Hobimio

Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 11, 2026

This is a translation of the Turkish original. In the event of any discrepancy between the two versions, the Turkish text shall prevail.

In short: Hobimio doesn’t require you to create an account and doesn’t ask for your name, email address, phone number or location. The plants you add, your reminders, your settings and the values you enter are stored only on your phone. Data goes out over the internet in only four cases: your photo in photo diagnosis (only if you allow it); the plant’s name and your note when you request a plant; the message you send through “Write to us”; and the download of the plant’s image in “See it in place.” The app contains no advertising, tracking or usage analytics tools.

1. Scope

This policy covers the Hobimio app for Android and iOS and the hobimio.net website. Hobimio offers a plant guide for houseplants, balconies and home gardens; a list of your plants and reminders; a light meter; leaf analysis interpretation; photo-based plant identification and problem finding; “See it in place”; and requests for missing plants.

2. Data controller and contact

Data controller: Hüseyin Akgül (the developer of Hobimio). For privacy-related questions and requests: destek@agromio.net

3. What stays on your phone

4. Photo diagnosis and plant identification

This feature asks for your permission the first time you use it; if you don’t allow it, no photo is sent. If you allow it, each analysis sends the following to the hobimio.net server: the photo, downscaled so that its longest side is 1024 pixels (additional information such as location is removed from the photo); Hobimio’s plant list or the list of possible problems for the plant you selected; the app’s language; your phone type (Android/iOS); and a random installation ID generated by the app when it is installed. The server forwards the photo and the list to Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence service (Google LLC, USA) and sends the result back to your phone. Google processes this data in accordance with its own terms of service and privacy policy.

The Hobimio server does not store or log the photo or the list. To track usage against the limit (a set number of photos per installation per month), only irreversible hashes of the installation ID and of the photo are kept for 40 days, and the time of each analysis, the phone type and whether the analysis succeeded are kept for 13 months. Neither your identity nor the photo itself can be derived from these records.

You can withdraw your permission in the app’s Settings. Please make sure the photo does not show any people or personal information (faces, documents, addresses, etc.).

5. Plant requests

If you can’t find the plant you’re looking for and ask for it to be added, the following is sent to hobimio.net: the plant’s name, whether you chose pot or garden, the note you write, the app’s version and language, and a random request ID generated by your phone. Your name, email address, location or phone details are not sent. So that you can see the status of your request and our short reply in “My requests,” the app queries the server using this request ID. Requests are kept for review by the Hobimio team and are deleted 24 months after their last update. Please do not include personal information in your note.

6. Write to us

If you use “Write to us” in Settings to send us feedback, a request, a question or a problem, the following is sent to hobimio.net: the type and text of your message, any follow-up messages, the app’s version and language, your phone type (Android/iOS) and a random message key that the app generates with your first message (the server stores only an irreversible hash of it). Your name, email address, location and phone details are not sent. So that you can see our reply under “My messages,” the app checks the server using this key. Messages and conversations are kept so that the Hobimio team can read and answer them, and are deleted 12 months after the last message. Please don’t include personal information in your message. If your message isn’t in Turkish, it is translated into Turkish with Google’s Gemini AI service (Google LLC, USA) so that our team can read it, and our reply is translated into your language with the same service before it is sent. Only the text of the message or reply is sent to Google for this, not your identity, your message key or any other information. Translations are stored with your message and deleted together with it.

7. See it in place

“See it in place” overlays the plant on the camera view. The camera view and the photos you take are processed on your phone and are not sent to hobimio.net or anywhere else. The plant’s large image is downloaded from hobimio.net; this request reveals only which plant’s image was requested. If you save the photo, it goes to your phone’s gallery; if you share it, it goes to the app you choose.

8. Light meter and voice search

The light meter uses your phone’s light sensor on Android and the front camera’s exposure values on iPhone; the camera image is not saved and does not leave your phone. In voice search, your speech is converted to text by your phone’s own speech recognition service (depending on your phone, this service is operated by the phone maker or the operating system provider); Hobimio does not record your voice or send it to its own server. Camera and microphone permissions are requested only for these features.

9. Hobimio Plus

Hobimio Plus purchases are made through Google Play or the App Store; your payment details do not reach Hobimio. Your free trial and the count of your remaining allowances are kept on your phone.

10. Server and security

Connections to hobimio.net are encrypted (HTTPS). To prevent abuse, the server counts the IP addresses of incoming requests only in memory and only briefly (for no more than one hour); it does not store IP addresses. Hobimio does not use any advertising, tracking, usage analytics or crash reporting tools, does not sell your data and does not share it with anyone for advertising purposes.

11. Children

Hobimio does not knowingly collect personal data from children; in any case, it does not ask for a name, email address or location.

12. Your rights

To exercise your rights under applicable law regarding your personal data, you can write to the contact address above. Because the server does not know who you are, you will need to include the relevant details (for example, the date of your plant request and the plant’s name) so that we can locate the relevant record.

13. Changes

We update this policy as the app changes; the current version is always available on this page, and the date at the top is updated.