Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

 

1. Register holder:

KÄÄPÄ Biotech Ltd
Teilinummentie 4 09120 Karjalohja Finland
contact@kaapahealth.com

2. The purpose of the register:

Personal information is collected for the purposes of customer relations management. The basis for handling personal information is justified based on the customer relationship and legal obligations.

3. The basis for collecting and handling personal information:

The justification for collecting and handling information is the consent by the party in question.

4. The collected information:

Information you provide about yourself like your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, and payment information.

You are able to select whether you want to receive marketing information from KÄÄPÄ Health. You can also send an email to contact@kaapahealth.com and notify that you wish not to receive marketing information from us.

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5. The duration of the storage of the information

The information is stored for the duration of the customer relationship and as long as we are legally obligated to hold the information.

6. Information is collected in the register

From the parties themselves and via analytics tools, such as Google Analytics.

7. Information transfer in the EU or outside EU

KÄÄPÄ Biotech does not transfer information outside the European Union. Information is not regularly handed over to parties outside of the organization. Some analytics tools may collect or transfer information outside of the EU.

8. Cookies

The website uses cookies. Cookies are small files sent to and saved in the website user’s computer. Cookies make it possible for the website administrator to recognize frequent website users and to conduct visitor information analysis. Based on this, the website can be constantly improved. Cookies do not harm the website users’ computers or files.

In case the website user does not accept the previously mentioned procedures, it is possible to select this in the web browser. This can be usually done in the web browser settings. However, the functioning of the website requires accepting cookies, so by not allowing cookies may affect the user experience on the website.

9. Register protection

The information collected is only accessible to the staff members of the organisation who require the information in their position.

10. Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

Automated individual decision making and profiling (under article 22 of the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) is not done on the website.

11. The rights of the registered users

The registered users have the right to know what information has been collected of them in the register. A written and signed request of the information is to be sent to KÄÄPÄ Biotech.

The registered user has the right to request the correction of incorrect or outdated information. The user also has the right to limit or object the use of handling personal information according to Articles 18 and 21 of the GDPR.

The registered users have the right to cancel the previously given permission for collecting and handling data and make a complaint to the Data protection ombudsman.

Please note that the right to cancel previously given permission for the collection and handling of data only apply in case if KÄÄPÄ Biotech Ltd does not have legal obligations for storing and handling the data.

The roots of Mycelium 🇫🇮

KÄÄPÄ Biotech’s CEO Eric Puro started cultivating mushrooms in his backyard in 2014, but like all important stories from Finland, this also begins from a sauna:

KÄÄPÄ started in 2016 when Eric invited his friend over for sauna, who brought a mycologist friend, Lorin von Longo-Liebenstein. Those long fungi discussions between löyly (steam) and avanto (hole in the ice) evolved into working together, and notching up Eric’s mushroom cultivation into a whole new level. Soon a long time friends Henri Lokki and Seppo Riikonen joined the co-founders.

The very first mushroom growing trials were done in Seppo and Arja’s kitchen and garage. Shortly after that, marketing expert Otso Mursula joined the group and brought in his commercial expertise from the mushroom product industry. The founders began growing mushrooms together and developing the company around the idea of mushroom biotechnology.

The Farm

Since then, the thousand log mushroom farm steadily expanded into 20,000 log medicinal mushroom cultivation. At the outdoor mushroom farm, we learned from nature what mushrooms need for their growing conditions. The experience gained from our outdoor farm taught us which environmental factors contribute to creating the most potent mushrooms full of the Compounds of Interest.

Now our outdoor mushroom farm serves as our research and development laboratory. Today we are utilizing all the knowledge that we have gained there and putting it into practice at our indoor mushroom growing facilities. We are mimicking natural conditions to create the most potent products sustainably and on a larger scale.

Growing Mushrooms

We use the same Finnish birch substrate for the mushrooms as we use at the farm. Finland has cleanest air and water ever measured, and the clean forests ensure that our mushrooms are eating the healthiest and cleanest food  –  the birch trees. The substrate is FSC and/or PEFC certified for our commitment to sustainable forest practices. Based on our experience from the farm, we are controlling the growing conditions, such as the temperature, humidity, O₂ and C0₂-levels,  light and added stress factors to produce mushrooms with the highest levels of the Compounds of Interest.

KÄÄPÄ Forest

KÄÄPÄ Forest is a subdivision, which promotes versatile use of forests and the forest cultivation of chaga. KÄÄPÄ Forest is managing the largest chaga cultivation network in the world. Because chaga grows very slowly and is being overharvested in the world, we have stepped in to tackle this problem by starting large scale chaga cultivation. Today, KÄÄPÄ Forest grows chaga around Finland in the continuously growing network area which is currently over 200 hectares in size.

Working closely with forest owners enables a truly transparent growing environment for our mushroom production. It is important for us to change the scenario from our Nordic forests being cut down for the use of the paper industry – instead we are supporting cultivation of medicinal mushrooms in our local forests. More information in Finnish on KÄÄPÄ Forest website.