Responsible Use Guidelines

1. Agricultural Safety & Best Practices

When to Consult Professionals

AI can help you ask better questions. Local experts help you make the final call. Always consult professionals for:

• Unusual or severe pest/disease outbreaks
• Chemical compatibility and tank-mix questions
• Resistance management and long-term strategy
• Export market or certification requirements
• Organic or GAP certification compliance
• Emergency pest/disease situations

2. Using AI Intentionally (Not on Autopilot)

• Pause between recommendations instead of acting on every suggestion immediately
• Treat each AI suggestion as a draft idea to review, not an instruction to follow
• Avoid building habits where you "check with AI" for every minor decision; keep your agronomic skills sharp
• Protect your time and attention: step away from the screen once you have what you need
• Use AI to supplement your expertise, not to bypass professional development

3. Fair Use & Platform Access

We provide FildraAI's services to help farmers and agricultural professionals. To maintain service quality and protect our systems, we require all users to access our platform responsibly.

3.1 Acceptable Use

• Normal agricultural decision support and field diagnostics
• Educational and research purposes within reasonable limits
• Reasonable queries and uploads consistent with farming operations
• Sharing insights within your organization (as permitted by your plan)

3.2 Prohibited Activities

• Web Scraping & Data Harvesting: Automated extraction of content, model outputs, knowledge base data, or any other information from our platform
• Bot & Automated Access: Using bots, scripts, crawlers, or automated tools to access our services without explicit written permission
• Excessive API Calls: Making API requests that significantly exceed reasonable agricultural use patterns or your plan limits
• Model Reverse Engineering: Attempting to extract, replicate, or reverse-engineer our AI models, training data, or proprietary algorithms
• Competitive Intelligence Gathering: Systematic extraction of our knowledge bases, recommendations, or methodologies to build competing products
• Content Redistribution: Republishing, reselling, or redistributing our content, outputs, or services without authorization
• Account Sharing: Sharing login credentials or providing unauthorized access to multiple users outside your organization
• Service Abuse: Spamming, flooding, denial-of-service attacks, or any activity that degrades service for other users

3.3 Rate Limits & Usage Monitoring

We implement rate limits and usage monitoring to ensure fair access for all users:

• Queries per hour/day limits based on your plan tier
• Image upload size and frequency restrictions
• Concurrent session limits
• Automated detection of abnormal usage patterns

4. Content Ownership & Usage Rights

4.1 Your Agricultural Data

You retain ownership of images, field data, and other information you upload. By using our services, you grant us permission to:

• Process your data to provide diagnostic and analytical services
• Use anonymized/aggregated data to improve our models and services
• Maintain security, quality, and service improvements

4.2 Our Content & Technology

All AI models, knowledge bases, interfaces, algorithms, and methodologies are proprietary to FildraAI. You may not:

• Copy, modify, or create derivative works from our technology
• Extract or harvest our knowledge bases or training data
• Use our outputs to train competing AI/ML systems
• Reverse-engineer our models or algorithms

4.3 AI-Generated Outputs

You may use AI-generated outputs for your own agricultural operations, but you acknowledge that:

• Outputs are informational and not guaranteed predictions
• Similar outputs may be generated for other users with similar inputs
• You may not republish outputs as professional advice or guaranteed recommendations
• Outputs cannot be used to develop competing agricultural AI products

5. Emergency Situations

Contact professional services immediately for:

• Suspected new or invasive pest/disease introductions
• Widespread crop failure or sudden, unusual symptoms
• Suspected pesticide poisoning or environmental contamination
• Quarantine, movement restriction, or regulatory emergencies
• Life-threatening situations involving people or animals

6. Enforcement & Consequences

6.1 Violation Handling

We take violations of these guidelines seriously. Depending on severity, we may:

• Issue warnings for first-time minor violations
• Temporarily suspend access to investigate suspicious activity
• Permanently terminate accounts for serious violations
• Pursue legal action for intellectual property theft or service damage
• Report illegal activities to appropriate authorities

6.2 Appeal Process

If you believe your account was suspended or terminated in error, you may appeal by:

• Contacting our support team within 14 days of the action
• Providing detailed explanation of the circumstances
• Demonstrating how you will prevent future violations

7. Help Us Improve

Responsible use is something we build together. Your feedback helps us improve safety, clarity, and usefulness:

• Tell us when AI recommendations do not match local conditions
• Share anonymized outcomes where you are comfortable doing so
• Report unclear, incomplete, or potentially risky suggestions
• Suggest ways to make safety warnings more visible
• Help us identify gaps in our knowledge bases