Last updated · 2026-06-22
Terms of service.
Plain-language terms for using Routine Garden. By creating an account or using the service you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the service — and feel free to delete your account in one tap from Settings → Your data → Delete account.
1. Who you're contracting with
Routine Garden is operated by Routine Garden from Spainas an unincorporated indie project. References to "we", "us", or "Routine Garden" refer to that operator. References to "you" mean the adult using the service (and, where relevant, the family they manage).
Contact: privacy@routinegarden.app · Postal: Granada, Spain. Once we incorporate, we'll update this section and email existing customers.
2. What we provide
Routine Garden is a web app + PWA for tracking daily routines, visualised as a plant garden you grow over time. We aim to keep it running, beautiful, and gentle. We do not provide medical, mental-health, therapeutic, or clinical advice. If you need professional support for mental or physical health, please consult a qualified provider.
The service is provided as-is. We may add, change, or remove features at our discretion. We'll give reasonable notice (at least 30 days by email) for material changes that materially reduce paid features.
3. Account + how you sign in
You can sign in with email + password or with a one-time email sign-in link (also called a magic link). Passwords are hashed by our auth provider (Supabase) using industry-standard cryptographic hashing — we never store or see your plain-text password. You can change your password at any time in Settings → Security.
You're responsible for keeping access to the email address on your account and for keeping your password confidential. If you lose access to both, recovery is best-effort — email support@routinegarden.app and we'll help where we can verify identity.
You must be 18 or older to create an account — subscriptions require legal capacity to enter a contract. EU age-of-digital-consent rules under GDPR Article 8 (14 in Spain via LOPDGDD) and US COPPA are honoured by structurally not letting children sign up directly. A child can participate only as a profile inside a family that a parent or guardian (18+) creates and controls; the parent remains the legal account holder. See the Privacy page for how children's information is handled.
4. Plans + subscriptions
- Seedling (free) — 1 person, 3 routines. Free forever. No card required.
- Bloom — $4.99/month or $29.99/year. Unlimited routines, full plant library, weekly recap card.
- Family — $6.99/month or $39.99/year. Everything in Bloom, up to 6 family members, family-garden view.
- Founding Gardener— $99 one-time, first 50 customers only. Lifetime access to all Family features. "Lifetime" means the operating life of the service. If we shut the service down, founding members receive advance notice (at least 60 days) and a full data export, but no refund.
Prices are displayed in USD; other currencies are converted at checkout. VAT/IVA + sales tax are calculated and remitted by Stripe Tax in jurisdictions where required, including Spain (IVA) and the rest of the EU via the One-Stop-Shop scheme. Prices may change with at least 30 days' email notice; you can cancel before the change takes effect and won't be charged the new price for the period already paid.
5. Free trial + auto-renewal
Bloom and Family include a 7-day free trial. We email you 24 hours before the trial endswith a clear heads-up about the upcoming charge. If you don't cancel before the trial ends, the subscription renews automatically at the listed price.
Monthly plans auto-renew monthly; annual plans auto-renew annually. You can cancel at any time in Settings → Plan → Manage plan (which opens the Stripe customer portal). Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period — you keep paid access until then. We do not require you to call, email, or jump through retention prompts; cancel is one tap.
6. Refunds + cancellation
EU consumers (you ordinarily reside in the EU or EEA): you have a 14-day cooling-off period under the EU Consumer Rights Directive (and Article 102 of the Spanish TRLGDCU). By starting your subscription you expressly request immediate access to the digital service and acknowledge that, once we begin providing the service, you waive this cooling-off right for the period that has been performed. You may still cancel future renewals at any time from Settings.
UK consumers: equivalent 14-day rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, with the same digital-content waiver mechanism on first launch.
US customers: there's no federal cooling-off period for digital subscriptions. We don't offer refunds for partial periods — cancel anytime and you keep paid access until the end of the current billing period. California and a few other US states require specific cancellation language: cancel in Settings → Plan → Manage; we will not retain your billing details after cancellation completes.
