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Last updated July 27, 2026

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These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and the operator of MyGrowLog ("MyGrowLog," "we," "us," or "our") governing your access to and use of the MyGrowLog website at mygrowlog.com and all related features and services (the "Service").

Please read Section 16 carefully. It contains an arbitration agreement and class action waiver that affect how disputes between us are resolved. It includes a 30-day opt-out.

Operator. Contact and notice address: legal@mygrowlog.com.

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

We may revise these Terms at any time. When we publish a material revision, we will require you to review and accept the new version before continuing to use the Service. If you do not accept, you may cancel your account and stop using the Service. Non-material revisions take effect when posted, and the "Last updated" date will change accordingly.

2. Eligibility

You may use the Service only if all of the following are true:

The Service is intended for adults. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a person under 18 has created an account, contact us at abuse@mygrowlog.com.

Your representation under this Section is a condition of your right to use the Service, and providing a false representation is a breach of these Terms.

3. Nature of the Service; legal compliance is your responsibility

MyGrowLog is a record-keeping and journaling tool. It lets you log cultivation activity, measurements, photographs, environmental data, inventory, and costs, and optionally share that record with others. That is the entire function of the Service.

We do not sell, supply, broker, transport, or facilitate the sale or transfer of cannabis, cannabis seeds, clones, plants, or any controlled substance. We do not provide legal advice, and nothing in the Service should be understood as a representation that any activity you record is lawful where you are.

Cannabis laws differ enormously between countries, states, provinces, and localities, and they change. You are solely responsible for determining whether your cultivation activity is lawful in your jurisdiction and for complying with all applicable laws, including plant-count limits, licensing and registration requirements, possession limits, location and security requirements, and rules on sharing or transferring plant material.

By using the Service, you represent and warrant that your use, and the activity you record, complies with all laws applicable to you. You may not use the Service to record, plan, or document activity that is unlawful in your jurisdiction.

We reserve the right to restrict or refuse access to the Service in any jurisdiction, at any time, for any reason.

4. Accounts

You must provide a valid email address and create a password. You must verify your email address before you can log in.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Use a strong, unique password. Notify us promptly at abuse@mygrowlog.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

You may not share your account, sell or transfer it, create an account on behalf of anyone else, or create a new account to evade a suspension or termination.

Your screen name is publicly visible on any content you choose to share. Do not choose a screen name that impersonates another person, infringes a trademark, or violates Section 6.

5. Your content

You own your content. Photographs, notes, journal entries, logs, measurements, comments, and everything else you create or upload ("Your Content") remain yours. We claim no ownership of it.

5.1 License you grant us

To operate the Service, we need permission to store, process, and display Your Content. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, modify (for technical purposes such as resizing, format conversion, thumbnail generation, and metadata removal), transmit, and display Your Content solely for the purpose of operating, maintaining, securing, and providing the Service to you and to the people you choose to share it with.

This license is limited to running the Service. We will not use Your Content in external advertising, promotional campaigns, or marketing materials without your separate, specific permission.

Where you designate a grow cycle as unlisted or listed (public), you additionally authorize us to display that content to the people who can reach it under the visibility setting you chose — including, for listed cycles, to the general public and to search engines, and to generate social-media preview images from it.

This license ends when you delete the relevant content or your account, subject to Sections 5.3, 5.4, and 11, and except for content already shared with others, cached or indexed by third parties outside our control, or retained in routine backups until those expire.

5.2 AI Plant Inspector

If you choose to run an AI inspection on a plant photo, you authorize us to transmit the photo and associated grow context to our AI provider (currently Anthropic) for processing. That context includes, among other things, strain and equipment details, your phase timeline, recent daily logs and plant events, including any free-text notes you have written in those records, and prior inspection summaries. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Inspections are only performed when you request them. If you do not want this data transmitted to a third party, do not use the AI Plant Inspector.

5.3 Community strain catalog

The strain catalog is a shared community resource. If you submit a strain entry and it is approved, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, and display that entry as part of the catalog, including after you delete your account. Approved catalog entries are retained as community reference material; your authorship attribution is removed when your account is deleted.

5.4 Comments

Comments you post on other users' shared grows persist as part of the conversation. If you delete your account, the body of your comments is blanked and your authorship is anonymized, but the thread structure remains so that surrounding conversation stays readable.

5.5 Your responsibility for Your Content

You represent that you own or have the necessary rights to Your Content, and that it does not infringe anyone's rights or violate any law or these Terms. You are solely responsible for Your Content, including anything you make public. Consider carefully what you publish. Photographs and written records of cultivation activity may carry legal, employment, or personal risk depending on where you live. Content you designate as listed is world-readable and indexable by search engines.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

We may remove content, restrict features, or suspend or terminate accounts for violations of this Section, at our sole discretion, with or without notice.

Really we mean it, there is no wink and nod! We will absolutely take action against your account if you engage in any of the described or similar activity.

7. Sharing and public content

Your grow cycles are private by default. You control visibility:

Once content is public, you cannot fully un-publish it. Others may have copied, screenshotted, archived, or cached it. Changing a cycle back to private removes it from the Service, but does not retrieve copies that already exist elsewhere.

Free-text notes on daily logs and plant events are excluded from public share pages. Cost information is shown publicly only if you opt in.

You may also share a private cycle directly with another user. Doing so gives that user access to it.

8. AI Plant Inspector — no warranty; safety

The AI Plant Inspector generates automated, algorithmically produced suggestions about plant health. It is informational only. It is not professional, agronomic, horticultural, medical, chemical, electrical, or legal advice, and it is frequently wrong.

AI systems produce plausible-sounding output that may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or entirely fabricated. It may misidentify a deficiency, a pest, a pathogen, or a plant's condition. It has no way to verify what it is looking at.

Independently verify every suggestion before acting on it. In particular:

You are solely responsible for every decision you make about your grow, your equipment, and any substance you handle. We disclaim all liability arising from your use of, or reliance on, AI-generated output, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Inspections are subject to daily quotas and to overall capacity limits. We may change, limit, or discontinue the feature at any time, and it may be unavailable without notice.

9. Data, backups, and your records

Keep your own backups. We provide a per-cycle data export, and we take reasonable care with your data, but we do not guarantee that your data will be preserved, and you should not treat the Service as the only copy of records that matter to you.

Data may be lost through software defects, hardware failure, third-party outages, accidental deletion by you, security incidents, or account termination. We are not liable for the loss, corruption, or unavailability of Your Content.

Our handling of personal information is described in the Privacy Policy. Deletion behavior, retention periods, and what persists after account deletion are described there; read it before relying on any assumption about deletion.

10. Third-party services

The Service depends on third parties, including hosting providers, object storage, an email delivery provider, and an AI provider. Their availability, performance, and handling of data are outside our control. We are not responsible for third-party acts or omissions.

The Service may contain links to third-party sites. We do not endorse them and are not responsible for their content, practices, or products.

11. Suspension and termination

By you. You may stop using the Service at any time. You may reset or delete your account in your account settings. Deletion behavior, including any grace period, is described in the Privacy Policy and in the Service itself, and may change.

By us. We may suspend or terminate your account or restrict your access at any time, at our sole discretion, with or without notice and with or without cause, including if we believe you have violated these Terms, if your use creates legal risk for us or others, or if we discontinue the Service.

We are not obligated to provide an appeal or review process, and no decision to suspend or terminate creates any entitlement to review. We may adopt an appeals process in the future.

Effect of termination. On termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately. We may delete Your Content, and we are not obligated to provide it to you or to retain it. Content and licenses described in Sections 5.3 and 5.4, and records we retain for security, accountability, and legal-compliance purposes as described in the Privacy Policy, survive. Sections 5.3, 5.4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 survive termination.

