Field Access Agreement

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General Terms* and Conditions and Right of Withdrawal for Consumers and Entrepreneurs of Sandra de Riel Consulting

*This text is a translation of the original General Terms and Conditions in German and serves comprehensibility purposes only.

Part 1 - Scope and Applicable Law

1  Scope

(1) The following General Terms and Conditions (“T&Cs”) apply to all legal transactions with consumers and entrepreneurs with:

Sandra de Riel
Sandra de Riel Consulting
Hohenstaufenstr. 22
10779 Berlin, Germany

hereinafter referred to as “I” or “me.” Legal transactions may be concluded in person, via email, in an initial Zoom consultation, or through my website.

(2) The language available for concluding the contract is exclusively German. Translations into other languages are for informational purposes only. In case of discrepancies, the German version prevails.

(3) Only these T&Cs apply. Conflicting or deviating terms that you may use are not recognized unless I have explicitly agreed to their validity in writing or in text form.

 

2  Applicable Law and Consumer Protection Regulations

(1) German law applies, excluding international private law and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, if:

  1. you order as an entrepreneur,
  2. you have your habitual residence in Germany, or
  3. your habitual residence is in a country that is not a member of the European Union.

(2) If you are a consumer within the meaning of § 13 BGB and your habitual residence is in a European Union member state, German law also applies, without prejudice to mandatory provisions of the country in which you have your habitual residence.

(3) For the purposes of these terms, a consumer is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly not related to their commercial or independent professional activity. An entrepreneur is any natural or legal person or legally recognized partnership that acts in the exercise of its independent professional or commercial activity when entering into a legal transaction.

(4) Swiss consumers are exclusively subject to substantive Swiss law. For Swiss entrepreneur clients, German law applies.

(5) The version of these T&Cs valid at the time of booking applies.

(6) The prices valid at the time of booking apply.

(7) Any advertised discounts or promotional offers are limited in time or quantity. No entitlement exists.

Part 2 - Conclusion of the Contract, Payment Terms, Contract Duration, and Right of Withdrawal

3  Subject Matter of the Contract

(1) The contract may cover the following services (list is not exhaustive):

  • Work one-on-one,
  • Work in a group setting,
  • Masterclass,
  • Workshop.

(2) All online offers are non-binding and do not constitute a legally binding offer to conclude a contract.

4  Prices, Payment Terms, and Due Dates

(1) My prices are net amounts (excluding statutory VAT).

(2) An invoice is generally sent to you via email as PDF document. The invoice amount is due within 5 days of receipt and must be paid to me within 5 days.

(3) Access to services depends on prior payment. Once I have received your payment, you are entitled to the corresponding service.

(4) In some cases, I offer installment payments plans. The total amount may be higher than the full payment price; this amount will be communicated in advance. Early termination of an installment agreement is possible through early repayment. You have the right to pay off the installments early, either partially or fully. In this case the total amount to pay is the total of all hitherto unpaid installments.

(5) Late payments will incur interest at a stipulated rate, as well as costs for overdue notices. This applies to payment in full and payment plans, and the interest rate for installment payments may be higher than that for payments in full. If internal collection efforts fail, I may refer the outstanding claim to an attorney, and you will be liable for any resulting attorney fees.

(6) If an installment payment is agreed upon and you do not pay after a reminder in text form with a grace period, I am entitled to terminate the installment plan, and the total remaining amount will become immediately due.

(7) You may not assert a right of retention or offset against payment claims unless the counterclaims are undisputed or legally established.

(8) In case of payment default or delay, I reserve the right to withhold services until all due payments are received. I retain the right to withhold, interrupt, delay, or fully suspend services without liability for any resulting damages. These rights are without prejudice to any other contractual or statutory rights and claims on my part.

5  Conclusion of the Contract

 

5.1  Bookings via Email or Contact Form

(1) The non-binding introductory call (“Discovery Call”) between you and me forms the basis of the service. You contact me via email or the contact form on my website. The call lasts 60–90 minutes and is free of charge. It takes place via Zoom.

