Terms of use

Last updated 6 October 2026

Draft for review. This text was written as a starting point, not by a lawyer. Have it checked by a lawyer who knows Finnish and EU consumer and data protection law before Kasa opens to the public, then delete this note. Yellow brackets mark details only you can fill in.

These are the rules for using Kasa. We have tried to keep them short and clear. If something here is unclear, ask us.

1. Who we are and what Kasa is

Kasa is an online tool that helps a family, club, school or workplace count returned cans and bottles (deposit returns, "pantti" in Finland) and save towards a shared goal. Kasa is run by [Company name] (Business ID [Business ID]), [Postal address]. In these terms "we" and "us" mean [Company name].

2. Your Kasa and who can do what

• One person creates a Kasa and is its admin. The admin controls the Kasa: the people in it, the goal, the deposit values, the passcodes and the plan.
• Participants can count their own returns. Observers can only watch.
• Keep your sign-in link, password and passcodes private. You are responsible for what happens under your admin account.

2b. Counting tablets and watch links

• The admin can give a child's tablet a one-time code. That counting tablet can add cans and bottles, and nothing else. A watch link can only look, so grandparents and friends can follow along.
• The admin decides who gets a code and is responsible for it. Codes work once and expire after 7 days. The admin can remove a device at any time and it is signed out straight away.
• A child's PIN or three pictures stop a brother or sister from counting as someone else. They are not a strong security lock, so do not use a passcode you use anywhere else.

3. Children and families

• The admin must be an adult who is responsible for the people added to the Kasa. If you add a child, you confirm that you are the child's parent or guardian, or that you have the guardian's permission.
• Use first names or nicknames. Do not enter surnames, addresses, birthdays or photos. Kasa does not need them.
• Children should not create their own Kasa or pay for anything.

4. Kasa is a counting tool, not a bank

• Kasa never holds, sends or receives your savings. The money in a Kasa is a number on a screen. The real deposit money comes from the deposit scheme when you return your containers, and stays with you.
• Kasa is not a fundraising or donation service. Do not use it to collect money from the public. Collecting money for others can need a permit or registration in some countries. That is your responsibility.
• Kasa is a small independent project. It is not connected to Palpa or any other official deposit scheme.
• Deposit values shown in Kasa are guides, and you can change them. The scheme's own value is the one that counts. Dashboards that show "sample numbers" are examples, not your data.

5. Using Kasa fairly

Do not break the law, attack or overload the service, try to reach other people's Kasas, use bots to sign up, or use Kasa to harass anyone. We may suspend a Kasa that does, after warning you where we reasonably can.

6. Plans, the free trial and payment

• Every new Kasa starts with 30 days of Premium, free. We do not ask for a card. One trial per person.
• After the trial, your Kasa moves to the Free plan unless you choose Premium. Nothing is deleted. On Free the admin and 3 other people can count, with one goal and the Classic look. Everyone else is paused: they keep their name, passcode and everything they returned, their returns still count toward the goal, and they come back on their own when you upgrade. Yearly reports, the other looks and more people are part of Premium.
• Premium is paid for each Kasa, not for each person, monthly or yearly. The price is shown before you pay and includes VAT where VAT applies. It renews automatically until you cancel.
• Payments are taken by our payment provider, [payment provider], on its own secure page. We never see or store your full card number.
• If we change a price, we tell you at least 30 days before it applies to you, and you can cancel before then.

7. Cancelling and refunds

You can cancel Premium at any time in the Subscription screen. You keep Premium until the end of the period you paid for. Refunds are explained on the refund page. Your legal rights as a consumer are not affected.

8. Taxes and your responsibility

• Tax rules differ from country to country, and between regions, and they change. Whether money from deposit returns, savings, pocket money, gifts or money raised for a group is taxable or must be reported is for you to find out from your tax authority or an adviser.
• If you use Kasa for a club, school, company or other organisation, you are responsible for its taxes, bookkeeping, VAT, permits and any fundraising rules.
• Numbers, reports and exports from Kasa are for your own information. They are not accounting records, tax documents or proof of income.
• Our prices. Prices shown to consumers include VAT where it applies. Business customers are responsible for giving us correct invoice details (including a valid VAT number where relevant) and for the correct VAT treatment on their side.
• We are not responsible for any tax, fee or penalty that you owe because of how you use money, or the numbers in Kasa.

