AGB Terms & Conditions The conditions of carriage.

1. Acceptance

By using this website you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site. These terms are between you and Bibin Johnson, who runs German LifeBox as an individual, Auf der Schanz 47, 85049 Ingolstadt, Germany. If you booked a paid service before the pause, section 4 explains what applies to that booking.

2. What we offer

German LifeBox publishes free guides, checklists and study tools for people planning to study or train in Germany. Everything on this site is available at no charge.

Nothing is sold on this website. There is no checkout here, and no payment details are collected anywhere on this site. Our two paid services, 1-1 counselling and the Speaking Club, are currently paused (section 4).

Before any paid service opens again, on this site or elsewhere, we will update these terms first, including full information on your statutory right of withdrawal.

3. What guidance is — and what it is not

This is the most important section on this page, so it is written plainly.

• German LifeBox provides information, mentoring and preparation support, based on Bibin Johnson's own experience of moving from India to Germany and of helping other students do so.
• We are not a licensed immigration adviser, education agent, recruitment agency, law firm or financial adviser, and nothing on this site is legal, immigration, medical or financial advice.
• We do not submit applications on your behalf, and we do not represent you before any university, embassy, consulate, employer or authority.
• We cannot and do not guarantee any outcome — including admission to any university or Ausbildung position, approval of a visa, an APS certificate, a particular exam grade, or a job. These decisions rest entirely with the relevant institutions and authorities.
• Requirements, fees, deadlines and procedures in Germany change. We work to keep our guides accurate and current, but you must confirm anything that matters against the official source — the German mission handling your application, uni-assist, the APS office, DAAD, or the relevant university or authority — before you act on it.

4. Paid services: currently paused

1-1 counselling and the Speaking Club are paused. No new bookings are taken, and nothing on this site or on our channels is an offer to book one.

If you booked one of them before the pause, the pause does not reduce your rights. Your booking stays under the terms that applied when you made it, together with every right you have by law, which no booking page or term can take away. If you have any question about a booking, write to hello.glb@gmail.com.

5. Your responsibilities

• Give accurate information when you write to us. Advice based on wrong details will be wrong advice.
• Treat Bibin, other members and community moderators with basic respect. We may remove anyone from a community group or session for abusive or disruptive behaviour.
• Do not share, resell, republish or redistribute our materials, session recordings or community content.

6. Intellectual property

All content on this site — text, guides, checklists, templates, quizzes, layout and branding — belongs to German LifeBox unless stated otherwise. You may use it for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. You may not copy it for commercial use, or republish it as your own, without written permission.

Third-party names, logos and links referenced on the site remain the property of their owners.

7. Third-party links and partners

Our Essentials page links to services such as blocked-account providers, insurers, banks and mobile operators. Some are affiliate or referral links that may earn us a commission, which never changes the price you pay. We list only services we have researched or used, but each is an independent company: their product, pricing, terms and service quality are theirs, not ours, and your contract is with them. Check their terms before signing up.

8. Limitation of liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz).

For slight negligence we are liable only where we breach an obligation whose fulfilment makes performing this contract possible at all and on whose observance you may reasonably rely (a so-called cardinal obligation). In that case our liability is limited to the damage that is foreseeable and typical for this kind of contract.

Any further liability is excluded. This does not affect any liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

Separately, and without limiting your statutory rights: our guides and calls are information, not advice from a regulated adviser, and we are not responsible for decisions you take on them without checking against official sources. See section 3.

9. Suspension

We may suspend or end access to a service or community group if these terms are seriously or repeatedly breached — for example by abusive behaviour or by redistributing our material. We will tell you why, and where the breach can reasonably be put right we will give you the chance to do so first.

Where we end access for that reason, we refund the part of what you paid that covers the period you can no longer use. We keep payment only for what you have already had the benefit of. Your statutory rights are unaffected.

10. Changes

We may update these terms. A change applies from the date it is published here. It does not alter a booking already made, which stays under the version that applied when it was made.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by German law. German LifeBox is operated from Ingolstadt, Germany.

If you are a consumer, that choice of law does not take away the protection of any mandatory consumer rules of the country you live in. It also does not limit where you can go to court: a consumer may bring a claim in the courts of the country they live in, and may only be sued there.

If you are not a consumer — if you book in the course of a business or profession — the place of jurisdiction for any dispute arising from these terms is Ingolstadt, Germany.

12. Contact

hello.glb@gmail.com — full details on the Contact page.