(2) I respond to your contact request with an email containing a link to my online calendar. Click on “Calendar” to make a booking. Clinking opens a page showing you available appointments. Choose an appointment of your convenience and click “Booking”. During the booking process, you are asked to provide your contact details. This data is only used to prepare the Zoom meeting. If no contract is concluded, the data is immediately deleted.
Finally, there is the consent for data protection and the processing of your data. You give consent by checking the respective boxes.

(3) After booking an appointment, you receive a confirmation by email. In this email, I also include my current T&Cs.

(4) In the Discovery Call, we determine if the collaboration is suitable for you and your request. Following the call, I send you options for working with me by email.

(5) Offer: By booking via email, you make a binding offer to conclude a contract with me.

(6) Acceptance: The contract between you and me is concluded when my confirmation email reaches you.

(7) For payment, you have the option of making a bank transfer or using payment link. You receive my invoice by email. The total payment due within 5 days. Once I have received your payment, you are entitled to the service.

  1. Bank transfer: I send you the invoice as a PDF document via email. You transfer the amount stipulated to my business account.
  2. WISE payment link: I send you the invoice as PDF document via email. You transfer the amount stipulated following the link to my WISE account. The payment with WISE is a bank transfer. By clicking the link, a connection with WISE is established.
  3. Stripe payment link: I send you the invoice as PDF document via email. You transfer the amount stipulated following the link to my Stripe account. The payment with Stripe happens via credit card. By clicking the link, a connection with the respective credit card provider is established.

6  Right of Withdrawal for Consumers

(1) As a consumer you are entitled to a right of withdrawal as outlined in the Appendix.

(2) Withdrawal period begins upon conclusion of the contract. The contract concludes the moment when you receive my confirmation email of your purchase. You may withdraw from your purchase within 14 days without cost.

(3) There are special conditions with regards to the right of withdrawal for my services:

  1. If you purchase a service and request I begin within the 14-day withdrawal period, you waive your right of withdrawal for the service provided.
  2. I make you aware BEFORE you complete your booking: “You expressly request that I begin the service before the end of the 14-day withdrawal period. You therefore waive your withdrawal right once the service is fully rendered. For partial services provided to you (as client) during the withdrawal period, I am entitled to payment for the services provided – even with withdrawal.

(4) If withdrawal occurs within 14 days and I have started services in this period, you are entitled only to a partial refund. Services already rendered are deducted accordingly from your reimbursement.

(5) With digital content/products, there are special conditions with regard to the right of withdrawal:

  1. If you are purchasing a digital product and you receive the entire digital content of the product directly upon purchase, you waive your right of withdrawal.
  2. BEFORE completing your purchase you declare that you waive your right of withdrawal: “I hereby waive my right of withdrawal of 14 days, so that I can access the digital contents directly and in their entirety.”
  3. AFTER completing your purchase of digital content I confirm to you the expiration of the right to withdrawal in a way that you can save the confirmation, so you have access to it at any time.

(6) If no payment is made for a service or digital content of mine and only personal data is provided, the right of withdrawal expires by law upon the start of service or service provision respectively.

7  Contract Duration and Termination

(1) The duration of our contract depends on the booked service. Usually, the contract ends automatically upon completion. That means you have paid for my services in full and I have provided the service.

(2) Extraordinary termination rights of all parties remain unaffected. Grounds for extraordinary termination on my part include your payment default of more than 2 times, an intentional breach of these T&Cs by you, and/or if you deliberately or negligently acted outside the law or lastingly disrupted our trust relationship.

Part 3 - Details of Services and Cancellation Policy

8  Duration of Service Units and Place of Service

(1) Services may be delivered individually or in groups.

(2) The duration of a 1:1 session is typically 90/60 minutes.

(3) The duration of a group session is typically 90 minutes.

(4) Conversations are conducted online via Zoom. All sessions are recorded and made available to participants afterward. A 1:1 session may also take place at my premises (Hohenstaufenstr. 22, 10779 Berlin).

