Privacy / Updated November 12, 2026
Your privacy,
in plain language.
Patch & Trowel is operated by Pedro Castelani, an individual based in Brazil and the controller of the personal information described here. Contact contact@patchandtrowel.com for privacy questions or requests. Leia em português.
What we receive and why
Our site has no visitor accounts, contact forms, checkout, newsletter, analytics scripts or advertising pixels. Interactive choices stay in the current page and are not submitted or saved by our code.
When you email us, we receive your email address, message and any information or attachments you choose to send. We use them to answer your request, investigate corrections or rights concerns, and keep necessary records. Please do not send passwords, payment details, identity documents or sensitive personal information.
Our website and email providers may process IP addresses, request times, requested URLs, device/browser information and email delivery or security records to deliver and protect their services. The absence of analytics on our pages does not mean that no technical data is processed.
Legal bases and recipients
Where Brazilian law applies, responding to ordinary correspondence and protecting the services rely on legitimate interests, assessed for necessity and impact on your rights. A specific legal duty or the exercise of rights may justify keeping relevant records. We do not treat browsing as consent for unrelated uses.
Cloudflare delivers this website through Pages; Hostinger provides our contact mailbox and domain services. They process data needed for those services. We do not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or use it for targeted advertising. We do not add correspondents to marketing lists. Necessary disclosures may also occur to comply with law or protect legal rights.
International processing
Pedro operates in Brazil. Cloudflare and Hostinger use international infrastructure, so technical data and correspondence may be processed outside your country, including in the United States and Europe. Direct collection by a foreign service and a transfer of information by us are different operations. We do not promise that data remains in Brazil.
See the providers' Cloudflare privacy policy and Hostinger privacy policy for their international practices. Contact us for information about the recipients and safeguards applicable to a specific request. These links do not replace our responsibilities under applicable law.
How long we keep information
Our policy is to review closed correspondence quarterly and delete it from our active mailbox within 12 months after resolution, unless a specific legal obligation or unresolved dispute requires longer retention. Active matters are kept while needed to resolve them. We limit retained material to what is necessary. Provider security logs and backup copies have separate retention practices; deletion from our mailbox does not promise immediate deletion from every backup.
Cookies and browser privacy signals
Our own code does not set cookies or use browser storage, and does not track you across websites. Infrastructure providers may process technical information for delivery and security. We do not change our site's behavior in response to Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals: the site performs no sale, advertising sharing or cross-site tracking to opt out of. External sites may behave differently.
Your choices and rights
You can ask whether we hold your information, request access or correction, or raise a deletion or other privacy request by email. Depending on applicable law, rights may include anonymization, blocking or deletion of unnecessary or unlawfully processed data, portability as regulated, information about sharing, opposition where available, information about the option not to consent and its consequences when consent is requested, and withdrawal of consent and deletion of data processed on that basis, subject to lawful exceptions. You may also petition Brazil's ANPD. Rights and exceptions depend on the law and the circumstances.
We assess requests under applicable deadlines and may request proportionate information to confirm identity. Do not send identity documents unless we explain why they are necessary. We explain any lawful reason that prevents fulfilling a request and do not penalize you for exercising privacy rights.
External links, children and changes
Following a seller or source link takes you to an independent website with its own privacy practices. Our content is intended for a general adult gardening audience; we do not ask children to provide personal information. Contact us if you believe a child has sent us personal information so we can investigate and handle it appropriately.
We will update the date above when this notice changes and identify material changes here, with a prominent site notice where appropriate. This first version covers the site's editorial launch.