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Governance and public policies.

These public commitments explain how GAB approaches sustainability, data, community engagement, public claims, privacy, and the responsible use of our free tools.

Why this matters

Public trust starts with clear boundaries.

GAB works across agriculture, environmental and natural resource management, climate services, GIS, community engagement, and public digital tools. These areas carry practical responsibility because decisions can affect land, livelihoods, buyers, communities, public agencies, and the environment.

The policies below are public summaries. Internal operating policies, approvals, records, and project controls are managed inside GAB OS. Where a formal engagement requires a signed agreement, official permit, agency decision, or professional report, that process remains separate from the free information provided on this website.

Environmental & Sustainability Policy

GAB treats environmental responsibility as part of how we farm, advise, build tools, communicate, and improve our own operations.

Use evidence before making environmental or sustainability claims.
Track and improve our own footprint where practical, including energy, fuel, water, waste, land use, and field operations.
Apply environmental and social risk thinking before major farm, consultancy, tool, or public-resource decisions.
Use GAB operations as a first test case for the environmental tools and methods we offer externally.

Responsible AI, Data Trust & Source Governance

GAB uses AI and geospatial tools to support decisions, but human review, source quality, and clear limitations remain central.

Separate verified source data, public web data, GAB field evidence, client submissions, local contributions, assumptions, and AI interpretation.
Keep stable source files and reference materials in Data Trust where they can be reviewed and reused.
Use human-in-the-loop review before client-facing or public-facing outputs are treated as reliable.
Show limitations clearly when a tool provides a preliminary screen rather than a formal legal, permitting, title, valuation, or government decision.

Community Engagement & Inclusion

GAB works in places where land, livelihoods, traditional authority, public agencies, and private enterprise intersect.

Respect local context, community concerns, traditional structures, and public-sector roles.
Avoid treating local knowledge as verified technical evidence until it has been reviewed.
Use community engagement, consent readiness, grievance awareness, and benefit-sharing questions where they are relevant.
Keep the planned community and climate pathway distinct from claims of a legally registered NGO until that vehicle is finalized.

Privacy & Submitted Information

People who contact GAB or use our tools may share names, contacts, site information, business needs, or local knowledge.

Use submitted information to respond to requests, review sites, prepare appropriate follow-up, and improve service delivery.
Do not treat a public tool submission as a public record unless the contributor clearly agrees to public use.
Protect sensitive site, contact, business, and community information inside the operating system.
Allow users to contact GAB if they need a correction, deletion, or clarification about information they submitted.

Website & Tool Terms Of Use

GAB free tools are intended to help users ask better first questions before committing to deeper work.

Free tools provide preliminary screening and orientation, not final professional, legal, permitting, title, valuation, EPA, or government decisions.
Outputs depend on available data, source freshness, user inputs, and review status.
Paid or formal engagements may require field verification, document review, stakeholder engagement, agency consultation, or professional reporting.
Users remain responsible for independent decisions, professional advice, and official approvals where required.

Questions about a policy or tool output?

Contact GAB before relying on a preliminary screen for a formal decision.

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