(5) Workshops may also be held in rented event spaces.

 

9  Scope of Services and Unused Services

(1) The scope of the product depends on the agreed collaboration.

(2) If a participant repeatedly cancels a booked session, no replacement session needs to be offered. The session is forfeited. The payment remains due. The payment for the booked session is retained. There is no entitlement to a refund.

(3) As sessions take place online, recordings allow participants to review sessions later especially for group collaborations. No entitlement exists to attend live. Participants are notified of the session times in advance, so that they can reserve the time.

(4) If you terminate a booked collaboration, you are not entitled to a refund of payments already made.

 

10  Cancellation of a Service by Me

(1) I may cancel a group collaboration – also on short notice –  if fewer than 3 participants register.

(2) I may also cancel collaborations (1:1 or groups) if the speaker unexpectedly becomes ill and no replacement is available.

(3) In cases 1 and 2, we will first attempt to find an alternative date. If this is not possible, the participation fee will be refunded. Additional costs, such as travel or accommodation, which you may have incurred, are not reimbursed.

(4) If a participant breaches the contract by violating these T&Cs, I have the right to exclude them from the collaboration without refund and at my sole discretion. Causes for such termination include, but are not limited to when a participant disrupts the program and continues to do so even after a warning, or when a participant repeatedly fails to meet agreed commitments such as appointments.

Part 4 - Rights and Obligations of the Client

11  Right of Use for Digital Content or Collaboration Materials

(1) Audio, video and PDF files, and other materials may be accessed (downloaded) and printed solely for your personal use. Only for these purposes are you allowed to download and print files. Printing may be done with third-party assistance (e.g., a copy shop). All other rights of use for the files and materials are reserved. You may not templates and materials or imparted knowledge with third parties, for free or for a fee. The materials are not intended for professional advisory use.

(2) Therefore, any copying, sharing, forwarding, or other use of files or materials for third parties, or any other use than self-study, with or without a fee, during our after our work together, requires my prior written consent.

(3) Brands and logos on materials are protected by copyright and other laws. You must use materials only as expressly permitted by me or as permitted under fair use. Unauthorized use by third parties is prohibited, even after termination of participation (completion, withdrawal or cancellation).

(4) Uses permitted under mandatory legal provisions are exempt from this approval requirement.

 

12  Collection, Storage, and Processing of Personal Data

(1) To conduct and process a booking, I require the following data from you:

    • full name,
    • complete address,
    • email address, and
    • for entrepreneurs: company name and VAT ID.

Which data is absolutely required, depends on the required data per product.

(2) For services with costs, information on your name, especially the name of your business (if applicable) must be correct. The same applies to the address. Invoices are generated based on this information. Corrections may incur reasonable additional costs.

(3) Changes in personal data, especially email address changes, must be communicated to welcome@sandraderiel.com.

 

13  Provision of IT Infrastructure and Software
You are responsible for providing and maintaining your own Internet access (hardware, telecommunications access, etc.) and any technical installations or software required to use online offerings of Sandra de Riel Consulting (e.g., web browser, PDF programs such as Acrobat Reader®, Zoom), at your own cost and risk.

 

14  General Notes on Collaborations with Sandra de Riel Consulting

(1) Collaboration is based on cooperation.

(2) The participation in our work requires self-directed learning. For this work, I cannot promise a certain success. I solely provide guidance, perspectives, and options. The implementation and decision-making rest entirely with you.

(3) You are fully responsible for your physical and mental health during sessions and between sessions. All measures that you possibly execute based on our work together are your sole responsibility. If you have a diagnosed mental condition, consult your physician before participating. I reserve the right to terminate collaboration in such cases.

 

15  Exclusion of Medical Treatments

(1) Under certain circumstances I may collect and consider information pertaining to your health or medical history. You will provide separate a consent for me to collect and consider such information.

(2) It is also indicated in this consent form, but for avoidance of doubt, I do not provide medical diagnoses, advice, or treatment.

