Terms and Conditions

1. Scope

These terms apply to all contracts on consultancy, grant applications, training, tender support and software and AI services between Smart Leap Education Research Consultancy GmbH and its clients. Deviating terms of the client apply only if we agree to them in writing.

2. Offer and conclusion of contract

Our offers are without obligation and valid for 30 days unless stated otherwise. A contract is concluded by written order confirmation or by the start of performance. Scope, schedule and fees follow from the respective offer.

3. Services

We perform our services according to recognised professional practice. For funding applications we owe a careful, timely preparation in line with the programme rules, but not the approval of the funding.

Deadlines are binding if they have been expressly agreed as such.

4. Client cooperation

The client provides the information, documents and contact persons required for performance in good time and in full. Delays caused by missing cooperation extend agreed deadlines accordingly.

5. Fees and payment

Fees follow from the offer plus statutory value added tax. Invoices are payable within 14 days without deduction. Travel costs and expenses are reimbursed against proof after prior agreement.

6. Term and termination

Continuing obligations may be terminated by either party with four weeks notice to the end of a month. The right to extraordinary termination for good cause remains unaffected. Termination requires text form.

7. Liability

We are liable without limitation in cases of intent and gross negligence as well as for injury to life, body or health. In cases of simple negligence we are liable only for the breach of material contractual obligations and limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract. Any further liability is excluded.

8. Confidentiality and data protection

Both parties treat all information disclosed during the cooperation as confidential, also beyond the end of the contract. We process personal data in accordance with the GDPR; details are set out in our privacy policy and, where required, in a data processing agreement.

9. Rights of use

Upon full payment the client receives a simple right of use, unlimited in time and territory, for the agreed purpose in the results created under the contract. Pre existing know how, methods and templates remain with us.

10. Reference

We may name the client and use its logo for reference purposes unless the client objects.

11. Final provisions

German law applies under exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The place of jurisdiction is Düsseldorf where the client is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law.

Should a provision be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.