This page outlines the privacy policy for Kansas Agriculture Drone Services, LLC (KADS) and data collected by this site.
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What rights you have over your data
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Where your data is sent
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How your fields help us make better reports
This section applies to drone companies, growers and agronomists who subscribe to KADS Field Utilities, and to everyone who uses the KADS Flight Planner. If you only visit this website, it does not apply to you.
Every field teaches us something. A row of soybeans that reads clean on one farm and a waterhemp patch that fools the weed search on another are both lessons, and the only way to learn them is to look.
So here is what we look at, and what we don’t.
What KADS reads. When a report is made on a field, our processing sends KADS a few numbers about how well its own tools did. Today that means the row check of the weed search: how evenly the crop rows line up on clean crop, and how they line up inside the weed patches someone marked. These are measurements of our software, not of your farm’s business. They carry no photographs. We read them from every drone company’s fields, because a tool tuned on one farm’s ground is a tool tuned for one farm.
From the Flight Planner. When you use the planner signed in to kads.tech, it sends us what it needs to do its job: the fields and boundaries you draw, your drones’ verification flight readings, and the spray days you ask it to plan. KADS may read those too, for the same reason: to make the planner’s numbers better for everyone who flies.
Why. If we can see where a setting is too tight or too loose across many fields, then we can set it better for everyone. That is the whole purpose.
Who sees them. KADS staff only. Your grower, your drone company and your agronomist see the same weed patches they always would on their own fields. No other drone company, grower or agronomist sees your numbers, and we don’t sell or hand them to anyone.
What stays the same. Everything that belongs to a drone company, a grower or an agronomist is kept from everyone else unless you, or your drone company, grant it. Imagery processed on your own computer stays on your own computer.
If we ever want to read something more than this, we will say so here first.
Questions are welcome at MikeB@KADS.Tech.
