AntragPlus

This is an English courtesy translation. Only the German version is legally binding.

Terms and Conditions

Terms of use of AntragPlus GmbH for the AntragPlus platform and our grant management services

Organisations only

AntragPlus contracts exclusively with associations, foundations, non-profit companies, businesses and public bodies — never with consumers.

Your contract prevails

Whatever your individual service agreement says — package, term, commercial terms — always takes precedence over these terms.

Not legal advice

We write grant applications and manage the process. Legal and tax advice is not part of it — you need your own advisors for that.

General Terms and Conditions

AntragPlus GmbH

Sachsendamm 67-69, 10829 Berlin, Germany

Charlottenburg Local Court (Amtsgericht Charlottenburg), HRB 277817

Represented by the Managing Directors Robert Tepass and Chase Frankenfeld

Email: [email protected]

§ 1 Scope

  1. 1.1These General Terms and Conditions (the “Terms”) govern all contracts between AntragPlus GmbH (“AntragPlus”) and its customers regarding use of the AntragPlus platform and services in the field of grant management.
  2. 1.2AntragPlus contracts exclusively with entrepreneurs within the meaning of Section 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB), legal entities under public law and special funds under public law. No contract is concluded with consumers within the meaning of Section 13 BGB.
  3. 1.3Deviating, conflicting or supplementary terms of the customer do not become part of the contract unless AntragPlus expressly agrees to their application in text form.
  4. 1.4Individual agreements — in particular the service agreement concluded between the parties or an accepted quotation — take precedence over these Terms.

§ 2 Subject matter and services

  1. 2.1AntragPlus provides grant management services to the customer according to the package booked. These cover in particular the analysis of the organisation and its projects, research into suitable funding programmes, the preparation and submission of the application documents, and administrative support through to the proof-of-use report. AntragPlus does the substantive work; the customer reviews it and gives its approval.
  2. 2.2The cooperation is conducted through a web-based platform. Through the platform AntragPlus makes its work — in particular researched funding programmes, draft applications and reports — available to the customer for review, comment and approval; the customer in turn provides documents and information there and follows progress and deadlines. The platform is a means of cooperation, not a self-service application tool.
  3. 2.3The scope of services owed follows conclusively from the service agreement or the service description referenced therein. Statements on the website, in presentations or in other marketing materials are descriptions of services and not guarantees of quality.
  4. 2.4AntragPlus may use subcontractors and service providers to perform its obligations. This does not affect its responsibility towards the customer for performance of the contract.

§ 3 Conclusion of contract, registration and user account

  1. 3.1The contract is concluded by signing the service agreement or by acceptance of a quotation. A user account is registered either by invitation from AntragPlus or by a person of the customer organisation who is already authorised.
  2. 3.2The customer must provide complete and accurate information on registration and keep it up to date throughout the term of the contract.
  3. 3.3Access credentials must be kept confidential and must not be passed on to third parties. The customer will inform AntragPlus without undue delay upon becoming aware of, or having reasonable grounds to suspect, misuse of its account.
  4. 3.4The customer may grant access to further members of its organisation. It must ensure that those persons comply with this contract and is responsible for their actions as for its own.
  5. 3.5Anyone creating a user account warrants that they are of full legal age and authorised by the customer organisation to use the platform on its behalf. Concluding the service agreement remains reserved to those persons authorised to represent the customer organisation.

§ 4 Rights of use in the platform

  1. 4.1For the term of the contract, AntragPlus grants the customer a simple, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable right to use the platform within the agreed scope to conduct the cooperation with AntragPlus.
  2. 4.2Access to the platform is tied to a valid service agreement and an ongoing engagement. It exists for as long as the agreement is in force and AntragPlus is handling at least one project for the customer; a temporary gap between two projects does not affect access. If either condition permanently ceases to be met, AntragPlus may deactivate access on 30 days' prior notice in text form. The export right under clause 11.4 remains unaffected.
  3. 4.3The following are not permitted in particular: reproducing, modifying or decompiling the software beyond the limits mandated by law, automated extraction of content (scraping), passing on or renting out access to third parties, and using the platform to develop a competing product.
  4. 4.4All rights in the platform, its software, the underlying databases and models remain with AntragPlus or its licensors. There is no claim to release of the source code.

§ 5 Customer's duties to cooperate

  1. 5.1The customer provides AntragPlus with all information and documents required for performance — such as articles of association, tax-exemption notice, annual and financial data, project descriptions and cost calculations — completely, accurately and in good time.
  2. 5.2The customer names a responsible contact person with sufficient authority to make decisions and responds to queries from AntragPlus within a reasonable period.
  3. 5.3The customer reviews and approves the content of the applications, texts and reports prepared by AntragPlus before submission. It is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the information and documents it supplies and for the declarations it makes to the funding body as applicant. AntragPlus is responsible for preparing the documents to a professional standard (clause 6.3).
  4. 5.4Delays caused by cooperation that is missing, late or deficient extend agreed deadlines accordingly. AntragPlus is not liable for application deadlines missed as a result.
  5. 5.5The customer ensures that content it uploads is free of third-party rights and does not infringe applicable law. Personal data of third parties may only be entered where this is necessary for performance and permitted under data protection law.

