Terms of Service

1. Scope and provider

These terms govern the use of Autoposter Connect, a service of Schulten Solutions, Hans-Justus Schulte, Piepenborn 19, 33039 Nieheim, Germany ("we", "us"). The service is offered to business customers only, within the meaning of section 14 of the German Civil Code. It is not directed at consumers and not at anyone under 18. Deviating terms of the client do not apply unless we have agreed to them in writing.

2. The service

Autoposter Connect supports the production and publication of short-form video: topic suggestions, scripts, recording assistance with a teleprompter, editing, captions, publication to connected social media accounts, and evaluation of the resulting metrics. The specific scope, the term and the fees follow from the individual agreement between us and the client.

We may develop the service further and change or replace individual functions, provided the agreed purpose is preserved. We do not owe any particular reach, ranking, number of views or commercial success.

3. Connected accounts and publishing

The client voluntarily connects their own TikTok and, where applicable, Instagram accounts through the official interfaces of those platforms. We never receive the client's platform password.

Publications are made on the client's behalf, according to settings the client defines themselves before the first publication: who may see the content, whether comments, Duet and Stitch are permitted, whether the content is a promotion of the client's own brand or a paid partnership, and at what time publication takes place. The client can change these settings or remove the connection at any time.

Towards the platforms the client remains the account holder and the author of the posts. The client is responsible for complying with the platform terms, in particular the TikTok Terms of Service, the Music Usage Confirmation, the Branded Content Policy, the TikTok Community Guidelines, and the corresponding rules of Instagram.

4. Content and rights

The client grants us the rights of use in the recordings and materials they provide that are necessary to perform the service, for the term of the agreement and limited to that purpose.

The client warrants that the content provided does not infringe third-party rights, in particular copyright, trade mark and personality rights, contains no misleading or unlawful statements, and that disclosure obligations for advertising and paid partnerships are met. Edits, graphics and texts created by us pass into the client's right of use upon payment.

5. Client obligations

• The client keeps their personal access link confidential and does not pass it on.
• The client checks each finished video before it is published; a preview is provided for that purpose.
• The client does not use the service to publish unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or infringing content, and not to circumvent platform rules, including any form of automated mass posting beyond the agreed scope.
• The client keeps the settings for visibility and commercial disclosure accurate and up to date.

6. Availability

We provide the service with commercially reasonable effort. Interruptions can occur through maintenance, technical faults or events outside our control, in particular changes, outages or restrictions of the platform interfaces. Where a platform changes or restricts its interfaces, the corresponding function may cease to be available; this does not constitute a defect in our performance.

7. Fees

Fees, billing periods and payment terms follow the individual agreement. All amounts are net of statutory value added tax.

8. Term and termination

The agreement runs for the term agreed individually. Either party may terminate for good cause without notice. On termination, access ends, stored tokens are deleted and the client's content is deleted in accordance with our Privacy Policy, unless statutory retention obligations apply. The client is responsible for securing copies of finished videos before the end of the term; on request we will provide them once.

9. 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. In cases of slight negligence we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation, and then limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this kind of contract. Any further liability is excluded. We are not liable for decisions of the platforms, in particular for the removal, restriction or reduced distribution of published content, nor for the commercial success of published content.

10. Data protection

How personal data is processed, who it is shared with, how long it is kept and how it can be deleted is set out in the Privacy Policy. Where we process personal data on the client's behalf, a data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR applies in addition.

11. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms with effect for the future where this is necessary for legal or technical reasons and does not unreasonably disadvantage the client. Changes are notified in text form at least four weeks before they take effect. If the client objects within that period, we may terminate the agreement at the point the change takes effect.

12. Final provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Where the client is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction is Paderborn, Germany. Should individual provisions be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.