A. Terms of Use and Member Information
1. Contractual partner (member account)
GED Digital Marketing
Boterstraat 9 3120,Tremelo
E-Mail: [email protected]
VAT identification number: BE0797.991.977
2. Scope, definitions
- The following terms of use apply to all contracts that a consumer (hereinafter also “you” or “member”) concludes with us regarding the digital content we offer.
- A consumer is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that cannot be attributed to their commercial or independent professional activity. An entrepreneur is any natural or legal person or partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of their commercial or independent professional activity.
- Digital content is data that is made available to the consumer in digital form for download on our website.
3. Subject matter of the contract, registration for a member account
- The subject of the contract is the provision of the digital content available on our website for the membership period you have chosen (tests, school assignments, learning goal tests with solutions in the respective school subjects). The digital content is licensed to registered members exclusively for private use in accordance with Section 6 of these Terms of Use. To protect you from misuse, the download limit applies in accordance with Section 7 of these Terms of Use (100 documents / month).
- The content and scope of the digital content provided in the member area may change during the term of the contract due to content adjustments and/or additions. The member has no right to expect that the digital content will remain accessible in unchanged form during his or her membership period.
- As a member, you have access to the same digital content that is also available in the public area of the website (all digital content for all types of schools, classes and subjects). Use of the member area requires proper registration and subsequent activation of the member account by us.
4. Conclusion of the contract, membership period, activation
- The paid membership on our website represents a binding offer for consumers to order digital content from us for the membership period selected by them (6 months or 12 months).
- You accept our contract offer by paying the agreed remuneration. The time of your payment instruction to the payment service provider commissioned by you (e.g. bank, PayPal) is decisive for the conclusion of the contract.
- Once we have received your payment, your member account will be activated. If you pay via PayPal, your account will be activated immediately. If you pay via bank transfer, your account will be activated within three days after you have made your payment instructions. We will inform you separately by email when your member account has been activated.
5. Provision of digital content for download (PDF)
Our digital content is only available for download in PDF file format. To display the digital content in PDF file format, you need a PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download: https://get.adobe.com/de/reader/ ).
6. License and usage rights
- All digital content provided by us is protected by copyright under the Copyright Act (UrhG). The purpose of the licensing of the digital content described below is private preparation for school examinations by providing learning objective tests and school assignments with solutions for primary school, middle school, secondary school and high school.
- By paying the agreed fee for the digital content, you acquire a simple and non-transferable right of use limited to the membership period. When the membership period expires, the right of use transferred to you for the digital content expires.
- The right to resell or transfer the digital content free of charge is excluded. You may not distribute the digital content in full or in part, either digitally or in printed form (Section 17 of the Copyright Act), make it publicly available (Section 19a of the Copyright Act) or otherwise pass it on to third parties or make it accessible to third parties without our prior consent. These restrictions apply to both commercial and private or free use. The right to reproduce (Section 16 of the Copyright Act) the digital content is limited to reproductions that are exclusively for your own use. Personal use in this sense also includes the use of the digital content for and with natural persons to whom the learning objectives are to be conveyed in a private environment.
- Any copyright notices or other legal reservations in the digital content may not be removed.
- We reserve the right to individually personalize the digital content provided with visible and invisible markings in order to enable the identification and legal prosecution of the original member in the event of misuse.
7. Download limit for digital content / month)
- A properly established membership entitles the member to download a maximum of 100 PDF documents per month until the end of the membership period. This is intended in particular to protect against misuse of your access as defined in section 3. We reserve the right to block your access as soon as we become aware of a violation of the above conditions. If the download block applies to you, we reserve the right to immediately reactivate your access if misuse is ruled out.
- A month within the meaning of paragraph 7.(1) is the exact day period from the notification of the activation of the member account in accordance with paragraph 4.(3) until the end of the corresponding day of the same number of the following month.
8. Remuneration and payment terms
- All prices stated on our website are total prices. The total prices include all price components including the applicable statutory sales tax.
