, we give no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, or that the service will be uninterrupted, secure or free of errors.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit, lost opportunity, or the loss or corruption of data, and our total liability for all claims relating to Gadenin is limited to the subscription fees you actually paid for the service in the twelve months before the claim arose.

These exclusions and this limit do not apply to loss we cause intentionally or through gross negligence. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, and nothing here affects your statutory consumer rights.

7. Termination and account deletion

You may stop using Gadenin at any time and delete your account from the app's settings screen. We may terminate an account for a serious breach of these terms, and will tell you why unless the law prevents it.

Deleting your account is separate from cancelling a Premium subscription. Deleting your account does not necessarily cancel the subscription, which may keep renewing and being charged. Cancel it separately in the subscription settings of the app store you bought from.

8. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Japan. This does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country in which you live, nor of the right to bring proceedings in your local courts where that law gives it to you.

9. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms as the service or the law changes. We announce material changes in the app or by another reasonable means before they take effect, and we give advance notice where the law requires it.

The document version and effective date at the foot of this page identify the text you are reading. If you keep using Gadenin after a change takes effect, the changed terms apply to you.

10. Contact

Support form: https://gadenin.com/support
Email: support@gadenin.com