Privacy Policy

Current product status

CropInsider is a pre-launch market-data product. Public pages do not currently offer a production user account, paid subscription, or email-alert service.

Information stored in your browser

Commodity selections, display preferences, a ZIP code or location you choose, farm-scenario inputs, and browser alert rules may be stored in localStorage on your device. You can remove them by clearing site data in your browser.

Browser storage is not a secure vault. Do not enter financial account credentials, government identifiers, or other highly sensitive information.

Location

You may select a ZIP code to personalize regional information. On supported hosting platforms, CropInsider may receive approximate city, state, postal code, latitude, longitude, country, and timezone headers generated by the hosting platform. Standard hosting security and access logs may process request IP addresses. CropInsider application code does not intentionally persist or return your raw IP address, and the location response is marked private and non-cacheable. A ZIP you select is sent through the CropInsider server to Zippopotam.us for lookup. When location is unavailable, CropInsider asks you to select one rather than assigning a default region.

Accounts and farm profiles

Account-backed profiles are not yet released. Before release, database access is restricted by row-level security so an authenticated user can read and modify only their own profile. Banker portfolio functionality is deferred and unavailable.

Market and operational data

Requests for commodity, weather, and agricultural reports may be sent to the named data provider. CropInsider records operational information such as fetch time, success or failure, cache state, and observation age as the data pipeline is released. Market data can be delayed or revised and is provided for information only.

Third-party services

• Vercel — hosting and platform-provided approximate geography.
• Supabase — database and authentication infrastructure when enabled.
• Upstash — shared rate limiting and caching when configured.
• Microsoft Clarity — records how pages are used (clicks, scrolling, page views) so we can improve them; text you type is masked before it leaves your browser; see Microsoft's privacy statement.
• Zippopotam.us — lookup of a ZIP code you choose.
• Government data providers — USDA, NOAA/NWS, CFTC, EIA, Census, and other linked official sources.
• Market-data providers — only when their data and display terms permit the intended use.

Usage analytics

Clarity runs on cropinsider.com only, uses first-party and Microsoft cookies, and blocking it in your browser does not change any feature.

Your choices and requests

• Do not select a location if you do not want localized information.
• Clear browser site data to remove locally stored preferences and scenarios.
• Request access, correction, or deletion of server-stored information by emailing privacy@cropinsider.com.

Contact

Privacy questions can be sent to privacy@cropinsider.com.