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Terms of Use for the Use, Registration and Participation of the App “UniNow”

Version 4.1.0 / Status June 2025

1. Provider and Scope of the Terms of Use

  1. The app “UniNow” (hereinafter “App”) is operated by UniNow GmbH, represented by the managing directors Tobias Steenweg and Stefan Wegener, Dorotheenstraße 10, D-39104 Magdeburg (hereinafter: “Provider”). The app is intended to enable the student user to have an overview of study-relevant information, such as grades, exams, library, cafeteria offers, university emails and lectures at their university and, in addition, to enable communication via email or chat to the provider.
  2. These terms of use apply to all users of the app (hereinafter: User). They regulate the user relationship between the provider and the user.
  3. By starting to use, at the latest with registration, the user agrees to the exclusive validity of these terms of use.
  4. The version of the terms of use current at the time of use or registration applies, which is also available on the app or on the provider’s website at here.

2. Subject Matter of the Contract, Services, Availability

  1. The provider provides the user – optionally after registration – with the possibility to receive information from their university, and beyond that, after appropriate data protection consent, to view their data at the university, as well as their grades, their university emails and their library account.
  2. Registration and use of the app are generally free of charge. However, the provider reserves the right to expand the app in the future with paid additional functionalities (in-app purchases). The use of such paid functionalities is always voluntary for the user.
  3. The provider reserves the right to remove, delete or block certain content at any time and without notice, especially if third parties request him to do so, e.g. by notifying illegal content.
  4. The free usage options can be adapted unannounced at any time, i.e. either expanded or discontinued.
  5. The user acquires no claim that certain functionalities and usage possibilities exist, remain or will be set up in the future.
  6. The provider does not guarantee any specific availability for the free use of the platform. The provider strives to enable a maximum of availability within the scope of its influence.
  7. The provider can limit access to the services at any time if the security of network operation, the maintenance of network integrity, in particular the avoidance of serious disturbances of the network, the software or stored data require this.

3. Registration, Password

  1. The user may have to register in advance in order to use the app or view content.
  2. There is no claim to registration or granting of the possibility of use by the provider. Only natural persons of full age and full legal capacity or those acting with the permission of their legal representative are entitled to use.
  3. For security reasons, the user is obliged to choose a password that has at least eight characters and includes at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one digit and one special character.

4. Account

  1. The user receives – optionally within the scope of registration – an account, i.e. an access option for using the app. The account includes the simple, freely revocable at any time and non-transferable authorization to use the app within the scope of availability.
  2. The provider is entitled to delete accounts if provided data turn out to be untrue or if there is justified suspicion that individual details are untrue.
  1. In addition to these terms of use, the separate privacy policy and the separate data protection declaration of consent of the provider must be observed. This is available both via the app itself and via the provider’s homepage at here.
  2. By starting to use the app, at the latest with registration, the user declares both that they have gained knowledge of this separate privacy policy and their express consent to the processing of their personal data, which is presented in the separate data protection declaration of consent.

6. Deletion or Blocking of Accounts by the Provider

  1. The provider reserves the right to exclude individual users. The provider is entitled to delete or block accounts if there are actual indications that justify the suspicion that • legal violations were or are being committed by the user via or with the help of the app; • the user otherwise intentionally violates these terms of use. This list is not exhaustive. The provider reserves the right to further reasons for deletion or blocking of accounts.
  2. The provider will take appropriate account of the user’s interests in its decision, in particular against the background of the severity of the violation or suspicion.
  3. In cases of doubt, the burden of proof lies with the user. They must demonstrate and prove that, contrary to the suspicion of the provider, they have behaved in accordance with applicable law or these terms of use or that a reason for deletion or blocking does not exist.
  4. Notwithstanding the authorization to delete or block the account, the provider remains entitled to terminate the contractual relationship with the user as a whole and/or to assert other further claims, in particular claims for damages.

7. Damages, Indemnification

  1. The user must compensate the provider for the damage arising from a culpable violation of the user’s obligations.
  2. In the event of a culpable breach of duty, the user indemnifies the provider from its liability towards third parties. They will reimburse the provider for damage incurred as a result upon proof. This does not apply if the user is demonstrably not responsible for the breach of duty.

8. Duration of Use

The possibility of use exists for an indefinite period.

9. Cessation of the Provider’s Activities

  1. With regard to free functionalities, the user has no claim to use and access granting.
  2. The provider is entitled at any time, with regard to free functionalities, to interrupt the offering of content and the granting of access to the app, to end it for an indefinite period or permanently.

10. Liability of the Provider

  1. The provider (including vicarious agents and employees of the provider as well as companies affiliated with the provider) is only liable for damages based on intentional or grossly negligent action.
  2. The provider (including vicarious agents and employees of the provider as well as companies affiliated with the provider) is also liable for damages resulting from slightly negligent breaches of essential contractual obligations, but limited to the foreseeable typical average damage.
  3. The provider (including vicarious agents and employees of the provider as well as companies affiliated with the provider) is always liable for damages to life, body and health, as well as under the Product Liability Act.

11. Changes to the Terms of Use

  1. The provider reserves the right to change the terms of use. The user will be expressly informed about the changes in a suitable manner and pointed to the – highlighted – changed passages. Usually, the note is made by publication within the app. However, the provider generally reserves the right to decide how the user is made aware of the changes.
  2. If the user does not indicate within six (6) weeks after information about the new version that they do not accept the new version, this is considered tacit consent and from this point on the new version applies. The provider undertakes to specifically point out this significance of their behavior to the user with the information about the changes.
  3. In the event of a timely objection by the user, the provider is entitled to terminate the possibility of using the app at the time the newly drafted terms of use are to come into force.

12. Rights to the Platform

  1. All trademark rights, rights to business designations, naming rights, trademark rights, copyrights, ancillary copyrights and other rights to the app, its individual graphic and textual elements and its functionalities and services belong solely to the provider and may not be used, distributed, copied, duplicated, made publicly available, performed, broadcast or otherwise exploited without the prior written consent of the provider.
  2. A transfer of exploitation or other rights to the user does not take place.

13. Severability Clause

Should one of the provisions regulated here be or become ineffective, the effectiveness of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.

  1. For the validity of these terms of use, the law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies exclusively, excluding the UN Sales Convention. If the user acts as a consumer, the mandatory consumer protection law applicable to their state of residence always takes precedence regardless of this.
  2. The place of performance is the registered office of the provider.
  3. Rights and obligations from these terms of use cannot be assigned or otherwise transferred without the other party having previously agreed.
  4. The user can only declare set-off with such counterclaims that are undisputed or legally established.