This is a non-binding English translation. The German text is the legally binding version.

Terms of Service

Last updated: 8 April 2026

This is a non-binding English translation of the German “Nutzungsbedingungen”. The German version is the legally binding text. In the event of any inconsistency between this English translation and the German original, the German version prevails. Where concepts refer to German statutory law (BGB, DDG, JMStV, BDSG) or EU regulations (GDPR, DSA), the German/European legal terminology takes precedence over any loose English equivalents used here.

§ 1 Scope and contracting parties

(1) These Terms of Service govern the legal relationship between the operator of the online service “Display Minis Hub” (the “Portal”) and all persons who visit the Portal, create a user account, or otherwise use any of the Portal’s functions (collectively, the “Users”).

(2) The operator and the contracting party of the Users is:

Aliaksei Kliuchnikau
Alex-Wedding-Str. 5
10178 Berlin
Germany

Email: aliaksei@displayminishub.com
Phone: +49 176 72796131

Further information required under § 5 DDG is available in the Legal Notice.

(3) The Portal is accessible under the domain https://displayminishub.com. These Terms apply to all services provided through the Portal, regardless of the device or access method used.

(4) Deviating, conflicting or supplementary general terms of the Users do not become part of the contract unless the operator has expressly agreed to their application in text form.

§ 2 Subject matter and description of services

(1) The Portal is an informational service and an aggregation platform for the miniatures hobby (collecting, painting and displaying miniatures). It consolidates publicly available information on miniatures, their creators and their vendors from many sources and provides search, filter and navigation functions across that information.

(2) The services in particular include:

  • a searchable and filterable catalogue of miniatures, their variants (scale, material, format) and related creators and distribution channels;
  • information on creators and vendors, with links to their original listings;
  • the display of third-party offers (marketplaces, shops) as mere references to external sites;
  • optionally, for registered Users: a user account, personal collections, photo albums, comment and community functions, and the ability to report or comment on content on the Portal.

(3) The Portal is not a shop and not a marketplace in the sense of being a contracting party itself. The operator is neither seller, manufacturer nor commercial agent for the products displayed on the Portal. Any contract for the purchase of miniatures or services is formed exclusively between the User and the respective external vendor; see § 10 for details.

(4) Use of the Portal is free of charge for the User. There is no claim to permanent, uninterrupted or error-free availability; see § 18.

(5) The operator reserves the right to extend, alter, limit or discontinue the scope of services provided through the Portal at any time, insofar as this is reasonable for the User. § 19 remains unaffected.

§ 3 Conclusion of contract, registration, minimum age

(1) No registration is required for simply viewing the publicly accessible content of the Portal. By accessing the Portal, the User accepts these Terms in their current version to the extent necessary for the actual use.

(2) The use of registration-only functions (in particular the user account, photo albums, comments, content reporting, and the unlocking of age-restricted content under § 9) requires a user account. The contract for the use of a user account is formed once the operator confirms the registration.

(3) Minimum age: The creation of a user account is only permitted to persons who have reached the age of 16. During registration, the User must expressly confirm that they are at least 16 years old. The point in time of this confirmation is stored. Registrations without this confirmation will not be accepted; incorrect age information entitles the operator to block or delete the user account immediately.

(4) The minimum age is based on Art. 8 GDPR in conjunction with § 22 BDSG and the digital age of consent of 16 years applicable in Germany. Persons under the age of 16 may visit the Portal without registering as a general information source, provided their legal guardians permit this; however, they may not use any functions that require registration or age confirmation.

(5) As a matter of principle, only one user account may be created per person. The use of an account by multiple persons, or the sharing of access credentials with third parties, is not permitted.

(6) There is no claim to the creation of a user account. The operator may refuse creation without giving reasons, in particular if there are indications of a violation of these Terms, of applicable law or of the legitimate interests of third parties.

§ 4 User account, access credentials, pseudonyms

(1) The User is obliged to provide the mandatory information requested during registration truthfully and completely and to keep it up to date throughout the contract. This applies in particular to the email address provided at registration, through which the operator sends account-related notifications.

(2) The User may use the Portal under a pseudonym. The real name does not have to be provided during registration; to the extent the User provides personal information (e.g. in comments or profile information), the User is responsible for its accuracy.

(3) The access credentials to the user account must be kept confidential and protected from access by third parties. The User is obliged to choose a sufficiently secure password and to inform the operator without delay if there are indications that unauthorised third parties have obtained knowledge of the credentials or that the user account is being misused.

