What we keep, plainly.

Growhood is operated by Ezzeddine Jradi. Questions about this page go to info@growhood.net.

You can browse listings, guides and community posts without an account.

Sign-in is handled by Clerk. Clerk holds your email address, sign-in credentials and session cookies. Growhood itself stores:

• Your Clerk account ID, and a display name first copied from Clerk that you can edit.
• Country, city, neighborhood and community name from your profile.
• Feed preferences, only if you choose to set them.
• Listings you save.
• Listings, photos, community posts and replies you create.
• Exchanges: their status, the original request and the messages exchanged.

Pickup areas are choices you make. Growhood does not require GPS location.

If you tap “Use my location,” your browser asks for permission to share your position. Growhood matches it to a nearby listed GCC city on your device. Exact coordinates are not sent to Growhood or a map service, saved, displayed publicly or used for analytics. The suggestion is approximate and only changes the listing filters after you confirm it. You can always select an area manually. This does not change your profile or saved feed preferences.

Visitors and search engines can see listings with your display name, title, locations you entered, details and photos, and community posts with author name, neighborhood, text and replies.

Your email address and the rest of your profile are not shown on those public pages.

The app only shows exchange messages to the two people in that exchange. Messages are not end-to-end encrypted, so they are stored on our infrastructure and can technically be accessed by the hosting infrastructure and the operator. Share only what you need to arrange a pickup.

Uploaded photos are resized and re-encoded. EXIF and GPS metadata are stripped from the copies we serve. Temporary upload files are cleaned up on a best-effort basis.

Stripping metadata cannot remove what is visible in a picture, such as a street sign or a building. Check the background before posting.

A few older listings may show images from external HTTPS addresses. Loading those images contacts that third-party host.

Growhood is hosted on Replit. Data is stored in PostgreSQL and Replit App Storage. Hosting, sign-in and storage providers receive technical request data, such as your IP address and browser details, when you use the site. Our API logs record the request method, path, status and a request ID.

Read Clerk's privacy policy for how sign-in data is handled.

Google Analytics cookies are set only after you accept, and only on the production site. If you accept:

• Page views are measured on public home, discover, learn, community, plant and guide pages only.
• Guide and listing addresses are grouped without their IDs. The app does not send names, emails, messages, search text or query strings.
• Account, sign-in, exchange and form pages are not tracked. Privacy, terms and help pages are not tracked either.
• Google receives technical device, browser, network and usage data, and may receive the referring site's origin. Ad storage, ad personalization and Google signals are turned off.

Your choice is remembered in your browser for 180 days. Change it anytime with Analytics settings in the footer. Declining still allows the essential sign-in and session cookies. Withdrawing consent stops future events and attempts to clear Google Analytics cookies, but it does not erase data already sent.

See Google's privacy policy.

There is no automated retention schedule and no self-service account deletion yet. Records stay until they are removed or handled manually.

• You can edit your profile and listings, and delete your own listings.
• Deleting a listing removes its exchanges, messages and saves from the database. Its photo stops being served publicly unless reused elsewhere, but the stored file is not automatically erased.
• Signing out does not delete anything. Deleting your sign-in account alone should not be assumed to erase your Growhood records.

To ask for a copy, correction or deletion of your data, email info@growhood.net. We will need to confirm the account is yours, and consider conversations that involve other people as well as copies held by providers. We cannot promise a deadline or immediate complete erasure.

The owner still needs to confirm provider retention and this request process before a wider launch. See Help and reporting for what to include.