Status: August 2026 · Version 1 · This English version is a non-binding translation. The German version is legally binding.
These General Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern the use of the online platform Gesellschafter24, accessible at www.gesellschafter24.de. They apply equally to consumers (§ 13 German Civil Code – BGB) and businesses (§ 14 BGB), unless expressly differentiated. Please read these Terms carefully before using our services.
Gesellschafter24 UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Fuhrenkämpe 2, 49716 Meppen, Germany
Authorised managing director: Joel Maximilian Johannes Jahn
Email: info@gesellschafter24.de
Register court: Local court (Amtsgericht) Osnabrück, HRB 223404 · Registered office: Meppen
These Terms apply to all contracts concluded via the platform between us and you, regardless of whether you act as a consumer or as a business. By registering and using fee-based services, you accept these Terms as binding.
Conflicting or deviating terms on your part will not become part of the contract unless we have expressly agreed to them in text form (§ 305b BGB).
We operate a technical infrastructure that allows users to publish listings about company transactions, browse them, and send contact requests. The platform supports the following listing types in particular:
In addition, we operate an advisor directory in which advisors can present their services through a paid profile. We also provide editorial content (e.g. magazine) as well as search, filter, and contact-request functions.
We reserve the right to continually adapt the scope, design, and availability of the platform. There is no entitlement to a specific scope of functionality unless expressly agreed contractually. For paid services, the contractually promised core services – in particular the visibility of the advisor profile in the directory, the listing quota included in the booked plan (§ 9.2), and the features of booked listing packages (§ 8.1) – remain unaffected by such adaptations during the paid term.
The following clarification is essential for understanding your contractual relationship with us:
We are exclusively a provider of a hosting service within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act – DSA). We are not a broker within the meaning of §§ 652 et seq. BGB.
In particular:
We benefit from the liability privilege for hosting services under Article 6 DSA: We are not liable for third-party content unless we have positive knowledge of its illegality and act expeditiously upon obtaining such knowledge. There is no general monitoring obligation (Article 8 DSA).
Registration is required to create listings and submit contact requests. We collect at least your email address, first and last name, and a self-chosen password. Alternatively, you may register via external identity services (e.g. Google) where offered. You confirm that you are at least 18 years old and have legal capacity. Legal entities must act through a duly authorised natural person who confirms their authority of representation.
You commit to providing all registration data truthfully and completely. In case of changes, you update your data promptly in your dashboard.
We are entitled to reject registrations without giving reasons. There is no entitlement to the conclusion of a usage agreement.
You are required to keep your access credentials confidential and protect them from third-party access. You inform us immediately if you have indications of misuse of your account. For activities of third parties under your account, you are liable only if and to the extent that you culpably enabled such use (for example by sharing your credentials or by insufficient confidentiality). There is no strict liability for third-party use; the statutory allocation of the burden of proof remains unaffected.
Your user account is not transferable. Multiple accounts are only permitted with our express consent or for objective reasons (e.g. a personal account and an account for a company you represent).
During registration, you choose bindingly whether you act as a consumer (§ 13 BGB) or as a business (§ 14 BGB). This self-declaration forms the basis for the subsequent contractual conditions and the application of consumer protection rules.
You commit to immediately notifying us via your account settings of any change of your status (e.g. taking up commercial activity). In case of false declarations, we are entitled to rescind the contract for fraudulent misrepresentation (§ 123 BGB) and to claim damages.
Special rule for advisor subscriptions: Advisor subscriptions are concluded exclusively with businesses. By concluding an advisor subscription, you confirm bindingly that you act as a business. Consumers are excluded as contracting parties for advisor subscriptions.
You are solely responsible for the content of your listings. You commit to publishing only listings that meet the following requirements:
You may post listings without publicly disclosing your identity. Anonymity refers exclusively to the public listing display; in case of direct contact via our request form, your email address will become known to the responding searcher once you reply to their request. Complete anonymity towards contacting searchers is not possible.
You confirm that you hold the necessary usage and licence rights for all uploaded images and logos. In case of infringement of third-party protection rights, you indemnify us pursuant to § 17 of these Terms.
We are entitled but not obligated to review listings before or after publication. We may remove or deactivate listings without prior notice if there are indications of a violation of these Terms or applicable law, or in case of justified third-party complaints (see 7.5).
Any user and any third party may report illegal content to us via our complaint form at www.gesellschafter24.de/inhalt-melden. We confirm receipt of a notice without undue delay and review the reported content within a reasonable period.
We inform the content creator about the complaint before removal where possible and where the content is not manifestly illegal or subject to official order. Both the complainant and the content creator receive a reasoned statement of our decision pursuant to Art. 17 DSA.
