--- slug: terms title: Terms for tree sponsorships language: en version: 2026-09-23.3 lastUpdated: 2026-09-23 --- # Terms for tree sponsorships Version: 23 September 2026. This English text is a translation for your information. Only the [German version (AGB)](/agb) is binding. ## 1. Scope and contract partner (1) These terms apply to all contracts for tree sponsorships ("Baumpatenschaften") in the online forest "Shared Forest" on this website. (2) Your contract partner is Arne Kellmann, sole proprietor, Odenwaldstraße 134L, 64372 Ober-Ramstadt, Germany, email: contact@ghardenlab.com, VAT ID DE292592171 ("we"). More details are in the [imprint](/impressum). (3) These terms apply to consumers and to businesses. We mark the rules that apply only to consumers or only to businesses. Other terms of the customer do not apply, also when we do not object to them. ## 2. Service (1) A tree sponsorship is a right, for a fixed term, to have a designed tree with a display name and an optional promotional link shown in the shared online forest ("display right"). You get no ownership and no other rights in a real tree, in an area of the online forest, in the website or in the software. A sponsorship does not plant a real tree. (2) The term is 12 months per tree. It starts when we publish the tree after payment and ends automatically after 12 months. It does not renew automatically. (3) An AI designs the look of each tree from your wish (up to 200 characters). Our software draws the tree by fixed rules. It draws no text, no logos and no brands. We do not owe a specific look. The preview before the order shows the look that we display. You can change the look up to three more times within 24 hours after payment. The tree grows from a seedling to its full size in 30 days and follows the time of day and the season. (4) You select the position of each tree on the map. We hold a selected position for you for 30 minutes. We can move a tree a small distance when this is technically necessary (for example when the map changes). The tree then stays near the selected position. (5) The display name (up to 32 characters) appears after an automatic check. A link appears only after our manual approval. We visibly label the display name and the link as "Sponsored" ("Anzeige"). Links get the attributes rel="sponsored nofollow". Thus we do not owe an effect on search engines, visitor numbers or clicks. (6) After the term, the tree stays in the forest without display name and link for as long as we operate the online forest. You have no claim to this. (7) Renewal: before the term ends, you can renew the sponsorship for 12 more months. The renewal price is 50 % of the unit price of your quantity tier at that time. A renewal is a new contract under the terms valid at that time. ## 3. Prices and payment (1) The prices that the order page shows at the time of the order apply. All prices are final prices in euro and include the statutory VAT. There are no shipping costs. (2) Volume prices: every tree of an order costs the unit price of the tier that the order quantity reaches. One order has a maximum of 100 trees. (3) You pay in advance through the payment service provider Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd., Dublin, Ireland). You can use the payment methods that Stripe shows during the order. The terms of Stripe also apply to the payment. (4) You get an invoice by email. Stripe issues the invoice in our name. Businesses can enter their VAT ID during the order. Stripe Tax calculates the VAT from the location of the customer. ## 4. Conclusion of the contract (1) The presentation of tree sponsorships on the website is not a binding offer. (2) Order on the website: to order, you need a free user account with a confirmed email address. You select quantity, design and positions and enter a display name and optionally a link. The order confirmation goes to the email address of your account. Before you send the order, you see a summary with quantity, term and total price. You accept these terms and, as a consumer, the declaration on the early start of the service (section 5). When you click "Order and pay" ("Zahlungspflichtig bestellen"), you make a binding offer. Then we send you to Stripe. (3) Order through an AI agent: an AI agent can prepare an order for you, for example through our MCP interface or API. The agent cannot make a contract for you. You get a link to a confirmation page. There you sign in with your user account, check the data, accept these terms and the declaration in section 5, and click "Order and pay". Only this click is your binding offer. A prepared order that you do not confirm expires after 30 minutes. (4) The contract starts when you complete the payment at Stripe and we send you the order confirmation by email. The order confirmation contains the contract content, these terms and the withdrawal information. (5) You can correct input errors in the input fields before you click "Order and pay". The back function of your browser takes you to earlier steps. (6) The contract language is German. We do not store the contract text in a form that you can access. You get it with the order confirmation by email. The current version of these terms is at [/terms](/terms). ## 5. Right of withdrawal (1) Consumers have a statutory right of withdrawal. The details are in the [withdrawal information](/withdrawal). You can also withdraw online with the function ["Withdraw from contract" ("Vertrag widerrufen")](/widerruf). (2) We start to show your trees immediately after payment when you expressly request this during the order. If you then withdraw within the withdrawal period, you pay compensation for the service provided until the withdrawal (§ 357a (2) BGB). We calculate it per day: total price × started days until the withdrawal ÷ 365. We refund the rest. (3) The right of withdrawal expires when we have fully