Privacy policy

Last updated 17 August 2026.

Seed & Shelf collects nothing about you. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Your records are stored on your own device and go nowhere unless you deliberately send them somewhere.

What the app stores, and where

Everything you enter — recipes, steps, ingredients, sessions, batches, sourcing details, ratings, notes, your storage and canning locations and your custom lists — is written to a database inside the app's private storage on your device. On Android, other apps cannot read it.

The app also keeps two small settings files there: whether you've seen the walkthrough, and (if you set one up) the address and token of your own backup server.

What leaves your device

Nothing, unless you ask for it. There are exactly three ways data can leave, and you start all three:

• Exporting or sharing. When you export a backup, share a recipe or share a printed sheet, the app writes a file and hands it to Android's share sheet. Where it goes from there — email, Drive, Files, a message — is your choice, and is then governed by whichever app you picked.
• Printing. Printing goes through Android's own print system to the printer or PDF target you select.
• Your own server backup. If, and only if, you enter a URL and token under Settings → Data, the app uploads a snapshot of your logbook to that server — yours, not ours. We operate no server for this app and receive no copy.

What the app does not do

• No account, sign-in, email address or name is required or requested.
• No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or usage measurement of any kind.
• No advertising, no ad identifiers, no third-party trackers or SDKs.
• No location, camera, microphone, contacts or calendar access.
• No selling or sharing of personal information, because none is collected.

The only network requests the app is capable of making are the uploads and downloads to the backup server you configure yourself. If you never configure one, the app makes no network requests at all.

Photos

Where the app stores a photo of a batch, it keeps a reference to the file on your device rather than a copy of the image, and it is never uploaded except as part of a backup you send to your own server.

Children

The app is a general-purpose record keeper and is not directed at children. Since it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children either.

Deleting your data

Uninstalling the app removes its database and settings from your device. If you have used the server backup feature, snapshots remain on your own server until you delete them there; nobody else holds a copy.

Changes

If this policy ever changes — for instance if optional cloud sync is added in a future version — the updated version will be posted here with a new date, and any feature that transmits data will remain something you opt into.

Contact

Questions about this policy: info@seedandshelf.com.