Your Privacy Rights
Effective Date: November 1, 2023
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information gathered by Agrichat AI Inc. (“Agrichat”, “us” or “we”) in the process of providing https://www.agrichat.ai (the “Site”), our Model(s), computing application (the “App”), and the data, services, information, tools, functionality, updates and similar materials (collectively, the “Service”), how we use it, with whom the information may be shared, what choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of information and our efforts to protect the information you provide to us through the Service.
By using the Service, you hereby consent to allow us to process information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please also refer to our Terms of Service, https://www.agrichat.ai/terms, which are incorporated as if fully recited herein. Terms defined in the Terms of Service that are not defined herein shall have the same definition as in the Terms of Service.
This policy is subject to change. If our information retention or usage practices change, we will let you know by posting the Privacy Policy changes on the Service and/or otherwise making you aware of the changes. Your continued use of the Service following our notice of changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept such changes. Please refer to the “Effective Date” above to see when this Policy was last updated.
Territoriality
Regardless of where our servers are located, your personal data may be processed by us in the United States, where data protection and privacy regulations may or may not be to the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. BY VISITING THE SITE AND USING THE SERVICE, YOU UNEQUIVOCALLY AND UNAMBIGUOUSLY CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING IN THE UNITED STATES OF ANY INFORMATION COLLECTED OR OBTAINED BY US THROUGH VOLUNTARY SUBMISSIONS, AND, TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, THAT U.S. LAW GOVERNS ANY SUCH COLLECTION AND PROCESSING.
This
Privacy Policy may be subject to the provisions of the EU General Data
Protection Regulation ("EU GDPR"), the UK General Data Protection
Regulation (“UK-GDPR”, and together with the EU GDPR, the “GDPR”), and other
applicable privacy laws. Under the GDPR, Agrichat is a data “Controller” and a
“Processor”. If you are an individual who resides in the United Kingdom, the
European Economic Area, or Switzerland (collectively, and for the purposes of
this Privacy Policy, the “EEA”), you are a “Data Subject” with certain
protected privacy rights concerning your “Personal Data.” We will take
commercially reasonable steps to maintain compliance with GDPR. Your Personal
Data, combined with any other information that may identify you as a person,
may be referred to in this Privacy Policy as Personally Identifiable
Information (collectively, "PII")
We do. Under the GDPR, Agrichat is what is known as a “Controller” and a “Processor” of the Personal Data that you provide us with. We collect information from you on the Service, and we are responsible for protection of your information.
2. What Information Does Agrichat Collect?
A. Personal Information. We collect certain PII from you when you sign-up for the Service, when you complete a survey, when you create or update an account, when you use the Service, when you request services, when you link your account on the Service to your social media account(s) via our optional integration, from third parties, or otherwise when you submit such information. The types of PII we collect and save include:
· Name, street address, email address; phone number; username; gps/location information; and other information collected through the optional social media integration.
· Technical information collected in our logs. Such information may include standard web log entries that contain your IP address; cookies (first-party, third-party, session, and persistent); web beacons; page URL and timestamp.
You may provide us with information when you interact with us through email, read an email from us, online chat, messaging functions within the Service, or otherwise. We may retain such information in order to provide you with services, and you agree that we may share this information as needed with other users in order to resolve any issues that may arise between you and another user of the Service.
The Service may also request permission and access to your contacts, call history, photo gallery, camera roll or other device storage area holding your images, audio and/or videos, in order for you to upload and transmit them through the Service, or to interact with your phone contacts through the Service.
The Service may place phone calls, send text messages, send push notifications, access the internet, record pictures, audio, or video, or use your mobile data plan in order to use certain features of the Service, such as communication with other users through the Service.
The Service may be integrated with third party social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram (“Platforms”). If you choose to interact with the Platforms through the Service, the Platforms may make additional PII about you available to us.
B. Non-Personal Information. “Non-Personal Information” is information which doesn’t identify you and/or anonymous information about you, including but not limited to links and materials posted, purchase history, the type of device you used and its operating system, browser information, the pages accessed most frequently, how pages are used, when and how you use the App, applications downloaded, search terms entered, and similar Non-Personal Information.
Automatically tracking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses is one method of automatically collecting information about your activities online and information volunteered by you. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your device whenever you surf the internet. Further, the Service may utilize web beacons, pixel tags, cookies, embedded links, and other commonly used information-gathering tools. Through collecting your IP address, we may be able to approximate your geographic location, however, unless and until this is information is paired with your PII, it cannot be used to identify you. If Non-Personal Information is paired to any of your PII, we will treat the Non-Personal Information as if it was PII too.
Although it may be possible to turn off the collection of cookies through your device, that may interfere with your use of the Service.
Part of the purpose of the Service is to share materials you make available. Anything you publicly post will not be considered PII.
