Privacy
Creatives’ Garden — nothing leaves your browser
On Creatives’ Garden — People → Touchpoints → Garden. Tend the relationships your craft grows from.
The people in your Garden did not sign up for a CRM. They probably don't want to be in one. In the Garden, they aren't — they are in your notebook, which happens to be an HTML file, which happens to be on your laptop only.
The consent problem no one talks about
When you add an editor to a personal-CRM SaaS, you have quietly copied their name, email, and your notes about them into a company's database. They did not agree to that. In some jurisdictions, that matters legally. In every jurisdiction, it matters morally.
The Garden is your notebook. Notebooks do not require consent.
How the file behaves
Local storage. No account. No sync. No analytics. Nothing about the people in your Garden ever crosses the wire. The file works offline the moment you have it.
If you delete the file, the record is gone — in a real sense, not a 'thirty-day retention window' sense.
Ex-relationships
You will fall out of touch with people. The Garden lets that be quiet. Nobody gets a 'you have not touched this contact in 90 days!' popup. Nobody gets nagged into re-engagement. The tool respects the human shape of drift.
What the Garden avoids
- No back end.Nothing to breach; nothing to subpoena.
- No enrichment.It does not phone LinkedIn about your friends.
- No sharing.The Garden is single-user by design. There is no share link to accidentally leak.
- No AI summaries.Your notes about people are not fed to a model.
Questions people ask
Is it GDPR-compliant?
You are the data controller of your own notebook, on your own device. That is the same category as your email drafts and your paper notes. It is compliance by architecture.
What if my laptop is stolen?
Disk-encrypt your OS. That is the correct answer here as it is for every other file that lives on it.
Can I share the Garden with a collaborator?
No — that would defeat the design. Different tool for that. The Garden is one person keeping notes on the people around their work.
The most respectful relationship tool is the one that does not tell a company you exist.