(4) Actions carried out through the user account will be attributed to the User, unless misuse by third parties for which the User is not responsible can be proven. The User is liable under statutory rules for damages arising from a culpable breach of the confidentiality obligation in paragraph 3.

§ 5 Rights to use Portal content

(1) All content of the Portal – in particular texts, structured data, database excerpts, graphics, logos and software – is protected by copyright and related rights. The rights holder is either the operator or the respective third party from whose source the content originates.

(2) The User may view, search and share the Portal’s content for its intended use and for the User’s own, non-commercial purposes, using the functions provided by the Portal. Beyond this intended use, any reproduction, distribution, public communication, adaptation or other exploitation – in particular the systematic extraction (scraping, crawling), the creation of copies of entire catalogue sections, or the use of automated queries to extract data – is not permitted, unless expressly authorised by the operator or permitted by a statutory limitation or exception.

(3) In particular, database excerpts and substantial parts of the Portal’s database may not be used to feed into own offerings or to build own or third-party databases. § 87a ff. UrhG (protection of the database maker) remains unaffected.

(4) The use of automated access, scraping or crawling tools is permitted only to the extent that it complies with any robots.txt file on the Portal and serves the reasonable scope of a classic search crawler. Violations of this rule entitle the operator to block the relevant IP addresses immediately and to pursue legal remedies.

(5) Information on creators and vendors is maintained by the operator for informational purposes. Where creator or vendor profiles refer to specific persons or companies, this does not constitute an endorsement, partnership or other economic relationship, unless expressly indicated.

§ 6 User content, warranty of rights, licence to the operator

(1) Registered Users may – depending on the functions enabled – upload their own content to the Portal. This includes in particular photographs of painted miniatures, comments, collection descriptions, embeds of publicly accessible posts from social networks, and other contributions as part of community functions (collectively, “User Content”).

(2) User’s warranty of rights. By uploading User Content, the User expressly warrants:

a) that they are the author of the content or hold all rights required for publication on the Portal, in particular the consent of any depicted persons and any rights in the underlying sculpted work (in the case of photographs of painted miniatures);

b) that the content does not violate applicable law or the rights of third parties (in particular copyright, trademark, personality or data-protection rights);

c) that the content does not contain any material prohibited under § 8 paragraph 2.

(3) Licence to the operator. By uploading User Content, the User grants the operator a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use the User Content on the Portal and in connection with its promotion, including in particular the right to

  • store, reproduce, resize and convert the content into other file formats and resolutions (including the generation of thumbnails and CDN variants),
  • make publicly available, display and distribute the content, in particular in the context of catalogue, gallery, editorial and communication functions of the Portal,
  • use the content within reasonable Portal-related marketing and communication activities (for example in editorial selections, social media posts related to the Portal, and newsletters).

Any independent commercial exploitation of the content outside the Portal context (for example licensing to third parties for purposes unrelated to the Portal) is not included.

(4) The licence is granted for the duration of the content’s publication on the Portal. If the User deletes an item of content or their user account, the licence ends subject to a technical grace period of up to 30 days for cache, backup and CDN clean-up. The use of the content in editorial contexts lawfully published prior to deletion (for example newsletters already sent, archived Portal blog posts) remains permissible.

(5) Where Users embed publicly accessible posts from social networks (e.g. Instagram) using the embedding function provided by the respective network, the content is served directly from the provider’s servers. In these cases the licence under paragraph 3 covers only the embed format and the accompanying metadata (e.g. caption, attribution to the user account); the rights in the linked content remain with the respective author. In such cases the User likewise warrants that they are entitled to embed the content.

(6) The operator is not obliged to publish User Content. It may review content before publication, refuse publication, or remove content after publication, where the prerequisites of § 8 or § 12 are met.

(7) Rights of the User in their own content. The User retains all rights in their own content. The licence under paragraph 3 does not affect those rights; the User remains free to exploit their own content in any way they choose.

§ 7 Visibility of profiles and contributions

(1) Profiles are not public. The personal profile pages of Users are not publicly accessible to other Users or to unregistered visitors. They serve exclusively for the User’s own account management.

(2) Contributions are public. Content that a User posts through community functions (such as comments, photo albums, public collections) is – insofar as the function is designed that way – visible to other Users and, where applicable, to unregistered visitors. The User is informed accordingly before posting.

(3) When publishing their own personal data, the User should exercise restraint and decide for themselves what information to share. The operator recommends publishing content only to the extent necessary for the respective purpose.

