Terms of service

The short version

Plans

$39 a month or $199 a year, the full price at checkout. No trials.

Renewal

Automatic, on the same date each month or year, until you cancel.

Cancel

Two clicks on your Billing page, any time.

Refunds

Payments aren't refunded.

Printed codes

Work to the end of what you paid for. Their short links are never given to anyone else.

Limits

Unlimited codes, edits and scans, under the fair-use policy.

Who we are and what these terms cover

Kifuna is run by Kifuna LLC (“Kifuna”, “we” or “us”). These terms are the agreement between you and us for kifuna.com, the kifu.to short links your codes print, and everything you make with them.

They include our privacy policy, acceptable use policy, fair-use policy and refunds and code continuity policy. If you use Kifuna for a business or organization, you agree to these terms for it, and “you” means it too.

Your account

• You must be 18 or older and able to make a contract. Kifuna is meant for businesses, organizations and people buying for their work in the United States.
• Use an email address you read. We send receipts, renewal reminders and notices about your codes there, and they count as notice in writing.
• Keep your password safe. You're responsible for what happens in your account. If you think someone else has signed in to it, reset your password and tell us at [email protected].

Plans and paying

• The monthly plan is $39 a month and the yearly plan is $199 a year. Both include unlimited codes, edits and scans.
• You pay the full price at checkout. There are no trials and no introductory prices.
• Prices are in US dollars and don't include sales tax. If we ever have to collect it, checkout shows it before you pay.
• Payments go through Stripe, by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Link, and show on your statement as KIFUNA QR.
• Your plan keeps the price you agreed to. If we ever need to change it, we'll email you at least 30 days before the renewal it applies to, so you can cancel first.

Automatic renewal

Every plan renews automatically until you cancel:

Monthly plan

$39.00 every month until you cancel

Yearly plan

$199.00 every year until you cancel

• Each renewal charges the payment method on your account, on the same date as your first payment, or the last day of a shorter month. Monthly means once a calendar month, never on a shorter cycle.
• Checkout shows the price, the renewal, how to cancel and what happens to your printed codes before you enter a card. The line under the Pay button says that paying is how you agree to them and to these terms.
• We email a receipt after every payment, with the date of the next charge.
• For the yearly plan, we also email you 35 days before each renewal, with its date, the amount and how to cancel.

Cancelling

• Cancel any time on the Billing page of your account: Cancel my plan, then confirm. No email, phone call or reason is needed.
• We email you to confirm. Nothing more is charged, and your plan and codes keep working to the end of the period you paid for. Until then, Keep my plan undoes it.
• Payments aren't refunded, so cancel before the next charge if you don't want it.
• Deleting your account cancels your plan at once (below).

Changing plans

• From monthly to yearly: on the Billing page. The yearly plan starts at once. You pay its price that day, less a credit for the part of the month you paid for and haven't used, and the page shows that amount before you confirm. If the payment doesn't go through, nothing changes.
• From yearly to monthly: on the Billing page. The monthly plan starts, and is charged, when the year you paid for ends. Nothing is prorated or refunded, and you can undo the switch until then.

If a payment fails

We try the payment again for about 2 weeks, and email you after each failed try. Your codes keep working meanwhile, and a new payment method on your Billing page pays straight away. If every try fails, your plan ends and your codes stop, as the refunds and code continuity policy describes.

Your printed codes

Web link, PDF and contact-card codes print a kifu.to short link that we run, so they follow your plan. Wi-Fi and text codes hold their details themselves, so they keep working whatever happens. For codes that follow your plan, we commit to this:

• They work to the end of the period you paid for, and while we retry a failed payment.
• When you cancel, we email you 7 days before they stop, unless you cancel later than that.
• Once they stop, people who scan them see a neutral page saying the code isn't active: no ads, no offers and never someone else's page.
• Choose a plan again and the same printed codes work again within seconds.
• We keep your codes' designs and settings for 12 months after they stop, then delete them.
• A short link is never given to anyone else, even after its code is deleted.

These commitments hold unless we block a code or suspend your account under these terms or the acceptable use policy. The refunds and code continuity policy has the details.

Fair use

Plans include unlimited codes, edits and scans. The only limits are the kinds the fair-use policy describes. They stop abuse, such as automated or unusually heavy use. Reaching one stops that one action for a while; your codes keep working.

What your codes may open

Your codes must follow the acceptable use policy. We check every web address before it goes live and every day after that. We may hold a change, block a code or suspend an account as that policy describes, and you can ask us to review it.

Your content

• You keep ownership of what you put in your codes: addresses, contact details, PDFs, logos and words.
• You give us permission to store, copy, check, publish and show it as needed to run Kifuna: to make your codes, to show contact cards and PDFs to the people who scan them, and to screen them for safety. The permission ends when the content is deleted, apart from the copies the privacy policy says we keep.
• Contact cards and PDFs can be seen by anyone who has the code. Don't put anything in them you wouldn't print.
• You're responsible for your content, and you must have the right to use it, including any logo or file.

The files you download, and Kifuna itself

• Use the code files you download for any lawful purpose, including on things you sell. We check every design scans before you download it, but paper, size, ink and light can change that, so test a code before you print a lot.
• Kifuna's name, site, software and designs are ours. Don't copy or resell Kifuna, reach it by automated means beyond what the fair-use policy allows, or try to get around its limits or checks.
• QR Code is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.

Keeping Kifuna running

Printed codes redirect from kifu.to, separately from kifuna.com, so they keep working when the site is down. We work to keep both running, but we can't promise Kifuna will always be available or without errors. We may change or retire features. If we ever shut Kifuna down, we'll email you at least 30 days before your codes stop.

Closing an account

• You can delete your account any time from your Account page. It cancels your plan at once, without a refund, and stops and deletes your codes.
• We may block a code, or suspend or close an account, if it breaks these terms or the acceptable use policy, if we reasonably believe it's being used for fraud or to harm people, or if the law requires it. Where we can, we'll tell you why and how to ask for a review.
• Whatever happens, a short link is never given to anyone else.

No other promises

We keep the commitments these terms make. Beyond them, and as far as the law allows, Kifuna is provided as it is and as available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

Limits on liability

As far as the law allows, Kifuna isn't liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue or data. Our total liability for any claim about Kifuna is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

Claims about your content

If someone makes a claim against us because of your content, your codes or your breaking these terms, you'll cover our reasonable costs and losses from it, including legal fees.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We'll post the new version here with its date, and email you at least 30 days before a change that affects you takes effect, unless the law needs it sooner. If you don't agree, cancel before it applies. Using Kifuna after that means you accept it.

Everything else

• These terms, with the policies they include, are the whole agreement between you and us about Kifuna.
• If part of them can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a part straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• You can't transfer your account or these terms without our agreement. We may transfer them to a company that takes over Kifuna, and they keep applying.
• Questions and notices to us: [email protected], or the contact form.