Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Kisaan Buddy ("we", "our", "us"). We operate the Kisaan Buddy smart agriculture platform accessible at https://kisaanbuddy.com. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or our practices, please contact us at privacy@kisaanbuddy.com.

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through our website, web application, chatbot, disease diagnosis upload interfaces, and any related services.

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering, using our services, or contacting us. This includes:

• Account Information: Names, email addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords.
• Farming Inputs: Soil health parameters (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium levels, soil pH, organic carbon content) and land size statistics.
• Crop Disease Images: Plant leaves and crop pictures uploaded by you to our Crop Disease AI diagnostics. These images are processed to identify pathogens.
• Location Data: Approximate or precise GPS location details provided by your browser to resolve hyper-local weather alerts and mandi market prices.

3. Google AdSense & Third-Party Cookies

We use Google AdSense to serve advertisements on our website. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site or other sites on the Internet.

• Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie to serve ads.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings.

4. How We Use Your Information

We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, and compliance with our legal obligations. This includes:

• Providing and delivering agricultural insights (such as soil assessments, crop predictions, and weather warnings).
• Analyzing uploaded plant leaf images to determine crop diseases and recommend organic or chemical remedies.
• Facilitating connections between local farmers and farm workers via Worker Connect.
• Displaying relevant government schemes eligibility.

🛡️ 5. GDPR & CCPA Compliance

If you are accessing Kisaan Buddy from the European Union (EU) or California (USA), you have specific data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our administrator at privacy@kisaanbuddy.com.

🔒 6. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. Transmission of data is at your own risk.

📞 7. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you can contact us at: