Data Privacy and Protection

Question Garden was created to support reflection in a calm and safe way. This page explains, in simple words, how we handle your data.

What We Keep and Why

When you create an account, we keep your email address, a protected hash of your password and country of residence. We use your country only to determine when you receive the daily question. If you choose to share an answer with the garden, it will also indicate the country it was submitted from.

We also temporarily store activity transactions needed to run the sprouts system and its human moderation, such as save, share, read, and edit events. This helps us apply daily limits fairly, detect abuse patterns, and maintain a healthy environment.

We do not sell or share your data to anyone and we are completely against this practice.

Your Answer Content Is Encrypted

Your answer text is stored in encrypted form in our system. In simple words: we do not save your answer content as human readable text in storage. We use encrypted storage so your writing is better protected.

What Other People Can See

Shared answers are moderated before they are visible in the garden. Moderators are able to see decrypted answers before they are published to others but not who submitted them – only administrators in exceptional cases. Other users can read approved answers anonymously. Your email address is not shown to other users. Private drafts are not public.

How Long We Keep Data

Active Data is kept as long as needed to run Question Garden responsibly. For example, shared answers are not deleted unless you edit or delete them. Activity logs that do not compromise the garden's functionality are automatically deleted after 90 days. Some content flows use soft deletion first so moderation and safety actions remain consistent before full cleanup. For example, if you edit a shared answer, its previously encrypted content will be deleted but the editing date and time will be preserved for 90 days. If you request account deletion, we remove personal data according to our deletion process.

Your Rights and Control

You can access your personal data, edit it or delete your account in your account settings. If you need help with any of these actions, or if you want your answers to be exported before account deletion, contact us at mail@question.garden.