Listings may be published optionally as a free Standard listing or as a paid package. The following conditions apply:
| Package | Price | Runtime | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 1 month | free | 1 month | Marketplace publication, contact request feature, filtering |
| Standard 3 months | €149.00 | 3 months | as Standard 1 month, longer visibility |
| Platinum 1 month | €99.00 | 1 month | as Standard plus Platinum badge, preferred placement, home-page visibility, publication on Gesellschafter24 social media channels |
| Platinum 3 months | €249.00 | 3 months | as Platinum 1 month, longer visibility |
All prices are final prices. We are a small business within the meaning of § 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG); VAT is not charged and therefore not shown.
Listing packages are one-time payments. They are not automatically renewed. There will be no further charge to your payment method after the chosen runtime expires. Renewal occurs only upon your active rebooking.
The runtime starts upon activation of the listing; for paid packages, upon confirmation of payment receipt by our payment service provider.
You may not publish an expired listing under a new pseudonym or second account in order to circumvent the runtime limit of the free package.
Advisor subscriptions are concluded exclusively with businesses within the meaning of § 14 BGB. By concluding a subscription, you confirm bindingly that you are acting in the exercise of your commercial or self-employed professional activity. Consumers are excluded as contracting parties.
| Plan | Monthly | Quarterly (effective per month) | Active listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | €99.00 | €84.00 (€252.00 per quarter) | up to 5 |
| Professional | €199.00 | €169.00 (€507.00 per quarter) | up to 10 |
| Enterprise | €399.00 | €339.00 (€1,017.00 per quarter) | unlimited |
The column "Active listings" refers to the maximum number of listings your account may have published at the same time in total. All published listings count towards it, regardless of package — including listings with a booked Platinum upgrade and listings you booked individually under § 8. Upgrading an already published listing to Platinum does not take up an additional slot.
All prices are final prices. We are a small business within the meaning of § 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG); VAT is not charged and therefore not shown.
Advisor profiles are reviewed by us after onboarding is completed. Public display in the advisor directory occurs only after successful verification. We reserve the right to refuse verification in case of implausible or unverifiable information, or to revoke verification already granted. There is no entitlement to verification.
Scope of verification: Verification is a plausibility review of the information you provided during onboarding (in particular the existence and identity of the company, coherence of the information, comparison with publicly available sources such as the commercial register or the company website). It does not include ongoing review of professional licences, an assessment of professional quality, or a recommendation of the advisor by us.
Refund: If we refuse verification before your profile is first published, we refund subscription fees already paid in full. If we revoke a verification already granted for reasons not attributable to you, we refund the fee pro rata for the remaining, no longer usable term.
The advisor subscription contract is to be distinguished from advisory mandates that you conclude as an advisor with clients. We do not become party to an advisory mandate and are not liable for the quality, content, or consequences of your advisory services.
The publication of standard listings is included in the subscription up to the number of simultaneously active listings stated in 9.2 (listing quota); no additional fee under § 8 applies. Quota listings have no runtime of their own: they remain published for as long as the subscription is active. The provisions for listing packages with a fixed runtime (§ 8.2, § 12) do not apply to quota listings.
The Platinum upgrade is not part of the subscription. It can be booked additionally for individual listings as a listing package under § 8 with its own fixed runtime. When the paid Platinum runtime expires, the Platinum benefits end; while the subscription is active, the listing remains published as a standard listing within the quota and is not deactivated.
Without an active subscription, publication via the quota is not possible. As long as you have not yet concluded a subscription as an advisor, you publish listings exclusively through a plan; booking individual listing packages under § 8 via your advisor account is not possible in that case. After a previously existing subscription has ended, booking individual listing packages under § 8 remains available to you (13.5).
For paid services, the contract is concluded in the following steps:
The order summary contains all mandatory information pursuant to Art. 246a § 1 EGBGB. The order button is unambiguously labelled with the words "Order with payment obligation" or "Subscribe with payment obligation" within the meaning of § 312j (3) BGB.
The contract text (these Terms together with your order data) will be made available to you in text form via the confirmation email; further storage of the contract text by us does not occur. These Terms can be viewed and printed at any time at www.gesellschafter24.de/agb. Contract language is German; English versions are non-binding translations (see § 24.5).
The prices displayed on the platform at the time of ordering apply. All prices are final prices. We are a small business within the meaning of § 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG); VAT is not charged and therefore not shown.