(3) Working together assumes normal mental and physical resilience. For conditions with pathological significance, you agree to seek medical treatment. Our work together is not psychotherapy or medical care and cannot replace them.

(4) I am not a medical professional and do not provide medical or health guarantees.

 

16  Know-How Protection and Confidentiality

(1) You acknowledge that all information that you receive during our work together about my services, including but not limited to my methods, ideas, concepts, and business experiences/know how, and that are bound to confidentiality due to legal provisions or to their material nature is confidential and constitutes a trade secret. For this reason, you agree to maintain any trade secrets and to maintain confidentiality regarding the aforementioned information.

(2) In the frame of a written reference you are permitted to speak/write about our work together and how I provide my service.

(3) Confidentiality obligations survive the end of collaboration.

(4) Exempt from confidentiality is information that:

  • was publicly known before disclosure,
  • was independently developed,
  • became public without your fault.

(5) For every breach of confidentiality a reasonable contractual penalty ensues.

Part 5 - Confidentiality and Liability Provisions

17  Confidentiality of Both Parties

(1) I commit to maintain confidentiality regarding all information about you during and after our work together.

(2) You are required to maintain confidentiality regarding all information you receive, using it only with my prior written consent. This applies to all received materials.

(3) In group programs, these obligations extend to confidential information about other participants that you receive about them during the program.

 

18  Liability for Content

(1) In our work together, I provide options and general recommendations where applicable. The responsibility to implement and make decisions are your sole responsibility.

(2) The documents and files that I provide are templates that you need to customize to your needs. No liability is assumed for completeness or currency of these templates.

(3) I reserve the right to optimize and adapt content at any time.

 

19  Limitation of Liability

(1) I am liable for intent and for gross negligence. I am also liable for negligent breaches of duties essential to contract performance, the violation of which jeopardizes the contract purpose and on which you regularly rely, damages for which are limited to typical and foreseeable contractual damages. I am not liable for minor negligence of other duties. Liability for personal injury or property damage remains unaffected. Product liability law remains applicable.

(2) Internet data transmission cannot be guaranteed to be error-free or continuously available. I am not liable for interruptions.

(3) All limitations mentioned also apply to my vicarious agents.

 

20  Force Majeure

(1) Force majeure includes events beyond business control, unavoidable even with utmost reasonable care, including natural disasters, storms, fires, wars, epidemics, pandemics, quarantine orders, and similar events, which impede the performance of the contract.

(2) The party first aware of the event shall promptly notify the other party.

(3) Contractual obligations are suspended for the duration of the event. Paid fees remain with me. Payments for already performed services are still due. Payments for unperformed services may be paused.

(4) If the event lasts longer than 12 months, either party may terminate the contract with 3 weeks’ notice. Paid fees for guaranteed course placements are non-refundable; otherwise, fees are refunded.

(5) If the event persists beyond 24 months, the contract is dissolved, and a final statement is issued. Outstanding payments must be made within 14 days and credits will be paid within 14 days. Further claims due to force majeure are excluded.

Part 6 - Final Provisions and Jurisdiction

21  Amendments to these T&Cs
These T&Cs may be amended for valid reasons (e.g., law changes, offer adjustments, case law changes, changes of economic circumstances). In case of major changes that concern you, you will be informed in a timely manner of the planned changes. You have a 14-day right of withdrawal following the information. After this period, amendments become effective.

 

22  Final Provisions

(1) These General Terms and Conditions are complete and final. Changes and additions to these General Terms and Conditions must be in writing to avoid ambiguities or arguments between us concerning the agreed content of the contract; email is sufficient.

(2) If you are a private individual residing in Germany at contract conclusion, the jurisdiction for any subsequent legal action remains Berlin. For business customers, public entities, or special public funds, the jurisdiction is Berlin.

(3) If any provision is held by a competent court to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remainder of the contract remains effective; the scope of services will be adjusted to the minimum legally permissible extent.

Version 2 (January 2026)

Download T&Cs in English (translation)
Download T&Cs in German (original, legally binding version)