Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
Smart Khedut is an agriculture information platform that provides farming information, APMC market prices, weather information, farming guides, agriculture news, government scheme information, crop-related resources, and other useful agricultural content.
We respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about the information that may be collected when you use Smart Khedut. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, why we collect it, how it may be used, and the choices available to you.
2. Information We Collect
Personal Information
Depending on the features you use, Smart Khedut may collect information that you voluntarily provide, such as your name, mobile number, email address, district, taluka, village, or other information submitted through registration, contact forms, support requests, or other website features.
Usage Information
We may collect information about how you interact with Smart Khedut, including pages viewed, searches performed, agricultural content accessed, market or commodity searches, approximate usage patterns, and interactions with website features.
Device and Technical Information
When you access Smart Khedut, certain technical information may be automatically received, such as browser type, operating system, device type, IP address, language preferences, referring pages, and general technical information required to operate, secure, and improve the website.
Location Information
Some Smart Khedut features may use location-related information that you provide or allow through your device or browser to provide relevant weather, market, agricultural, or location-based information. You can control location permissions through your device or browser settings.
3. How We Collect Information
Information may be collected through information that you provide directly and through technologies that automatically operate when you use our website.
4. How We Use Your Information
We may use information collected through Smart Khedut for legitimate business, operational, security, communication, and service-related purposes, including:
6. Analytics and Website Measurement
Smart Khedut may use analytics services, including Google Analytics or similar technologies, to understand how visitors use the website, identify technical problems, measure website performance, and improve our content and services.
Analytics providers may collect technical and usage information in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable requirements. Smart Khedut uses analytics information for website improvement and operational purposes and does not use analytics data to intentionally identify individual visitors unless otherwise permitted or required.
7. Advertising and Google AdSense
Smart Khedut may display advertisements provided by third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense and other advertising services.
Advertising providers may use cookies, identifiers, or similar technologies to deliver, measure, personalize, or limit advertisements according to their own policies and applicable privacy requirements.
Smart Khedut does not control the information practices of third-party advertising providers. Users should review the applicable privacy and advertising policies of those providers for additional information about how advertising-related information is handled.
8. Third-Party Services
Smart Khedut may use third-party providers to support website functionality, including hosting, analytics, security, maps, weather information, market data, communications, authentication, advertising, reCAPTCHA, APIs, embedded content, or other technical services.
Third-party services may process certain information according to their own privacy policies and terms. Smart Khedut does not control the privacy practices of independent third-party services and recommends reviewing their policies where appropriate.
9. Data Sharing and Disclosure
Smart Khedut does not sell your personal information as a business practice. We may share or disclose information where reasonably necessary to operate the platform, provide requested services, protect users and systems, comply with legal obligations, or work with service providers that process information on our behalf.
Information may also be disclosed where required by law, legal process, government request, court order, or where reasonably necessary to detect, prevent, investigate, or address fraud, security issues, abuse, or other unlawful activity.
10. Data Security
Smart Khedut uses reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures designed to protect information against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
However, no website, internet transmission, storage system, or electronic communication method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should also take reasonable steps to protect your account, device, passwords, and other personal information.
11. Data Retention
Smart Khedut may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, maintain business and technical records, respond to requests, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, and enforce applicable agreements.
When information is no longer reasonably required for these purposes, it may be deleted, anonymized, aggregated, or otherwise handled according to applicable legal and operational requirements.
12. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on applicable law and the circumstances of your request, you may have rights or choices regarding personal information associated with you, including:
13. Children’s Privacy
Smart Khedut is intended to provide general agricultural and informational content and is not specifically directed toward children. We do not knowingly request or intentionally collect personal information from children where prohibited by applicable law. If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can review and take appropriate action.
14. External Websites and Links
Smart Khedut may contain links to government websites, APMC websites, agricultural organizations, social media platforms, advertisers, service providers, and other external websites or resources.
When you leave Smart Khedut and visit an external website, that website may collect and process information according to its own privacy policy and terms. Smart Khedut is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of independent third-party websites.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Smart Khedut may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, services, technology, legal requirements, security practices, or data practices.
When changes are made, the updated version will be published on this page and the last-updated date may be revised. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to remain informed about how your information is handled.
16. Contact Smart Khedut About Privacy
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to request access or correction of personal information, or wish to request deletion of information where applicable, please contact Smart Khedut through our Contact page.
When submitting a privacy request, please provide enough information for us to understand and verify the request. We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests to protect personal information from unauthorized disclosure.