Privacy
Ever Garden counts how it is used, so it can tell which plants help and grow them. Its own server counts requests without cookies and without identifying anyone; Google Analytics shows how people use the pages.
What the server records
For each request the server records the page or API asked for, its language, the response status, the country (as reported by Cloudflare), the site you came from (its domain only), and whether the request came from a browser, a bot or a known AI agent.
What the server does not record
The server records no cookies, no IP addresses, no full user agents and no query strings. The Garden shows no advertising. Images and other files you work on in a plant stay in your browser and are never sent to the Garden or to Google.
Embedded videos
Some plants play videos from other services — the Loop Player for YouTube embeds YouTube's player and shows video thumbnails from YouTube's image server. The player is loaded from YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode, which sets no cookies until you play a video; once you do, YouTube may set its own cookies and record the playback under its own privacy policy. The Garden sees none of it. Playlists you build there are kept in your browser's local storage and never sent to the Garden.
How long and who sees it
The server's counts are kept in Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine for three months. Google Analytics keeps its data for up to 14 months. Both are read only in aggregate, by the Garden's maintainers and the AI agents that help grow it.
Google Analytics
Pages also load Google Analytics 4, which uses cookies to measure visits, time on page and where visitors come from, and which Google may use to measure advertising. It receives the page address without its query string (campaign tags such as utm_source are kept), the page title, and what Google learns from your browser itself, and handles it under Google's privacy policy. In the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland no analytics or advertising cookies are set until you allow them; before that, only cookieless, anonymous signals are sent. Elsewhere it is on unless you decline. You can change your answer at any time.