Last updated: July 2026
Please read these Terms carefully. They form a binding agreement between you and us for your use of VENTUREPLAN. A German-language version of these Terms is also available and, for consumers resident in Germany, prevails in the event of discrepancies.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern the use of the VENTUREPLAN platform, available at ventureplan.de (the "Platform" or "Service"), operated by IDEOMO UG (haftungsbeschränkt) ("we", "us", "provider"). Our full company details and contact information are set out in our Imprint. These Terms apply to all users of the Platform, whether consumers within the meaning of § 13 of the German Civil Code (BGB) or businesses within the meaning of § 14 BGB. Deviating, conflicting, or supplementary terms of the user do not become part of the contract unless we have expressly agreed to them in writing. The version of these Terms in effect at the time a contract is concluded applies to that contract.
Using the Platform requires the registration of a user account. By completing the registration you submit a binding offer to conclude a usage agreement; the agreement is concluded once we activate your account or grant you access to the Platform. You must provide accurate and complete information during registration and keep this information up to date. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity that occurs under your account. You must notify us without undue delay if you suspect unauthorized use of your account. The free plan is provided free of charge and without a minimum term. Paid offers (in particular the one-time plan unlock, AI credit top-ups, and subscriptions where offered) are concluded as separate contracts on the terms set out below and displayed during the checkout process.
VENTUREPLAN is a web-based tool for creating structured business plans. Depending on your plan, the Service includes a chapter-based editor, financial planning tools, document export (e.g. DOCX/PDF), collaboration features, and an optional AI feedback function. The specific scope of functions depends on the plan you have chosen (free plan, one-time plan unlock, subscription, or advisor offers) and is described on our pricing page and during checkout. We may further develop, expand, restrict, or discontinue individual functions where this is reasonable for you, in particular for technical, legal, or security reasons. The AI feedback function generates automated suggestions and assessments. These are generated by an AI model, may be incomplete or incorrect, and do not constitute legal, tax, financial, or investment advice. Any decisions you make on the basis of the Service or its AI outputs are your sole responsibility.
Each user may operate only one free account. Creating multiple free accounts is not permitted, in particular where this serves to circumvent the usage limits of the free plan (such as limits on AI credits, AI messages, or features). Accounts are personal and may not be sold, transferred, or shared with third parties. You may not use another person's account or allow another person to use your account, except for collaboration features expressly provided within the Platform. If we detect multiple accounts operated by the same user, or accounts created by automated means, we may take appropriate measures. These include merging, restricting, temporarily suspending, or permanently blocking the accounts concerned (see Section 13).
You may not use the Platform for any unlawful purpose, nor to plan, prepare, promote, document, or carry out any illegal activity. In particular, you may not use the Platform to: • create, plan, or document ventures or activities that are unlawful under applicable law; • infringe the rights of third parties (including intellectual property, personality, or data protection rights); • upload, store, or distribute content that is illegal, defamatory, discriminatory, harassing, violent, pornographic (where unlawful), or otherwise infringing; • introduce malware or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Platform, its systems, or other users' data; • circumvent, disable, or interfere with security features or measures that enforce usage limits; • access the Service by automated means (scraping, bots, scripts) beyond what our interfaces expressly permit; • resell, sublicense, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service without our prior written consent, unless expressly permitted for advisor or partner accounts. You are solely responsible for the content you create and for the lawfulness of the ventures you document using the Platform.
The prices applicable at the time of purchase are those displayed on our pricing page and during checkout. For consumers, prices are stated as final prices including any applicable statutory value added tax (VAT). Payment is processed via our payment service provider (Stripe). By completing a purchase you authorize the charge for the selected offer using the payment method you provide. Access to paid features is generally granted immediately after successful payment. The one-time plan unlock and AI credit top-ups are one-off charges and do not renew automatically. Subscriptions (where offered) are charged on a recurring basis for the respective billing period until terminated. We provide an invoice or receipt for each payment.
We reserve the right to change the prices of our offers and the value equivalent of an AI credit — i.e. the amount of AI processing capacity that one AI credit entitles you to use — at any time in order to reflect our costs (in particular changes in the costs charged by third-party AI providers) or other market conditions. Such changes apply only to purchases and usage occurring after the change takes effect. They do not retroactively affect purchases that have already been completed: the number of AI credits already granted to you remains unchanged and usable. The value equivalent of an AI credit may, however, be adjusted with effect for the future. For ongoing subscriptions, we will notify you of any price change in text form with reasonable advance notice before the start of the next billing period. If you do not agree to the change, you may terminate the subscription with effect from the date the change would take effect.
AI credits are a unit of measure for the use of the AI feedback function. AI credits are consumed when you use AI features, in an amount that depends on the type and volume of the AI processing requested. The free plan includes a limited allowance of AI usage. The one-time plan unlock and AI credit top-ups grant a defined number of AI credits. Where a subscription is offered, it includes a recurring AI usage budget that resets at the start of each billing period; unused budget does not carry over. AI credits have no cash value, cannot be paid out, and are non-transferable. Your current AI credit balance and usage are displayed in your account.
