Privacy Policy

Effective October 10, 2026

Reap What You Sow (reapwhatyousow.life) is a record-keeping app for homesteaders. It is run by Sarah Galler in New Hampshire, USA. This page explains, in plain language, what information the app keeps, why, and the choices you have. Questions? Email hello@reapwhatyousow.life.

The short version

• Your homestead records are yours. We use them only to run the app for you.
• We never sell your information, and there are no ads or advertising trackers.
• You can download everything you have entered at any time, and ask us to delete your account.

What we collect

• Account details: your email address and name. If you sign in with Google, Google shares your name and email with us. Passwords are handled by Google's sign-in service; we never see or store them.
• What you enter: your homestead name, time zone and currency, and your records: birds and flocks, egg collections, sales and giveaways, costs, vendors, customers, tasks and notes.
• Activity history: a short log of important actions (such as signing in, deleting or restoring records, and downloading your data) so problems can be traced and mistakes undone.
• Technical information: a sign-in cookie that keeps you signed in, and standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested), kept by our hosting provider for security and troubleshooting.

How we use it

• To run the app: show your records, calculate totals such as cost per egg, and keep you signed in.
• To keep it safe and working: prevent abuse, fix problems, and make nightly backups.
• To understand overall use through totals only, for example how many homesteads exist or how many eggs were logged in a day. These totals contain no names, emails or individual records.
• To contact you about your account or important changes. We do not send marketing email without asking.

Who helps us run the app

We use a small number of service providers, who may handle your information only to provide their service to us:

• Google Cloud (USA): hosting, sign-in, and encrypted nightly backups.
• MongoDB Atlas (USA, on Google Cloud): the database that stores your records.
• Grafana Labs: receives only the overall totals and system health described above, never your records.
• Name.com and Google Gmail: deliver email you send to hello@reapwhatyousow.life.

We do not sell or rent your information. We share it otherwise only if the law requires it, to protect the safety of people or the service, or if the app is ever transferred to a new owner, who would have to keep this policy's promises or ask you first.

Information about other people

If you record details about other people, such as a customer's name, please only enter what you have a right to keep. We treat it as part of your records and use it only to run the app for you.

How long we keep it

• Your records stay while your account is open, so your history is there when you need it.
• Records you delete in the app are hidden and can be restored; they are removed for good when your account is deleted.
• Backups are kept for 30 days, then deleted automatically.
• When you ask us to delete your account, we delete it within 30 days, and it leaves the backups within a further 30 days.

Your choices

• See and change your records at any time in the app.
• Download everything as an Excel workbook from Settings → Your data → Download all my data.
• Delete your account and all its data by emailing hello@reapwhatyousow.life from your account's email address.
• Ask a question or make a privacy request at hello@reapwhatyousow.life. We answer within 30 days, usually much sooner.

Security

Information travels encrypted (https) and is stored encrypted. Access is limited to what each part of the app needs, sign-in is handled by Google, and backups are checked every night. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and will tell you promptly if a problem affects it.

Children

You must be at least 13 to create an account. If you are under 18, you need a parent or guardian's permission. If we learn that someone under 13 has created an account, we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. For important changes we will tell you in the app or by email before they take effect.