General Terms of Service
Thane Alaric — Membership Services
Version 1.0 · in force from 2 September 2026
1. Provider, scope and eligible customers
1.1 The services are provided by WORLDSHAPER DF LLC, 30 N Gould St STE N, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States of America, operating under the brand “Thane Alaric”, represented by Daniel Förster (the “Provider”).
1.2 These Terms govern all membership agreements between the Provider and its customers (each a “Member”). The specific services are set out in the Schedules to these Terms.
1.3 Business customers only. The offering is directed exclusively at entrepreneurs within the meaning of Section 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB) and at legal entities — that is, at persons acting in the course of their trade, business or profession. Contracts with consumers are excluded. The Member expressly confirms its business capacity during the ordering process.
1.4 Deviating or supplementary terms of the Member do not become part of the contract, even in the absence of an express objection.
1.5 “Text form” in these Terms means a legible declaration on a durable medium naming the declaring person (Textform, Section 126b BGB). Email satisfies this requirement; a signature is not required.
2. Formation of contract
2.1 The presentation of a membership on the website does not constitute a binding offer.
2.2 By completing the ordering process the Member submits a binding offer. The contract is formed upon confirmation by the Provider or upon activation of access.
2.3 These Terms are made available for retrieval during the ordering process; the Member accepts them by actively ticking the corresponding box. The contract text is sent to the Member in text form after the contract is formed.
2.4 No right of withdrawal. No statutory right of withdrawal applies, as contracts are concluded exclusively with business customers.
3. Scope of services
3.1 For the term of the contract the Provider grants the Member access to a digital knowledge platform. The specific scope follows from the Schedule applicable to the membership booked.
3.2 Nature of the service. The service is directed at enabling the Member to build its own solutions. The Provider does not owe the delivery of ready-to-use software and does not owe any particular learning, work or business outcome.
3.3 Ongoing development. Content is continuously added and revised. There is no entitlement to the continued availability of individual items of content, formats or features, provided the overall character of the service is preserved.
4. Named individual seat
4.1 A membership is an individual seat allocated to one named natural person. Access is reserved to that person.
4.2 The following are not permitted: sharing access credentials, use of one access by several persons, shared or role-based accounts, and any form of alternating access.
4.3 Where an organisation requires access for several persons, a separate membership is required for each person. Clause 5A applies to multi-seat arrangements.
4.4 The Member protects its credentials against third-party access and notifies the Provider without undue delay of any suspected unauthorised use.
5. Rights of use in the Materials (core provision)
> The principle in one sentence: what you learn is yours. The Materials are not.
5.1 What is expressly permitted. The Member may use the knowledge conveyed — methods, approaches, principles and concepts — without restriction and permanently for its own purposes, including commercial purposes and work for its own clients. The Member may develop its own skills, architectures, automations and solutions on that basis, modify and operate them, and exploit them commercially. No consent is required and no remuneration is owed for this.
5.2 What is not permitted. The Provider grants the Member a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Materials provided — recordings, summaries, texts, manuals, course content, graphics and sample code — for the internal purposes of the Member’s own business. The following require the Provider’s prior express consent in writing:
(a) passing on, publishing, making publicly available or distributing the Materials or substantial parts of them; (b) resale, rental, sublicensing or any other transfer for consideration; (c) use of the Materials as the basis of the Member’s own training, course or membership offering; (d) systematic extraction, reproduction or archiving of the platform or its content, including by automated means; (e) use of the Materials to train AI models that are made available to third parties.
5.3 Ownership. All rights in the Materials remain with the Provider and with Daniel Förster respectively. The grant of a right of use is not a transfer of rights.
5.4 After termination. Access to the platform ends when the contract ends. Materials lawfully downloaded before that date may continue to be used for the internal purposes of the Member’s business. The restrictions in Clause 5.2 continue to apply without time limit, including after the contract has ended.
5.5 Trade marks and names of the Provider, in particular “Thane Alaric” and the name Daniel Förster, are not licensed under this contract. Permissible references for the purpose of source attribution remain unaffected.
5A. Multi-seat arrangements
5A.1 Organisations may acquire several seats. In that case the organisation is the contracting party; individual users do not become parties to the contract.
5A.2 Each seat is allocated to a named natural person. The number of seats follows from the agreement.
5A.3 The organisation shall ensure that its users comply with these Terms and is liable for their conduct as for its own.
