Privacy policy
Last updated: October 2026
This privacy policy explains what personal information the Kolekt Waste Footprint Calculator (operated by Kolekt) collects, why we collect it and how we handle it.
How you sign in
You sign in with your Kolekt Account (account.kolekt.com), the one
sign-in for all Kolekt applications: with your password, with an e-mail code on a browser your
account does not know yet, with your authenticator app if you turned two-step sign-in on, or with
your Google account ("Continue with Google", for Gmail addresses and addresses of an organisation
on Google Workspace). Your password and sign-in codes stay with Kolekt Account and never reach
the Waste Footprint Calculator. Kolekt Account has its own privacy policy.
When you sign in, Kolekt Account tells the calculator your name, your e-mail address and an identifier of your Kolekt Account. If you already used the calculator with the same e-mail address, your earlier profile and everything saved under it is connected to your Kolekt Account at your first sign-in; nothing else about you is sent to Kolekt Account.
What we keep in your profile
- Your name and e-mail address, as Kolekt Account gives them, and the identifier of your Kolekt Account.
- Your country, used to pre-fill your calculations with the right national averages.
- Optionally, your organisation's name and the number of full and part time staff.
- Your sessions: which Kolekt Account sign-in each belongs to, and when Kolekt Account last confirmed it, so you stay signed in here only while you are signed in there.
- If you registered before October 2026, your old Waste Footprint password, stored only in securely hashed form. It no longer signs you in; it is kept for a short transition period only and then deleted.
What we collect when you calculate
- The inputs you enter into a calculator: the country, your household and your answers to the personalisation questions, or your organisation's estimates for staff, buildings and products.
- The resulting waste footprint (footprint, recycled, collected, certificates and gap per material), which is saved to your profile so you can return to it.
- Which countries you have calculated, for the free plan's limit.
How we use your information
We use your information solely to calculate and display your waste footprint, to save your results to your profile and to pre-fill your next calculation. We do not use your data for advertising and we do not build marketing profiles.
Confidentiality
Any information that you register is completely confidential and will not be shared. We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information. Your data is only processed by the service providers that host this application, and only to run it.
Your rights
You can view and update your country and organisation details on your profile page at any time; your name, password and sign-in settings are managed in your Kolekt Account. The profile page also lets you delete your Waste Footprint Calculator profile: doing so immediately and permanently removes your profile, your saved footprints and your certificate requests. It does not delete your Kolekt Account. We then keep only the identifier of your Kolekt Account and the codes of the countries you calculated, so the free plan's allowance is not reset if you open a profile here again; these go when your Kolekt Account is deleted.
To delete your Kolekt Account itself, or to access, correct or delete any other information we hold about you, contact us and we will respond as soon as possible. When your Kolekt Account is deleted, your profile here is deleted with it.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data? Email us at info@kolekt.com.