GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF INVENTIVE STUDIOS GMBH
As of: May 2026

1. Scope, Definitions
   1.1 These General Terms and Conditions („GTC“) apply to all contracts between Inventive Studios GmbH, Taunusstraße 59-61, 55118 Mainz („Inventive“) and its clients („Client“) for the provision of services in the field of technological media production, the conception, creation and editing of content („Content“), the development of digital products including software, web and app solutions, SaaS components, prototypes, interactive applications, as well as the generation, editing or integration of content using artificial intelligence („AI Content“).

   
   1.2 Inventive enters into contracts exclusively with entrepreneurs within the meaning of section 14 BGB, legal entities under public law, or special funds under public law. Inventive's offer is not directed at consumers within the meaning of section 13 BGB.

   
   1.3 Conflicting, supplementary or deviating terms and conditions of the Client shall only become part of the contract if Inventive expressly agrees to their validity in writing or in text form. This requirement of consent also applies if Inventive, with knowledge of conflicting or deviating terms, provides services without reservation.

   
   1.4 Individual agreements between Inventive and the Client, in particular the offer, service description, order confirmation, project agreement, service level agreement, change request or other contractual documents, shall take precedence over these GTC. These GTC shall apply additionally.

   
   1.5 These GTC shall also apply to future business relationships between Inventive and the Client, provided that Inventive refers to them in the respective offer, contract or order confirmation.

   
   

2. Conclusion of Contract, Text Form, Inclusion of the GTC
   2.1 Offers made by Inventive are subject to change and non-binding unless they are expressly designated as binding. A contract is concluded only upon written acceptance of the offer, through an order confirmation by Inventive, through mutual signing of a contract, or through commencement of performance following the corresponding commissioning.

   
   2.2 Changes, additions and ancillary agreements require at least text form, unless a stricter form is required by law or expressly agreed. Email is sufficient to satisfy text form. Oral agreements are binding only if confirmed by Inventive in text form.

   
   2.3 Before or upon conclusion of the contract, the Client is given the opportunity to take note of these GTC. The GTC become part of the contract if Inventive refers to them in the offer, in the order confirmation, in the contract or in a comparable manner and the Client places the order.

   
   

3. Scope of Services, Project Documents and Duties of Cooperation
   3.1 The specific scope of services results from the contractual documents agreed in each case, in particular the offer, order confirmation, service description, project specification, product specification, service level agreement, briefing, timeline or change request.

   
   3.2 Unless expressly agreed otherwise, Inventive does not owe any specific economic, communicative, design-related, technical or legal effect of the service, but rather the provision of the agreed services in accordance with the contractual documents.

   
   3.3 The Client shall provide Inventive in due time, completely, accurately and in usable formats with all information, materials, data, access rights, contacts, approvals, legal notices and other cooperation required for performance of the services.

   
   3.4 Delays, additional expenses or impairments in quality caused by missing, late, incomplete or incorrect cooperation by the Client shall be borne by the Client. Agreed deadlines shall be extended appropriately to the extent Inventive depends on the Client's cooperation.

   
   3.5 Unless expressly agreed otherwise, the technical, design, artistic and production-related implementation shall be at Inventive's due discretion. The factual, professional, legal and content-related accuracy of specifications, materials, data and approvals provided by the Client shall remain the Client's responsibility.

   
   3.6 Upon Inventive's request, the Client shall designate a contact person with authority to make decisions. Declarations, approvals and decisions made by this contact person shall be deemed declarations of the Client.

   
   

4. Change Requests and Additional Effort
   4.1 Requests for changes or extensions by the Client after conclusion of the contract („Change Requests“) require Inventive's consent. Inventive is not obliged to implement Change Requests unless agreement has been reached on content, effects, dates and remuneration.

   
   4.2 Upon request or where necessary, Inventive shall inform the Client of the expected effects of a Change Request on effort, schedule, remuneration, technical implementation and any third-party costs.

