Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

We collect only the essential business and transactional information necessary to issue invoices, verify trade counter-parties, and compute accurate freight costs:

• Account and Profile Data: Business name, proprietor name, GSTIN (where applicable), mobile phone number, and physical office or mandi shop address.
• Transactional Records: Invoice numbers, line items, crop varieties, quantities (quintals/kilograms), negotiated sale rates, payment status, and buyer details.
• Logistics and Route Inputs: Origin mandi, destination warehouse, vehicle type, and distance metrics used for freight calculation.
• Technical Logs: Session tokens, IP addresses, and device identifiers strictly used for account security and fraud prevention.

2. How We Use Collected Data

All data processed by KrishiConnect serves clear operational functions:

• Generating GST-compliant invoices and shareable digital bills for trade partners.
• Tracking receivables, customer dues, and payment reconciliation for your agricultural business.
• Providing local market trends based on aggregated, anonymized APMC mandi disclosures.
• Detecting unauthorized login attempts and safeguarding financial ledger integrity.

We do not sell, rent, or monetize your individual customer lists, trade volumes, or pricing data to third-party advertisers or brokers.

3. Data Storage and Security

All user authentication tokens and sensitive records are encrypted in transit via TLS 1.3 and encrypted at rest. Password credentials are salted and hashed using industry-standard cryptographic functions. Database backups are strictly partitioned to prevent cross-tenant data leaks.

4. Your Rights Under DPDP Act, 2023

As a registered business owner or trader, you retain the following statutory rights regarding personal data:

• Right to access an itemized summary of personal data maintained in your account.
• Right to rectify incomplete or inaccurate vendor and customer directory entries.
• Right to request account closure and data erasure, subject to mandatory statutory tax and accounting retention requirements under Indian law.
• Right to lodge a grievance with our designated data protection officer.