Price adjustment upon transition to standard VAT taxation: Should the German small business scheme under § 19 UStG cease to apply to us in the future (in particular upon exceeding the statutory turnover thresholds) and we therefore become legally obligated to charge VAT, we are entitled to increase the prices of ongoing advisor subscriptions by the then applicable statutory VAT as of the date of the transition to standard taxation. We will announce such an adjustment in text form at least six weeks before it takes effect. In this case, you have a special right of termination effective as of the date the adjustment takes effect. One-time services already paid in full (listing packages) remain unaffected; no retroactive charge will be made.
For business customers based in other EU countries, tax liability may shift to the recipient under the VAT rules applicable there (reverse-charge mechanism); German VAT is not charged in this case either.
Payment processing is handled exclusively by Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Stripe"). We receive from Stripe only the confirmation of your payment status and a pseudonymised Stripe customer ID; we do not receive card or account data. Accepted payment methods are credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express) and other methods offered by Stripe depending on configuration (e.g. SEPA direct debit, Apple Pay, Google Pay).
The price is due immediately upon contract conclusion and debited via Stripe. For advisor subscriptions, recurring debits occur at the end of each billing period for the following period.
Insofar as we offer SEPA direct debit during checkout, the following applies: by selecting this payment method you grant the SEPA direct debit mandate to Stripe as our payment service provider; Stripe collects the amount under its creditor identifier. The mandate text is displayed to you during checkout. The pre-notification period is shortened to one day prior to the debit.
Activation with direct debit: For listing packages under Section 8, the listing is published only once Stripe has confirmed receipt of payment. This usually takes two to five banking days. Until then your listing remains saved as a draft; we will notify you by email once it is published. Advisor subscriptions under Section 13, by contrast, are activated immediately.
If a direct debit is returned (chargeback), the corresponding consideration lapses: a listing already published will be taken offline, and a subscription will be terminated in accordance with Section 13. We may charge you for the costs of a returned direct debit for which you are responsible, in the amount actually incurred; you remain free to prove that the loss was lower.
You receive an electronic invoice (PDF) for each payment, retrievable in the Stripe customer portal. By placing your order, you consent to electronic invoicing. As a small business within the meaning of § 19 UStG, we are not obligated to issue e-invoices in a structured format; invoices do not show VAT and contain a note on the application of the German small business scheme.
Invoices are retained in accordance with the statutory retention period (currently eight years, § 147 AO, § 14b UStG). Deletion of these tax-relevant data is not possible even in the case of account deletion.
In case of default in payment, statutory default interest applies: 5 percentage points above the base rate towards consumers, 9 percentage points above the base rate towards businesses (§ 288 BGB). For advisor subscriptions, we may deactivate the profile and terminate the subscription for cause (§ 314 BGB) after more than 14 days of payment default.
Listing packages have the runtime stated in § 8.1 (1 or 3 months). The runtime starts upon activation of the listing.
Listing packages are not renewed automatically. After the runtime expires, the listing is deactivated without further notice.
You may deactivate or delete your listing yourself at any time. A pro-rata refund of the paid fee in case of early deactivation is excluded, unless a statutory right of withdrawal exists (§ 14) or we were unable to provide the service.
We refund paid amounts in full in the following cases: rejection of a paid publication by us; permanent technical outage making publication impossible; effective withdrawal under § 14.
Advisor subscriptions are offered with monthly or quarterly billing. The minimum term equals the respective billing period (1 or 3 months). The subscription renews automatically by one additional billing period unless cancelled in time pursuant to 13.2.
You may cancel the subscription at any time effective at the end of the current billing period. Cancellation is possible:
You receive a written cancellation confirmation stating the exact contract end date. Until the end of the current billing period, your advisor profile remains publicly visible; thereafter it is deactivated.
The right to extraordinary termination for cause (§ 314 BGB) remains unaffected for both contracting parties. Causes for cancellation by us include in particular the cases listed in § 18.
You may upgrade your plan at any time or downgrade effective at the end of the current billing period. Upgrades are pro-rated via Stripe; the new plan is activated immediately. Downgrades take effect at the end of the current period without refund.
If a downgrade reduces the number of simultaneously active listings included in your plan, listings already published initially remain published. You can publish a further listing only once the number of simultaneously active listings falls below the limit of the new plan.
The following provisions apply to any termination of the subscription: ordinary cancellation under 13.2, extraordinary termination under 13.3, and termination due to non-payment (§ 11.3a, § 11.5).
When the subscription ends, your advisor profile is deactivated and is no longer publicly visible. The following applies to listings:
After the subscription ends you can no longer publish listings via the quota. Booking individual listing packages under § 8 remains available to you; those are then billed per listing.