9. Your information

You own what you put into your Kasa. You allow us to store and process it only to run Kasa for you. How we handle personal data is explained in the privacy policy.

10. How the service works

We work to keep Kasa available and your data safe, but we cannot promise it will never be interrupted or free of errors. We may improve, change or remove features. If we remove something you pay for, we will tell you and offer a fair solution, including a refund where appropriate. Keep your own record of anything important.

11. Responsibility

We are responsible for damage we cause through our fault, as the law requires. We are not responsible for losses that we could not reasonably have foreseen, for lost savings goals or plans, or for how you use the numbers in Kasa. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your rights as a consumer.

12. Ending your Kasa

You can delete your Kasa at any time on the "Devices and new year" page. We can end your access if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, or if we close the service, with reasonable notice and a refund of any prepaid time that you cannot use.

13. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we tell you by email or in Kasa at least 30 days before the change starts.

14. Law and disputes

Finnish law applies, but if you are a consumer in another country you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law where you live. If we cannot solve a problem together, consumers can ask for free advice from the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (KKV) consumer advisory service and can bring a case to the Consumer Disputes Board (kuluttajariitalautakunta). [Check these bodies and add any others that apply before launch]

Questions about this page? Write to [contact email].

Privacy policy

Last updated 6 October 2026

Draft for review. This text was written as a starting point, not by a lawyer. Have it checked by a lawyer who knows Finnish and EU consumer and data protection law before Kasa opens to the public, then delete this note. Yellow brackets mark details only you can fill in.

Kasa stores the least it can. This page explains what we keep, why, who helps us, how long we keep it and what you can do.

1. Who is responsible for your data

[Company name] (Business ID [Business ID]), [Postal address], is the controller of the personal data described here. Contact: [contact email].

2. What we collect

• Admin account: your email address, and a password (stored only as a one-way hash) or the sign-in links we email you.
• Your Kasa: the country and deposit values you chose, the goal (name, amount, date), the look you picked, and for each person a first name or nickname, a role (admin, participant or observer) and a colour. Passcodes are stored only as hashes.
• Counts: each can or bottle that is added or taken away, with the time and the person it belongs to.
• Payments: if you buy Premium, our payment provider collects your card and billing details. We keep only your plan (monthly or yearly), its status, the renewal date and the provider's reference numbers. We do not receive or store your card number.
• Devices: when the admin adds a counting tablet or a watch link, we keep the name the admin gave it, when it was added and when it was last used, and a sign-in cookie on that device. We also keep short-term counts of wrong passcode tries, so that a passcode cannot be guessed.
• Company enquiries: if a company writes to us through the Kasa for Business form, we keep the name, work email, company, size and message you send, only to answer you.
• Technical data: our servers keep short-term logs (such as your IP address and the time of a request) to keep the service secure and working.

We do not collect surnames, addresses, birthdays, photos or locations. Please do not enter them.

3. Children's information

Kasa is made for families. Only an adult can create a Kasa, and the admin is responsible for the people added to it. A child's first name, colour and counts are the only information about a child that Kasa needs. We do not show ads, we do not profile children, and we do not sell or share children's information for marketing.

4. Why we use it, and our legal reasons

• To create and run your Kasa and send you the messages that go with it, such as sign-in links and trial reminders. (Reason: our contract with you.)
• To take payment and keep the accounting records the law requires. (Reasons: contract and legal obligation.)
• To keep the service secure, stop abuse and fix problems. (Reason: our legitimate interest in a safe service.)
• We send no marketing email unless you ask us to. (Reason: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.)

