This Privacy Policy explains how Aimco Pesticides Limited ("Aimco", "we", "us") collects, uses, stores and protects your personal data in the Aimco Kisan mobile application ("the App"). We are the Data Fiduciary for your data. This policy is issued in accordance with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025.
Aimco Pesticides Limited, India. For any privacy question, request or complaint, contact our data-protection point of contact at aimco@aimcopesticides.com.
| Data | When | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Name | At sign-in | Required to create your account |
| Mobile number | At sign-in (phone OTP) | Required to verify and secure your account |
| Village / town / city, PIN code, State/UT | Optional profile | Optional |
| Land area (acres) | Optional profile | Optional |
| Crops grown | Optional profile | Optional |
| Retailer / distributor name | Optional profile | Optional |
| Preferred language | App use | To show the App in your language |
| Consent record (version, date, 18+ confirmation) | At sign-in | To evidence your consent, as the law requires |
| Questions you type to "Dr. Dave" (AI assistant) | When you use Dr. Dave | To generate an answer (see Section 5) |
| Anonymous record of the pest, disease, weed or crop your question was about, with your State/UT | When you use Dr. Dave | Statistics only — not linked to you (see Section 5A) |
The App's core product catalogue, guides and dose information work fully offline and do not require any personal data.
Our legal basis for processing is your consent, which you give in the App and can withdraw at any time. We do not sell your data and we do not use it for advertising.
Your data is stored using Google Firebase (Authentication and Cloud Firestore) in Google's Mumbai, India data region. Access is restricted to your own account: security rules allow only you (your authenticated account) to read or write your record. We apply reasonable technical and organisational security safeguards to protect your data.
When you use Dr. Dave online, the question you type is sent to Google's Gemini AI service to generate an answer. Your saved profile details (name, address, land, crops, retailer) are not included in these requests. AI-generated advice can be wrong — always read and follow the product label. If you are offline, Dr. Dave answers only from the catalogue bundled in the App.
To understand which crop problems farmers face in which parts of India, and to improve the App, we keep an anonymous count of the topics people ask about. When your question matches a pest, disease, weed or crop in our catalogue, we record only that item (for example "Brown plant hopper", "Rice") together with your State/UT and app language.
We do not store the words you typed, and this record is not linked to you — it contains no name, mobile number, village, PIN code or account identifier, so it cannot be traced back to you or combined with your profile. It is used only as an aggregate statistic (for example, "120 questions about stem borer in West Bengal this month"). These records cannot be read by any app user, including you, because they are not associated with any account.
We share data only with processors who help us run the App under contract, currently Google (Firebase and the Gemini AI service). We do not share your data with any other third party except where required by law. Where data is processed outside India, it is only with providers permitted under the DPDP Act.
We keep your data until you delete your account or withdraw your consent. When you withdraw consent, the optional details you shared are erased. When you delete your account, your account and associated personal data are removed.
Under the DPDP Act you have the right to:
In the event of a personal-data breach, we will notify the Data Protection Board of India and affected users as required by the DPDP Act and Rules.
Data-protection point of contact: aimco@aimcopesticides.com. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may approach the Data Protection Board of India.
We may update this policy. Material changes will be notified in the App, and where the law requires, we will ask for your consent again. The version and effective date at the top show the current policy.