TERMS OF USE

LIKESTAGE

§1    Acceptance of the Agreement, Changes to the Terms

1.1   This Agreement (Terms) is a legally binding contract between Centflow GmbH, Theodor-Heuss-Ring 23, 50668 Köln, Germany (Owner of the Service) and you (User).

1.2   By registering and using Likestage (Service), you accept this contract and agree to the Terms.

1.3   In case of potential exceptions to the Terms, or conflict between conditions of the Terms, differing Terms cannot apply without a previous explicit written confirmation from our side.

1.4   We may modify this Agreement from time to time. In such case we will provide you with notices before changes are effective. This can be done for example by posting a notification on the site, or via email. By continuing to use the Service after those changes, you agree to the modified Terms.

1.5   The use of certain features of the Service (for example payment or donation forms) may require the User to accept additional terms and conditions.

§2    Scope of use

2.1   Likestage is a Social Community Platform where you can connect with people and make new contacts or friends in real life and real time situations wherever you are.

2.2   Likestage provides you with following features (this list is not exclusive and can be amended at any time):

• Create and manage a user profile.
• Connect with other users and make new contacts and friends.
• Accept or reject contact requests.
• Send and receive messages.
• Create and manage a profile with lifestyle contents (Stage-Show).
• Create and manage a project page for collecting and receiving money online (Centflow Donation-Crowdfunding).

2.3   We reserve the right at any time to modify the scope of use and/or to change the features of the Service. We may also place or display advertisement on the Service at any time.

2.4   We aim to keep a continuous Service with highest availability as possible. We may at any time discontinue the Service, temporarily or permanently. This can happen with or without previous notice. You agree that we are not liable for any potential suspension or break in the Service.

2.5  Likestage offers optional digital products and services on the site. At the moment “Likestage Travel“, „Likestage Stage-Show Authentication“, „Likestage Stage-Show Refresh“ and Donation „For Coffee“ can be ordered as optional digital Products.

• You explicitly agree that Likestage begins with the execution of the contract directly after payment completion, and that the digital services in connection with the order are directly activated. You are aware that by this consent you lose your right of withdrawal with the start of the execution of the contract.
• You further agree and expressly require that Likestage begins with the execution of the contracted digital services before the end of the legal withdrawal period. You are aware that you lose your right of withdrawal with the effective fullfillment of the contract.
• While completing the ordering process, you agree with our Terms and you confirm that all billing and address information you have entered in the order form is correct.

2.6  We provide a technological service (Centflow Donation-Crowdfunding) to support the publication and promotion of private and social projects, as well as business ideas. This is done by providing an online platform for mediating between project or idea authors (author) and those willing to support (supporter).

2.6.1 Centflow Donation-Crowdfunding consists exclusively of non-refundable gifts (donations or monetary donations) as monetary contributions to ideas, initiatives, or projects.

• It is not permitted to demand or promise anything in return. As for example: rewards, loans or credits, profits, material or immaterial remuneration, interest payments.

2.6.2 Monetary contributions are processed as direct payments between the supporter and the author.

• By confirming a donation button on a project page and voluntarily paying a freely selectable amount, a direct donation agreement is agreed between the supporter and the project author. This contractual relationship is independent of us.
• After completing a payment process, the supporter receives an email with a payment confirmation. This email is to be regarded as a purely informative confirmation. After completing a payment process, the donation (gift) is considered final.
• We are not involved in direct communication between the author and the supporter and assume no liability or responsibility for published content or for monetary payments to projects.

2.6.3 The connection of an external payment service provider is required for the secure and legally compliant processing of payments between those willing to support and the authors. For this purpose, we use the services of the payment service provider Stripe (Stripe). To receive monetary contributions via the platform, a project site needs a Stripe account. We provide the technological interface for opening a Stripe account and serve exclusively as an intermediary between the author and Stripe. The author agrees that he instructs us to mediate the technological interface and the necessary processes for opening a Stripe account.

• To use a Stripe account, you (author) accept Stripe's additional terms of use.
• To open a Stripe account, the author is forwarded to the payment service provider's platform via a secure, encrypted SSL connection. The processing of his data and the verification of whether all legal criteria for opening a Stripe account are met is carried out exclusively at Stripe.

2.6.4 For the provision of the donation crowdfunding functionality, we charge a fee of 3.9% per payment transaction (incoming payment of a monetary contribution). These fees include general Stripe processing fees. They also include additional Stripe fees for money transfers from a Stripe-Account to an author bank account.

2.6.5 The user (author) can create a project page and collect money from other users (supporters) through his own promotional campaigns. The author can see how his project is progressing. The following information can be added to a project page: title, banner, first name (initial), last name, a project description, links to external social media pages, project images, a target amount.

• News (highlights) and thank you texts can also be posted in the project description. It is not permitted to post information about other users (supporters) without obtaining prior written consent for publication.

2.6.6 We assume no liability or responsibility for project contents or for money payments to projects.

• The author is solely responsible for the content on his project page. Furthermore, he is solely responsible for using the money raised for the purposes stated on his project page.
• The supporter is solely responsible for his financial support. The decision to support is always made on a voluntary basis and exclusively at the supporter's own discretion. The supporter is solely responsible for researching, checking, and assessing whether a project page can be classified as trustworthy.

2.6.7 If a donation receipt is required for tax purposes, the supporter undertakes to contact the author only. We assume no liability for the correctness of a donation receipt issued by the author. We do not check whether the author (recipient of the donation crowdfunding) is authorized to issue a donation receipt. We do not check whether the author is tax-privileged.

• If there is a need for clarification, the users (author and supporter) are obliged to contact each other only.