5A.4 Reallocation. Where a person leaves the organisation or changes role, the seat may be reallocated to another person. Reallocation for the purpose of alternating use is not permitted; each allocation is subject to a minimum period of three months.
5A.5 Confirmation and additional licences. The organisation shall state the number of seats in use on request. Where more seats are used than agreed, the additional seats shall be licensed at the price then applicable. No audit or inspection right applies.
5B. Results of collaborative work
This clause applies where a Schedule provides for building together with the Provider on the Member’s own use cases.
5B.1 What the Member owns. Everything built on and for the Member’s own use case in the course of the collaboration — configurations, automations, agents, prompts, documents and other work product — belongs to the Member, without restriction in time, territory or purpose, including the right to modify it, operate it and exploit it commercially. No further consent or payment is required.
5B.2 What remains with the Provider. The Provider’s methods, frameworks, templates, teaching materials and pre-existing components remain with the Provider, together with all rights in them. This applies irrespective of whether they were used to produce a result under Clause 5B.1. The Member’s rights under Clause 5.1 to use the knowledge conveyed remain unaffected.
5B.3 Generalised learning. The Provider may continue to use generalised experience, methods and patterns gained in the collaboration for other clients and in its own materials — provided this does not disclose the Member’s confidential information, does not identify the Member, and does not reproduce the Member’s specific work product.
5B.4 Portability. The Provider builds in a documented, model-portable manner so that the Member can continue to operate and rebuild the result without the Provider. Where the relationship ends, the Provider hands over any documentation held for the Member’s work product on request.
6. Member contributions
6.1 The Member retains all rights in content it itself posts to the platform (contributions, messages, comments, uploaded files).
6.2 The Member grants the Provider the non-exclusive, territorially unrestricted right to store and display such content within the platform and to make it available to other Members, to the extent necessary to operate the community. Any use beyond this, in particular publication outside the platform or use for advertising purposes, requires separate consent.
6.3 The right under Clause 6.2 ends when the relevant contribution is deleted, save for instances of making available that have already occurred.
6.4 The Member warrants that its contributions do not infringe third-party rights and shall indemnify the Provider against justified third-party claims based on a culpable breach of this obligation.
6A. Confidentiality
6A.1 Mutual. Each party shall treat as confidential any information of the other party designated as confidential or recognisably confidential from the circumstances, shall not disclose it to third parties and shall not use it for its own purposes beyond the performance of this contract. This obligation continues for three years after the contract ends.
6A.2 Between Members — this is a group format. Where a Schedule provides for group sessions, Members will hear information about the businesses of other Members. Each Member undertakes towards the Provider and towards every other Member not to disclose to third parties, and not to use for its own purposes, any information about another Member’s business that becomes known in the course of the sessions.
6A.3 This obligation is agreed for the benefit of the other Members as a genuine contract for the benefit of third parties (Section 328 BGB), so that each Member may enforce it directly.
6A.4 Excluded is information that is publicly known, was already lawfully known to the receiving party, or must be disclosed by law or by order of a court or authority.
6B. Recordings
6B.1 Sessions may be recorded and made available to Members within the platform. Recordings are part of the service: a session missed is not a session lost.
6B.2 Members are informed before a recording begins. A Member who wishes to raise a confidential matter may ask for the recording to be paused, or raise the matter outside the recorded part of the session.
6B.3 Recordings are made available only to Members and are not published outside the platform. The confidentiality obligation under Clause 6A applies to their content without limitation.
7. Prices and payment
7.1 The prices displayed at the time of booking apply. All prices are net prices exclusive of any applicable value added tax.
7.2 VAT treatment follows the applicable statutory provisions and the Member’s place of establishment. For Members with a valid EU VAT identification number, invoicing is generally under the reverse charge procedure. The Member states any VAT identification number it holds during the ordering process and keeps its details up to date.
7.3 Payment is made in advance for each billing period through the payment service provider offered during the ordering process.
7.4 In the event of default in payment the Provider may suspend access after prior notice in text form and expiry of a reasonable period, until the arrears have been settled. Further statutory rights remain unaffected. The payment obligation for the suspended period continues.
7.5 Currency. Prices are stated and contracts concluded in euro (EUR) unless the ordering process displays a different currency. Where the Provider offers payment in another currency, the amount displayed at the time of booking is the amount owed; any conversion is performed by the payment service provider at its own rate, and any conversion or cross-border charges levied by the Member’s bank or card issuer are borne by the Member.