provided the service, if you expressly agreed before the start that we start before the withdrawal period ends, and confirmed that you know that the right expires (§ 356 (5) no. 2 BGB). (4) Businesses have no right of withdrawal. ## 6. Content and duties of the sponsor (1) You are responsible for the display name, the link, the design wish and the content behind the link. You confirm that you have the right to use them. (2) In particular, you must not use: - illegal content and links to illegal offers - content that infringes trademarks, names, copyrights or personality rights of others - pornographic or sexually offensive content and content that is not suitable for minors - advertising for gambling, betting and lotteries - fraud, phishing, malware, pyramid schemes and misleading financial or health claims - hate, incitement, glorification of violence, discrimination and extremist content - advertising for weapons, drugs, tobacco and nicotine products, and prescription medicines - political advertising - content that impersonates persons, companies or authorities - links that redirect to hide their target (3) The link must start with https://. The linked page must be reachable and must have an imprint when the law of the provider requires one. (4) For the term, you give us the non-exclusive, worldwide and free right to show the display name, the link and the design in the online forest, in its interfaces (API, MCP, data exports), and in screenshots and preview images of the forest. (5) You indemnify us against claims of third parties that result from a culpable breach of your duties in this section 6. This includes the reasonable costs of legal defence. ## 7. Checks, rejection and removal (1) We check display names and design wishes automatically before they appear. We use AI models for this (see the [privacy policy](/datenschutz)). We also check links manually. (2) If we reject a display name or a link before it appears, we refund the full price of the affected order to the original payment method. The contract for this order then ends. Trees that we already show stay in the forest without display name and link. (3) If content breaks section 6 after approval, for example because the linked page changes, we can remove the display name or the link, or hide the tree. We select the mildest suitable measure. If you are responsible for the breach, we refund nothing. Otherwise we refund the price for the remaining term, per day. (4) We tell you each decision under (2) or (3) by email, with a statement of reasons (Art. 17 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, "Digital Services Act"). The statement gives the measure, the facts, the legal ground or the rule of these terms, whether automated means took part, and your remedies. You can object to the decision by email to contact@ghardenlab.com. A person examines the objection. You can always go to court. (5) Any person can report illegal content to us with the [notice form](/melden). ## 8. Availability and updates (1) We operate the online forest with reasonable care. Maintenance, failures of service providers (for example Cloudflare) and force majeure can interrupt the display for a time. An interruption does not extend the term if it is 7 days or less per term in total. We add longer interruptions that we are responsible for to the term. (2) For consumers, the sponsorship is a contract for a digital service (§§ 327 ff. BGB). During the term, we supply the updates that are necessary to keep the service in conformity (§ 327f BGB). We can develop the display of the forest further if your tree, its display name and its link stay recognisable and the change is reasonable for you (§ 327r BGB). If a change affects your access or the use more than insignificantly, we tell you by email in advance. You can then end the contract free of charge within 30 days under § 327r (3) BGB and get a refund for the remaining term, per day. (3) For defects, consumers have the statutory rights under §§ 327i ff. BGB (cure, termination, price reduction, damages). Businesses have the statutory rights with the limits in section 10. ## 9. Discontinuation of the service We can discontinue the online forest with 3 months' notice. We tell you by email. We refund the price for the remaining term, per day. You have no other claims from the discontinuation, except under section 10. ## 10. Liability (1) We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and under a guarantee that we gave. (2) For slight negligence, we are liable only for the breach of an essential contractual duty. An essential contractual duty is a duty that makes the contract possible and that you can usually rely on. In this case, our liability covers only the typical, foreseeable damage. For businesses, this damage is at most the price of the affected order. (3) We have no other liability. (1) to (3) also apply to the persons we use to perform the contract. ## 11. Changes to these terms A contract that you made keeps the version of these terms that applied at the time of the order. Your order confirmation contains this version. ## 12. Dispute resolution (1) The European Commission shut down its online dispute resolution platform on 20 July 2025. (2) We are not willing and not obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG). If you have a problem, write to contact@ghardenlab.com. ## 13. Applicable law and place of jurisdiction (1) The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. For consumers, this choice of law does not remove the protection of the mandatory provisions of the country where they have their habitual residence (Art. 6 (2) Rome I Regulation). (2) If the customer is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction is Darmstadt, Germany. (3) If a provision of these terms is invalid, the other provisions stay valid. The statutory rules then apply (§ 306 BGB).