2.6.8 The user (author and / or supporter) undertakes not to use the donation crowdfunding platform for illegal or prohibited activities, nor to conduct any activities or purposes that violate legal regulations or our terms of use.

2.6.9 We are entitled at any time, in the event of a violation of §2.6.8, to block a project page and to stop its publication. In this case, the author undertakes to repay payments already received to the supporters.

• Furthermore, the author agrees that monetary contributions that have not yet been paid from the Stripe account to the bank account will be withheld and repaid to the supporters.
• For contribution monies that have already been paid to the author's bank account, the supporter undertakes to contact the author exclusively in the event of a repayment request.
• In the other case of a legitimate repayment request, the supporter is still obliged to contact the author only.
• For this purpose, we can, upon request, pass on the data required to contact the author to the supporter.

2.6.10 At any time, we are entitled to suspend or terminate the availability of the Centflow Donation-Crowdfunding platform with one month's notice to the end of the previous month. In the event of termination, any money contributions that have already been made to projects will be properly forwarded to the bank accounts of the respective beneficiary authors. The forwarding of monetary contributions is carried out automatically by our payment service provider Stripe.

§3    Registration, User Account, Password Policy

3.1   Eligibility   

• Natural persons or legal entities can register and use the Service. Users are responsible for complying with the laws and regulations of their respective country, especially regarding the minimal age requirements.
• To register and use the Service, the minimal age requirement in Germany and in the most EU Countries is 16.
• For many countries outside from the EU the minimal age requirement is 13.
• For all countries (independently if the country is in the EU or outside the EU) with a different minimal age requirement as stated above, the specific age requirement of your country is the only one that is applicable.
• To register a Stage-Show account, the minimal age requirement is 18.
• The registration of a Stage-Show account for a legal entity can only be done by an authorized representative of that legal entity.
• To use the Centflow Donation-Crowdfunding Service (create a project page and collect money online), the minimal age requirement is 18.
• If you are from a country where similar services are prohibited or restricted, you are not eligible to use the Service.

3.2   You are required to submit correct and complete information during registration, and to continually keep your account information up to date. You agree to use the Service only for legal purposes, and you remain responsible for complying with all laws and regulations applicable to your use of the Service.

3.3   You are responsible for ensuring the protection and confidentiality of your username and password, and you are solely responsible for all activities that occur under your username and password. You agree to immediately notify us of any disclosure or unauthorized use of your username or password or about any other potential breach of security you maybe aware of.

§4    General obligations of the User

4.1   The Service may be used only in compliance with the Terms. You agree that you are solely liable and responsible for your interactions with other users. Following a list with examples of actions and behaviours you are not allowed to do while using the Service:

• Systematically collect contact details of other users, by electronic or other means, for the purpose of selling information to some third parties or sending unsolicited and unauthorized emails to users using the Service.
• Displaying nonacceptable behaviour against other users through inappropriate, aggressive, obscene, offensive, defamatory, intrusive content or post in your profile and in messages.
• Attempting to disturb other users by sending unsolicited mass mailing, spams or advertisements.
• Massive and continuous publishing, posting or sending of non relevant contents with the purpose of discrediting the quality of the Service.
• Any unauthorized attempt or actions (manual or automatic) with the purpose of interfering with, disrupting or breaking the Service.
• Registering and using the Service with incorrect information.

4.2   We reserve the right to terminate and delete your account at any time without notice in case we believe you have misused the Service or violated the Terms.

4.3   You are fully and solely responsible and liable for any content or information that you post, publish or upload into your profile or in text messages.

4.4   You may not publish any content such as:

• Private or confidential information about yourself or any third person in your profile.
• Information that are not allowed to be published in your profile are for example: first and last name, birth date, home address, private email address, private mobile or phone number, bank or credit card details, ID or passport details, password.
• Illegal, inappropriate, offensive, sexual, pornographic, violent content.

4.5   Some search features of the Service use functionalities provided by Google Maps. By using the service you confirm you have read and agreed to Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service.

§5    Obligations of the User for Content

5.1   By posting content (text, pictures, and Username etc.) you represent and warrant that you do not infringe the right of others. 

5.2   We are not liable in any case for claims resulting from your infringement or violation of any third party right. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Owner of the Service, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses, including but not limited to attorney´s fees, resulting from your violation of any third party right.

5.3   We have the right to remove any content that violates the right of others or the Terms at any time.

§6    Termination and Account Deletion

6.1   You can delete your account at any time by clicking the corresponding tab in your profile settings.

6.2   We may at anytime terminate this agreement or stop providing access to the Service, with or without notice.

6.3   We may at any time without notice, explanation or liability of any kind terminate a User account and access permanently, in case we believe this is necessary. Especially:

• If the User violates or fails to comply with the Terms (see §4) or other related Service policies.
• In case of any violation of law while using the Service.  

6.4   We also reserve the right to deactivate or delete your account if you do not login or use the Service for at least one year or longer.

§7    Liability

7.1   To the maximum extent allowed by applicable law, the User remains liable for any potential risk, loss or damage, directly or indirectly resulting from registering and using the Service. In case of jurisdictions that do not allow the exclusion of liability, our liability is limited to the maximum extent allowed by applicable law.

§8    Applicable Law

8.1   German law applies to the exclusion of UN purchasing law.

This is a summary translation of our original German Terms (legal version). If necessary, translation tools should be used to view the full original German Terms in English.

EU (European Union and/or European Economic Area).

Stand: October 2020

For reasons of readability, the generic masculine form is used in some part of the above terms. All texts include female and diverse groups of people.