Terms of cooperation (AGB)

1. Scope

These terms apply to contracts for websites, web design, digital online presences and individual digital services and software, concluded with me as a sole proprietorship based in Berlin. They apply from contract conclusion, not from merely visiting the site.

2. B2B and B2C clients

I work with businesses and consumers. Consumers keep their statutory rights, including withdrawal for distance contracts - see the Withdrawal page. Clauses that would be invalid toward a consumer are not applied to them.

3. Contact and conclusion of contract

You can contact me via the form, brief, email, phone or other listed channels. Sending a form or brief is an enquiry, not a binding offer and not an obligation to buy.

A contract is formed when both sides agree an individual scope and price - usually by written or email confirmation of an offer. Until then I may decline the work without giving reasons.

4. Offers and pricing

Each project is scoped and priced individually. Offers bind for the period stated; if none is stated - 14 days. Prices are under the small-business VAT scheme: I do not charge VAT (§ 19 UStG).

The VAT identification number (USt-IdNr.) DE464708119 is published in the Impressum.

5. Services

I deliver what the accepted offer describes. Work outside the offer needs a separate agreement.

6. Client duties

The client provides texts, photos, logo, access and decisions on time. Delays on the client side move deadlines. The client names one contact person.

7. Client materials

The client warrants they have the rights to materials they supply and that using them will not infringe third-party rights. On request they shall indemnify me against justified third-party claims arising from those materials, to the extent permitted by law.

8. Scope changes

Changes to the agreed scope (extra pages, features, integrations) require an updated offer or written confirmation of extra fees and timing.

9. Revisions

The fee includes the number of revision rounds stated in the offer (by default two rounds within the agreed scope). Further revisions or a concept change after a stage is accepted are billed extra.

10. Extra work

Work outside the offer is quoted before it is done, unless it is minor or expressly commissioned as urgent at the client’s cost.

11. Fees and payment

Fees and currency follow the offer. Invoices are payable within the stated period (14 days by default). Late payment attracts statutory interest; businesses also have the other BGB remedies.

12. Deposits and milestones

Deposits or staged payments apply only if the offer provides for them. I do not start paid work before an agreed kickoff payment if one is reserved.

13. Acceptance

After I report completion the client has a reasonable review period (7 days by default). No substantial objections in that time means acceptance. Minor defects do not block acceptance and are fixed under the agreed revisions / warranty.

14. Rights and licence

Until full payment, the agreed usage rights stay with me. After full payment the client receives - unless the offer says otherwise - an exclusive, geographically and temporally unlimited licence to use the deliverables for the agreed purpose. Open-source components and third-party assets stay under their own licences.

15. Third-party services, hosting, domains, licences

Domains, hosting, mailboxes, fonts, stock, APIs and SaaS subscriptions are contracted by the client unless the offer expressly includes them as my service. I am not liable for those providers’ outages or price changes.

16. Content and legal responsibility

The client is responsible for substantive content, statements, prices, sector information duties and the lawfulness of their materials. I do not provide legal advice. The client approves or has a lawyer review their own imprint and policies.

17. Liability

I am fully liable for intent, gross negligence and injury to life, body or health.

For ordinary negligence I am liable toward businesses only for breach of essential contractual duties and limited to typical, foreseeable damage. Toward consumers, limits apply only as far as mandatory law allows.

No liability for lost profit or data the client did not back up, unless the law forbids that exclusion.

18. Withdrawal (consumers)

If the client is a consumer and a distance contract is concluded, the statutory withdrawal right applies. It does not apply to traders acting in the course of business. A mere form enquiry does not start that right - only a concluded contract does.

Withdrawal information (consumers)

19. Final provisions

German law applies. For consumers this does not take away protection that cannot be waived under the law of their habitual residence.

Venue for disputes with businesses is Berlin, unless statute says otherwise.

If a clause is invalid, the rest remains. Individually agreed terms prevail over these AGB when they are expressly agreed.