We'll consider goodwill refunds case-by-case for genuine billing mistakes or service issues. Email support@routinegarden.app.
7. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use Routine Garden to harass, threaten, or harm others (including other family members on your plan).
- Attempt to access another account, bypass rate limits, or probe the service for vulnerabilities outside a responsible-disclosure process. If you find one, please email security@routinegarden.app — we read every report.
- Reverse-engineer, scrape, or resell the service, or use it to build a competing product.
- Use the service in violation of any applicable law (Spanish, EU, or otherwise) or to upload illegal or infringing content.
- Submit content that is illegal, defamatory, infringing, or that violates anyone's rights.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these rules. We'll tell you which rule was broken unless legal process restricts it.
8. Our halal-tier policy (what stays out)
By design, Routine Garden does notrun ads, sell your data, integrate gambling mechanics or random-reward variability, recommend or play music as a core feature, expose dating or romance content, or require photo uploads of people. We don't share your data with processors not listed in the Privacy page. We don't offer interest-bearing wallets, BNPL, or other interest-based financing.
9. Intellectual property
The Routine Garden name, design system, plant illustrations, code, and weekly-recap card layouts are owned by us. You retain ownership of your content — your routines, completions, display name, the arrangement of your garden. By using the service you grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to process that content solely to provide the service to you. We will not use your routines or completions for marketing, AI/model training, or any purpose beyond serving you. Aggregate, anonymised counts (e.g., "42 gardeners watered today") may appear on marketing pages and do not identify you.
10. Disclaimers + limitation of liability
The service is provided as-is and as-available. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all implied warranties (merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement).
We're not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages. Our total liability for any claim arising from these terms is capped at the greater of (a) EUR 100 or (b) the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.
Nothing in these terms limits liability for death, personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under Spanish or EU law (notably the mandatory conformity rights for digital services under Directive (EU) 2019/770) or, for US consumers, under their state's consumer protection statutes.
11. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless against third-party claims arising from your breach of these terms or your unlawful use of the service. This doesn't apply if the claim is caused by our own breach or negligence.
12. Service availability + force majeure
We aim for high availability but don't guarantee uninterrupted service. Downtime, maintenance, and outages happen. We're not liable for failures caused by events outside our reasonable control — for example, outages of our cloud providers (Vercel, Supabase, Stripe, Resend, Cloudflare), payment-network failures, internet backbone issues, natural disasters, or government action.
13. Termination + data after cancellation
You can delete your account in Settings at any time. Deletion is immediate and permanent — see the Privacy page for the data flow.
We can suspend or terminate your account for material breach of these terms with reasonable notice (immediate notice is permitted for unlawful use, abuse, or where notice would prejudice an investigation). If we terminate you for cause, we are not obliged to refund the remaining paid period.
14. Changes to these terms
We'll email you about material changes at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use after that 30-day window counts as acceptance. Non-material changes (typos, structural renumbering, factual corrections) take effect when we post them; the version date at the top of this page reflects the most recent change. If you don't accept a material change, you can cancel and we will refund any pre-paid period not yet used.
15. Governing law + disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of Spain, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Spanish courts in the judicial district of Granada have non-exclusive jurisdiction over disputes.
Where mandatory consumer-protection law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your own country of residence (e.g., Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 for EU consumers), that right is unaffected. EU consumers may also use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform.
Before formal proceedings, please email privacy@routinegarden.app and we'll respond within 30 days — most disputes resolve faster informally than through courts.
16. Miscellaneous
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest stays in effect (severability). Our failure to enforce a right doesn't waive it. These terms (plus the Privacy page) are the entire agreement between us about the service and supersede any prior understanding. You may not transfer these terms to anyone else; we may transfer them to a successor entity (e.g., on incorporation) on reasonable notice, and your rights will not be reduced as a result.
Questions or to give formal notice: support@routinegarden.app for general support; privacy@routinegarden.app for privacy or legal notices.