We retain the data of your advisor profile for 90 days after the subscription ends and delete it thereafter, unless statutory retention obligations apply (details in our privacy policy). Within this period you can reactivate your profile unchanged by concluding a new subscription; after the period has expired, the profile must be set up again.
The following provisions apply exclusively to consumers (§ 13 BGB) for paid contracts concluded in distance selling or in electronic commerce. Advisor subscriptions are concluded exclusively with businesses; therefore no right of withdrawal exists.
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day of contract conclusion.
To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us – Gesellschafter24 UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Fuhrenkämpe 2, 49716 Meppen, Germany, info@gesellschafter24.de – by means of a clear statement (e.g. a letter sent by post or email) of your decision to withdraw from this contract. You may use the model withdrawal form set out in 14.5 for this purpose, but it is not mandatory.
You can also exercise your right of withdrawal online at www.gesellschafter24.de/vertrag-widerrufen. If you use this online function, we will immediately send you an acknowledgement of receipt on a durable medium (e.g. by email) containing the content of the withdrawal declaration as well as the date and time of its receipt.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient that you send your communication concerning the exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse to you all payments received from you, without undue delay and not later than fourteen days from the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract. We will use the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
If you have requested that the services should begin during the withdrawal period, you must pay us a reasonable amount proportionate to the services already provided up to the time you informed us of the exercise of your right of withdrawal, compared with the full coverage of the contract.
The right of withdrawal expires for a contract for the supply of services if we have fully provided the service and started performance only after you have given your express consent and simultaneously confirmed your knowledge that you lose your right of withdrawal upon full performance of the contract by us (§ 356 (5) BGB).
When ordering a paid listing package, we obtain this express consent and the acknowledgement via two separate mandatory checkboxes in the order process. Upon your consent, we begin publishing your listing without delay after confirmation of receipt of payment; where payment is made by SEPA direct debit, Section 11.3a applies. Upon full provision of this service, your right of withdrawal expires.
If you wish to withdraw from the contract, please complete and return this form:
To Gesellschafter24 UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Fuhrenkämpe 2, 49716 Meppen, Germany, email: info@gesellschafter24.de
I/We (*) hereby give notice that I/we (*) withdraw from my/our (*) contract for the supply of the following service:
– Ordered on (*) / received on (*):
– Name of consumer(s):
– Address of consumer(s):
– Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper):
– Date:
(*) Delete as appropriate.
Searchers may submit requests to listers via a contact request form. We forward the request via email to the lister, setting the searcher's email address as the reply address ("Reply-To"). This enables the lister to reply directly to the request.
Note on direct communication: As soon as the lister replies to the request, further communication takes place directly between the parties outside the platform. We have no influence on this and are no longer involved. Information on the processing of your contact data can be found in our Privacy Policy.
We store contact requests for up to 12 months for abuse prevention purposes. Listers are not obligated to respond to requests. We reserve the right not to forward contact requests with prohibited content or those that are evidently automated or advertising in nature.
You commit to refraining from the following acts:
Listings frequently contain economically sensitive data (e.g. revenue, EBIT, strategic plans). To the extent that listers make non-public information available to you in the course of contact, you treat such information as strictly confidential, do not disclose it to third parties, and do not use it for competitive purposes or other purposes outside the evaluation of the specific offer. Disclosure to advisors bound by professional secrecy (in particular lawyers, tax advisors, auditors) and to financing partners who are themselves bound to confidentiality is permitted to the extent it serves the evaluation or financing of the specific offer.
In case of culpable violations of the prohibitions under 16.1 or the confidentiality obligation under 16.2 by businesses, you undertake to pay a reasonable contractual penalty of up to €10,000 per individual case. We determine the specific amount at reasonable discretion, taking into account the nature, severity, duration, and consequences of the violation, subject to judicial review in case of dispute. Towards consumers, this contractual-penalty rule does not apply; statutory claims (in particular for damages and injunctive relief) remain unaffected towards all users.
Beyond the content prohibitions in § 7, the following acts are prohibited:
Security vulnerabilities you discover unintentionally should be reported to us promptly at info@gesellschafter24.de (Responsible Disclosure).
You indemnify Gesellschafter24, its managing director, employees, and agents against all third-party claims asserted against us due to a violation of rights caused by content or conduct introduced or initiated by you. This applies in particular to claims for:
The indemnification also covers all necessary costs of legal defence, in particular reasonable lawyers' and court fees.
Towards consumers, the indemnification obligation exists only to the extent the consumer is responsible for the underlying legal violation; it does not cover damage incurred without intent or gross negligence on the consumer's part.
