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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Crop Desk ("we", "us", "our"), available at https://cropdesk.co.in (the "Site") and in our Android apps, handles information. By using the Site or the apps you agree to this policy.

1. Your photos and signatures are not uploaded

The Crop Desk tool works entirely in your web browser. When you "upload" a sheet, the image is opened locally inside the page on your device. Detecting boxes, cropping, and creating the ZIP file all happen on your device. We do not receive, store or see your images or the cropped files. When you close or reload the page, the images are cleared from the page's memory.

If you use "Save this layout", only the layout (box positions and a name) is stored in your own browser's local storage so you can reuse it. It stays on your device; you can remove it by clearing your browser's site data.

1a. Optional on-device AI features

Some tools offer optional AI helpers (background cutout, photo enhance, text reading/OCR, face auto-centre, smart crop, smart search and the Croppi help chat). These run entirely inside your browser. When you first use one, your browser downloads the open-source model file (about 1–23 MB each) from our own server (cropdesk.co.in) or, if that is unavailable, from a public CDN such as jsDelivr or Hugging Face. Those servers only see a normal file request (IP address, browser type), like loading any web page; your photos, documents and text are never sent. Models are cached by your browser and you can switch AI off at any time with the “AI on/off” button (saved in your browser’s local storage). The models and their licenses are listed on our Licenses & credits page.

2. Information collected automatically

Like most websites, our hosting provider may automatically record basic technical information when pages are requested, such as IP address, browser type, pages requested and time of request, for security and to keep the service running. We do not use this to identify you personally.

The Site loads fonts from Google Fonts, which means your browser connects to Google's servers to download them. Google's privacy policy applies to that connection.

3. Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. The tools themselves do not need cookies to work. If you choose to log in, we set one essential, first-party session cookie (cd_sess) to keep you signed in; it is not used for advertising. However, third parties such as advertising partners may place and read cookies on your browser when you visit the Site, as described below. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; the tool will continue to work.

4. Advertising and Google AdSense

We use (or plan to use) Google AdSense to show ads on the Site. When AdSense is active:

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (including the DoubleClick DART cookie) to serve ads on our Site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
  • Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks may use technologies such as cookies, JavaScript or web beacons in their ads and links that appear on the Site, which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. We have no access to or control over these cookies. Please consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more information. Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Visitors from regions that require consent (such as the European Economic Area or the UK) may be shown a consent message before personalised ads are served.

5. Analytics and usage counters

We use Google Analytics (G-STJB41E7J0) to understand which pages and tools are used. Tool events send only counts and sizes (for example "2 files, 180 KB") – never file contents or the text you type. Our own counters also estimate unique browsers: a random ID saved in your browser is counted once per day and once overall. It is not linked to your name or account; if you clear this site's browser data, that browser will be counted as a new visitor. Tool-use counters store only the tool page, event type and daily totals; abuse prevention uses a one-way daily IP hash, and raw IP addresses are not stored.

5a. Optional accounts and saved data

Accounts are optional – every tool works without signing up. If you create an account we store:

  • your email address and a salted, one-way hash of your password (PBKDF2-SHA256; we never store the password itself);
  • session records so you stay logged in (a random token, stored only as a hash, expiring after 30 days);
  • only the things you choose to save: typing test results (WPM, accuracy, mode), resume builder drafts (the text you typed into the form), your list of favourite tools, and Daily Expense Tracker entries and khata records.

Photos, signatures, scans and PDFs are never uploaded, with or without an account. They are processed on your device only. The expense tracker also works without login and then stores data only in your browser.

Your account data is stored with Cloudflare (D1 database) and is not sold or shared for advertising. You can delete individual items, or permanently delete your whole account and all its data, from the Account page. We do not offer Google or social sign-in.

5b. Sarkari news

Our news page lists notices from official websites. Items are reviewed by a person before they are published and always link to the official source; please confirm details there.

6. Links to other websites

Our guides may link to other websites. We are not responsible for their content or privacy practices.

7. Children's information

The Site is a general-audience tool often used by schools. The Crop Desk and Crop Desk Khata Android apps are general tools and are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because images are processed on the device and not uploaded, student photos handled with the tool are not collected by us. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.

8. Your choices

  • Clear or block cookies in your browser.
  • Opt out of personalised ads using the links above.
  • Clear saved layouts by clearing the Site's data in your browser.
  • Delete saved items or your whole account from the Account page.
  • Request deletion of Crop Desk Android app analytics records from Delete your Crop Desk data.

9. Crop Desk Android app

The Crop Desk Android app (package in.co.cropdesk.app), published by Mahendra Singh Deora, is a document and photo toolkit. This section covers that app. The website sections above still apply when the app opens a page on the Site (for example “More tools”, “CET / Mock”, or the privacy policy). The website APK may also open the in-app ad slot.

Your photos, scans and PDFs are not uploaded to us. Scanning, cropping, compression and PDF tools run on the phone. Files you download are saved on the device (for example in Downloads/CropDesk). The camera is used only when you choose to scan a document.

The app needs internet access for usage analytics and to open pages on the Site. The website APK also uses the internet to load ads.

Usage analytics

In the release app, a small usage event may be sent to https://cropdesk.co.in/api/app-event. The request includes only:

  • an event name, such as first_open, app_install, app_open, scan_done, pdf_created, pdf_compressed, pdf_merged, or more_tools_click; and
  • a client ID. This is a UUID-shaped value created on the phone by hashing the device’s Android ID with an app-specific salt. The raw Android ID is not sent. If a stable ID cannot be created, a random ID is stored on the phone and reused.

We use these events to count unique app installs and to see which tools are used. Install counts are stored as a one-way hash of the client ID, not as your name or account. Those hashed records have no automatic expiry and are kept until you ask us to delete them. Daily and total install counters are anonymous totals with no identifier. The events may also be sent to Google Analytics (property G-STJB41E7J0). Google Analytics user-level data is kept for up to 2 months (default setting). We do not send your photos, PDFs, file names, or the text in your documents. The app does not currently include a switch to turn these events off. The app does not currently show the client ID on any screen. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage, removes the client ID from the phone; a later install may be counted as a new device. To ask us to delete the hashed records for your client ID, see Delete your Crop Desk data.

Ads

The Google Play version of the app does not show ads.

The website APK (the file downloaded from cropdesk.co.in) may show an ad slot. That version loads https://cropdesk.co.in/app/ad-slot/ in an in-app WebView. That page may load third-party advertising scripts, which may collect technical information such as IP address and cookies, according to those providers’ policies. Neither version uses the Google advertising ID.

Optional Google features

Optional “Scan with Google” and on-device text recognition (OCR, including Devanagari) use Google ML Kit / Google Play services on the phone. Play services may download model files. Scan images are not uploaded to Crop Desk servers.

Questions about the Android app, or a request to delete app analytics data: [email protected]. See also Delete your Crop Desk data.

10. Crop Desk Khata Android app

Crop Desk Khata (package in.co.cropdesk.khata) is a separate, offline udhaar ledger. Customer names, optional phone numbers, amounts, dates and notes stay on the phone. The app has no internet permission, no account, no ads and no analytics, and we do not collect or receive that data. A backup file or a shared statement leaves the device only when you choose to save or share it.

The full policy for that app is at https://cropdesk.co.in/khata/privacy/.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top shows when it was last changed.

12. Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected]

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