General Terms and Conditions

§ 1 Scope

(1) The following General Terms and Conditions (GTC) apply to all deliveries and offers of corpus.e AG (hereinafter referred to as “corpus.e”). Counter-confirmations of the client with reference to his own terms and conditions of business or purchase are hereby contradicted.

Additional General Terms and Conditions for time-limited license agreements for software lease apply to software rental.

(2) A consumer within the meaning of these GTC is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for a purpose that cannot be attributed primarily to their commercial or independent professional activity.

An entrepreneur is a natural or legal person or partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, is acting in the exercise of their commercial or independent professional activity.

§ 2   Offer and conclusion of contract

(1) Our product range is non-binding. In particular, we reserve the right to make changes in design and technology that improve the functionality of a product and to make errors in descriptions, illustrations and prices. All technical information on the individual goods is based on the manufacturer's specifications and is binding within this framework. corpus.e takes great care to ensure that the availability information is carefully maintained and as accurate as possible. However, all information is without guarantee and may change at any time without prior notice.

The client's order constitutes an offer to conclude a purchase contract. The subsequent confirmation of receipt of the order sent by corpus.e and any subsequent status reports do not constitute acceptance of the offer. The purchase contract is concluded as soon as we deliver the ordered goods and confirm shipment to the customer.

(2) We reserve the right of ownership and copyright to all documents provided to the customer, in particular data carriers, documentation, illustrations, drawings and calculations; they may not be used for purposes other than those stipulated in the contract and may not be made accessible to third parties and must be returned to us immediately free of charge when the contract is terminated or if the contractual purpose of use has been fulfilled.

The customer is obliged to keep the information and data contained therein secret. This applies in particular to such documents and information that are designated as “confidential”. We are entitled to demand the return of documents at any time if confidentiality is not ensured. The obligation to maintain confidentiality shall not be affected by the termination of the contract.

(3) The customer is obliged to check our offer carefully for correctness and expediency. This applies in particular to project offers in which we have made assumptions designated as such, which we have based our calculation and service description on. If such assumptions do not apply, the customer shall inform us so that we can correct the offer.

(4) We are entitled to place subcontracts.

(5) If a cost estimate is prepared on behalf of the customer, the costs shall be reimbursed by the customer in accordance with the time spent.

§ 3   Prices, packaging and shipping, return costs, partial deliveries

(1) Our prices are generally the prices stated in the offer or in the shopping cart on our website at the time of ordering. Differing prices that may be displayed on pages that are loaded from intermediate storage (browser cache, proxies) are not current and invalid. Unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing, our prices are ex place of dispatch excluding packaging, freight and, if applicable, cash on delivery charges. All prices quoted on our websites are inclusive of VAT unless the customer changes his customer type to company, dealer or public institution and does not select a country outside the European Union as the country of delivery or the website is not aimed exclusively at entrepreneurs.

(2) Packaging becomes the property of the customer.

(3) Packaging and shipping costs shall be borne by the customer. These depend on the shipping method, the payment method, the weight and the shipping destination. They are calculated and shown in the shopping cart before an online order is placed or, in the case of telephone orders, stated and shown separately on the invoice. The choice of shipping method is made at the customer's request or within the scope of permissible possibilities at our best discretion. An overview of the various shipping and payment options as well as the corresponding prices are published on our website.

(4) If the customer is a consumer and makes effective use of his right of revocation, he shall bear the regular costs of the return shipment or collection if the delivered goods correspond to the ordered goods and if the price of the goods to be returned does not exceed € 40.00. The shipping costs will be reimbursed in the amount of the cheapest standard delivery.

(5) In the case of partial deliveries arranged by us without consultation with the customer, subsequent deliveries shall be free of shipping costs. In the case of special customer requests to split the delivery, the agreed shipping costs will be charged additionally for each partial delivery.

§ 4   Delivery times

The expected delivery times depend on the product and are non-binding.

§ 5   Transfer of risk and warranty

(1) If the customer collects the goods, the risk of accidental loss or accidental damage is transferred to the customer when the goods are handed over. If corpus.e ships the goods to the client, the risk is transferred to the client when the goods are handed over to the carrier in the case of entrepreneurs and to the consumer when the goods are handed over to the consumer by the carrier.

(2) The warranty begins with the delivery of the goods and is based on the statutory provisions.

