homify - modify your home
4.5
(you can find the Terms of Use for Experts here)
(1) Homify Online GmbH & Co. KG, Holländerstraße 34, 13407 Berlin, HRB 153618 B, registered at the Local Court of Charlottenburg, General Manager: Philipp Dommermuth Email: [email protected], Phone: +49 (0) 30 16634680 (referred to as "Service Provider" hereinafter) provides a platform (referred to as "homify portal" hereinafter, irrespective of the type of access via web or app) on www.homify.co.uk and as a separate software (app, e.g., for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Nokia, Blackberry, Windows 8, MacOX, or other future software platforms), via which visitors and registered users view the work as well as products of so-called experts, and via which properly registered experts and users can publicly make contact with each other and communicate publicly. Experts are to constitute individuals who commercially offer goods or services on or outside of the homify portal, which lead to the products and results presented on the platform, i.e., generally, professional architects, interior designers, craftsmen, furniture manufacturers, and the like. The Service Provider neither verifies whether a person registered as an expert actually constitutes an expert within the meaning of the definition, nor does it verify its work quality. Users constitute potential and actual consumers of services which are traded to remain with the user permanently, i.e., generally, lessors or owners of real estate. Further information on the services can be found in section 7.
(2) The present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use govern the provision of the free services by the Service Provider for users and the use of said services by you as a registered user. Additionally, the data protection regulations shall apply.
(1) The use of the services available on the homify portal requires your registration as a user. No entitlement to participation exists. The Service Provider shall be entitled to reject applications for participation without providing reasons.
(2) You may only register as a user if you are of age, have unlimited legal capacity, and act as a consumer. A consumer constitutes any natural person concluding a legal transaction for a purpose which can be attributed to neither its commercial nor its occupational activity from self-employment.
(3) Multiple registrations shall be prohibited.
(1) The Service Provider offers you free access to the Portal and the basic services.
(2) The contact information and other information the Service Provider requested from you during the registration process must be complete and correct or be placed on Facebook correctly prior to the registration.
(3) After you provided all requested information, the Service Provider reserves the right to verify said information for completeness and plausibility. If the Service Provider deems the information to be correct and if the Service Provider has no other concerns, the Service Provider will activate your requested access and will notify you hereof per email. The email shall be deemed as acceptance of your application for participation. As of the receipt of that email, you shall be authorized to use the homify portal within the scope of the present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use. For this, you must first confirm the activation by clicking on the link in the email.
(4) At the latest when you log in for the first time after registering on the homify portal, you shall be obligated to provide legal details pursuant to the statutory provisions on your profile. The Service Provider shall not be obligated to verify this information for completeness or compliance with the statutory provisions, since the profile and the presentation of information by the user constitute a telemedia service by the user, and the Service Provider insofar merely stores and provides external information. The fields on the profile intended for this required information may not be used for information other than the statutorily required information.
(1) In the course of the registration process, you will be asked to provide a user name and a password. The user name must contain the user's surname. With those data, you can log into the homify portal after the activation of the access and your confirmation pursuant to section 3 (3). You are responsible to ensure that the user name does not violate third-party rights, in particular rights to names or trademark rights and is not immoral.
(2) You must keep the access data, including the password, confidential and may not make them accessible to unauthorized third parties.
(3) In addition, you are responsible to ensure that your access to the homify portal and the services available on the homify portal are exclusively used by you or by individuals authorized by you. If you fear that unauthorized third parties have gained or will gain knowledge of your access data, the Service Provider shall be promptly notified thereof.
You shall be liable for any use and/or other activity executed under your access data, pursuant to the statutory provisions.
You shall be obligated to keep your data (including required information and other contact information) up-to-date. If there is a change in the data you provided during your participation, you are to correct the information on the homify portal immediately in your personal settings. Should you not succeed in doing so, please notify us of the changed data immediately by email or fax.
(1) Unless otherwise agreed between the Parties, both Parties may terminate the Agreement at any time without notice. The options of extraordinary termination shall remain unaffected in any case.
(2) Upon entry into force of the termination, the contractual relationship shall be deemed to end, and you may not use your access anymore. The Service Provider reserves the right to block the user name as well as the password upon entry into force of the termination, as well as to reassign the user name at the end of twelve months.
(3) The Service Provider shall be entitled to irretrievably delete any and all data generated within the scope of your participation at the end of 30 calendar days after the entry into force of the termination and at the end of potential statutory data provision periods.