If you are a consumer, you have a statutory right of withdrawal for paid contracts. Right of withdrawal: You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is 14 days from the day of the conclusion of the contract. To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (IDEOMO UG (haftungsbeschränkt); contact details in the Imprint; email: kontakt@ventureplan.de) of your decision to withdraw by means of a clear statement (e.g. a letter sent by post or an email). You may use the model withdrawal form below, but this is not mandatory. To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning the exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired. Consequences of withdrawal: If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse all payments received from you without undue delay and no later than 14 days from the day on which we receive notice of your withdrawal, using the same means of payment you used for the original transaction, unless expressly agreed otherwise; you will not incur any fees as a result of this reimbursement. Early expiry of the right of withdrawal for digital content: Because our paid offers provide digital content (in particular the unlocking of features and AI credits) that is not supplied on a tangible medium, your right of withdrawal expires early if we begin performance after you have (a) expressly consented to us beginning performance before the end of the withdrawal period and (b) acknowledged that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal once performance has begun. We obtain this consent from you during the checkout process. Model withdrawal form: To — IDEOMO UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Berlin, email: kontakt@ventureplan.de: I/we hereby give notice that I/we withdraw from my/our contract for the provision of the following service: [description] — Ordered on / received on: [date] — Name of consumer(s) — Address of consumer(s) — Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper) — Date.
The usage agreement for the free account is concluded for an indefinite term. You may terminate it at any time by deleting your account. We may terminate the free usage agreement with a notice period of 30 days; the right to extraordinary termination for good cause remains unaffected. The one-time plan unlock and AI credit top-ups are not recurring contracts and end once the respective service has been provided. Subscriptions (where offered) run for the billing period selected at checkout and renew automatically for the same period unless terminated. Consumers may terminate an automatically renewing subscription at any time with a notice period of one month to the end of the then-current billing period; termination is possible directly via your account. Both parties may terminate for good cause without notice. Upon termination of your account, your access to the Platform ends. Please export any content you wish to keep beforehand; the deletion of your data is governed by our Privacy Policy.
You retain all rights to the content you create, upload, or store on the Platform ("User Content"). We do not claim any ownership of your User Content. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide right, limited to the purpose and duration of providing the Service, to store, reproduce, process, and display your User Content to the extent necessary to operate the Platform and provide the functions you use — including transmitting content to our AI provider when you request AI feedback. You are responsible for ensuring that you hold the necessary rights to your User Content and that it does not infringe any third-party rights or applicable law. All rights in the Platform itself, including its software, design, and trademarks, remain with us or our licensors. You receive only the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Platform for its intended purpose during the term of the contract.
We endeavor to keep the Platform available with a high degree of reliability, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability. Availability may be temporarily restricted due to maintenance, updates, capacity limits, or events beyond our control (e.g. failures of third-party providers or force majeure). We may make reasonable changes to the Service and its features, provided this does not substantially impair the core functions of a paid plan you have booked. Features designated as "beta" or "preview" may be incomplete and are provided without warranty.
We reserve the right to permanently block or delete accounts that violate these Terms — in particular the acceptable-use rules (Section 5) or the one-account rule (Section 4) — without prior warning, where the breach is serious or where a prior warning is unreasonable in the circumstances. In less serious cases, we may instead issue a warning or temporarily suspend or restrict the account. Where an account is blocked or deleted due to a breach for which you are responsible, fees already paid (in particular for one-time unlocks or AI credit purchases) are not refunded. Your mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected. We will inform you of the blocking of your account and, where legally required and appropriate, of the reason for it.
We are liable without limitation for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health, for damages based on intent or gross negligence, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and to the extent we have assumed a guarantee. In the case of slight negligence, we are liable only for the breach of an essential contractual obligation (an obligation whose fulfillment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfillment you may regularly rely). In such cases, our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract. Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded. The Platform is a tool for creating business plans. We do not warrant that any business plan created, any AI feedback, or any financial figures are accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular purpose (such as obtaining financing or funding). You are responsible for backing up your own data to the extent this is reasonable for you. The above limitations also apply in favor of our legal representatives, employees, and vicarious agents.
We process personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection law, in particular the GDPR. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for details on how we collect, use, and protect your data.
We may amend these Terms with effect for the future where this is necessary due to changes in the law, case law, market conditions, or our offering, and where the amendment is reasonable for you taking into account our interests. We will notify you of any amendment in text form (e.g. by email) at least 30 days before it takes effect. The amendment is deemed accepted unless you object in text form before it takes effect. We will specifically draw your attention to this consequence and to your right to object in the notification. If you object, we may terminate the contract as of the date the amendment would take effect.
We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle) within the meaning of the German Act on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Consumer Matters (VSBG).
These Terms and the contractual relationship between you and us are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you have your 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 for all disputes arising from this contract is Berlin, Germany. Should individual provisions of these Terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected. These Terms are available in German and English.