Leaf's Data Policies
Privacy
Who are we?
We are ‘Leaf International Corporation’, a Delaware corporation, better known as ‘Leaf Agriculture’, or just ‘Leaf’. We are independently owned by founders, employees, and minority stake investors.
What do we do?
Leaf helps software developers access user permissioned data from a wide variety of sources. This means that with your permission, we help software companies deliver their farm data related products to you.
Who are the primary users of our product?
Any company that uses farm data to create their product or service offering. This includes Farm Management Software companies, Agronomy companies, Carbon validation companies & more.
Data with Leaf
Leaf’s product is a unified farm data API. Companies use our API to send and receive user-permissioned data with other companies in a consistent, standardized way. For example, if a company wanted to get the date a field was planted, they could access this information from John Deere, Climate Fieldview, AFS connect, or a number of other data sources. These data sources all store data in different, proprietary ways, have different authentication and hierarchy structures, dramatically different API design, and different abstraction concepts (season-boundaries vs. static field boundary) so the company would need to build and maintain functions to navigate and translate through these different structures. In addition, the data sources will change their APIs and data structures several times per year! With Leaf, the company can connect once to Leaf’s API and retrieve and send data across all providers without needing to worry about the complexity of each individual provider.
Ag Data Transparent
Leaf is Ag Data Transparent certified, which recognizes compliance with ag data’s Core Principals. This means that we are transparent about what happens with your data when it passes through Leaf’s unified API.
Your data
- Field Boundaries
- Farm management data
- Machine data
- Land data
- Agronomic data
- Weather and climate data
- Remote sensing data
Leaf receives and collects this raw data via third party applications and sources of data connected with or accessed by Customer Applications.
Learn more:
Leaf Terms of Service, section 5.3 Leaf Privacy Policy, section 4