Terms of use

Last updated: 26 September 2026

This translation is provided for information only: the French version is the only legally binding one.

These terms of use govern the use of CropOwl. By creating an account, you accept them without reservation. Please read them carefully, in particular Article 5 on the nature of the information provided.

1. Purpose

CropOwl is an online service for monitoring agricultural fields, published by [company name: to be completed] (hereinafter “the publisher”). These terms set out the conditions under which the publisher makes the service available and under which you use it.

2. Definitions

Service: The CropOwl application, its API and the emails it sends.
User: Any person who holds a CropOwl account.
Organisation: The entity (farm, farmers' group, advisory body) to which an account belongs, and whose members share data.
Field: An agricultural area monitored in the service, with its outline and crop.
Alert: A signal worked out automatically by the service when a condition to check is detected on a field.
Task: An action the user decides to plan, most often from an alert.

3. Access to the service and account

The service is intended for agricultural professionals: farmers, farm employees, advisers and agricultural organisations. To use it, you create an account with a valid email address and a password.

You undertake to provide accurate information and to keep your password confidential. Any action taken from your account is deemed to be taken by you; let us know without delay at contact@cropowl.com if you suspect unauthorised use.

CropOwl is offered on a free plan, limited to 10 fields and 2 members per organisation, pending invitations included. Some organisations, in particular those taking part in the pilot, have a Founding plan without these limits.

Paid plans may be offered: their terms and price will be shown before any subscription, and nothing will be charged to you without your express agreement.

An organisation's owner can invite other people to join it and remove its members. They make sure the people they invite agree to receive the invitation.

4. Description of the service

The service lets you, in particular:

locate your farm and create your fields from the land parcel register (RPG) or by drawing their outline;
view for each field a profile built from public data: weather, water balance, water restrictions, soil, terrain and vegetation (NDVI);
receive alerts, in the application and by email;
turn an alert into a task, or dismiss it and say why;
follow and export your tasks.

The sources used and their limits are described on the Data sources page.

5. Nature of the information provided

CropOwl provides decision-support information. Alerts point out conditions to check on the field: they are neither agronomic advice, nor a recommendation for a treatment or an operation, nor a regulatory opinion.

Some values are estimates (crop declared in the RPG in the year of its edition, soil modelled at 250 m) and are flagged as such.
Public data may be incomplete, published late or temporarily unavailable; the application shows the date of every value.
For water restrictions, only the prefectoral decree is authoritative: read it before any irrigation.

You remain solely responsible for the decisions taken for your farm (irrigation, operations, treatments, harvest) and for complying with the regulations that apply to them.

6. Your commitments

You undertake to:

only record fields that you farm or that you are authorised to monitor;
use the service in accordance with the law and these terms;
not extract data by automated means, nor resell or make access to the service available to third parties;
not undermine the security or operation of the service (intrusion, overloading, circumventing limits).

7. Your data

The data you enter (farm, fields, crops, decisions on alerts, tasks) remains the property of your organisation. You grant the publisher the right to use it solely to provide the service, for as long as your account exists.

The publisher may derive aggregated, anonymous statistics from it, in particular to tune the alert thresholds. It does not sell your data and does not share it with third parties for commercial purposes.

You can export your tasks at any time and obtain all of your data on request. The processing of personal data is described in the privacy policy.

8. Availability and development of the service

The publisher endeavours to keep the service available at all times, without being able to guarantee it. It may interrupt the service for maintenance, outside normal working hours where possible. The service also depends on public data sources whose availability the publisher does not control.

The service evolves: the publisher may add, change or remove features. The removal of an essential feature is announced at least 30 days in advance.

9. Liability

The publisher is bound by an obligation of means. In view of Article 5, it cannot be held liable for decisions taken on the basis of the information provided by the service, nor for losses of crops, yield or operation, nor for indirect damage.

Nothing in these terms excludes the publisher's liability in the event of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or in the other cases where the law forbids limiting it.

10. Intellectual property

The service, its software, its alert rules and its brand belong to the publisher. These terms grant you a personal, non-exclusive right of use for as long as your account exists. Public data remains subject to its producers' licences.

11. Duration, suspension and closure

These terms apply as long as your account is open. You can close it at any time by writing to contact@cropowl.com.

In the event of a serious breach of these terms, the publisher may suspend or close an account after a formal notice that has remained without effect for 15 days, or immediately if the security of the service requires it. On closure, your data is deleted within the periods set out in the privacy policy; export it beforehand if you wish.

12. Changes to the terms

The publisher may change these terms. The new terms are sent to you by email or shown in the application at least 30 days before they take effect. If you do not accept them, you can close your account before that date; otherwise, they apply.

13. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by French law. In the event of a dispute, the parties first seek an amicable solution for 30 days from the written complaint of either of them. Failing that, the dispute is brought before the [competent court: to be completed].

14. Contact

For any question about these terms: contact@cropowl.com.