§ 8 Rules of conduct and prohibited content

(1) The User undertakes to use the Portal only within the bounds of the law and in accordance with these Terms. The User must respect the rights of other Users and third parties and must use the Portal’s community functions respectfully.

(2) Strictly prohibited content. Regardless of age classification, age declaration or content filter, uploading, sharing, embedding or linking to the following content on the Portal is strictly prohibited:

a) content depicting child sexual abuse, containing sexualised depictions of minors, or otherwise violating § 184b StGB;

b) content that is inadmissible under § 4 JMStV (in particular glorification of violence or war, incitement to hatred, denial of Nazi crimes, pornographic content not protected by a closed user group);

c) content violating §§ 86, 86a StGB (dissemination of propaganda and use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organisations), unless covered by the social adequacy clause;

d) content inciting hatred, violence or discrimination against identifiable persons or groups, or glorifying such acts;

e) content infringing third-party rights, in particular copyright, trademark, personality, data-protection or competition-law rights;

f) malware, phishing links, and content that is capable of compromising the security or integrity of the Portal infrastructure or the devices of other Users;

g) commercial advertising and spam, unless expressly agreed with the operator; this also includes systematic link placement and referral spam.

(3) Prohibited use. In addition, the following are not permitted:

a) the use of automated access, scraping or crawling tools contrary to § 5 paragraph 4;

b) attempts to circumvent the content filter under § 9, in particular by providing false age information;

c) acts intended to disrupt or overload Portal functions (for example DDoS attacks, exploit testing without consent);

d) taking over third-party user accounts, impersonating another person’s identity, or systematically using multiple accounts to circumvent a sanction;

e) uploading or embedding images that do not originate from the User and to which the User has no rights, with the intent of passing off third-party work as their own (“plagiarism”);

f) removing or falsifying authorship or source information that is part of the content.

(4) The operator is entitled to sanction violations of these rules in accordance with § 14. In addition, the operator reserves the right to take civil and criminal action where this is necessary to protect its own rights or the rights of third parties.

§ 9 Youth protection, age tiers and content filter (JMStV)

(1) The operator observes the requirements of the German Youth Media Protection Treaty (Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag, “JMStV”) and general minor-protection rules. For this purpose, a two-tier system of content classification and a user-activated content filter has been implemented.

(2) Classifications. Content on the Portal that is not generally suitable for all audiences is tagged with classification categories. The relevant categories are

  • nudity (artistic nudity, non-sexual nude figures, up to explicitly sexualised pin-up figures);
  • gore (drastic depictions of injury and body horror within the grimdark aesthetic, up to extreme depictions of violence);
  • sexual (sexually explicit, pornographic depictions).

Classification is carried out by the operator or by moderators appointed by the operator, applying documented classification guidelines; in case of doubt, the higher rather than the lower category is chosen.

(3) Age tiers. From the classifications, the following age tiers follow:

a) Publicly accessible (without classification): visible to all visitors.

b) 16+ (non-sexual nudity, gore): hidden by default. Only registered Users may unlock this content after confirming that they are at least 16 years old.

c) 18+ (sexual, extreme violence): hidden by default. Only registered Users may unlock this content after separately confirming that they are at least 18 years old.

(4) How the filter works. Until a User has confirmed the corresponding age tier, classified content is not shown in the catalogue, search or listings, or is hidden behind a placeholder. Unlocking takes place exclusively in the User’s account settings. There is no cookie-based unlocking without a login.

(5) Content preferences for adults. Regardless of the age tier, Users can separately disable specific classification categories (e.g. “gore”) within their unlocked tiers. These settings are preference filters and do not affect the age tier itself.

(6) False age information. The User’s confirmation that they meet a given age tier is a material contractual declaration. False age information constitutes a material breach of these Terms and entitles the operator, in addition to the sanctions under § 14, to terminate the user account with immediate effect. The User is responsible for ensuring that persons under 16 or 18 years of age, respectively, do not access correspondingly classified content through their user account.

(7) Absolute limits. Content described in § 4 JMStV or in § 8 paragraph 2 of these Terms is never displayed or accepted, regardless of age tier or content filter.

(8) Parents and guardians. The operator recommends that parents and guardians make use of suitable youth-protection software when their children use the internet.

§ 10 Third-party marketplace offers and disclaimer

(1) Offers for miniatures, services and other products displayed on the Portal come from external vendors. The operator is not a party to any contract concerning such offers, nor does it act as a commercial agent. It does not collect, hold or forward any payments.