We are entitled to remove listings, suspend accounts, and extraordinarily terminate the contractual relationship for cause, in particular in case of:
Before suspension or termination, we typically warn the violator and set a reasonable deadline for remedy; in case of manifest violations or acute danger to third parties, we may suspend immediately. You will be informed in text form of the suspension and the reasons without undue delay, where possible and not prohibited by official orders.
In case of suspension or extraordinary termination caused by you, we may retain amounts already paid for the remaining, no longer usable term as liquidated damages. You remain entitled to prove that we incurred no damage or significantly lower damage; in that case, we refund the difference pro rata. Further claims for damages remain unaffected.
By uploading content (in particular texts, images, logos) to the platform, you grant us a simple, non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide usage right limited to the duration of the publication of your listing or advisor profile and a reasonable trailing period for backups. The usage right includes in particular:
You confirm that you have the rights necessary to grant this usage right and do not infringe third-party rights. In case of violation of this obligation, the indemnification clause in § 17.2 applies.
After the expiry of a listing or termination of the advisor subscription, we remove the content concerned from public display. Your listings remain stored in your user account until you delete them or delete your account (13.5); the data of your advisor profile is deleted once the period stated in 13.5 has expired. You are aware that backup copies are retained for up to 90 days in accordance with our processors' technical requirements before being automatically overwritten. Social media posts already published for Platinum listings may initially remain online beyond the end of the contract; the usage right required for this under § 19.1 continues to apply in this respect. Upon your request, we will delete the respective post without undue delay.
All rights to the platform software, layout, design, trademarks, logos, and other content not contributed by users belong exclusively to us. Any use – in particular reproduction, distribution, modification – is unlawful without our prior written consent.
We are liable without limitation:
Otherwise, we are liable for simple negligence only for the violation of essential contractual duties (cardinal duties). Essential contractual duties are those duties whose fulfilment makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose compliance you may regularly rely. In this case, our liability is limited in amount to the contract-typical damage foreseeable at the time of contract conclusion.
We are not liable for third-party content stored on behalf of our users insofar as we have no positive knowledge of its illegality (Article 6 DSA). We have no proactive monitoring obligation (Article 8 DSA); complaints are processed pursuant to § 7.5.
We are expressly not liable for:
Where our liability is limited or excluded, this applies to the same extent to the personal liability of our managing director, employees, agents, and legal representatives.
Information about the processing of personal data is provided in our Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is information pursuant to Article 13 GDPR and does not form part of these Terms. We reserve the right to adjust the Privacy Policy and inform you accordingly without requiring a change of these Terms.
The European Commission's former platform for online dispute resolution (ODR platform, Regulation (EU) 524/2013) was discontinued on 20 July 2025. Please address complaints directly to info@gesellschafter24.de.
We are required under § 36 of the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act (VSBG) to inform you that we are neither willing nor obligated to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration body. We recommend addressing complaints first directly to info@gesellschafter24.de so that we can pursue a swift out-of-court solution.
We are entitled to amend these Terms insofar as required for technical, legal, or functional reasons. We inform you about planned changes by email at least six weeks before they take effect.
For material changes to your detriment, we ask for your active consent (e.g. by confirmation in a dialog at the next login). You do not consent to the changes by silence alone.
If you do not agree to material changes, you are entitled to extraordinarily terminate the contractual relationship effective when the change takes effect.
For pure clarifications, editorial adjustments, or changes that are exclusively beneficial to you, mere notification without active consent is sufficient.
The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). For consumers with habitual residence in another EU country, mandatory consumer protection rules of the respective country of residence remain unaffected (Art. 6 (2) Rome I Regulation).
The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms is – to the extent legally permissible – the registered office of Gesellschafter24. This jurisdiction agreement applies only to businesses within the meaning of § 14 BGB and to legal persons under public law and special public-law assets.
For consumers domiciled in the European Union, the mandatory provisions of Art. 17 et seq. Brussels Ia Regulation apply: claims against you may only be brought at your domicile; claims by you may be brought, at your option, either at your domicile or at the registered office of Gesellschafter24. For consumers domiciled outside the European Union, the registered office of Gesellschafter24 applies as the place of jurisdiction.
Should a provision of these Terms be wholly or partially invalid, unenforceable, or contestable, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected. The invalid provision shall be replaced by the statutory rule. The same applies to gaps in the rules.
Statements to be made under this contract require at least text form (§ 126b BGB), unless statutory law or these Terms require a stricter form. Email communication to the addresses stated in the imprint satisfies the text form requirement.
The contract language is German. Where we provide these Terms or individual contract documents in English, these translations are non-binding. In case of discrepancies between the German and a translated version, only the German version applies.
These Terms have been valid in this version since August 2026. Earlier versions are available upon request.
