Effective date: October 28, 2026
At a glance
- Grove is for personal and household plant care, not for running a commercial plant-care business.
- Subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple. They renew automatically until you cancel in your Apple account settings.
- AI suggestions can be wrong. Use your own judgment, especially about plants that may be toxic to people or pets.
- Your content stays yours. You let us store and process it so Grove can work.
- Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under your local consumer law.
1. Who you're agreeing with
These terms are an agreement between you and Julian Gonzalez Arranz, who operates Grove Plant Care ("Grove", "we", "us"). They cover the Grove apps, the web app and groveplantcare.com. If you download Grove from the App Store, Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies. If the two conflict, these terms apply to the extent the Apple agreement allows.
2. Who can use Grove
You must be at least 13. If you're under 18, you need a parent or guardian's permission, and they're responsible for any purchases. You're responsible for keeping your login secure and for activity on your account.
3. Personal, non-commercial use
Grove is licensed for personal and household use: caring for plants in the homes you live in or look after for family and friends. You may not use Grove to run or support a commercial plant-care, landscaping, nursery or property-management business, or to manage plants for paying clients. If you'd like to use Grove for business, contact us.
4. Households
A household is a shared space for the people who care for the same plants. Each household has members with roles:
- Admin: manages members, settings and rooms, and is the only role that can delete plants
- Gardener: adds plants, photos and care plans
- Caregiver: completes tasks and adds comments
Everything in a household (plants, photos, tasks, comments) is visible to all its members. Only invite people you trust, and only add content you're happy for them to see. Admins are responsible for who they invite.
5. Subscriptions and purchases
- Plans and prices are shown in the app before you buy. Prices may include tax depending on where you live.
- Billing: all purchases are processed and billed by Apple through your Apple account. We never see your payment details.
- Automatic renewal: subscriptions renew at the end of each period at the then-current price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before renewal, in your Apple account's subscription settings.
- Free trial: annual plans include a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. During the trial you can add up to 25 plants; identifying plants with Scout counts toward the same 25. If you don't cancel before the trial ends, Apple charges the annual price.
- Promotional prices (such as launch or waiting-list prices) apply for the period stated when you subscribe. If you cancel and later resubscribe, the price at that time applies.
- Price changes: we'll tell you in advance, and Apple will ask for your agreement where required. Subscribers keep their price for as long as we say when they subscribe.
- Plant allowance: each household on a paid plan includes 100 plants. Plant packs add 5, 10 or 20 plants to one household and are one-time purchases. They belong to the household and stay with it if a subscription lapses, applying again when it's renewed.
- Changing plans: upgrading takes effect straight away. Downgrading from 2 households to 1 takes effect at renewal; you choose which household stays active, and the other becomes read-only until you upgrade again.
- Refunds are handled by Apple under its policies (reportaproblem.apple.com). This doesn't limit any refund or cancellation rights you have under your local law.
6. AI features
Grove's AI features only run after you allow them, and you can turn them off at any time. AI suggestions (plant identifications, care plans, health checks) are general plant-care guidance and can be wrong. They aren't professional advice. Don't rely on Grove to tell you whether a plant is safe to touch or eat, or safe around children or pets: check with a reliable source. You're responsible for how you care for your plants.
7. Your content
You own the photos, notes and other content you add to Grove. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to store, process, display and transmit it, only as needed to run Grove for you and your household (including sending it to our service providers as described in the Privacy Policy). This permission ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies other household members still have access to, or that we must keep by law. When you share a card or image outside Grove, you choose where it goes.
You confirm you have the right to upload what you add, and that it doesn't break the law or anyone's rights.
8. Acceptable use
Don't: misuse Grove to harass or harm anyone; upload unlawful, hateful or sexual content; try to access other people's accounts or households; interfere with or overload Grove's systems; scrape, copy or reverse-engineer Grove except where the law allows; or use Grove to build a competing product.
9. Our service
We work to keep Grove available and accurate, but it's provided "as is" and may change, be interrupted or have errors. We may add, change or remove features. If we make a change that significantly reduces what a paid plan includes, we'll tell you in advance.
10. Ending your use
You can stop using Grove and delete your account at any time in Settings. Deleting your account doesn't cancel an Apple subscription: cancel that in your Apple account. We may suspend or close accounts that seriously or repeatedly break these terms, and we'll tell you why unless the law or safety prevents it.
11. Liability
To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for loss of plants, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid for Grove in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law, such as for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and nothing affects your statutory consumer rights, including guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law and rights under the UK Consumer Rights Act.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. We'll post changes here and, for important changes, tell you in the app or by email at least 30 days before they take effect. If you don't agree, you can stop using Grove and cancel your subscription.
13. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA. If you're a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you can bring a claim in your local courts. Please contact us first: most problems can be solved quickly.
14. Contact
Grove Plant Care (operated by Julian Gonzalez Arranz), Grove Plant Care, 1207 Delaware Ave #3818, Wilmington, DE 19806, USA · support@groveplantcare.com