Privacy notice
Kinacre is built so that your figures stay yours. This notice explains what personal information is involved when you use Kinacre or Kinacre Pro, who handles it, and your rights.
In short
- Your answers in the calculator and the land check stay in your own browser. Kinacre never receives them.
- To check your land, your browser asks public map services about the outline you mark. They see that request; Kinacre doesn't.
- Kinacre uses no advertising or tracking cookies. Visits are counted without cookies and without identifying you.
- In Kinacre Pro, client files are encrypted on the adviser's own computer before they're stored. Kinacre can't read them.
Who we are
Kinacre (www.farmcat.ie) and Kinacre Pro (pro.farmcat.ie) are run by Brian Duignan in Ireland, who is responsible for the personal information described here. Contact: cat@kinacre.ie.
The calculator, land check and guides
Your answers. What you type into the calculator, and the land you mark out, are saved only in your own browser, so they're there when you come back. They aren't sent to Kinacre. "Clear my answers" removes them, and so does clearing your browser's data for this site.
Adviser code. The results page shows a code, and a QR code, that holds your answers and figures so an adviser can load them into Kinacre Pro. Your browser makes it from your answers; it isn't sent to Kinacre or stored anywhere. It contains no name or address, but anyone you give it to can read the figures in it, so share it as you would a printout of your results.
Checking your land. To show what's on, near and under your land, your browser sends the outline you marked (its map coordinates) straight to public map services and asks what they hold for that area. These are run by or for Geological Survey Ireland, Tailte Éireann, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Central Statistics Office, most of them hosted by Esri. Searching for a place sends what you type to Esri's place search, or to OpenStreetMap if that fails. The satellite map comes from Esri, and field boundaries from Source Cooperative. Each of these sees your request and your internet address, under its own privacy policy. Kinacre doesn't see the outline or the results.
Visits. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which handles your internet address to deliver pages and protect the site from attacks. We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn't identify you.
Counting how the tools are used. When you start the calculator, reach your results, take an adviser code or run a land check, your browser tells Kinacre that it happened, once per visit. We keep only a count for each day. It holds none of your answers, figures or land, no cookie and no internet address, so it can't identify you or your farm.
Emails. If you email us, we keep your email and our reply for as long as we need them to deal with what you asked.
Kinacre Pro, for advisers
Signing in. Pro is for invited advisers. We keep the email address you sign in with, so that you can sign in. Cloudflare Access sends the one-time code to that address and records each sign-in: the email address, the time, the country and the internet address.
Your details. The name, firm, contact details and logo you add in Settings are kept with your client files and printed on your reports.
Client files. Client files are encrypted on your own computer, with AES-256 and a passphrase only you know, before they're saved or sent anywhere. With cloud sync on, the encrypted file is stored with Cloudflare in the European Union, with up to 20 earlier versions. Neither Kinacre nor Cloudflare can read them. If you lose both your passphrase and your recovery key, nobody can open them, including us.
Who is responsible for client information. The adviser decides what client information goes into Pro and why, so the adviser is responsible for it under data protection law. Kinacre stores it, encrypted, on the adviser's behalf. If your firm needs a data processing agreement for the pilot, email us.
Removing your files. You can remove your client files, and their earlier versions, from the Kinacre cloud at any time: in Settings, under Cloud sync, choose "Stop syncing". Or ask us to remove your account and files.
Why we can use this information
- Delivering and securing the public site, and counting visits: our legitimate interest in running a reliable, safe website.
- Giving advisers access to Pro and storing their encrypted files: to provide the service the adviser asked for.
- Replying to emails: our legitimate interest in answering questions.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, and ask us to correct it, delete it, or stop using it. Email cat@kinacre.ie. You can also complain to the Data Protection Commission.
Changes
We'll update this notice when anything changes, and show the date at the top.