   
   4.3 A Change Request shall be deemed commissioned only once the Client approves the change in text form or Inventive begins implementation at the Client's express request.

   
   4.4 Additional effort resulting from subsequent change requests, additional iterations, changed requirements, postponements of deadlines, additional coordination, additional shooting days, data preparation, format changes, scope extensions, delayed approvals or other circumstances initiated by the Client shall be remunerated additionally at the agreed rates. If no rates have been agreed, Inventive's usual hourly rates shall apply.

   
   4.5 If offers or contractual documents specify effort estimates, budgets or time allowances, Inventive shall inform the Client as soon as it becomes foreseeable that these are likely to be exceeded materially. Additional effort shall only be remunerated to the extent that it has been agreed, caused by the Client, or subsequently approved.

   
   

5. Deadlines, Time Limits and Force Majeure
   5.1 Dates and deadlines are binding only if expressly designated as binding in the contractual documents. Non-binding schedules serve project planning purposes.

   
   5.2 Compliance with deadlines requires the Client's timely and complete cooperation. Delays on the Client's side shall extend agreed deadlines accordingly.

   
   5.3 Events of force majeure as well as circumstances not attributable to Inventive, in particular strikes, lockouts, pandemics, official orders, power or network outages, failures of hosting, cloud, API, model or platform providers, cyberattacks, security incidents, supply chain disruptions, illness of key project participants, changes to third-party APIs or generative AI outages, shall extend deadlines by the duration of the disruption plus a reasonable restart period.

   
   5.4 Inventive shall inform the Client about the nature, commencement and expected duration of the impairment, insofar as this is possible and reasonable.

   
   

6. Acceptance, Approval and Defects
   6.1 Where Inventive owes work performance services, Inventive shall provide the Client with the respective acceptance item, for example files, builds, releases, data room links, repositories, presentations, edited versions, renders, concepts or other project results.

   
   6.2 The Client shall inspect the acceptance item within seven calendar days after it has been made available and declare acceptance or specify concrete, comprehensible and material defects in text form.

   
   6.3 If no substantiated response is received from the Client within the inspection period, the service shall be deemed accepted, provided Inventive pointed out the significance of the Client's silence when making the acceptance item available.

   
   6.4 Insignificant deviations do not entitle the Client to refuse acceptance. Subjective differences in taste do not constitute defects, provided the service complies with the agreed specifications.

   
   6.5 If the Client uses the acceptance item productively, publicly, commercially or vis-à-vis third parties, the service shall be deemed accepted at the latest when such use begins, provided no material defects have been reserved.

   
   6.6 In the event of justified defects, Inventive shall, at its own discretion, provide subsequent performance by remedying the defect or by replacement delivery. The Client shall grant Inventive a reasonable period for this purpose. If subsequent performance fails, the Client may reduce the remuneration in accordance with the statutory provisions or, in the case of material defects, withdraw from the contract. Claims for damages shall be governed exclusively by section 15.

   
   

7. Remuneration, Prices and Payment Terms
   7.1 The prices stated in the offer or in the contractual documents apply plus statutory value-added tax.

   
   7.2 Ancillary costs and external costs, in particular travel and accommodation costs, expenses, licences, music, stock, font, model, location, GEMA, data, cloud, API, hosting, platform, hardware, material and third-party service costs, shall be remunerated separately unless expressly agreed to be included.

   
   7.3 Inventive is entitled to demand reasonable advance payments or instalments, in particular up to 50% of the order sum before the start of production, unless otherwise agreed in the offer or order confirmation.

   
   7.4 Invoices are due for payment within 14 calendar days from the invoice date without deduction, unless otherwise agreed.

   
   7.5 In the event of late payment, the statutory default interest pursuant to section 288 BGB and the statutory flat-rate default charge pursuant to section 288(5) BGB shall apply. Inventive reserves the right to withhold services until full payment of due amounts, suspend ongoing work, refuse handovers or temporarily block access if the Client is in default despite a reminder.