(2) When a User selects a displayed offer and clicks the associated link, they are – usually via a redirect or direct link – taken to the external vendor’s website. Any purchase or service contract is formed exclusively between the User and the external vendor and is subject to the vendor’s own terms of service, privacy policy and withdrawal information. The operator is not a party to that contractual relationship.

(3) Accuracy and timeliness of offer data. Product and offer data on the Portal is aggregated from external sources. It may be incomplete, outdated or inaccurate. The operator does not warrant the correctness, completeness or timeliness of that data; in particular, prices, availability, material details or delivery times may change at any time without being immediately reflected on the Portal. The information on the external vendor’s website at the time of contract formation is always authoritative.

(4) Responsibility of the external vendor. The external vendor is solely responsible for the quality of the offered goods or services, for the performance of the contract (payment, delivery, return, warranty, right of withdrawal, consumer information under EGBGB / distance sales law) and for its own data-protection obligations. Claims arising from such contracts must be pursued against the external vendor.

(5) No transfer of liability to the operator. The operator is not liable for the conclusion, performance or fulfilment of contracts between Users and external vendors, nor for the accuracy of offer data passed on through the Portal. Any liability of the operator arising merely from the display or linking of an external offer is excluded, unless mandatory rules in § 16 provide otherwise.

(6) Affiliate programmes. If the operator later participates in affiliate programmes or receives compensation for forwarding Users, such links will be clearly marked as advertising (“Werbelink”) and disclosed in the Privacy Policy. This does not affect the contractual relationship between the User and the external vendor.

§ 11 Third-party content, social-media embeds, external links

(1) The Portal may embed third-party content, in particular embeds of publicly accessible posts from social networks (e.g. Instagram). Such content is loaded only through the official embedding functions provided by the respective provider; no copies of third-party images are stored on the Portal’s infrastructure in this context.

(2) Embedded third-party content is the responsibility of the respective author or the embedding User. The operator does not make such content its own.

(3) Social-media embeds are loaded only after the User has consented to the corresponding cookie category. The purposes, providers and consent-management details are governed by the Privacy Policy and the cookie banner.

(4) The Portal contains links to external websites, the content of which is beyond the operator’s control. The operators of the linked sites are solely responsible for their content. At the time of linking, the linked pages were checked for possible legal violations; no unlawful content was apparent. Continuous monitoring of the content of linked pages is not reasonable without concrete indications of a legal violation. Upon becoming aware of any legal violations, the operator will promptly remove such links.

§ 12 Reporting illegal content (notice-and-action under the DSA)

(1) Pursuant to Art. 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act, “DSA”), the Portal provides a mechanism for reporting illegal content. Reports may be submitted informally, in particular

(2) A valid report should contain:

a) a sufficiently precise description of the content in question and the reason why it is considered illegal;

b) information enabling the content to be located on the Portal (in particular a URL);

c) the name and a contact method (email) of the person reporting the content – except in cases concerning criminal offences under Art. 18 DSA;

d) a statement that the information is accurate and complete to the best of the reporter’s knowledge and belief.

(3) The operator will confirm receipt of a report without undue delay and will examine it promptly, diligently, non-arbitrarily and objectively. Both the reporter and – where possible – the affected User will be informed of the outcome of the review with reasons and with information on the available remedies (Art. 17 DSA).

(4) A separate takedown process described in § 13 is available for copyright infringements. For data-protection requests (for example access, deletion or objection under Art. 15 et seq. GDPR), please use the contact address provided in the Privacy Policy.

(5) Abusive, manifestly unfounded or high-volume reports from the same person may, in accordance with Art. 23 DSA, be temporarily suspended after prior warning.

§ 13 Takedown procedure for rights holders

(1) Rights holders who believe that content on the Portal infringes their copyright, trademark, personality or other rights may contact the operator at any time. The operator aims to respond within 48 hours of receipt of a report on business days.

(2) A takedown notice should contain:

a) identification of the infringed right (e.g. specific work, trademark, image);

b) proof of rights holder status or of entitlement to pursue the claim (e.g. reference to publicly accessible registry entries or a declaration);

c) precise identification of the content complained of on the Portal (URL);

d) a short justification of the infringement;

e) contact information for follow-up.

(3) The operator reserves the right to forward the notice to the affected User or third-party source to the extent legally permissible and necessary to clarify the facts.

(4) In the case of substantiated takedown requests, the operator will remove or block the content in question without undue delay. The affected User will – where possible – be informed of the removal and its reasons, and pointed to the complaint procedure under § 14.

