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Privacy Policy

What we collect, why, who processes it on our behalf, and how you can have it deleted.

Last updated: November 11, 2026

This is a plain-language starting draft and has not been reviewed by an attorney. Have counsel review before launch.

1. Summary

  • You can find land, design, see the estimate, view and download the plan set and use the financing planner without an account. That work stays in your browser.
  • If you create a free account, we store your email, name, and the project data you choose to save.
  • PlotBarn is free for owners and takes no payments, so we do not collect card or other payment details.
  • Plan sets are drawn in your browser and are not stored by PlotBarn.
  • We do not sell personal data, and the site carries no advertising trackers.
  • We do not pass your details to vendors, contractors or lenders. PlotBarn sends no leads to anyone.
  • You can archive a project and export its data yourself. Permanent deletion of a project or your account is by request.

2. What we collect

Account information

  • Your email address and name.
  • Your password, stored only as a hash. Accounts use an email address and password; sign-in, password hashing and sessions are handled by Better Auth, the authentication library the service is built on. We never see or store your password in readable form.
  • Sign-in session records, which include the IP address and browser user-agent of the device that signed in.

Project content you save to an account

  • Designs and their saved versions, and estimate snapshots.
  • The lot you selected (a snapshot of the listing) or land details you typed in.
  • Workspace records: vendors and their contact details, bids, budget entries, tasks, milestones, checklist items and notes.
  • Files you upload to a project.
  • Read-only share links you create for a design.

What we do not collect

  • Payment details. There is nothing to pay for, so there is no card form and no payment record.
  • Plan sets. The plan set PDF, the takeoff CSV and the cost report are drawn in your browser from your design each time you open the Plans page. They are not uploaded to or stored by PlotBarn.
  • Financing details. What you type into the financing planner — a down payment, a rate, a loan term — stays in your browser (see section 3). The planner does not ask for income, credit, Social Security or bank information, and PlotBarn does not run credit checks.

Technical data

  • Short-lived request counters used for rate limiting, keyed to your account or network address, and basic server logs produced by our hosting provider.
  • A log of actions taken within a saved project (for example, “file uploaded”).

If you enter other people’s contact details as vendor records, please make sure you are entitled to store them.

3. Browser storage and cookies

  • Local storage. Guest drafts (your design and selected land), saved lots, saved scenarios and financing-planner inputs are kept in your browser’s local storage on your device. They are not sent to us for storage unless you sign in and choose to import the draft into your account. Clearing your browser data removes them.
  • Session cookie. When you sign in, a cookie keeps you signed in. It is required for accounts to work.
  • No advertising or cross-site tracking cookies are set by PlotBarn.

The map provider may set its own cookies or storage when you use the map; those are governed by its policy.

4. How we use information

  • To provide the service: save your projects and run your build workspace.
  • To keep the service secure: sign-in protection, rate limiting and abuse prevention.
  • To respond when you contact us.
  • To fix problems and understand, in aggregate, how the service is used.

We do not use your project content for advertising, and we do not use it to generate leads.

5. Service providers

These companies process data on our behalf. An integration only receives data on deployments where it is switched on.

Provider Used for What it receives
Cloudflare Hosting, database (D1) and private file storage (R2) Everything stored in your account — project data in a D1 database, uploaded files in a private R2 bucket — plus the network data any web host sees when you visit (such as IP address and browser type).
Mapbox Interactive map and place search Your browser requests map tiles and place-search results directly from Mapbox, which therefore sees your IP address and what you search for.
RentCast Land listing data Search parameters only — location, radius, price and acreage filters — sent from our server. No account details.

No payment processor and no AI provider. PlotBarn takes no payments, and the drawings, estimates and report text are produced by our own code from your design — in your browser, in the case of the plan set. Your design is not sent to any AI service.

6. Sharing and selling

  • We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
  • We do not pass your details to vendors, contractors, lenders or real-estate agents. The vendors and lenders shown in the product are fictional demo entries; there is nobody behind them to receive anything.
  • If you create a read-only share link for a design, anyone with that link can view the design preview. The link uses a random token and does not expose your account details; share it only with people you trust.
  • We may disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights, safety and security of users and the service.
  • If PlotBarn is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, account data may transfer as part of it. We would tell account holders before the data becomes subject to a different policy.

7. Future partner program

We intend to fund PlotBarn through a partner program in which contractors, trades and lenders — not owners — would pay. It does not exist today: no vendor or lender pays PlotBarn, nobody is verified, and PlotBarn sends no leads, referrals or messages to anyone. Nothing about you or your project is shared with a vendor or lender.

If a partner program launches, an introduction to a partner would be something you ask for, and this policy would be updated before the program starts. We are not committing to a launch date. The partners page describes the idea.

8. Retention and deletion

  • Projects. We keep project data while your account is open. You can archive a project from its settings, which removes it from your project list but does not erase it. To have a project’s designs, workspace records and uploaded files permanently deleted, send a request through the contact page.
  • Account. To delete your account and everything in it, send a request from the email address on the account through the contact page.
  • Plan sets. Not stored by PlotBarn, so there is nothing for us to retain or delete. Copies you download are yours to keep or remove.
  • Browser drafts. Stored on your device until you clear them or they are imported into your account.
  • Backups and logs. Residual copies may persist for a limited time before they are overwritten.

9. Security

  • All traffic is encrypted in transit (HTTPS).
  • Passwords are stored only as hashes by the authentication library.
  • Projects are private to their owner, and ownership is checked on the server for every request.
  • Uploaded files are stored in a private bucket and served only through authenticated downloads.
  • API keys for third-party services are kept on the server and are never sent to your browser.

No system is perfectly secure. If you believe your account has been accessed without permission, contact us promptly.

10. Your choices and rights

You can review and edit your project data in the app, export a project’s data from its settings, archive projects, and request deletion of a project or your account. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights to access, correct or delete personal data, or to object to certain processing. To exercise them, contact us; we will not treat you differently for doing so.

11. Children

PlotBarn is intended for adults planning a building project. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will remove it.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or which providers we use, we will update this page and its “Last updated” date, and notify account holders of material changes where appropriate.

13. Contact

For privacy questions or deletion requests, see the contact page.