Terms of Use

Garden Nook provides plant discovery, regional and seasonal gardening guidance, personal-garden organization, care reminders or task suggestions, account and preference features, feedback/support tools, and related gardening functionality. The current product is focused on Austin and Central Texas. Some features may be labeled beta or may change as the Service is improved.

Garden Nook provides general educational and informational content, not professional horticultural, agricultural, veterinary, medical, legal, or safety advice. Plants and garden conditions vary by cultivar, microclimate, soil, irrigation, weather, pests, property conditions, and local rules. You are responsible for evaluating whether a recommendation is appropriate for your actual conditions.

• Do not consume a plant based solely on identification, edibility, or culinary information in Garden Nook. Confirm species and safe preparation with a reliable local or professional source.
• Pet-toxicity and human-edibility information are separate concepts. A plant may be edible to humans and unsafe for pets, or vice versa.
• Toxicity can vary by species, plant part, dose, preparation, animal, and individual sensitivity. If a person or animal may have been poisoned, contact an appropriate medical, veterinary, poison-control, or emergency service.
• Garden Nook does not guarantee that photos, artwork, or fallback category images are sufficient for species identification.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Garden Nook. If the law where you live requires a higher age to consent to online services, you must meet that age or use the Service with permission from a parent or legal guardian. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for activity under your account. You agree to provide accurate information and not impersonate another person.

Some features are available without an account. Guest information may be stored only on your device or browser and may be lost if you clear local storage, uninstall the app, change devices, or otherwise remove local app data. Account features may offer more persistent storage and synchronization.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for unlawful, fraudulent, harmful, or abusive activity.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, databases, or security controls.
• Interfere with or overload the Service, scrape it at unreasonable scale, or bypass usage limits or access controls.
• Upload malware, malicious code, or content that infringes another person’s rights.

Users may submit photos, garden-bed information, plant information, tips, care advice, comments, feedback, descriptions, and other content through Garden Nook (“User Content”).

You retain ownership of any intellectual-property rights you hold in your User Content.

By submitting User Content to Garden Nook, you grant PerfectPicks Team LLC and Garden Nook a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, copy, modify, adapt, translate, format, publish, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, create derivative works from, promote, market, and otherwise use the User Content in connection with Garden Nook, its website, applications, marketing, social media, educational materials, community features, and future products or services, in any media or format now known or later developed.

This license may continue after you stop using Garden Nook or delete your account, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Account deletion does not automatically require Garden Nook to remove copies of User Content that have been incorporated into community content, compilations, promotional materials, derivative works, or other materials where retention and continued use are permitted by applicable law.

However, personal data and account-linked data will continue to be handled and deleted or de-identified as described in the Privacy Policy and as required by applicable law.

You represent that you own or otherwise have the necessary rights and permissions to submit the User Content and to grant Garden Nook this license.

Garden Nook may review, moderate, reject, remove, edit, or stop displaying User Content at any time. Submission does not guarantee that feedback will be implemented or that User Content will be published.

Future creator, marketplace, or paid-content features may be subject to additional Seller Terms, Creator Terms, payout rules, revenue-sharing terms, eligibility requirements, and other supplemental terms presented before a user participates in those features. These features are not currently available in Garden Nook.

The Garden Nook name, product design, software, original text, original artwork, interface elements, and other proprietary materials are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. Third-party and public-domain materials remain subject to their respective rights statements and attribution information. See the separate Sources & Credits document for documented external sources and artwork provenance.

Garden Nook currently relies on or links to third-party services including Supabase for backend infrastructure and authentication, Google Analytics 4 for product analytics, Google Sign-In for optional authentication, and external websites or source links. We do not control third-party services and are not responsible for their availability, content, or independent practices. Your use of a third-party service may be governed by that provider’s terms and privacy policy.

We may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue features, content, plant records, regional coverage, limits, or availability. We may correct errors or update plant guidance without notice. Beta and test features may be incomplete, contain errors, or be removed. We do not promise that the Service will always be uninterrupted, error-free, or compatible with every device.

You may stop using Garden Nook at any time. Signed-in users can initiate account deletion directly from Profile > Delete Account. We may suspend or terminate access if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms, created a security or safety risk, misused the Service, or if required by law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will remain in effect, including intellectual-property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, and dispute provisions.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, GARDEN NOOK IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PerfectPicks Team LLC, GARDEN NOOK, THEIR AFFILIATES, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND CONTRIBUTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, PLANTS, PROPERTY, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE. TO THE EXTENT LIABILITY CANNOT BE EXCLUDED, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS ARISING FROM THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO GARDEN NOOK FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) US $100. These limits do not apply where prohibited by law.

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless PerfectPicks Team LLC and Garden Nook from claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable expenses arising from your unlawful use of the Service, your User Content, or your material violation of these Terms. This section does not require indemnification for claims caused by Garden Nook’s own unlawful conduct where such limitation is prohibited.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except to the extent another jurisdiction’s mandatory consumer law applies. Any dispute that is not required by law to be brought elsewhere will be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Texas. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you cannot waive under applicable consumer law.

We may update these Terms as Garden Nook changes. The updated version will identify a new effective date. If changes materially affect your rights, we will provide additional notice when required by law. Continued use after the effective date of revised Terms constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.