   
   7.6 The granting of rights of use and the handover of working files, raw materials or source materials not expressly owed are subject to full payment of all due claims arising from the respective project.

   
   

8. Cancellations, Postponements and Cancellation Costs
   8.1 If the Client cancels or postpones services that have been firmly commissioned, the Client shall reimburse Inventive for the effort incurred up to that point, third-party costs, reservations and non-cancellable costs.

   
   8.2 Unless deviating project conditions have been agreed, the following flat-rate cancellation and no-show charges shall apply in addition to third-party and reservation costs actually incurred, based on the net order amount of the affected service:
   • 10 to 8 calendar days before the start of the service: 25%
   • 7 to 5 calendar days before the start of the service: 40%
   • 4 to 3 calendar days before the start of the service: 50%
   • 2 to 1 calendar days before the start of the service: 75%
   • on the day the service starts or thereafter: 100%

   
   8.3 The Client reserves the right to prove that Inventive suffered no damage or only significantly less damage. Inventive reserves the right to prove greater damage.

   
   8.4 Cancellation costs shall not apply to the extent that the cancellation or postponement is demonstrably based on force majeure within the meaning of section 5 and no non-cancellable third-party or reservation costs have arisen.

   
   

9. Rights, Usage Rights, Source Materials and Third-Party Content
   9.1 All rights, in particular copyright, neighbouring rights, database rights, trademarks, designation rights, property rights and other intellectual property rights in sources, source code, scripts, builds, raw materials, rough cuts, footage, project files, drafts, concepts, prompts, pipelines, workflows, templates, model configurations, training data, notebooks, tools, methods, know-how, reusable components and internal working tools shall remain with Inventive unless expressly agreed otherwise.

   
   9.2 After full payment, the Client shall receive the rights of use to the specifically delivered work results as agreed in the contractual documents. Scope, type, duration, territory, media, channels, exclusivity and transferability shall be governed primarily by the contractual documents.

   
   9.3 In the absence of a deviating agreement, the Client shall receive a simple, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable right of use to the final delivered work results, unlimited in time and territory, for its own business purposes in the channels recognisably agreed or assumed in the project, in particular website, presentations and organic social media communication.

   
   9.4 Any further use, in particular TV, cinema, digital out of home, paid ads, paid social, performance marketing, merchandising, resale, sublicensing, SDK integration, white-label use, disclosure within the group, use by affiliated companies, use by third parties or editing by third parties, requires an express agreement.

   
   9.5 A total buyout option shall only be granted if expressly agreed in the contractual documents. Scope, remuneration, media, territory, duration, exclusivity, transferability, editing rights and the handover of raw materials shall be governed by the respective agreement. If a total buyout option has been expressly agreed and fully paid, the Client shall receive the agreed broader rights of use and, insofar as legally and factually possible, the available raw materials in accordance with section 12.

   
   9.6 Inventive shall only owe open project files, raw materials, rough cuts, footage, build files, render files, editable layout files, source codes, prompts, workflows, training data, notebooks or comparable working files if this has been expressly agreed in text form.

   
   9.7 The Client alone shall be responsible for materials, data, trademarks, logos, texts, images, videos, music, personality rights, product information, claims, legally required notices and other content provided by the Client. The Client warrants that it holds the rights required for this purpose and shall indemnify Inventive against claims by third parties arising from the contractual use of such materials, data or specifications.

   
   9.8 For music, fonts, stock material, trademarks, personality rights, model releases, location releases, databases, software libraries, code components and other third-party rights, the Client shall procure the necessary rights of use, unless it has been expressly agreed that Inventive will procure them.

   
   9.9 To the extent open-source components are used, their licence terms shall apply with priority to those components. Upon request, Inventive shall provide a list of essential open-source components insofar as this is relevant to the project and possible with reasonable effort.

   
   9.10 Inventive is entitled to use its own pre-existing tools, libraries, code components, templates, workflows, methods and know-how also for other clients, provided that no confidential information or exclusive work results of the Client are disclosed or exploited in doing so.