12. Intellectual property in the Service

The Service itself — its software, design, interface, text, and branding — is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property law. Except for Your Content and the limited rights expressly granted here, we grant you no rights in the Service.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of any part of the Service, except as applicable law expressly permits.

13. Copyright complaints (DMCA)

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to:

abuse@mygrowlog.com

Include: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (c) identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to locate it (a URL is best); (d) your contact information; (e) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

We will respond to valid notices as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and comparable laws, which may include removing the material. If you believe your content was removed in error, you may send a counter-notice to the same address containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3).

We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

Misrepresentations in a takedown notice may expose you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

14. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that defects will be corrected; that the Service or its servers are free of harmful components; or that any information obtained through the Service — including AI-generated output, strain catalog data, and content posted by other users — is accurate, complete, reliable, or suitable for any purpose.

The Service is provided without any service-level commitment. It may be modified, interrupted, or discontinued at any time.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions above apply to the maximum extent permitted, and you may have additional rights that these Terms do not affect.

15. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, crops, plants, or business opportunity, arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or any other theory, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty United States dollars (US$50). The Service is currently provided free of charge; you acknowledge that this allocation of risk is a fundamental basis of our agreement, and that we would not provide the Service without it.

This limitation applies to all claims, including those arising from data loss, security incidents, service interruption, content posted by other users, actions taken by third-party providers, and your use of or reliance on the AI Plant Inspector.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or, for consumers in the EU, EEA, or UK, liability that applicable consumer-protection law does not permit to be excluded.

16. Dispute resolution, arbitration, and class action waiver

Please read this Section carefully. It affects your legal rights, including your right to sue in court and to participate in a class action.

16.1 Informal resolution first

Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to contact us at legal@mygrowlog.com with a written description of the dispute and the relief you seek, and to attempt in good faith to resolve it informally for at least 60 days. This is a condition precedent to arbitration or litigation.

16.2 Agreement to arbitrate

If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, you and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration, rather than in court, except as stated in Sections 16.4 and 16.5.

Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, and may be conducted by written submission, telephone, or video where the rules permit. The arbitrator's decision is final and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section.

16.3 Class action waiver

You and we agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim — and only that claim — must proceed in court, and the rest of this Section remains in effect.

16.4 Exceptions

This Section does not apply to: (a) claims that qualify for small-claims court, which either party may bring individually; (b) claims seeking injunctive or equitable relief for infringement or misuse of intellectual property; or (c) any dispute where applicable law prohibits arbitration.

16.5 Consumers in the EU, EEA, United Kingdom, and elsewhere

This entire Section 16 does not apply to you if you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the European Economic Area, or the United Kingdom, or in any other jurisdiction whose law makes pre-dispute arbitration agreements or class action waivers unenforceable against consumers. If you are such a consumer, you may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, and you retain the protections of the mandatory consumer law of that country. Section 17.1 does not deprive you of those protections.

16.6 Your right to opt out

You may opt out of this Section 16 by emailing legal@mygrowlog.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" and including the email address on your account. Opting out will not affect your account or your use of the Service in any way. If you opt out, disputes will be resolved in the courts identified in Section 17.1.

17. General

17.1 Governing law and venue. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to Section 16, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Harris County, Texas. If you are a consumer resident in the EU, EEA, or UK, this Section does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, or of your right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

17.2 Changes to the Service. We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, without notice and without liability.

17.3 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account. We may assign these Terms to a successor entity, an affiliate, or an acquirer of the Service, including on formation of a business entity to operate the Service.

17.4 Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions remain in full force.

17.5 No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

17.6 Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service, and supersede any prior agreements or understandings.

17.7 No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms create no rights in anyone other than you and us.

17.8 Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

17.9 Notices. We may provide notice to you by email to the address on your account or by posting within the Service. You may send notice to us at legal@mygrowlog.com.

17.10 Contact. Questions about these Terms: legal@mygrowlog.com