7.6 Recurring payments and refunds in another currency. Where a membership renews, the amount owed for each renewal period is the amount displayed for that period. Where billing is in a currency other than euro, that amount may differ between periods as a result of exchange-rate movements, without this constituting a price adjustment under Clause 9. Refunds are made in the currency in which payment was received; exchange-rate movements between payment and refund are not compensated.
8. Term, renewal and termination
8.1 The membership begins upon activation of access. Where the applicable Schedule provides for a different term, notice period or renewal, the Schedule prevails over Clauses 8.2 and 8.3.
8.2 Monthly membership: term of one month; it renews automatically for successive periods of one month unless terminated by the end of the current period.
8.3 Annual membership: term of twelve months; it renews automatically for successive periods of twelve months unless terminated giving 30 days’ notice to the end of the term.
8.4 Termination requires text form; termination via the function provided in the member area is sufficient.
8.5 The right of either party to terminate for cause remains unaffected.
8.6 Fees already paid are not refunded pro rata on ordinary termination.
9. Price adjustments
9.1 The Provider may adjust prices for future billing periods. It shall give notice in text form at least 30 days before the adjustment takes effect.
9.2 The Member may terminate the contract with effect from the date the adjustment takes effect. If the Member does not terminate, the adjustment is deemed accepted; the notice shall draw attention to this consequence separately.
9.3 The price agreed at booking applies to any billing period already paid for.
10. Availability and changes
10.1 The Provider endeavours to maintain high availability of the platform. No particular level of availability is warranted.
10.2 The platform is provided using third-party services. Interruptions due to maintenance, technical faults or circumstances outside the Provider’s control do not give rise to claims, unless they impair the purpose of the contract permanently and substantially.
10.3 The Provider may change content, formats and features provided the overall character of the service is preserved and the change is reasonable for the Member.
11. Member obligations
The Member shall not misuse the platform, in particular shall not post unlawful, defamatory or harassing content, shall not circumvent security measures, and shall not use the community to promote its own competing offerings.
12. Suspension and exclusion
12.1 In the event of a material breach of Clauses 4, 5 or 11 the Provider may temporarily suspend access or terminate the membership for cause.
12.2 A warning with a reasonable period to remedy shall generally precede any such measure, unless the breach is so serious that delay is unreasonable.
12.3 Where termination for cause is justified, there is no entitlement to a refund of fees already paid.
13. Liability
13.1 The Provider is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence and for injury to life, body or health.
13.2 In the event of slight negligence in breaching an obligation whose fulfilment is essential to the proper performance of the contract and on whose observance the Member may regularly rely (a material contractual obligation), liability is limited to the typical, foreseeable damage, and in any event to the fees paid over twelve months.
13.3 Liability for slight negligence is otherwise excluded.
13.4 The Provider is not liable for the success of solutions developed by the Member on the basis of the content. The content does not constitute legal, tax or other professional advice.
13.5 The above limitations also apply in favour of the Provider’s legal representatives and agents.
14. Data protection
Personal data is processed in accordance with the Privacy Notice available at https://thanealaric.com/data-privacy. The Provider processes Member data as a controller within the meaning of the GDPR. Usage or progress data is not disclosed to third parties, including employers.
Access to Member systems. The Provider does not require access to the Member’s systems in order to perform the service. The following applies:
(a) The Member operates its own systems. In the sessions the Member performs the steps in its own environment. The Provider advises, explains and reviews; it does not take control of the Member’s systems and does not receive access credentials. This is not a legal formality but the substance of the service: “we build with you” means the Member builds.
(b) Advice in which data is incidentally perceived — the Provider does not act as a processor. Where the Member shares its screen and the Provider thereby perceives personal data, the Provider does not thereby become a processor. Two independent reasons:
(i) the Provider is engaged for its own expertise and is not subject to the Member’s instructions as to how it forms its assessment — a processor acts on documented instructions, an adviser does not; (ii) the perception is incidental and limited in extent, not systematic access to the Member’s data.
In this situation the Provider is bound by the confidentiality obligation in Clause 6A, makes no copies, screenshots or recordings of what is shown, does not transfer it into its own systems and does not enter it into AI tools. The Member is asked, wherever practicable, to use test or anonymised data when demonstrating.
(c) Where the Provider does operate on the Member’s data. Where the Member nevertheless grants access credentials or remote control, or the Provider works on live personal data in the Member’s systems, the Provider acts as a processor. In that case the parties shall conclude a data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR before that access takes place. The Provider makes a template available on request.