   
   

10. Reference Naming and Self-Promotion
    10.1 Inventive may use the Client's name, company identifiers and logos as well as work results created, excerpts, screenshots, thumbnails or short project descriptions after go-live or publication for reference, portfolio, presentation, pitch and self-promotion purposes.

    
    10.2 This shall not apply if the Client objects to such use in advance in text form for important confidentiality reasons or if a separate confidentiality agreement provides otherwise.

    
    10.3 Inventive shall appropriately take into account the Client's legitimate confidentiality, embargo and trademark interests.

    
    

11. AI-Specific Provisions
    11.1 „AI Content“ means content, results or components of services that have been created, edited, analysed, structured, transformed or supported in whole or in part with the help of generative or other AI systems, in particular text, image, audio, video, code, data or 3D generators. „Hybrid services“ combine human creative, production, consulting or development work with AI systems.

    
    11.2 To the extent services are provided in whole or in part with AI support, Inventive may use AI systems, models, APIs, platforms or tools from third-party providers, provided this is appropriate to the nature and purpose of the project and no contrary express agreement exists.

    
    11.3 Inventive shall appropriately inform the Client at project level if work results are substantially AI-generated or AI-edited, insofar as this is required or agreed for legal labelling, publication or use in the specific application context.

    
    11.4 Results generated by AI may vary probabilistically and depend on context, prompt, model, training status, platform, seed, API availability, output filters and other third-party conditions. An identical reproduction of AI outputs is not owed unless deterministic or reproducible implementation has been expressly agreed.

    
    11.5 The transfer of rights in AI-supported work results shall be governed by section 9 and the contractual documents, subject to mandatory legal provisions, third-party rights and the respective terms of use of the third-party providers employed.

    
    11.6 Without express agreement, Inventive shall not use confidential information or personal data of the Client for the training or re-training of its own or third-party AI models. If fine-tuning, model training, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, data analysis or comparable data-related procedures are agreed using the Client's data, the parties shall, where necessary, conclude a separate data processing, data protection, security or processing agreement.

    
    11.7 The Client is obliged to review AI-supported work results before productive use, publication or onward transfer for substantive, legal, regulatory, trademark, competition law, copyright, personality rights and industry-specific compliance in the specific application context, unless such review is expressly owed by Inventive.

    
    11.8 To the extent statutory labelling, transparency, advertising, copyright, source, platform or AI notice obligations apply to the specific use, the Client shall comply with them in the application context unless it has been expressly agreed that Inventive will assume these obligations.

    
    11.9 For factual inaccuracies, hallucinations, incorrect conclusions, distortions or other AI-typical errors, Inventive shall be liable only in accordance with section 15 and within the scope of the expressly agreed review, approval and quality assurance processes.

    
    11.10 Inventive will not knowingly create content that is obviously unlawful according to the circumstances known to it. A comprehensive legal review of AI outputs is owed only if this has been expressly agreed.

    
    

12. Handover, Data Retention, Raw Materials and Storage of Materials
    12.1 The final work results shall be handed over by providing a download link, repository, data room, suitable data carrier or in some other agreed manner.

    
    12.2 Inventive shall only owe open project files, rough cut, editable project files, footage, build files, render files, source codes, prompts, workflows, training data, notebooks or comparable working files if this has been expressly agreed in text form or results from an expressly agreed total buyout option.

    
    12.3 Raw materials / footage
    12.3.1 Inventive undertakes to archive and store all raw materials („footage“) of the respective production in an appropriate and secure manner for a period of at least twelve months after acceptance of the respective production, unless a shorter retention period is required due to statutory requirements, third-party rights, data protection requirements, licence terms or other legitimate reasons.

    
    12.3.2 Upon request, the Client shall receive access to the raw materials of a production under the following conditions:
    • within three months after acceptance: for a processing fee of EUR 150.00 plus statutory value-added tax per production;
    • between three and twelve months after acceptance: for a processing fee of EUR 250.00 plus statutory value-added tax per production.

