Terms of Service

By registering, logging in, or accessing the FPO Sehat Diagnostic and Capacity Assessment Portal ("the Portal"), you ("User," "Partner," or "FPO Administrator") agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you are entering into this agreement on behalf of an institution, Farmer Producer Company, NGO, or resource institution, you represent that you possess legal authority to bind that entity.

The Portal is designed specifically to assess, diagnose, benchmark, and strengthen Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs/FPCs) across India. Users must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• Legitimate Entity: The participating FPO must be an entity registered under the Companies Act, Cooperative Societies Act, or corresponding Indian statute.
• Authorized Representatives: Evaluators, Resource Institutions, and Partners must maintain active organizational mandate before conducting assessments.

Each user is responsible for safeguarding their login credentials. Account sharing across unverified third parties is strictly prohibited. Grameen Foundation India cannot and will not be liable for losses resulting from compromised passwords.

• Partner Administration: Partner Admins oversee their licensed field members and must promptly revoke credentials for departed personnel.
• Audit Accountability: Actions executed under an authenticated account are attributed to that account holder in the immutable system audit trail.

To maintain the credibility of assessments for financial institutions, donors, and certifying bodies, FPO Sehat enforces physical presence validation:

• Registration Site Stamping: New FPO on-boarding records must capture the legitimate office, block, or cluster location of the registering enterprise.
• Audit Submission Geostamp: When finalizing a diagnostic evaluation, the assessor’s coordinates are recorded into fpo_reports and mapped on the ISRO Bhuvan GIS portal.

The assessment rubrics, diagnostic scoring algorithms, maturity matrices, AI recommendation engines, and portal software remain the intellectual property of Grameen Foundation India:

• Diagnostic Purpose: Assessment scores, risk tiers, and capacity-building recommendations represent analytical guidance, not commercial credit guarantees.
• Proprietary Tool: Users may not reverse engineer, decompile, or harvest the diagnostic criteria for competing commercial software.

Partner access is provided according to authorized FPO limits and license validity terms:

• Quota Enforcement: Partners may onboard and assess FPOs up to their licensed capacity (max_fpo_limit). Additional capacity requires quota top-up.
• License Renewal: Accounts with expired licenses may access historical reports in read-only mode until license renewal is completed.

Grameen Foundation India reserves the right to suspend or terminate accounts that engage in data falsification, fraudulent quota usage, or violations of applicable Indian statutes. Upon termination, users may request export of raw institutional data within thirty (30) days.

These Terms of Service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Any legal dispute, arbitration, or proceeding arising under this agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts in New Delhi / Gurugram, India.