Terms of Service
Last updated: 24 August 2026.
What TARE is
TARE is an estimation tool. It computes modelled EPR fee estimates from the data you provide and from published fee schedules. It is not a bill, not a filing, and not legal, tax, or professional advice. Estimates may differ from what a regulator or producer responsibility organisation actually invoices. Every result carries this disclaimer in the product, and you agree not to present a TARE estimate as a determination of what you owe.
Estimates, citations, and what we do not warrant
Rates in TARE are labelled by how well grounded they are. Some are transcribed from a published schedule and cite it. Others are estimated or forecast because the programme has not yet published rates. The label is shown next to the number, and you agree to read it. Relying on a forecast rate as though it were published is a misuse of the product.
Your account and your responsibilities
- Provide accurate packaging data. You are responsible for the inputs you enter and for verifying outputs before relying on them.
- Keep your credentials secure. You are responsible for activity under your account.
- Use the service lawfully, and do not attempt to disrupt it, probe it for vulnerabilities without permission, or reverse-engineer it.
- Do not upload data you are not entitled to share.
What is free and what is paid
Estimating your fees is free with a registered account, for every programme we cover. The reduction module, which models what a packaging change would avoid, is the paid tier: TARE Pro, 3,000 USD a year, per organisation, every seat at your company included. There is one price. There is no monthly plan, no per-seat charge, and no tier that depends on your tonnage.
Paying, renewing, and cancelling
- You may subscribe by card through our payment provider, Stripe, or ask us to invoice you. We never see or store your card details.
- A subscription runs for one year and renews automatically for further one-year terms unless you cancel. Cancel any time before a renewal date and the renewal does not take place; your access continues until the end of the term you have paid for.
- To cancel, email tare.epr.app@gmail.com from the address on your account and say so. We confirm in writing within two working days. You do not need to give a reason, and we will not ask you to call anyone.
- Paying and getting access are two steps, and they are not instant. Where your payment does not provision your account automatically, we switch it over after the payment lands, usually the same working day, and email you when it is done. If access has not appeared within two working days, email us and we will either fix it or refund you.
- Fees are stated in US dollars and are exclusive of any sales, use, VAT, GST or similar tax, which is your responsibility where it applies.
- We do not refund part-used terms, except where we have failed to provide access you paid for, or where the law requires it.
- We may change the price. A change never affects a term you have already paid for, and we will tell you before a renewal at a new price.
Advisory engagements are separate
We also offer a reduction assessment: a paid engagement in which we work through your portfolio and set out, in writing, which levers apply to your packaging and what the model says each is worth.
That is a different relationship from your use of this software, and it is governed by its own written agreement, not by these terms. Nothing you read on this site or inside the product creates an advisory relationship, and no assessment is provided under a TARE Pro subscription. Where we do accept such an engagement:
- We are packaging fee modellers. We are not your lawyers, your accountants, your tax advisers, or your engineers, and an assessment is none of those things.
- An assessment analyses the data you give us using a stated method. It does not verify that any change we describe is manufacturable, compatible with your production lines, safe for your product, compliant with food-contact or other regulation, or available from your suppliers. Those questions are outside what we examine and remain yours to answer before you act.
- Any figure in an assessment is an estimate on the same terms as every other figure this product produces.
Your data
Your data remains yours. We use it to operate the service for you, as described in our Privacy Policy. We do not sell it and we do not use it to advertise to you.
Intellectual property
The software, its interface, and our selection and transcription of public rate data are proprietary; all rights reserved. Underlying public sources, such as statutes and published fee schedules, are not claimed by us.
No warranty
The service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that estimates are accurate, complete, or suitable for any particular purpose, or that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free. We do not promise a service level, and the service may be unavailable during maintenance or deployment.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, for lost profits, lost data, regulatory penalties, or for any decision made in reliance on an estimate.
Where we are liable, our total liability for all claims arising in any twelve-month period is limited to the fees you actually paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. Your use of the free tier is provided without charge, and our liability for it is limited accordingly.
Each agreement carries its own cap. A subscription and an advisory engagement are separate agreements, and the cap under one does not extend to the other.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. If any part of this section is held unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
Governing law
TARE is operated from Canada and these terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of Ontario have non-exclusive jurisdiction. Nothing here removes a protection available to you under the mandatory law of the place where you are established.
Suspension and termination
You may stop using the service at any time and ask us to delete your account and data. We may suspend or end access if these terms are breached; where the breach can be put right we will say what is wrong and give you a reasonable chance to fix it first, unless the breach is one that makes that pointless.
If we discontinue the service during a term you have paid for, we refund the unused part. That is the one case where a part-used term is refundable, and it is ours to trigger, not yours.
Changes to these terms
We may update the service and these terms. The date at the top of this page shows when it last changed. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the updated terms.