§ 6 Review and approval of work results

  1. 6.1AntragPlus makes its work available to the customer for review through the platform and indicates by when a response is required in order to meet application deadlines.
  2. 6.2The customer gives its feedback through the platform and grants approval in accordance with clause 5.3. AntragPlus does not submit any documents to a funding body without the customer's approval.
  3. 6.3AntragPlus performs the services on its own responsibility and selects the methods and technical tools it uses — including AI-assisted tools — itself. This does not affect professional responsibility for the work result, which remains with AntragPlus.
  4. 6.4Where customer data is transmitted to sub-processors in the course of using technical tools, clause 13 applies. Customer data is not used to train third-party foundation models.

§ 7 Availability, support and further development

  1. 7.1AntragPlus provides the platform with an availability of 99% on a monthly average. Announced maintenance windows and outages for which AntragPlus is not responsible (in particular force majeure and disruptions at upstream providers) are excluded. Planned maintenance is carried out outside normal business hours where possible.
  2. 7.2Support is provided in German and English by email on working days (Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays in Berlin).
  3. 7.3AntragPlus may further develop and adapt the platform, in particular to improve functionality or implement legal requirements, provided the contractually owed scope of functionality is not materially reduced.

§ 8 Remuneration and payment terms

  1. 8.1Remuneration is governed by the service agreement. It may consist of a one-off setup fee, recurring remuneration and/or success-based remuneration on approved grant amounts.
  2. 8.2All prices are net and exclusive of value added tax at the applicable statutory rate.
  3. 8.3Invoices are due for payment without deduction within 14 days of the invoice date.
  4. 8.4If the customer is in default of payment, statutory default interest under Section 288(2) BGB applies. After an unsuccessful reminder setting a reasonable deadline, AntragPlus may withhold its services and suspend access to the platform until the outstanding amount is settled.
  5. 8.5The customer may only set off against, or exercise a right of retention in respect of, claims that are undisputed or have been finally determined by a court.
  6. 8.6A claim to success-based remuneration arises when the customer receives the grant approval notice and is calculated on the approved grant amount. If a notice is later revoked in whole or in part through no fault of the customer, the claim is reduced accordingly and amounts already paid are refunded pro rata.

§ 9 Don’t-Stop Guarantee

  1. 9.1If a grant application prepared by AntragPlus is rejected, AntragPlus analyses the grounds for rejection, revises the application and submits it again without an additional setup fee and without additional base remuneration.
  2. 9.2This requires that the customer meets its duties to cooperate under clause 5, that a suitable funding programme with an open application deadline is available, that the project remains eligible without changes, and that the contract has not been terminated.
  3. 9.3The Don’t-Stop Guarantee describes the scope of the work owed. It is not an assurance that funding will be approved and not a guarantee within the meaning of Section 443 BGB.

§ 10 No guarantee of success, no legal or tax advice

  1. 10.1AntragPlus owes diligent performance, not the approval of funding. The decision on any application lies solely with the respective funding body. Even where remuneration is success-based, the contract is a service contract within the meaning of Sections 611 et seq. BGB.
  2. 10.2The services of AntragPlus do not constitute legal advice within the meaning of the German Legal Services Act (RDG) or tax advice within the meaning of the German Tax Advisory Act (StBerG). Legal questions — in particular concerning subsidy, procurement and state aid law — as well as tax and charitable-status questions are for the customer to clarify with its own advisors.
  3. 10.3Figures on approval rates, processing times or savings potential are empirical values from past projects and are not an assurance for any individual case.

§ 11 Rights in content and customer data

  1. 11.1All rights in the data and content entered by the customer remain with the customer. The customer grants AntragPlus a simple right, limited to the term of the contract, to store, process and reproduce that content to the extent necessary to perform the contractual services.
  2. 11.2Upon full payment of the remuneration attributable to them, the customer receives a simple right, unlimited in time and territory, to use the application documents prepared for it by AntragPlus for its own funding purposes.
  3. 11.3AntragPlus may analyse anonymised and aggregated usage data to improve its own services, provided no conclusions can be drawn about the customer, its projects or any data subjects.
  4. 11.4After the contract ends, the customer may export its data in a common format for 30 days. AntragPlus then deletes the data in accordance with its privacy policy, unless statutory retention obligations apply.
  5. 11.5The customer will only be named as a reference with its prior consent in text form. Consent may be withdrawn with effect for the future.

