PLOT AHEAD / PRIVACY

Privacy information

This page describes the information currently available about Plot Ahead’s privacy practices.

Plot Ahead is operated by Galen Shirey as an individual / sole proprietor. This page describes the marketing website and the current browser test version.

Website and analytics

Cloudflare hosts and delivers this website. When your browser requests a page or file, Cloudflare receives connection and request information, which may include your IP address, the requested address, browser information and the referring page. Cloudflare processes information to deliver and protect its services. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

The marketing website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which adds a measurement script to the delivered page. It reports visits, page views and page performance; the information can include browser, device type, country, page path and referring-site information. Analytics and the handling of hosting and security requests are separate activities.

The marketing website has no signup, payment or contact form. Following an external link takes you to a service with its own privacy practices.

Browser application

In the reviewed browser-app test release, gardens, Journal entries, notes, labels, varieties and preferences are stored in the browser profile on the device. No application account or garden-data cloud sync is configured in that release.

Loading the app still sends requests for its files to Cloudflare. The app’s November 11 delivery verification found no marketing analytics beacon in the tested app HTML. That check does not mean hosting requests are private from Cloudflare or that future configurations cannot change.

Backups and voluntary sharing

Browser data can be lost when site data is cleared, a private session ends, storage is evicted, or a device is lost. Export a separate full backup regularly, including before changing devices or restoring another backup. A full restore can replace existing destination data, so back up the destination first.

Garden and full-backup files can include notes and Journal entries and are not encrypted by the app. Calendar files can include garden and crop information. A problem report is prepared locally; including the current garden is optional. Review files before choosing to share them with another person or service.

Contact and retention

Support is intended to be handled by email, but a public support or privacy email address and actual retention practices have not yet been confirmed. Do not send garden files until you have verified the intended recipient. The proposed support-attachment retention period is not presented here as an implemented policy.

Privacy and support email: TBD.