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Privacy policy

Last updated: July 2026

What Kohtaa collects, and why.

Kohtaa collects only what your event needs. When you join an event, you provide a name, role, and (optionally) a goal, photo, and contact details. This information is visible to other attendees at that event and no one else.

Kohtaa stores your relationship data permanently: which events you attended, which meetings you confirmed, which endorsements you gave and received. This is the trust graph. It belongs to you. You can download all of it at any time under GDPR Article 20, or delete it entirely under Article 17.

Kohtaa is hosted entirely on EU infrastructure: Hetzner in Finland, application and database alike, with no third-party database subprocessor. No data ever leaves European jurisdiction. Kohtaa uses no third-party analytics services: we operate a minimal in-house analytics system that records page views and product events. No IP addresses, device identifiers, or user agent strings are stored, and no cookie banner is required.

If you submit an organizer upgrade request, we also capture the IP address it was sent from. This is kept only to investigate abuse of that specific form and is not linked to your normal use of Kohtaa.

Questions about your data? Email us at hello@kohtaa.com


Data controller

Kohtaa, Finland. Contact: privacy@kohtaa.com

What we store

When you sign in we store your name and email address. When you fill in your profile we also store your job title, company, industry, what you are looking for, a short bio, and an optional photo. Every meeting request, confirmation, and endorsement you make is stored as part of the event connection record. If you submit an organizer upgrade request, we additionally store the IP address it was sent from, for fraud and abuse prevention.

Legal basis

Processing is based on legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)): connecting people at professional and networking events is the core purpose of Kohtaa, and storing the connection record is necessary to provide that service. You can withdraw at any time by deleting your account. The IP address captured on organizer upgrade requests is also processed under Article 6(1)(f), on the separate legitimate interest of preventing fraud and abuse of that form.

Who we share data with

Your name, role, company, and profile fields are visible to other attendees of the same event. We do not sell your data or share it with advertisers. We use the following processors:

  • Hetzner Online GmbH (application hosting, database, and object storage, all in Finland) - all data stored on EU infrastructure, no third-party database subprocessor.
  • Brevo (France) - transactional email for meeting notifications. Your email address is passed to Brevo only to deliver emails you have triggered.
  • Google and LinkedIn (OAuth sign-in, optional) - if you choose to sign in with Google or LinkedIn instead of email and password, your name and email address are shared with that provider as part of the sign-in flow.

Kohtaa uses no third-party analytics services. We operate a minimal in-house analytics system that records page views and product events. No IP addresses, device identifiers, or user agent strings are stored. No data is shared with any third party for analytics purposes.

Retention

Your data is retained until you delete your account. After deletion all personal data is erased immediately. You can delete your account at any time from Account settings. The one exception is the IP address captured on an organizer upgrade request: it remains on that request record for fraud-prevention purposes even if the submitting account is later deleted.

Your rights

Under GDPR you have the right to:

  • Accessall data we hold about you - use the “Download my data” link in Account settings (Article 15).
  • Erasure - delete your account from Account settings at any time. All personal data is erased immediately (Article 17).
  • Portability - your data export is provided as machine-readable JSON (Article 20).
  • Rectification - update your profile at any time from your profile settings.
  • Objection or complaint - contact us at privacy@kohtaa.com or lodge a complaint with the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman (tietosuoja.fi).

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