Advertising terms

These terms govern all advertising services provided by Maximilian Schunk, Brückstr. 35, 40882 Ratingen, Germany (“DJ INDEX”) through dj-index.com. They apply to businesses and to consumers alike; where mandatory consumer law provides otherwise, that law prevails. The language of this contract is English. The one exception is the withdrawal notice in § 8, which is also given in German — for consumers resident in Germany the German wording is the binding one. Terms of your own apply only if we agree to them in writing.

The display of advertising formats on dj-index.com is not a binding offer. A contract for advertising credit is formed when you choose an amount, complete the payment with our payment provider, and the payment reaches us. You receive an invoice by email as soon as the credit lands.

Advertising is paid for out of credit topped up in advance. The smallest top-up is €25. Credit does not expire.

You are billed per impression at the rate published at /advertise — currently €3.00 per 1,000 impressions for the 728×90 format and €4.00 per 1,000 for 300×250. All prices include 19% German VAT. Nothing is charged for a click.

An impression counts only when it was delivered to a human visitor and the banner was actually inside the visible area of the browser. Requests from search engine crawlers and other automated clients are never billed. The same visitor identifier triggers at most one billed impression per banner within 30 seconds. Measurement on our servers is what the billing is based on.

If your credit falls below the price of one impression, the banner stops being delivered. It is not cancelled and not deleted, and it resumes with the next top-up. We email you before the credit is used up.

Every top-up is invoiced automatically with VAT shown separately. Up to €250 a small-amount invoice under § 33 UStDV is sufficient and needs no address; above that the law requires the recipient's address, which therefore has to be on file before the payment can be started. Invoices and credit notes are available in your ad account at any time.

You supply a banner in one of the offered formats together with a destination address, and you warrant that you hold every right needed for both. You indemnify us against third-party claims arising from the content or the destination of your advertising.

We do not accept advertising for pornography, gambling, cryptocurrency or financial offers promising returns, malware, or advertising that presents itself as a message from an artist or a label. Nor content that breaks the law or infringes the rights of others.

Banners go live immediately on upload and are reviewed afterwards. We may switch a banner off at any time if it breaks these rules; unused credit is refunded in that case. There is no entitlement to a particular placement, a particular position in the rotation, or a minimum number of impressions.

The ranking on dj-index.com is calculated solely from publicly accessible Spotify listener figures. A position, a rating or an editorial mention cannot be bought, and advertising has no influence on any of them. Paid placements are labelled “Ad”.

Unused credit is refunded on request at any time and without giving a reason — whether you are a consumer or a business, and independently of the withdrawal period in § 9. You request it in your ad account. The credit is placed on hold at that moment so it cannot be spent at the same time, and it is paid back to the payment method you used, normally within a few working days.

Impressions already delivered are services performed and are not refundable. You receive a credit note for every refund, with the VAT corrected accordingly.

Right of withdrawal

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 the contract was concluded. To exercise it, you must inform us (Maximilian Schunk, Brückstr. 35, 40882 Ratingen, Germany, info@maximschunk.com) of your decision by a clear statement — for example a letter sent by post, or an email. You may use the model form below, but you are not obliged to. To meet the deadline it is enough that you send your communication before the period expires.

Effects of withdrawal

If you withdraw, we shall reimburse all payments received from you without undue delay and no later than fourteen days from the day on which we are informed of your decision. We will use the same means of payment as you used for the original transaction unless expressly agreed otherwise; in no event will you be charged any fees for that reimbursement.

If you asked for the advertising to begin during the withdrawal period, you shall pay us an amount proportionate to what has been provided until you informed us of your withdrawal, in comparison with the full coverage of the contract. In practice: impressions already delivered are payable, and the remaining credit is refunded in full.

Model withdrawal form

To Maximilian Schunk, Brückstr. 35, 40882 Ratingen, Germany, info@maximschunk.com:
I/We (*) hereby give notice that I/We (*) withdraw from my/our (*) contract for the purchase of advertising credit on dj-index.com.
Ordered on (*)/received on (*): ____________
Name of consumer(s): ____________
Address of consumer(s): ____________
Date: ____________
(Signature only if this form is notified on paper)
(*) Delete as appropriate.

The statutory German wording. For consumers resident in Germany this version prevails over the English translation above.Widerrufsrecht

Sie haben das Recht, binnen vierzehn Tagen ohne Angabe von Gründen diesen Vertrag zu widerrufen. Die Widerrufsfrist beträgt vierzehn Tage ab dem Tag des Vertragsschlusses. Um Ihr Widerrufsrecht auszuüben, müssen Sie uns (Maximilian Schunk, Brückstr. 35, 40882 Ratingen, info@maximschunk.com) mittels einer eindeutigen Erklärung (z. B. ein mit der Post versandter Brief oder eine E-Mail) über Ihren Entschluss, diesen Vertrag zu widerrufen, informieren. Sie können dafür das Muster-Widerrufsformular verwenden, das jedoch nicht vorgeschrieben ist. Zur Wahrung der Widerrufsfrist reicht es aus, dass Sie die Mitteilung über die Ausübung des Widerrufsrechts vor Ablauf der Widerrufsfrist absenden.

Folgen des Widerrufs

Wenn Sie diesen Vertrag widerrufen, haben wir Ihnen alle Zahlungen, die wir von Ihnen erhalten haben, unverzüglich und spätestens binnen vierzehn Tagen ab dem Tag zurückzuzahlen, an dem die Mitteilung über Ihren Widerruf bei uns eingegangen ist. Für diese Rückzahlung verwenden wir dasselbe Zahlungsmittel, das Sie bei der ursprünglichen Transaktion eingesetzt haben, es sei denn, mit Ihnen wurde ausdrücklich etwas anderes vereinbart; in keinem Fall werden Ihnen wegen dieser Rückzahlung Entgelte berechnet. Haben Sie verlangt, dass die Werbeleistung während der Widerrufsfrist beginnen soll, so haben Sie uns einen angemessenen Betrag zu zahlen, der dem Anteil der bis zu dem Zeitpunkt, zu dem Sie uns von der Ausübung des Widerrufsrechts unterrichten, bereits erbrachten Leistungen im Vergleich zum Gesamtumfang der vertraglich vereinbarten Leistungen entspricht.

We aim for continuous operation but do not owe any particular level of availability. If delivery fails, no impressions are billed for that period — there is no claim beyond that.

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health. For ordinary negligence we are liable only for breach of an essential contractual obligation, limited in amount to the foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract and in any case to the credit deployed in the period concerned. Liability under the German Product Liability Act is unaffected.

Keep your login details to yourself. An ad account can be closed at any time by email, with no formality; any remaining credit is refunded under § 8. We may terminate an account with reasonable notice, and close it immediately for serious breaches of § 6 — unused credit is refunded in that case too.

How we handle data is set out in the privacy policy. Delivering our own banners works without cookies and without any identifier that could recognise a reader from one day to the next.

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. For consumers this holds only insofar as it does not deprive them of the protection of mandatory provisions in their country of habitual residence. If you are a merchant, a legal person under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction is Ratingen, Germany. If any provision is invalid, the rest of the contract remains in force.

We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.