Privacy

Last updated: 10 November 2026

Val Studio is a one-person studio. Nothing here is built to collect data about you. This page covers each app and this website.

Water Me

Water Me is a free, open-source plant care app for Android. It has no server.

What the app stores

Your plants, care history, settings and photos are saved only on your phone, in the app's private storage. Nothing is sent to Val Studio. The app has no analytics, no ads, no tracking and no account of its own. Watering reminders are local notifications scheduled by the phone.

If you export a backup, the file goes where you choose to send it. Water Me does not upload it anywhere.

Optional: ChatGPT features

You can connect your own ChatGPT account. It is off by default and the app works without it. When you connect:

• You sign in on OpenAI's own page. Water Me never sees your password.
• The sign-in tokens are stored only on your phone. You can disconnect at any time in Settings.
• When you use a ChatGPT feature (identify a plant, check its health, import from photos), the photo you picked and a short request go directly from your phone to OpenAI, sent with store=false.
• OpenAI handles this data under its own privacy policy.

Val Studio never receives your photos or your ChatGPT data.

Permissions

• Internet: only for the optional ChatGPT features.
• Notifications: for watering reminders.
• Foreground service: keeps the app alive for up to 3 minutes during ChatGPT sign-in.
• Photos are picked through Android's system picker; the app only gets the photos you choose.

Deleting your data

Uninstall the app, or clear its storage in Android settings. Everything is deleted, because it only exists on your phone. Water Me is not aimed at children and collects no personal data from anyone.

Orbite

Orbite is in development and not released yet. Its full privacy policy will be published on this page before it reaches any store.

This website

valstudio.tech sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising. The server may keep technical logs (such as IP address and pages requested) for a short time, only to keep the site running and secure. The typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when the page loads.

The contact field opens your own email app; nothing is sent until you send the email yourself.

Questions

Write to valstudio.apps@gmail.com. Any change to this policy will be published here.