(3) The limitation period for statutory claims for defects is 2 years for new goods and one year for used goods, provided the customer is a consumer.

(4) If the client is an entrepreneur, the limitation period for warranty claims is one year and corpus.e has the choice to remedy the defect or to deliver a defect-free item; obvious defects in the goods or services of corpus.e must be reported in writing immediately, at the latest within 14 days of receipt of the goods. If the defects are not reported in good time, the goods shall be deemed to have been approved.

(5) corpus.e assumes no warranty for normal wear and tear of the goods or for defects caused by incorrect or negligent handling or operation or exceptional operating conditions.

§ 6   Limitations of liability

(1) The limitations of liability do not apply to damage caused by intent or gross negligence or to injury to life, limb or health.

(2) Irrespective of the legal basis, claims for damages against corpus.e as well as its vicarious agents are limited in amount to those damages that corpus.e could reasonably have expected to occur at the time the contract was concluded.

If the damage does not result from the breach of an essential contractual obligation, i.e. an obligation that makes the proper execution of the contract possible in the first place and on the fulfillment of which the customer therefore regularly relies or may rely, the compensation shall be limited to a maximum of ten times the order value. The client is responsible for backing up his data. corpus.e is only liable for the effort required to restore the data in the event of regular data backup by the client.

§ 7   Payments

(1) Unless otherwise agreed, our invoices are due immediately without deduction.

(2) The customer has the choice of various payment methods, which are offered depending on the order total, the delivery method, the shipping destination and settings in the offer or customer account. The various options are available for selection in the shopping cart and are also described in the information section of our website.

(3) corpus.e reserves the right, in individual cases or in the event of refusal of payment by credit institutions or providers of the respective payment method, to execute the order only against payment on delivery or prepayment. In this case, the customer can accept this or withdraw from his order.

(4) The customer will be charged for any costs incurred due to the reversal of a payment transaction for lack of funds or due to incorrect data provided by the customer.

(5) Checks are not accepted.

(6) In the event of default of payment, corpus.e is entitled to charge consumers default interest of 5 percentage points and entrepreneurs default interest of 8 percentage points per year above the applicable base interest rate.

(7) Offsetting is not permitted except in the case of undisputed or legally established counterclaims. The retention of payments by the buyer due to counterclaims from other contractual relationships is excluded.

§ 8   Retention of title

All goods delivered by us remain the property of corpus.e until full payment and settlement of all claims arising from the delivery contract. This also applies to conditional claims. If the customer is an entrepreneur, the following regulations also apply: Access by third parties to the goods owned or co-owned by corpus.e must be reported immediately by the client.

Any costs arising from such interventions for a third-party action or costs for an extra-procedural release shall be borne by the client. By way of security, the client assigns to corpus.e in full all claims arising from the resale or other legal grounds with regard to the reserved goods (including all current account balance claims).

We revocably authorize the buyer/customer to collect the claims assigned to us for his account and in his own name. This direct debit authorization can be revoked if the buyer/customer does not properly meet his payment obligations

§ 9   Withdrawal policy for consumers

Right of withdrawal

If you are a consumer, you have the right to withdraw from this contract within 30 days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is 30 days from the day on which you or a third party named by you, who is not the carrier, took possession of the last goods. To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us,

of your decision to withdraw from this contract by an unequivocal statement (e.g. a letter sent by post, fax or e-mail). To comply with the withdrawal period, it is sufficient that you send the notification of the exercise of the right of withdrawal before the expiry of the withdrawal period.

Consequences of withdrawal

If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (with the exception of the supplementary costs resulting from your choice of a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us), without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract. For this repayment, we will use the same means of payment that you used for the original transaction, unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; under no circumstances will you be charged any fees for this repayment.

You must return or hand over the goods to us immediately and in any case within 14 days at the latest from the day on which you inform us of the revocation of this contract. The deadline is met if you send the goods before the 14-day period has expired. You shall bear the direct costs of returning the goods if the price of the goods to be returned does not exceed 40 euros. Otherwise the return shipment is free of charge for you. Goods that cannot be sent by parcel post will be collected from you at our expense.

You only have to pay for any loss in value of the goods if this loss in value is due to handling of the goods that is not necessary for checking their condition, properties and functionality.

