Terms of Use
1. Scope and provider
These Terms of Use govern the use of the "Coworking" browser extension and the related services (together, the "Service"), provided by Mussie Haile, Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin, Germany ("we", "us"; see the Imprint). By signing in, you accept these terms. Deviating terms of users do not apply.
2. The service
The Service lets users create and join rooms, share a pomodoro timer, display their presence and status, and exchange chat messages. The Service is currently provided free of charge. There is no entitlement to the Service or to any particular feature.
We may develop, change, restrict or discontinue the Service or individual features at any time, in particular for technical, legal or economic reasons. Where changes significantly affect you, we will take your legitimate interests into account.
3. Beta, usage limits and invitations
The Service is currently offered as a beta version. It may contain errors, and features, limits and conditions may change during the beta. During the beta, use is free of charge, subject to a daily limit on focus sessions that we set and may adjust.
If a person you invited signs up and completes their first focus session, we may lift the daily limit for your account for the remainder of the beta. There is no entitlement to this benefit; it ends with the end of the beta and cannot be transferred or paid out. We may deny or withdraw the benefit in cases of abuse, for example if accounts are created solely to obtain it.
We may introduce paid plans or advertising after or during the beta. Paid features will only become chargeable if you actively book them; continued free use does not create payment obligations.
4. Account and eligibility
- Using the Service requires a Google account. You must be at least 16 years old.
- Your account is personal and may not be transferred. You are responsible for keeping access to your Google account secure.
- You must not create accounts by automated means or use the Service for commercial purposes without our prior consent.
5. Your obligations
When using the Service, you must comply with applicable law and must not, in particular:
- post content that is unlawful, insulting, discriminatory, harassing, threatening, pornographic or violent, or that glorifies violence;
- infringe the rights of third parties, in particular copyrights, trademarks or personality rights;
- send spam or advertising, or impersonate other persons;
- access rooms without authorisation, circumvent technical protections, or disrupt or overload the Service;
- read out data automatically (scraping) or reverse-engineer the Service beyond what the law permits.
6. User content
You are solely responsible for content you post (for example room names, statuses and chat messages). Such content is visible to the members of the respective room. We do not adopt user content as our own and are not obliged to monitor it.
You grant us a simple, non-exclusive, royalty-free right, limited to the duration of the storage, to store, reproduce and make your content available to the members of the respective room, to the extent necessary to operate the Service. You remain the owner of your content.
You will indemnify us against claims by third parties arising from content you post or from your culpable breach of these terms, including reasonable costs of legal defence.
7. Measures against violations
If there are concrete indications that you are violating these terms or applicable law, we may, taking your legitimate interests into account, remove content, restrict features, temporarily or permanently block your account, or terminate the contract of use without notice for good cause.
8. Availability
We strive to keep the Service available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability. Interruptions may occur in particular due to maintenance, security incidents, or disruptions of technical infrastructure or third-party services beyond our control. The Service is not intended for storing content permanently; you are responsible for keeping copies of content that is important to you.
9. Liability
As the Service is provided free of charge, we are liable only for intent and gross negligence. This limitation does not apply to damages resulting from injury to life, body or health, to liability under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), or where we have fraudulently concealed a defect or given a guarantee. The above also applies to the personal liability of our representatives and vicarious agents.
10. Term and termination
The contract of use runs for an indefinite period. You can terminate it at any time by stopping use of the Service and requesting deletion of your account at contact@coworking.live. We can terminate it with two weeks' notice, for example by email or notice in the extension. The right to terminate without notice for good cause remains unaffected. Upon termination, we will delete your account data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
11. Changes to these terms
We may amend these terms for valid reasons, in particular due to changes in the law, case law, or the Service. We will inform you of amendments in text form (for example in the extension or by email) at least four weeks before they take effect. If you do not object before the amendments take effect, they are deemed accepted; we will point this out specifically in the notice. If you object, either party may terminate the contract of use.
12. Final provisions
- The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. For consumers, this choice of law applies only insofar as it does not deprive them of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of their country of habitual residence.
- If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction is Berlin, Germany.
- We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
- Should individual provisions of these terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.