(5) Creators and vendors who are not rights holders in the narrower sense but still wish not to be listed in the catalogue may likewise contact the operator. Such requests are generally honoured within seven days, even without a legal basis on the part of the requester, and the corresponding entries are removed from the catalogue.

§ 14 Moderation, sanctions, complaint and redress

(1) The operator may restrict, hide or remove User Content where it violates these Terms (in particular § 8) or where legal reasons require it. Possible further measures against the affected User include in particular:

  • a warning;
  • temporary or permanent restriction of specific functions (e.g. commenting, uploading);
  • temporary suspension or permanent closure of the user account.

The operator selects the measure in accordance with the principle of proportionality. Minor violations are normally addressed by a warning first.

(2) Reasoned decision. Where content of a User is removed or restricted, or where the user account is restricted or suspended, the affected User will – where possible – receive a statement of reasons indicating in particular

  • the measure taken and its scope,
  • the facts on which the measure is based,
  • the contractual or legal basis, and
  • the possibility to file an internal complaint under paragraph 3

(cf. Art. 17 DSA).

(3) Internal complaint. The affected User may contest the decision by email to privacy@displayminishub.com within six months of receipt of the notification and request a review. The complaint should contain a short explanation. The operator examines the complaint promptly, diligently, non-arbitrarily and objectively, taking into account any new information, and informs the User of the outcome (Art. 20 DSA).

(4) Out-of-court dispute settlement. The affected User may additionally turn to a body certified under Art. 21 DSA to settle disputes concerning such measures out of court. The operator expressly notes that it is not obliged to participate in such proceedings, but will cooperate with a certified body in good faith.

(5) Repeat offenders. In the event of repeated violations, in particular of § 8 paragraph 2 or of the prohibition on plagiarism under § 8 paragraph 3 lit. e, the operator may permanently suspend the user account after prior warning.

§ 15 Term, termination, deletion of the user account

(1) The contract for the use of a user account is concluded for an indefinite period. The User may terminate it at any time and without giving reasons by deleting the account in the account settings or by sending an informal notice to privacy@displayminishub.com.

(2) The operator may terminate the contract by ordinary notice with 14 days’ notice to the end of the month if the Portal is discontinued or substantially reorganised and continuing the user account is not reasonable for the operator.

(3) The right to extraordinary termination for cause remains unaffected for both parties. Cause for termination by the operator exists in particular if

a) the User repeatedly or seriously violates these Terms, in particular § 8;

b) the User provides false age information (§ 9 paragraph 6);

c) the User uses the Portal in a manner contrary to law or induces third parties to do so;

d) there are sufficient indications that the account is being used by an unauthorised person or that it was created solely to circumvent an existing suspension.

(4) Consequences of termination. Upon termination taking effect, the user account is deactivated. The operator deletes the data associated with the user account in accordance with the Privacy Policy, subject to any legal retention obligations. User Content published by the User will be removed within the time periods set out in § 6 paragraph 4. The User is responsible for backing up their own data or content before termination.

(5) The operator is entitled to irretrievably delete all data of the User stored during the contract, unless statutory retention obligations prevent this.

§ 16 Liability

(1) The operator is liable to the User without limitation

a) for intent and gross negligence,

b) for injury to life, body or health,

c) under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and

d) to the extent of any guarantee assumed by the operator.

(2) In the case of a slightly negligent breach of a material contractual obligation (Kardinalpflicht) – meaning an obligation the fulfilment of which is essential for the proper performance of the contract and on the observance of which the User may regularly rely – the operator’s liability is limited to the foreseeable, contract-typical damage at the time of contract formation. Liability for slight negligence is otherwise excluded.

(3) Insofar as the operator’s liability is excluded or limited, this also applies to the personal liability of its legal representatives, employees, other staff and vicarious agents.

(4) Free services. Because the Portal is provided free of charge, the operator is liable in analogous application of § 521 BGB, even for slightly negligent breaches of material contractual obligations, only to the extent that the User could legitimately rely on the operator’s assurances. Paragraphs 1 to 3 apply accordingly.

(5) No liability for User Content or third-party content. The operator is not liable for content uploaded by Users or embedded by third parties, nor for the availability, timeliness or accuracy of external offers and content (§§ 10, 11). The operator’s liability as a hosting service provider pursuant to §§ 7 et seq. DDG and Art. 6 DSA (hosting safe harbour) remains unaffected; the operator will remove any infringing content of which it becomes aware without undue delay.