    
    12.3.3 The processing fees pursuant to section 12.3.2 cover the review, provision, preparation and simple digital handover of existing raw materials up to a data volume of 500 GB per production. Any larger data volumes, special formats, data carriers, shipping costs, conversions, transcoding, project reconstruction, sorting, viewing, audio/image synchronisation or other additional services shall be remunerated separately.

    
    12.3.4 If an expressly agreed total buyout option pursuant to section 9.5 or a corresponding individual agreement is exercised, the Client shall automatically also receive all existing raw materials of the respective production in a suitable form, insofar as Inventive is permitted to dispose of them and no third-party rights, data protection requirements, personality rights, licence terms or other legal reasons stand in the way.

    
    12.3.5 Without exercising a total buyout option, the Client shall receive rights of use to raw materials exclusively for further processing within the scope of the original production purposes and the agreed rights of use. Any use beyond this, in particular for other productions, other campaigns, other brands, other clients, resale, sublicensing, AI training, archive databases or other new purposes of use, is not permitted without an express additional agreement.

    
    12.3.6 After expiry of the twelve-month retention period, Inventive shall be entitled to delete the raw materials, provided that no further archiving has been agreed and no statutory or contractual retention obligations prevent this. Inventive shall, where possible, contact the Client before deletion and give the Client the opportunity to agree permanent or extended archiving of the raw materials. An obligation to retain them further shall arise only after express agreement and payment of the agreed archiving costs.

    
    12.4 Extended and permanent archiving of raw materials
    12.4.1 The Client may commission extended archiving of the raw materials before the expiry of the twelve-month free retention period. Unless otherwise agreed, the following flat rates plus statutory value-added tax shall apply for extended archiving up to an archive volume of 500 GB per production:
    Total term from acceptance Additional archiving period after expiry of the 12-month retention period Flat fee per production
    2 years +1 year EUR 200.00

    3 years +2 years EUR 400.00
    4 years +3 years EUR 600.00
    5 years +4 years EUR 800.00

    
    

    12.4.2 For larger data volumes, in addition to the flat rates pursuant to section 12.4.1, a surcharge of EUR 120.00 plus statutory value-added tax per commenced 250 GB and year shall be charged, unless otherwise agreed.

    
    

    12.4.3 Alternatively, after expiry of the twelve-month retention period the Client may commission permanent archiving of the raw materials. The costs for this amount to EUR 500.00 plus statutory value-added tax per production up to an archive volume of 500 GB. For larger data volumes, an additional surcharge of EUR 120.00 plus statutory value-added tax per commenced 250 GB and year shall apply, unless otherwise agreed.

    
    

    12.4.4 „Permanent archiving“ within the meaning of these GTC does not mean unlimited and free storage, but rather ongoing archiving in accordance with the technical, economic and legal conditions agreed in each case. Inventive is entitled to adjust the conditions for future archiving periods with reasonable notice, in particular if storage, cloud, security, energy, administrative or recovery costs have risen significantly.
    
    

    12.4.5 Data retrievals or restorations shall generally be carried out within five working days upon the Client's written request, provided the data is still available, readable and technically accessible. Special urgent retrievals, physical data carriers, shipping, format conversions, structuring, reviews or other additional services shall be remunerated separately.
    
    

    12.5 Other project data and working files
    12.5.1 Other project-related digital working data, in particular project data, layouts, render files, audio data, source code or comparable working data, shall be retained by Inventive without separate agreement for up to one year after project acceptance. After expiry of this period, there is no obligation to retain them further. The data may be deleted while observing legal obligations.
    
    

    12.5.2 The Client remains obliged to create its own backup copies of the final work results delivered and to archive them independently. Retention or archiving by Inventive serves exclusively project-related reusability and does not constitute a backup solution for the Client.
    
    

    12.5.3 Personal data shall only be archived if there is a legal basis for doing so and, where required, a data processing agreement exists. Third-party material with time-limited licence rights shall only be archived or handed over insofar as this is permitted under licence law.
    