5. Who we share it with

We use a few companies to run Kasa. They may only use the data for that purpose: hosting ([hosting provider and country]), email sending ([email provider]) and payments ([payment provider]). We do not sell personal data. We may share data if the law requires it. [Keep this list the same as the companies you really use]

6. Transfers outside the EU/EEA

We aim to keep your data in the EU/EEA. If a provider processes data outside the EU/EEA, we make sure there is a lawful safeguard, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. [Confirm for each provider]

7. How long we keep it

• A Kasa that is never confirmed by email is deleted after 7 days.
• While your Kasa is active we keep its data so it keeps working, including on the Free plan. Counts from earlier years are kept as history, so that you can see yearly reports, until you delete your Kasa.
• When you delete your Kasa, its data is removed from our live system straight away. Copies in our nightly backups are deleted within 14 days. We keep only the records that the law requires, such as invoices.
• If the admin removes a person, their name and passcode are erased straight away. The admin chooses whether their returns stay in the goal as "Former member" or are deleted too. People who are only paused (for example because of the plan) keep their name and returns until the admin removes them or deletes the Kasa.
• Payment and invoice records are kept as long as accounting law requires.
• Company enquiries are deleted after 12 months, unless the company becomes a customer.

8. Your rights

You can ask us to show you your data, correct it, delete it, limit how we use it, give you a copy you can move elsewhere, or stop using it where we rely on our legitimate interest. The admin can already download and delete the Kasa's data on the "Devices and new year" page. For anything else, write to [contact email]. We answer within one month.

If you think we handle data wrongly, you can complain to the Data Protection Ombudsman (Tietosuojavaltuutettu) in Finland, or to the authority in your own country.

9. Cookies and storage on your device

Kasa does not use advertising or tracking cookies, and it does not load third-party trackers or fonts from other companies. It uses one cookie, a sign-in cookie, which keeps you signed in: for 90 days on the admin's devices and for 180 days on counting tablets and watch links, or until you sign out or the admin removes the device. It also keeps a small queue of taps in your browser's local storage when you are offline, until they are sent. Both are strictly necessary for the service to work, so no consent banner is needed.

10. Keeping data safe

Connections are encrypted. Passwords and passcodes are stored only as hashes. Access to our systems is limited and logged. Our web server logs do not keep the secret parts of sign-in links. No online service is perfectly secure, and if a breach puts your rights at risk, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

11. Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we tell you by email or in Kasa before the change starts.

Questions about this page? Write to [contact email].

Refund and cancellation policy

Last updated 6 October 2026

Draft for review. This text was written as a starting point, not by a lawyer. Have it checked by a lawyer who knows Finnish and EU consumer and data protection law before Kasa opens to the public, then delete this note. Yellow brackets mark details only you can fill in.

The short version: the trial is free, you can cancel Premium at any time, and if you change your mind soon after paying you get your money back.

1. The free trial

Every new Kasa gets 30 days of Premium for free. We do not take a card, so nothing is charged when the trial ends. Your Kasa moves to the Free plan unless you choose to pay.

2. Cancelling Premium

Cancel any time under Subscription in Kasa. You keep Premium until the end of the period you already paid for, then your Kasa moves to Free. Nothing is deleted. If you upgrade again later, everything that was saved comes back.

3. Changing your mind within 14 days

If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA, you have the right to cancel a purchase within 14 days of paying, without giving a reason. Tell us at [contact email] (or use the button in Subscription, once it is available).

• Premium starts as soon as you pay, because that is how you asked for it. If you cancel during the 14 days, we refund what you paid minus the part for the days you already used.
• If you have not used any Premium features, you get a full refund.

4. After 14 days

We do not refund the rest of a period you have already paid for, for example the remaining months of a yearly plan. Cancelling stops the next renewal. We do refund, in any case: a payment taken by mistake or twice, a renewal charged after you cancelled, and any time the law says you are entitled to one, for example when Premium is seriously faulty and we cannot fix it.

5. How refunds are paid

We refund to the card or method you paid with, within 14 days of agreeing to the refund. It can then take a few days to show on your statement. The payment provider may show the refund under its own name.

6. Teams (clubs, schools, companies)

Teams plans are for organisations. The consumer rights above may not apply to a business. The order or invoice sets out the notice period and refund terms, and nothing in it limits any rights that the law gives you.

7. Taxes

Refunds include the VAT that was charged. How a refund or a payment is treated for your own taxes is for you to check with your tax authority. See Taxes and your responsibility in the terms.

Questions about this page? Write to [contact email].