(6) No liability for data loss beyond the statutory extent. The User is responsible for regularly backing up their own content uploaded to the Portal. Insofar as the operator is required to help restore lost data, such assistance is limited to typical effort, provided the User has fulfilled their own backup obligation.

§ 17 Indemnification

(1) The User shall indemnify the operator against any third-party claims asserted against the operator due to content uploaded by the User or due to a culpable violation of these Terms by the User. This applies in particular to claims arising from violations of copyright, trademark, personality, data-protection or competition-law rights.

(2) The indemnification also covers the necessary legal defence costs of the operator (including all court and attorney fees in the statutory amount).

(3) The User is obliged to inform the operator without delay, truthfully and completely of any third-party claim, and to provide all reasonable information necessary for the legal defence.

(4) The indemnification obligation does not apply where the User is not responsible for the culpable violation.

§ 18 Availability, maintenance, further development

(1) The operator endeavours to keep the Portal available to the highest possible extent. However, there is no claim to any particular availability, response times or bandwidth, especially not in the context of free use.

(2) The operator may temporarily restrict or suspend the Portal for maintenance, security or development work. Where foreseeable and expected to take more than a short time, the operator will provide reasonable notice.

(3) The operator may further develop the functions of the Portal, add, modify, remove or replace individual functions, insofar as this is reasonable for the User taking their interests into account and the notice obligations in § 19 are observed.

(4) The operator reserves the right to discontinue the Portal as a whole. Such discontinuation will be announced to Users with at least four weeks’ notice by email or via the Portal; § 15 paragraph 2 remains unaffected.

§ 19 Changes to these Terms

(1) The operator reserves the right to amend these Terms with effect for the future, insofar as this is necessary

a) to adapt the Terms to changed statutory, supreme-court or regulatory requirements (in particular changes to copyright, data protection, competition, youth-protection or DSA law),

b) to properly govern new or changed Portal functions,

c) to correct obvious errors, ambiguities or gaps, or

d) to respond to other substantive reasons which do not unilaterally change the original contractual balance to the User’s detriment.

(2) Changes affecting material provisions of these Terms (in particular liability, licence rights, sanctions, termination, minimum age, youth protection) will be announced to registered Users by email or via a clearly visible notice on the Portal at least six weeks before the planned effective date. The notice will contain the text of the changes or a link to the amended version, a summary of the material changes, and a reference to the right of objection under paragraph 3.

(3) Right of objection. If the User does not object to the change in text form within six weeks of receipt of the notice, the change is deemed accepted. The operator will expressly draw the User’s attention to this effect in the notice. If the User objects in time and form, the operator is entitled to terminate the contract by ordinary notice with effect to the date the change was to take effect; until then the previous contract continues to apply.

(4) Purely technical or editorial changes that do not noticeably worsen the User’s legal position may be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date at the top of these Terms.

§ 20 Final provisions

(1) Applicable law. These Terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and of conflict-of-laws rules. In the case of Users who are consumers with habitual residence in another country, mandatory consumer-protection rules of that country remain unaffected.

(2) Jurisdiction. To the extent legally permissible, Berlin is the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms. For consumers, the statutory rules on jurisdiction apply.

(3) Online dispute resolution. The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (ODR): https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. The operator is neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle) under the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act (VSBG).

(4) Assignment. The User may transfer rights and obligations under this contract to third parties only with the prior written consent of the operator. The operator is entitled to transfer the contract to a third party in the context of legal succession or restructuring (e.g. upon incorporation of a limited-liability entity continuing the Portal); Users will be informed in good time and will have a special right of termination in such cases.

(5) Text form. Where these Terms provide for notices or declarations in text form, a message sent by email to the current contact address is sufficient.

(6) Severability clause. Should individual provisions of these Terms be or become invalid in whole or in part, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected. Invalid provisions are replaced by the applicable statutory rules. The same applies to any gaps in the Terms.

Contact and further information

Questions, complaints, takedown requests and notices under §§ 12, 13 of these Terms may be directed to:

Related legal documents:

These Terms of Service were drafted by the operator without the use of a commercial generator and are modelled on the applicable requirements of German terms-of-service law (§§ 305 et seq. BGB), the DDG, the DSA, the JMStV and the BDSG/GDPR. They do not replace individual legal advice. This English version is a non-binding translation prepared by the operator for accessibility; in the event of any conflict with the German version, the German version prevails.