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End-User Licence Agreement & Privacy Policy — Clisense
This forecast tool collects nothing personal. The month, rainfall and river readings you enter here are used only to calculate that one forecast, are never stored, and are never linked to a name, phone number, or account. The "Share on WhatsApp" button uses your own phone's share feature; Clisense never sees or keeps that number.
The wider Clisense field pilot (CliNode sensors deployed with enrolled cooperatives) is a separate programme with its own consent process, described below. Farmers in that pilot are identified only by a site code (for example, an Ikire or Osogbo code number), never by name.
Data collected during the Clisense pilot is stored on an access-controlled Google Drive account and is scheduled to be deleted three months after the project researcher graduates from ALU, in line with our Research Ethics Committee approval.
Day-to-day forecast readings (like your last few risk checks) are kept only for as long as needed to give you an accurate forecast, and no longer than that.
You can ask, at any time and for any reason, that your data be deleted. You do not need to explain why. Ask directly, or through your cooperative lead or extension officer, and we will remove it.
This right comes from Nigeria's Data Protection Act (2023), which covers our Osogbo and Ikire farmers, and Rwanda's Law N° 058/2021 on data protection, which covers our Mahama deployment. Whichever community you're in, the law in your country gives you this right, and we honour it the same way everywhere.
Clisense's flood forecast is currently correct about 92 out of 100 times. It is a helpful tool, not a guarantee. Always use your own judgement and local knowledge alongside it, and talk to your cooperative lead if a forecast seems wrong or confusing.
Clisense is provided free of charge during the pilot, as-is, with no liability for losses from a missed or incorrect forecast.
Using this forecast tool needs no sign-up and nothing to consent to, since nothing is collected. Farmers enrolled in the wider CliNode field pilot were asked for their consent before joining, as described above, and can withdraw it at any time by asking their cooperative lead.