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Terms of Service

Version 1.0 · Effective 2026-04-24

Non-binding English translation. In case of discrepancies, the German version prevails.

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern the provision of the Software-as-a-Service application Decidly (the “Service”) by DBBC Ventures GmbH, Platanenstr. 45, 13156 Berlin, Germany (“Provider”, “we”) to the customer (“Customer”, “you”).

1. Scope; No Consumer Contract

The Service is exclusively directed at entrepreneurs within the meaning of § 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB), legal persons under public law and special funds under public law. Consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB are excluded. By registering and using the Service, the Customer confirms acting in its capacity as an entrepreneur.

Only these Terms apply. Differing, conflicting or supplementary general terms of the Customer shall only become part of the contract if we have expressly agreed to their validity in writing.

2. Conclusion of the Contract

The contract is concluded upon registration of an account at app.decidly.io and acceptance of these Terms and the Privacy Policy. The account may only be created by a natural person authorised to do so. You represent that you are entitled to represent the organisation for which you create the account.

3. Description of Services

The Service provides a web-based platform for the structured documentation, assessment and finalisation of decisions following the DACI framework. Scope, feature set and supported modules follow the then-current service description available at decidly.io. The feature set may change over time; the Provider may add, alter or discontinue features. Material adverse changes will be announced in advance.

3.1 Beta and Preview Features

Individual features may be labelled “Beta”, “Preview” or “Experimental”. They are provided without warranty and without committed availability, and may be changed or removed at any time.

3.2 AI-Assisted Features

The Service contains AI-assisted features (e.g. clarification, ideation and decision support) that use third-party large language models. AI outputs are suggestions and may be incorrect, incomplete or misleading. The Customer is obliged to review AI outputs independently before use. The Provider does not warrant the accuracy, completeness or suitability of AI outputs.

4. Fees; Currently Free of Charge

The Service is currently provided as part of a free beta phase. During this phase, use is free of charge. The Provider reserves the right to introduce paid tiers at a later stage (e.g. for more capable AI models, additional user seats, extended limits, SLA, enterprise features).

Before introducing paid tiers, existing customers will be notified at least 30 days in advance. A switch to a paid tier will only take effect with the Customer's explicit consent. Existing data will remain available regardless of such a switch; if paid tiers are declined, access to certain features or to the Service as a whole may be terminated (see Sec. 14).

To the extent paid services are booked in the future, prices follow the price list in force at that time. Prices are net and subject to applicable VAT. Invoices are issued electronically and payable within 14 days.

5. Customer Obligations

  1. The Customer keeps access credentials confidential and does not pass them on to unauthorised third parties.
  2. The Customer is responsible for the content it or its users upload. The Customer indemnifies the Provider against third-party claims arising from unlawful content, insofar as the Customer is responsible for it.
  3. The Customer complies with data protection obligations towards its own employees and data subjects, in particular information duties and legal bases for entering personal data (Art. 13, 6 GDPR).
  4. The Customer designates an internal administrator who manages user accounts and permissions within its organisation.
  5. The Customer backs up content to be used outside the Service at reasonable intervals (e.g. through export). The Provider's backup obligation (Sec. 8) does not replace this cooperation duty.
  6. The Customer shall not misuse the Service, in particular shall not introduce malware, impair availability (e.g. through disproportionately frequent automated requests), circumvent security mechanisms or scrape large amounts of data.

6. Rights of Use

For the term of the contract, the Provider grants the Customer a simple, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service as intended. Use is limited to the Customer's staff and authorised representatives.

The Provider acquires no rights in content uploaded by the Customer beyond what is necessary to provide the Service. The Customer grants the Provider a simple right of use to the extent necessary to provide and document the Service.

7. Availability; Maintenance

The Provider endeavours to achieve high availability but does not owe a specific uptime percentage during the free beta phase. Scheduled maintenance will take place outside usual business hours where possible.

A service level with guaranteed availability will be agreed separately in an SLA and only takes effect upon switching to a corresponding paid tier.

8. Data Backup

The Provider performs regular backups of the application database using state-of-the-art methods. Nevertheless, the Customer must additionally back up business-critical content itself (export function).