    

    12.5.4 Inventive shall not be liable for data loss after expiry of the agreed retention or archiving period or if an extension was not commissioned in time. Complete technical availability of archived data is not owed.

    
    

13. Data Protection, Processing on Behalf and Information Security
    13.1 Both parties shall comply with the applicable data protection laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).
    
    

    13.2 Where Inventive processes personal data on behalf of the Client within the meaning of Article 28 GDPR, the parties shall conclude a data processing agreement before processing begins, including provisions on sub-processors, technical and organisational measures and rights of instruction.
    
    

    13.3 Where Inventive independently decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data, Inventive shall process such data as a controller on the basis of the applicable privacy notices.
    
    

    13.4 The Client is responsible for ensuring that personal data provided by it may be lawfully processed and transferred to Inventive. This includes in particular information obligations, consents, balancing of interests, legal bases, deletion periods and data subject rights.
    
    

    13.5 Inventive implements appropriate technical and organisational measures oriented to the risk, the state of the art, the type of data and the agreed scope of services, in particular access controls, encryption, separation of environments, rights and role concepts, logging or comparable protective measures.
    
    

    13.6 Inventive has appointed an external data protection officer. Data protection officer: DSBOK, Oliver Krause, telephone: 06144 402197.
    
    

    13.7 To the extent third-party providers, cloud services, hosting providers, AI providers, platforms or other sub-service providers are used, this shall be done in accordance with the contractual agreements and the requirements of data protection law.

    
    

14. Confidentiality
    14.1 Both parties undertake to keep confidential information of the other party secret and to use it exclusively for the performance of the respective contract.
    
    

    14.2 Confidential information includes in particular business and trade secrets, technical information, source codes, concepts, strategies, calculations, customer data, project documents, access data, unpublished work results and other information recognisable as confidential.
    
    

    14.3 The confidentiality obligation shall not apply to information that is publicly known, becomes publicly known without breach of duty, was already lawfully known to the receiving party, was lawfully received from third parties or must be disclosed due to statutory, official or judicial obligations.
    
    

    14.4 The confidentiality obligation shall also continue after termination of the contract.
    
    

    14.5 Inventive shall oblige engaged employees, freelancers and subcontractors to maintain confidentiality to an appropriate extent.

    
    

15. Liability
    15.1 Inventive shall be liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for damages resulting from injury to life, body or health, under the Product Liability Act and in cases of mandatory statutory liability.
    
    

    15.2 In the case of slight negligence, Inventive shall only be liable for the breach of essential contractual obligations. Essential contractual obligations are obligations whose fulfilment is essential to the proper performance of the contract and on whose observance the Client may regularly rely. In such cases, liability shall be limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.
    
    

    15.3 Liability for slight negligence shall, in total per project, be limited to the net order amount of the respective project, but in any event to a maximum of EUR 100,000, unless expressly agreed otherwise in individual cases and unless unlimited liability exists pursuant to section 15.1.
    
    

    15.4 Inventive shall only be liable for lost profit, missed savings, indirect damage, consequential damage, reputational damage, production downtime, data loss and claims by third parties in cases of intent or gross negligence, to the extent legally permissible and unless unlimited liability exists pursuant to section 15.1.
    
    

    15.5 The Client shall be responsible for the content, lawfulness, completeness, timeliness and usability of materials, data, information and specifications supplied by the Client. The Client shall indemnify Inventive against claims by third parties arising from the contractual use of such materials, data, information or specifications.
    
    

    15.6 For services, platforms, APIs, models, hosting, cloud, software, payment, communication or other services of third parties, Inventive shall only be liable insofar as Inventive culpably breached its duty in selecting or integrating them or insofar as Inventive has expressly assumed its own obligation to stand in for them.

    
    

16. Warranty for Software, SaaS and Digital Products
    16.1 The statutory warranty rights shall apply to software artefacts, digital products and technical services, subject to the special provisions of these GTC.
    
