Ag Exchange Group Inc.
1. Identity
Who is the tech company?
Ag Exchange Group Inc.
What products, platform, or services within the tech company are certifying as Ag Data Transparent?
CXN360
Who are the primary users of the product, platform, or services?
Grain growers and grain buyers
2. Categories of Ag Data Collected
What categories of data does the data platform collect?
Agronomic Data
Farm Management Data
Land Data
Land Data is captured at the resolution of Legal Land Descriptions (LLDs) (e.g. at a resolution of a quarter-section in the Public Land Survey System (PLSS, USA) or Dominion Land Survey (DLS, Canada)). Users are required to provide a “Home LLD”, a.k.a. Home Quarter, and this geolocation is used to identify your primary shipping location. Users can (optionally) identify the LLDs that they farm, indicating whether those LLDs are owned or rented/leased. Inventory Management users can use their land data for tracking and traceability of their crops, from field to storage unit to sale.
Farm Management Data may include information regarding offers received, offers accepted, targets made, and targets accepted. Users can also record the commodity grown and yield quantity by LLD, the storage unit identifier and storage unit location where the commodity is stored. Inventory Management users can also keep detailed time-based records for their commodity inventory. All grower license levels can also record Points of Interest (e.g. storage facilities) on the maps.
Agronomic Data is captured for record management for tracking and traceability of crops grown, at the resolution of the Legal Land Descriptions for their farm. Agronomic data is currently limited to the commodity grown, location, seeding date and harvest date.
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3. Ownership
Do the tech company’s agreements with the user address ownership of user data?
Yes. You have control over the personal data that you submit to CXN360 via your member account. You can add data to, or modify, the personal data associated with your member account, or close your member account, at any time. However, CXN360 is not an anonymous service. By interacting with CXN360, you explicitly grant Ag Exchange Group Inc. the right to record (also known as logging, including the internet address (IP address) from which you accessed CXN360) your interactions with CXN360 services and other CXN360 members. Ag Exchange Group Inc. may analyze these interactions for any purpose, including the provision of the value-added service that CXN360 provides to you. Please note that these interactions include all personal information related to you, as a user, and any information that you may submit to CXN360. These recorded interactions with CXN360 services and other CXN360 members are the property of Ag Exchange Group Inc. and are not considered to be part of your personal data.
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4. Transparency in Aggregation
Does the tech company allow the user to opt out of inclusion in anonymized and aggregated datasets that are accessible by other users?
No. All users of a given license level have access to the same anonymized and aggregated datasets as all other users at the same license level. These anonymized and aggregated datasets are in the form of reports that the user can access, on demand.
By agreeing to the service Terms of Use, the user agrees that the data generated as a user of the service can be included in these anonymized and aggregated datasets.
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5. Vendor Access to Data
Does the tech company require outside contractors that have access to user data to follow the tech company’s data policies?
Yes. When contracting with third parties having access to any Ag Exchange Group Inc. information or systems, Ag Exchange Group Inc. ensures that the contracts clearly obligate vendors to privacy, security and confidentiality provisions at least as rigorous as Ag Exchange Group Inc.’s own obligations in respect thereof. Further, we would expect all potential third-party integration partners to abide by the Ag Data Transparency policies and/or follow a substantially similar set of Ag Data Transparency rules and/or protocols.
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6. Consent
Does the tech company obtain a user’s consent before sharing user data with third parties? (E.g. integrations, government and others)
Yes. The CXN360 service by Ag Exchange Group Inc. operates under a “community membership” model. Members may be individuals and/or businesses of any kind. By becoming a member of the CXN360 community, you explicitly agree to allow other members to access certain elements of your data. In particular, you agree to share sufficient personal contact information with counterparties within the CXN360 service, and only within the CXN360 service, that they are able to uniquely identify you and to contact you, both within the CXN360 service and without.
Ag Exchange Group does not share data from CXN360 with parties that are not members of the CXN360 community.
Ag Exchange Group will disclose your personal information when we are required or authorized by law to do so; for example, if a court issues a subpoena.
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7. Consent
By signing up, does the user give the tech company the right to sell aggregated data to third parties without obtaining further consent?
No. Aggregated data is available to members of the CXN360 community via reports that are available from the CXN360 dashboard. The reports available to each member depend upon the license class of that member.
Ag Exchange Group Inc. does not sell personally identifiable data to parties that are not members of the CXN360 community.
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8. Portability
Does the tech company maintain an original copy of user data that can be retrieved or deleted upon a user’s request?
Yes. CXN360 provides only minimal data upload capabilities (business name and contact information, legal land descriptions, storage unit characteristics, harvest and inventory records and document storage associated with current inventory, grading reports, etc.). Business name and contact information is mandatory, the CXN360 neither supports nor allows anonymity within the community. Legal land descriptions (other than the location of the primary shipping or receiving point), storage unit characteristics, harvest and inventory records are all optional, but any data entered by you, via the provided user interface tools, can be retrieved via the corresponding reports. Use of the document storage capability is optional and is not intended to act as a long-term, large-scale personal document repository. You can add, retrieve and delete documents at any time, as long as your account remains active.
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9. Data Security
Will the tech company notify the user if a breach of data security causes disclosure of the user’s data to an outside party?
Yes. We will inform you, via email or as otherwise required by law, of any data or security breach.
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10. Notice
Will the tech company notify the user when data agreements are changed and summarize how the agreements were changed?
Yes. We will inform you, via email or as otherwise required by law, of any changes in our data agreements.
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11. Changes in Company Ownership
Do the tech company’s data agreements address what happens to user data if the tech company is sold to another company?
Yes. In the event that ownership of the CXN360 service, or Ag Exchange Group Inc., are transferred to a third party, all members will be informed of the upcoming change of ownership, as required in the operating jurisdiction(s). This notice will take the form of email communications and messages within the CXN360 service.
In the event that ownership of the CXN360 service, or Ag Exchange Group Inc., are transferred to a third party, the user accounts will remain active (unless otherwise specified in the transfer of ownership agreement) and the records of all user interactions with the CXN360 service will be preserved as part of the transfer of ownership.
The new owners of the CXN360 service, or Ag Exchange Group Inc., or both, may post new data and privacy policies. Members are strongly advised to review any new data and privacy policies if such a transfer of ownership occurs.
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