9. Warranty

The Provider warrants that the Service has the agreed characteristics. Minor deviations from the contractually owed performance do not give rise to warranty claims. Claims for defects become time-barred in 12 months from the statutory start of the limitation period, except in cases of intent or gross negligence and the cases referred to in Sec. 10 para. 3.

10. Liability

(1) The Provider is liable in accordance with statutory provisions for damages caused intentionally or by gross negligence by it, its legal representatives, senior staff or other agents.

(2) For slightly negligent breaches of a material contractual obligation (cardinal obligation) – i.e. an obligation whose fulfilment enables the proper performance of the contract in the first place and on whose observance the Customer may regularly rely – liability is limited in amount to the typical, foreseeable damage. For all damage events in one contractual year combined, this is limited to twelve times the monthly fee, but at least to EUR 50,000. During the free beta phase, the liability cap for slight negligence by agents is EUR 5,000 per damage event and EUR 10,000 per contractual year.

(3) The above liability limitations do not apply to damages arising from injury to life, body or health, to claims under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), where a guarantee has been assumed, and to claims under Art. 82 GDPR against the Provider as controller, insofar as such limitations would be statutorily inadmissible.

(4) Liability for indirect damages, consequential damages, lost profits, loss of production and third-party claims is excluded in the case of slight negligence, unless para. 3 provides otherwise.

(5) The Provider is not liable for damages caused by the Customer's failure to make sufficient own data backups, preventing restoration of data with reasonable effort.

(6) Strict liability for defects existing at the conclusion of the contract under § 536a BGB is excluded.

11. Data Protection and Processing on Behalf

To the extent the Provider processes personal data on behalf of the Customer as part of the Service, the parties conclude a Data Processing Agreement (DPA), which forms part of this contract. The fee for this is covered by the fee for the Service.

The Privacy Policy applies to the Provider's own data processing.

12. Confidentiality

The parties undertake to treat confidential information of the other party that becomes known to them in the course of the performance of this contract as confidential and to use it only for purposes of this contract. This obligation continues for a period of five years after the end of the contract.

13. Changes to the Terms

The Provider may change these Terms with effect for the future if such change is necessary to adapt to changes in the legal framework, technical developments or changed market conditions and the Customer is not unreasonably disadvantaged. Changes will be announced by email at least 30 days before they take effect. If the Customer objects within this period, the previous Terms continue to apply unchanged; in such case the Provider may terminate the contract with 30 days' notice to the end of a month.

14. Term and Termination

The contract for free beta use runs for an indefinite period. Either party may terminate at any time without notice and without stating reasons. The Provider is in particular entitled to discontinue the Service with reasonable advance notice.

Paid tiers are subject to separate rules on term and termination.

The right to extraordinary termination for cause remains unaffected. Cause exists for the Provider in particular in cases of significant breach of Sec. 5 or reasonable suspicion of misuse.

Terminations must be in text form (§ 126b BGB).

15. Export and Deletion After Termination

After termination of the contract, the Customer may request an export of its content in a common, machine-readable format within a period of 30 days. After expiry of this period, the content will be deleted in the production environment; any backups will be overwritten as part of regular rotation.

16. Assignment; Set-Off

The assignment of claims arising from this contract requires the prior written consent of the Provider, unless § 354a HGB provides otherwise. The Customer may only set off claims that are undisputed or have been finally determined and may only base a right of retention on such claims.

17. Force Majeure

Force majeure and other unforeseeable, extraordinary circumstances not attributable to the Provider's fault (e.g. large-scale outages of upstream services such as Supabase or cloud providers) release the Provider from its performance obligations for the duration of the disruption.

18. Final Provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the conflict-of-law rules of international private law.

The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from and in connection with this contract is – as far as legally permissible – the Provider's registered office in Berlin.

Should individual provisions of these Terms be or become invalid or unenforceable, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected. In place of the invalid or unenforceable provision, the valid and enforceable rule whose effects come closest to the economic objective pursued by the parties with the invalid provision shall be deemed agreed.