Privacy Policy

We do not collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond to you (for example, to respond to your queries). If you choose to provide us with personal information like filling out a contact form with an e-mail address or postal address, and submitting it to us through the website, we use that information to respond to your message, and to help you to get the information you have requested. Our website never collects information or creates individual profiles for commercial marketing. While you must provide an email address for a localised response to any incoming questions or comments to us, we recommend that you do NOT include any other personal information.

Government of India is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its users and has taken all necessary and reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality of the customer information and its transmission through the world wide web and it shall not be held liable for disclosure of the confidential information when in accordance with this privacy Commitment or in terms of the agreements, if any, with any organisation or person. We shall not disclose to any other person, in any manner whatsoever, any information relating to the details of farmers registered on the portal.

We may share your Information, without obtaining your prior written consent, with government agencies mandated under the law to obtain information for the purpose of verification of identity, or for prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of offences, or where disclosure is necessary for compliance of a legal obligation. Please note that the accuracy of the Information provided to us on the Website is essential, among others, to provision of our products and services to you. It is therefore a term and condition governing the access and use of the Website that you undertake to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all information disclosed, shared, exchanged or otherwise update and notify the portal via email at of any changes in the Information.

The PMFBY portal website uses cookies. Cookies are small data files that a website stores on your computer. We use persistent cookies which are permanently placed on your computer to store non-personal and profiling information. While cookies have unique identification nos, personal information (name, a/c no, phone numbers etc) SHALL NOT be stored on the cookies.

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of privacy policy changes). We will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.