    

    16.2 A merely insignificant reduction in suitability shall be disregarded. The Client shall document errors without delay, in a comprehensible manner and with suitable information, in particular description, steps for reproduction, environment, screenshots, logs or other relevant details.
    
    

    16.3 In the case of SaaS services or ongoing technical services, Inventive owes provision in accordance with the agreed service levels. In the absence of a separate service level agreement, Inventive does not owe any specific minimum availability.
    
    

    16.4 Planned maintenance windows, security updates, technical adjustments or necessary interruptions shall be announced to the Client with appropriate notice, insofar as this is possible and reasonable given the nature of the service.
    
    

    16.5 Third-party services, in particular cloud services, APIs, models, shop systems, payment providers, hosting providers, frameworks, app stores, social media platforms or other external platforms, may make changes to services, impose blocks, suffer outages, adjust prices or make technical changes. In such cases, Inventive shall endeavour to provide economically reasonable workarounds, insofar as this falls within the agreed scope of services.

    
    

17. Third-Party Providers and Subcontractors
    17.1 Inventive is entitled to use suitable employees, freelancers, subcontractors, service providers and vicarious agents to provide the services.
    
    

    17.2 Data protection, security and confidentiality requirements shall be contractually secured where necessary.
    
    

    17.3 To the extent third-party services, in particular licences, GEMA, stock material, fonts, music, speakers, models, locations, hosting, cloud services, APIs or other third-party services are required, these may, by agreement, be procured in the name and for the account of the Client or in Inventive's own name and recharged to the Client.

    
    

18. Compliance, Export Control and Lawful Use
    18.1 The Client undertakes to use Inventive's services and work results only lawfully and in compliance with applicable laws, official requirements, platform terms, third-party rights and industry rules.
    
    

    18.2 The Client shall comply with export, sanctions and trade law restrictions and shall not use Inventive's services for prohibited or unlawful purposes.
    
    

    18.3 Both parties undertake to comply with applicable anti-corruption, antitrust, anti-money laundering, data protection, human rights, labour and safety regulations, insofar as these are relevant to the respective performance of the contract.

    
    

19. Term and Termination
    19.1 Project contracts end upon complete performance and, where applicable, acceptance.
    
    

    19.2 Continuing obligations, in particular maintenance, operation, hosting, support, SaaS, retainer or ongoing consulting services, may be terminated ordinarily on three months' notice to the end of the respective minimum term or contract period, unless otherwise agreed.
    
    

    19.3 The right to extraordinary termination for good cause remains unaffected. Good cause exists in particular in the event of material breaches of contract, default in payment despite a reminder, breach of confidentiality or data protection obligations, unlawful use of the services or a sustained breach of duties of cooperation.
    
    

    19.4 Services already rendered, expenses incurred, third-party costs and non-cancellable costs shall be remunerated in the event of termination, insofar as legally permissible and not expressly agreed otherwise.

    
    

20. Online Dispute Resolution, Consumer Dispute Resolution, Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
    20.1 Inventive does not participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer conciliation body and is not obliged to do so. Since Inventive's offer is directed exclusively at entrepreneurs, consumer dispute resolution rules are generally not applicable.
    
    

    20.2 German law shall apply բացառելով the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
    
    

    20.3 The exclusive place of jurisdiction and place of performance shall be Mainz, provided that the Client is a merchant, legal entity under public law or special fund under public law or has no general place of jurisdiction in Germany.

    
    

21. Final Provisions
    21.1 Should any provision of these GTC be or become wholly or partially invalid, unenforceable or incomplete, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected.
    
    

    21.2 In place of the invalid, unenforceable or incomplete provision, the valid and enforceable provision that comes closest to the economic purpose of the original provision shall be deemed agreed, to the extent legally permissible.
    
    

    21.3 Amendments to these GTC require at least text form, unless a stricter form is prescribed by law.
    
    

    21.4 The current version of the GTC is available upon request and can be provided on Inventive's website.