Your data, your call.

1. Our approach to your data

Four commitments shape everything in this policy. They appear on our website, and the sections below explain how we keep them.

• Your data, your call. You decide what to share with SAGE and who else may see it.
• Opt in. Nothing is collected unless you choose to share it.
• Share what you choose. Field by field, record by record.
• Leave any time. Revoke access and your personal data leaves our active systems, with the limited exceptions in section 8.

In practice, the personal information we hold is what you choose to give us: a message, a waitlist entry, an account, or farm data you decide to share. Like every website, ours must also handle a little technical information, such as your IP address, to deliver pages and keep out spam and attacks (see section 4). We never use it to build a profile of you.

2. Information you choose to give us

The Contact us form

When you write to us, you choose the description that fits you best (I grow, I insure or lend, I care, or something else) and give us your name and email address. Depending on your choice, the form also asks for:

• Growers: your county and state, and what you farm.
• Insurers and lenders: your company and your role.
• Researchers, conservation groups and supporters: your organization and the ways you would like to help (fund research, partner with us, share land or data, or spread the word).
• Everyone: a message in your own words.

We store each submission in a database run by our hosting provider and send it to our team inbox as an email notification, so the right person can reply. A hidden field that people never see helps us filter out automated bots.

The waitlist

If you join the waitlist on our sign-in page, we ask for your name, email address and role (grower, agronomist or advisor, insurer or lender, or something else). Growers may also add their location (county and state) and acres. Those extra details are optional.

Your SAGE account

If you have an account in one of our apps, we collect the email address and password you use to sign in. If you forget your password, we send a reset link to that email address. We use these details to sign you in, keep your account secure and contact you about the service.

Please do not send us sensitive information we have not asked for, such as bank or card numbers or government identifiers.

3. Farm data in Almanac

In Almanac, our app for growers, growers can choose to connect or share field and farm data, such as field boundaries, yield, planting records, soil tests and farming practices ("farm data"). Sharing is always a choice, and you can make it field by field and record by record.

• Your farm data remains yours. Sharing it with SAGE does not transfer ownership to us.
• We use it to provide the service to you and the people you authorize (for example, to read the risk of your fields and show you the results); to share it with insurers, agents, lenders and others you direct or permit; to keep the Services secure, prevent fraud, comply with the law and keep the records we need; and, in de-identified and aggregated form only, to improve our models.
• De-identified and aggregated means combined with other data and stripped of details so that it can no longer reasonably be linked to you, your operation or a particular field. We keep such data in that form and do not attempt to re-identify it.
• Others see it only with your permission. An insurer, lender, agronomist or anyone else receives field-level risk information about your fields only if you grant them access in Almanac. You can revoke that access at any time.
• You can ask us to delete it, as described in section 8.

Some farm data, such as precise field boundaries, can reveal a location. We use it only to provide the service you asked for, and we do not use it to infer anything about you as a person.

4. Information processed automatically

Technical information

When you visit sage.ag or one of our apps, your browser and our hosting provider, Cloudflare, exchange the technical information needed to deliver each page, such as your IP address, browser and device type, the page requested and the time. Cloudflare uses it to serve and protect the Services and may keep it for a limited time in operational and security logs, as described in the Cloudflare privacy policy.

Spam protection

The Contact us form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from bots, which may involve processing signals from your device and browser. Turnstile does not set tracking cookies for advertising, and we use its result only to decide whether a submission is genuine.

Browser storage and cookies

The website uses your browser's local storage and session storage only for small preferences, for example to remember that you have already seen our launch announcement. These preferences stay in your browser, and you can clear them at any time. The app may also use strictly necessary cookies or similar storage to keep you signed in and protect your session.

What we do not use

The website has no advertising cookies, third-party analytics, ad trackers or social media pixels, and our fonts and scripts are served from our own site. Apart from Cloudflare, which hosts the website and runs Turnstile, the only outside services a page of the website contacts are the two that power the map in section 5.

5. The From above map

Our home page includes a map called From above that shows aerial photographs of farmland. Two outside services make it work, and your browser contacts them directly:

• Place search. When you type a place into the map, your browser sends the search text to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoding service. The OpenStreetMap Foundation receives that text, together with your IP address and browser information, under its privacy policy.
• Aerial photographs. The photographs come from the USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) and are loaded by your browser from Microsoft Planetary Computer for the area shown on the map. Microsoft receives those requests, including your IP address and the area requested, under the Microsoft privacy statement.

SAGE does not store your map searches. If you would rather not share a search with these services, skip the search box; the rest of the site does not need it.

