General terms and conditions
1. General provisions
These terms govern use of the Teach & Grow platform and provision of its associated services. Provider details are in the legal notice.
Scope (B2B): Our offer is exclusively for entrepreneurs within the meaning of section 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB), legal entities under public law and special funds under public law (section 310(1) BGB). By registering and using the platform, you confirm that you act as an entrepreneur and use the platform in the course of your trade or independent professional activity.
The contractual language is German.
Conflicting or supplementary terms apply only if we expressly agree to them.
2. Registration and access credentials
An account is required to use certain features. You must provide truthful information and keep your access credentials confidential. You are responsible for taking appropriate measures to prevent third parties from obtaining them.
As a rule, accounts are not transferable. We are not liable for damage caused by misuse of your access credentials insofar as you are responsible for that misuse.
3. Free use and upgrades
You can generally use the platform to create and organize content and prepare an academy.
A paid upgrade may be required for publishing and sales features, such as published course content, student access and payment or entitlement features. The current product description determines which features are free or paid.
4. Contract formation and payment (Digistore24)
Paid services are ordered and billed through our payment and distribution partner Digistore24 (Digistore24 GmbH). As a rule, the contract for ordering and payment is concluded between you and Digistore24 under a reseller system. Digistore24 sells the services in its own name and for its own account; we provide the platform service as the service provider within that reseller system.
The conditions displayed at checkout and Digistore24’s terms of use and payment also apply.
Cancellation, term and billing follow the conditions shown at checkout. Information on cancelling a Digistore24 subscription is available here: Digistore24 help: cancel a subscription. The conditions shown at checkout or on the invoice or order confirmation, together with Digistore24’s applicable terms, are decisive where Digistore24 is the contracting party.
Digistore24’s current conditions, including its terms and privacy policy, are available from Digistore24. For questions about cancellation, term and billing, Digistore24 is your first point of contact where it is the contracting party. Cancellation and renewal depend on the product purchased, such as monthly or annual billing, and Digistore24’s conditions.
5. Set-off and rights of retention
You may only set off claims that are undisputed or established by a final court judgment.
You have a right of retention only if your counterclaim arises from the same contractual relationship and is due.
6. User obligations (acceptable use)
You are responsible for the content and data you provide. You must ensure that third-party rights are not infringed and that no unlawful content is uploaded or shared.
The following are prohibited, without limitation:
- Unlawful content, including criminal content, hate speech, fraud or phishing, and infringements of third-party intellectual property rights.
- Malware, exploits, circumvention or manipulation of security measures, or unauthorized access attempts.
- Spam or harassment, including mass messaging or misuse of support channels.
- Automated extraction, scraping, crawling or other automated access beyond normal use.
- Account sharing, disclosure of credentials, resale or rental of access.
- Misuse of payment processes, including fraudulent orders or abuse of refunds or chargebacks.
- Any use that endangers the platform’s stability or availability or adversely affects other users.
In the event of violations or misuse, we may take appropriate measures, including removing content, imposing technical restrictions such as limits or rate limits, temporarily suspending access and, for serious or repeated violations, deleting the account or terminating the contract for cause. In urgent cases, such as security incidents or unlawful content, measures may be taken without prior notice.
You indemnify us against third-party claims arising from unlawful use or content you provide. This includes reasonable legal defense costs.
7. Fair use and resources
Our pricing is based on average, customary use of platform resources, such as storage, traffic and computing load.
If your use significantly exceeds customary levels, we may contact you and ask you to reduce usage within a reasonable period or work with us to find a solution, such as an upgrade or an individual agreement.
8. Rights to content
You retain all rights to your content. You grant us only the rights necessary to provide the platform, such as storing, processing, displaying and delivering content insofar as required for you and authorized users.
We do not use your content for our own marketing purposes unless you expressly consent.
9. Legal texts and generated content
Templates, sample texts and generator features provided on the platform, such as legal notices, privacy policies, terms or other legal texts, serve exclusively as non-binding examples and guidance.
We do not provide legal advice. You use the supplied texts at your own responsibility. You must independently check generated content before publication and, where necessary, have it reviewed by a qualified legal adviser.
We do not warrant the legal accuracy, completeness or currency of the sample texts provided.
10. Availability, changes and maintenance
We continue to develop the platform and may change or adapt features where necessary for objective reasons, such as security, changes in law or technical development, provided this does not materially impair the core services owed under the contract. Maintenance may cause brief interruptions.
11. Technical requirements
Using the platform requires compatible devices, a current browser and a working internet connection. You are responsible for meeting these requirements on your side.
12. Warranty
Statutory warranty rights apply.
13. Data backups
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the platform. However, we cannot give a general guarantee that all data you store will always be available without loss.
You are responsible for regularly making appropriate backups of your content and data.
Where we are liable for data loss, liability is limited to the typical restoration effort that would have arisen if the user had made regular, appropriate backups.
14. Liability
We are liable in accordance with statutory provisions. In B2B relationships, our liability is unlimited for intent and gross negligence and for injury to life, body or health.
For ordinary negligence, we are liable only for breach of essential contractual obligations and only for foreseeable, typically occurring damage. Liability for lost profit is excluded insofar as legally permitted.
15. Final provisions
If any provision of these terms is or becomes invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.
To the extent legally permitted, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contractual relationship is the provider’s registered office.
The law of the Republic of Cyprus applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory provisions of the country where the user is based remain unaffected insofar as they mandatorily apply in business-to-business dealings.