Privacy Policy

1.Introduction

Crop Profit Calculator is an independent website that provides free estimation tools and educational material about crop economics. This policy covers the pages published at [WEBSITE-URL] and explains how we handle information in connection with them.

We have tried to build the site so that it needs as little information from you as possible. That is the simplest form of privacy protection: information that is never collected cannot be lost, misused, or requested by anyone else. By using this website you agree to the practices described on this page.

2.Information We May Collect

We do not ask you to register, and we do not build profiles of visitors. The information involved in running this site falls into three groups:

• Information you choose to send us. If you contact us, we receive whatever you put in your message, including your name and email address.
• Technical information recorded automatically. Like almost all websites, our hosting service records standard server logs when a page is requested. These typically include an IP address, browser type, device type, referring page and the time of the request.
• Information from optional third-party services. If analytics or advertising services are active on this site, they may collect their own usage information. Sections 6 and 9 describe this.

We do not collect payment details, because nothing on this site is sold. We do not ask for official identification numbers, farm registration details, bank information, or any documents.

3.Calculator Input Data

When you enter your farm size, expected yield, selling price and season costs, that information stays on your device. The arithmetic runs in your browser and the results are displayed straight back to you. Nothing is uploaded in the process.

Because nothing is stored, your figures disappear as soon as you close or reload the page. There is no history to review and no saved calculation to return to, which is why the tool offers copy and print options if you want to keep a result. Nobody, including us, can recover a calculation once the page is closed.

If you use the copy or print feature, the resulting text or printout is handled entirely by your own device and whatever application you paste or print it into.

4.Contact Form Information

The contact form on this site does not submit your message to our website. When you complete it and select send, the form validates your entries in the browser and then opens your own email application with the details filled in. You review the message and send it yourself, through your own email provider.

This means the message reaches us as an ordinary email. We receive your name, your email address, the topic you selected and whatever you wrote. That email sits in our mailbox in the same way any other email would, and is subject to our email provider’s own terms and security arrangements.

We use what you send only to understand and respond to your message, and to fix problems you report.

5.Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that a website can place on your device, usually to remember a setting or to measure how the site is used.

The calculator itself does not set cookies and does not need them to work. However, the software this site is built on, along with any caching, security or performance features in use, may set functional cookies that are necessary for pages to load and display correctly. Third-party services described in sections 6 and 9, where active, may set their own cookies.

You can control cookies through your browser settings, including blocking or deleting them. Because the calculator does not rely on cookies, blocking them will not stop it from working, though it may affect other parts of the site or other websites you visit.

6.Analytics

We may use an analytics service, [ANALYTICS], to understand how the site is used in aggregate: which pages are visited, roughly where visitors come from, and whether pages load correctly. This helps us decide what to improve.

Where such a service is used, it collects usage information under its own privacy policy. We use it to look at patterns across all visitors rather than to identify any individual, and we do not combine analytics information with anything you send us by email. Analytics services never receive the figures you enter into the calculator, because those figures never leave your browser.

7.How Information Is Used

Whatever limited information we do hold is used only for these purposes:

• To reply to messages you send us and to resolve issues you report.
• To keep the site running, secure and available, including diagnosing errors from server logs.
• To understand in aggregate which content and tools are useful, so we can improve them.
• To comply with legal obligations where we are required to do so.

We do not sell, rent or trade personal information. We do not send marketing emails, and contacting us does not add you to any mailing list. We do not use your information to build an advertising profile of you.

8.Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect the information we hold, and the strongest of those steps is structural: because calculator inputs are never transmitted or stored, there is no database of your farm figures that could be exposed.

The site is served over an encrypted connection, and access to the mailbox that receives contact messages is restricted. Our hosting provider, [HOSTING-PROVIDER], maintains its own security measures for the servers the site runs on.

That said, no method of transmitting information over the internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, and we would rather say so plainly than imply a protection nobody can offer.

9.Third-Party Services

Running a website involves other companies, and each handles information under its own policy rather than ours.

• Hosting. [HOSTING-PROVIDER] stores and serves the site’s files and keeps standard server logs.
• Email. Messages you send us are handled by our email provider and stored in our mailbox.
• Analytics. Described in section 6, where active.

Advertising. If advertisements are displayed on this site, they may be delivered by [AD-NETWORK]. Advertising networks and their partners may use cookies or similar technologies to select and measure the ads shown to you, and they do so under their own privacy policies. Advertising partners have no access to the figures you enter into the calculator.

We have no control over how these third parties operate, and we encourage you to read their policies if you want to understand their practices in detail.

10.Data Retention

How long information is kept depends on what it is:

• Calculator inputs. Not retained at all. They exist only in your browser while the page is open.
• Contact messages. Kept in our mailbox for as long as they remain useful for support and record-keeping, and deleted when they no longer are. You may ask us to delete your message at any time.
• Server logs. Retained by our hosting provider according to its own retention schedule, typically for a limited period.
• Analytics information. Retained by the analytics service under its own policy, where such a service is active.

11.Children’s Privacy

This site is intended for adults and for students working on agricultural subjects. It is not directed at young children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13, or under the minimum age set by the laws of their country where that age is higher.

If you believe a child has sent us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

12.External Links

Some pages may link to other websites that we think are useful. Those sites are operated by other people and this policy does not apply to them.

We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or privacy practices of any external site, and a link is not an endorsement or a claim of any relationship with the site it points to. If you follow an external link, we would encourage you to read that site’s own privacy policy before providing information to it.

13.Your Rights

Depending on where you live, laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation or the California Consumer Privacy Act may give you specific rights over personal information about you. These commonly include the right to ask what information is held, to ask for it to be corrected or deleted, to object to certain uses, and to complain to a data protection authority.

In practice, the only personal information we are likely to hold about you is an email you chose to send us. You can ask us at any time to tell you what we have, to correct it, or to delete it, and we will act on that request. We may need to confirm that the request comes from the same address the message was sent from.

Because calculator inputs are never collected, there is nothing for us to show, export or delete in relation to your calculations.

14.Policy Updates

We may update this policy if the site changes, for example if a new tool is added or a service such as analytics or advertising is introduced or removed. When we do, the date at the top of this page will be updated.

Significant changes to how information is handled will be described in the policy itself rather than made quietly. We would suggest reviewing this page occasionally, and your continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised policy.

15.Contact Information

If you have a question about this policy, or you want to ask about information we hold, you can reach us by email.

We aim to respond to privacy requests within a reasonable time. Please note that we are an independent website and cannot assist with matters handled by any official body or institution.