C. Aggregate Information. We may also collect anonymous, non-identifying and aggregate information, the date and time of any request, language preference, referring website, the pages you visit within our Site, the website you go to after visiting our Site, and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
D. Financial Information. Although it may appear that we collect financial information from you on the Service, it is actually collected and processed through a third-party service provider (“Payment Processor”) to process payments for the Service. The Payment Processor may collect financial information such as banking information or credit card number, name, CVV code or date of expiration, from you on the Service. We do not hold your financial information.
We accept and gather information in an effort to provide the Service to you. We need to collect your PII so that we can respond to your requests for information or to be added to our email lists, to integrate with the Platforms, train and develop our Model(s), and to process your payment for the Service. We also collect aggregate information to help us better design the Service. We collect log information for monitoring purposes to help us to diagnose problems with our servers, administer the Service, calculate usage levels, and otherwise provide services to you.
· Internal Uses. We may use your PII to respond to your inquiries, to fulfill your requests for information, track usage trends, conduct experiments, send you push notifications, develop and improve the Service and other offerings, and perform research and analytics.
· Creating and Maintaining Your Account. We use your PII to create and maintain an account for you to allow you to purchase and use the Service.
· Paying for the Service. Your payment information is collected and processed through our Payment Processor.
· AI Training. As mentioned above, we may use your PII and your Content to develop and improve the Service, including for the training of the Model(s) that power(s) our Service.
· Communicating With You About Our Services. We may use your PII to send you information about new services and other items that may be of interest to you.
· Social Media Integration. We may use your PII to integrate your social media accounts with the Service, and to provide to you the social media features of the Service.
· Sending Administrative and Promotional Emails. We may use your PII to send you emails to: (a) confirm your account information and your other PII; (b) process your transactions to purchase our Service; (c) provide you with information regarding the Service; (d) inform you of changes to this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service, or our other terms, conditions, or policies; or (e) provide you with information on our other services and products, or promotions related to the Service or our other services and products.
· Mailing You Something. From time to time, we may send something relating to the Service including, but not limited to, marketing materials, to you at the address provided. This is usually done via a third-party carrier and/or the United States Postal Service, with whom we share your PII, which they use to coordinate and deliver these items to you.
· Serve You Targeted Advertisements. We may use your PII to serve you advertisements with the Service that are targeted to your interests.
· Sharing Information. We may disclose your PII with third parties as described below.
B. We may use anonymous information that we collect to improve the design and content of our Service, and to enable us to personalize your internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze how our Site is used, as well as to offer you programs or services. We may use any anonymous, aggregate information, of which your information may be a part of or the basis of, without restriction.
5. Do We Share Your PII?
We will not share your PII except: (a) for the purposes for which you provided it; (b) with your consent, such as other users of the Service, Universities, Farm Advisory System, Government agencies, agrochemical companies, agro-mechanical companies, credit providers, insurance providers, traders, food and ingredient manufacturers, investors in agtech, and consultants; (c) as may be required by law or as we think necessary to protect our organization or others from injury (e.g., in response to a court order or subpoena, in response to a law enforcement agency request, or when we believe that someone is causing, or is about to cause, injury to or interference with the rights or property of another); or (d) with persons or organizations with whom we contract to carry out internal operations or business activities.
We may also share aggregate information with others, including affiliated and non-affiliated organizations.
Finally, we may transfer your PII to a third party, or an actual or potential successor-in-interest, in relation to, or in the event of, an actual or potential merger, acquisition, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other change of control. After such disclosure or transfer, the third party or successor in interest may use the information in accordance with applicable law.
6. Are There Other Ways My Personal Data Could Be Shared?
You may elect to share certain personal information with individuals or with the public via your use of the Service. In this case, you will control such sharing via settings that we provide. For example, the Service may make it possible for you to publicly share information via Platforms such as Facebook, or Instagram. Be aware that when you choose to share information with friends, or with the public at large, you may be disclosing sensitive information, or information from which sensitive information can be inferred. Always use caution when sharing information through the Service. You understand and agree that we are not responsible for any consequences of your sharing of information through and beyond the Service.
7. How Can You Access And Control Your Information?
After becoming a user of the Service, you may revise or edit your information by sending an email to info@agrichat.ai. For instructions on how you can further access your PII that we have collected, or how to correct errors in such information, please send an e-mail to info@agrichat.ai. We will also promptly stop using your information and remove it from our servers and database at any time upon your e-mail request. Furthermore, you may opt out of the use of information by the Service to send you promotional emails by sending an email to info@agrichat.ai with “Opt-Out” in the subject line. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access, making corrections or removing your information.
8. How Do We Store and Protect Your Information?
A. After receiving your PII, we will store it on our servers for future use. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures in place to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or data storage solution can ever be completely secure. As a result, although we take industry-standard steps to protect your information (e.g., strong encryption), we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or receive from us or that we store on our or our service providers' systems.