(4) The user shall download and secure any and all data stored for it on the homify portal prior to the entry into force of the termination, in case of doubt, at the time of giving notice. The Service Provider shall not be obligated to compile a database report or to release data to the user after the entry into force of the termination.
(1) The Service Provider shall provide you with information and other services on the homify portal for a limited period of time. Such services may include, for instance, making data, contributions, image and audio files, information and other contents (hereinafter summarized as "contents" ) available to the public, as well as the option to create individual profiles and to make contact with other users or experts by sending messages. Please note that all actions performed on the homify portal can be seen by the public, unless explicitly designated otherwise.
(2) If you as a user make comments or post pictures, you are also subject to discussion of this with other experts and users who may rate and comment on the contents posted by you herefor. Criticism is part of these options. Observing neutrality is of importance to the Service Provider, and it shall only be obligated to delete potential ratings or comments within the scope of statutory claims. The user shall not have a contractual claim for deletion against the Service Provider. Users who may not wish to be criticized should not use the homify portal for commenting or for their own pictures. Users shall be prohibited from manipulating ratings for their own purposes or the purposes of others, in particular in favor or to the disadvantage of certain experts, in particular to obtain the promise of an advantage herefor.
(3) The content and scope of the services shall be determined according to the respective contractual agreements and, otherwise, according to the currently available functionalities on the homify portal, respectively.
(4) The services available on the homify portal may also include services by third parties, to which the Service Provider merely provides access. Regulations deviating from or in addition to the present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use, which are generally found on websites of third parties, may apply to using such services – which the Service Provider is not required to separately identify. The user shall undertake to gather the information on the regulations applying insofar on its own. Insofar as the user provides information on its user name with third-party providers (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedlin, Xing, and the like) on the homify portal, the user hereby assigns the Service Provider to provide according social media plug-ins of these third-party providers, connected with the user name, on the homify portal at the same time, even though this then causes a data exchange of the visitor with the third-party provider with every page view.
(5) For all services available for a fee (including those available as part of the basic access), the Service Provider shall guarantee an availability of 99% as a monthly average within its scope of responsibility. The regular maintenance slots of the homify portal, which are scheduled between 2:00 and 4:00 a.m. on Sundays, shall not be included in the availability calculation.
Incidentally, there shall only be a claim for use of the services available on the homify portal within the scope of the technical and operative means of the Service Provider. The Service Provider shall undertake to ensure a usability of its services which shall be as uninterrupted as possible. However, technical problems (such as the interruption of the power supply, hardware and software errors, or technical problems in the data lines) may cause temporary restraints or interruptions.
(6) The Service Provider reserves the right to present contents of individual experts and users in a particularly distinguished manner (e.g., as a banner on the home page, category pages, advertisement for the Portal) free of charge or for a fee at its own discretion, without a claim for the user for a likewise distinguished presentation arising herefrom.
The Service Provider shall be entitled to change services provided free of charge, to make available new services free of charge or for a fee, and to terminate the provision of services free of charge on the homify portal at any time. The Service Provider shall herewith respectively take the legitimate interests of the users into consideration.
(1) The contents available on the homify portal are predominantly protected by copyright or by other property rights, and are respectively owned by the Service Provider, other experts, users, or other third parties who provided the respective contents. The compilation of the contents as such is protected as a database or database collection within the meaning of sections 4 para. 2, 87a para. 1 UrhG (German Copyright Act), where applicable. You may only use these contents pursuant to the present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use as well as within the scope provided on the homify portal.
(2) The contents available on the homify portal partially come from the Service Provider and partially from other experts, users, or other third parties. Contents by the users, experts as well as other third parties are hereinafter summarized as "third-party contents". The Service Provider itself generally does not take note of these third-party contents, does not verify third-party contents for completeness, accuracy, and legitimacy, and thus does not assume any responsibility or guarantee for the completeness, accuracy, legitimacy, and timeliness of the third-party contents. The same applies with regard to the quality of the third-party contents and their suitability for a certain purpose, as well as if third-party contents on linked external websites are concerned.
In cases of doubt, any and all contents on the homify portal shall be deemed third-party contents, with the exception of those contents labeled with a copyright notice by the Service Provider or which are clearly part of the general homify portal design.
(1) The service provider gives users of the homify portal the opportunity to search for professionals for specific areas of activity. When entering an occupation in the search bar on the homify portal, the user will generally be shown those professionals from the pool of professionals registered on the homify portal who created the search term in their professional profile. In addition, users have the option of using a geographical location or a postal code as additional search terms as part of the search.
(2) In the automated compilation of the results for the respective search query, there are various parameters that are included in the selection for the search result, whereby the following parameters have an essential influence on the compilation and order of the search result list:
(1) Your authorization for use shall be limited to the access to the homify portal as well as the use of the services respectively available on the homify portal within the scope of the regulations of the present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use and for view and use of the homify portal.
(2) You are responsible yourself to ensure that the necessary technical requirements for use of the services according to the Agreement in your scope of responsibility are fulfilled. The Service Provider shall not owe you consultation associated therewith.
(1) If available as a functionality on the homify portal, you may personalize your user profile within the scope of the present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use. Please make sure to note the limitations of section 16.
(2) The Service Provider generally does not verify the identities of profile owners and the information on the profiles. Thus, the Service Provider shall not be obligated to warrant that each profile owner actually is the respective person it claims to be.
(1) By posting contents, you respectively grant the Service Provider a transferable right of use to the respective contents which is free of charge, in particular
If you delete your posted contents from the homify portal, the right of use and exploitation granted to us above shall expire, with the exception of actions for editorial use, advertising, or reporting, if such specific actions have at least already been specifically planned or executed with the content at the time of the deletion of the content. However, the Service Provider shall remain entitled to store copies created for purposes of back-up and/or proof. The rights of use already granted to the users, experts, or other third parties in using the homify portal to contents posted by you shall also remain unaffected.
(2) You are fully responsible for the contents you posted. The Service Provider shall not be obligated to verify contents for completeness, accuracy, legitimacy, timeliness, quality, and suitability for a certain purpose.
You shall thus declare and guarantee that you are the sole owner of any and all rights to the contents you have posted on the homify portal, or that you are otherwise authorized (e.g., by means of a valid consent of the owner of the rights) to post the contents on the homify portal and to grant the rights of use and exploitation pursuant to the above-mentioned paragraph (2). This particularly concerns copyrights, design rights, patent rights, utility model rights, the rights to their own image of any people shown, as well as other product and personal rights, as well as compliance with competition law and antitrust law.
You shall indemnify the Service Provider from any and all third-party claims which are asserted against the Service Provider on grounds of contents posted by you. The Service Provider shall be obligated to immediately notify you of the assertion of such claims. At the Service Provider's own option, it may defend itself against the claims according to the conditions of the german lawyers' compensation act, depending on the value in dispute, or ask the user to assume or provide the according defense, or to comply with adequate third-party claims in the case of poor prospects of success.
(3) The Service Provider reserves the right to reject the posting of contents and/or to edit, block, or delete already posted contents (including private messages and guest book entries) without prior notice, insofar as the posting of the contents by the user or the posted contents themselves have caused a violation of section 15 or there are clear indications that a severe violation of section 15 is imminent. However, in doing so, the Service Provider shall take your legitimate interests into consideration and choose the most lenient measure to avert the violation of section 15.
(4) With regard to the right to name the originator, the Parties agree that the originator shall be deemed adequately named if the user name is shown on the homify portal. The user shall guarantee that the originator agrees with this form of naming the originator.
(5) The homify portal is characterized by the visual effect of the images and the high-quality texts.
Any and all pictures posted must be of high technical and visual quality.
Images and products must be captioned by the user with individual, meaningful headings and descriptions which emphasize what is special about the illustration or the product and which must go beyond mere technical data sheets. Individual means that the headings and descriptions may not be used in identical form on other websites.
(6) As a user, you shall not be entitled to post contents, in particular real estate, products, as well as images thereof, on the homify portal for the purpose of selling a good, real estate, or performing a service, or arranging the sale of a good, real estate or a service.
(1) Unless continuous use is explicitly allowed in the present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use or on the homify portal or is facilitated on the homify portal by means of an according functionality (e.g., download button),
(2) You shall only be entitled to download contents as well as print contents if a download or print option is available on the homify portal as a functionality (e.g., via a download button).
You shall respectively obtain an indefinite and non-exclusive right of use for use for your own, non-commercial purposes to the contents properly downloaded and/or printed by you. Incidentally, any and all rights to the contents shall remain with the original owner of the rights (the Service Provider or the respective third party).
(3) Your compulsory, statutory rights (including copying for private and other use of your own pursuant to section 53 UrhG) shall remain unaffected.