§ 10 No right of withdrawal

There is no right of withdrawal for contracts for the delivery of audio or video recordings or computer software in a sealed package or goods sealed for reasons of hygiene or health protection if the seal has been re-moved after delivery. In the case of the delivery of data that is not on a data carrier (e.g. downloads), the right of withdrawal expires if the consumer agrees that the contract will be executed before the expiry of the objection period and confirms that he loses his right of withdrawal by executing the contract.

§ 11 Transferability of claims

The customer is not entitled to assign his claims arising from the contract.

§ 12 Data protection

(1) Our data protection practices comply with the applicable data protection laws.

(2) corpus.e only uses the client's e-mail address for information letters about the orders and, if requested by the client, for its own newsletters. Furthermore, corpus.e regularly sends the client carefully selected offers for similar products from its range by e-mail. The customer can object to the use of his e-mail address for advertising purposes by informal e-mail without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates.

(3) corpus.e does not pass on any personal customer data to third parties unless the customer has consented to this. Exceptions to this are service partners who require the transmission of data for order processing. In these cases, however, the scope of the transmitted data is limited to the necessary minimum.

(4) The customer has a right to information as well as a right to correction, blocking and deletion of their stored data. If deletion conflicts with statutory or contractual retention obligations or other legal reasons, the data will be blocked.

§ 13 Final provisions

(1) These General Terms and Conditions contain all the rights and obligations of the contracting parties.

(2) If the customer is a merchant or has no place of residence within the European Union, our place of business shall be the sole place of jurisdiction for all disputes between the contracting parties, including actions on bills of exchange and checks.

(3) Duty to inform according to § 36 VSBG

corpus.e is generally not obliged and not willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings of a consumer arbitration board.

(4) German law shall apply exclusively, excluding the provisions of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. In dealings with end consumers within the European Union, the law of the end consumer's place of residence may also be applicable, insofar as mandatory consumer law provisions are involved.

(5) Should one of these provisions be invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. The parties shall endeavor to replace invalid provisions with valid provisions that largely achieve the intended economic purpose.

General Terms and Conditions

for time-limited license agreements for software lease

§ 1 Scope

(1) All offers and contracts of corpus.e AG (hereinafter referred to as "corpus.e") for time-limited license agreements for software lease are subject to the exclusive application of these General Terms and Conditions. These form an integral part of all contracts that corpus.e concludes with its contractual partners for the services it offers with regard to software solutions. They shall also govern all future offers and contracts to and with the contractual partner (hereinafter “lessee”), even if they are not specifically agreed upon again.

(2) Terms and conditions of the lessee or third parties shall not apply, even if corpus.e does not specifically object to their validity in individual cases. Even if corpus.e refers to a letter that contains or refers to the terms and conditions of the lessee or a third party, this does not constitute an agreement with the validity of those terms and conditions.

§ 2 Subject matter and conclusion of contract

(1) The subject matter of this software lease agreement is the temporary provision of the software as specified in the offer against lease payments, together with the licensing of rights of use for this software to an extent, which allows the usage as set out in the offer for a time-limited term.

(2) All offers of corpus.e are subject to change and non-binding, unless they are expressly marked as binding or contain a specific acceptance period. Orders or commissions may be accepted by corpus.e within (14) days of receipt.

(3) Offer documents shall not be made accessible to unauthorized third parties and must be returned to corpus.e on request if the agreement is not concluded and any copies made must be destroyed if they are no longer required by the main lessee in the ordinary course of business. Excluded from this obligation is the storage of electronically provided data for the purpose of proper data backup.

(4) The legal relationship between corpus.e and the lessee is governed solely by the software lease agreement concluded in text form, including these General Terms and Conditions. This fully reflects all agreements between the contracting parties on the subject matter of the contract. Verbal commitments made by corpus.e prior to the conclusion of this contract are not legally binding and verbal agreements between the contracting parties are replaced by the contract in text form, unless expressly agreed otherwise between the contracting parties.

(5) Additions and amendments to the contract, including these General Terms and Conditions, shall be made in text form only. On behalf of corpus.e only managing directors or authorized signatories are entitled to verbal amendments and deviations from this agreement and from the text form as applicable form. Communication by telecommunication, in particular via telefax or e-mail or an electronic ordering system, shall be sufficient to meet the text form.