B. If you are visiting the Site from outside of the USA, you understand that your connection will be through and to servers located in the USA, and the information you provide will be securely stored in our servers and internal systems located within the USA.
C. Retention. We store your PII until you request us to remove it from our servers. We store our logs and other technical records, and any information entered into our Model(s), indefinitely. The information entered into our Model(s) will not be used for any other purpose, and we will employ the methods described above to minimize the risk of such information becoming the subject of unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
9. How Do We Use Cookies And Other Network Technologies?
A. To enhance your online experience with us, our web pages may presently or in the future use "cookies." Cookies are text files that our web server may place on your hard disk to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other PII unless you choose to provide this information to us. Once you choose to provide PII, however, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. Although it may be possible to turn off the collection of cookies through your device or browser, certain features of the Services may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
B. Our Service uses Google Analytics, provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. For more information on how Google uses data when you use our Site or Service, please follow this link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may be able to opt-out of some or all of Google Analytics features by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at, https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info.
C. Agrichat or its service providers may also use "pixel tags," "web beacons," "clear GIFs" or similar means (collectively, "Pixel Tags") in connection with some of our Site pages and HTML-formatted email messages for purposes of, among other things, compiling aggregate statistics about website usage and response rates. A Pixel Tag is an electronic image, often a single pixel (1x1), that is ordinarily not visible to website visitors and may be associated with cookies on visitors’ hard drives. Pixel Tags allow us and our service providers to count users who have visited certain pages of our Site, to deliver customized services, and to help determine the effectiveness of promotional or advertising campaigns. When used in HTML-formatted email messages, Pixel Tags can inform the sender of the email whether and when the email has been opened.
D. As you use the internet, you leave a trail of electronic information at each website you visit. This information, which is sometimes referred to as "clickstream data”, can be collected and stored by a website's server. Clickstream data can reveal the type of computer and browsing software you use and the address of the website from which you linked to our Site. We may use clickstream data as a form of non-personally identifiable information to determine how much time visitors spend on each page of our Site, how visitors navigate through the Site, and how we may tailor our web pages to better meet the needs of visitors. We will only use this information to improve our site.
E. Do Not Track. At present, the Site does not specifically respond to browser do-not-track signals.
10. Collection of Information by Others.
Our Terms of Service document identifies certain third-party websites to which we may provide links, and that you may click on our Site or in our Service. Please check the privacy policies of these other websites to learn how they collect, use, store and share information that you may submit to them or that they collect.
11. Co-Branded Sites.
We may partner with universities and other companies to provide you with content or Services on a joint or “co-branded” basis. At a co‑branded site, you will see both our logo and the logo of the co-branding partner displayed on your screen. In the instance of a co-branded site, we will still be the entity collecting your information, and our Privacy Policy will apply to that information as well. You should read the individual privacy policies of our co-branding partners, as they may differ in some respects from ours.
12. Children and Young People’s Information.
We do not knowingly collect any information from any minors, and we comply with all applicable privacy laws including the GDPR, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), and associated Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) rules for collecting personal information from minors. Please see the FTC's website (www.ftc.gov) for more information. If you have concerns about this Site, wish to find out if your child has accessed our Services, or wish to remove your child's PII from our servers, please contact us at info@agrichat.ai. Our Site will not knowingly accept PII from anyone under 13 years old in violation of applicable laws, without consent of a parent or guardian. In the event that we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided PII to us, we will make efforts to delete the child’s information in accordance with the COPPA. If you believe that your child under 13 has gained access to our Site without your permission, please contact us at info@agrichat.ai.
13. California Privacy Rights
California
law allows California residents to request information regarding our
disclosures in the prior calendar year, if any, of their personally
identifiable information to third parties. To make such a request, please
contact us at info@agrichat.ai with "Request for
Privacy Information" in the subject line. Please include enough detail for
us to locate your file; at a minimum, your name, email, and username, if any.
We will attempt to provide you with the requested information within thirty
(30) days of receipt. We reserve our right not to respond to requests sent more
than once in a calendar year, or requests submitted to an address other than
the one posted in this notice. Please note that this law does not cover all
information sharing. Our disclosure only includes information covered by the
law.
14. Nevada Privacy Rights
If you are a Nevada resident, we do not “sell” personal information as defined in the Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act as amended by Nevada Senate Bill 220. Nonetheless, you may submit a request to prohibit such sales by contacting us at info@agrichat.ai. Additional information on the categories of personal information collected and categories of personal information shared with third parties can be found in this Privacy Policy. If you would like to tell us not to sell your information in the future, please email us at info@agrichat.ai with your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address with “Nevada Do Not Sell” in the subject line.
15. Contact Information
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us via e-mail at info@agrichat.ai.
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