FarmYields Privacy Notice

FarmYields and its Commitment

FarmYields is a social enterprise that is aligned with the United Nations Social Development Goals and aims to provide consultation, management, and development services for local farmers. We aim to provide a cloud-hosted and mobile application platform that grants farmers access to integrated data streams, as well as access to the local market. 

 

This would necessarily entail the processing of personal data of farmers, partners, and other individuals and entities. Your data privacy rights are of utmost importance for FarmYields. We are working closely with its partners to ensure the protection of your personal data in all stages of our operations and to comply with the Data Privacy Act of 2012, pertinent issuance of the National Privacy Commission, and other relevant laws and regulations.

 

If you have any further questions or concerns regarding the processing of your personal data or the exercise of your right as a data subject, you may send a letter through our Data Protection Officer via this address: UB 111 Paseo de Roxas, Legazpi Village, Makati City, Philippines or email us at legal@farmyields.io.

Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice is for our official website, farmyields.io. We are providing you this notice in order to observe your right to be informed whenever your personal data is being processed and to comply with the Data Privacy Act and other relevant laws and issuance.

Your Personal Data and Manner It is Collected

We collect and process the following personal data from you:

  1. Full name;
  2. Contact Number;
  3. Email; and
  4. Organization

These are processed when you, manually or electronically:

  1. Send us a message if you have inquiries or contact us; 
  2. Signify your intent to become a partner; and
  3. Fill in our electronic forms if you register for events

Basis, Use, and Purpose for Processing of Personal Data

While your consent may be solicited by us to process your personal data, such as when filling in our electronic forms, we may also process personal data without your consent pursuant to sections 12 and 13 of our Data Privacy Act. 

In these instances, your personal data is utilized for the following purposes:

  • To establish potential partnerships or commercial relationships;
  • To address concerns regarding FarmYields’ mobile application and operations, including the processing personal data; and 
  • To update existing and potential partners of future events and ventures.
  • For marketing communications and promotions from FarmYields and partners

Moreover, we may collect other personal data that are relevant and necessary to comply with the Data Privacy Act and other relevant laws.

Disclosure of Personal Data and Security Measures

Your personal data that is processed by FarmYields is not shared with any other third person, whether natural or juridical, unless such disclosure is allowed under Sections 12 or 13 of the Data Privacy Act, or required under other applicable laws. All of our officers, employees, and other personnel are bound by confidentiality to preserve your personal data in our possession.

We also implement a combination of organizational, physical, and technical security measures to ensure the protection of your personal data, including, among others:

  • Limiting access to authorized personnel and only for specific purposes;
  • Ensuring at least SSL-Compliant website and applications;
  • Monitoring by our technical team; and
  • Storage in a secured cloud-based third-party application

Storage and Disposal

We store files containing personal information in our computers and servers, which shall be stored in a database for ninety days (90) days after your inquiries and requests are acted upon. Your personal information shall be deleted upon request. After which, records shall be disposed of securely, unless you signify your intent to subscribe to our newsletter or become a partner.

 

For our Partners and for those who subscribed to our newsletters, your personal data are retained throughout the subsistence of their partnerships or subscription. Your personal data is disposed of ninety (90) days after you signify your intent to end the partnership or your subscription. 

Your personal data stored on our shall be disposed of by deletion and anonymization.

Rights of a Data Subject

Pursuant to our existing laws and regulations, you as the Data Subject have the right to be informed regarding processing the personal information we hold about you. This is the purpose of the Privacy Notice we publish.

As such, you may be entitled to request:

  1. Access to personal data we process about you. You may request for whatever personal data we had processed from you in addition to the information we provided in this Privacy Notice; 
  2. Rectification of your personal data. If you notice any erroneous, inaccurate, or incomplete information in our database, you can have this corrected;
  3. Erasure or order blocking of your personal data whenever warranted. Whenever there are significant changes in the purpose of our processing, or when processing is for marketing, you may opt out and have your personal data removed;
  4. The right to data portability. You may request to obtain your personal data in a structured, commonly-used format.
  5.  Payment of Damage. You may claim likewise compensation if you believe you suffered damages due to inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, false, unlawfully obtained, or unauthorized use of personal data or for violating your rights and freedoms as a data subject.

Changes to the Privacy Notice

FarmYields reserves the right to update or revise this Privacy Notice at any time and will provide a new privacy notice whenever there are substantial changes.