§ 3 Software delivery and installation

(1) corpus.e may, at the discretion of corpus.e, provide the software to the lessee either on a data storage medium or by making it available for download on its homepage or another medium to be agreed on between the parties or by granting access and use directly via the internet without prior installation on a hardware. The lessee shall be provided with the access information (e.g. license key or log-in data) required to use the software.

(2) corpus.e shall not be responsible for the installation of the software on the hardware system of the lessee; the lessee shall be solely responsible for such installation.

§ 4 Maintenance

(1) corpus.e shall be obliged to maintain the contractually agreed quality of the software during the term of the contract ("maintenance"). The contractually owed quality of the software is determined in accordance with the product specifications available to the lessee. In order to fulfill its maintenance obligation, corpus.e shall carry out the maintenance and servicing measures required according to the state of the art.

(2) corpus.e shall only be obliged to modify or adapt the software, if such a modification or adaptation is necessary for the maintenance of the software according to the state of the art. Otherwise, corpus.e is only obliged to modify, adapt and further develop the software if the parties conclude a separate agreement. Without such separate agreement, corpus.e is in particular not obliged to further develop the software. However, corpus.e is entitled to update and/or further develop the software at any time, in particular with regard to a changed legal situation and/or current technical developments and/or for the purpose of improving IT security.

§ 5 Grant of rights

(1) Against the contractually agreed lease payments in accordance with Sec. 6 of these General Terms and Conditions, corpus.e hereby grants to lessee the non-exclusive, non-transferrable, non-sub-licensable right, limited in time to the term of the contract, to use the software to the extent provided for in these General Terms and Conditions and in the other contractual provisions, in particular in the specifications. The lessee is granted the right subject to the condition that the lessee concludes with corpus.e an agreement on the collection of data under joint responsibility as set out in Attachment 1.

Depending on the applicable software solution, the contractual use of the software includes the usage by downloading and installing it, loading it into the working memory and connecting it for use via the Internet, or, in the case of purely Internet-based software solutions, the usage includes the direct use on the Internet, as well as generally displaying and running the software provided. Unless otherwise contractually agreed, the license includes the use of the software with one device only; a further license is required for an additional device.

(2) The lessee shall only be insofar entitled to reproduce the delivered software, as such reproduction is required for the contractual use. In particular, the loading of the software into the working memory is to be regarded as a reproduction required for the contractual use. In addition, the lessee shall be entitled to produce duplications for backup purposes only ("backup copy"). The lessee shall be obliged to mark this backup copy as such and to affix a copyright notice of corpus.e.

(3) If the software is made available to the lessee by download, the creation of a backup copy is not permitted if it is possible to download the software again from corpus.e’s server.

(4) Apart from that, the main lessee is not entitled to reproduction, unless otherwise stipulated by law.

(5) The lessee shall not be entitled to modify or edit the software.

§ 5b Grant of rights for Distributors

(1) This section replaces the previous section 5 and is only applicable to lease agreements with lessees that have a distribution agreement with corpus.e in place and enter in a lease agreement for the purpose of the distribution and sub-lease of such lease agreement.

(2) Against the contractually agreed lease payments in accordance with Sec. 6 of these General Terms and Conditions, corpus.e hereby grants to lessee the non-exclusive, non-transferrable, sub-licensable right, limited in time to the term of the contract, to use the software to the extent provided for in these General Terms and Conditions and in the other contractual provisions, in particular in the specifications. With regard to sub-licensing, lessee is granted the right to sub-license the software for use by customers. Such right to sub-licensing shall be subject to the condition that the lessee arranges the conclusion of an agreement on the collection of data under joint responsibility with the lessee’s customer as set out in Annex 1 of the distributor agreement by forwarding the offer of corpus.e to the customer for conclusion of the agreement without any own power of representation and subject to the acceptance of such contract by the main lessee’s customer and subject to the conclusion of an agreement on the data processing (Annex 1).

Depending on the applicable software solution, the contractual use of the software includes the usage by downloading and installing it, loading it into the working memory and connecting it for use via the Internet, or, in the case of purely Internet-based software solutions, the usage includes the direct use on the Internet, as well as generally displaying and running the software provided. Unless otherwise contractually agreed, the license includes the use of the software with one device only; a further license is required for an additional device.

