Terms of Use
B2B — businesses only
Gastroe – The Kitchen is offered B2B only — to business operators (restaurants, kiosks, food stalls) acting in their commercial capacity (§ 14 BGB). It is not a consumer offering. These terms are an internal working draft on the ipmnx.com legal basis of the same GbR; no Fachanwalt review is claimed. German is the authoritative version; this English text is for convenience and the German prevails on any discrepancy.
1. Scope, provider, subject matter
These terms govern the use of the SaaS application "Gastroe – The Kitchen" (the "service") by the respective customer ("you", "the user", "the owner"). Provider and contracting party is Beyer & Jdaa IPM Consulting GbR, Bahnhofstr. 76, 25715 Eddelak, Germany (represented by Marco Beyer and Anass Jdaâ; info@ipm-consulting.org; VAT DE451769110) ("IPM", "we", "provider"). Gastroe is a tool for building and maintaining a restaurant's online presence and print materials. Depending on the plan it includes: AI menu extraction (you upload a menu photo/PDF; an AI service extracts structured data for you to edit); an editor; a hosted one-page site on a <name>.gastroe.com subdomain incl. QR code; print-ready PDFs (menu card, flyer, business card); and an optional custom domain after ownership verification. The actual feature set in force at the time of use is what is owed; no availability or success guarantees are given. Conflicting terms of the user are objected to.
2. Conclusion of contract / account
The contract is formed by registering an account at app.gastroe.com (business name, email, password) and our provision of access. Registration creates a tenant-isolated account ("tenant") with an owner user account. You warrant that you are a business acting in your commercial/professional capacity and that your registration data is accurate. You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and must notify us without delay of any suspected unauthorised use.
3. Services, trial, plans
New accounts begin in a trial in which the service — including publishing and PDF export — is usable without a paid plan; there is no guaranteed trial duration. Paid plans (as of this draft): Starter — €6/mo (menu site, subdomain, hosting; no AI) and Pro — €12/mo (Starter plus AI menu extraction). A custom domain is available as an add-on. Prices and contents shown in the in-app order flow (/billing) prevail; VAT treatment is as shown there. AI menu extraction is an assistive feature; it may be incorrect or incomplete and does not replace your own review. You must review and correct extracted content before publishing (see section 5).
4. Payment, term, cancellation
Paid plans are billed monthly in advance via our payment processor Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd.). On purchase you authorise us / Stripe to collect the amounts due via your chosen payment method. The contract runs month to month and is cancellable anytime to the end of the current billing period, via the in-app Stripe billing portal or by email to info@ipm-consulting.org. On cancellation: re-publishing changes and creating new PDF exports are blocked, but an already-published site stays online (it is not actively taken down). A past-due subscription may continue in a grace phase, and access may be restricted on continued non-payment. No consumer right of withdrawal (§§ 312g, 355 BGB) applies, because the contract is concluded exclusively with businesses; the monthly cancellation right is unaffected.
5. User content, responsibility, food law
You provide (or extract from your uploaded menu) all content of your listing (menu items, prices, descriptions, opening hours, photos, logo, contact details — "user content"). You are solely responsible for your user content, in particular its accuracy, currency and legality — namely prices and price statements (incl. the Price Indication Regulation where applicable); allergen/additive labelling and other mandatory food-information disclosures under the Food Information Regulation (FIC / Reg. (EU) 1169/2011 — "LMIV") and national law; and third-party rights (copyright, trademark, personality, competition). Gastroe is a technical tool and not the food-business operator. IPM has no duty to check your menu, prices or mandatory labelling and gives no warranty as to their correctness or completeness. You indemnify IPM against third-party claims arising from your content or unlawful use of the service, to the extent you are responsible for the underlying infringement.
6. IP and licences
Your content remains yours. You retain all rights in your user content and grant IPM a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence, limited to the contract term, to store, process, render, reproduce and make available your content as necessary to provide the service (hosting, rendering, AI extraction, PDF generation, delivery). This licence ends on termination of the contract, subject to technically necessary residual backup retention. The platform belongs to IPM. All rights in the software, code, templates, design, marks and infrastructure of Gastroe remain with IPM or its licensors. You receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, term-limited right to use the service as intended.
7. Acceptable use
You undertake not to misuse the service. In particular you must not: post unlawful, misleading, youth-endangering or infringing content; publish content not serving your own food business (off-purpose use of the site/subdomain); attempt to circumvent tenant isolation or access other customers' data; run automated bulk access or security/load tests without our prior consent, circumvent access/volume/output limits (e.g. the AI cost brake) or attempt to manipulate the AI feature ("prompt injection"); or distribute malware or impair the availability/integrity of the service. Breaches are governed by section 8.
8. Suspension and termination for cause
We may block or remove content breaching sections 5 or 7 and temporarily restrict access where there is a concrete suspicion of a serious breach or where necessary to prevent harm, preserve the security of the service, or meet legal duties; we will inform you where possible and lawful. Both parties' right to extraordinary termination for good cause is unaffected. For IPM, good cause exists in particular for serious or repeated breaches of these terms or qualified payment default.
9. Availability
We aim for the highest possible availability of the service but owe no specific availability or response time and give no service level (SLA). Maintenance, upstream-provider incidents (hosting, AI, payments) and force majeure may cause temporary limitations. We take customary technical measures to safeguard your content but recommend you keep your own copies of essential content.
10. Liability
IPM is unlimitedly liable for injury to life, body or health, for intent and gross negligence, under the Product Liability Act, and within any guarantee given. For slightly negligent breach of a material contractual duty ("cardinal duty" — a duty whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible at all and on whose observance the contracting party may regularly rely), liability is limited to foreseeable, contract-typical damage. Otherwise IPM's liability is excluded. IPM is not liable for user content and its legality (in particular price/allergen/mandatory labelling) or for the correctness of the AI menu extraction; the duty to review and correct lies with you. These limitations also benefit IPM's legal representatives and vicarious agents.
11. Data protection / processing
See our Privacy Policy (/datenschutz) for information on the processing of personal data; hosting is with Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany. Where IPM processes personal data on your behalf in connection with the service (e.g. personal data in content you upload), the parties conclude a data-processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR where required. IPM uses sub-processors to provide the service (incl. hosting, AI extraction, payment processing); details are set out in the Privacy Policy and the processing agreement.
12. Changes to the terms and the service
We may amend these terms for the future where justified by good cause (e.g. changed law, adjustment of the feature set, changed upstream providers) and you are not unreasonably disadvantaged. We notify you of material changes in text form with reasonable notice before they take effect. If you do not object within the stated period or you continue using the service after they take effect, the changes are deemed accepted; we point this out separately in the notice. Your monthly cancellation right is unaffected. We may further develop the service and change or discontinue individual features, provided the core service (maintaining and delivering your business website and print materials) is preserved.
13. Subdomain and custom domain
On provision you receive a <name>.gastroe.com subdomain for intended use. The subdomain is granted only for the contract term and revocably; it confers no ownership or naming rights. We may refuse or change a subdomain that infringes third-party rights, is misleading or offensive, or corresponds to a reserved designation. For a custom domain you are responsible for its registration, ownership and authority to dispose of it. Integration requires successful ownership verification (DNS-TXT procedure); you warrant that you are entitled to use the stated domain.
14. Final provisions
Governing law: the law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Jurisdiction: for all disputes arising out of or in connection with this contract — where you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, or have no general place of jurisdiction in Germany — the exclusive place of jurisdiction is the provider's seat (Eddelak, Germany). Any mandatory exclusive statutory venue remains unaffected. Text form: amendments and additions to this contract require text form. Severability: should a provision be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected; the statutory rule takes the place of the invalid provision. This draft is dated 20 June 2026.