Saam
Legal
Last updated: 16 July 2026
Saam is run by me, Francois Jacobus Bothma, a sole proprietor based in Cape Town, South Africa (operating as “Saam” — “I”, “me”, “my”). These terms are the agreement between you and me when you use Saam at getsaam.com. By creating an account or using Saam, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use Saam.
I've written these in plain language on purpose. Where I use a real legal term, I mean it in its ordinary sense.
You need to be 18 or older to create an account. Saam is built for families, so you can add profiles for the people in your household — including children — but those profiles are managed by you. Children don't get their own logins. By adding someone's information to your family, you confirm you're allowed to do that and that you're responsible for it.
You sign in with your email address using a one-time link or code — there's no password to manage. Keep access to your email secure, because anyone who can open that link or use that code can reach your account. You're responsible for what happens under your account. Tell me at hello@getsaam.com if you think someone else has gained access.
By using Saam you agree that I can send you service messages — like sign-in emails and, if you enable them, reminders and notifications — as needed to run the service.
Use Saam to organise your own family life. Don't use it to break the law, to store or share illegal content, to harass anyone, to try to break or overload the service, to reverse-engineer it, or to resell it as your own. I can suspend or close accounts that do these things.
Your content is yours.The events, tasks, lists, meals, budgets, and anything else your family adds belong to you. By adding them, you give me only the permission I need to store, display, and process them so Saam can work for your family — nothing more. I don't own your content, and I'll never use it for advertising or sell it.
Saam is mine. The app itself — the code, design, name, logo, and everything that makes Saam Saam— belongs to me. Using Saam doesn't give you any rights to copy, modify, resell, or build on it. “Saam” and the Saam logo may not be used without my written permission.
Saam is a young product run by one person. I work hard to keep it running and your data safe, but I provide it “as is” — I can't promise it will always be available, bug-free, or that data will never be lost. Please keep your own copy of anything you genuinely can't afford to lose. I'll always be honest with you about problems.
Saam has a Free plan (up to 4 family members and the core calendar, tasks, and lists) and a Premium plan with more.
Premium costs R49 per month or R449 per year, in South African Rand, charged through Paystack. Premium renews automatically — monthly or yearly — until you cancel.
You can cancel anytime from your billing settings. When you cancel, you keep Premium until the end of the period you've already paid for, then your family moves to the Free plan.
Your data stays when you move to Free. Premium-only features simply stop accepting new input — for example, you can't add a fifth member or create new recurring events — but nothing you've already made is deleted, and existing recurring events keep running.
Subscriptions are charged in advance and are generally non-refundable for the period you're already in — but you can cancel anytime and keep access until that period ends, so you're never locked in going forward. For the annual plan, if something has gone wrong or you've cancelled very early, email me at hello@getsaam.com and I'll consider a fair refund case by case. Nothing here takes away rights you have under South African consumer law.
Some parts of Saam rely on services I don't control — for example, Paystack handles the payment step, and your email provider delivers sign-in links or codes. When you use those, their own terms and privacy policies apply to that part, and I'm not responsible for their services. In future, if you connect Saam to things like Google or Apple calendars, the same applies.
If I change the price, I'll let you know before it affects you, and you'll have the chance to cancel before the new price applies.
You can stop using Saam and delete your family at any time — see the Privacy Policy for exactly what deletion does.
If you breach these terms, I can suspend or end your access. For minor issues I'll aim to warn you first and give you a chance to put it right; for serious breaches (illegal content, abuse of other users, attacks on the service, non-payment) I can suspend immediately. If I close your account for breach, you may not create a new one without my written permission. Ending your access for breach doesn't erase anything you owe for the period already billed, and the sections on intellectual property, indemnity, and my responsibility to you survive the end of this agreement.
I'll do my honest best, but to the extent the law allows, Saam is provided without warranties, and I'm not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for loss of data, arising from your use of Saam. Where liability can't be excluded, it's limited to the amount you paid me in the three months before the issue arose. None of this limits liability that can't lawfully be limited, including under the Consumer Protection Act.
If your breach of these terms, your unlawful use of Saam, or content you add that you had no right to add causes a third party to bring a claim against me, you agree to cover the reasonable costs and damages that claim causes me. This doesn't apply to anything caused by my own fault, and it doesn't limit rights you have under South African consumer law.
I may update these terms as Saam grows. If I make a meaningful change, I'll post it here and update the date above. Continuing to use Saam after that means you accept the change.
These terms are governed by the law of South Africa, and the South African courts have jurisdiction. Questions? Email me at hello@getsaam.com.