Terms and conditions

These terms and conditions govern the use of the StageFront service, offered by Davin Seidel (“we” or “StageFront”).

StageFront is directed exclusively at businesses within the meaning of § 14 BGB — in particular freelancers and agencies who build websites for third parties. No contract is concluded with consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB. By registering you confirm that you are acting in the exercise of your commercial or self-employed professional activity.

Differing terms of the user do not become part of the contract, even if we do not expressly object to them.

StageFront is software as a service. We provide tools with which you can generate, edit and publish websites for local businesses with the help of AI, as well as a research view of local businesses without a website of their own.

Results are produced by AI models. We do not owe any particular design or content outcome, any particular fitness for a specific purpose, or any particular commercial success. You must review generated text, images and statements before publication.

The scope of functions is continuously developed. We may change or discontinue functions provided the essential purpose of the service is preserved.

An account is required. Keep your credentials secret; you are responsible for actions taken through your account. Registration details must be accurate. Accounts may not be passed on to third parties.

Paid functions — in particular generating a website and AI-assisted edits — are billed in credits. The applicable credit price is shown in the application before the action is carried out. Manual edits, swapping in your own photos and publishing do not consume credits.

The credit allowance of the plan booked is granted with each paid billing period. Credits do not expire for as long as your account exists and remain available even after the subscription is cancelled. Credits are not transferable and are not paid out in cash.

If a paid action fails for technical reasons, the credits charged for it are refunded automatically. A result you are not satisfied with in terms of content is not a technical failure.

Subscriptions run monthly and are billed in advance. All prices are in US dollars.

As a small business within the meaning of § 19 UStG, we do not show VAT.

Upgrades take effect immediately: a new billing period starts, the full price of the new plan falls due at once, and the new plan's credits are granted immediately. Credits you already hold remain yours; there is no pro-rata refund of the current period, because its value was already delivered in the form of the credits already granted.

Downgrades take effect at the next regular renewal. Nothing changes for the current period.

You may cancel at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period, using the customer portal in the “Billing” area. Amounts already paid for the current period are not refunded. Both parties' right to extraordinary termination for good cause remains unaffected.

In the event of late payment we may block paid functions until the amount due is settled.

You are solely responsible for the content you generate, edit and publish with StageFront. In particular you may not publish unlawful, misleading, infringing or youth-endangering content, and may not claim business relationships that do not exist.

If you contact businesses you have researched, the outreach is sent exclusively from your own inbox and on your own responsibility. You are responsible for the lawfulness of that outreach — in particular under § 7 UWG — and for your own data protection obligations towards the businesses contacted. Objections and unsubscribe requests must be observed without delay; an objection made through StageFront is enforced permanently in the system.

Photos, reviews and information taken from map services or existing websites may only be published if the necessary rights of use are in place. Clarify this with the business shown before a page goes online permanently.

The following are also prohibited: automated bulk querying outside the intended interface, circumventing quotas or blocks, reselling access, and attempts to compromise the security of the service.

We acquire no rights in the content you enter or in the websites generated for you beyond what is necessary to provide the service. You may use, adapt and pass on the generated websites for your clients without restriction.

This does not transfer rights in third-party material — for example photos from map services; see clause 6.

You indemnify us against third-party claims based on a breach of these terms for which you are responsible.

We aim for high availability but do not owe any particular availability rate. Maintenance, disruptions at upstream providers and events of force majeure may cause interruptions. We announce planned maintenance where possible.

We are liable without limitation in cases of intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, for fraudulent concealment of a defect, to the extent of any guarantee we have given, and under the German Product Liability Act.

In cases of ordinary negligence we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation whose fulfilment is essential to the proper performance of the contract and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In such cases liability is limited to the typical damage foreseeable at the conclusion of the contract.

Otherwise liability for ordinary negligence is excluded. For loss of data we are liable, within the limits of the paragraphs above, only up to the cost of restoration that would have been necessary had you made proper and regular backups. The limitations above do not apply to the cases named in the first paragraph.

For the websites you create, StageFront generates drafts of legally required pages (such as a legal notice and privacy policy). These drafts are templates and do not replace legal advice. They must be reviewed and completed before publication; responsibility for this lies with you and the business shown.

In the event of serious or repeated breaches of these terms we may suspend the account and terminate the contract extraordinarily. Before terminating we will warn you of the breach and give you a reasonable period to remedy it, unless such a warning is dispensable under § 314 (2) BGB. If we restrict your content or your account, we will tell you why. Where such termination is our responsibility, we refund fees paid in advance on a pro-rata basis.

We do not monitor published content without cause. We act when we receive a report, an official order or another specific indication of an infringement.

The following run automatically: a suppression list, which businesses join at their own request and for which no pages are then generated or served; an automated assessment of image material before it is used; and technical checks that remove AI-written reviews and AI-written mandatory legal pages from generated websites. Decisions to suspend an account or remove content are taken after human review, and we tell you the reasons.

We may amend these terms with effect for the future where this is necessary to adapt to a change in the law or in case law, to technical developments of the service, or to changed terms of our upstream providers, and where the change is reasonable for you. The agreed fee, the credit allowance included in your plan and the main contractual obligations cannot be changed by this route; price changes are agreed separately and require your express consent. We will notify you of changes in text form at least 30 days before they take effect, pointing out separately the right to object, the deadline and the consequences of not objecting. If you do not object before they take effect, the amended terms are deemed accepted. If you do object, you or we may terminate as of the date the changes take effect; fees paid in advance for periods not yet elapsed are then refunded pro rata, and credits already granted remain yours.

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the state in which a party has its habitual residence remain unaffected. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from or in connection with this contract is Pforzheim, provided you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law; we are also entitled to sue at your general place of jurisdiction.

Should any provision be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.

The German version of these terms is authoritative; the English translation is provided for information only.