(d) Limit of the exception in (b). The exception rests on such perception remaining occasional and limited. Should regular access to live personal data become part of the working routine, the parties shall conclude a data processing agreement under (c), irrespective of who operates the keyboard.
The line, stated once so it can be applied to new situations: the question is not whether the Provider sees personal data — viewing is already “processing”, Art. 4(2) GDPR lists “consultation” and “use” expressly. The question is whether it happens “on behalf of” the Member (Art. 4(8)), and that turns on who performs the operation and whether the Provider is subject to instructions. Advice given from one’s own expertise, while the Member operates, is neither.
15. Artificial intelligence
Where the platform provides AI-assisted features, Members are informed at the point of use that they are interacting with an AI system. Output of AI-assisted systems must be checked for accuracy and does not replace the Member’s own professional judgement.
16. Changes to these Terms
16.1 The Provider may amend these Terms where necessary to reflect changes in law, case law or technical circumstances, provided the Member is not unreasonably disadvantaged.
16.2 Amendments are notified in text form at least 30 days before they take effect. If the Member does not object before they take effect, the amendments are deemed accepted; the notice shall draw attention to this consequence separately. If the Member objects, either party may terminate with effect from the date the amendments take effect.
17. Final provisions
17.1 Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory provisions of the state in which the Member is established remain unaffected.
17.2 Binding language. These Terms are concluded in English. The English version is the binding version. Any translation is provided for information only.
17.3 Place of jurisdiction. To the extent legally permissible, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with this contract is the Provider’s registered office or, at the Provider’s option, the Member’s registered office.
17.4 Should any provision be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.
17.5 Amendments and supplements require text form.
Schedule A — The Workshop (Tier 1)
Service. Access to the digital knowledge platform for the term of the membership, comprising:
(a) recordings and summaries of sessions held; (b) companion materials, manuals, guides and course content; (c) skills, plugins and architectures shown by way of example; (d) access to the member area and the community; (e) the live elements stated in the offer.
Seats. One named individual seat per membership (Clause 4).
Billing periods. Monthly and annual, as offered at the time of booking.
Prices. As displayed at the time of booking; net, exclusive of any applicable VAT.
Schedule B — Tier 2: “We build with you”
> A distinct service, not a larger Tier 1. Tier 2 is priced against executive time, not against a library. Clauses 5B (results of collaborative work), 6A (confidentiality, including between Members) and 6B (recordings) apply in addition to the general Terms.
What the service is
The Provider works with the Member on the Member’s own use cases. The Provider does not perform the work for the Member, and does not merely teach: the Member builds, with the Provider alongside.
The weekly sessions
| Day | Focus |
|---|---|
| Monday | Vision, planning, clarity, strategy |
| Tuesday | Building infrastructure: processes, skills, automations, agents |
| Wednesday | AI for marketing and sales |
| Thursday | Builder’s workshop — bring what you are stuck on |
| Friday | The AI-first company, deep dive |
Attendance is at the Member’s discretion. All sessions are recorded and made available in the platform (Clause 6B).
In addition
- Kick-off workshop, 1.5 hours, at the start
- Monthly progress and business review, 45 minutes
- Quarterly strategy deep dive, 1.5 hours
- Weekly building challenges
- Access to the Tier 1 library for the term of the membership
Seats
One named individual seat (Clause 4). Additional seats for the same organisation are available at the price stated in the offer; Clause 5A applies.
Term, renewal and notice
- Initial term: twelve months from activation of access.
- Thereafter the membership continues on a monthly basis and may be terminated by either party giving one month’s notice to the end of a month.
- The right to terminate for cause remains unaffected (Clause 8.5).
- Fees are payable monthly, quarterly or annually in advance, as booked.
Founding conditions
Where the offer designates a founding rate, that rate applies for as long as the membership continues without interruption. Any additional founding benefits are stated in the offer and apply for the period stated there. Should the membership lapse and be taken up again later, the rate then applicable applies.
Scope boundaries — stated deliberately
- Nothing is “unlimited” — neither coaching, nor technical support, nor messaging channels. The service consists of the sessions and elements listed above.
- This is not agency work. The Provider does not take over execution.
- This is not legal, tax, financial or medical advice, and no therapeutic or psychological treatment. Content on leadership, mindset and team development is business practice, not therapy.
- No particular business outcome is owed (Clause 3.2).
What the Member takes away
The results built on the Member’s own use cases belong to the Member (Clause 5B.1) and are documented so as to remain operable and rebuildable without the Provider (Clause 5B.4).