Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Garden Oracle (“the App”).

Your privacy is important to us. The Garden Oracle is designed to offer a reflective, creative, and contemplative experience while minimizing data collection.

Information We Collect

At this time, the App does not intentionally collect, store, or sell personal user data.

We do not require account creation and do not knowingly collect:

  • Names
  • Email addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • Payment details
  • Location data
  • Personal messages

However, users may voluntarily submit content through the “Notes from the Garden” section.

User Submissions

Users may voluntarily submit:

  • Reflections, stories, or experiences
  • Optional information about where they encountered the Oracle
  • The guides or archetypes they interacted with
  • Private feedback intended only for the creators

Public submissions may be reviewed, edited for clarity or length, and displayed on the Garden Oracle website or related project materials.

Private feedback submitted through designated private fields will not be intentionally published publicly.

Please avoid including sensitive or personally identifying information in submissions, including:

  • full names,
  • addresses,
  • phone numbers,
  • financial information,
  • passwords,
  • or confidential material.

Submitted content may be stored for moderation, curation, project development, or archival purposes.

Content Moderation

We reserve the right to review, edit, decline, or remove submissions that are:

  • abusive,
  • threatening,
  • unlawful,
  • defamatory,
  • spam-related,
  • explicit,
  • or otherwise inappropriate.

Third-Party Services

If the App later integrates third-party services (such as app analytics, payment processors, hosting providers, or embedded media), those services may collect limited technical information according to their own privacy policies.

Children’s Privacy

The App is not directed toward children under the age of 13.

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Continued use of the App after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact

For questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact hello@gardenoflight.studio.

Terms of Use

By using the Garden Oracle (“the App”), you agree to the following terms.

Nature of the App

The Garden Oracle is a creative, contemplative, and entertainment-based experience. The content within the App — including archetypes, messages, prompts, “truths,” “dares,” side quests, or symbolic guidance — is intended for inspiration, reflection, artistic exploration, and personal contemplation only.

The App does not provide:

  • Medical advice
  • Psychological treatment
  • Legal advice
  • Financial advice
  • Professional counseling
  • Emergency guidance

Personal Responsibility

You are solely responsible for your actions, decisions, and interpretations while using the App.

Any activities, prompts, or “dares” presented within the App should be approached with common sense, personal judgment, and awareness of your own limitations and circumstances.

You agree not to engage in:

  • Illegal activity
  • Dangerous behavior
  • Trespassing
  • Harassment
  • Self-harm
  • Harm to others
  • Reckless acts
  • Activities that violate local laws or regulations

If a prompt, dare, or suggestion feels unsafe, inappropriate, or beyond your capabilities, do not do it.

Assumption of Risk

You understand that participation in any suggested activity is voluntary and undertaken at your own risk.

The creators of the Garden Oracle are not responsible for injuries, damages, losses, legal consequences, or other outcomes arising from the use or misuse of the App.

Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

Some content may be emotionally evocative, symbolic, spiritual, or psychologically reflective. The App is not a substitute for mental health care or professional support.

If you are in distress or experiencing a mental health crisis, seek assistance from a qualified professional or emergency service.

User Contributions

By submitting content to the Garden Oracle or “Notes from the Garden,” you confirm that:

  • the content is your own or you have permission to share it,
  • the content does not violate laws or third-party rights,
  • and you grant the Garden Oracle a non-exclusive permission to display, reproduce, edit, and share submitted public content in connection with the project.

Private feedback submitted through designated private fields will not be intentionally published publicly.

We reserve the right to moderate, edit, decline, or remove submissions at our discretion.

Intellectual Property

All original content within the App — including text, artwork, branding, oracle structures, and designs — is protected by copyright and may not be reproduced or redistributed without permission.

Changes to the App

The creators reserve the right to modify, update, suspend, or discontinue parts of the App at any time.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the creators of the Garden Oracle disclaim liability for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from use of the App.

Acceptance of Terms

By using the App, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to these Terms of Use.

How To Play

Welcome to the Garden Oracle.

From the homepage, press open the Oracle and a guide will emerge to meet you.

These guides come from cultures, religions, myths, literature, and spiritual traditions from around the world. Some are fictional, some historical, some legendary. Their purpose is to inspire reflection, curiosity, creativity, and deeper encounter.

Every guide includes a biography and an inner meaning. You may read these to better understand their life, symbolism, and the themes carried within their story.

Consider why this particular figure is appearing at this particular moment in your life.
What might they be illuminating?
What questions do they awaken?

Each of these personages is a profound expression of the human spirit. Visit a bookstore and look for them on the shelves. Watch films connected to their story. Wander through libraries, conversations, myths, and old corners of the internet.

Let the Oracle become a doorway into the richness of our shared human inheritance.

Truth • Dare • Contemplation

Each guide offers the possibility of receiving a Truth, Dare, or Contemplation.

You may play with friends as a kind of mythic truth-or-dare game — a way of moving beyond small talk into honesty, creativity, vulnerability, and genuine encounter.

The prompts are not intended to be dangerous or reckless. Their purpose is to open a space for play, reflection, courage, and human connection.

You may also use the Oracle alone, as a companion for contemplation, journaling, inquiry, or creative inspiration.

There is no fixed way to play.

Notes from the Garden

If you have a meaningful, moving, strange, or inspiring experience with the Oracle, you may leave an anonymous note in the “Notes from the Garden” section.

You can also read reflections and stories left by others.

Tell us how the Oracle crossed your path, what guide appeared, or what insight, experience, synchronicity, or moment of connection emerged along the way.

By sharing your experiences, you become part of the Garden itself — helping shape its evolution over time.

And please, enjoy!

The Garden Oracle is a Garden of Light Studios production.

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Submit an anonymous note from the garden to share your experience with the oracle with others.