BHOOMI SURVEY

BhoomiCam ("we", "us", or "our") is dedicated to protecting the privacy of field surveyors, agricultural officers, and enterprise clients using the Bhoomi Survey mobile application (referred to as the "App").

This Privacy Policy explains the nature of personal, geographical, and agronomic data collected by Bhoomi Survey, how that data is processed and stored, the device permissions required for surveying operations, and your privacy rights under applicable data protection regulations.

To enable spatial boundary mapping, surveyor verification, and agricultural analytics, Bhoomi Survey collects the following categories of information:

• Surveyor Account Information: Mobile phone number (verified via SMS OTP), full name, email address, profile photo, organization name, and operational territory (village, district, state, pincode).
• High-Precision GPS & Location Data: Precise geographical coordinates (latitude, longitude, altitude, and accuracy radius) captured while walking farm perimeters or placing boundary vertices.
• Geotagged Photographs: High-resolution crop and field photos taken via the camera, embedded with GPS location stamps, timestamps, and survey identifiers.
• Agricultural Survey Data: Crop varieties, sowing and harvest schedules, irrigation systems, crop health stages, fertilizer and pesticide practices, soil observations, and calculated land area.
• Device & Synchronization Diagnostics: Device model, OS version, network connectivity status, and offline queue logs to ensure reliable synchronization with our cloud servers.

Bhoomi Survey requests only permissions strictly necessary for field surveying operations:

• Camera (CAMERA): Used exclusively to photograph standing crops, field boundaries, and farm documentation for survey validation.
• Storage & Media Access: Used to cache offline map tiles and store exported survey reports (Excel .xlsx, CSV, GeoJSON, KML).
• Internet & Network State: Used to authenticate accounts via OTP and synchronize completed surveys to the cloud.

Collected information is utilized strictly for legitimate agricultural and land survey functions:

• Calculating parcel area (Acre, Hectare, Bigha, Guntha, Sq. Meter) and perimeter length using spherical polygon geometry.
• Enabling supervisor and administrator quality checks via the secured Web Admin Dashboard.
• Generating GIS exports (GeoJSON, Google Earth KML, Excel workbooks, and complete ZIP packages).
• Maintaining an immutable audit trail of field surveys for agricultural reporting and enterprise planning.

We enforce enterprise-grade security protocols to protect all collected data:

• Encryption in Transit: All communications between the mobile application and backend servers are encrypted using TLS/HTTPS protocols (SHA-256).
• Encrypted Cloud Storage: High-resolution photos are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS S3) with time-limited presigned URL access. Survey records are managed in secured MongoDB Atlas databases.
• Offline Protection: Unsynced local records are stored securely in local device storage until the surveyor triggers synchronization.

We do NOT sell, rent, or monetize personal data or survey records with third-party advertisers.

Data is shared only with:

• Your Authorized Organization: Administrators and supervisors of your designated enterprise or government agency.
• Infrastructure Partners: AWS S3 (secure storage), MongoDB Atlas (database), NationSMS (transactional OTP SMS), and Google Maps SDK (mapping view).
• Legal Authorities: Disclosed only when strictly required by applicable law or judicial court order.

Surveyors and organizations retain control over their stored data. If you wish to request account closure, survey record deletion, or obtain a full export of your data, you can submit a request directly via our Account & Data Deletion Portal or contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@bhoomicam.com.

Bhoomi Survey is a professional field application intended exclusively for adult surveyors and agricultural field staff (18 years of age and older). We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors.