Nature Wonders — Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 21, 2026

This policy explains how Nature Wonders: Plant Scanner handles information. Nature Wonders is published by Soft Flourish, an independent software studio and publishing house based in California, USA. It supplements the general Soft Flourish Privacy Policy and controls where the two differ for this app.

Nature Wonders keeps your journal on your device and asks for as little as an identification app can ask for. It does not request your location, does not create a child profile, and does not sell anything about you.

What the app holds, and why

WhatWhy
The photograph you choose to identifySent to the plant-recognition provider to produce a match, and not retained by us afterwards.
Your saved discoveries and notesStored on your device so your field journal persists. They are not uploaded.

What it never collects

  • Your location — the app does not request location permission at all, and no coordinates are attached to a discovery
  • A child account, profile, or anything identifying a child
  • Advertising identifiers, and there are no ads
  • Contacts, microphone, or health data
  • Any sale or sharing of your data with data brokers

The identification provider

Live identification is performed by Pl@ntNet. The photograph you submit is sent to their service to produce a ranked list of matches, and is handled under their terms. We attach no account, no device identifier and no location to that request.

Rare plants

The app does not request, store, or publish precise locations of rare plants. Publishing exact coordinates of a rare species is how populations get stripped, so the feature does not exist.

Deleting your data

Your journal is on the device: deleting the app removes it. There is no account to close and no server-side copy to request.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially we will update the date at the top and describe the change here. Continuing to use Nature Wonders after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or a request about your data: [email protected], or the contact form.