Privacy Policy for HimKrishi

Last updated: July 2026

Welcome to HimKrishi. We are dedicated to providing digital agricultural solutions, crop knowledge, community forums, and dynamic spray schedules tailored for mountain farming and orchard management. Protecting your privacy and personal data is highly important to us.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and retain information when you use the HimKrishi mobile application.

1. Information We Collect

To provide accurate agricultural support and localized spray schedules, we may collect the following types of information:

• Location Information: With your permission, we may collect precise or approximate location data to provide highly localized weather alerts, regional crop advisory, and optimized orchard spray schedules specific to your region in Himachal Pradesh.
• Profile Information: If you register an account or participate in our community forums, we may collect information you provide, such as your name, email address, contact details, and information about your crops or orchards.
• Device Data: We may collect standard information from your mobile device, including device model, operating system version, unique identifiers, and performance logs to help us maintain app stability.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected data to operate, maintain, and improve the HimKrishi platform, including:

• Generating dynamic, region-specific spray schedules and advisory alerts.
• Facilitating discussions and interactions within the community forums.
• Optimizing app features for offline capabilities (such as local caching of advisory guides).
• Troubleshooting technical bugs and improving overall user experience.

3. Third-Party Services

The app may utilize reliable third-party services for performance tracking, analytics, or database infrastructure. These services may collect information used to identify you in accordance with their own policies:

• Google Play Services
• Google Firebase (Analytics / Crashlytics)

4. Data Security & Encryption

We implement industry-standard administrative and technical security measures to safeguard your information. Data collected by the app is encrypted in transit using secure protocols (like HTTPS) to ensure safe transmission from your device to our services.

5. Data Retention and Deletion Policy

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, or as required by law. Specifically:

• Account & Profile Data: We retain your community forum profile and account details for as long as your account remains active. If you request account deletion, we will purge or anonymize your personal information from our active databases within 30 days.
• Location Data: Localized coordinates used for fetching real-time weather and spray schedules are processed immediately and are not persistently stored on our servers unless explicitly saved to a user profile location.
• User Deletion Rights: You have the right to request the deletion of your data at any time. To request account or data removal, please contact us directly at the support email listed below.

6. Children's Privacy

Our services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our app features or legal compliance. We will notify you of any updates by posting the new policy on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions, suggestions, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or data retention, please reach out to us: