Legal notice

Service provider

Name

Kehita AI Oy

Legal form

osakeyhtiö (Finnish private limited company)

Registered address

Unioninkatu 7 B 15, 00130 Helsinki, Finland

Register

Finnish Trade Register (Patentti- ja rekisterihallitus, PRH)

Business ID

3545522-4

VAT number

FI35455224

Represented by

Emil Hartela (hallituksen puheenjohtaja, chair of the board)

Responsible for content

Emil Hartela
Unioninkatu 7 B 15, 00130 Helsinki, Finland

Contact

rapport@pfasnearme.com

Telephone

No telephone line. Fast and direct contact is by email at rapport@pfasnearme.com; we answer within two working days.

Corrections

rapport@pfasnearme.com

Host

Netlify, Inc., 101 2nd Street, Suite 575, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States, https://www.netlify.com

Country-specific information

pfasnearme is published from Finland and is governed by Finnish law (country-of-origin principle, Directive 2000/31/EC). The information below additionally meets the information duties of the countries whose data we publish.

• Finland. Information provided under section 176 of the Act on Electronic Communications Services (917/2014). Name, registered address, email address, trade register number and VAT number are given above.
• France. pfasnearme is published by a company established in Finland; under the country-of-origin principle (Directive 2000/31/EC, article 3, transposed in article 17 of Law 2004-575, the LCEN), the applicable information duties are the Finnish ones, met above. For information under article 6 III of the LCEN: name, registered address, register, director of publication and host are given above. Fast and direct contact is by email at the address given, which the Directive (article 5(1)(c)) and the Court of Justice (case C-298/07) accept in place of a telephone number. French data comes from the ARS health control published through Hub'eau under the Licence Ouverte.
• Belgium. Information required by article XII.6 of the Code of Economic Law. Name, address, email address, company number (the Finnish business ID, as the company is not registered with the Belgian CBE) and VAT number are given above. Flemish data comes from the VMM, Walloon data from SPW-ARNE and SWDE.
• Germany (Impressum). Information under § 5 DDG and § 18 (2) MStV. Name, legal form, address, fast contact channel, register, VAT number, representative and person responsible for content are given above. No supervisory authority is competent for this service. We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).
• Netherlands. Information required by article 3:15d of the Civil Code (Burgerlijk Wetboek). Identity, address, email address, registration number (Finnish trade register, no KvK number) and VAT number are given above.
• Norway. Information required by section 8 of the E-Commerce Act (ehandelsloven). Name, address, email address, register and VAT number are given above.
• Estonia. Information required by § 4 of the Information Society Services Act (infoühiskonna teenuse seadus). Name, address, email address, register and VAT number are given above.
• United States. There is no imprint duty. The paid-link disclosure below follows the FTC Endorsement Guides. US email alerts are not open yet. The postal address required by the CAN-SPAM Act will be published here before the first US email is sent.

Terms of use

pfasnearme is a free information service. It gathers water-quality results published by authorities and utilities, lays them out per city and compares them with benchmarks explained on the methodology page. We measure nothing ourselves and we are not an official source. In case of doubt, the publications of the competent authority or utility prevail.

We do our best to reproduce the data faithfully and refresh it weekly, but reading, conversion or update errors are possible. The site is provided as is, without warranty of accuracy, completeness or currency. To the extent the law allows, we exclude liability for decisions taken on the basis of the site; liability for intent or gross negligence and for injury to life, body or health is not excluded.

The texts, calculations, charts and JSON files produced by pfasnearme are published under the CC BY 4.0 licence. You may reuse them, commercially too, by crediting "pfasnearme" with a link to the page concerned. The measurements themselves remain under the licence of their source, stated on every page and on the sources and licences page. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Links to third-party sites are provided for information; their content is their publishers' responsibility. We may change the site or these terms at any time; the online version applies. Finnish law governs, without depriving a consumer of the mandatory protection of the law of the country where they live.

Funding and affiliate links

pfasnearme is funded in part by affiliate links to water filters. When you buy after clicking a link marked "Ad · affiliate link", the seller pays us a commission; the price you pay does not change. These links appear only on pages whose PFAS-4 result reaches our 0.5 ng/L benchmark and on the filter comparison page. The water results, their presentation and the benchmarks do not depend on the partners in any way; the filter facts come from the manufacturers' and certifiers' documents, not from the partners. We receive nothing for the order or choice of products.

Paid links. Some links on this page are affiliate links. If you buy through them, we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This disclosure follows the Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides (16 CFR Part 255).

Health information disclaimer

Nothing on this site is medical advice. The values, benchmarks and explanations describe the water quality of a network, not your personal situation. For any health question, in particular during pregnancy, for an infant or in case of illness, talk to a doctor. For any question about your water, contact your utility or the competent health authority; their instructions prevail.

Our 0.5 ng/L benchmark for PFAS-4 is a documented proposal, not a legal limit; water "above our benchmark" can be fully compliant. The US EPA has set enforceable limits of 4.0 ng/L for PFOA and for PFOS and a health goal (MCLG) of zero for both. The filters shown are described by the certifications and tests their manufacturers publish; we never claim that a filter removes a given percentage of PFAS or guarantees reaching a benchmark.

Corrections policy

You see a mistake, a misread value, a city attached to the wrong network, a source cited wrongly? Write to rapport@pfasnearme.com with the page address. We acknowledge within 2 working days and correct or explain within 5 working days.

rapport@pfasnearme.com

An accepted correction is published with its date on the page concerned and in its JSON file. Readers who had received the wrong value by email receive a correction message. We do not delete quietly; what was published and then corrected stays identifiable as such.

Takedown requests

Data published under an open licence (Licence Ouverte, Flemish model licence, CC BY, NLOD) or by public bodies subject to re-use law is reproduced as of right; we answer a takedown request by citing the licence and the attribution, and remove nothing.

Data taken from utility publications without an open licence is reproduced with full attribution and withdrawn page by page, within 5 working days, if the utility asks. The page stays online with the note "values withdrawn at the source's request on {date}", its JSON history keeps the revisions without the values, and no email is sent for that city. Sources whose terms require prior consent are never published without it.

Trademarks

Names of products, manufacturers, water utilities and authorities cited on the site are trademarks of their owners and are used only to refer to them. Any logos come from the libraries their owners make available and are used under their terms.