(3) The lessee shall only be insofar entitled to reproduce the delivered software, as such reproduction is required for the contractual use. In particular, the loading of the software into the working memory is to be regarded as a reproduction required for the contractual use. In addition, the lessee shall be entitled to produce duplications for backup purposes only ("backup copy"). The lessee shall be obliged to mark this backup copy as such and to affix a copyright notice of corpus.e.

(4) If the software is made available to the lessee by download, the creation of a backup copy is not permitted if it is possible to download the software again from corpus.e’s server.

(5) Apart from that, the lessee is not entitled to reproduction, unless otherwise stipulated by law.

(6) The lessee shall not be entitled to modify or edit the software, unless the modification or editing is necessary to remedy a defect for the contractual use of the software with which corpus.e is in default.

(7) The lessee is obliged to corpus.e to fulfill its own justified warranty obligations towards its customers on the basis of the documents made available to it by corpus.e (e.g. training documents, documentation, product descriptions, other accompanying materials) and on the basis of its expertise and specialist knowledge, prior to asserting own warranty rights against corpus.e, insofar as this is possible for the lessee; any recourse claims of the main lessee against corpus.e shall remain unaffected by this ("Service Level 1"). If the main lessee is unable to remedy a defect to its customer itself for professional, technical or legal reasons, the lessee may assert its warranty rights against corpus.e as set out by law as amended in Sec. 8 of these General Terms and Conditions; the main lessee’s fundamental right to assert warranty rights remains unaffected by this ("Service Level 2").

(8) Upon termination of the lease agreement, regarding Sec. 11 of this lease agreement lessee is not only obliged to return its license within the meaning of Sec. 5 para. 2 but to assign any license payment claims against sub-licensees to corpus.e in full in accordance with the provisions of unjust enrichment, if the termination of the sub-lease agreement does not correspond to the termination of this lease agreement.

§ 6 Lease

(1) The lessee shall be obliged to make the agreed lease payments in accordance with the agreed payment terms plus the applicable VAT for the provision of the software. If the software is provided for a shorter period than a full payment term, the lease shall be reduced pro rata temporis.

(3) The lease payments owed by the lessee are payable in advance and are due for payment on the 3rd working day of each payment term.

§ 7 Duty of care

(1) The lessee is obliged to take appropriate measures to ensure that unauthorized third parties cannot access the software, the backup copy, the documentation and other accompanying materials supplied.

(2) In particular, the lessee is obliged to store the original data carrier, if any, all existing copies of the software including the backup copy and all associated documentation in a place protected from unauthorized access by third parties. The costs of storage shall be borne by the lessee.

§ 8 Warranty

(1) Should the lessee discover defects in the software or the documentation, the lessee must notify corpus.e immediately in text form, describing the defect. In particular, the notification of defects must contain a description of the exact form in which the defect appears, the work steps that led to its occurrence, the effects of the defect and the steps that have been taken so far for remedy.

(2) The lessee must provide corpus.e with the necessary access to the software and documentation for the purpose of remedying the defect.

(3) corpus.e warrants an overall availability of 99.5% at the transfer point for the internet-based software solution. The transfer point is the router output of the data center where the software is hosted. Availability is defined as the ability of the lessee to use the contractually agreed functions of the software. Insignificant restrictions on the use of the software (e.g. a slightly slower or barely perceptible restriction on the execution of the software) are not taken into account. Availability is calculated according to the formula:

Total availability = (availability - downtime)./. total time

The total time includes all days of the current calendar year multiplied by 24 hours.

When calculating the actual availability, downtimes not attributable to corpus.e are regarded as times of availability. These non-attributable downtimes are

• Downtimes due to announced maintenance work or maintenance work that cannot be postponed or foreseen for safety reasons;
• Downtimes due to force majeure (e.g. unforeseeable hardware or internet failures, natural disasters, pandemics, strikes) or due to other events that were not caused by a breach of corpus.e's obligations; 
• downtimes due to virus or hacker attacks, insofar as corpus.e has taken the agreed protective measures or, in the absence of an agreement, the usual protective measures against this, e.g. based on the basic protection in accordance with the basic IT protection of the German Federal Office for Information Security;
• Downtimes caused by the main lessee and/or the customers (non-availability or defects of the required equipment such as hardware or Internet access) and/or due to other interruptions caused by the main lessee or its customers (e.g. failure to cooperate, delayed or insufficient fault reporting, etc.);
• Downtimes due to software errors in applications or data of the main lessee or the customer (e.g. browser or other software not provided by corpus.e) or due to errors in the system and system-related software caused by customer applications or data;
• Downtimes due to unauthorized changes or modifications to the software made independently by the main lessee and/or its customers;
• Downtimes caused by third parties (persons not attributable to corpus.e).