- The fee is to be paid in advance for the membership period you have chosen.
- We offer you the following payment options:
payment via PayPal
When paying using a payment method offered by PayPal, payment processing is carried out by the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à rl et Cie, SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg. You can view the terms of use here (for users with a PayPal account).
If you do not yet have a PayPal account, the terms of use for payments without a PayPal account apply, which you can access here .
Payment in advance by bank transfer
You pay the fee by bank transfer to our account. We will inform you of our bank details when we process the contract.
9. Term and termination of membership
- The contract term corresponds to the membership period you specify (6 months or 12 months). Membership begins on the day on which we notify you in writing (e.g. by email) that your membership account has been activated.
- After the contract period has expired, your membership will end automatically. We will inform you in writing (e.g. by email) about the termination date in good time before the end of the membership period you have chosen. You will then have the option of ordering a further contract period.
- The right to terminate the contract for good cause remains unaffected. Good cause exists for us in particular if you violate the agreed license and usage conditions (Section 6), in particular if you pass on our digital content to third parties without authorization or otherwise make it publicly accessible or have it made publicly accessible (e.g. on the Internet).
10. Member’s duty to cooperate
- As a member, you are responsible for providing a state-of-the-art digital connection with which the digital content can be accessed, received and stored.
- The access data for your member account (personal login data) must be protected against access by unauthorized third parties. The password must not be passed on to third parties.
11. Right of withdrawal and expiry of the right of withdrawal
- The statutory right of withdrawal applies exclusively to consumers within the EU member states.
- According to Section 356 Paragraph 5 of the Belgium Civil Code (BGB), the statutory right of cancellation expires in the case of a contract for the delivery of digital content that is not stored on a physical data carrier if we have begun to execute the contract after you have expressly agreed that we may begin to execute the contract before the expiry of the cancellation period and you have confirmed your knowledge that by giving your consent you will lose your right of cancellation when the contract begins to be executed. You give this consent as part of the establishment of the contractual relationship when you confirm your registration as a member (button “Activate member account here” in the registration confirmation that you receive by email).
12. Statutory liability for defects
You are entitled to statutory claims for defects for digital products ordered from us.
13. Applicable law, place of jurisdiction
- The conclusion and execution of all contracts is subject to the law of the Federal Republic of Belgium, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). For consumers, this choice of law only applies if the protection granted is not restricted by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has his or her habitual residence.
- In business dealings with merchants and legal entities under public law, our place of business is the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising directly or indirectly from the contractual relationship. The same applies if an entrepreneur does not have a general place of jurisdiction in Belgium or if his place of residence and/or habitual abode is not known at the time the action is brought. Our right to bring the case before a court at another legal place of jurisdiction remains unaffected.
B. Member formations
1. Individual technical steps leading to the conclusion of the contract
The ordering process takes place via labelled and self-explanatory buttons that are activated with a mouse click. In order to submit a binding contract declaration, you must complete the following technical steps:
- Registration of a member account by providing your personal data
- Activation of your member account after receipt of the registration confirmation
- Submission of your contractual declaration, which leads to the conclusion of the contract (= payment instruction for the remuneration for the membership period specified by you).
2. Storage and retrieval of the contract text after conclusion of the contract
We do not save the contract text. You can access the contract text (such as product descriptions, terms of use and member information) during the ordering process on our website and print it out and archive it using the print function of your Internet browser. After you register, we will send you a confirmation with these terms of use and the statutory cancellation policy, which you can print out and save. After the contract has been concluded, you will no longer be able to access the contract text.
3. Recognition and correction of input errors in the ordering process
You can detect input errors at any time during the ordering process because your input is immediately saved and visible on the screen. If you make input errors, please use the usual mouse and keyboard commands to correct them.
4. Language available for the conclusion of the contract
Contracts are concluded exclusively in English.
5. Information on dispute settlement procedures
We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in a dispute settlement procedure before a consumer arbitration board.