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.

The display of plans on our website is not a binding offer but an invitation to order. Before every order we show you, on our order page, the plan, the total price, the billing period and the renewal; only below that is the button with which you start the process.

If you have no subscription running — whether it is your first or a new one after an earlier one ended — that page forwards you to our payment provider Stripe. You place your binding order there, on Stripe's payment page; the contract is formed by that order together with successful payment.

If you are an existing customer changing plan, you place the order directly on our order page — there is no forwarding to Stripe. When changing to a higher plan, the total price shown is charged immediately to the payment method on file and the change takes effect at once. When changing to a lower plan nothing is charged now; it takes effect at the next renewal (see clause 5). In both cases the order is binding on the click.

We send you a confirmation in text form of the initial formation of the contract, to the email address held on your account. If that automatic send does not happen — for example because of a fault at our sending provider, or because our sending allowance is exhausted — this does not affect the contract; we then send the confirmation by hand. We do not confirm a plan change separately by email. Which plan applies until the next renewal, and from when a changed plan takes effect, is governed by clause 5.

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 payment is subsequently reversed — by a refund or by a chargeback — the consideration for the billing period concerned falls away. We may then deduct credits equal to the allowance granted for that period from your balance, to the extent your balance still covers it. The deduction is made from your total balance; individual credits are not attributed to individual billing periods, so the deduction may also take credits that originated in a different period. If the allowance exceeds your remaining balance, we do not reclaim the difference. We may also suspend the paid functions of the plan booked until payment is made again; that includes lead search and access to lead reservations already running, whose deadlines continue during the suspension. Your websites stay online and your stored data is retained. In the case of a chargeback these measures take effect as soon as it is opened, because the amount has already been withdrawn from us at that point; if the bank later decides in your favour, we reverse the deduction — contact us at the address given in the Impressum.

If a paid action fails for technical reasons, the credits charged for it are refunded. Where the application detects the failure itself, it triggers the refund automatically; where that refund does not succeed, we refund by hand. Where a website-generation run ends without a result or a failure having been recorded, our regular check (at least every six hours) detects it and we refund the credits by hand. 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; your current plan and its features remain unchanged until then. If you switch back to a higher plan before the renewal, that counts as an upgrade with immediate billing.

If your subscription is already cancelled, there is no next regular renewal; a switch to a lower plan is then no longer possible, and the subscription ends as scheduled. A switch to a higher plan remains possible and lifts the scheduled cancellation — the subscription then renews automatically again, until you cancel again.

You may cancel at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period. No particular form is required; a declaration in text form is enough — for example via the cancellation page at stagefronthq.com/kuendigung (reachable without signing in), via the customer portal in the “Billing” area, by email, or by post to the address in the legal notice. We confirm receipt without undue delay in text form, to the email address on file for your account; we tell you the end date as soon as we can match your declaration to your contract. If that email is not sent automatically — for example because of a fault at our delivery provider, because our sending allowance for the past 24 hours is exhausted, or because several confirmations have already gone to the same address within 24 hours — your cancellation is still effective on receipt and is recorded; we will then confirm it to you by another route. The same applies if your submission has to be checked by a person first. If we cannot match the address you gave to any account, you will receive no confirmation — your declaration is still received and recorded. Amounts already paid for the current period are not refunded; credits already granted remain yours. Both parties' right to extraordinary termination for good cause remains unaffected. Any consumer right of withdrawal that may exist is unaffected; the withdrawal instructions are at stagefronthq.com/widerruf.

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 entered on a permanent block list — automatically or by hand, depending on the case — and a block-list entry is enforced technically: the business's entry in our address pool is no longer offered, and no pages can be generated or published from it and no enquiries sent to it.

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 whose entries in our address pool are then no longer offered or used for new pages or enquiries (the preview page through which the objection is made is taken offline); 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.