These terms govern your use of the Diora mobile application ("Diora", "we", "us", or "our"). Diora is a personal plant collection tracker for iOS and Android, built and operated by Beebles, an Australian company.
By creating an account or using the app, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.
1. About these terms
These terms form a legal agreement between you and Beebles. They apply every time you open the app. We may update them from time to time as described in section 12. The version at the top of this document is the current one.
2. About Diora
Diora lets you record your plant collection. You can add plants, attach photos, log notes, track status changes (active, sold, given, died, lost), and view a timeline of events for each plant. Diora is designed for serious collectors and is not a plant care or watering-reminder app.
Diora also has a social side. You can follow other collectors, post to the Grapevine, offer pollen, ask the community to help identify a plant, message people directly, and transfer a plant to another collector's account. Collectors can also sell plants to each other. Diora is only the place the two of them meet: we are not the seller, we take no commission, and we never handle the money. Section 14 covers that.
Diora is a passion project. It is provided to you free of charge. We may add, change, or remove features at any time as the product evolves.
3. Your account
- You need an account to use Diora. Accounts are tied to an email address. You can sign in with a passwordless magic link sent to that address, with Sign in with Apple, or with Sign in with Google. There is no password.
- You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. If you are under the age of majority in your country, you must have your parent or guardian's permission.
- One account per person. Don't share your account with anyone else.
- Keep secure whatever you sign in with. Anyone with access to your email inbox can sign in to your Diora account via a magic link, and the same goes for the Apple or Google account you use.
- You are responsible for everything that happens under your account, including all content you upload.
If you suspect someone else has accessed your account, email us at support@joindiora.com and we will help you secure it.
4. Your content
Your plant data and photos are yours. You own them.
By uploading content to Diora, you grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, process, transmit, and display that content to you, solely so the app can do what it is supposed to do (show you your collection across sessions and devices, generate thumbnails, sort timelines, and so on). This licence exists only to operate the service. We do not use your content for advertising, and we do not use it to train any machine learning model.
Diora has sharing features, and the licence extends to them. It covers displaying the specific content you choose to share, to the audience you choose to share it with, for as long as you choose to share it. That includes posting to the Grapevine, offering pollen, listing a plant for sale, and setting a plant to public, which publishes it on the open web where anyone can read it. Setting something back to private withdraws that part of the licence and takes the page down.
You are responsible for the content you upload. You must have the right to upload it. Don't upload photos of plants you do not own the photo rights to. Don't upload anything illegal.
5. Acceptable use
When you use Diora, you agree not to:
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code from the app, except where the law expressly allows it.
- Scrape, bulk-download, or otherwise harvest the species catalogue, photos, or any other content beyond what the app's normal interface lets you do.
- Use the app to harass, threaten, or defame anyone, including by entering abusive content into source or notes fields.
- Upload content you do not have the right to upload (someone else's photos, copyrighted material, and so on).
- Attempt to access another user's account or data.
- Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the app or its backend, except via a coordinated disclosure to support@joindiora.com.
- Use the app to send spam, run automated scripts, or interfere with other users.
- Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute access to the app.
If you do any of the above, we may suspend or terminate your account. See section 11.
6. Objectionable content and abusive behaviour
Diora has zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive behaviour. This applies to everything you post or share through the app, including plant names, source and provenance text, notes, photos, profile details, messages, and any other content you contribute.
You must not post, upload, share, or transmit content that is:
- Harassing, threatening, bullying, hateful, or intended to intimidate or demean any person or group.
- Defamatory, obscene, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable.
- Illegal, or that promotes or facilitates illegal activity.
- Infringing on someone else's rights, including privacy, publicity, or intellectual property rights.
You must also not behave abusively toward other users or toward us. This includes stalking, sustained unwanted contact, impersonation, and attempts to circumvent a block.
We may remove any content that breaches these terms, and we may suspend or terminate the account of any user who posts such content or behaves abusively. There is no tolerance for abusive users on Diora. We aim to act on clear breaches promptly. Removing content or suspending an account does not require prior notice where we judge it necessary to protect other users.
You can report content or another user from within the app, on or near the content itself. Reports are treated as confidential to the reporter. We review reports and take action where a breach has occurred, which may include removing content, restricting features, or suspending or terminating accounts. Reporting a user does not let them know who reported them.
