Privacy · plain-language summary

Your garden profile stays in your browser.

The current plant finder does not require an account or send its selections to a Pocket Habitat database.

Current data collection

Pocket Habitat does not currently offer accounts, accept payments, or store plant-finder choices in a site-owned database. Basic hosting infrastructure may process standard technical information such as IP address, request time, browser type, and requested page for security and delivery.

Google AdSense and advertising

Pocket Habitat includes Google AdSense code so Google can verify the site and, after approval, serve and measure advertising. Google and other third-party vendors may use cookies or similar technologies to provide, personalize, limit, and measure ads.

Google's use of advertising cookies may allow it and its partners to serve ads based on a visitor's previous visits to Pocket Habitat or other websites. Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Your advertising choices

You can manage personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings. You can also learn about choices offered by participating advertising companies at YourAdChoices. Blocking or deleting cookies may affect how ads and some site features work.

Consent in Europe

Where required by law, visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland will be presented with a Google-certified consent interface before personalized advertising is requested. That interface can be used to accept, reject, or manage available choices.

Amazon Associates links

Some pages contain tagged links to Amazon. If you follow one, Amazon can receive information needed to attribute the visit and any qualifying purchase, subject to Amazon's own privacy practices. Pocket Habitat may earn a commission. We do not receive your Amazon account, payment, or order details. Read our affiliate disclosure.

External links

Plant profiles and guides link to government, educational, and retail sources. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.

Children

The site is intended for a general adult gardening audience and is not directed to children under 13.

Questions and changes

Material changes will be reflected in the revision date on this page. For privacy questions, use the details on our contact page.

Updated: August 16, 2026 · Advertising and affiliate disclosures reflect the services currently used