6. How we use information

We use personal information to:

• reply to you and continue the conversation you started;
• manage the waitlist, tell you when access opens and keep you posted about SAGE, until you ask us to stop;
• create and run your account, sign you in, reset your password and provide the service;
• read the risk of your fields and show the results to you and to the people you authorize;
• improve our models, using farm data only in de-identified and aggregated form;
• keep the Services secure, stop spam, fraud and abuse, and fix problems; and
• comply with the law, respond to lawful requests, keep the records we need for legal, regulatory, dispute or insurance-program purposes, and enforce our Terms of Use.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not use it for targeted advertising.

7. How we share information

We share personal information only in the following ways:

• Service providers. Companies that host our website and app, store data, run our computing, deliver email and protect against spam and abuse handle personal information on our behalf. They may use it only to provide their services to us.
• People you choose. When you grant an insurer, lender, advisor or other party access in Almanac, we share the information you chose with them, and nothing more. When you ask us to put you in touch with someone, such as an insurance partner, we share what that introduction needs.
• Legal and safety reasons. We may disclose information if we believe in good faith that the law requires it (for example, a valid subpoena or court order) or that it is needed to protect the rights, safety or property of our users, the public or SAGE.
• Business changes. If SAGE is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing or sale of assets, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction. The recipient must honor this policy for the information transferred, or we will tell you in advance and give you the chance to have your information deleted first.
• With your consent. In any other case, we share personal information only if you agree.

Insurance partners

SAGE is not an insurer, insurance agent, producer or broker, and our website does not offer or sell insurance. If you apply for or buy insurance through a licensed insurer or agent we work with, that partner handles your information under its own privacy notice, and SAGE shares your field-level information with a partner only at your direction or with your permission.

Revoking a permission stops further sharing from that moment. Information a partner already received while it had your permission stays with that partner under its own privacy notice and legal obligations, such as insurance record-keeping rules.

8. Your choices and controls

• Share only what you want. Optional fields are optional, and in Almanac you decide which fields and records to share.
• Change or revoke access. In Almanac, you can grant or revoke another party's access at any time.
• Correct your information. Tell us if something is wrong and we will fix it.
• Delete your information. Ask us to delete your contact form submission, your waitlist entry, your account or your farm data by writing to info@sage.ag or using our contact form.
• Stop hearing from us. Reply to any email from us, or write to info@sage.ag, and we will stop sending updates. We may still send messages you need, such as a password reset you requested.

We may need to confirm that a request comes from you, for example by checking that it was sent from the email address we have on file.

When you leave, we delete your personal data from our active systems, or de-identify it, within a reasonable period. A few exceptions apply:

• Copies in routine backups are overwritten on their normal cycle and are not restored for any other use.
• We keep information we need for legal, regulatory, security, dispute or insurance-program purposes, such as records about coverage you applied for or bought, and only for as long as that purpose lasts.
• Data already de-identified and aggregated into our models can no longer be linked to you, so it is not personal data and cannot be singled out for removal.

9. How long we keep information

• Contact form submissions and waitlist entries: as long as they are relevant to our conversation with you or to your place on the waitlist, or until you ask us to remove them. We review this information at least once a year and delete what is no longer needed.
• Account information, including farm data you shared: for the life of your account. After an account is closed, we delete or de-identify this information within a reasonable period.
• Technical information: Cloudflare keeps operational and security logs for limited periods under its own policies.
• Legal and other requirements: if we need particular records for legal, regulatory, security, dispute or insurance-program purposes, or to enforce our terms, we keep only those records, only as long as necessary.

10. Security

We use administrative, technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information, including encrypted connections, limits on who can access it, and spam and abuse protection. No system is completely secure. If a security incident affects your personal information, we will notify you and the authorities as the law requires.

You can help by using a strong, unique password and telling us right away at info@sage.ag if you think someone else has used your account.

11. Children

The Services are meant for adults who work in or care about agriculture. They are not directed to children under 13, or under 16 where local law sets a higher age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information, write to info@sage.ag and we will delete it.

12. Where we process information

SAGE is based in the United States, and our Services are designed for agriculture in the United States. We process personal information in the United States in accordance with applicable US law.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as SAGE grows. We will post the new version on this page with a new "Last updated" date, and we will tell you before a material change takes effect, by email or with a notice on the website. If a change would let us use personal information or farm data you already shared in a materially different way, we will ask for your consent first.

14. Contact us

Questions, requests and complaints are welcome. Write to info@sage.ag, use our contact form, or send mail to SAGE Inc., Attn: Privacy, 1015 Lemon St., Menlo Park, CA 94025.