Smart Kheti by Wattr — Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Mohod Innovation Pvt Ltd is a company incorporated in India. It develops and operates Wattr, a platform for monitoring and managing agricultural water pumps and the electricity they consume. Wattr is a brand of Mohod Innovation Pvt Ltd; the two names refer to the same legal entity.

Smart Kheti by Wattr (Google Play package com.wattr.farmer) is the farmer-facing Android app published by Mohod Innovation Pvt Ltd on Google Play. It lets a farmer see their own pump: live electrical readings, running hours and energy use, irrigation schedules, fault and theft alerts, water-quota and reward information, and local weather, soil and market indicators for their registered farm location.

This policy covers only the Smart Kheti by Wattr mobile app. Other Wattr products — the Wattr web platform at app.wattr.ai, the Wattr Survey field app, and the Wattr operator and technician apps — are covered by the general Wattr privacy policy.

How Your Account Is Created

Smart Kheti by Wattr does not offer public self-registration. Accounts are created for you by the organisation that operates the pump monitoring programme in your area — typically a state power utility, water or agriculture department, or the scheme operator that installed the Wattr device on your pump. That organisation issues your login credentials and links your account to your pump.

Information We Collect

We collect only what the app needs to show you your pump and send you alerts about it.

What we do not collect

• No GPS or device location. The app does not request location permission and cannot read your phone's location. Weather, soil and market information is derived from the village or block your pump is registered in, not from your handset.
• No camera, photos or microphone. The app does not request these permissions.
• No contacts, call logs, or SMS. The app never reads your address book or messages.
• No advertising identifiers. We do not collect the Google Advertising ID, and the app contains no advertising or third-party ad SDKs.
• No payment or financial information. The app contains no payments and no in-app purchases.
• No files or media from your device storage.

Permissions the App Requests

Smart Kheti by Wattr requests a deliberately small set of Android permissions:

• Internet access — to load your pump data and send your commands to our servers.
• Notifications — to deliver fault, power-cut, and theft alerts about your pump.
• Full-screen notifications and display over other apps — so a theft alert can wake the screen and be seen immediately, in the way an alarm or incoming call does. These are used only for urgent theft and safety alerts.
• Do Not Disturb access (optional, granted by you in Android Settings) — so a theft alert is still audible when your phone is silenced. If you do not grant it, the app works normally and the alert arrives silently.

How We Use Your Information

• Showing you your pump — authenticating your sign-in and displaying the readings, sessions, schedules and history for the pump(s) registered to you.
• Sending alerts — notifying you of faults, power failures, schedule events, and suspected theft of your pump or its equipment.
• Carrying out your commands — relaying start, stop and scheduling instructions to the device on your pump.
• Quota and rewards — calculating water and energy usage against any quota or incentive scheme your programme operates.
• Local information — fetching weather, soil and market indicators for your registered farm location.
• Support and diagnostics — using app version and error logs to investigate problems you report.
• Security — detecting unauthorised access and enforcing the access rules set by your scheme operator.

We do not use your information for advertising, we do not sell or rent it, and we do not share it with data brokers.

Sharing & Third Parties

We share data only in these limited circumstances:

• Your scheme operator — the utility, department or organisation that issued your account can see your pump's records as part of operating the programme. They are the data controller for your account; Mohod Innovation Pvt Ltd acts as their data processor.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) — hosts our servers and database in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1 region. AWS acts as a sub-processor under a data processing agreement.
• Google Firebase Cloud Messaging — delivers push notifications to your phone. Google receives the notification payload and your device's messaging token in order to route the alert.
• Open-Meteo — the app requests a weather forecast for your registered village or block directly from Open-Meteo's public API. That request carries the coordinates of your registered location and your device's IP address; it carries no account identifier, name or phone number.
• Legal requirements — we may disclose information where required by law, court order, or to protect the rights and safety of users, third parties, or the public.
• Business transfers — in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, user data may be transferred. We will notify affected users and honour the commitments in this policy.

Data Storage & Security

All account and pump data is stored on AWS infrastructure in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) — ap-south-1 region, in India. We apply:

• Encryption in transit (TLS 1.2 or higher) and encryption at rest (AES-256)
• Row-level security, so each scheme operator's records are isolated from every other operator's
• Short-lived access tokens with refresh, stored in your phone's private app storage
• Role-based access control, so a farmer account can only see the pumps registered to it
• Regular security reviews and automated vulnerability scanning

No system is completely immune to risk. Please report any suspected security issue to security@wattr.ai.

Data Retention

• Account information — retained while your account is active under your scheme operator's programme.
• Pump and energy records — retained for the life of the monitoring programme, as these form the operational record of the pump your operator is responsible for.
• Push notification identifiers — removed when you sign out, uninstall the app, or when Google reports the messaging token as no longer valid.
• Crash and error logs — retained for 90 days.
• Data stored on your phone — cleared when you sign out or uninstall the app.
• Deactivated accounts — personal data is deleted within 12 months of deactivation, unless a longer period is required by law.

Your Rights & Deleting Your Data

Subject to applicable law, you may:

• Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Correct — request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Delete — request deletion of your account and personal data.
• Port — request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Object — object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests.

How to request account and data deletion

Email privacy@wattr.ai from the mobile number or address registered to your account, with the subject line "Delete my Smart Kheti account", and include your name and registered mobile number. We will verify the request with you and your scheme operator and complete it within 30 days.

On deletion we remove your name, mobile number, login credentials, device and push-notification records, and in-app activity history. Meter and energy readings for the physical pump are retained by your scheme operator as part of the infrastructure record it is legally responsible for, but they are de-linked from you as an individual. Uninstalling the app removes everything stored on your phone, but does not by itself delete your account on our servers — use the email route above for that.

Children's Privacy

Smart Kheti by Wattr is intended for adult farmers and pump owners aged 18 and over. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has been given access to the app, contact privacy@wattr.ai and we will remove the account.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date above. For material changes we will notify active users by in-app notice at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Continued use of the app after that date constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

Contact Us

Smart Kheti by Wattr is developed and operated by Mohod Innovation Pvt Ltd (brand: Wattr). For any privacy question, request, or complaint: