Terms and conditions

01Provider, scope, subject matter of the contract

1.1 The provider and operator of the platform reachable at w3ltfrieden.de (the “platform”) is

represented by Fabian Friedrich and Sönke Mißfeld as joint authorised representatives

Email: info@w3ltfrieden.de

(below “W3ltfrieden”, “we”, “us”).

1.2 These terms of use apply to the use of the platform by natural persons. They govern the relationship between W3ltfrieden and users. Differing or conflicting terms of the users do not become part of the contract.

1.3 Use of the platform is free of charge. There is no entitlement to use it, to register, or to have your own content published.

1.4 In addition, the content rules that we issue and link to in the application apply, in the version valid when the content in question is published. They are easy to find in the application, in particular during registration and in the course of creating a mission, they carry a version label, and they are part of these terms of use. Where the two conflict, these terms of use prevail. Changes to the content rules that widen the range of impermissible content are made only under the procedure in Section 20.

1.5 Information on the processing of personal data is in the privacy policy. It is not part of these terms of use.

02Definitions

03Description of the service

3.1 W3ltfrieden provides a technical infrastructure with which pioneers can publish their own content and connect with each other. What we provide is essentially:

• a) a user account with a public profile,
• b) creating, submitting and, after review and approval by the moderation team, publishing missions,
• c) managing your own missions and the mission team,
• d) a mission logbook with text and image posts,
• e) a public feed of the posts and a comment function,
• f) marking a mission as “Looking for help” along with the “I can help” action,
• g) mission teams,
• h) AI-backed functions under Section 13.

3.2 Responsibility of the users. Users are themselves responsible for their details, their content and their undertakings. Getting in touch, making arrangements, meeting and carrying out undertakings are in their hands and happen directly between them, off the platform and at their own risk. Agreements between users come about solely between those users.

3.3 The platform is being developed continuously. Which file formats, sizes, character counts, quantities and other technical limits apply is shown in the application at the point in question. These figures are not part of these terms of use. Section 16.3 governs changes to the range of functions.

3.4 The platform is currently available only as a responsive web application, in German and English.

04Registration, conclusion of contract, minimum age

4.1 Viewing public content is possible without registration. Creating a profile, creating missions and posts, commenting, joining mission teams and the “I can help” action all require registration.

4.2 Registration requires a valid email address, a password you choose yourself, a display name and a username that is unique across the platform. The user agreement comes about when we confirm the registration and the email address is verified.

4.3 Only natural persons who have reached the age of 18 and who are not acting in the exercise of a commercial or self-employed professional activity within the meaning of Section 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB) may register. Registering for other people, for organisations, or by automated means is not permitted. One account per person is permitted.

4.3a Missions by people acting in their capacity as political office holders or for a party are excluded. Taking part as a private individual is unaffected.

4.3b Acting for an organisation. You can also create a mission for an organisation or an initiative and name it in the mission. In that case you remain the contracting party yourself; you are responsible for the mission and its content, and you warrant that you are authorised to represent that body. This does not create an account for the organisation.

4.4 Account rules. After a suspension or a termination by us, setting up a replacement account is not permitted. If we learn that a person has not reached the minimum age under 4.3, we close the account.

4.5 Username. The username must be free of legal violations and may neither infringe the rights of third parties nor contain URLs, advertising or content that breaches Section 10. We can change impermissible usernames; repeated breaches fall under Section 12.5.

4.6 Pseudonymous use. Your display name and username do not have to match your legal name. At registration we collect only the data needed to run the service. Please note: the username is the public address of your profile and is therefore permanently visible in public.

4.7 The details given at registration must be accurate and are to be kept up to date. Login credentials are to be kept secret and must not be passed on. Where unauthorised use is suspected, tell us without delay.

4.8 By submitting the registration form you agree to these terms of use. Agreement is given by actively ticking a box; nothing is pre-selected.

05Profile

5.1 Every account has a public profile. It is reachable under an address of its own and through the mission pages, and can be viewed by all visitors. Which details it can hold follows from the application.

5.2 The username is the public address of your profile.

5.3 You can change or remove profile details at any time.

5.4 The profile can hold references to publicly accessible profiles on social networks. Direct contact details, in particular telephone numbers, messenger handles and email addresses, are not published in the profile.

5.5 Profile pictures, description texts and linked destinations are not checked automatically. A review takes place after a report (Section 12).

06Missions

6.1 Creation. Missions can be created with or without the support of the mission bot. A route without AI support is available throughout. The mission lead alone is responsible for the content, the accuracy and the lawfulness of the mission, including where parts of the text were proposed by an AI.

6.2 Publication status. A mission is not public at first. It becomes publicly visible only with approval by the moderation team (6.3). The mission lead can take it out of public view again at any time and make it visible again (6.4). We can take it out of public view as a measure under Section 12.5. The names the individual statuses carry, and which intermediate statuses exist, are shown in the application.

6.3 Approval. Public visibility of a mission requires approval by the moderation team. The decision is always taken by a human. There is no entitlement to approval. We aim to decide on submitted missions within seven days as a rule; that is not a commitment to any particular processing time.

6.3a Grounds for withholding approval. We may withhold approval where the mission

• a) breaches Section 10,
• b) shows no concrete, workable undertaking or no connection to peace or sustainability, or pursues a purely personal individual concern,
• c) is essentially the same as a mission already published, or
• d) plainly exceeds our technical or staffing capacity for looking after it properly.

We tell you when approval is withheld and why. You can revise the mission and submit it again.

6.4 Change, hiding and deletion. The mission lead can edit, delete or take their mission out of public view at any time. Handing the mission lead role to another person is not possible at present.

6.5 Material later changes to a mission that has already been approved can trigger a fresh review by the moderation team.

07Mission teams

7.1 A mission can have a team. The mission lead decides on the publication status, on the composition of the team and on deleting the mission. Team members have limited rights on the mission; which ones in detail is shown in the application.

7.2 Joining and public display. A person is assigned to a team when they actively agree to join on the platform. Joining a mission is a public act. By joining you consciously decide to make your membership of this mission team visible in public on the platform. The public display of team membership ends as soon as the collaboration ends.

7.3 Ending the collaboration. Team members can remove themselves from a team at any time; the mission lead can also remove them. In both cases the rights under 7.1 and the public display of team membership end immediately.

08Logbook, feed and comments

8.1 Every mission can keep a logbook with posts made of text and images. Posts can be saved as drafts, edited, proposed for publication and withdrawn.

8.2 Published posts of active missions appear in the public feed and can be viewed by all visitors.

8.3 Registered users can comment on posts. You can delete your own comments yourself; the moderation team can delete any comment.

8.4 Comments are not checked automatically. Moderation happens after a report (Section 12).

8.5 Communication between users takes place publicly on the platform, in the comments. For anything beyond that, users have their own channels.

8.6 Closing the comments. The comment function on a mission’s logbook can be closed where a factual exchange is no longer assured or where deletions for breaches of the rules become necessary to a considerable extent. The moderation team can close it; the mission lead can also do so for their own mission. Comments already published stay visible.

09Requests for support and “I can help”

9.1 An active mission can be marked as “Looking for help” and the need described. Only active missions marked in this way appear in the overview of requests for support.

9.2 The need for support as described is content created by users and is subject to the content rules and to moderation.

9.3 Passing on your contact details. When you trigger the “I can help” action, we pass your display name, your username and a link to your profile to the mission lead. That person can then contact you directly, off the platform. The action runs only after a separate confirmation, which points out this transfer. Taking back a transfer that has already happened is not technically possible.

9.4 Repeated or abusive use of the action, in particular for advertising, recruitment or harassment, is not permitted.

9.5 Anyone who receives contact details under 9.3 may use them solely to answer the offer of support. Use for other purposes, in particular advertising, passing them on to third parties or adding them to mailing lists, is prohibited.

10Content rules

10.1 These rules apply to all content created by users: missions, logbook posts, comments, needs for support, profile details and uploaded files.

Follow our content rules. When you publish content or use the platform, you have to follow the content rules.

Obey the applicable law and respect the rights of others. You may not publish content that breaches applicable law or infringes the rights of third parties. You are responsible for your content and its consequences.

10.2 Not permitted is in particular content that

• a) breaches criminal law, in particular incitement to hatred, insult, defamation, slander, threats, incitement to criminal offences, use of unconstitutional symbols, and approval, denial or trivialisation of genocide and crimes against humanity,
• b) calls for violence or glorifies or justifies it,
• c) infringes the rights of third parties, in particular copyright, trade mark, personality or data protection rights,
• d) makes personal data of third parties public without a legal basis,
• e) is pornographic, harmful to minors, or plainly aimed at minors and unsuitable for them,
• f) spreads false information about health, safety or ongoing crises,
• g) contains commercial advertising, chain letters, spam or malware,
• h) serves to circumvent sanctions, export restrictions or embargoes.

Users may not solicit donations, payments, loans or investments through the platform, neither for their own mission nor for third parties, neither in the mission text nor in the need for support, in logbook posts, comments or profile details, and not by linking to donation, crowdfunding or financing pages.

10.3 Hate speech and disparagement. Beyond the criminal-law boundary in 10.2 a), the following applies:

• a) Not permitted is content that disparages people because of a characteristic, holds them in contempt, dehumanises them or denies them equal dignity. Characteristics in this sense are in particular origin, nationality, ethnicity, skin colour, language, religion or belief, political conviction, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, appearance, disability, chronic illness, marital status and social or economic position. The list is not exhaustive.
• b) Not permitted are sweeping attributions to entire groups of people that cannot be substantiated and merely reflect the writer’s own opinion, even where criminal law does not cover them.
• c) Factual and reasoned criticism remains permitted, of organisations and of public figures in relation to their public activity.
• d) Engaging with hate speech remains permitted. Anyone who documents, quotes, analyses or contradicts hate speech is not using it within the meaning of a) and b). The context has to be recognisable from the content. Missions directed against hate are expressly welcome.
• e) Not permitted are calls to take part in disparaging individuals or groups, nor coordinated campaigns against individual people.

10.4 Political content. Missions may deal with social and political topics; that is the purpose of the platform. Not permitted, however, are party-political election advertising, recruiting members for parties, nominations for election, and content promoting a party, a candidacy or a voting decision. W3ltfrieden itself takes no party-political position.

10.5 Images. Anyone who uploads images warrants that they hold the necessary rights and, where people are recognisable in them, that they have obtained those people’s consent to publication. Images of minors may be uploaded only with the consent of their legal guardians.

10.6 Naming third parties. Missions often address concrete recipients. For that the following applies:

• a) Organisations, companies, public authorities and people who hold a public office or a comparable function may be named in that capacity, as long as the naming is factual and necessary for the concern.
• b) Private individuals may not be named. Neither by name nor in an image nor through details that make them identifiable.
• c) Private contact details of third parties, such as address, telephone number and email address, may not be published.
• d) Calls to approach a named person may not call for pressure, intimidation or harassment.

10.7 Rights of named people. Anyone named in a mission or a post can tell us about it through the procedure under Section 12.3, without being registered on the platform. We review such namings with priority. Where a naming breaches Section 10.6 or the rights of the named person prevail, we remove either the content or, where that is enough, the personal details, so that the content remains in anonymised form.

10.8 The content rules spell out the rules of this section in plain language and name the categories the moderation team decides by. They create no prohibitions beyond Section 10.

11Rights in content

11.1 The rights in the content you create stay with you.

11.2 You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence, unlimited in territory, in the content you publish, limited to the following purposes:

• a) storing, reproducing and making the content publicly available on the platform, including the technical processing needed for that (format conversion, scaling, cropping of images, creation of preview views),
• b) using mission titles, short descriptions and one preview image in W3ltfrieden’s public relations work, that is the website, the newsletter, posts on social networks and press work, for the purpose of presenting the platform and its missions.

11.3 Editorial adjustments under 11.2 b) are limited to shortening and correcting obvious spelling mistakes. The content is not changed in substance, in particular its statement is not altered. You are named as the author with your display name, as far as that is possible in the use in question.

11.4 The licence ends when the content or your account is deleted. Uses under 11.2 b) that were lawfully published beforehand and can no longer be reversed, in particular printed materials and press coverage already published, are unaffected.

11.5 We do not use your content to train AI models and we contractually oblige the service providers we use to do the same. We have no influence on the processing of publicly accessible content by third parties.

11.6 The “W3LTFRIEDEN” trade mark, the logo, the design system and the software of the platform belong to W3ltfrieden or to the respective rights holders. Use beyond the intended use of the platform is not permitted without prior consent.

12Moderation, reports and remedies

This section implements Articles 14, 16 and 17 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the Digital Services Act.

12.1 Principle. We do not monitor content in general and are not obliged to. We review content

• a) before publication for missions submitted for approval (Section 6.3),
• b) after publication where there is cause, on the basis of reports, notes from the ethics bot or our own knowledge.

Logbook posts, comments, profiles and needs for support are not reviewed before publication.

12.2 Use of automated means. We use the ethics bot to pre-check submitted missions. It compares content against a list of terms and criteria that we maintain, produces notes for the moderation team from that, and gives you feedback on your draft. That feedback is a note you do not have to follow. It removes, changes, blocks or delays no content, and it takes no decision. The absence of a note is not an approval; every approval is a decision taken by a human.

12.3 Reporting unlawful content or content that breaks the rules. Anyone can report content to us that they consider unlawful or a breach of these terms of use. Please send reports electronically to report@w3ltfrieden.de. The report should contain:

• a) a sufficiently reasoned explanation of why the content is unlawful or breaks the rules,
• b) the exact electronic address of the content,
• c) the name and email address of the reporting person (except for reports about criminal offences against sexual self-determination),
• d) a statement that the information is accurate and complete to the best of their knowledge.

12.4 Handling. We confirm receipt of a report automatically, provided we have an email address. We decide on reported content promptly, carefully, free of arbitrariness and objectively. We tell the reporting person our decision and point out the remedies available.

12.5 Measures. Where there is a breach, we may take only the following measures, depending on severity, repetition and fault:

• a) issue a notice,
• b) remove a piece of content or stop showing it publicly,
• c) suspend the account,
• d) terminate the user agreement for cause and delete the account.

Section 19.3a applies in addition to termination under d).

12.6 Information, reasons and response. Where we remove a piece of content you posted or stop showing it publicly, we inform you without delay, at the latest immediately after the measure. An intended suspension of your account or of individual functions we announce to you in advance. In both cases we

• a) tell you the content concerned and the reason for the measure, including the legal basis or the rule breached, the extent and the duration of the measure, and any automated means used,
• b) give you the chance to respond, and
• c) decide again once your response arrives. Where the new decision goes in your favour, we restore the content or lift the suspension.

Advance notice may be omitted in narrowly limited exceptional cases where considerable harm is imminent, a criminal offence is suspected or a legal duty stands in the way. We then provide the information and the chance to respond without delay afterwards.

12.6a Marking. In the place of a comment removed for a breach of the rules, we note that the post was removed. The content itself is not reproduced.

12.7 Appeal. Independently of the response under 12.6 b), you can appeal against a measure under 12.5 informally within six months of receiving the reasons, at widerspruch@w3ltfrieden.de. The same applies where you reported a piece of content and we took no measure. We review the case again and decide through a person who was not involved in the original decision, as far as that is organisationally possible for us. Recourse to the courts remains open to you regardless.

12.8 Abusive reports. Anyone who repeatedly submits manifestly unfounded reports can be excluded from the reporting procedure temporarily.

12.9 Point of contact. The central point of contact for users and for authorities is info@w3ltfrieden.de. Communication is possible in German and in English.

13Use of artificial intelligence

13.1 We use two AI-backed functions. Both are marked as AI functions in the interface.

13.2 Mission bot. On the basis of what you enter in a guided form, a language model produces a proposal for a mission statement. This proposal

• a) is shown to you in editable form,
• b) is not published without an express act on your part,
• c) can be changed entirely or discarded by you,
• d) is optional, because you can create a mission without AI support at any time.

AI-generated texts can be factually wrong, incomplete, unsuitable or misleading. You are responsible for the content you publish and have to check it before submitting.

13.3 Ethics bot. The ethics bot checks submitted missions as described in Section 12.2. It takes no decision about users, about missions or about their content.

13.4 Inputs to and outputs from the AI functions are logged for traceability and quality assurance.

13.5 By submitting a draft and publishing a mission, you actively decide to make the details it contains publicly accessible, including any conclusions that can be drawn about political opinions or philosophical beliefs. To uphold the content rules (Section 10) and to protect the platform, every submitted draft is pre-checked automatically by the ethics bot (Section 12.2 and Section 13.4) before the moderation team decides on approval.

13.6 Using the mission bot (Section 13.2) when creating missions is voluntary. You can write and submit missions without the mission bot at any time.

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15System and notification emails

15.1 To keep the essential functions of the platform working (connecting people and communication above all), we send system emails that are strictly necessary for performing the contract to the email address stored at registration.

15.2 These contract-related emails include in particular:

• a) confirmation emails during registration, on password changes or when deleting the account,
• b) notifications about the status of the missions you submitted,
• c) notifications about offers of support,
• d) important information about account security or about material changes to platform functions or to these terms of use.

16Availability and changes to the platform

16.1 We do our best to ensure a high level of availability and resilience. As a free service, however, the platform makes no claim to constant availability.

16.2 Maintenance work, faults, attacks by third parties and outages at the service providers we use can affect reachability temporarily.

16.3 We may develop, change or discontinue functions of the platform, as far as that is reasonable for you and the core of the service under Section 3.1 is preserved. We give reasonable notice before essential functions fall away.

16.4 We do not keep your content as a backup for you. Please keep important content yourself.

17Liability

17.1 We are liable without limitation

• a) for intent and gross negligence,
• b) for damage arising from injury to life, body or health,
• c) under the provisions of the German Product Liability Act,
• d) to the extent of a guarantee we have given.

17.2 In cases of simple negligence we are liable only for the breach of an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely, and limited in amount to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract at the time the contract was concluded.

17.3 Liability is otherwise excluded.

17.4 We are not liable for content posted by users, for its accuracy, completeness or lawfulness, for the coming about, the carrying out or the success of a mission or of a collaboration between users, or for the content of linked external pages. Our responsibility as a service provider follows Sections 7 to 10 of the German Digital Services Act (Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz) and Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.

17.5 The limitations above also apply to the personal liability of our officers, staff, members and vicarious agents.

17.6 Limitation period. Claims for damages against us become time-barred one year after the statutory limitation period begins. Excepted from this, and time-barred under the statutory periods, are claims for intent or gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under a guarantee, and under the German Product Liability Act.

18Responsibility for your own content

18.1 You are responsible for the content you post and warrant that you hold the necessary rights.

18.2 Where content you posted culpably infringes the rights of third parties and third parties bring claims against us because of it, you have to compensate us for the resulting damage and the necessary costs of legal defence, to the extent that you are answerable for the breach. Further statutory claims are unaffected.

19Term, termination, deletion

19.1 The user agreement runs for an indefinite period.

19.2 You can terminate at any time without giving reasons, by requesting the deletion of your account or by sending us a message at info@w3ltfrieden.de.

19.3 We can terminate with 30 days’ notice. The right to terminate for cause is unaffected; cause exists in particular where there are serious or repeated breaches of Section 10.

19.3a Where the cause lies in the breach of an obligation under these terms of use, termination is permitted only after an unsuccessful warning or after a deadline set for remedy has passed without result. Both are dispensable where you seriously and finally refuse performance or where particular circumstances justify immediate termination, weighing the interests of both sides; serious breaches of Section 10.3 count as such circumstances in particular.

19.3b Dormant accounts. We can delete an account where you have not signed in for more than 12 months. We announce the deletion by email at least 30 days beforehand. Missions that other people have worked on we treat under 19.5.

19.4 After the contract ends, your profile, your missions, logbook posts and comments are deleted without delay, at the latest within 30 days. Statutory retention obligations are unaffected.

19.5 Missions you are responsible for are deleted when the contract ends. That also applies where team members worked on them. Posts and comments belonging to a deleted mission are deleted with it. Section 16.4 applies accordingly.

20Changes to these terms of use

20.1 We can change these terms of use where this is necessary because of

• a) a change in the law or an official or court decision,
• b) a change or an extension of the functions of the platform,
• c) the closing of a gap in the rules whose continuation would be unreasonable for one party.

20.2 We inform you of intended changes at least 30 days before they take effect, by email and in the application. The notice contains the wording of the changed provisions and a plain explanation.

20.3 Material changes, in particular those affecting your rights, the extent to which your content is published, the licences granted or liability, take effect only where you expressly agree to them. We obtain that agreement the next time you sign in. If you do not agree, the previous terms continue to apply to you; we can then terminate the contract under Section 19.3.

20.4 For other changes you can terminate the contract without notice up to the time they take effect. We point this out separately in the notice.

20.5 Agreement by silence is not assumed.

21Data protection

Information on the processing of personal data, on the legal bases, on the service providers we use and on your rights is in the privacy policy, which is reachable at any time from the footer.

22Final provisions

22.1 The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Where you have your habitual residence in another country, the mandatory consumer protection provisions of that country are unaffected.

22.2 The place of jurisdiction is Hamburg, where you are a merchant, a legal person under public law or a special fund under public law, or have no general place of jurisdiction in Germany. For consumers, the statutory places of jurisdiction apply.

22.3 We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

22.4 These terms of use are provided in German and in English. The German version prevails; the English version is for information. The language of the contract is German.

22.5 These terms of use apply in the version of 17.09.2026. The version label is terms-2026-09-17.

Annex: Overview of visibility