If you cannot report something in the app, or you need to reach us about a serious concern, email us at support@joindiora.com.
7. Privacy
How we collect, use, and protect your information is described in our Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is incorporated into these terms by reference. By agreeing to these terms, you also agree to the Privacy Policy.
8. Availability and changes
Diora is provided on an "as available" basis. We will try to keep the app running, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. From time to time we may:
- Deploy updates that change how features work.
- Retire features that are no longer maintained, with reasonable notice in the app where practical.
- Take the app or specific features offline temporarily for maintenance or to address security issues.
- Shut the app down entirely. If we ever do that, we will give you a reasonable window to export your data first.
We may change these terms by posting an updated version with a new "Last updated" date. For material changes, we will surface a notice in the app the next time you open it. Continuing to use Diora after a change means you accept the updated terms.
9. Disclaimers
Diora is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all such warranties.
Diora is not a plant care advice service. Nothing in the app is professional horticultural, agricultural, or veterinary advice. Decisions you make about your plants (watering, treatment, propagation, sale, identification) are your own. If a plant in your collection is valuable, rare, or sensitive, consult an appropriate expert. Diora is a record-keeping tool, not an oracle.
Diora is not responsible for the accuracy of information you enter, including species names, source or provenance text, or notes. The species catalogue is curated on a best-effort basis and may contain errors or omissions.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions in this section apply only to the maximum extent permitted by local law. In Australia, certain consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law cannot be excluded; nothing in these terms is intended to exclude or limit those guarantees.
10. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Beebles and anyone working on Diora is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages arising from your use of the app, including but not limited to loss of data, loss of profit, loss of plants, loss of provenance records, or business interruption.
Our total liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to the app or these terms is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you have paid us for the app in the twelve months before the claim arose, or (b) AUD $0. Because Diora is provided free of charge, in practice this limit is AUD $0.
This limit does not apply to liabilities that cannot be limited under applicable law, including (in Australia) liability for breach of non-excludable consumer guarantees.
11. Termination
You can stop using Diora at any time. To delete your account and all associated data, use Settings, then Delete Account, in the app, or email us at support@joindiora.com if you cannot sign in. Deletion removes your plants, plant events, notes, photos, and account record from the live database. Backups expire within 7 days, after which no copy of your data remains. See the Privacy Policy for details.
We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate these terms (especially section 5), if we are required to by law, or if we shut Diora down. Where practical, we will give you notice before terminating and a reasonable window to export your data.
Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including sections 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, and 14) will survive.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. You and Beebles agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales for any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the app, subject to any rights you have under local consumer law that cannot be waived by contract.
13. Contact
Questions about these terms, account issues, abuse reports, or anything else: email support@joindiora.com. Diora is a small project and replies are best effort, but we will get back to you as soon as we reasonably can.
14. Buying and selling
Some collectors use Diora to sell plants to each other. This section is what that is, and what it is not.
Diora is not the seller. When you buy a plant through Diora, the deal is between you and the other collector. We do not own the plant, we have not seen it, and we are not a party to your agreement. We take no commission and we do not handle the money: the seller tells you how they want to be paid and you pay them directly, outside Diora. When a seller marks an order as paid, that is the seller saying they received the money. It is not us confirming anything.
The seller's own terms govern the sale. A seller can write their own terms, delivery information, and policies, and you agree to those when you order from them. We do not review them. These terms cover your relationship with Diora and nothing else.
We do not check listings. We do not verify that a plant is what the seller says it is, that it is healthy, that they own it, that the price is fair, or that anything will actually be sent.
If something goes wrong, it is between you and the other person. Try to sort it out with them first. If you think you have been scammed, report the user and the listing in the app, and email us at support@joindiora.com. We can remove content and suspend accounts, and we will where a breach is clear, but we cannot recover your money, reverse a payment, or make anyone send or refund anything. Rights you have against the other person under consumer law are yours, and nothing here takes them away.
If you sell, sell honestly. Only list plants you actually own and can send, describe them accurately, and send what you sold once you have been paid. Delivery and shipping are entirely your responsibility, including any permits or restrictions that apply to the plant and to where it is going. Breaking any of this is a breach of these terms, and we may suspend or terminate your account for it.
These terms are written in plain English by intent. If anything in them is unclear, please email us. We will fix the wording.