Privacy
Quiet Garden is built to know as little about you as possible. This page explains in plain language what that means.
What we do not collect
- No accounts, no passwords, no email addresses, no real names.
- No advertising, no tracking pixels, no analytics cookies.
- No payment details. Quiet Garden is free and asks for no payment details.
What happens on your device
- The random friendly name you see ("Soft Moss" and so on) is made up each visit.
- Your browser may keep a copy of the garden's images and files so it opens faster and works offline. This is a technical cache, not tracking.
- Sound is generated in your browser. Nothing is recorded.
The live garden
When you enter, your device connects to our live server, which runs on Cloudflare. It passes your made-up name, your look, where you walk, your care actions (feeding fish, watering trees, scattering seeds, floating lanterns) and the blessings you send to the other visitors in the same garden (up to 20). This lives only in memory while you are connected and is not stored. The garden's shared totals (the numbers in the bar at the top) are kept only while someone is in the garden and are deleted when the last visitor leaves. The words you write or choose for a lantern stay on your device: other visitors only see a lantern appear, never what it says. If the live server cannot be reached, you stay on the front page. We also keep anonymous counts, per day and per hour of the day, of how many visitors joined and how many gardens were open, so we can tell when the garden needs more room and when people come. These counts hold no names, no addresses and nothing that identifies a visitor.
What the website host sees
Like any website, the host (Vercel) receives your IP address and basic browser details when your device requests a page, and keeps short-lived server logs for security and reliability. We do not use these logs to identify you. The live server (Cloudflare) also receives your IP address and basic technical details to make the connection work, and keeps short-lived logs for security and reliability. We do not use these to identify you either.
Blessings and gratitude lines
Blessings you send are delivered to the person you bless, and everyone in the garden can see them travel and read the words in a speech bubble for a few seconds. They are not stored after your visit, except where you or someone else files a report. Please do not write names or personal details in them. Links, email addresses and phone numbers are removed automatically, and a word filter and a sending limit apply. Some figures you see are quiet "garden spirits" that keep the garden from feeling empty. They never send or receive blessings: blessings are shared only between real people.
You can hide any visitor for the rest of your visit. Quiet mode (the moon button) stops you from sending or receiving blessings, and your ring turns softer so others can see you are resting.
Reports
The Report button prepares an email to us containing the visitor's made-up name, the message and the time. You can edit or delete anything before sending. We use reports only to improve the filters and keep the garden kind.
Age
Quiet Garden is for people aged 13 and over.
Who is responsible
Quiet Garden is a hobby project by Willow Meadow, based in Belgium.
Your rights and contact
If you are in the EU or UK you have rights over personal data, including access and deletion. Because we hold almost nothing about you, there will usually be little to find, but you can ask. Contact: info@quiet-garden.app.
Changes
If this page changes in a meaningful way, for example when we add new features, we will update the date above and tell visitors in the garden.