Terms and Conditions / Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen (AGB)

1. Scope of Application

These Terms apply to all users of the Saganode platform operated by Saganode GmbH.

Deviating conditions of the user shall not apply unless expressly agreed in writing.

2. Services

Saganode provides a digital platform for world-building, storytelling, and creative organization.

The platform may include automated systems, including language models and generative algorithms, to support creative workflows.

Saganode does not guarantee specific creative, economic, or professional outcomes.

3. User Content

3.1 Users retain all rights, title and interest in and to any content they create, upload or submit through the Platform (“User Content”).

3.2 To the extent necessary to provide, operate, maintain, secure and improve the Platform and the Services, users grant Saganode a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and non-transferable licence to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt for technical purposes, transmit and display User Content. This licence applies only for the duration and to the extent necessary for the provision of the Services and in accordance with the user’s settings and instructions.

3.3 Saganode may engage service providers and grant them sublicences strictly to the extent necessary to provide the Services, subject to appropriate confidentiality and data-protection obligations.

3.4 Saganode will not use User Content for advertising, sell it, or use it to train or improve artificial-intelligence models, unless the user has given separate, explicit consent.

3.5 Users are solely responsible for ensuring that they have all necessary rights, permissions, licences, consents and legal authority to create, upload, submit, process, use and share any User Content through the Platform, including without limitation documents, texts, images, photographs, graphics, audio recordings, video recordings, personal data and other files or materials.

Users must ensure that their User Content, and Saganode’s use, processing, storage and display of such User Content in accordance with these Terms, do not violate applicable law or infringe any intellectual-property rights, privacy rights, data-protection rights, confidentiality obligations or other rights of third parties.

3.6 Users shall indemnify and hold harmless Saganode from and against any third-party claims, losses, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in connection with the user’s breach of this Section 3 or any allegation that User Content submitted by the user infringes the rights of a third party or violates applicable law.

3.7 Upon termination of the user account or deletion of User Content, Saganode will delete or anonymise the relevant User Content within a reasonable period, except where retention is required by applicable law or where the content remains temporarily stored in backup systems.

4. AI-Generated Content

4.1 The Platform may generate content using artificial intelligence systems based on user inputs (“AI-Generated Content”).

4.2 AI-Generated Content may contain inaccuracies, inconsistencies, unintended or inappropriate content, and may not be complete, original, lawful, non-infringing, or suitable for a particular purpose.

4.3 Users are solely responsible for reviewing, verifying and validating AI-Generated Content before publishing, distributing, commercially using, relying on, or otherwise making use of it. Users must ensure that their use of AI-Generated Content complies with applicable law and does not infringe intellectual-property rights or other rights of third parties.

4.4 Saganode makes no warranty, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, originality, uniqueness, legality, non-infringement, availability, or fitness for a particular purpose of AI-Generated Content.

5. Availability

5.1 Saganode will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Platform available in a reliable and secure manner. However, Saganode does not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free or fully secure availability of the Platform or the Services.

5.2 Temporary restrictions, interruptions or unavailability may occur, in particular due to maintenance, updates, security measures, technical issues, capacity constraints, failures of third-party infrastructure or telecommunications networks, or circumstances beyond Saganode’s reasonable control.

5.3 Where reasonably practicable, Saganode will provide advance notice of planned maintenance that is likely to materially affect the availability of the Platform.

5.4 Nothing in this Section 5 limits or excludes Saganode’s liability except as expressly set out in Section 6.

6. Limitation of Liability

6.1 Saganode shall be liable without limitation for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body or health, and to the extent liability cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

6.2 In the event of a slightly negligent breach of an essential contractual obligation, Saganode’s liability shall be limited to the foreseeable damage typically occurring under the contract and, in the aggregate, to the fees paid or payable by the user for the Services during the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to liability. Essential contractual obligations are obligations whose fulfilment is necessary for the proper performance of the contract and on whose fulfilment the user may regularly rely.

6.3 In all other cases, Saganode shall not be liable for damages caused by slight negligence. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Saganode shall not be liable for indirect or consequential damages, including loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of data, business interruption or loss of business opportunity.

6.4 The limitations of liability in this Section 6 shall also apply to Saganode’s legal representatives, employees, agents and service providers.

7. Changes to the Service

Saganode may modify, improve, suspend, or discontinue parts of the platform where reasonably necessary for technical, operational, or legal reasons.

8. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding conflict-of-law provisions.

Mandatory consumer protection provisions remain unaffected.