(4) corpus.e shall inform the main lessee in good time of planned maintenance and repair work. As a rule, maintenance work is carried out outside the main lessee's normal business hours, unless the maintenance work cannot be postponed or is necessary for compelling reasons.

(5) The lessee is not entitled to claim a reduction of the lease payments by independently deducting the reduction amount from the current lease. This does not affect the right of the lessee under the law of unjust enrichment to reclaim the part of the lease paid in excess due to a justified reduction.

(6) corpus.e will record and process defects during normal business hours (between 09:00 and 17:00 CET; hereinafter "service hours"). 

§ 9 Liability

(1) Strict liability (liability regardless of responsibility) for damages with regard to defects existent at the conclusion of the agreement is hereby excluded. 

(2) corpus.e shall only liable for damages in cases of intent or gross negligence, in cases of the negligent injury to life, body or health, in cases of defects fraudulently concealed by corpus.e, in the extent of a given guarantee or an adopted procurement risk, in cases of default, if a fixed date for supply has been agreed on, in cases of liability pursuant to the Product Liability Act. In cases of the breach of essential contractual obligations (obligations the compliance of which is the basis for the performance of the contract and the main lessee may reasonably rely on the compliance with such obligations) corpus.e is liable in cases of negligence. In such cases, the liability is limited to the typical and adequate foreseeable damage. The same limitation of liability applies accordingly to claims for reimbursement under Sec. 284 of the German Civil Code. Any additional claims for damages, irrespective of the legal basis, are hereby excluded.

(3) The liability regulations set out in Para. 1 apply accordingly to the conduct of and claims against employees, legal representatives and vicarious agents of corpus.e.

§ 10 Term and termination

(1) This software rental agreement comes into force upon conclusion of the contract and has a term of 6 months for monthly rentals and 1 year for annual rentals. Thereafter, the term shall be extended by the agreed follow-up term of 6 months for monthly rentals and 1 year for annual rentals, unless this is cancelled in writing subject to a notice period of 3 months.

(2) The first 3 months are a trial period (try-before-you-buy). No leasing payments are due during this period and the lessee can cancel this contract at any time within these 3 months.

(3) The right of both parties to termination without notice at any time for compelling reasons (Sec. 314, 543 German Civil Code) remains unaffected. Compelling reasons exist in particular if the lessee intentionally or negligently violates an essential obligation of the software lease agreement, which is based on these General Terms and Conditions, because of which corpus.e can no longer reasonably be expected to adhere to the software lease agreement.

§ 11 Return of license after the termination of the agreement

Upon termination of the lease agreement, the lessee is obliged to return the license within the meaning of Sec. 5 para. 1.

§ 12 Data protection

(1) The parties shall comply with all applicable data protection regulations.

(2) The parties will conclude an agreement on the collection of data under joint responsibility as set out in Attachment 1 and the lessee will provide the necessary guarantees in accordance with Art. 44 GDPR if this becomes necessary.

§ 13 Marketing 

The lessee agrees that corpus.e may include the lessee as a reference customer in its public reference list and use the lessee's name, logo, and a general description of the services performed in marketing and promotional materials. This consent may be revoked by the lessee at any time in writing.

§ 14 Final provisions

(1) Should any of the provisions of these General Terms and Conditions or a provision subsequently incorporated into them be or become void or unenforceable in whole or in part, or should a gab in this software lease agreement become apparent, the validity of the remaining provisions shall not be affected. If the contract or these General Terms and Conditions should contain gaps, such effective regulations shall apply that the contractual parties would have agreed on taking into account the economic objectives and intentions of the contract, if they had known of the gap.

(2) The place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with the software lease agreement or these General Terms and Conditions is the registered office of corpus.e. corpus.e is, however, entitled to refer to any other competent court.

(3) The parties agree that this software lease agreement shall be governed exclusively by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the exclusion of United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of April 11, 1980 (UN Sales Convention).

Version 6 (valid from January 1st 2026)