§ 12 Confidentiality

  1. 12.1The parties treat all confidential information of the other party obtained in the course of the cooperation as confidential and use it solely to perform the contract.
  2. 12.2This does not cover information that is publicly known, was already known to the receiving party without an obligation of confidentiality, was developed independently, or must be disclosed due to a statutory obligation or an official or court order.
  3. 12.3The obligation applies for the term of the contract and for three years thereafter.

§ 13 Data protection

  1. 13.1Both parties comply with applicable data protection law, in particular the GDPR and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). Details of the processing of personal data are set out in the privacy policy.
  2. 13.2Where AntragPlus processes personal data on behalf of the customer, the parties conclude a separate data processing agreement under Article 28 GDPR. That agreement takes precedence over these Terms in data protection matters.
  3. 13.3Customer data is processed on servers within the European Union. The sub-processors used are named in the data processing agreement.

§ 14 Warranty

  1. 14.1AntragPlus performs its services professionally and with the diligence of a prudent business person, in accordance with the recognised standards of the grant funding field.
  2. 14.2If a work result is professionally deficient, AntragPlus remedies it free of charge within a reasonable period. Where the customer raises a defect as part of its approval under clause 6.2, the remedy is provided in time to meet the application deadline, to the extent the remaining time allows.
  3. 14.3AntragPlus remedies defects in the platform within a reasonable period. If remediation fails twice, the customer may reduce the remuneration appropriately or terminate the contract for cause.
  4. 14.4Insignificant impairments of usability do not constitute a defect. Strict liability for defects existing at the time the contract was concluded under Section 536a(1) alt. 1 BGB is excluded.
  5. 14.5The customer reports defects in text form without undue delay after becoming aware of them, describing them precisely enough to be reproducible.

§ 15 Liability

  1. 15.1AntragPlus is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, for fraudulently concealed defects, and to the extent of any expressly assumed guarantee.
  2. 15.2In cases of simple negligence, AntragPlus is liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance the customer may regularly rely. In such cases liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.
  3. 15.3Liability under clause 15.2 is limited in aggregate per contract year to the net remuneration paid by the customer to AntragPlus in that contract year.
  4. 15.4AntragPlus is liable for the rejection of grant applications and for resulting lost funding only in cases of intent and gross negligence.
  5. 15.5Liability for loss of data is limited to the effort that would have been required to restore the data had the customer carried out proper and regular data backups.
  6. 15.6The above limitations of liability also apply for the benefit of the legal representatives, employees and vicarious agents of AntragPlus. They do not involve any change in the burden of proof to the customer's detriment.

§ 16 Term and termination

  1. 16.1The term follows from the service agreement. Where it is silent, the term is twelve months from the start of the contract and extends by a further twelve months at a time unless terminated with three months' notice to the end of the respective term.
  2. 16.2Notice of termination must be given in text form.
  3. 16.3The right to extraordinary termination for cause remains unaffected. Cause exists for AntragPlus in particular where payment is more than 30 days in default after a reminder, where duties to cooperate are materially breached, or where the platform is used abusively.
  4. 16.4Termination does not affect the claim to remuneration for services already rendered. The claim to success-based remuneration also applies to applications prepared or submitted by AntragPlus before the end of the contract that are approved within twelve months after it ends.
  5. 16.5In the event of material breaches of these Terms, AntragPlus may temporarily suspend access to the platform. The customer will be informed without undue delay.

§ 17 Changes to these Terms

  1. 17.1AntragPlus may amend these Terms with effect for the future where this is necessary to reflect changes in the law, in case law or in the range of services offered, and where the customer is not unreasonably disadvantaged as a result.
  2. 17.2Amendments are notified to the customer in text form at least six weeks before they take effect. If the customer does not object within that period, the amendments are deemed accepted. AntragPlus will separately point out the deadline, the right to object and the consequences of silence in the notification.
  3. 17.3If the customer objects in time, the contract continues on the existing terms. In that case both parties have the right to terminate the contract with effect from the date the amendment was to take effect.

§ 18 Final provisions

  1. 18.1The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
  2. 18.2The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with this contract is Berlin, provided the customer is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law. The place of performance is Berlin.
  3. 18.3Amendments and additions to this contract must be made in text form. This also applies to any waiver of this text form requirement.
  4. 18.4The customer may transfer rights and obligations under this contract only with the prior consent of AntragPlus. AntragPlus may transfer the contract in the context of a universal succession or a transfer of its business to an affiliated company.
  5. 18.5Should any provision of these Terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected. The parties will replace the invalid provision with a valid one that comes closest to its economic purpose.
  6. 18.6Only the German version of these Terms is authoritative. Translations are provided for information purposes only.

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