(1) The services available on the homify portal shall be exclusively intended for use by the experts, users, and other natural persons as visitors of the homify portal. You shall be prohibited from any use of contents by experts or other users for or in connection with commercial purposes outside of the homify portal, unless the Service Provider explicitly allowed such use by you in advance and in writing. Unauthorized use shall include in particular
(2) You shall be prohibited from performing any activities on or in connection with the homify portal, which violate applicable law, third-part rights, or the principles of the protection of minors. In particular, you shall be prohibited from performing the following actions:
(3) Furthermore, you shall also be prohibited from performing the following activities , irrespective of a potential violation of the law, when posting your own contents on the homify portal and when communicating with other experts or users (e.g., by sending personal messages, by participating in discussion forums or writing guest book entries):
(4) You shall also be prohibited from performing any action suitable to impact the smooth operation of the homify portal, in particular excessively overloading the Service Provider's systems.
(6) In the event of a suspicion of unlawful or criminal acts, the Service Provider shall be entitled and potentially even obligated to investigate your activities and to take according legal measures, where applicable. This may include forwarding relevant facts to the department of public prosecution.
(1) The Service Provider may temporarily or permanently block your access to the homify portal if there are clear indications that you have violated the present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use and/or applicable law, or if the Service Provider has any other legitimate interest in blocking it. In deciding whether to block your access, the Service Provider shall adequately take your legitimate interests as well as a potential payment of compensation by you into consideration. The Service Provider may in particular block the access if the user:
(2) In the case of a temporary or permanent block, the Service Provider will block your access authorization and notify you thereof via email.
(3) In the case of a temporary block, the Service Provider will reactivate the access authorization after the blocking period and notify you thereof via email. A permanently blocked access authorization cannot be restored. Permanently blocked individuals are permanently excluded from participating in the homify portal and may not register on the homify portal again.
(1) The Service Provider shall be liable for the violation of material contractual obligations for which it or its vicarious agents are at fault. Material contractual obligations are those enabling the proper implementation of this Agreement in the first place, and upon the compliance of which the other Party regularly relies and may rely. Otherwise, the Service Provider shall only be liable, irrespective of legal basis, insofar as it or its vicarious agents can be accused of willful intent or gross negligence. The liability due to delay, for claims from the German Product Liability Act, or other german compulsory, statutory provisions, as well as the liability for damage from injury of life, limb, or health shall remain unaffected hereby.
(2) The liability for a slightly negligent violation of a material contractual obligation shall be limited in the amount to the predictable damage typical to contracts of this kind.
(3) The above-mentioned liability provisions shall also apply in favor of the legal representatives, employees, and vicarious agents of the Service Provider.
(4) A potential liability regardless of negligence or fault by the Service Provider pursuant to Sec. 536 a para. 1, 1st alternative BGB (German Civil Code) due to defects which had already been present at the time of the conclusion of the Agreement shall be excluded.
The statutory provisions on warranty shall apply, unless specified otherwise in the present Agreement.
As a consumer, you shall have the following revocation right.
You may revoke your contract declaration within 14 days in written form (e.g., letter, fax, email) without providing reasons. The period shall begin upon receipt of the present information in written form, not, however, prior to the conclusion of the Agreement and not prior to our obligations to furnish information pursuant to Article 246 section 2 in connection with section 1 paragraphs 1 and 2 EGBGB (German Introductory Act to the Civil Code), as well as our obligations pursuant to section 312g paragraph 1 sentence 1 BGB in connection with Article 246 section 3 EGBGB, being fulfilled. For the observation of the revocation period, sending the revocation in a timely manner shall suffice. The revocation shall be directed to:
Homify Online GmbH & Co. KG, Holländerstraße 34, 13407 Berlin
In the event of a valid revocation, the services received mutually shall be restituted and potential emoluments taken (e.g., interest) shall be returned. Should you only, not or partially not be able to restitute or return to us the received service as well as benefits (e.g., advantages of use) in a deteriorated condition, you shall insofar be obligated to pay us compensation for lost value. As a consequence, you may nevertheless be required to fulfill the contractual payment obligations for the time until the revocation. Obligations to compensate for payments must be fulfilled within 30 days. For you, the period shall begin with sending off your revocation declaration, while for us, it shall begin upon receipt thereof.
Should any provision of the present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use be or become invalid, the legal validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected hereby. The invalid provision shall be replaced with a valid provision which comes closest to the economic purpose intended by the Parties.
The present Participation Requirements and Terms of Use are subject to the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, under exclusion of the Convention of Contracts for the International Sales of Goods (CISG).
The contractual language shall be German.
The Service Provider will not store the wording of the Agreement.
The Service Provider shall not be subject to any code of conduct.
You can reach the Service Provider's customer service via the contact information mentioned at the beginning of this document.